The Goat of Mendes
Wednesday November 7, 2007
The so-called "Mendes Pentacle" or Sabbatic Goat emblem was devised in the nineteen fifties and falsely attributed to the nineteenth century occultist Elipas Levi. This symbol is commonly confused with Levi's depiction of the Templar icon Baphomet, which was not presented as a symbol of evil, but of harmony, redemption, and union with the divine.
Nonetheless, the two have been confused so often it is nearly impossible to separate them in modern usage.
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One minor correction, the “Mendes Pentacle” first appeared in La Clef de la Magie Noire, by Stanislas de Guaita in 1897. This was reprinted in A Pictorial History of Magic and the Supernatural by Maurice Bessy in 1964.
You’re right, that came out wrong…was first connected to Satanism then, chalk it up to election-day scatterbrain.
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