This version was drawn by LaVey and attributed to "Hugo Zorilla" (a pseudonym used by LaVey in some of his art). The complete graphic now known as the Sigil of Baphomet, named such for the first time in LaVey's The Satanic Rituals, first appeared on the cover of The Satanic Mass LP in 1968 and later on the cover of The Satanic Bible in 1969. During the writing of The Satanic Bible, it was decided that a unique version of the symbol should be rendered to be identified exclusively with the Church. In its formative years, this particular version of the symbol was utilized by the Church on membership cards, stationery, medallions and most notably above the altar in the ritual chamber of the Black House. Contrary to claims made against the Church by detractors, LaVey never claimed to have created this particular symbol. When he chose to turn his magic circle, the Order of the Trapezoid, into the Church of Satan, he decided that the symbol was the one which most fully embodied the principles which were the bedrock of the Satanic church. This symbol was later used in Maurice Bessy's book A Pictorial History of Magic and the Supernatural, with the words " Samael" and " Lilith" removed.ĭuring his years of research into the "black arts", LaVey had come across this book and added it to his collection. Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan based his “Sigil of Baphomet” on this image. The upper Pentacle includes The concept of an inverted pentagram being a representation o f evil and an upright pentagram symbolizing holiness originated with the 19th-century French occultist Eliphas Lévi. The lower four points represented the four elements of the material world, while the uppermost point represented spirit ruling over matter. The Pentagrammaton is an esoteric version of the Hebrew name of Jesus, Yeshua, (ישוע) by adding the letter shin (ש) in the middle of the Tetragrammaton divine name Yod-He-Vav-He, (יהוה). In the book, de Guaita also showed an upright pentagram with the Pentagrammaton (יהשוה) at the vertices of the pentagram. With the pentagram inverted, matter is ruling over spirit, a condition associated with evil. The original goat pentagram containing the Hebrew letters at the five points of the pentagram spelling out Leviathan (לויתן), the ancient serpent from the biblical Chaoskampf, first appeared in the book La Clef de la Magie Noire by French occultist Stanislas de Guaita, in 1897. The familiar goat's head inside an inverted pentagram did not become the foremost symbol of Satanism until the founding of the Church of Satan in 1966.
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