I know these don't count as demons. But I know they play a very significant role in persona to and are based off some very interesting conspiracy theories. So do you think you could do a video on the Last Battalion at some point in the future?
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I always had different ways of pronouncing Baphomet. Bah-hom-met, Ba-ho-May, etc. Eliphas Levi designed that image on "The Devil" Tarot card to be an image of Astral Light or the fluidic type of energy that magicians used to cause change in reality. Hence the Solve and Coagula of the arms. Alchemical symbolism. Great job as always!!
I've heard once.. Swiss Banking,, was tied to, Those who evaded capture,, a country with No Army,, suddenly has one, and established Banking practices..
Absolutely right. The main reason was that they didn't want that amount of wealth to go to the Pope, so they kept it out of Europe. In return, they were branded as heretics and hunted.
@@tuckernutterYes and no, much like all of human history. Because they didn't bring the wealth back to Europe, the Pope isn't emperor and we didn't technologically stagnate into something that makes the Warhammer 40k Empire of Man look progressive. On the flip side, we've all become tax slaves and unsecured debt is crushing human progression. So... your call.
There's a million places you can go to get some colored interpretation of these things, it's nice to just get information without any interpretation getting drawn for you
I used to think that Baphomet was a bit too generic of a demon design as I had seen this motif very often. However now that you've explained how thorough the Sabbatical Goat's design was to the various aspects of Occultism I now have a newfound appreciation for it. Great work as always.
I don’t even play Shin Megami Tensei games (and probably won’t ever, I unfortunately tend to bounce off of JRPGs) but I love your videos Tony, as a mythology and theology nerd ❤excellent video as usual :)
well, the image we associate with baphomet (by Éliphas Lévi has the words "solve" and "coagula" on their arms, which are the principles of alchemy, dissolve and coagulate, also pertaining to the major theme of Levis interpretation, which is the reconciliation of opposites A very meaningful symbol imo
If you were to draw Baphomet as a one-dimensional being without any of the details such as the scales, the caduceus on a stomach and things like that, you would have drawn a one-dimensional representation of alchemical symbols stacked on each other
No. The devil is a liar. Call him out when need be. Satanists lie to the public in saying they do not really believe in a devil. Can you honestly believe the words of a follower who’s god is THE god of lies?
The only thing I can think of that's missing here is the Egyptian influence of Banebdjed, which the Greeks interpreted as the Goat of Mendes. But this is a great video. I always fuse a high level Baphomet in late game SMT and keep them on my team.
We don't know if the Templars really worshiped him, it could've been a rumour spread by the King of France to then crush the order and appropriate their belongings
Yep. And we are at the point now where doctors can create a living image of him and pass it off as "normal" But that's just crazy conspiracy theory....
I like the idea some demons were symbols for good ideas, like two opposites coming together man-woman beast-man, but has come to be one of the most infamous evils. If I were to change the design maybe have it's hands point in the original pose or add more gradient white or colored areas instead of being all black. Don't know if the Knights Templar myth made the figure more popular or it's just the goat head that makes people think of a satanic figure. I doubt it has anything to do with Muhammed, the gnostic made up cypher sounds cool and I'd like to see that explored in a magic system that mashes up obscure christian lore.
I was always under the impression that his right arm (on our left) says Salve (read: Sol-way), which is Latin for "hail," "welcome," or as a formal "hello". In any case, fun fact, V's in Latin sound like W's in English!
Fact: Baphomet was and is nothing more then a imagined and then illustrated (drawn out/artistic) depiction of humanities duality in all ways and senses. Eliphas Levi, the illustrator was very strict on this and from the beginning was very verbally impeccable when he said it should remain as such and not be made to be anything more knowing how much people can be fanatical and make up things that are anything but. This entire video is everything that Eliphas Levy was against as it pertained to his art work.....but y'all can tell it how you want 😅😅😅😅😅
If Baphomet has so much symbolism pertaining to the balance of one's soul, even including kabbalistic imagery, why was it considered evil? Even the pentagram, according to Tony, was symbolic of spirit over matter. Was it because of the Latin words?
Islam is all about one god. you can always see moslem showing one finger as symbol of one God in their pictures and paintings(even Jesus was showing one finger). the baphomet showing two fingers is the symbol of desecration of what Mohammed teaching. the duality is the antitesis of Islamic God and also to mention about God's creation always comes in two in Islam, man and woman, positive and negative, night and day, male and female. baphomet was a statue of middle eastern man with two horns which later reworked as the goat with tits and duality. mostlikely the knights templar are secretly became moslems due to the spitting and desecrating cross is not random out of nowhere. it came from the islamic eschatology where Jesus in his second coming will break the cross which symbolized his divinity and to tell all christians in the world that he is never been a god. and because they are the knights of Jesus, not the knights of church, they are bound to do what Jesus would do to a cross. also many of their questionable rituals are mostly islamic, such as prostation in the dawn and they abolished usury in their banking system (sharia banking system). after they are all disbanded their banking system went back to usury.
The christian god antagonizes any other deities or spiritual symbols and thus the faith and it's followers demonizes all others. It's why I think it really is the demiurge but I don't believe this world is torture.
