Thread by @AmurakaHidden

The TRUTH About Baphomet (🧵)

"There exists in Nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and a single man, who is able to adapt and direct it, might change thereby the face of the whole world. This force was known to the ancients."

“This force was known to the ancients: it consists of a universal agent whose supreme law is equilibrium, and whose direction is concerned immediately with the great arcanum of transcendental magic."

"This agent, which barely manifests itself under the trial and error of the disciples of Mesmer, is exactly what the adepts of the Middle Ages called the first matter of the great work."

"The Gnostics represented it as the fiery body of the Holy Spirit, and it was the object of adoration in the secret rites of the Sabbath or the Temple, under the hieroglyphic figure of Baphomet or the Androgynous Goat of Mendes.”

"In this place let us affirm without evasion that the Great Magical Agent–the double current of light, the living and astral fire of the earth–was represented by the serpent with the head of an ox, goat or dog, in ancient theogenies."

"It is the dual serpent of the caduceus, the old serpent of GENESIS, but it is also the brazen serpent of Moses, twined about the TAU, that is, the generating lingam. It is, moreover, the Goat of the Sabbath and the Baphomet of the Templars."

"The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will, assuring him… full power over the Universal Magical Agent."

"Baphomet is not a god, devil, or a living being; he is the symbol of initiation. The goat which is represented in our frontispiece bears upon its forehead the Sign of the Pentagram with one point in the ascendant, which is sufficient to distinguish it as a symbol of the light."

"Moreover, the sign of occultism is made with both hands, pointing upward to the white moon of CHESED, and downward to the black moon of GEBURAH. This sign expresses the perfect concord between mercy and justice."

"One of the arms is feminine & the other masculine, as in the androgyne of Khunrath, whose attributes we have combined with those of our goat, since they are one & the same symbol. The torch of intelligence burning between the horns is the magical light of universal equilibrium."

"The caduceus, which replaces the generative organ, represents eternal life; the scale-covered belly typifies water; the circle above it is the atmosphere; lastly, humanity is depicted by the two breasts and the androgyne arms of this sphinx of the occult sciences."

"Henceforth, the dread Baphomet, like all monstrous idols, enigmas of antique science and its dreams, is only an innocent and even pious hieroglyph."

The Sign of the Pentagram on Baphomet’s forehead is a symbol of the Astra Light.

“The empire of will over the Astral Light, which is the physical soul of the four elements, is represented in Magic by the Pentagram.”

"The Pentagram signifies the domination of the mind over the elements, and the demons of air, the spirits of fire, the phantoms of water and the ghosts of earth are enchained by this sign.”

"Equipped therewith (the Pentagram), and suitably disposed, you may behold the infinite through the medium of that faculty which is like the soul’s eye, and you will be ministered unto by legions of angels and hosts of fiends.”

"The duality expressed by the sephiroth Chesed and Geburah, the Two Pillars Mercy and Severity, the black and white moons, and the masculine and feminine arms are simply reflections of the dual nature of the astral light."

“Now the ancients, observing that equilibrium is the universal law in physics, and is consequent on the apparent opposition of two forces, argued from physical to metaphysical equilibrium, and maintained that in God, that is, in the First Living and Active Cause."

"There must be recognized two properties which are necessary to each other: stability & motion, necessity & liberty, rational order & volitional autonomy, justice & love, severity & mercy. These two attributes were personified by the kabalistic Jews as GEBURAH and CHESED.”

The Caduceus, the Two Dualing Serpent, are the two opposing currents of the universal magnetism. The serpent of creative and preserving light and the serpent of eternal fire which devours in order to regenerate.

"The Caduceus replaces the generative organ in Baphomet
because it is masculine & feminine, symbolizing the androgyny of Baphomet. The Caduceus is a symbol of the magical equilibrium of matter, as the torch represents the universal equilibrium of the “magical light” or spirit."

The dual nature of the astral light is also reflected in the alchemical formula “Solve et Coagula:

“The Great Magical Agent, by us termed the Astral Light …this occult, unique and indubitable force, is the key of all empire, the secret of all power."

"To know how to make use of this Agent is to be the trustee of God’s own power; all real, effective Magic, all occult force is there, and its demonstration is the sole end of all books of science. To have control it there are two operations necessary–to concentrate and project."

These two operations, to concentrate and project or fix and move, are represented by the words written on the arms of Baphomet: SOLVE, to dissolve, to project, to move; and COAGULA, to coagulate, to concentrate, to fix.

So it is clear, Levi’s image of Baphomet is not a representation of the Christian Devil but a symbol of the Astral Light, the dual current of occult force behind all magical work. This force may be employed for either good or evil ends, but is neither good nor evil in itself.

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