Ben Kissel

This is everything.

It's the heart.

I had no idea.

I'm a fucking student of Satanism, and I had no idea until I just got this book.

This is one of my...

fucking biggest pet peeves.

If I see Baphomet being used as a representative of Satan in a movie, I shut it off.

it shows that everything else is wrong you've just completely fucked it all up as soon as you're saying that baphomet's like the devil and it's supposed to be scary the pentagrams are scary it's like oh you're you're a moron i remember in boca we had the christmas tree and then like everyone was like well if you're gonna have a christmas tree you gotta have a menorah and then like the satanists in boca got a they were they applied and got a baphomet uh sculpture in the middle of the same place that's funny

And you remember the reason why they did that, too, is because they were running protection for all the treasures coming back from the Crusades.

And eventually they said, what if we just keep the treasures?

Yeah.

And then they just said, then they made him Satanist.

It's not evil.

Like Baphomet is the reason why it works so well for esoteric symbolism is because when you look at it, you're like, oh, my God, this evil God, this evil horn thing.

But it's exactly what you said.

It's technically just a symbol of the balance of the flows of male and feminine, dark and light, all of these things.

It's about balance.

It's a not an evil figure at all.

It just looks evil, which works great for people.

And also the devil card is not about something bad happening to you.