Baphomet has no known connections with gnosticism, it does however have an interesting story about how the inquisitors used the word "bahphomet" as a cypher for Sophia towards the new initiates. The new recruits were forced to walk behind a goat and kiss it's anus witch would reveal itself to be the face of their goddess, a mockery of Sophia.
Satan was an angel, that challenged the status quo and got rekt for it. Many faiths paint it to be the worst of the worst, the lowest of the lowest, the most blasphemous of the blasphemous, but did you ever to stop to think what he did wrong? Or did you go along with what they told you because you were too afraid to question?
The black and white image of them is etched in my brain. I've only seen it once when I was a teenager and has haunted me ever since. Like every now and again, the image randomly pops into my brain for no reason and I wouldn't even be thinking or be reminded of them. Maybe I'm cursed IDK
That isnt just a goat Hes half beast half human features And he is not the devil His name is Azazel The fallen angel thats imprisoned deep in the earth He is the 2nd beast in revelation
I honestly didn't know this was a lore video on shin megami tensei, as I've never played it. (Idk what SMT meant) So I was listening to this really interesting and detailed story of Baphomet and all of a sudden shin megami tensei was brought up and I was VERY confused. Good video though!
If you are into demons, occultism and such, I recommend the game! It's about the main character (you) that somehow ends up in a world with demons and other humans that try to take over the power to destroy and remake the world, so you fight demons and can decide if follow God (law), the devil (caos) or neutral
your research is always so good and put together perfectly, always been interested in topics like this its hard to figure out where to start with researching. always great videos 👍❤️
@@Tony4You It as far off from Baphomet as possible. Would've been fun to hear your thoughts about it. Maybe in a future video discussing "off" or weird SMT designs?
Skilled in Combat, a trusted alliance with the Church,, How could such Men simply be captured,, if your most trusted Allegiance, could just walk in and Stab you in the back.. overs the years as more and more conspiracy began , this ,, Idea of Evil men,, Worshipping the Devil etc.. Betrayed by Church and Cowards, ..
I love heavy metal and Death metal bands such as carnifex is my favorite band & to name few few more bands who do use this Sign or symbol like Slipknot. behemoth Whitechapel , it also just lack of knowledge to said bands who don`t even care to look deep into history & why they use the Bathomet symbol ,just because it look cool to them Never have i seen bands understand when using real symbol in the Live concerts and t-shirts image 🖤🤔 they should know what they putting out to Hard dieing fans such as myself you show do a video on that subject soon if your not a heavy metal lover
Hearing you describe the actual meaning of the arm positions and other imagery on the iconic Baphomet drawing helps me understand the actual symbolism and possibly realise that that "satanic" imagery isn't actually a bad thing like so many Christians think. I don't know, I'm not religious or anything like that, but all that stuff about spiritualism, the importance of holiness/sacredness, love and kindness... correct me if I'm wrong, but those all sound like good things. This kind of stuff is why I've fallen down a rabbit hole, watching your SMT videos as a huge fan of the series and starting a very small interest in folklore and deities.
Beautifully said! Have a look at Jordan Maxwell, Avatar Adi Da Samraj, The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, Nesta Webster, Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man, Mythology's Last God's, and The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies. I apologize for mixing book titles between Author names. Peace and Love
I just recently started reading about Gnosticism and i find that they're very similar to ancient Babylonian religions. Just found similarities and i think that The Knights Templar was made out to be Gnostics which i dont think they were. I think they were Christians and the king of France stabbed them in the back bc they didn't win The Crusades and he owed them a lot of money.
Philo- You needed that philo and you would've nailed it. Sophia is wisdom. I read somewhere that the Knight's Templar had a deity that the fetish of which consists of a, asses head on a stick. This particular deity's role in Templar ceremonial magick was to be stood up in the center of a small room and surrounded by knights all of whom would curse the fetish while striking it with objects, beating it with their fists and kicking it. I wish I could remember the title of the book I read of this in because it was super interesting and what really brought it to mind now was the name it was believed to be called by, Baphomet, which that little book also pointed out was likely a corruption of Mohammed. I enjoyed that mental movie of a little ceremony because it's massively reminiscent of the Old Testament/Pentateuch scapegoat idea and makes a whole lot of sense from a psychodrama point of view. An entity onto which one can project the aspects of oneself and the world one lives in that one dislikes or even despises and then through a physical act of victimless violence, sort of, exorcise those aspects by beating the crap out of their material sheath or ritual embodiment. A group act that can still function effectively on an individual level for each member of that group. Damn, that was a good little book. I'm afraid I'll never remember what it was called or who authored it. The word "Greene" comes to mind, but that could just be a brain fart. Super interesting topic. Enjoyed the video. Thank you.
He's an extremely kind and comforting figure to me. One of the only times I experienced smelling a spirit was while with them. They smelled like the sweetest strawberries and cream. And his boobs are awesome. And to me, he is fluffy, and soft, with orangish fur, extremely comforting in feeling. He helped me find peace in my gender, and he helped me learn to not feel ashamed of being both a trans man, and also a genderfluid, nonbinary person, who myself has breasts and androgenous features that once caused me immense pain and distress. But seeing Baphomet helped and continues to help me find peace in my gender, and helped me to embody a spiritual balance too. When I really needed balance in my life he came to me and helped me so much. This reminded me, I should reach out to them again soon. I actually really could use some more balance on something.
