WHY MENDES? Why is the Baphomet called the Goat of Mendes?
Possibilities arise:
Eliphas
Levi, who drew the full figured Goat of Mendes, translated "Baphomet"
as a reversed composition of three abbreviations: Tem. Oph. Ab., standing for
the Latin Templi omnium hominum
pacis abhas (The God of) the Temple
of Peace Among All Men." Levi felt this to be a reference to King Solomon's
Temple, which he believed had the sole purpose of bringing peace to the world.
Eliphas
Lévi considered the Baphomet to be a depiction of the Absolute in symbolic
form; and as such this is fully explained in the article Sigil of Baphomet
sold here (see AD). According to the author Michael Howard,
Levi based the illustration of his Baphomet on a Gargoyle which was on a building,
the Commandry of Saint Bris le Vineux, owned by the Knights Templars:
"The
Gargoyle is in the form of a bearded horned figure with pendulous female breasts,
wings and cloven feet. It sits in a crossed-legged position which resembles statues
of the Celtic stag god, Cernnunnus or the Horned One, found in Gaul (France)
before the Roman occupation."
Furthermore,
Eliphas Lévi, was the first person to adapt the 2
points up pentagram as symbolic of evil. In the Middle Ages the
one point up pentagram represented summer, while the two points up pentagram was
a representation of winter. [Note that the Eastern Star of Freemasonry uses the
star with 2 points up. This is the true Pythagorean Pentacle which was considered
a PENTAGONAS - meaning 5 angles. The PENTAGON in the center was
a house; as such it is correct with 2 points up - and has nothing to do with the
seasons. Eastern Star, to this day uses this symbol and they certainly do not
consider it upside down, or inverted, or evil.]
Lévi
formed two illustrations of the pentagram the first, his "good" orientation,
featured the five points of a man within the points of the Pentagram, the names
Adam and Eve are in the star and Yshua in Hebrew letters are around it. This is
called the microcosmic man and represents the four elements, earth, wind, fire
and water represented as the man's limbs with his head representing the spirit
(see Sigil of Baphomet for a fuller explanation
without the Christian bias).
Next to the Microcosmic
Man, he drew the 2 point up pentagram with the goat's head or Baphomet head in
it. Samael and Lilith are written in the star, with the word Leviathan around
it. In so doing, he formed, for the first time, a differentiation between
good and evil symbolized by the pentagram.
The
illustration below shows Lévi's two sketches.
Also
is an image of the Devil from the Marseilles Tarot (below, left). and the Devil
from The Waite-Rider Tarot, 1909 (below, right)
Also shown here is a Narjolpa from
"Magic and Mystery in Tibet" by Alexandra David Neel. Note he is seated
in same the same position as the Mendesian Goat, arms the same way.
Also in Esoteric Tradition: Eagle, double
headed Eagle: TEM OF AB ("ph" is the "F" sound) meaning Duplex
Avis Generation: spelled backwards the word is Baphomet/Bafomet.
Also,
from the Egyptian mystery portions: Tem: to name as in to proclaim: Tem
is a title of Apep. Oph (again, the "ph" is an "F"
sound as in "foe"): winged serpent or dragon. Ab hearing, wisdom,
and understanding; intelligence and Will. Again, Baphomet (Bafomet) spelled backwards.
In short: Serpent of Wisdom, Serpent Knowledge.
It
is semi-Greek: Baphe Metis. Initiation by origin of water (baptismo) and
Wisdom of Measurement as by math (metes - metric). In esoteric lodge literature
there is shown the far more ancient Babylonian version of the word: Bahu Mid.
Unfortunately, this is not easy to come by. The Templars, whatever else they may
have been, were Roman Catholics that would be able to read the Bible in Greek.
"Baphe" is pseudo-Greek, and "Metis" is proper Greek. The Apostles themselves,
wrote the New Testament in Greek.
It is very
possible that the Knights Templar were Roman Catholics and at the same time
used the image of Baphemetis-Sophia! Sophia is not just the Goddess of Wisdom
from the Hellenic and Pythagorean tradition associated with Gnosis; Sophia is
also the Goddess and considered to be the Bride of God! Note also that Mary, Mar,
is associated with Water - as in the Babylonian/Hebrew word Bahu "The Waters"
and Miriam.
