Part I — Origins and Accusations
The Birth of a Name
Early references and the linguistic mystery of “Baphomet”
The Trial of the Templars
Politics, power, and the invention of heresy
Idols, Heads, and Confessions
What the Templars were actually accused of worshipping
Islam, Heresy, and Medieval Fear
Cultural misunderstandings behind the legend
Baphomet as a Legal Construct
How inquisitorial processes created demons
Part II — Silence and Survival
The Disappearance of Baphomet
Why the figure vanishes for centuries
Secret Knowledge and Suppressed Symbols
Did anything survive underground?
Templar Afterlives and Romantic Myths
Freemasonry, legends, and reinvention
The Goat in Medieval Imagination
Folklore, demons, and horned archetypes
Alchemy Before the Goat
Androgyny, balance, and symbolic unity
Part III — The Lévi Revolution
Éliphas Lévi and the Invention of Modern Baphomet
Context and intention
The Sabbatic Goat
Anatomy of an icon
Solve et Coagula
Alchemical meaning in image and text
Gender, Androgyny, and Divine Balance
The philosophical heart of Lévi’s Baphomet
Baphomet vs. the Devil
How Lévi separated symbol from superstition
Part IV — Occult Lineages
Baphomet and the French Occult Revival
Lévi’s influence on later esoteric thought
Rosicrucians, Martinists, and Hidden Continuities
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
What they accepted—and what they rejected
Aleister Crowley and the Name Baphomet
Title, mask, and magical identity
Baphomet in Thelema
Gnosis, transgression, and will
Part V — Tarot, Kabbalah, and Symbol Systems
Baphomet and the Tarot Trumps
The Devil card re-examined
The Goat on the Tree of Life
Kabbalistic interpretations
Alchemy, Astrology, and the Body of Baphomet
Initiation and the Androgyne
Baphomet as a map of transformation
Symbol vs. Idol
How esotericism reads images differently
Part VI — Modern Reinterpretations
Satanism and Misappropriation
What modern movements took—and missed
Baphomet in Popular Culture
Horror, rebellion, and shock value
Political and Legal Baphomet
Free speech, monuments, and provocation
Reclaiming the Symbol
Contemporary esoteric readings
Baphomet as Western Esoteric Mirror
What the symbol reveals about us