Nice to have a video on this, I was always confused about the origins of Baphomet but never really bothered to research it before lol. Always just thought "Hey that looks cool" when it comes to SMT, and was only really familiar with how people associate it with Satan.
Baphomet appears when you make all the wrong choices in life and you are deep in the quicksand, ironically, if you take the hint Ba'al is a signpost to Jehovah as only God can help you against this wretched entity. If you find yourself in hell do a U-turn.
Baph was the first demon I ever fused that actually looked like a demon, I thought he looked so cool. He holds a special place in my heart, I never fused him into anything and kept him as is 😅
@@labeilleautiste6318Baphomet is not a demon, and the artist of the original work was very clear in this. Baphomet is meant to symbolise duality, two halves coming together. Human and beast, man and woman. The words written on its arms are old words, I think maybe latin for dissolve and coagulate. Literally melt and harden together, as one.
REJECT ALL WORKS OF THE DEVIL AZAZEL Worship the Creator El shaddai Yahuah, thank him for his son Rabbi Yahusha HaMashyakh Keep the Commandments and the Gospel Shaloma
Hmmm.. What tells us Gospels about Baphomet, Satan, Devil or just The Liar, Mankind's Killer... Jesus in the Bible speaks about Satan and his fall in several texts, including the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, as well as in the Book of Revelation. Jesus calls Satan "the prince of this world" and "the father of lies" and speaks about his misuse and deception of people. In Matthew's Gospel 12:25-26, Jesus says, "Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand. And if Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?" Jesus also speaks in Luke's Gospel 10:17-20 about his disciples witnessing Satan falling from heaven and emphasizes his power over him: "The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, `Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!` And he said to them, `I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and overall the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you." This statement shows Jesus' power over Satan and evil. In the Book of Revelation, Jesus speaks about the final showdown with Satan and his destruction. In Revelation 20:10, he says, "And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever." This description represents the culmination of the biblical story of the confrontation between good and evil. Throughout the New Testament, Jesus encourages believers to resist Satan, to trust in his power, and to live righteously in preparation for his final coming and judgement.
Great video as always, but id like to add some things: The solve and coagula are a reference to the alchemical concept of "solve et coagula"; dissolve and coagulate, meaning that things in a rough state shall be dissolved and then brought together again so it can be purified from many of its imperfections, analogous to the human soul, which is always perfecting itself. The position of the arms themselves-one pointing upward, the other downwards- is referring to the hermetic concept of "as above, so below", also seen in The Lord's prayer(thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven). Referencing hermes, it also attributes the polar opposites that are often seen in Hermetics. There is also another interpretation for the elements shown on Elipha's depiction; The fire burning between his horns represent the dominion of man over fire, the scales on his stomach represent the dominion of man over eater, the wings the dominion of man over the air(although this interpretation is a bit weird since airplanes werent invented when elipha lived) and since Baphomet is seated on a mound, it also represents the dominion of man over earth.
The kingnwas very very jealous of the Templar knights, and brutally tortured and lynched them and stole all and every wealth that was accumulated by Templar knights. The templar knights NEVER worshipped baphomet. Did the templar knights get their reparations?
The knights Templar were against God in that the past are the wastes of Malachi. Jesus is The Only Begotten Son. Through Him we are Israel not real estate. So it makes sense that the knights templar are responsible
That's a lot of stuff I didn't know about baphomet, totally seeing the goat god in a whole new light. Oh by the by my fellow prentice, are you looking forward to P3 reload? A trip down memory lane 🤩
Thank you Tony for being open minded. You have done a great deed for the world and all of man kind. by helping everyone understand true history that Christianity serpressed for the last 5000 plus years.
Christianity hasn't been around for 5000 years to suppress anything for that long and the classical depiction of baphomet is a literal description of what's in the bible itself Nice try tho.
As an alchemy enthusiast i can absolutely assure you that Baphomet doesnt represents neither good or evil.it actually represent something so holy if people knew.Its absolutely not satanic. It represents the union and balance of all duality. Its an alchemical symbol before all. Its also not a demon as many people think. Actually, baphomet is probably the depiction of a cherub angel, cherub or cherubim are angels with four faces and one of its face or head, is a goat. But thats my theory. Write cherub angel on google image and you will understand my point
You sound like you like baphomet. Your praise of it is duly noted...yup. When i first saw baphomet, i thought it was a decapitated ram's 🐏 head and put on the body of a donkey, hahahaha. lol hahaha😅
As a Pagan Pantheist Germanic, I can say that since the beginning that Christians ✝️ has been used by malicious dark forces to cause chaos and evil work.
Good grief, it's all there...all the pics are biblical eg...satan is revealed as a snake, lion and of course they will be separation of goats and sheep 😢😢😢
knights templar spitting and desecrating the cross is from islamic eschatology where in second coming, Jesus will break the cross, the symbol of his divinity, and also to tell every christians that he was never been a god.
