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   Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 08:13:01 JST Fish of Rage

   • Arcana
   @arcana goat is actually a good symbol for trump if you accept it as a sacrifice that assumes all the violence directed at the country
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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 08:18:54 JST Fish of Rage

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     @vic @arcana scapegoat is far older and definitely biblical
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     vic (vic@seal.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 08:18:56 JST vic

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     @sun @arcana > goat is actually a good symbol
     
     uhhh
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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 09:53:45 JST Fish of Rage

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     @toiletpaper @vic @arcana whats the explanation for the templars baphomet head tho
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     ⚡Lord of Misrule⚡ (toiletpaper@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 09:53:46 JST ⚡Lord of Misrule⚡

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     @vic @arcana @sun
     
     You should read Eliphas Levi "Dogma and Ritual of High Magic" who is the original source for that image. He explains very clearly that the Baphomet symbol represents essentially the Western esoteric equivalent of Taichi (yin/yang), and that all the furious arm waving about it being Satanic is because regular Christians are violently superstitious lunatics. For instance...
     
     "The symbolic head of the goat of Mendes is occasionally given to this figure, and it is then the Baphomet of the Templars and the Word of the Gnostics bizarre images which became scarecrows for the vulgar after affording food for thought to the sages, innocent hieroglyphs of thought and faith which have been a pretext for the rage of persecutions. How pitiable are men in their ignorance, but how they would despise themselves if once they came to know!"
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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 09:56:15 JST Fish of Rage

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     @toiletpaper @arcana @vic like it was just a black goat head
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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 10:03:06 JST Fish of Rage

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     @toiletpaper @arcana @vic This is literally just a Mystery Babylon effigy
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     @sun @arcana @vic
     
     "A pantheistic and magical figure of the Absolute. The torch placed between the two horns represents the equilibrating intelligence of the triad. The goat's head, which is synthetic, and unites some characteristics of the dog, bull, and ass, represents the exclusive responsibility of matter and the expiation of bodily sins in the body. The hands are human, to exhibit the sanctity of labour ; they make the sign of esotericism above and below, to impress mystery on initiates, and they point at two lunar crescents, the upper being white and the lower black, to explain the correspondences of good and evil, mercy and justice. The lower part of the body is veiled, portraying the mysteries of universal generation, which is expressed solely by the symbol of the caduceus. The belly of the goat is scaled, and should be coloured green ; the semi-circle above should be blue ; the plumage, reaching to the breast, should be of various hues. The goat has female breasts, and thus its only human characteristics are those of maternity and toil, otherwise the signs of redemption. On its forehead, between the horns and beneath the torch, is the sign of the microcosm, or the pentagram with one beam in the ascendant, symbol of human intelligence, which, placed thus below the torch, makes the flame of the latter an image of divine revelation. This Pantheos should be seated on a cube, and its footstool should be a single ball, or a ball and a triangular stool. In our design we have given the former only to avoid complicating the figure.
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     The name of the Templar Baphomet, which should be spelt Kabbalistically backwards, is composed of three abbreviations : TEM. OHP. AB., Templi omnium hominum pacisabbas, " the father of the temple of universal peace among men."
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     Now, this virile head is a beautiful allegory which attributes to thought alone the initiating and creating principle. Here the head represents spirit and the body matter. The orbs enchained to the human form, and directed by that nature of which intelligence is the head, are also magnificently allegorical"
     
     https://archive.org/details/transcendentalma00leviuoft