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Approx 25cm Baphomet traces back to the end of the Crusades when the medieval order of the Knights Templar was suppressed by King Philip IV of France. On Friday, October 13, 1307, King Philip had many French Templars simultaneously arrested, and then tortured into confessions. The name Baphomet comes up in several of these confessions, in reference to an idol of some type that the Templars were said to have been worshipping. In 1854, Eliphas Levi published Dogmas and Rituals of High Magic, in which he included an image he had drawn himself which he described as Baphomet "The Sabbatic Goat", showing a winged humanoid goat with a pair of breasts and a torch on its head between its horns. The Baphomet of Lévi was to become an important figure within the cosmology of Thelema, the mystical system established by Aleister Crowley in the early twentieth century. Crowley identified Baphomet with Harpocrates and also with what he called the Lion-Serpent. Crowley agreed that Baphomet was a divine androgyne and "the hieroglyph of arcane perfection ".
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