Baphomet

The Sabbatic Goat of Mendes

Baphomet is an enigmatic symbolic figure and alleged infernal idol originating in the fourteenth-century inquisitorial trials of the Knights Templar. Later reinvented by nineteenth-century French occultism as the winged, androgynous Sabbatic Goat, the entity serves as a paramount emblem of duality, magical equilibrium, and esoteric initiation.

DemonINTJSabbatic GoatTemplar IdolOccult DualityEsoteric GlyphCeremonial Magic
⛧ Goetic CanonBaphomet (The Sabbatic Goat)
The Sabbatic Goat / Hieroglyph of Universal Equilibrium • demon
Primary Source: Éliphas Lévi, Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (1856), Part II, Ch. 15; Aleister Crowley, The Equinox III:1 (1919)

In nineteenth-century ceremonial occultism, Baphomet was reimagined by Éliphas Lévi and integrated into Western ceremonial magic as the Sabbatic Goat of Mendes. Transcending conventional demonology, this pantheistic glyph combines caprine horns, female breasts, the torch of intelligence, and the caduceus between its legs, synthesizing Solve et Coagula to represent the equilibrium of the Astral Light.

“Late / disputed attestation. Unlike medieval Christian inquisitorial depositions that treated Baphomet as an idol of demonic heresy, 19th-century occultism reinterpreted the figure as an androgynous glyph of cosmic balance absent from early Solomonic grimoires.”

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