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  1. 16h ago

    The Biography Of The Pentagram Part 5: The Star At The Threshold

    Links For The Occult Rejects https://linktr.ee/theoccultrejects Occult Research Institute https://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/ Substack https://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page Cash App https://cash.app/$theoccultrejects Venmo @TheOccultRejects Buy Me A Coffee buymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejects Patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejects PRIMARY SOURCES Ficino, Marsilio. Commentary on Plato’s Symposium on Love. Translated by Sears Jayne. Spring Publications. Ficino, Marsilio. Letters of Marsilio Ficino. Translated by members of the Language Department of the School of Economic Science. Shepheard-Walwyn. Ficino, Marsilio. Platonic Theology. Translated by Michael J. B. Allen and John Warden. Harvard University Press. Ficino, Marsilio. Three Books on Life. Translated by Carol V. Kaske and John R. Clark. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies. Ficino, Marsilio, translator. The Pimander, his Latin translation of the philosophical writings later known as the Corpus Hermeticum. Hermes Trismegistus. Corpus Hermeticum. Translated by Brian P. Copenhaver in Hermetica. Cambridge University Press. Hermes Trismegistus. The Way of Hermes. Translated by Clement Salaman, Dorine van Oyen, William D. Wharton, and Jean-Pierre Mahé. Inner Traditions. Plato. Complete Works. Edited by John M. Cooper. Hackett Publishing. Plotinus. The Enneads. Translated by A. H. Armstrong. Harvard University Press. MEDIEVAL BUILDINGS, PROTECTIVE MARKS, AND POPULAR RELIGION Champion, Matthew. Medieval Graffiti: The Lost Voices of England’s Churches. Ebury Press, 2015. Davies, Owen. Popular Magic: Cunning-Folk in English History. Hambledon Continuum, 2003. Easton, Timothy. Selected studies on apotropaic markings, concealed objects, and ritual protection within historic English buildings. Gilchrist, Roberta. Sacred Heritage: Monastic Archaeology, Identities, Beliefs. Cambridge University Press, 2020. Hutton, Ronald. The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present. Yale University Press, 2017. Merrifield, Ralph. The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic. B. T. Batsford, 1987. Page, Sophie. Magic in Medieval Manuscripts. University of Toronto Press, 2004. Page, Sophie. Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe. Pennsylvania State University Press. Peters, Edward. The Magician, the Witch, and the Law. University of Pennsylvania Press. Wilson, Ben. Studies and conservation literature concerning ritual protection marks in historic buildings. RENAISSANCE HUMANISM AND THE RECOVERY OF GREEK LEARNING Black, Robert. Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Cambridge University Press. Burke, Peter. The Renaissance. Palgrave Macmillan. Hankins, James. Humanism and Platonism in the Italian Renaissance. Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura. Hankins, James. Plato in the Italian Renaissance. Brill. Kristeller, Paul Oskar. Renaissance Thought and Its Sources. Columbia University Press. Monfasani, John. Byzantine Scholars in Renaissance Italy: Cardinal Bessarion and Other Emigrés. Variorum. Nauert, Charles G. Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe. Cambridge University Press. MARSILIO FICINO, HERMETICISM, AND NATURAL MAGIC Allen, Michael J. B. Marsilio Ficino and the Phaedran Charioteer. University of California Press. Allen, Michael J. B. The Platonism of Marsilio Ficino. University of California Press. Bull, Christian H. The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus: The Egyptian Priestly Figure as a Teacher of Hellenized Wisdom. Brill. Copenhaver, Brian P. Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius. Cambridge University Press. Copenhaver, Brian P. Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment. Cambridge University Press. Ebeling, Florian. The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times. Cornell University Press. Fowden, Garth. The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind. Princeton University Press. Hanegraaff, Wouter J. Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture. Cambridge University Press. Kaske, Carol V., and John R. Clark. Introduction and commentary to Marsilio Ficino’s Three Books on Life. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies. Klibansky, Raymond, Erwin Panofsky, and Fritz Saxl. Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion, and Art. McGill-Queen’s University Press. Kristeller, Paul Oskar. The Philosophy of Marsilio Ficino. Columbia University Press. Robichaud, Denis J.-J. Plato’s Persona: Marsilio Ficino, Renaissance Humanism, and Platonic Traditions. University of Pennsylvania Press. Voss, Angela. Marsilio Ficino. North Atlantic Books. Walker, D. P. Spiritual and Demonic Magic from Ficino to Campanella. University of Notre Dame Press. Yates, Frances A. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. University of Chicago Press. Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