It has been held by many that the Templars were followers
of the Goddess Sophia or at very least instrumental in reestablishing the feminine
aspect of divinity that had been excised by the church. It should be remembered
that their patron, St. Bernard of Clairvaux had an absolute obsession with Mary
and was responsible for her being named the Queen of Heaven and the Mother of
God. Mary is today considered the Mother of God in Catholicism. Whether the Templars
were devoted to the Goddess or simply respectful of Wisdom, it cannot be disputed
that Schonfield's Atbash cipher theory is among the most plausible explanations
of the etymology of Baphomet.
Dr. Hugh
Schonfield, one of the scholars who worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls believed the
Word Baphomet was applied with the Knowledge of the Atbash Cipher. "This
is a Hebrew code which substitutes the first letter of the alphabet for the last
and the second letter for the second last and so on. When Baphomet is applied
to this code, it generates the Greek word Sophia which is translated in
English as Wisdom. The Greek Goddess Sophia is brought to mind here." Sophia in
the New Testament is also brought to mind as some Born Again Christians have pointed
out: there is a Goddess in their Bible. "
As early
as 500 BC Scribes writing the book of Jeremiah used what we now know to be the
ATBASH cipher. This cipher is one of the few used in the Hebrew language. The
cipher itself, ATBASH, is very similar to the substitution cipher. A substitution
cipher is one where each letter of the alphabet actually represents another letter.
In the case of the Atbash cipher, the first letter of the alphabet is substituted
for the last, the second for the second last and so on." I.e., for us the letter
A becomes "Z", the letter "B" becomes "Y" and so on.
Schonfield
became very interested in the charges of heresy leveled against the Knights Templars
and the etymology of the word Baphomet. Schonfield decided to apply the Atbash
cipher which he was convinced the Templars were aware of, to the word Baphomet.
If one writes the word Baphomet in Hebrew
and remember Hebrew letters [not shown here] read from right to left, the result
is shown here with our letters shown left to right. Applying the Atbash cipher,
Schonfield revealed the following:
The word Baphomet:
Bet Pe Vav Mem Taf BAPHOMET
With the Atbash Cipher:
Shin Vav Pe Yud Alef SOPHIA
Although written in
Hebrew it reads as the Greek word Sophia that translates into "Wisdom"
in English. No matter what you use, Wisdom is always coming up with regards to
this word, whether you use Sophia, Bahu Mid, or Baphemetis.
Schonfield's
Atbash cipher theory and what it showed when he applied it, is just one more excellent
explanation of what "Baphomet" means - and we note that all the explanations yield
the same meaning in the inner sense. In other words, Schonfield
did not get a word that meant "love" or "war" when he applied it. He got SOPHIA!
What does all of this show? Sophia is Shekina! Sophia is also Wisdom. Baphe Metis
means Initiation into Wisdom? Baphe is some kind of lingo jargon made from the
either the word baptismo or bahu. Water and Spirit (kundalini) are Bahu and Shekina!
Even if using the Arabic corruption (see below) it comes out to mean "Source
of Understanding" - in the inner sense, this has the same meaning.
The
Hebrew Scribes or Tanaim actually used to write manuscripts like this, and they
called it "plowing the field" (a Hebrew name that means that) because when you
read it you are supposed to read right to left on top line, left to right on second,
right to left in third... etc. Like back and forth It is also called the SERPENT
way.
Sofia is upper Wisdom. Sofia Achamoth is Lower Wisdom or the
"waters." The Waters (or Bahu, Baphe) is the root of the Christos (also called
Logos). In a sense, it is the mother of Christos, where this force in people springs
out and up from. Who is the mother of Christ? Mary. What does Mary mean? Sea.
Hence, the waters. Layers of code are here. The Templars were Catholics - but
they were HERETICS at that time for believing this. They were branded heretics.
The name for this symbol in Templars was BAHU MID or Baphe Metis. The goat in
the star is not the devil or satan. Even the Wiccans know that. It is simply the
androgyne goat and might have been less goatish at the time. Ram heads were also
used, I've seen the symbol with a Ram in it. In the Bible, Satan is not a goat
or a horned headed being. It is a spirit, and in Christianity/Catholicism, Satan
is a liar, a deceiver. Not a victorious rebel figure.
Upper Sofia and lower
Sofia Achamoth (Sophia or Sofia).