Interesting. I never knew about the concept of Baphomet being a representation of balance and equilibrium of opposites. I don't know why I initially thought of it as being a pagan god of fertility. While it may not be similar, I'm immediately reminded of Ardha, another diety that also has both masculine and feminine traits representing a form of synthesis.
its based on the flawed Gnostic take on the dialectic. where with normal logic the thesis and anti-thesis are supposed to weed out all falsities to come towards the refined truth the synthesis. the gnostic/hermetic/alchemy will try to force two contradicting ideas and assume both are always thru. which is a paradox but, not everything is a paradox. the first logical method will find a paradox if it exists. the Gnostic method assumes every conflicting idea/concept is a paradox. so the concept a perfect 2 + another perfect 2 = 4 with gnostism you can say 2+2 = 5 or 7, a tree or a cow. then when the logical person proves its nonsense there is no synthesis , but the gnostic way supports ignorance and ego, so then when the dialectic is used the gnostic will just say well both are true and combine the two in any wierd mental gymnastic way they can. which just makes a impure synthesis full of flaws. and with each further gnosic synthesis the concept become even more wacky but the BS is more convincing and become better at deceiving because, there is a bit of genuine truth still inside the statement.
@@n13475The artist did not make it with the intention of it being a god. He stressed this so that people WOULDN'T. Baphomet canonically is purely a symbol of duality, anything you suggest is from people who hijacked it.
Amazing vid Tony, although Levis artwork eyes feel like its staring at me. Hopefully you can do Sophia next from Gnosticism. Her appearance in SMTV maybe lore accurate? Regardless good vid. 10/10!
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I know these don't count as demons. But I know they play a very significant role in persona to and are based off some very interesting conspiracy theories. So do you think you could do a video on the Last Battalion at some point in the future?
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I always had different ways of pronouncing Baphomet. Bah-hom-met, Ba-ho-May, etc. Eliphas Levi designed that image on "The Devil" Tarot card to be an image of Astral Light or the fluidic type of energy that magicians used to cause change in reality. Hence the Solve and Coagula of the arms. Alchemical symbolism. Great job as always!!
I've heard once.. Swiss Banking,, was tied to, Those who evaded capture,, a country with No Army,, suddenly has one, and established Banking practices..
Funny fact surrounding the Knight's Templar, they were also the ones who invented modern banking.
The more you know!
Absolutely right. The main reason was that they didn't want that amount of wealth to go to the Pope, so they kept it out of Europe. In return, they were branded as heretics and hunted.
THOSE BASTARDS
So we **should** be glad they went out the way they did...?
@@tuckernutterYes and no, much like all of human history. Because they didn't bring the wealth back to Europe, the Pope isn't emperor and we didn't technologically stagnate into something that makes the Warhammer 40k Empire of Man look progressive. On the flip side, we've all become tax slaves and unsecured debt is crushing human progression.
So... your call.
I really love how neutral you are in regards to the crusades and on interpretations of baphomet.
I try to be as neutral as I can in all topics covered. Aside from the odd joke, I think I give solid info
There's a million places you can go to get some colored interpretation of these things, it's nice to just get information without any interpretation getting drawn for you
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"Accurate down to the genitals" is not a phrase I thought I'd hear outside of the Mara video
Yeah I was debating whether or not to keep that in the script. Glad I did lol
I used to think that Baphomet was a bit too generic of a demon design as I had seen this motif very often. However now that you've explained how thorough the Sabbatical Goat's design was to the various aspects of Occultism I now have a newfound appreciation for it. Great work as always.
There's always more than meets the eye when it comes to the demon designs of SMT, glad you liked it!
I don’t even play Shin Megami Tensei games (and probably won’t ever, I unfortunately tend to bounce off of JRPGs) but I love your videos Tony, as a mythology and theology nerd ❤excellent video as usual :)
Hey thanks a lot! I like to think of myself as more of a theology channel now more than anything lol
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I always associated Baphomet with alchemy given the similarities in combination of opposites forces.
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well, the image we associate with baphomet (by Éliphas Lévi has the words "solve" and "coagula" on their arms, which are the principles of alchemy, dissolve and coagulate, also pertaining to the major theme of Levis interpretation, which is the reconciliation of opposites
A very meaningful symbol imo
If you were to draw Baphomet as a one-dimensional being without any of the details such as the scales, the caduceus on a stomach and things like that, you would have drawn a one-dimensional representation of alchemical symbols stacked on each other
Don’t forget how the Templars were looking for the Apple of Eden!
It’s a good thing the assassin brotherhood is there to stop them
lol
The apple of Edin was wiped out long before Adam and Eve were kicked out of there, wiped out by Enki, Enlil & Marduk...
@@farhanzaman436 Screw your war, screw your chaos & screw your order! One TRUE God.....
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Ah, the original goat demon that inspired more goat demons in fiction as well as one hell of a good looking Helltaker fan character. Good stuff!
This is the greatest misunderstanding of all time
That aside it has one of the coolest designs in the series
No. The devil is a liar. Call him out when need be. Satanists lie to the public in saying they do not really believe in a devil. Can you honestly believe the words of a follower who’s god is THE god of lies?
