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In this week’s episode we break on through to part 3 of our totally exhaustive, in-depth guide to the Baphomet where we discover the Islamic version of our favorite Hermetic super heroes and the secret identity of Enoch who is mythologized as the first man to use writing, built the pyramids and preserved esoteric wisdom for the generations following the Great Flood. In the extended show, we do a detailed comparison between strange occult practices in various gnostic cults and trace how their mystic lineages overlapped and diverged from the rich tapestry of ancient Hermeticism as it evolved through the ages. By the end we begin to weave together a number of various threads which have only come up as puzzle pieces in former episodes. By the end of the series we promise to unveil in earnest the most authentic description of the Baphomet outside of an oath-bound secret organization and finally get to the bottom of what this figure really means. Thank you and enjoy the show!
In the free show we discuss:
-The three Hermeses of Abu Ma‘shar: before the Flood, after the Flood in Babylon, and later in Egypt
-Hermes as Idris, and Idris as the Enoch who walked with God
-The first man to use a pen, the pyramids at Akhmim, and the arts carved into stone so the survivors could read them
-The Harranian Sabians, Sir Walter Scott’s theory, and Kevin van Bladel on the “religion of Hermes”
-The Emerald Tablet, Apollonius of Tyana, and mercury as both sage and substance
-The second Hermes who taught Pythagoras, and the third who wrote on venom and made glass
-Asclepius, the wrong snake on the ambulance, and Plato’s Phaedrus on why the king rejected writing
-Al-Mas‘udi, the Active Intellect, and al-Suhrawardi’s pillar of light
-Poimandres, the Demiurge, and the question of whether Hermes is the apocryphal Enoch
-Mount Hermon, the place of the curse, and the angels who made a pact
-The Mandaeans, the Sabians of the Koran, and their baptism that sounds like the Baptism of Wisdom
-John the Baptist as their prophet, and the door that opens onto Sophia
In the extended show available at www.Patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we continue by discussing:
-Asclepius on men who are both mortal and immortal, and the knowledge that makes them akin to the gods
-What Gnosticism actually is, the Nag Hammadi library, and why the Church Fathers only gave us the hit pieces
-Robert M. Price, Carl Jung, and the argument over whether the word “Gnostic” should even exist
-Pneumatic and hylic, the spark in the body, and Plato’s Timaeus on why even a good Demiurge builds shoddy copies
-Sophia, Chokmah, the Shekinah, and Metatron
-Simon Magus, the Naassenes, Irenaeus, and Clement’s attempt to reclaim the word
-The Ophites who thanked the serpent for the fruit, and Jehovah as the craftsman who kept the tree locked
-Marcion, Valentinus, the Sethians, the Borborites, and the Cainites
-Sophia’s fall, Prunikos, and the erotic allegory of Ophite creation
-Ialdabaoth, the Hebdomad, the serpent who is sometimes Christ and sometimes the liar
-Adam, Eve, the transfer of the spark, and why some Gnostics still call the serpent evil
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This week’s episode was written by Tim Hacker with, help, revisions and research by Luke Madrid with additional commentary by Heka Astra, Mari Sama, Julian Solaninka and Malachor 5.
Bibliography
Tracy R. Twyman and Alexander Rivera, Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled (2015). The research spine: three Hermeses, Enoch-Idris, Mandaeans, Sophia as cipher.
Kevin van Bladel, The Arabic Hermes (2009). The three Hermeses, the Harranians, and the post-Islamic “religion of Hermes.”
Sir Walter Scott, Hermetica (1924–36). Translation of the Corpus Hermeticum and the Constantinople-revival theory.
Abu Ma‘shar al-Balkhi, Book of the Thousands (via Ibn Juljul and Ibn Abi Usaybi‘a). The legend of the three Hermeses.
Ibn Wahshiyya and related Arabic Hermetic material; al-Mubassir ibn Fatik, Kitab Mukhtar al-Hikam. Hermes the prophet and the Sabian rites.
Corpus Hermeticum (esp. Poimandres) and Asclepius. The Demiurge, the seven governors, and divine knowledge.
The First Book of Enoch and 2 Enoch. The descent on Mount Hermon and the heavenly ascent.
Nag Hammadi library (esp. Apocryphon of John). Gnostic creation, Sophia, Ialdabaoth.
Irenaeus, Against Heresies. The Ophites, the serpent, and the Church’s picture of the heretics.
Clement of Alexandria and Hippolytus. Competing takes on the Naassenes and true versus false gnosis.
G.R.S. Mead and later scholars on the Ophites and Naassenes. The serpent groups and their sources.
Robert M. Price and Michael Allen Williams. Modern arguments over what “Gnosticism” even means.
Qur’an 19 (Maryam). Idris raised to a high place.|
Plato, Phaedrus and Timaeus. Writing, memory, and the Demiurge who copies from the eternal.
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On this week’s episode we’re joined by the full crew to continue our truly exhaustive investigation into who or what the Baphomet really is with this week’s focus falling upon the goat themed motifs in Free Masonry, the connection with big dick deities from various cultures and the surprisingly deep connection between Pan, Lilith, Medusa and Athena referring to both the Old Testament and Hesiod to find our answers. In the extended show we discuss the Green Man, The Baptism of Wisdom and the connection between Enoch, Metatron, Moses and a shadowy initiator the Arabic world refers to as the Al-Khadir. By the end we begin to break down what the Knights Templar may have really been doing by worshipping the Baphomet and what it may have meant or symbolized to them: a pact with the devil or an attempt to bootstrap Christianity by taking ownership over older traditions? If you’re not ready to talk about dicks, butts and devils you might want to skip this one. Thank you and enjoy the show!