    The Biography Of The Pentagram Part 5: The Star At The Threshold

  2. 1d ago

    Crystals: Magick and Science with Ashleigh From Big Crystal Energy

    Links For The Occult Rejects https://linktr.ee/theoccultrejects Occult Research Institute https://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/ Substack https://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page Cash App https://cash.app/$theoccultrejects Venmo @TheOccultRejects Patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejects Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

  3. 2d ago

    The Seven Governors: Who Are the Olympic Spirits?

    Links For The Occult Rejects https://linktr.ee/theoccultrejects Occult Research Institute https://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/ Substack https://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page Cash App https://cash.app/$theoccultrejects Venmo @TheOccultRejects Patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejects PRIMARY AND EARLY SOURCES Anonymous. Arbatel de magia veterum: summum sapientiae studium**. Basel: [Peter Perna], 1575.** This is the principal primary source for the episode and the earliest known printed appearance of Aratron, Bethor, Phaleg, Och, Hagith, Ophiel and Phul as the seven Olympic governors. The surviving 1575 copy held by the Universitätsbibliothek Basel is especially important because it allows comparison of the original Latin against later translations. The Basel catalogue identifies the edition as printed in Basel in 1575 and attributes the printing to Peter Perna. Most heavily used: Aphorisms 14–21, particularly 15–18 for the definition of Olympic Spirits, their names and governments, planetary provinces, characters, the 490-year periods, “Olympic speech,” and the warning concerning the temporary efficacy of spirit names. Turner, Robert, trans. “Arbatel of Magick.” In Henry Cornelius Agrippa, His Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy; Of Geomancy; Magical Elements of Peter de Abano; Astronomical Geomancy; The Nature of Spirits; Arbatel of Magick**. London: J.C. for John Harrison, 1655.** Turner’s translation became one of the principal routes through which English-speaking occultists encountered the Arbatel. It is also important for tracing later translation problems—particularly Turner’s rendering of the duration of efficacious Olympic names as forty years rather than the 140 given in the Latin. The Library of Congress preserves and digitizes the 1655 volume. Trithemius, Johannes. De Septem Secundeis, id est, Intelligentiis sive Spiritibus Orbes post Deum Moventibus**. Written 1508; first printed 1522/early sixteenth-century editions.** Essential for the planetary-governor system preceding the Arbatel. Trithemius describes seven secondary intelligences governing the world beneath God for periods of 354 years and four months. His Saturnian governor Orifiel is explicitly described as bearing a “name of office, not of nature” — nomen est officii, non naturae, an extraordinary conceptual parallel to the Arbatel’s later emphasis upon office over permanent names. Pietro d’Abano [Peter of Abano]. Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et praecipue medicorum**. Early fourteenth century.** Important for the earlier planetary-spirit tradition underlying Trithemius. The planetary names associated with this current include Cassiel, Sachiel, Samael, Michael, Anael, Raphael and Gabriel. Peterson’s research traces Trithemius’s planetary-age doctrine back through this material. Paracelsus [Theophrastus von Hohenheim]. De causis morborum invisibilium [On the Causes of Invisible Diseases]. Written c. 1531–1532; first printed posthumously in the sixteenth century. One of our most important pre-Arbatel sources. Paracelsus uses Olympic Spirit / Olympic Spirits in connection with invisible celestial operations and the relationship between the stars of the macrocosm and those within the human microcosm. Peterson identifies this as a key source for understanding the Arbatel’s Paracelsian vocabulary. Paracelsus. Philosophia Sagax**. Written c. 1537; first printed 1571.** Particularly important because Paracelsus projected a third book concerning Olympici Novi. That portion is not preserved as part of the authentic work. Its absence has led scholars—including Joseph Peterson—to consider whether the Arbatel’s Olympic material emerged partly within the intellectual space created by Paracelsian ideas about Olympic magic. This should remain presented as a historical possibility rather than proven authorship or direct derivation. The Holy Bible, Genesis 10:25, Latin Vulgate. Used specifically in our discussion of Phaleg. The Latin biblical tradition uses the form Phaleg for Peleg and explicitly associates his name with the division of the earth. The correspondence with the Martial Olympic governor is therefore historically real at the level of vocabulary, although the Arbatel never states that its Phaleg was intentionally named for the biblical figure. The Holy Bible, Daniel 9:24–27. Used when discussing the possible significance of the Arbatel’s 490-year planetary governments. Daniel’s seventy symbolic “weeks” generate a traditional 70 × 7 = 490-year chronological framework. We treat this only as a possible numerical background because the Arbatel never explicitly derives its 490-year cycle from Daniel. Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

