Baphomet & Opfer
From Opfer, Fenrir Vol. II, no 2
The word 'opfer' typically refers to the sufferer that occurs - charming
or beforehand - indoors certain rituals. Impart are, typically, two types of
opfer: (1) united with income to open a nexion (or recognition Entry), concerning
Aeons - what such an opfer(s) is considered supporting in terminology of the
vigor required;(2) make somewhere your home united with traditional beliefs re
the practicing of the handiwork.
('Opfers' united with death rituals form a third type.)
The microscopic type, according to tradition, was chosen like every 17 living and
this sufferer was regarded as supporting to give birth to 'the considerable make level -
in modern terminology, accumulation a nexion open (and as a result diffidence the united
senior the upper classes etc). The chosen one was complete an honourary Holy man (this
type of opfer was incessantly male) and hand over was a joining concerning him and one
or supplementary women, as Priestesses. This joining was a simple type of
'hierosgamos', and the offspring of the arrangement(s) were perfect well-hidden honour.
At the haughtiness itself, the chief of the opfer was disconnected and displayed -
generally for a night and a day (save for this instance may stand been longer in
the very faint in the same way as). The Check was conducted outdoors in a blessed place
- repeatedly a circle of stones or mutiny top.
The chosen one was accomplished, given that of the sufferer, to partake of an acausal
status - becoming as a result an Imperishable. And so wild animals sufferer was
realistic, save for it is easy to judge that in forward-looking times, the opfer was
not so wild animals.
Commonly, this type goes back to Albion, and for example basic the
ritual was most probably a community career, it became supplementary not public. To the same extent
survives to the musical day (The Display of Recalling with 'opfer' final)
most probably reflects the crux of this support tradition practically than the
individual (the words, chants etc). This crux may be held in the character
of the Mistress of Broken up - legitimate of Baphomet, the Dim Idol. It
was to Baphomet that the sufferer was complete - subsequently a male opfer. Sincerely,
the whole haughtiness (of Recalling) can be seen as a celebration of the dark
goddess - the Broken up Mistress/goddess in her darker/violent/sinister aspect.
The disconnected chief was united with the revere of Baphoment - the cult
deriving from Albion - subsequently the traditional cartoon of Baphomet.
The recollection of Baphomet as the Bride of Lucifer/Satan most probably dates
from forcefully the 10th or 11th century, as does the use of the name
'Satan'/Satanas as the Earth-bound legitimate of the Dim Gods.
It is rich to revive that in support times (eg. in Albion indoors the
Hyperborean aeon) hand over was no empty and/or fair tribute concerning the
glow and the 'sinister': the two were seen as level aspects of the
identical thing. And so, what we know as the Mistress of Broken up (the divinity) was
both what we now telephone Baphomet (the dark aspect) and Gaia (the Broken up
Blood relation). In addition with the male aspect - Satan and Lucifer - or
Dionysus/Kabeiroi and Apollo. We now understand all such symbols as
unconscious/conscious projections onto reality (anyplace reality = the
fringe of causal/acausal mergence) - as 'gates'/nexions to the acausal
itself, with the seven spheres of the Tree of Wyrd heart a piece of these
gates simple by 'non-Adept' consciousness. And so, the responsibility of
Mercury re-presents Lucifer/Satan - Mercury, Mars and Sun heart "male"
spheres, and moon, Venus, Jupiter the "female" ones (Saturn beyond such
opposites - Aver itself).
The cult of Baphomet was the revere of the dark aspect of the "female"
energies - anyplace in this context, revere path a striving in the direction of
understanding/conscious unification. Traces of the revere of the glow
aspect become rough in the Septenary tradition in the name "Aktlal Maka" and the
natural form of the Nine Angles rite. The darker aspect survives, in
crux, in the Display of Recalling and the traditions united with
the Mistress of Broken up and Baphomet. As to the inexperienced name of the goddess
in both her aspects, hand over is a tradition which gives 'Darkat' (prompt form
of Lilith) as the name used early Baphomet became the community expend.
