1 The Baphomet Codex © 2008 by Jason Sorrell. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, including Internet usage, without the written permission of Creative Oddities Studios except in the case of brief quotation embodied in critical articles and reviews. First Edition First Printing, 2008 Cover design and art by Jason Sorrell Editing by Jamy Conrad Internal illustrations by Jason Sorrell unless otherwise specified. The activities described in this book may be dangerous and illegal in some jurisdictions. This book is not for those with serious addictions, abusive tendencies, or mental instabilities. Please exercise responsibility and care when attempting to replicate any of the activities described in this book. Keep in mind that what has worked for the author and others within this book may not work for you. Pursue these activities with caution, care, reason, and common sense. The author and the publisher are not responsible for the consequences of any efforts by others inspired by this book and following the techniques within. Creative Oddities Studios Austin, TX www.creativeodditiesstudios.com Direct all communications with the author through Creative Oddities Studios. The author will respond at his earliest convenience. 2 About the Author Ego Diabolus is the name of artist and author Jason Sorrell by which he is recognized in the Satanic, Pagan, Occult, and Witchcraft communities, where he has written essays and produced art for over twenty years. His pursuit of the Baphomet concept and the mythology surrounding it has introduced him to many interesting personalities, taken him on numerous adventures, and gifted him with several strong relationships which he enjoys to this day. His research of occult practices, history, and philosophy coupled with his practice of ritual magik has earned him the respect of the communities that he addresses as well as the ire of many within those communities. His work, both in literature, research, and art, has been reproduced and enjoyed by thousands through a number of internet forums, organizations, and publications. He has written two other books on the occult; The Devil’s Due and The Black Tarot and has assisted in the publication of Devil’s Bible by Lianna Diabolique. He currently resides in Austin, Texas, where he pursues his artistic endeavors, occult research, and ritual magik. He is active as a consultant for several Satanic Organizations in various capacities. 3 Other Books by Ego Diabolus/Jason Sorrell The Devil’s Due The Black Tarot Visual Crimes Sell Your Art! 4 My thanks to the following… Anton LaVey, Aleister Crowely, Helena Blavatsky, A.E. Waite, Eliphaz Levi, C.F. Frey, Genesis P. Orridge, Konstantinos, William Blake, Allessandro Cagliostro, Michael Aquino, Margaret Murray, Jack Parsons, Robert Anton Wilson, Jason Louv H.R. Giger, Robert Williams, Christopher Cooper, Salvador Dali, Gil Elvgrin, Olivia, Brahm, Robert Crumb, Luis Royo, Michael Manning, Douglas Walla, Joe Coleman Donald Tyson, Mark Twain, H.P. Lovecraft, Anne Rice, Jack London, Richard Metzger, Arthur Lyons, Burton Wolf, Robert Heinlein, William S. Burroughs, Grant Morrison, Howard Bloom Ayn Rand, Timothy Leary, Friedrich Nietzche, Stephen Hawking, Nicholi Tesla Thomas Thorn, Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, Ozzie Osborne, Glenn Danzig, Roger Waters, Trent Reznor, Jim Morrison, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Bela Bartok, Jonathan Davis Kyle Giffen, Casey Sadler, T.C. Downey, Corvis Nocturnum, Loki, Orange, Andrea Feure Vanessa, Gabrielle, Nadia and all my love to Jamy 5 CONTENTS Forward…………………………………………………………………..8 Preface…………………………………………………………………..12 Introduction……………………………………………………………..16 BOOK I: THE BOOK OF LUCIFER The Pillars of Realization………………………………………………25 The Transmissions of Baphomet………………………………………26 The Precepts of Baphomet Regarding Individual Standards………..36 The Five Points of Self………………………………………………….38 The Promise of Baphomet……………………………………………...40 BOOK II: THE BOOK OF SATAN Baphomet and Satanism………………………………………………..46 Evolutionary Satanism…………………………………………………56 Gods and Men…………………………………………………………..62 Celebrations and Holidays……………………………………………..86 BOOK III: THE BOOK OF TIAMAT Magik……………………………………………………………………95 The Core Ritual……………………………………………………….110 The Altar………………………………………………………………124 The Self-Initiation……………………………………………………..128 Points about the Mechanics of Magik………………………………..144 BOOK IV: THE BOOK OF HECTATE Why Baphomet………………………………………………………...149 The Self-Reflecting God………………………………………………152 The Life Explored……………………………………………………..156 Satanism and Sacrifice………………………………………………..158 The Why of Life……………………………………………………….162 6 “Real” Satanists……………………………………………………….166 Hellfire Network………………………………………………………170 Very Important Questions……………………………………………174 Evil……………………………………………………………………...176 A Day in the Life………………………………………………………180 APPENDIX I: Al Jiwah……………………………………………….184 APPENDIX II: The Libre Luciferus…………………………………192 APPENDIX III: La Messe Noir………………………………………210 APPENDIX IV: Lilith to Her Children……………………………...228 APPENDIX