Meaning of the Star of Baphomet?

[clipwip]

Ashyr, maybe you want to take this one?

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee126/stallion2000/SatanicStar.jpg

[mynameis]

The path of the planet Saturn? At each point in the year and it's positions in a 365 degree calendar can point out what this might mean astrologically or ritually. I'm not sure what the occult significance is besides the purported Knights Templars using this as a way to coax others into silence or death like the Freemasons. I don't know if this is mere speculation about much of this. It could just be ravings.

http://theabysmal.fenris.ca/theAbyss/Revolute/365-Days/365DayCalendar.htm
http://altreligion.about.com/library/weekly/aa030103a.htm
http://user.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/fs3.htm

[clipwip]

The path of the planet Saturn? At each point in the year and it's positions in a 365 degree calendar can point out what this might mean astrologically or ritually. I'm not sure what the occult significance is besides the purported Knights Templars using this as a way to coax others into silence or death like the Freemasons. I don't know if this is mere speculation about much of this. It could just be ravings.

http://theabysmal.fenris.ca/theAbyss/Revolute/365-Days/365DayCalendar.htm
http://altreligion.about.com/library/weekly/aa030103a.htm
http://user.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/fs3.htm

Thanks! I bookmarked the links and will take a look at them when I get some time. Anyone speak Hebrew? I got out a Hebrew alphabet chart and tried to match the characters, but there are several characters which look very similar. Not knowing the language, there is no way for me to interpolate the correct letters.

[damagedbrainn]

Ashyr, maybe you want to take this one?

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee126/stallion2000/SatanicStar.jpg

That's not the "Star of Baphomet", it's the sigil that was put together by Anton Lavey to represent his Church of Satan. No other organization has ever used that symbol in that form.

The inverted pentagram containing the goat's head (without the circle or the hebrew letters) was originally drawn up by Eliphas Levi, though it's not clear what he intended it to mean or what it was to be used for. The goat's head comes from the Baphomet symbol (seated goat, crossed legs, one arm pointing up, the other pointing down) which was also designed by Eliphas Levi, meaning to represent the principles of Alchemy and the "Great Work" as he interpreted them. According to Levi, the goat's head/face itself was meant to represent the cruelty of nature, the suffering of material existence, etc.... This is the most likely reason why Anton Lavey would have chosen it to represent his philosophy since it his philosophy is centered on the rejection of the spiritual life in favor of the material/"natural" one.

The inverted pentagram essentially represents the same, though not necessarily in simplistic terms of "evil", but rather that which is below, or beneath the spirit, ie the material world. (There are numerous other uses and interpretations for the inverted pentagram, but that particular one best fits with the Church of Satan's ideology.)

I can't remember off the top of my head what the hebrew symbols stand for, however.

[jp13]

Ashyr, maybe you want to take this one?

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee126/stallion2000/SatanicStar.jpg

I can't make out the letters exactly, where did you get the image from, but from a quick (5-10mins) calculation I think the letters are from the bottom point of the pentagram going clockwise L, V, T, I, and R (resh), possibly the word Vitriol which has a few meanings, as well as being a formula I think.

[jp13]

I can't make out the letters exactly, where did you get the image from, but from a quick (5-10mins) calculation I think the letters are from the bottom point of the pentagram going clockwise L, V, T, I, and R (resh), possibly the word Vitriol which has a few meanings, as well as being a formula I think.

Also these letters in the Hebrew system which asigns a number to each letter equals 666 which probably makes sense to some people

[damagedbrainn]

I can't make out the letters exactly, where did you get the image from, but from a quick (5-10mins) calculation I think the letters are from the bottom point of the pentagram going clockwise L, V, T, I, and R (resh), possibly the word Vitriol which has a few meanings, as well as being a formula I think.

LEVIATHAN

Now I remember.