I am the bright morning star." The esoteric tone of this expression echoes Anger's short video Brush of
Baphomet, 2009, based on reproductions of recently discovered paintings by the legendary occultist Aleister Crowley, one of the primary influences on Anger's own practice and a recurrent reference for underground culture in general, which was projected in the stairwell between the gallery's two floors, connecting the remaining works on view.
It may not be coincidental that Blish chooses California as the place where Hell breaks through the surface of the Earth in The Day After Judgement, nor that he gives special prominence to PUT SATANACHIA (or
Baphomet, the Sabbath Goat), whose sigil was the only occult symbol depicted in LaVey's Satanic Bible.
The mask, modeled after the deity
Baphomet's head, topped the tree for one day only before it went missing on Nov.
The Satanic Temple, a humanist group that works to defend church-state separation, announced plans to create a statue of
Baphomet, a goat-headed deity associated with the occult, to stand alongside the Ten Commandments.
Were Vincent Nava's pre-trick prayers actually occult offerings to
Baphomet in celebration of the impending human genocide?
In 1965, Klossowski's last novel, Le
Baphomet, appeared.
The New York-based Satanic Temple said it would like to erect a 7-foot-tall statue of a seated figure known as
Baphomet, a goat-headed entity long affiliated with Satanism.
So, they're doing this thing and then we start with this song and up comes the sheet and the
Baphomet statue is right there.
In a blog post, Lucien clarified that The Satanic Temple is not claiming the ownership of the Satanic deity, rather, only that of the group's original interpretation of
Baphomet.
Additional patches on the coat included a rising sun, a Communist hammer and a sickle pin, as well as a depiction of the idol
Baphomet.