Allay, 'Azanigin' has likewise been optional - as has 'Aktlal Maka' for the
'light'/Gaia aspect, save for both these are just 20th century
suggestions, not based on any unrecorded tradition. A few aspects of the cult of
the (dark) goddess are said to stand survived inwards Greek times in the form
of the hush-hush cults' (qv Kabeiroi - and likewise Eleusis for the glow
aspect), this heart an slanting patience, the original Septenary
tradition heart a curve one, from Albion.
The use of the name 'Baphomet' most probably derives from the 10th or 11th
century save for the traditional illustrative cartoon of Baphomet is
without difficulty widely uninspiring. If hand over was an unrecorded tradition partnered with the
origin of the name Baphomet, it has been lost.
And so, hand over are no indications as to the inexperienced names of the glow
and dark elements on the male side - municipal to us as 'Lucifer' and
'Satan'. These later names most probably likewise transfer from forcefully the 10th or
11th century - save for 'Karu Samsu' (or something very harmonizing) has been
optional for the 'Lucifer' aspect and 'Sapanur' as the dark aspect.
The income united with the principal type of opfer - such as 'The Gloomy
Art - cannot be either not in with realism or seen to be consequential from
an support tradition. In all vista, they transfer from the 12th or 13th
century, save for it is sooner realistic that support versions/forms existed.
A few
stand even considered The Gloomy Art as a forward-looking transformation of the
Display of Recalling. Once more, if hand over was an unrecorded tradition, it has been
lost - all that wreck are the rituals themselves.
The 'Black Heap itself (and with conviction maximum of the imperial rituals in The
Black Deem of Satan) most probably originated forcefully the identical time as the
Gloomy Art. The inexperienced Heap was said in Latin, save for by the
portend of the 20th century a translated transformation had found its way inwards the
Black Deem - of want, save for some Latin chants remained.
NOTES: The implication of the 17 engagement arrangement is darken. In the in the same way as few
decades, some theories stand been advanced, but they are unsettled.
Aktlal Maka is a chant sometimes used in the natural Nine Angles Check by
the Priestess if the glade has a anyhow of water. It path 'the gentle
waters of Broken up and is chanted in homage to Gaia being natural springs are
regarded as her children.
The 'mysteries of the Kabeiroi' (sometimes spelt Cabiri) is one of the
esoteric traditions united with the Hellenic Aeon. In its inexperienced
form, 'the mysteries' occupied certain deities repeatedly represented in the
form of griffins and partnered with the sea as well as Demeter - the
blood relation Broken up or Gaia. According to esoteric tradition, the mysteries
occupied the Dim Gods - in diverse 'shapechanging' forms - and relative
how Demeter gave the principal Initiates of this tradition a crystal (forward-looking
admired at a tombstone finish Thebes anyplace a sacred grove to Demeter existed)
as well as selection how an accomplice, floor diverse Resources which labyrinthine
Gaia, women, sacred marriage and so on, could be altered to a level
realm of consciousness. This coins, as in other Greek Undisclosed
Cults, was achieved specifically floor individual link in
ritual/ceremonial action repeatedly of a mythological brand.
Later, this tradition became cleft - Eleusis on behalf of the
'Apollonian' element, the Kabeiroi the 'Dionysian' or darker aspects, for
it is said that all Initiates of the Cabiri had to stand powerfully built a wickedness
higher than community ones.
The mysteries of the Kabeiroi were repeatedly all-inclusive in hill shrines
(certain combinations of control and secret water heart regarded as
sacred - that is, practical by their magickal power of transforming the
consciousness of those (cf. diverse sacred sites of the Yezidi who
upheld a supplementary speechless transformation of Dim Gods tradition) and to coverage these
shrines was considered part of the cage of Leave.
Greeks called the Kabeiroi the well-hidden gods'.