Same as upper Shekina (Binah) and lower
Shekina (Bahu, the Hebrew word for the waters).
I (Tani Jantsang) realized
this is:
Same as Vajra sattva and Vajra dhara (the regular Eastern terms for
this).
Same as Dorje Sempa and Dorje Chang (cultural terms for it that I rarely
use).
Note the words Vajra or Dorje in those last two - that is same as Logos.
The Flame! I should point out that Baphe is not a Greek word,
ancient or Biblical, that means Wisdom, Initiation, Holy Spirit, Cleansing, or
anything normally related to Baptism in everyday speech. Baphe is
a noun in Attic Greek that means "dye" as in coloring. However, Baptein
means the verb "to dye" as in to color something by dipping it. Baphe, as
a word used to mean "Baptism" or Initiation" came after the word
Baptismo, a word perculiar to these cults that practiced immersion
into water, and it meant what we understand it to mean by Baptism - always by
water. It is related to Bahu, but not linguistically as far as anyone knows. The
Templars may have originated the use of the word Baphe and stuck it on
Met after they encoded Sophia with the Atbash Cipher. Not the other way
around! If you know that they meant Sophia, you can figure out how they came up
with Baphomet by using what Schonfield used. (If you are familiar with esoteric
meanings: A word that means Dye = color, is being used to mean Bahu. Orphic Doctrines
about Demiurge and colors. You either know what this means, or you don't. ). Scholars
debate the origin of a word that sounds like Baptism connected to the practice
of the religious rite - this predates even Greece by thousands of years. Scholars
usually stick to Neolithic times to search, and they debate while thinking the
Greeks got the idea/word from cultures nearby, either Asia Minor, or Egypt. They
may have gotten it from India since Panchakaram and Pentagrammon are the same
word - one is Sanskrit, one is Greek. If you wish to take the notion of immersion
in water back to a time prior to the Neolithic Age, it may have arisen as a tribal
duty to simply bathe and wash dirt off (thereby changing color) or as a rite similar
to the "first rite of hunting" performed by peoples living near shores and eating
fish as normal diet: swim underwater to catch the fish as a first rite of passage.
Or it may have just felt good to bathe in ocean water. This rite of bathing in
"sacred water" is still performed in India. While water has nothing to do with
the Bahu, it is symbolic of the Bahu and in magical thinking, as above
so below - and as below so above.
From standard Attic Greek:
The
Dye, The Dying as in coloring something (nouns) Baphe
A dyer (noun)
Bapteus
Dyed (adjective)
To dye as in to color something (verb)
Baptein
Additional Usages: ba^ph-ê A dipping (The Perseus Project,
Tufts University)
SOPHOCLES, AJAX [bold added for emphasis] 650 GREEK
"kagô
gar, hos ta dein' ekarteroun tote, baphêi sidêros hôs
ethêlunthên stoma pros têsde tês gunaikos: oiktirô
de nin chêran par' echthrois paida t' orphanon lipein. all' eimi pros te
loutra kai paraktious"
ENGLISH
"For even I, who used to be so tremendously
strong--yes, like tempered iron--felt my tongue's sharp edge emasculated
by this woman's words, and I feel the pity of leaving her a widow and the boy
an orphan among my enemies."
AESCHYLUS, AGAMEMNON [bold added for emphasis]
610 GREEK
"ouden diaphtheirasan en mêkei chronou. oud' oida terpsin
oud' epipsogonphatin allou pros andros mallon ê chalkou baphas."
ENGLISH
"in
all this length of time never having broken any seal. Of pleasure from any other
man or of scandalous repute I know no more than of dyeing bronze."
Another
explanation for "Baphomet" is that of Idries Shah, who, in his book, The Sufis,
suggests that the term was probably a corruption of the Arabic abufihamat
(pronounced "bufihimat"), which means "source [father of] of understanding."
Of note, many of these traditions consider the Source to be Mother, not Father.
Understand that the "source of understanding" has always been equated with the
"waters of life" or Bahu, and the kundalini rising within! Jesus said, I think
talking to Nicodemus, that one must be born of Water, not just of Spirit. There
it is again: Water and Spirit - In Hebrew this is: Bahu and Shekina! Bahu
means "the Waters" (the Demiurge), and Mid means "ten."
