Path: typhoon.sonic.net!feed.news.sonic.net!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.usenetserver.com!border1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.rapidnet.com!news.rapidnet.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 14:51:52 -0600 From: Mike Bandy Newsgroups: alt.magick,alt.freemasonry Subject: Re: The Curse of Baphomet Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 14:51:56 -0600 Message-ID: <9eak40phtjgq96aknvn3hnird01dc3nn0r@4ax.com> References: <99268733.0403052331.338dd2ca@posting.google.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 35 NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.231.24.249 X-Trace: sv3-msGNvJFIzFSXBVQm97o7VY47B+y9wp5uPxF8D7K5TqxG2+NdjmKRUWqWYrM2RlaawXuf4Rg99n1y44U!UpqT47IIlR96rN2zitDxNcOyNL4QmCLnzFYP4o2AZmvkL66avmzRPXrNXLffPt0iTi+Rholx3u05!nUzJZhWoCj0= X-Complaints-To: abuse@rapidnet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@rapidnet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick:369595 alt.freemasonry:278752 On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 09:53:19 +0000, Alex Fisher wrote: >On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 23:31:03 -0800, whatnext wrote: > >> chick has innocent natural christian worldview. >> no more wrong as your worldview AND just as complete >> life isn't the battle between good and evil >> its between good and the lesser good >> chick has dozens of those little picture books >> very entertaining Actually, I believe he's the one who invented this type of tract. (He's very old.) >And from a strictly Scriptural point of view, extremely misleading.... It's also misleading from a historical point of view. There's no excuse for anyone to use the Pike "quote" in the twenty-first century (except as an example of a great hoax). Also, Chick refers to "Baphomet ... the old god of Baal worship." Actually, Baal was worshipped by ancient Semitic people, and the name of Baphomet was unknown until the fourteenth century. The tract's picture of Baphomet comes from a mid-nineteenth-century drawing by Eliphas Levi. My question concerns what the tract calls the symbol of Baphomet, which it says was worn by Aleister Crowley. Does anyone have information about it? Thanks. -- Mike Bandy