Conversely, Kenneth Grant, the leader of its major dominant occult/Masonic institute in the world (the Ordo Templi Orientis-Order of Eastern Templar), distinctly states that Baphomet actually means Bapho-Mitras-son of Mithras; which existed as the bull-god (Bull = Baal?), a pagan god in the OT.
Evidently, the British’s occultists, Aleister, known as “The Beast” Crowley, displayed the sea-goat on his personal seal and also wrote a hymn in adoration of the goat god, Pan; the seal suggests the dark genesis of the Merovingian involvement with Pan and devil worship. Strangely, the Masonic writer, Manly P. Hall, died September 1990 and attained a long eulogy in the Scottish Rite Journal; which disclosed the deity Baphomet and how it endures as another name for the satanic “Goat of Mendez” that Mr. Hall believed in. Afterwards, denial of such satanic involvement transpired; however, still today there remain continuous suspicions concerning unanswered issues that linger over the brotherhood’s true doctrine, indicating that a conspiracy of evil exits due to the Mason’s long association with ‘the dark side. Moreover, numerous claims today include countless individuals and groups as belonging to Pan/Baphomet’s secret order of satanic worship, giving them a