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From an anti-masonic tract
baphomet
From a poster advertising Leo Taxil's anti-Masonic work
baphomet
From an anti-masonic tract
baphomet
From an anti-masonic tract
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The image of Baphomet made a great boogey-man for anti-Masonic fundamentalist Christians.

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