    The Seven Governors: Who Are the Olympic Spirits?

  4. 4d ago

    Back To Basics: Creating and Using Sigils Part 1

    Links For The Occult Rejects https://linktr.ee/theoccultrejects Occult Research Institute https://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/ Substack https://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page Cash App https://cash.app/$theoccultrejects Venmo @TheOccultRejects Patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejects Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

    Back To Basics: Creating and Using Sigils Part 1

  5. 6d ago

    The Mechanics of Magick: The Ecstatic Body Episode Three: From Humors to Hysteria

    Links For The Occult Rejects https://linktr.ee/theoccultrejects Occult Research Institute https://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/ Substack https://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page Cash App https://cash.app/$theoccultrejects Venmo @TheOccultRejects Patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejects Primary and Foundational Medical Texts Avicenna. The Canon of Medicine of Avicenna. Translated by O. Cameron Gruner. London: Luzac & Company, 1930. Breuer, Josef, and Sigmund Freud. Studies on Hysteria. Translated and edited by James Strachey, with Alix Strachey. New York: Basic Books, 1957. Originally published 1895. Charcot, Jean-Martin. Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux faites à la Salpêtrière. 3 vols. Paris: Adrien Delahaye and Émile Lecrosnier, 1872–1887. Colombo, Realdo. De re anatomica. Venice: Nicolò Bevilacqua, 1559. Descartes, René. The Passions of the Soul. Translated by Stephen H. Voss. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1989. Originally published 1649. Descartes, René. Treatise of Man. Translated by Thomas Steele Hall. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. Falloppio, Gabriele. Observationes anatomicae. Venice, 1561. Ficino, Marsilio. Three Books on Life. Translated by Carol V. Kaske and John R. Clark. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1989. Freud, Sigmund. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, vol. 7, translated and edited by James Strachey, 123–246. London: Hogarth Press, 1953. Originally published 1905. Galvani, Luigi. Commentary on the Effects of Electricity on Muscular Motion. Translated by Robert Montraville Green. Cambridge, MA: Elizabeth Licht, 1953. Originally published 1791. Haller, Albrecht von. “De partibus corporis humani sensilibus et irritabilibus.” Commentarii Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Gottingensis 2 (1753): 114–158. Harvey, William. An Anatomical Disputation Concerning the Movement of the Heart and Blood in Living Creatures. Translated by Gweneth Whitteridge. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1976. Originally published 1628. Janet, Pierre. L’Automatisme psychologique: Essai de psychologie expérimentale sur les formes inférieures de l’activité humaine. Paris: Félix Alcan, 1889. Mesmer, Franz Anton. Mesmerism: A Translation of the Original Medical and Scientific Writings of F. A. Mesmer. Translated by George Bloch. Los Altos, CA: William Kaufmann, 1980. Paracelsus. Selected Writings. Edited by Jolande Jacobi. Translated by Norbert Guterman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1951. Vesalius, Andreas. The Fabric of the Human Body: An Annotated Translation of the 1543 and 1555 Editions of “De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.” Translated by Daniel H. Garrison and Malcolm H. Hast. 2 vols. Basel: Karger, 2014. Medieval Islamic Medicine and Its Transmission Burnett, Charles, and Danielle Jacquart, eds. Constantine the African and ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Maǧūsī: The Pantegni and Related Texts. Leiden: Brill, 1994. Jacquart, Danielle, and Claude Thomasset. Sexuality and Medicine in the Middle Ages. Translated by Matthew Adamson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988. McGinnis, Jon, ed. Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. McVaugh, Michael R. Medicine Before the Plague: Practitioners and Their Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285–1345. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pormann, Peter E., and Emilie Savage-Smith. Medieval Islamic Medicine. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. Siraisi, Nancy G. Avicenna in Renaissance Italy: The Canon and Medical Teaching in Italian Universities after 1500. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987. Siraisi, Nancy G. Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Medieval and Early Modern Gender, Reproduction, and Sexuality Green, Monica H. Making Women’s Medicine Masculine: The Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern Gynaecology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. King, Helen. The Disease of Virgins: Green Sickness, Chlorosis, and the Problems of Puberty. London: Routledge, 2004. Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. Murray, Jacqueline. “The Law of Sin That Is in My Members: The Problem of Male Embodiment.” In Gender and Holiness: Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe, edited by Samantha J. E. Riches and Sarah Salih, 9–22. London: Routledge, 2002. Park, Katharine. Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection. New York: Zone Books, 2006. Park, Katharine. “The Rediscovery of the Clitoris: French Medicine and the Tribade, 1570–1620.” In The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe, edited by David Hillman and Carla Mazzio, 171–193. New York: Routledge, 1997. Stolberg, Michael. “A Woman Down to Her Bones: The Anatomy of Sexual Difference in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries.” Isis 94, no. 2 (2003): 274–299. Renaissance Anatomy, Circulation, and the Early Nervous Body Cunningham, Andrew. The Anatomical Renaissance: The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients. Aldershot, UK: Scolar Press, 1997. French, Roger. William Harvey’s Natural Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Kusukawa, Sachiko. Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Martensen, Robert L. The Brain Takes Shape: An Early History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. O’Malley, Charles Donald. Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514–1564. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964. Pagel, Walter. William Harvey’s Biological Ideas: Selected Aspects and Historical Background. Basel: Karger, 1967. Sawday, Jonathan. The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture. London: Routledge, 1995. Wear, Andrew. Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550–1680. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Descartes, Mind, Brain, and Mechanical Physiology Clarke, Desmond M. Descartes: A Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Gaukroger, Stephen. Descartes: An Intellectual Biography. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Lokhorst, Gert-Jan. “Descartes and the Pineal Gland.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University, revised 2024. Sutton, John. Philosophy and Memory Traces: Descartes to Connectionism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Alchemy, Natural Magic, Imagination, and Occult Philosophy Bruno, Giordano. Cause, Principle and Unity and Essays on Magic. Edited by Richard J. Blackwell and Robert de Lucca. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Copenhaver, Brian P. “Scholastic Philosophy and Renaissance Magic in the De vita of Marsilio Ficino.” Renaissance Quarterly 37, no. 4 (1984): 523–554. Hanegraaff, Wouter J. Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Newman, William R. Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pagel, Walter. Paracelsus: An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the Era of the Renaissance. 2nd ed. Basel: Karger, 1982. Walker, D. P. Spiritual and Demonic Magic from Ficino to Campanella. London: Warburg Institute, 1958. Yates, Frances A. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964. Irritability, Electricity, and the Development of Neurophysiology Clarke, Edwin, and L. S. Jacyna. Nineteenth-Century Origins of Neuroscientific Concepts. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. Finger, Stanley. Origins of Neuroscience: A History of Explorations into Brain Function. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Piccolino, Marco. “Luigi Galvani and Animal Electricity: Two Centuries after the Foundation of Electrophysiology.” Trends in Neurosciences 20, no. 10 (1997): 443–448. Steinke, Hubert. Irritating Experiments: Haller’s Concept and the European Controversy on Irritability and Sensibility, 1750–90. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. Mesmerism, Suggestion, and Altered States Crabtree, Adam. From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic Sleep and the Roots of Psychological Healing. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993. Darnton, Robert. Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968. Ellenberger, Henri F. The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry. New York: Basic Books, 1970. Harrington, Anne. The Cure Within: A History of Mind–Body Medicine. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008. Gauld, Alan. A History of Hypnotism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Hysteria, Charcot, Janet, and Freud Bogousslavsky, Julien, ed. Following Charcot: A Forgotten History of Neurology and Psychiatry. Basel: Karger, 2011. Goldstein, Jan. Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Makari, George. Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis. New York: Harper, 2008. Micale, Mark S. Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. Micale, Mark S. “Charcot and the Idea of Hysteria in the Male: Gender, Mental Science, and Medical Diagnosis in Late Nineteenth-Centur Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

