Comments on: The Baphomet Mythos

By: javier

javier — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:21:12 +0000

Torah,Kabalah,sufism,zoroastrianism and unadultered gospels,apocrypha=truth..unlike manipulated religions to control the masses

By: javier

javier — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:06:24 +0000

Idol?? Humm let me see..catholics have a load of them and they called the templars idol worshipers the only thing I can think of them being wrong was walked away from god and focused on the wealth…

By: Architect

Architect — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:10:21 +0000

Stephen,

Thanks for the swift reply.

I take your point about the Templars arriving two decades after the First Crusade. It is, I’m beginning to realise, both a luxury and a setback that there is such a wealth of options to choose from regarding the origins of the myth.

I’m playing around with an idea that has been mentioned by Kevin Bold in another article on this website:

http://blog.templarhistory.com/2010/04/baphomet-a-mystery-solved-at-last/

The idea of a pseudo-heretical Sufi mystic is an interesting one. I wonder if it’s possible that the Templars, initially established with the pure intention of defending Jerusalem, discovered the severed head of a saint which was found to give them some sort of occult power? Sounds sublime bordering on ridiculous, but not really any more outlandish than most of the other ideas.

Your opinion, as always, is welcome feedback.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:36:54 +0000

Historically speaking, it is not feasible, as the Templars did not begin until about 20 years after the First Crusade. As to the finding Baphomet, many nonfiction books have made similar claims, so I think it would work well for a short fiction work.

Thanks for the kind words about the website – Stephen Dafoe

By: Architect

Architect — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:37:08 +0000

Dear Team/Readers,

I love this website. Some really fascinating stuff here. I thought I would post a message and ask for a little advice:

I am currently working on a short fiction that centres around the Crusades, and I am looking for a way to introduce the Baphomet Mythos into the plot. Is it feasible that the KT entered Jerusalem upon its conquest in 1099 and used their discovery of Baphomet to bribe the church, thereby bringing about their meteoric rise to fame? Or is this perhaps a bridge too far? Open to ideas.

By: DC

DC — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:43:58 +0000

@kdlneal

The fact known in that time has to present a proof of itself being a fact. Explanations are not facts, facts need to be explained. And a mere song penned by a human, hundreds of years after the period in context, doesn’t justify the idol worship. Idol worhip was never a part of Islam.

By: kdlneal

kdlneal — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 01:43:48 +0000

Just the point that in the Song of Roland, there are several references to the worship of images of Mohamet. The ‘fact’ now known of Islamic aversion to idols is contrary to the ‘fact’ known in that time to the public who would be the consumers of the trials used to justify the executions. Accusing the KT of being both islamic and idolaters might have gone down very easily in that place and time.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:23:22 +0000

He’s not hard to find.
http://www.stevemckim.com/
e-mail can be found there.

By: Peter Mc Kimm

Peter Mc Kimm — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:49:37 +0000

I am trying to contact Steve Mc Kim to use a graphic he has (I think) of the burning at the stake of Jacques de Mulay.
Have you got his email address.
By the way the claim is that the head was that of Christ.
Peter Mc Kimm