In the free show we discuss:
The goat in the Tarot, and why Crowley calls him Lord of the Gates of Matter
Albert Pike, Eliphas Lévi, and the force the old adepts would not name
GOAT, GAOTU, and the story of riding the goat
Priapus, the herms, and Hermes as the grandfather of the permanent erection
Pan, panic, Actaeon, and Arthur Machen’s Great God Pan
The Pope Lick Monster, the Chupacabra, and the Wendigo
Al-Ghul in the Nabataean Agriculture, and the star the Arabs called the Ghul’s eye
Amalthea, the Aegis, and Medusa nailed to the shield
Tracy Twyman’s Baptism of Wisdom, and the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Hesiod’s garden, the Hesperides, and the snake at the golden apples
Julius Evola on the Templar who saw the idol and was never happy again
Margaret Murray’s horned god: Puck, Robin Hood, and the goat crowned King Puck
Dionysus, the fig-wood oath, and Faunus at the Lupercalia

In the extended show available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit  we continue by discussing:
Al-Khidr, the Green One, and Moses at the junction of two seas
The hidden saints, the Qutb, and the cup of the Elixir
Enoch, Metatron, Elijah, John the Baptist, and the Emerald Tablet
Alexander, Dhul-Qarnayn, and the Fountain of Youth
Thomas Wright, Templar priapism, and the osculum infame
Hammer-Purgstall’s idols and the sabbath that keeps wearing the same costume
The black host, the trampled cross, the black book, and the mark
A rival liturgy, or a late church calling the older rite a parody
Old Hornie, Old Nick, and the saint who kept his horns in Cornwall
Puck, the Welsh Boucca, and the Slavic word for God
The Green Man, Silvanus, and how one Devil swallowed the whole pantheonHermes the psychopomp, the caduceus, and why Baphomet keeps arriving as a threshold

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This week’s episode was written by Tim Hacker with, help, revisions and research by Luke Madrid with additional commentary by Heka Astra, Mari Sama, Julian Solaninka and Malachor 5. 

Sources: 
Tracy R. Twyman and Alexander Rivera, Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled (2015). The spine of the episode: Pan, Al-Ghul, Medusa, the Baptism of Wisdom, the black host.

Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, Mysterium Baphometis Revelatum (1818). The idols, the “Mete” inscriptions, and the baptism-of-wisdom reading.

Thomas Wright, The Worship of the Generative Powers (1865), with Richard Payne Knight’s Discourse on the Worship of Priapus. Templar priapism and the osculum infame.

