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Great Seal of Solomon

Eliphas Levi, born Alphonse Louis Constant, has had a great influence upon modern occult
practice. He was a magician and writer of occult books. The image above that is referred to
as the Great Seal of Solomon is attributed to Eliphas Levi. It can be understood as a
symbolic illustration of the phrase “As above, so below.” We further see this expression
given physical embodiment in the drawing of Baphomet.

Baphomet

You can see the name Eliphas Levi written at the bottom of this image which was published
in his book Dogma and Ritual of High Magic in 1855. It is interesting to note that when the
Knight’s Templars were arrested, their properties confiscated, and many of them burnt at
the stake in the 1300s, one of the charges brought against them by King Philip IV of France
was that the Knights Templars worshiped an idol named Baphomet. This name was
traceable back to Mahomet, or Mohammed. You may note the double image of the crescent
moon in the drawing of Baphomet above. Mohammed was the prophet of Allah, who was
known as a lunar deity. The crescent moon figures prominently in Islam.

Baphomet has become associated with Satan, and no doubt Satan is the originator of all
idols and false gods. Even the Bible associates goats with evil. Christ spoke a message