Baphomet | The Blog of Baphomet

I’ve been really pleased by the response to The Book of Baphomet (affectionately know to us as ‘BoB’). In common with most authors after a while (which in this case was four years) it becomes very hard to see your own work. I’m so familiar with the text, with all its different voices and aspects, that to me it makes perfect sense. However one can never be too sure in a situation like this, and so it was with both happiness and some measure of relief that I read the comments from our readers (some of which are on the back cover of the book).

It’s also been great to get the first lot of feedback from people I don’t know personally. The first review I’ve seen so far is HERE is not only positive but also helped both Nikki and me to appreciate the structure of the book. We’d put the sections together as they seemed to fit so it’s great to get an outside view and see that the book goes (to quote sections from the review)

The authors start at the beginning, literally. The beginning of the universe starting at the big bang, and lead you on a cinematic mind trip through the beginnings of the formation of the galaxy…

Then onto the meat of the book, the origins of the god Baphomet, beginning with the Templars…

It all comes together in the middle of the book to allow you to view the entire tapestry, and everything is made clear. It then goes on to include the Pagan Horned God and modern representations up through Caroll’s re-interpretation of the god…

Then the book takes a sharp turn from history into the realm of personal experience…

The final section of the book details practical work and gives a five week exercise (Baphomet through the Spheres) to thoroughly explore an aspect of Baphomet weekly, leading up to full invocation at week 5.

So thanks to the piece by Skyllaros I finally understand the structure of my own work! Brilliant!

There’s another review HERE – this time I suspect I know the author but what’s lovely about this one is that it’s really an account of their own magickal work of which BoB forms a part.

And the show really isn’t over yet. There are plans afoot to create a limited edition print based on some of the artworks created during the writing of BoB. There are also plans to create a future expanded edition of BoB which will be ‘uncut’ expect more artwork, more sex and more drugs…

BoB will also be mutating into other media, hence the trailers for the book. So, for your entertainment I’ve recorded one of the sections I wrote (there are genuinely portions of the text where I can’t tell if they were written by me or by Nikki). I hope you enjoy it…

Io Baphomet!

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Something is pressing to come in, something big. That something appears beneath our history, shuddering, a great figure concealed under the fabric of reality. As it wakes, its motions send shockwaves across space-time. This thing is emerging, and human consciousness awakens to it, through it. We can see it lurking if we stride back through time, catch glimpses of its form and meaning. Some imagine it as a glittering object at the end of history. Some fear it as the incursion of abominable alien gods from the spaces between the stars. We welcome it, this force, this feeling, this enticingly ever-unveiling mystery.

Our name for this mystery is Baphomet.

Baphomet is a glyph, a word, a signal for something much larger. This glyph first appears with the persecution of The Order of the Knights Templar. It peers out at us, more than half a millennium later, horned and devilish from 19^th century French occultism. It appears again within The Order of the Eastern Templars or OTO. More recently this name inflamed the minds of the founders of the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros or IOT. Now it has broken through, beyond the precincts of any one temple. This book, in part, traces the gradual emergence of this new deity. Other voices in this volume weave further strands of this entity’s rich tapestry, the tracery revealing this Spirit within the commonplace. They describe the evolution of life on our planet and the memes that swarm around the curious relationship between those counterpoints our culture has created; Humanity and Nature. It is this interwoven relationship of all that lives which we know as Baphomet.

NW & JV

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