Margaret Alice Murray, The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (1921) and The God of the Witches (1931). Horned god, Puck, Robin Hood, Herne, Old Hornie. A thesis, not settled history.

Eliphas Lévi, Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (1854–56). The universal agent and the Goat of Mendes.

Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma (1871). Baphomet as root of the physical forces. Pike is following Lévi.

Aleister Crowley and Frieda Harris, The Book of Thoth (1944). Lord of the Gates of Matter, and the blood-libel reading of the sabbath.

Stanisław Przybyszewski, The Synagogue of Satan (1897). Opening quote. The script’s “Cult of Satan’s Church” is this book.

Julius Evola, The Mystery of the Grail (1937). The Templar who saw the idol and never smiled again.

Ibn Wahshiyya, The Book of Nabataean Agriculture (c. 10th century). Al-Ghul, and Bahumed.

Hesiod, Theogony. Gorgons, the Hesperides, the snake at the golden apples.

Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Greeks. Dionysus and the fig-wood oath.

Qur’an 18. Moses and the servant later called al-Khidr.

Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (1894).
Robin Goodfellow, His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests (1628).
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In this week’s episode we take on the heroic task of uncovering the secrets of the Baphomet, one layer at a time, covering every possible angle and hopefully arriving at the closest we can approximate for the truth about who or what this figure genuinely represents. Tim compiled research from controversial sources like the late Tracy Twyman (who famously lost her life digging into this mystery), Julius Evola (of all people) and more medieval Hebrew mystic texts to assure ourselves and you (the listener) that we have left no-stone unturned or crazy, dark rabbit hole unsearched. By the end we might even be able to show you the profound wizard stuff that you probably, NORMALLY, need to kiss or clap booties to learn about. And that’s why they hate us. We remove booty clapping from the occult education system which is technically illegal. In the free side of this show we take a cursory glance at the more interesting and colorful history of the Knights Templar, focusing on the details of their confessions in an attempt to cobble together the details of their shadowy, secret practices. By the time we arrive at the extended show we have already begun to jump into the three loving arms of Priapus and explore his connection with Baphomet, Hermes and his lesser known Arabic equivalents before arriving at the dark connection all of the above have with Samael and Lilith. Thank you and enjoy the show! 
In the free show we discuss:
Friday the 13th, 1307
Kiss the Goat, Spit on the Cross
Tracy Twyman, the Ouija Board, and Clock Shavings
The Cursed Translation of Mysterium Baphometis Revelatum
Pacts with the Devil
The Prophetic Head
Jacques de Molay’s Curse
Caput LVIIIm: Head 58
Baphomet, Mahomet, or the Goddess of Paphos?
Eliphas Levi and the Astral Light
Crowley Takes the Name
Atbash Cipher: Baphomet = Sophia
In the extended show available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we discuss:
The Three Loving Arms of Priapus