The only thing I can think of that's missing here is the Egyptian influence of Banebdjed, which the Greeks interpreted as the Goat of Mendes. But this is a great video. I always fuse a high level Baphomet in late game SMT and keep them on my team.
I had no idea that Baphomet was holy to the Templars, but it’s still pretty amazing that we depict Baphomet so consistently.
It wasnt
Some subverters got it
Remembee the templars delved heavily into *bankings* 👃
We don't know if the Templars really worshiped him, it could've been a rumour spread by the King of France to then crush the order and appropriate their belongings
@@Old_Harry7They probably did. The catholics are suspicious throughout history. This is why orthodoxy is the right christian denomination
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Yep. And we are at the point now where doctors can create a living image of him and pass it off as "normal"
But that's just crazy conspiracy theory....
Honestly didn't think the thing in Baphomet's lap was his genitals.
Yeah me neither, I just hope it doesn't get me demonetized now lol
I think you can use him as fusion material for angels if i remember correctly which makes it even more ironic 😂
In SMT Strange Journey, baphomet is Law aligned.
Baphomet is my favorite demon in SMT and I even have a couple of plushes of them too.
I can’t say I’m shocked. I always wondered where this came from. And I wouldn’t call the Catholic Church holy by any means
I like the idea some demons were symbols for good ideas, like two opposites coming together man-woman beast-man, but has come to be one of the most infamous evils. If I were to change the design maybe have it's hands point in the original pose or add more gradient white or colored areas instead of being all black.
Don't know if the Knights Templar myth made the figure more popular or it's just the goat head that makes people think of a satanic figure. I doubt it has anything to do with Muhammed, the gnostic made up cypher sounds cool and I'd like to see that explored in a magic system that mashes up obscure christian lore.
Fun Fact: It's actually pronounced like "Bahamut"
I was always under the impression that his right arm (on our left) says Salve (read: Sol-way), which is Latin for "hail," "welcome," or as a formal "hello". In any case, fun fact, V's in Latin sound like W's in English!
You forgot to mention his smt 2 design. Its based the clive barker film he made before hellraiser. The ename of the film elludes me atm.
Is it Nightbreed?
@RPG203 yeah that's it. I kept wanting to call it nigghtcrawler lol.
Fact: Baphomet was and is nothing more then a imagined and then illustrated (drawn out/artistic) depiction of humanities duality in all ways and senses. Eliphas Levi, the illustrator was very strict on this and from the beginning was very verbally impeccable when he said it should remain as such and not be made to be anything more knowing how much people can be fanatical and make up things that are anything but. This entire video is everything that Eliphas Levy was against as it pertained to his art work.....but y'all can tell it how you want 😅😅😅😅😅
"The first crusade took place over 10 years, from 1096-1099"
Caught that too 😂
Most people will have and just decided not to make a big deal about it@@zozebee
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Yeah, well, the first two comments don't look very wise or very mature either.
The knights templars never worshiped baphomet that was made up by the king of France who owed them money and used it as an excuse to massacre them
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If Baphomet has so much symbolism pertaining to the balance of one's soul, even including kabbalistic imagery, why was it considered evil? Even the pentagram, according to Tony, was symbolic of spirit over matter. Was it because of the Latin words?
Because it was a diety worshiped instead of God and it looks scary. Therefore, it is evil according to most people.
Cause anything that went against the doctrine and gained worship was immediately deemed evil and sinful regardless of its true origins.
@@chaosspear0195 Its also the fault of edgelord 'Satanists' who deliberately provoke scandal and publicity.
Islam is all about one god. you can always see moslem showing one finger as symbol of one God in their pictures and paintings(even Jesus was showing one finger). the baphomet showing two fingers is the symbol of desecration of what Mohammed teaching.
the duality is the antitesis of Islamic God and also to mention about God's creation always comes in two in Islam, man and woman, positive and negative, night and day, male and female.
baphomet was a statue of middle eastern man with two horns which later reworked as the goat with tits and duality.
mostlikely the knights templar are secretly became moslems due to the spitting and desecrating cross is not random out of nowhere.
it came from the islamic eschatology where Jesus in his second coming will break the cross which symbolized his divinity and to tell all christians in the world that he is never been a god.
and because they are the knights of Jesus, not the knights of church, they are bound to do what Jesus would do to a cross.
also many of their questionable rituals are mostly islamic, such as prostation in the dawn and they abolished usury in their banking system (sharia banking system).
after they are all disbanded their banking system went back to usury.
The christian god antagonizes any other deities or spiritual symbols and thus the faith and it's followers demonizes all others. It's why I think it really is the demiurge but I don't believe this world is torture.
Baphomet has no known connections with gnosticism, it does however have an interesting story about how the inquisitors used the word "bahphomet" as a cypher for Sophia towards the new initiates. The new recruits were forced to walk behind a goat and kiss it's anus witch would reveal itself to be the face of their goddess, a mockery of Sophia.
Sounds very freemason-y
But that’s nonsense. Just made up for the trial...
My buddy Baphomet was unable to beat the demonic allegations 😔
When I first played Nocturne, I got spooked and thought the chair dude summoned satan
Satan was an angel, that challenged the status quo and got rekt for it. Many faiths paint it to be the worst of the worst, the lowest of the lowest, the most blasphemous of the blasphemous, but did you ever to stop to think what he did wrong? Or did you go along with what they told you because you were too afraid to question?
