The Baphomet
Symbol, Accusation, and Esoteric Transformation
Few figures within Western esoteric history generate sustained fascination, controversy, reverence, suspicion, and scholarly debate equal to Baphomet. Documentary evidence traces the earliest known appearances of the name to the early fourteenth century during inquisitorial proceedings against members of the Knights Templar. Records from the trials between 1307 and 1312 include testimonies alleging ritual veneration of a mysterious head or idol identified under variations of the name Baphomet. Surviving trial transcripts remain inconsistent and often emerged under coercive interrogation, leaving historians divided regarding literal worship, political fabrication, or linguistic corruption of other religious terminology, including possible distortions of the name Muhammad circulating through Crusader era rhetoric.
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