Are we sure that it existed, in the first place? According to the
report of the Templars trial, many people testified that they had
seen it with their own eyes. However, none of them came up with the
same description. In fact, the very term 'Baphomet' was never used
during the trial, neither by the Templars nor by their accusers. It
was coined a few centuries later on the basis of the testimony of an
Occitan Brother named Gaucerant, who used it, during the trial, in
its adjectival form, that is, 'baphometic', which, as showed by a
poem of 1265 called 'Ira e dolor', is an alteration of 'Mahomet' ("E
Bafomet obra de son goder" - "And Mahomed showed his power"). He
confessed he had worshipped a "baphometic image". Bernard Marillier,
who pointed this out in "B.A.B.A des templiers", added that this
Brother was most likely not to be aware of the fact that Islam
forbids idolatry and the representation of God. On the other hand,
isn't it slightly ingenuous to assume that a member of the Knight
Templars, an Order which was in close contact with the Arab Muslim
world for years, was not aware of this, as well as of the fact that
exoteric Islam may differ greatly from esoteric Islam, whose
teachings, as previously pointed out, are likely to have much in
common with pre-Islamic Arab ones?
Many etymologies of the term "Baphomet" were offered later. Evola,
in 'The Mystery of the Grail' went for "bafos metos", "baptism
through fire".
But, once again, what if the 'Baphomet' never actually existed and it
was a complete forgery? Among other things, it would mean that, in
Europe, power, which was lost by occult means, will not be recaptured
by occult means, but, on the contrary, by an open fight against the
occult powers which are responsible for the decay of Europe, in the
true warrior spirit of the first Aryans. The first step in this fight
consists in unmasking those occult forces, whichever they are.
--- In
evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "Rowan Berkeley"
<rowan_berkeley@y...> wrote:
>
> "Many historians believe that the Knight Templars invented modern
Banking System ; some even think that they
> learned banking, as well as Kabbalah, from the Jews, and that, when
they set up a string of banks all over
> Europe and all along the road to the 'Holy Land', they asked Jews
to help them manage them."
>
> I wonder whether the theory that they learned occult secrets from
the Isma'ilis is a blind to conceal their real
> dealings with Jews. If so it has had an interesting circulation,
being enthusiastically adopted by everyone from
> the OTO to William Burroughs - not to mention Sebottendorf's
somewhat similar concept of 'Turkish Freemasonry',
> and the notion that Rosicrucianism derived from the East
('Damcar'), and returned there.
>
> -- but what, in that case, of the famous 'Head', the 'Baphomet'?
>
>
>
>
> ___________________________________________________________
> To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all
new Yahoo! Security Centre.
http://uk.security.yahoo.com
>