V: Eleven Principles of Reality Manipulation………...232 APPENDIX VI: Basic Tarot Concepts………………………………234 APPENDIX VII: Recommended Reading…………………………...236 7 Forward There is truth in the idea that a real God is omnipresent. We cannot escape it. It is the sidewalks which we walk and the roads that we travel. It is the time that we wake to get to our jobs and perform our duties, and the distractions we use to fill the void between those phases that we indulge so that we may fit in with others. God comes streaming forth from our televisions, smiles at us from the news-stands, and sings to us from our radios. God is why it is more important to us who some prominent actress is fucking then why we have not established a colony on the Moon. God is the guilt we feel in pleasure, and the pleasure we feel in guilt. God is taught to us in our churches and our schools, and is constantly re-enforced by our peers and authorities. God is omnipresent because he is in our heads. Our spirituality is the sense that there is something to the universe greater than that which we can perceive with our immediate senses, something that binds us to all other things. God is how we perceive this potentiality. God is therefore a matter of perception. Man made God, which is why most religions teach that God just happened. The fact that man just happened is something that we cannot accept easily. Man has to have purpose. God is not man, and therefore has no such need in our minds. Since God is a matter of perception; we have a choice and a responsibility. We can choose to define God for ourselves, but in doing so must be willing to accept both the rewards and the consequences of our choice. For most, it is easier to let others define God for us, and therefore receive the brunt of the burden of the responsibility. This frailty in our collective thinking has made for a powerful tool in the hands of those who would seek to control us. The great religions instruct their practitioners to act in the interests of the greater “good”; self-denial, sacrifice, martyrdom, and the like. The promised reward is often something that can never be offered by those enforcing the bargain, typically paradise and eternal life beyond death. Those who flee the responsibilities of being deserve servitude to false ideals, so it is best to let them have it. Religions have been built on the desires of non-believers and the sweat and blood of the faithful. 8 The new age has brought new ways of thinking to this age-old practice, but at their core they still suggest the same things. The perpetrators cloaked in white promise that the altruism of the individual will lead to the universe providing its own reward, with paradise being replaced with good karma and eternal life being traded for re-incarnation to a “higher” form. Those cloaked in black are little better. They offer nothing, telling you to do for yourself, but hypocritically ask that, at the end of the day, you remember whose idea it was to “think for yourself”. The Left Hand Path has just as many users and followers as the right. It is all “think like us and you will be better” in the end. The Right Hand Path and the religions of the masses have proven all too well their failings. It is from the Left Hand Path that a new breed of hustlers and spiritual pimps has arisen. They parasitically feed on the needs of those not satisfied by the altruism offered by the acceptable religions, providing codified pattern for thought and behavior that insures acceptability for those willing to conform. They may do so in the name of some poorly defined elitism, but how can the truly elite turn and tell others that, without their validation, they are not true practitioners of the philosophy the espouse? How do you equate a philosophy of individualism with a clique-mentality? Persons who follow any of the Left hand Path philosophies find eventually they have to make a choice; should you join an organization that will demand relinquishing some of your individualism or suffer the alienation of retaining your individualistic identity? A new order appears to be rising from the debris of this search for spiritual identity and the failings of strictly regimented institutionalism. Individuals are growing impatient with all those would-be authorities who demand conformity to their ideals. There is a growing awareness that one’s spirituality is one’s own, and while the process to this personal development and the philosophy used as a foundation may be shared, the end result is completely unique to the individual experiencing it. It is time to tear away at the metaphorical walls and claim what is ours. The new order yearns to make its own way, and chafes at the limitations forced on them by those claiming to be the leaders of their philosophical school. It is time to slap down those who are hypocrites of their own philosophy, those who preach individuality but demand conformity. 9 Baphomet, since the inception of the concept under this name, has been the symbol of individual spirituality, growth, and the search for inner truth.