The God of Mendes, (or the Greek Mendesius, a name
given to Lower Egypt in pre Christian days), was the Ram Headed god Ammon
or Amon, the living and holy spirit of Ra. Amon Ra or Ammon Ra - same as Void-Vajra
- same tradition i.e., the Boundless Darkness and the Light burning within it.
Esoterically, this was Pan. Now, Ammon's shrine was at Pa-Bi-Neb-Tat or
Ba-neb-tettu, which was called Binedi in the Assyrian inscriptions; the
Greeks called it Bendes and then Mendes from Mendesius. The error in the names
served everyone well so they kept it. During Ptolemaic times, Mendes was famous
for its goat-god, who was said to mate with women in religious festivals, a very
Pan type tradition. According to Sir E.A. Wallis Budge in his Gods of the Egyptians:
The title Ba-neb-Tettu was sometimes held to mean the 'Soul, the Lord Tettu',
and this was the name at Mendes of the local form of Khnemu, whose symbol was
a ram. . He was regarded as the virile principle [yang or Vajra] in gods and men,
and is styled 'King of the South and North, the ram, the virile male, the holy
phallus which stirreth up the passions of love.' Even today, you can see renditions
of the Baphomet with a ram inside it instead of a goat.
In
late versions of the Set-Osiris myth, myths continuing well into the Roman Empire
after Christ, Set was considered to have dismembered Osiris. Isis recovered all
Osiris's fragments except - noteworthy - his phallus; that, was eaten by a letos
fish. The symbolism here is: donkey cults (literally, Sethians, Semites) murder
dark cults. There was always a war within the Semite groups between the dark mother
cults and the patriarchal solar father group, see "The Hebrew Goddess" by Patai.
When Mother Goddess cults try to put the dark cults back together, they are emasculated
by the FISH: fish representing Christianity! Noteworthy also, a later Gnostic
heresy of Clement of Alexandria's followers known as the Sethian heresy, claimed
that Seth was an earlier incarnation of Jesus. There were mystical Essenes in
the first century AD called Ebionites, who believed that the Holy Spirit was female.
Some of these became Christians and developed into the second century Clementine
Gnostics. They believed the Virgin Mary was a vessel of this Holy Spirit. It
is well known that Christianity persecuted any mother goddess cults. And don't
think the mythopoetic telling of this tale ends so long ago. In Mahdia (pronounced
MAK-tee-ah) the story goes that the cults managed to kill the fish, get back the
phallus and plant it: and out of it grew the GOAT OF MENDES! BAPHOMET (Bahu Mid,
Baphe Metis) was born - the war sigil of 3 cooperating groups was made and an
alliance was born: Pythagoreans, Ophites, and remnants of Wicca-type groups or
Arcadians.
There is much more shown on Levi's
Goat of Mendes than just the goat. See our article "Sigil of Baphomet," available
from us by mail. (www.geocities.com/satanicreds/dd-ad.html).
This article was used by Kaiden Fox to teach a class on Satanism at the University
of Wisconsin. It is quite detailed.
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ORIGIN
OF THE BLACK FLAME Tani Jantsang
A few years
back it was being stated by members of another organization, that Peter Gilmore
of the Church of Satan got the name of his magazine, "The Black Flame"
from their organization's use of the same term. This is untrue. The Temple Of
Set also uses the term Black Flame. This is not a modern invention. It is possible
that both these individuals came up with the notion on their own; that's possible.
From the ZOHAR: Black Fire is a term for the
Absolute Light and Wisdom; "black" because it is incomprehensible to
our senses; it is not light (photons) as we know it. It is, however, PERCEIVED
as a kind of light.
LIVING FIRE: Hermetic figure
of speech for a Deity concept (not a being, but a force) meaning LIVING FIRE.
It is like the slang expressions: "fiery speech" or "let's get
fired up." It refers to vitality or a vital force, aliveness. Theurgies (remnants
of Pythagoreans) regarded Fire as the symbol of the Deity within, the Serpent
within. The Kundalini specifically.
Sanskrit:
KALI was regarded early on as one of the Seven Tongues of Agni, God of Fire, hence
"black fiery tongue."