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I enjoyed this one as well!
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If you’ve read berserk I’m sure you’d have some opinions on baphomet lol.
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the Sophia thing seem very plausible, especially concerning the crescent symbolism many templars bore
Baphomet also plays a big role in the religion of another character in SMT, Master Therion
The black and white image of them is etched in my brain. I've only seen it once when I was a teenager and has haunted me ever since. Like every now and again, the image randomly pops into my brain for no reason and I wouldn't even be thinking or be reminded of them. Maybe I'm cursed IDK
That isnt just a goat
Hes half beast half human features
And he is not the devil
His name is Azazel
The fallen angel thats imprisoned deep in the earth
He is the 2nd beast in revelation
Always love learning about the templar
I honestly didn't know this was a lore video on shin megami tensei, as I've never played it. (Idk what SMT meant)
So I was listening to this really interesting and detailed story of Baphomet and all of a sudden shin megami tensei was brought up and I was VERY confused. Good video though!
If you are into demons, occultism and such, I recommend the game!
It's about the main character (you) that somehow ends up in a world with demons and other humans that try to take over the power to destroy and remake the world, so you fight demons and can decide if follow God (law), the devil (caos) or neutral
great video.
i always loved baphomet in the persona games because he looks so cool, its fun knowing a bit of its backstory.
Thank you. I’m a child of the King of Kings.
Ngl, I kinda assumed he was a version of Satan. lol
your research is always so good and put together perfectly, always been interested in topics like this its hard to figure out where to start with researching. always great videos 👍❤️
Much appreciated friend! Hope you keep watching and enjoying!
I saw Bathophet years ago in New Orleans.He appead to me. He said everything is alright. And it was. Mark Parisi from Las Vegas 😅
Is that goat or ram the same as Yaldaboath in Judaism..,or Exu in Brazilian Folklore?
I've wanted to study demonology thank you so much for the video, Blessed Be.
Baphomet is so misunderstood smh
it's the guy that summons mara in smt3
What about SMT 2 baphomet?
I thought of adding it, but I sincerely have no idea what that was all about. Probably just an interpretation of templar's confessions
@@Tony4You It as far off from Baphomet as possible. Would've been fun to hear your thoughts about it. Maybe in a future video discussing "off" or weird SMT designs?
Baphomet, a representation of the father of universal peace among men🙏🏻🥰☯️
It's the first time I've ever heard that the royalty turned on the knights. Very informative video. Thank you for the awesome work you do
I try to do my best with the information, thanks for watching!
Skilled in Combat, a trusted alliance with the Church,, How could such Men simply be captured,, if your most trusted Allegiance, could just walk in and Stab you in the back.. overs the years as more and more conspiracy began , this ,, Idea of Evil men,, Worshipping the Devil etc.. Betrayed by Church and Cowards, ..
I love heavy metal and Death metal bands such as carnifex is my favorite band & to name few few more bands who do use this Sign or symbol like Slipknot. behemoth Whitechapel , it also just lack of knowledge to said bands who don`t even care to look deep into history & why they use the Bathomet symbol ,just because it look cool to them Never have i seen bands understand when using real symbol in the Live concerts and t-shirts image 🖤🤔 they should know what they putting out to Hard dieing fans such as myself you show do a video on that subject soon if your not a heavy metal lover
Hearing you describe the actual meaning of the arm positions and other imagery on the iconic Baphomet drawing helps me understand the actual symbolism and possibly realise that that "satanic" imagery isn't actually a bad thing like so many Christians think. I don't know, I'm not religious or anything like that, but all that stuff about spiritualism, the importance of holiness/sacredness, love and kindness... correct me if I'm wrong, but those all sound like good things. This kind of stuff is why I've fallen down a rabbit hole, watching your SMT videos as a huge fan of the series and starting a very small interest in folklore and deities.
Beautifully said! Have a look at Jordan Maxwell, Avatar Adi Da Samraj, The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, Nesta Webster, Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man, Mythology's Last God's, and The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies. I apologize for mixing book titles between Author names.
Peace and Love
Slander of the knights Templar they were simply too powerful so the king killed them
I just recently started reading about Gnosticism and i find that they're very similar to ancient Babylonian religions. Just found similarities and i think that The Knights Templar was made out to be Gnostics which i dont think they were. I think they were Christians and the king of France stabbed them in the back bc they didn't win The Crusades and he owed them a lot of money.
If only there were TEN COMMANDMENTS that could stop these wars.
Philo- You needed that philo and you would've nailed it. Sophia is wisdom.
I read somewhere that the Knight's Templar had a deity that the fetish of which consists of a, asses head on a stick. This particular deity's role in Templar ceremonial magick was to be stood up in the center of a small room and surrounded by knights all of whom would curse the fetish while striking it with objects, beating it with their fists and kicking it. I wish I could remember the title of the book I read of this in because it was super interesting and what really brought it to mind now was the name it was believed to be called by, Baphomet, which that little book also pointed out was likely a corruption of Mohammed. I enjoyed that mental movie of a little ceremony because it's massively reminiscent of the Old Testament/Pentateuch scapegoat idea and makes a whole lot of sense from a psychodrama point of view. An entity onto which one can project the aspects of oneself and the world one lives in that one dislikes or even despises and then through a physical act of victimless violence, sort of, exorcise those aspects by beating the crap out of their material sheath or ritual embodiment. A group act that can still function effectively on an individual level for each member of that group.
