What is this name Baphomet?

The progress of Baphomet sustained in year 1307, when the mighty Knights Templars had been covered up in France. Philip IV, the France King was in a very deep financial due to the order, consequence of the war with the State of England. He was then anticipating to have that debt be erased, but in a similar way feared that the military valor of the Templars. Thus, he chose to have these Templars arrested, and be charged with heresy only. Among the other things, these Templars were alleged of desecration of a cross, worship of Baphomet and homosexuality. Many Templars made their false confessions right after they were subjected to many gruesome torment of the Inquisition. These Templars recanted their guilt, but, when the torture ended, they were then burned at stake.

History of Baphomet being a Goat-Headed Figure

During the year 1854, this name Baphomet becomes this goat-headed shape that we are now known. Eliphas Levi, the French ceremonial magician, re-imagined Baphomet as the figure he named as the ‘Sabbatic Goat’. Eliphas Levi’s Baphomet was destined to represent the merging of opposing vigors. For examples, the stature is a hermaphrodite, which had both the male and the female physical parts. Furthermore, Levi’s Baphomet was intentioned to serve as the collective image for all of the magical icons that are from the earlier polytheistic or the animistic traditions that endured the spread of the Christianity now. For example, the caprine elements have been inspired by Banebdjedet, the prehistoric Egyptian goat-headed divinity, as well as through Pan, the Greek deity.