Hermes on the Border
Baphomet’s Arabic Equivalents
Bapho Metis: The Baptism of Wisdom
Father Mithras
Seed of the Serpent
Two Creations, and a Plural Elohim
Lilith and Samael, the First Pair
The Caduceus as the Inferior Couple
Leviathan, Split So They Cannot Mate
Tanin’iver, the Blind Dragon
Azazel the Intermediary
Sophia, Achamoth, and the Demiurge
Lilith the Matron and Lilith the Maiden
The Exiled Shekinah
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Sources:
Tracy R. Twyman and Alexander Rivera, Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled 
Tracy R. Twyman, Clock Shavings
Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, Mysterium Baphometis Revelatum, in Fundgruben des Orients (Treasures of the Orient), 1818
Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail
Charles Villers, on M. Lentz, The Classical Journal, Vol. 5, 12 May 1812
François Just-Marie Raynouard, via Jules Michelet
Henry Hallam, 1818
Eliphas Levi, Magic: A History of Its Rites, Rituals, and Mysteries
Eliphas Levi, Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (the script calls it Rituals and Dogma)
Dr. Hugh Schonfield, the Atbash reading of Baphomet as Sophia
Idries Shah, abufihamat, “father of understanding”
Al-Jilwah (The Revelation), Yezidi scripture, the Melek Taus quote
Interrogatio Johannis (The Secret Supper / The Book of John the Evangelist)
Genesis, King James Version
Treatise on the Left Emanation (Ma’amar al ha-Atzilut ha-Smolit)
The Zohar, I.152b–153a
Julius Evola 
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In this week’s blasphemously offensive episode we lift the dress on one of the biggest secrets ever told, (if it's true) the hidden history of Simon Peter, the first Apostle and… according to some sources: synagogue spy; a hidden hand behind the establishment of Orthodox Christianity. On the free side of the show we break down who Peter is according to the "normal gospels" and by the end we will discuss who he secretly was and what he was secretly doing… supposedly. In the extended show we discuss exactly how he pulled it off and take a look at some of the evidence which helps confirm the theory. No matter what faith or worldview you have: I'm sure there’s something to offend you in here. Thank you and enjoy the show! 
On the free show we discuss:
Caesar’s Messiah, Flipped Upside Down
Peter: The Man Who Changed History
The Rock, The Keys, and the First Pope
First to Confess, First to Deny
James, Peter, and Paul
Kill and Eat: The Vision on the Rooftop
The Blow-Up in Antioch
Shimon Kefa, The Spy
Peter Chamor: The Firstling Donkey
Joseph, Esther, Moses, and Yael
The Toledot Yeshu Spy Quartet
On the extended show available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we discuss:
Stealing the Shem ha-Meforash
The Name Carved in Flesh
Heal a Leper, Raise the Dead
Whatever Simon Says
“Jesus Hated Israel and Their Torah”
Turn the Other Cheek as Containment
How the Calendar Got Hijacked
The Tower in the Middle of the City
Bread of Misery, Water of Affliction
The Mystery Fast of 9 Tevet
Did Peter Write Nishmat Kol Chai?
Christian Counter-Spy: Gamaliel
This week’s episode was written and researched by Luke Madrid. He’s to blame. The others read quote and provided original commentary they are responsible for.

