Baphomet is figure of wisdom and blasphemy; a mixture of divinity and the infernal. The Knights Templar is said to worship this figure in the form of a severed head, a key fact of their initiations that was revealed under duress of torture via King Philip IV's quest to destroy them as rivals on a quest for power and glory. As authors Tracy R. Twyman and Alex Rivera reveal in their quest to unveil the myth and mystery of Baphomet, this figure is far more complex than anyone else has dared to realize and imagine. By tracing the origins of Baphomet, they may go all the way back to the Garden of Eden. By further mapping his story, we revisit and research the Jewish apocalypse literature, the Kabbalah, Hermetism, John the Baptist, Gnosticism, Catharism,
