The CD booklet also features a Baphomet pentagram and a more traditional pentagram graphic, as well as photos of the band members wearing corpse paint, inverted cross necklaces and T-shirts featuring the black metal acts Marduk and Darkthrone.

Baphomet is winged and horned, combining human and bestial features.

Returning, she leads the People in the Gnostic Creed, which announces a belief ( or value ) in the Lord, the Sun, Chaos, Air, Babalon, Baphomet, the Gnostic Catholic Church, the communion of Saints, the Miracle of the Mass ( i. e. the Eucharist ), as well as confessions of their birth as incarnate beings and the eternal cycle of their individual lives.

Following Nicolai, he argued, using as archaeological evidence " Baphomets " faked by earlier scholars and literary evidence such as the Grail romances, that the Templars were Gnostics and the " Templars ' head " was a Gnostic idol called Baphomet.

The Church of Satan uses the Hebrew letters at each of the points of the Sigil of Baphomet to represent Leviathan.

The actual image of a goat in a downward-pointing pentagram first appeared in the 1897 book La Clef de la Magie Noire by Stanislas de Guaita, later adopted as the official symbol — called the Sigil of Baphomet — of the Church of Satan, and continues to be used among Satanists.

: The first 4 clauses are attributed to the four letters of Tetragrammaton YHVH: the Father ( Chaos ); the Mother ( Babalon ); the Union of Father and Mother in the Son ( Baphomet ); and the Daughter, the Bride of the Son ( the Church ).

The Sigil of Baphomet is the official insignium of the Church of Satan, and is trademarked by the organization.

Although versions of the Sigil of Baphomet appear as early as the 1897 book La Clef de la Magie Noire by Stanislas de Guaita, the variant in common use by the Church of Satan is known as the Hell's Kitchen Baphomet, a slightly modified version of an original which appeared on the cover Maurice Bessy's 1964 book A Pictorial History of Magic and the Supernatural.

The Church of Satan Baphomet, according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, is copyrighted and cannot legally be reproduced without their permission in conjunction with the Church of Satan name.

* The History of the Origin of the Sigil of Baphomet and its Use in the Church of Satan

Levi created his image of Baphomet, published in his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie ( 1855 ), by combining symbolism from diverse traditions, including the Diable card of the 16th and 17th century Tarot of Marseille.

: we may believe that here Lovecraft was inspired by the traditional Christian depiction of the Baphomet Goat, an image of Satan harking back to the pre-Christian woodland deity Pan, he of the goatish horns and shanks.

Presumably following Herodotus ' description, the occultist Eliphas Levi in his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie ( 1855 ) called his goat-headed conception of Baphomet the " Baphomet of Mendes ", thus popularizing and perpetuating this incorrect attribution, which has given rise to a flood of spurious connections, such as " The Goat of Mendes " by the blackened death metal band Akercocke.

The Knights Templar were destroyed by accusations that they worshipped Baphomet from King Philip the Fair.

Baphomet (; from medieval Latin Baphometh, baffometi, Occitan Bafometz ) is an imagined The name Bafometz later appears around 1195 in the Occitan poem " Senhors, per los nostres peccatz " by the troubadour Gavaudan.

Similarly Michael Haag suggests that the simulated worship of Baphomet did indeed form part of a Templar initiation ritual, but that this was a kind of hazing intended to convey the message that this was what they had to expect if captured by the Muslims.

Modern scholars such as Peter Partner and Malcolm Barber agree that the name of Baphomet was an Old French corruption of the name Muhammad, with the interpretation being that some of the Templars, through their long military occupation of the Outremer, had begun incorporating Islamic ideas into their belief system, and that this was seen and documented by the Inquisitors as heresy.

In 1818, the name Baphomet appeared in the essay by the Viennese Orientalist Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall, Mysterium Baphometis revelatum, seu Fratres Militiæ Templi, qua Gnostici et quidem Ophiani, Apostasiæ, Idoloduliæ et Impuritatis convicti, per ipsa eorum Monumenta (" Discovery of the Mystery of Baphomet, by which the Knights Templars, like the Gnostics and Ophites, are convicted of Apostasy, of Idolatry and of moral Impurity, by their own Monuments "), which presented an elaborate pseudohistory constructed to discredit Templarist Masonry and, by extension, Freemasonry itself.