    The Mechanics of Magick: The Ecstatic Body Episode Three: From Humors to Hysteria

  6. Nov 1

    The Occult Rejects with David Beth

    Links For The Occult Rejects https://linktr.ee/theoccultrejects Occult Research Institute https://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/ Substack https://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page Cash App https://cash.app/$theoccultrejects Venmo @TheOccultRejects Patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejects Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

  7. Oct 31

    The History of Baphomet Part 2: How Baphomet Became Satan: From Lévi’s Goat to the Modern Sigil

    Links For The Occult Rejects https://linktr.ee/theoccultrejects Occult Research Institute https://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/ Substack https://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page Cash App https://cash.app/$theoccultrejects Venmo @TheOccultRejects Patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejects BIBLIOGRAPHY — EPISODE TWO ÉLIPHAS LÉVI AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY FOUNDATION Lévi, Éliphas. Dogme de la haute magie. First installments, Paris, 1854. Earliest publication context for Lévi’s Baphomet drawing. Lévi, Éliphas. Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie. Paris, 1855–1856. Lévi, Éliphas. Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie. 2nd, greatly expanded ed. Paris/London/New York: Germer Baillière, 1861. Lévi, Éliphas. Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual. Translated by Arthur Edward Waite. London, 1896. Strube, Julian. “The ‘Baphomet’ of Eliphas Lévi: Its Meaning and Historical Context.” Correspondences 4 (2016): 37–79. Du Potet de Sennevoy, Jean. La magie dévoilée. Paris, 1852. Important to the spiritualistic-magnetic context from which Lévi developed his theory of the magical agent. Khunrath, Heinrich. Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae. First edition, 1595; expanded later edition, 1609. Directly relevant because Lévi explicitly invoked Khunrath’s androgyne while explaining the mixed-sex anatomy of Baphomet. Forshaw, Peter J. The Mage’s Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Detailed modern analysis of Khunrath’s Adam Androgyne and Rebis imagery, including the 1595 Solve / Coagula detail. Hesteau de Nuysement, Clovis. Traittez de l’harmonie et constitution généralle du vray sel, secret des philosophes, et de l’esprit universel du monde. The Hague: Théodore Maire, 1639. Relevant for another alchemical print identified by Strube among the visual influences surrounding Lévi’s Baphomet. Ragon, Jean-Marie. Orthodoxie maçonnique, suivie de la Maçonnerie occulte et de l’initiation hermétique. Paris: E. Dentu, 1853. Important immediate precursor linking alchemical matter, the Goat of Mendes, Kabbalistic ideas, and “specific magnetism”; Lévi reviewed the work in the year before his Baphomet appeared. Decker, Ronald, Thierry Depaulis, and Michael Dummett. A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot. London: Duckworth, 1996. Useful background for Lévi’s use of the Tarot of Marseille and the Devil card. Wilkinson, Richard H. The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003. Useful for distinguishing the ram deity Banebdjedet and the ancient religious context of Mendes from later European “Goat of Mendes” constructions. THEOSOPHY AND EARLY RECEPTION Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna. Isis Unveiled. 