The symbol Anton
LaVey chose was a pentacle with a VAJRA in it (lightning bolt). LaVey had this
as his own amulet which was different from the Baphomet. That Vajra IS the flame,
in Tantra the five-fold flame lighting up the Five Fold Truths on the pentacle
- in Tantra these are the Five Dharmas (truths). In E. Star: Blazing Star. Again,
it is possible that LaVey came up with the symbol on his own and possible that
he used the Vajra as a Rune instead since he seemed wholly ignorant of real Left
Hand Path Dark Traditions of the East. He may have used it due to his fear/fascination
for the Nazi SS who also used (misused) this symbol. We don't and can't know what
his reasons for using it were.
At the time I
personally saw an ad for a magazine called simply "The Black Flame"
and then saw the star with the Vajra in it, I had no idea this was connected to
the Church of Satan. I thought it was a Tantrik magazine! I recognized the symbol
immediately and knew exactly what it meant. It's from my own culture!
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A
note on the Pentagram. By Metadromos and Commissar
Penta
(Five) Gram from Grammon (grammer). The Pentagram is a master glyph wherein each
interior and exterior angle, each line, and each "alpha" (pentalpha
- five alphas, letter "A" formed by the symbol) has complex and specific
meaning. This is Pythagorean knowledge and is explained in article "Tantra,
Vajrayana and Pythagoreanism" (www.geocities.com/satanicreds/dd-ad.html).
Baphomet, as interpreted by the
terms Baphe and Metis, literally, "immersion into measurement" (or the
Babylonian Bahu Mid) has a technical meaning of "initiation," but not
in the sense used by neo-pagan "spiritual" paths. Satan is the Great
Initiator of Cosmos; in this sense, Satan is the unmanifest essence from which
all comes, and back to which all goes. Thus, the "immersion" which truly
occurs is one which places a man or woman in the perspective that s/he is totally
and utterly alone. Within this concept there inheres ideas of profound importance
which should not escape the Satanist. This needs to be understood in terms of
Gnosis, in balance with other factors, such as connections to the entire web of
manifest life.
It has always been the method
of teaching in the Esoteric or Dark Tradition to begin with the macrocosmic, or
large scale, and elucidate downward to the microcosmic or small scale. In other
words, one might begin by discussing the Emanation of Cosmos from the ever incognizable
Karana, the "causeless cause of all causes," or the "Sat,"
and describe the processes which unfold from this source in more detail until
the smallest of particle is ultimately touched. There is no "brotherhood
of humanity," for although all do ultimately spring from the same source
and return back to that one source, Cosmos exists entirely for the Individual
and for the Egoic focus of the energic currents. There is a "brotherhood
of all things," but to make this exclusive to humanity would be to misunderstand
the Web of All Life. Again, one is connected to, part of, the Great Web, but one
is also entirely alone, in that sense, an isolate intelligence. You are both.
This is not a contradiction or paradox.
The Pentagram
then, as it is represented by the left-hand-path, with a single point down, is
correct and is in no way "inverted." It is the ultimate symbol of the
Individual, showing firstly that all of Cosmos does indeed bend to the will of
the truly individualistic magician, and secondly that the entire Emanated Cosmos
depends entirely upon the singular point for it's very existence. This "focal
point" indeed supports and maintains all of the Cosmos. This does not mean
that you can move planets with a thought.
Now,
"Sat" means "Being" in the sense of that unmanifest BEINGNESS
which acts upon matter though never manifests itself. When understood in Cosmic
terms, it is the root and essence of all that exists, but when applied to the
individual's creative and imaginitve powers, the meaning of the Baphomet is more
fully expounded. That which exists is perceived by the cognitive part of man.
It is precisely because man springs from the same source as all that exists and
all that he sees that he is able to see things as they are. It may be said that
man "mirrors" the Cosmos, or also that the Cosmos "mirrors"
man, but these are half-truths told by those blinded by the white-light devoid
of the darkness around it. Man IS the Cosmos and the Cosmos IS man. In other words,
a man or woman is truly alone and individual because he looks around and perceives
"others." What the "spiritual" paths have attempted is to
say that all of this is one interconnected entity experiencing different parts
of itself and only that. This again is a half-truth. The Cosmos truly is one interconnected
entity, however, that entity is also one individual. The Satanist has but to understand
that he IS Cosmos HIMSELF. This can be confusing when reasoned out too much. In
other words, what the symbol of Baphomet teaches us is that there exists nothing
at all but the One individual that is You but also that the "you" is
All - and the All is Sat - and yet the Sat is One. One cannot intellectualize
this concept, for it does not conform to pure logic.