Eliphas Lévi | Lévi's Baphomet image employed in the later 19th century to suggest Baphomet worship by Freemasonry | Freemasons.

The Baphomet of Lévi was to become an important figure within the cosmology of Thelema, the mystical system established by Aleister Crowley in the early twentieth century.

Christian evangelist Jack Chick claims that Baphomet is a demon worshipped by Freemasons, a claim that apparently originated with the Taxil hoax.

In the course of the story he upsets a plot by the archfiend Baphomet on modern Earth.

For a time Housecore was merged with Baphomet Records, owned by Philip's friend and ex-bandmate Killjoy of Necrophagia, to form Baphomet / Housecore Records.

The Priest entreats Baphomet — " O Lion and O Serpent " — to be “ mighty among us .” He then declares the Law of Thelema to the People-" Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law "-who return with “ Love is the law, love under will .” He finally partakes of the Eucharist with the words, “ In my mouth be the essence of the life of the Sun ” ( with the Host ) and “ In my mouth be the essence of the joy of the earth ” ( with the Wine ).

However, modern scholars generally explain the name Baphomet from the trial documents as simply a French misspelling of the name Mahomet ( Muhammad ).

The name Baphomet comes up in several of these confessions.

While modern scholars and the Oxford English Dictionary state that the origin of the name Baphomet was a probable Old French version of " Mahomet ", alternative etymologies have also been proposed:

Later in the 19th century, the name of Baphomet became further associated with the occult.

When the Knights Templar were being tried for heresy, reference was often made to their worship of a demon Baphomet, which was notable, by implication, for its similarity to Muhammad's name when transliterated in to Latin, " Mahomet ", that was used by contemporary Christian authors, given that Latin would be for another 500 years the language of scholarship and erudition for most of Europe.

In Occitan literature the name Muhammed was corrupted as " Bafomet ", forming the basis for the legendary Baphomet, at different times an idol, a " sabbatic goat ", and key link in conspiracy theories.

Baphomet serves as a historical model for Murrays concept.

Eliphas Levi's image of " Baphomet " serves as an example of the transformation of the Devil into a benevolent fertility deity and provided the prototype for Murray's horned god.

The Templars were also known to possess the head of Saint Euphemia of Chalcedon, and the subject of relics came up during the Inquisition of the Templars, as several trial documents refer to the worship of an idol of some type, referred to in some cases as a cat, a bearded head, or in some cases as Baphomet.

In the modern occultism of Madeline Montalban, Lucifer's identification as the Morning Star ( Venus ) equates him with Lumiel, whom she regarded as the Archangel of Light, and among Satanists he is seen as the " Torch of Baphomet " and Azazel.

Chick Publications publishes such a tract called The Curse of Baphomet and Randy Noblitt's book on satanic ritual abuse, Cult and Ritual Abuse also cites the Taxil hoax.

The claims of an idol named Baphomet were unique to the Inquisition of the Templars.

* Dr. Hugh J. Schonfield ( 1901 – 1988 ), one of the scholars who worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls, argued in his book The Essene Odyssey that the word " Baphomet " was created with knowledge of the Atbash substitution cipher, which substitutes the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet for the last, the second for the second last, and so on.

" Baphomet " rendered in Hebrew is בפומת ; interpreted using Atbash, it becomes שופיא, which can be interpreted as the Greek word " Sophia ", or wisdom.

This image has become the best-known representation of Baphomet.

The 2007 Ubisoft game, " Assassin's Creed ," features Altaïr ibn-La ' Ahad as the main character.

Ubisoft's 2009 historical fiction action-adventure open world stealth video game Assassin's Creed II ( Assassin's Creed series ) features Leonardo's version of the painting as a purchasable item in the Forli art merchant.

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood features a contract mission in London City titled " Pretenders " where the Assassin's are to " naturally " kill Margaret of York on Henry VII's behalf.

" Pilate's Creed " features a dialogue between Pilate and Joseph of Arimathea.

The 2009 video game Assassin's Creed II features a semi-fictional version of the Pazzi family and the Pazzi conspiracy, acting as early adversaries to the main character Ezio Auditore with an important role in the plot of the game.