2 vols. New York: J. W. Bouton, 1877. Important for the early esoteric reception of Lévi, the Astral Light, and the wider nineteenth-century occult synthesis. Waite, Arthur Edward. Translator’s introduction and notes to Lévi’s Transcendental Magic. London, 1896. Useful for the Anglophone reception and criticism of Lévi. DE GUAITA, WIRTH, AND THE GOAT-PENTAGRAM de Guaita, Stanislas. La Clef de la Magie Noire. Paris, 1897. Primary source for the famous inverted goat-headed pentagram with Leviathan, Samael, and Lilith. Wirth, Oswald. Le Symbolisme hermétique dans ses rapports avec l’alchimie et la Franc-Maçonnerie. Paris: Librairie Initiatique, 1909. Wirth, Oswald. La Franc-Maçonnerie rendue intelligible à ses adeptes: Le Livre du Compagnon. 3rd ed. Paris, 1924. Important for Wirth’s goat-pentagram and his discussion of inverted polarity. Wirth, Oswald. Le Tarot des imagiers du Moyen Age. Paris: Le Symbolisme / Émile Nourry, 1927. Important for Wirth’s identification of the Devil card with the Baphomet of the Templars. ALEISTER CROWLEY AND THELEMA Crowley, Aleister. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley. Edited by John Symonds and Kenneth Grant. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. Crowley, Aleister. Liber XV: Ecclesiae Gnosticae Catholicae Canon Missae, commonly known as The Gnostic Mass. Crowley, Aleister. The Book of Lies. London, 1913. Crowley, Aleister. Magick in Theory and Practice and Magick: Liber ABA, Book 4. Various editions. O.T.O. manifestos and institutional documents. Useful for the Order’s constructed genealogies linking modern initiation with Templar, Masonic, Rosicrucian, Gnostic, and related traditions. MAURICE BESSY AND MODERN SATANISM Bessy, Maurice. Histoire en 1000 Images de la Magie. Paris, 1961. Bessy, Maurice. A Pictorial History of Magic and the Supernatural. English ed., 1964. LaVey, Anton Szandor. The Satanic Bible. New York: Avon Books, 1969. LaVey, Anton Szandor. The Satanic Rituals. New York: Avon Books, 1972. Church of Satan. “The History of the Origin of the Sigil of Baphomet and its Use in the Church of Satan.” Institutional history tracing de Guaita, Wirth, Bessy, the LaVeyan sigil, and the organization’s 2026 revision. Use as a primary institutional source rather than an independent authority on medieval Templar history. van Luijk, Ruben. Children of Lucifer: The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Introvigne, Massimo. Satanism: A Social History. Leiden: Brill, 2016. THE SATANIC TEMPLE AND THE MODERN MONUMENT The Satanic Temple. Official materials concerning the Baphomet Monument, its 2014 commission, 2015 unveiling, and religious-representation campaigns. Cave et al. v. Jester, No. 4:18-cv-00342 (E.D. Ark.), Opinion and Order and Judgment filed 31 March 2026; related Eighth Circuit appeals docketed in 2026. Primary legal sources for the Arkansas litigation involving equal treatment and the Baphomet monument. Laycock, Joseph P. Speak of the Devil: How The Satanic Temple Is Changing the Way We Talk about Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. MODERN OCCULTISM, SATANISM, AND SYMBOLIC RECEPTION Hanegraaff, Wouter J. Works on Western esotericism and modern occultism, useful for the methodological distinction between documented transmission and retrospective esoteric genealogy. Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. Works on modern Western esotericism and occult revival movements. Faxneld, Per. Studies on modern Satanism, esotericism, gender, and religious transgression. Partner, Peter. The Knights Templar and Their Myth. Useful for understanding how later esoteric and conspiratorial traditions continued to reinterpret Templar history. Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

    The History of Baphomet Part 2: How Baphomet Became Satan: From Lévi’s Goat to the Modern Sigil

