Description

Origin & Traditional Use

A desk- or altar-sized statue of the Baphomet. Baphomet is the winged, goat-headed androgyne drawn by the French occultist Éliphas Lévi in 1856, a symbol of the balance of opposites: male and female, light and dark, above and below. A statue of Baphomet is the classic altar centrepiece of Luciferian, Satanic and left-hand path temples.

Uses in the Work

Set it as the focal point of the altar, facing you, to anchor the current of the left-hand path and the union of opposites. Call to Baphomet as the guardian of the temple when opening rites, and place offerings, sigils and petitions at its feet. In Satanic and Luciferian ritual it presides over self-dedication, initiation and pact work. Anoint it with Baphomet oil on dedication, and light black and white candles on either side to honour the balance it represents. It also makes a powerful focus for meditation on the hermetic axiom “as above, so below”.

Pairs Well With

Baphomet Anointing Oil – 2 dram; 9″ Black Pillar Candle; Baphomet Necklace

Lore

Lévi wrote “Solve” and “Coagula” on Baphomet’s arms, the alchemical command to dissolve and bind. The name first appears in the 1307 trials of the Knights Templar, accused of worshipping an idol called Baphomet. The goat’s head in an inverted pentagram, later the Church of Satan’s Sigil of Baphomet, was first drawn by Stanislas de Guaita in 1897.

What You Receive

Cold cast resin. 9 1/2” x 5 1/2” x 3 1/4”