“Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not
the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.” I
Corinthians 15:34
The mere fact that this is even
being considered is proof of how in America in 2014 the tide of evil has
risen to epidemic proportions. The forces of evil and darkness feel
emboldened and empowered by the ruin satan has inflicted upon our nation.
America, the light is growing
very dim in the country and soon we will lose our way completely. Stand up for
righteousness, and do not be
ashamed of the testimony of
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!
In OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma a group has unveiled designs for a 7-foot-tall statue
of Baphomet/Satan that it wants at the Oklahoma state Capitol.
The New York-based Satanic Temple released an artist’s rendering
of the monument Monday. A spokesman says the group has formally submitted its
application to a panel that oversees the Capitol grounds. The statue features a
goat-headed Baphomet/Satan sitting in a throne with children next to it. The Satanic Temple says Oklahoma’s decision to put a Ten
Commandments monument at the Capitol opened the door for its statute. Temple spokesman Lucien Greaves says it’s moving
forward with plans to have its monument approved, despite the Oklahoma Capitol
Preservation Commission’s decision to place a moratorium on new requests. The
commission says it’s waiting until a lawsuit over the Ten Commandments has been
settled.
Baphomet, the symbol of the satanic goat, usually portrayed
as a half human, half goat figure, or a goat head. It is often misinterpreted
as a symbol of witch-craft in general. It is used by Satanists, but is not used
by neo-pagan witches who do not worship the devil.
The origin of the Baphomet is unclear. It may be a corruption
of Muhomet (Mohammed). The english witchcraft historian
Montague Summers suggested that it was a combination of two greek words, baphe and metis,
meaning "absorption of knowledge." Baphomet has also been called the
Goat of Mendes, The Black Goat and the Judas Goat.
In the middle ages the Baphomet was believed to be an idol,
represented by a human skull, a stuffed humans head or a metal or wooden human
head with curly black hair. The idol was said to be worshipped by the Order of
Knights Templar as the source of fertility and wealth. In 1307 King Phillip IV
of France accused the Order of the Knights Templar of heresy, homosexuality and
among other things, worshipping this idol and anointing it with the fat of
murdered children. However, only 12 of the 231 knights interrogated by the
church admitted worshipping or having knowledge of the Baphomet. Novices said
they had been instructed to worship the idol as their god and savior, and their
descriptions of it varied: it had up to three heads and up to four feet; it was
made of either wood or metal, or was a painting, sometimes it was a gift.
In 1818 a number of idols called heads of Baphomet were
discovered among forgotten antiquities of the imperial museum of Vienna. They
were said to be replicas of the Gnostic divinity, Mete, or "Wisdom."
Perhaps the best-known representation of Baphomet is the
drawing by the 19th century French magician, Eliphas Levi, called "The
Baphomet of Mendes." Levi combined elements of the tarot devil card and
the he-goat worshipped in antiquity in Mendes, Egypt, which was said to
fornicate with its women followers (as the church claimed the devil did with
witches). Levi's Baphomet has a human trunk with rounded, female breasts, a
caduceus in the midriff, human arms and hands, cloven feet, wings and a goat's
head with a pentagram in the forehead and a torch on top of the skull between
the horns. The attributes, Levi said, represented the sum total of the universe
- intelligence, the four elements, divine revelation, sex and motherhood and
sin and redemption. Hite and black crescent moons at the figure's side
represent good and evil.
Aleister Crowley named himself Baphomet when he joined the
Ordo Templis Orientalis, a secret sexual magic order formed around 1896 in
Germany. The Church of Satan, founded in 1966 in San Francisco, adopted another
rendition of Baphomet to symbolize Satanism. The symbol is a goats head drawn
within an inverted pentacle, enclosed in a outer circle, hebraic figures at
each point in the pentagram spell ot leviathan, a huge water serpent associated
with the devil. In Church of Satan rituals, the sigil of Baphomet is hung on
the wall behind the alter. The Baphomet may also be worn as a medallion.
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