BAPHOMET REVEALED

From the Knights Templar to Éliphas Lévi

The figure of Baphomet reveals a suppressed counter-tradition extending from the Knights Templar to nineteenth-century occultism. Far from being a demonic idol or a sensationalist curiosity, Baphomet emerges here as the sigil of a heretical heritage of esoteric wisdom that was violently eradicated because it threatened the theological, moral, and political monopoly of ecclesiastical power. The history of Baphomet is therefore not the history of a cult, but of a repression – one whose consequences continue to reverberate across religion, magic, and modern culture.