The
Satanist SEES Maya in Matter, SEES the illusion and manipulates it, uses it as
a tool to accomplish anything s/he desires. The Satanist is not taken in by promises
of "absolute truth" or "otherworldly" rewards or punishments,
but rather is HERE NOW and ALWAYS IS such.
The
Satanist is the Absolute Authority in ALL matters regarding the Self, whatever
they may be. Should s/he choose at this moment to embrace ANY belief system or
operate on ANY level, s/he does so completely at will and utterly free from the
restrictions placed on those who hide in these beliefs as an escape, believing
the dogmas to be the absolute truth. The Satanist understands that HE ALONE is
the One absolute truth in the Cosmos, as regards him/her Self.
The
House is aright. It is your dwelling, your vessel, and it exists alone and independant
of all, blazing forth as the symbol of liberty and complete freedom to be, to
feel, to think, and to do.
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BAPHOMET
Put to poetry by Andre Soly and Tani Jantsang
Footsteps
swallowed by desert sand, three ancient clans meet at Mahdia.
They must speak
of a dire situation afoot, and share their news.
An alliance is needed, demanded
by the minds and hearts of intelligent people,
against the tyranny of Christians
and their allies the Setian-Jews* or Sethians or Sethites:
Ancestral
blood of the Chaldees stain the Magis' robes,
To try to wash it off would
be disrespectful at the least.
The third clan is wary, for they were persecuted
relentlessly
And forever yearn for their Arcadian land in Greece.
Sitting
in the burning desert, knowledge simmering to a peak;
All is silent until
the Pythagorean Guilds devise a symbol
To represent the coalition they seek.
"It
must be our Blazing Star, one point down representing the Root and Foundation
of our House."
"It must have the Ophite-Jewish
Serpent of Wisdom, Leviathan, Our serpent striking to arouse!"
The
Ophites said: "Put each Hebrew letter at each point Winding sinistrally,
and put the Lamedh at the Root."
The Pan
Cult said: "But what of us, our Goat symbol is so complex, How can something
so geometrical and angular be the proper suit?"
They
decided to use just the head of the Goat:
They fit the horns on the points
above,
The ears on the two beside, nose to beard at the Root,
And the
eyes of the Goat in the House.
They
looked at their symbol, and all agreed: it was good.
They swore oaths to each
other: Liberty! Equity! Unity! To the Death!
They swore the oaths on the spilled
blood of their slain ancestors.
Then they set out to war: for Freedom, for
Life: BAPHOMET!
Dedicated to Albert Pike, the
last to Hold Fast with the Palladium.
*Setian
Jews. This is an old expression from the Ancient World, see article on "SET"
(dd-ad.html) or figure it out from TeVelde's book "Seth, God of Confusion."
Such Jews were not the same as Ophite Jews, they were Aristotelean or "Christianized"
as perceived by those who called them this.
Mahdia
was a place in Tunesia where the FATIMITE DYNASTY arose (Fatima, female line from
Mohammed, used for this pseudo-Islamic dynasty). Assassins and others arose from
this Dynasty and the Baphomet was, indeed, the Assassins' sigil. What they fought
for is in the poem, and fought against in the poem, too. The three cults are shown
on the Baphomet which is a three-fold symbol. Pan cults from Arcadia, Pythagoreans
with star and Ophites. The first two are where the so-called Masonic "Egyptian
Mysteries" come from which are literally ELEUSINIAN Mysteries. Osiris is
Dionysus to the Pythagoreans. Horus is Hermes-Thoth. It is the same as Athena,
Hera and represents the "anima." Soly got the idea for the poem from
what he read of the history of this sigil in a French Pythagorean book in Canada
at a relative's house. The symbol on the cover of the book had the Pythagorean
pentacle and a ram's head. It did not have any Hebrew letters. Anton LaVey got
the Baphomet from a book which showed the French version of this and showed the
Baphomet he liked and used. He was correct in saying that the Templars used it
but DeMolay (famous with Masons) did not found the Templars and their sigil had
no word "Leviathan" in it. Hugh dePayens founded the Templars, and he
was a Master in the Order of Assassins. The "Setians" referred to here
have no relationship to the modern day Temple of Set since the Set they use is
from a completely different source and has totally different meaning.
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