Who was Baphomet? By Dr. Trevelyan
Later on I and my fellow scholars will be discussing the Knights Templar. but right now, I should like to say a few words about 'Baphomet.'
Dr. Langdon has written (Internation Journal of Symbology, Vol. 12 P. 317) that the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping the idol of Baphomet, a pagan fertility god. Baphomet's idol was, according to Dr. Langdon, a large stone head with horns and a beard.
Quite apart from the question as to whether or not the Templars were guilty as charged (they were not) Dr. Langdon's account of Baphomet is horribly garbled. No mention of horns is ever made in the Templar trial records that we have, all that is said is that the Templars worshipped 'a bearded head', said by some to be 'Baphomet'.
Who was Baphomet? Well, to use Dr. Langdon's own language, perhaps you are more familiar with him under a different spelling. 'Baphomet' is an old French transliteration of a semitic name. In later writers his name is spelt 'Mahomet'. Today his name is usually spelt 'Mohammed'. Those who follow his teachings add 'peace be upon him' after saying the name.
Baphomet is just old French for Mohammed. Images of Mohammed are (as we know) strictly forbidden in Islam, but in Medieval France people did not know this. In fact, Muslims were accused of being idolaters. One of the accusations brought against the Knights Templar was that they had turned Muslim, and the accusation concerning 'Baphomet' was a part of this. Since it makes the Templar act like the mythical fairy-tale Muslims of legend, it is also patently false.
A German anti-Masonic author, Von Hammer, was the first writer to identify Baphomet as 'a Gnostic god', in 1818. Later scholarship has completely debunked him claims
Dr. Langdon has written (Internation Journal of Symbology, Vol. 12 P. 317) that the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping the idol of Baphomet, a pagan fertility god. Baphomet's idol was, according to Dr. Langdon, a large stone head with horns and a beard.
Quite apart from the question as to whether or not the Templars were guilty as charged (they were not) Dr. Langdon's account of Baphomet is horribly garbled. No mention of horns is ever made in the Templar trial records that we have, all that is said is that the Templars worshipped 'a bearded head', said by some to be 'Baphomet'.
Who was Baphomet? Well, to use Dr. Langdon's own language, perhaps you are more familiar with him under a different spelling. 'Baphomet' is an old French transliteration of a semitic name. In later writers his name is spelt 'Mahomet'. Today his name is usually spelt 'Mohammed'. Those who follow his teachings add 'peace be upon him' after saying the name.
Baphomet is just old French for Mohammed. Images of Mohammed are (as we know) strictly forbidden in Islam, but in Medieval France people did not know this. In fact, Muslims were accused of being idolaters. One of the accusations brought against the Knights Templar was that they had turned Muslim, and the accusation concerning 'Baphomet' was a part of this. Since it makes the Templar act like the mythical fairy-tale Muslims of legend, it is also patently false.
A German anti-Masonic author, Von Hammer, was the first writer to identify Baphomet as 'a Gnostic god', in 1818. Later scholarship has completely debunked him claims
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One notes here that while Christians no longer accuse Muslims of idolatry, Muslims still routinely accuse Christians of 'associating partners with God.' Given that what Muslims have in mind is a 'divine family' such as that in the 'Satanic Verses' of the Koran (no, not the silly book by Salman Rushdie), this is as silly as the 'Muslims are idolaters' slander of the Middle Ages, it makes one wonder.
Then one realises, goes completey bug-house and leaps out of the window gibbering like a baboon.
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