entities: ENT_REC_BAPHOMET_LEVI

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entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_REC_BAPHOMET_LEVI Baphomet (Lévi)   19th-century occultism Personified abstraction Personified Abstraction magic; occult synthesis; polarity; wisdom; modern reception baphomet; lévi; occultism; 19th-century; modern reception; hermetic; kabbalistic; personified abstraction     A reviewed Lévi, Dogme et rituel de la haute magie (1854-1856); Hanegraaff (ed.), Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism (2006)       Androgynous, goat-headed figure invented by Éliphas Lévi in Dogme et rituel de la haute magie (1854-1856) as a symbol of the occult absolute: the synthesis of all opposites (male/female, good/evil, matter/spirit). Lévi drew on the Templar trial accusations of 1307-1314 (in which the Knights Templar were charged with worshipping "Baphomet") but wholly transformed the figure — his Baphomet is a Hermetic and Kabbalistic symbol of universal polarity, not a continuation of any medieval cult. Hutton (1999) and Hanegraaff (2006) confirm no ancient deity "Baphomet" existed; the name and figure are Lévi's 19th-century creation. Later adapted by the Church of Satan (LaVey, 1966) and by various Wiccan and ceremonial-magic traditions. abstraction

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