Baphomet
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Baphomet is a figure rooted within the occult and Western esoteric traditions. The name first emerged in the 14th century during the Trials of the Knights Templar, when the order was accused of heresy
An 1856 depiction of the Sabbatic Goat from Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie by Éliphas Lévi. The arms bear the Latin words SOLVE (dissolve) and COAGULA (coagulate), reflecting the spiritual alchemy of Lévi's work.
Two Templars burned at the stake; illustration from a 15th–century French manuscript
Drawings of upright and inverted pentagrams representing Spirit over matter (holiness) and matter over Spirit (evil), respectively, from La Clef de la magie noire (1897) by French occultist Stanislas de Guaita. Note the names Adam, Eve, Samael, and Lilith.
Le Diable, from the early 18th-century Tarot of Marseilles by Jean Dodal
Éliphas Lévi
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Éliphas Lévi Zahed, born Alphonse Louis Constant, was a French esotericist, occultist, poet, and writer. Initially pursuing an ecclesiastical career in the Catholic Church, he abandoned the priesthood
Baphomet
…reimagined by 19th century occultists amidst renewed debate over the suppression of the Templars. The modern popular image of Baphomet was established by Éliphas Lévi in his 1856 work Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie. His Sabbatic Goat illustration depicts a winged, androgynous human-goat hybrid, a deliberate synthesis…
The tenth key of the tarot, in The Key of the Mysteries
Chariot of Hermes
Addha-Nari
Solomon's symbol