Damn, that was a good little book. I'm afraid I'll never remember what it was called or who authored it. The word "Greene" comes to mind, but that could just be a brain fart.
Super interesting topic. Enjoyed the video. Thank you.
Im not islamic but Saladin was one of the greatest leaders of man ever. A shining example of men throughout history 🙏🏼
Absolutely man , an absolute legend and a great leader , one of the finest soldiers of all time.
Christ is King
Yeah this dude!! You could say Baphomet is the GOAT.
"Mom its not sabbath i'm hanging with the boys"
He me dad. He also ruled Russian in Hearts Of Iron 4
Baphomet isn’t an entity, it’s a symbol. This symbology was what the Templars took as holy
He's an extremely kind and comforting figure to me. One of the only times I experienced smelling a spirit was while with them. They smelled like the sweetest strawberries and cream. And his boobs are awesome. And to me, he is fluffy, and soft, with orangish fur, extremely comforting in feeling. He helped me find peace in my gender, and he helped me learn to not feel ashamed of being both a trans man, and also a genderfluid, nonbinary person, who myself has breasts and androgenous features that once caused me immense pain and distress. But seeing Baphomet helped and continues to help me find peace in my gender, and helped me to embody a spiritual balance too. When I really needed balance in my life he came to me and helped me so much. This reminded me, I should reach out to them again soon. I actually really could use some more balance on something.
The new templars is the music industry and hollywood
Nice to have a video on this, I was always confused about the origins of Baphomet but never really bothered to research it before lol. Always just thought "Hey that looks cool" when it comes to SMT, and was only really familiar with how people associate it with Satan.
I'm telling my kids the Knights Templar was the original Salvation Army.
What the fuck is SMT
Baphomet appears when you make all the wrong choices in life and you are deep in the quicksand, ironically, if you take the hint Ba'al is a signpost to Jehovah as only God can help you against this wretched entity. If you find yourself in hell do a U-turn.
Baph was the first demon I ever fused that actually looked like a demon, I thought he looked so cool. He holds a special place in my heart, I never fused him into anything and kept him as is 😅
he has a special place in a lot of people's hearts
Scary to Say this kind of thing about a demon 😬
@@labeilleautiste6318 so true
@@labeilleautiste6318Baphomet is not a demon, and the artist of the original work was very clear in this. Baphomet is meant to symbolise duality, two halves coming together. Human and beast, man and woman. The words written on its arms are old words, I think maybe latin for dissolve and coagulate. Literally melt and harden together, as one.
@@ghoulishgoober3122 the artist you mean Levy ?
REJECT ALL WORKS OF THE DEVIL AZAZEL
Worship the Creator El shaddai Yahuah, thank him for his son Rabbi Yahusha HaMashyakh
Keep the Commandments and the Gospel
Shaloma
Hmmm..
What tells us Gospels about Baphomet, Satan, Devil or just The Liar, Mankind's Killer...
Jesus in the Bible speaks about Satan and his fall in several texts, including the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, as well as in the Book of Revelation. Jesus calls Satan "the prince of this world" and "the father of lies" and speaks about his misuse and deception of people. In Matthew's Gospel 12:25-26, Jesus says, "Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand. And if Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?"
Jesus also speaks in Luke's Gospel 10:17-20 about his disciples witnessing Satan falling from heaven and emphasizes his power over him: "The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, `Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!` And he said to them, `I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and overall the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you." This statement shows Jesus' power over Satan and evil.
In the Book of Revelation, Jesus speaks about the final showdown with Satan and his destruction. In Revelation 20:10, he says, "And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever." This description represents the culmination of the biblical story of the confrontation between good and evil.
Throughout the New Testament, Jesus encourages believers to resist Satan, to trust in his power, and to live righteously in preparation for his final coming and judgement.
Great video as always, but id like to add some things:
The solve and coagula are a reference to the alchemical concept of "solve et coagula"; dissolve and coagulate, meaning that things in a rough state shall be dissolved and then brought together again so it can be purified from many of its imperfections, analogous to the human soul, which is always perfecting itself.
The position of the arms themselves-one pointing upward, the other downwards- is referring to the hermetic concept of "as above, so below", also seen in The Lord's prayer(thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven). Referencing hermes, it also attributes the polar opposites that are often seen in Hermetics.
There is also another interpretation for the elements shown on Elipha's depiction; The fire burning between his horns represent the dominion of man over fire, the scales on his stomach represent the dominion of man over eater, the wings the dominion of man over the air(although this interpretation is a bit weird since airplanes werent invented when elipha lived) and since Baphomet is seated on a mound, it also represents the dominion of man over earth.
Very well explained, thanks for watching and enjoying!
