Originally posted by freebourn
First of all I'd like to share a few interesting photos I have found online.
This is Baphomet:
Notice he has a torch between his horns like lucifer and a Pentagram on his forhead...
Now, this is a picture with the "seal of baphomet" as Aliester Crowly would sign his name.
These are modern Masons with the seal: (of the 33rd degree)
You've missed an important point here. What you are calling the "seal of Baphomet" doesn't have anything to do with Baphomet. It is actually the
Salem Cross, named such because the Knights Templar used it as herald when in Jerusalem.
The Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite of Masonry uses the Cross on his signiture because, in that Rite, he is considered the Grand Master of
Knights Templar.
Aleister Crowley, as leader of a non-Masonic Templar fraternity called Ordo Templi Orientis, used the cross for the same reason. However, he was not
referring to the image of Levi's Baphomet that you linked to when he signed "Baphomet"; instead he was referring to himself. "Frater Baphomet"
was Crowley's official O.T.O. name in that order.
