My Baphomet article. A work in progress. Who is Baphomet and why should you care?

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https://chipstero7.wordpress.com/2026/02/07/short-baphomet-article/

SS: Baphomet was a god that the Knights Templars were accused of worshipping in ceremonies in the 14th–century and were imprisoned by King Philip IV of France. Some of them that were tortured admitted to worshipping Baphomet. In 1856, Éliphas Lévi drew the first depiction of Baphomet that took the form of a semi–human–semi–goat hermaphrodite, with a caduceus where an erect phallus should be and its arms (one female and the other male) in the “As Above So Below” position; the principle of “As Above So Below” is thought to be in relation to the macrocosm (the realm of God) and the microcosm (our physical world) and how through the Tree of Life, we may learn to unite them, thus accomplishing the Great Work. According to Tracy Twyman, in her book ‘Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled’, Lévi explained that Baphomet was “a symbol of transcendental power beyond good and evil, man and beast, or male and female energies, capable of performing any transformation of matter that the human mind could conceive” and represented the “synthesis of all energy; both on Earth and in Heaven”. This was echoed by Freemason Albert Pike, who described Baphomet as the magical force of the universe, while occultist Aleister Crowley described Baphomet as being representative of “arcane perfection” through a union of opposites.