@@Tony4You no problem, your videos are really enjoyable
The kingnwas very very jealous of the Templar knights, and brutally tortured and lynched them and stole all and every wealth that was accumulated by Templar knights.
The templar knights NEVER worshipped baphomet.
Did the templar knights get their reparations?
The knights Templar were against God in that the past are the wastes of Malachi. Jesus is The Only Begotten Son. Through Him we are Israel not real estate. So it makes sense that the knights templar are responsible
Nostic is about spiritual advancement through reincarnation,Jesus was raised nostic!
That's a lot of stuff I didn't know about baphomet, totally seeing the goat god in a whole new light. Oh by the by my fellow prentice, are you looking forward to P3 reload? A trip down memory lane 🤩
Thanks for watching, and yeah I am absolutely looking forward to all the new Atlus releases. Hopefully I'll cover them on the channel
The Templars had opportunity to wipe-out Islam but they rejected this because their interests diverted. Such a shame!
Caucasian ppl explaining deities that predate their existence is hilarious 😂
Thank you Tony for being open minded. You have done a great deed for the world and all of man kind. by helping everyone understand true history that Christianity serpressed for the last 5000 plus years.
Christianity hasn't been around for 5000 years to suppress anything for that long and the classical depiction of baphomet is a literal description of what's in the bible itself
Nice try tho.
Yahushua is the Messiah. Grow up and clean your souls. Imperative. Revelation 2:18
As an alchemy enthusiast i can absolutely assure you that Baphomet doesnt represents neither good or evil.it actually represent something so holy if people knew.Its absolutely not satanic. It represents the union and balance of all duality. Its an alchemical symbol before all. Its also not a demon as many people think. Actually, baphomet is probably the depiction of a cherub angel, cherub or cherubim are angels with four faces and one of its face or head, is a goat. But thats my theory. Write cherub angel on google image and you will understand my point
You sound like you like baphomet. Your praise of it is duly noted...yup.
When i first saw baphomet, i thought it was a decapitated ram's 🐏 head and put on the body of a donkey, hahahaha. lol hahaha😅
Well video, the lore of this demon is so curious and fascinanting.
As a Pagan Pantheist Germanic, I can say that since the beginning that Christians ✝️ has been used by malicious dark forces to cause chaos and evil work.
Good grief, it's all there...all the pics are biblical eg...satan is revealed as a snake, lion and of course they will be separation of goats and sheep 😢😢😢
knights templar spitting and desecrating the cross is from islamic eschatology where in second coming, Jesus will break the cross, the symbol of his divinity, and also to tell every christians that he was never been a god.
You click bait worked, now see if you can convince me. Jk, i enjoy all knowledge, unless its b.s than you know what you did
Well tha Vatican worships Dagon the fish god of Pisces age.sophia also was credited with creating yaldabaoth
Tony 4 me ? Wow thank you
My favorite funny goat I try to use him in every smt game
He's always an awesome demon
Can’t believe this was just a shin megami tensei lore video
Great video I hope people get the point.
The worst demon of them all was Sophia the true spark of life !!..
🤔💭 This brings to mind Buhammad from Final Fantasy for some reason
Interesting. I never knew about the concept of Baphomet being a representation of balance and equilibrium of opposites. I don't know why I initially thought of it as being a pagan god of fertility.
While it may not be similar, I'm immediately reminded of Ardha, another diety that also has both masculine and feminine traits representing a form of synthesis.
It's easy to mistake it for a pagan fertility god based on the newer depictions, but the occult symbol is just fantastic
It's still a false God, thats the whole point of it trying to have duality
its based on the flawed Gnostic take on the dialectic. where with normal logic the thesis and anti-thesis are supposed to weed out all falsities to come towards the refined truth the synthesis.
the gnostic/hermetic/alchemy will try to force two contradicting ideas and assume both are always thru. which is a paradox but, not everything is a paradox. the first logical method will find a paradox if it exists. the Gnostic method assumes every conflicting idea/concept is a paradox.
so the concept a perfect 2 + another perfect 2 = 4
with gnostism you can say 2+2 = 5 or 7, a tree or a cow.
then when the logical person proves its nonsense there is no synthesis , but the gnostic way supports ignorance and ego, so then when the dialectic is used the gnostic will just say well both are true and combine the two in any wierd mental gymnastic way they can. which just makes a impure synthesis full of flaws. and with each further gnosic synthesis the concept become even more wacky but the BS is more convincing and become better at deceiving because, there is a bit of genuine truth still inside the statement.
@@n13475The artist did not make it with the intention of it being a god. He stressed this so that people WOULDN'T. Baphomet canonically is purely a symbol of duality, anything you suggest is from people who hijacked it.
I have solve and coagula tattooed on the respective arms!
Baphomet had nothing to do with Muhammad. It’s a cipher for the name Sophia
The Profanity of your opening statement!!!
Baphomet is the halal way to have Muhammad in your game.
Prophet Baphomet (PBUH)
Christ was a man, not a good
Amazing vid Tony, although Levis artwork eyes feel like its staring at me.
Hopefully you can do Sophia next from Gnosticism. Her appearance in SMTV maybe lore accurate?
Regardless good vid. 10/10!
Thanks a lot! The artwork always leaves me wonderstruck too haha
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