  8. Oct 31

    The History of Baphomet Part 1: Before The Goat

    Links For The Occult Rejects https://linktr.ee/theoccultrejects Occult Research Institute https://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/ Substack https://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page Cash App https://cash.app/$theoccultrejects Venmo @TheOccultRejects Patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejects PRIMARY AND MEDIEVAL SOURCES Anselm of Ribemont. Letter concerning the First Crusade and Antioch, 1098. Important for the early form Baphometh and the Crusading context in which the word first appears. Gavaudan. Senhors, per los nostres peccatz. Late twelfth-century Occitan crusading poem. Consult the critical text and commentary available through RIALTO, especially the occurrences of Bafometz in an explicitly Christian-Muslim polemical context. Austorc d’Aorlhac. Ai Dieus, per qu’as facha tan gran maleza. Mid-thirteenth-century Occitan lament. RIALTO’s commentary identifies Bafomet as probably referring to Muhammad and discusses the deformation of Muhammad’s name. Ramon Llull tradition / Occitan Doctrina pueril. Medieval Occitan material containing the heading De Bafomet, useful as part of the broader linguistic history of forms associated with Muhammad and Islam. Michelet, Jules, ed. Le Procès des Templiers. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1841–1851. Major published collection of the French Templar proceedings and an important source for testimony involving heads, idols, Baffometi, Baphometi, and related accusations. Clement V. Vox in excelso, 22 March 1312. Papal decree suppressing the Order of the Temple. The Chinon Parchment, August 1308. Papal record concerning the interrogation, penitence, absolution, and reconciliation of senior Templar leaders. MODERN SCHOLARSHIP ON THE TEMPLARS Barber, Malcolm. The Trial of the Templars. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Barber, Malcolm. The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Demurger, Alain. The Last Templar: The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay, Last Grand Master of the Temple. London: Profile Books, 2009. Demurger, Alain. The Knights Templar: A New History. Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. London: Profile Books, 2007. Nicholson, Helen J. The Knights Templar: A New History. Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2001. Partner, Peter. The Knights Templar and Their Myth. Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 1990. Frale, Barbara. “The Chinon Chart: Papal Absolution to the Last Templar, Master Jacques de Molay.” Journal of Medieval History 30, no. 2 (2004). Wright, Thomas. Narratives of Sorcery and Magic. London, 1851. A nineteenth-century secondary compilation preserving discussion of the Templar testimony involving “Baffomet,” “Baphomet,” “Yalla,” and “Mahomet”; useful as a reception source and pointer back toward the trial editions rather than as a substitute for the medieval records. RENAISSANCE ALCHEMY AND THE PRE-LÉVI VISUAL LANGUAGE Rosarium Philosophorum. Frankfurt, 1550. Important for the illustrated alchemical conjunction of solar and lunar, masculine and feminine principles and for the hermaphroditic imagery that predates Lévi by three centuries. Khunrath, Heinrich. Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae. First edition, 1595; expanded later edition, 1609. Essential for the Adam Androgyne and the Alchemical Hermaphrodite or Rebis, including the paired Solve / Coagula language later recalled by Lévi. Forshaw, Peter J. The Mage’s Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Major modern study of Khunrath’s engravings; especially useful for the sequence of the 1595 circular images, the Rebis, and the detail explicitly catalogued as “Solve [et] Coagula.” Hesteau de Nuysement, Clovis. Traittez de l’harmonie et constitution généralle du vray sel, secret des philosophes, et de l’esprit universel du monde. The Hague: Théodore Maire, 1639. The volume contains a print identified in modern scholarship as another visual source relevant to Lévi’s later synthesis. Guazzo, Francesco Maria. Compendium Maleficarum. Milan, 1608. Useful for the broader early-modern demonological visual environment in which goat-headed and winged devil imagery circulated, without treating those images as earlier Baphomets. TEMPLAR SURVIVAL MYTHS AND ESOTERIC REINTERPRETATION Le Forestier, René. La Franc-maçonnerie templière et occultiste aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Paris/Louvain: Aubier-Montaigne/Editions Nauwelaerts, 1970. Nicolai, Christoph Friedrich. Versuch über die Beschuldigungen, welche dem Tempelherrenorden gemacht worden, und über dessen Geheimniß. Berlin, 1782. Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von. “Mysterium Baphometis Revelatum.” 1818. Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

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