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I BAPHOMET

Questions

This spread is very useful if you have no specific questions and simply want to ask your subconscious mind what portions of your self should be developed beyond the normal way in which you perceive yourself. Here we find ourselves in the realm of paradoxical processes of the inner nature that normally cannot be understood by means of logic thought. They reveal portions of the soul that are inaccessible parts to the conscious mind, at whose mercy we often feel ourselves to be (even though they are a part of us). As a result, we often battle against them in their external projections. The focus here is on questions such as the following:

• What do my own inner images bring into a situation?

• How do I build (reconstruct) the given situation with the help of my senses and what contribution do I make towards the development of this situation?

Allegory (Baphomet’s Invocation)

In the first eon, I was the Great Spirit.

In the second eon, Men knew me as the Horned God,

Pangenitor Panphage.

In the third eon, I was the Dark One, the Devil.

In the fourth eon, Men know me not, for I am the

Hidden one.

In this new eon, I appear before you as Baphomet

The God before all gods, who shall endure to the end of the Earth.

Peter J. Carroll: Liber Null – Psychonaut

York Beach, Me. (Samuel Weiser)

1987, page 131f.

Interpretation

1 The Great Spirit (The Self)

This card shows the great self, which is more than you are, yet nothing that exists outside of you. It may be what you call God, but perhaps it also disguises itself as the shadow. In any case, it looks after your interests and you can therefore call upon it in a personal way.

2 The Horned One (The Other)

In this card you encounter the unconscious fears lurking deep inside you. In the deepest levels of your brain, you are still enmeshed with the primitive forms of consciousness from the primal stage of human evolution. All dragons, spiders, and snakes, as well as the concepts of monsters and demons, are the patterns of past experiences, which emerge once more from the older parts of your brain. They have not disappeared because they are psycho-energetically charged. Deep within the subconscious you are still linked with them because they represent a portion of your psychological inheritance.

3 The Devil (The Id)

This picture depicts the Devil, frightening you because you repress him as the unacceptable part of yourself and because he compensates for your shortcomings – hidden from yourself – with his threatening behavior.

4 The Hidden (The Superego)

The fourth card represents what you recognize that you do not understand. This aspect feels sorry for itself because although it perceives the truth, no one listens to it. It is the mysterium magnum, which penetrates all the material bounds, understands all secrets, demands the truth, and recognizes God.

5 Baphomet (The Light)

This card shows everything-that-is, namely the cosmic consciousness that is aware of itself as a part of its own self and therefore points to itself. Cosmic consciousness represents the highest level of spiritual perception available to us.