]> 2026-04-21T02:27:39+00:00 Baphomet 0 en Baphomet The androgyne goat of Mendes. (See ''Secret Doctrine'', I. 253). According to the Western, and especially the French Kabalists, the Templars were accused of worshipping Baphomet, and Jacques de Molay, the Grand Master of the Templars, with all his brother‐Masons, suffered death in consequence. But esoterically, and philologically, the word never meant “goat”, nor even anything so objective as an idol. The term means according to Von Hammer, “baptism” or ''initiation into Wisdom, ''from the Greek words bafh and mhtiz and from the relation of Baphometus to Pan. Von Hammer must be right. It was a Hermetico Kabalistic symbol, but the whole story as invented by the Clergy was false. (See “[[Pan]]”.) [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]]<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="'Theosophical Glossary' by H. P. Blavatsky">TG</span>)</span>. <span style="border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="Greek">Gr.</span> The androgyne goat of Mendes. (See ''Secret Doctrine'', I. 253). According to the Western, and espec... Baphomet Baphomet Baphomet 2022-08-22T05:19:50Z 2459813.7221065 Baphomet