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Scripture and early Christian texts:
Matthew 4:18–20; 16:18–19
John 1:42
Acts 5:34–40; 10; 22:3
Galatians 2:11–14
Isaiah 1:14
Exodus 13:13
Judges 4–5 (Jael and Sisera)
Acts of Peter (late 2nd century; upside-down crucifixion request)
Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions (3rd–4th century; Gamaliel as secret Christian)
Photius, Bibliotheca (tradition that Peter and John baptized Gamaliel, Abibas, and Nicodemus)
Jewish legend: Peter as inside man
Aggadata de-Shimon Kefa (אגדתא דשמעון כיפא, “The Legend of Simon the Rock”). Printed by Adolf Jellinek in Beit ha-Midrash, vols. V–VI (Leipzig / Vienna, 1853–78). Also in J. D. Eisenstein, Otzar Midrashim.
English: Alfred Edersheim, “Appendix XVIII. Haggadah about Simeon Kepha,” in The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah.
Version 2 line used on the show: “And this Simeon Kefa is what the gentiles call Saint Peter.”
Toledot Yeshu and the spy quartet
Toledot Yeshu (“The Life Story of Jesus”), medieval Jewish counter-gospel; Peter/Shimon, Paul/Elijah, Yochanan, and Judas/Yehuda as subversive pseudo-converts.
Johann Christoph Wagenseil, Tela Ignea Satanae (Altdorf, 1681) — first printed Hebrew/Latin recension.
Johann Jacob Huldreich (Huldricus), Historia Jeschuae Nazareni (Leiden, 1705) — the recension that puts Simon’s death on 9 Tevet.
Liturgy, law, and the fight over the poems
Nishmat Kol Chai (“The breath of every living being…”) — Sabbath, festival, and Passover liturgy sometimes credited to Shimon Kefa.
Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 580:2 (R. Yosef Karo, 1565): “On the ninth of Tevet we do not know what calamity happened.”
Orchot Chaim: “On the ninth the sages did not write what happened, and it remains a secret.”
Machzor Vitry: rejects the claim that “that scoundrel Simon Peter the ass” wrote Nishmat “when he was on the rock.”
Rashi circle: “the revolting Shimon peter chamor… the error of Rome.”
R. Baruch ben Yehoshua Yechezkel Feivel Frankel-Teomim (1760–1828): manuscript note that Shimon HaKalphus died on 9 Tevet and that a yearly fast was set in Jerusalem.
Modern scholarship and the Roman-psyop foil
Joseph Atwill, Caesar’s Messiah (2005).
Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War (the campaign Atwill maps onto the Gospels).
John G. Gager, “Simon Peter: Founder of Christianity or Saviour of Israel?” in Peter Schäfer, Michael Meerson, and Yaacov Deutsch, eds., Toledot Yeshu: The Life Story of Jesus Revisited (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011).
John G. Gager, Who Made Early Christianity?: The Jewish Lives of the Apostle Paul (Columbia University Press, 2015) — Paul in the same “inside man” dossier.
Maimonides / Iberian conversos — mentioned as the later historical type, not as a single cited book.
Quick reference pages used while writing the notes
Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Saint Peter the Apostle.”
Wikipedia, “Saint Peter”; “Jael”; “Toledot Yeshu.”
Sefaria, Otzar Midrashim, “Aggada of Shimon Kippa,” Versions 1 and 2.
Kathy Howard, “7 Things You Might Not Know About the Apostle Peter.”
Ligonier, “The Significance of Peter.”
Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, “What Is Peter’s Role in the Formation of the Church?”
Lifeway Women, “From Fisherman to Faithful Witness: A Biography of the Apostle Peter.”
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In this week’s episode we wrap up our deep-dive into Nietzsche's era initiating classic: “Beyond Good and Evil” by traversing chapter 3, the religious mood and a handful of his aphorisms in chapter 4; Julian the Philosopher lending historical context and depth throughout.  In the free side of the show we focus on Nietzsche's criticism of Christianity and where, he believes, the proper place of religion ought to be. In the extended show we dive into Nietzsche's aphorisms and discuss both the controversial ideas of “slavery,” what that might mean in context and how if any overlap exists with Anton Lavey’s writings in The Satanic Bible. Thank you and enjoy the show! 
In the free side of the show we discuss:
Nietzsche’s “big hunt” through the history of the soul — and why a podcast is basically a trophy room for rare ideas
Christianity as sacrifice: the surrender of freedom, pride, and self-confidence of spirit
“God on the Cross” as the most daring inversion of ancient values — the Oriental slave’s revenge on Rome
Religious neurosis and its three dangerous prescriptions: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence
Why European theism is dying even while the religious instinct keeps growing
Modern philosophy as secretly (or openly) anti-Christian — but not anti-religious
The great ladder of religious cruelty: first humans, then nature, then God himself sacrificed to nothingness
Why real religious life needs aristocratic idleness — and how noisy modern labor breeds unbelief
The scholar as “arrogant dwarf” who thinks he’s outgrown the religious man
Nietzsche’s real thesis: religion is a tool — a bond of command for rulers, a ladder for the ascending, and contentedness for the many — not an end in itself
In the extended side of the show available on at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we discuss:
Chapter 4’s blasphemous apophthegms — Nietzsche’s clearest, cruelest one-liners
The devil as the dumping ground for every quality we were too afraid to give God
Memory vs. pride (“I did that” / “I could not have done that”) as early shadow work
Character as fate, duration over intensity, and why attaining your ideal means you’ve already surpassed it
Sensuality reaching the highest altitudes of spirit, the militant man attacking himself in peacetime, and “Know thyself” as a command to shut up and become objective
Salting the truth until it no longer quenches thirst
What Nietzsche actually means by “slavery” (and what he doesn’t)
How much of this Anton LaVey quietly lifted, restyled, and put in The Satanic Bible
Julian’s historical context on the whole mess — plus the jokes we couldn’t leave on the free side
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The Book of the Law
https://sacred-texts.com/oto/engccxx.htm
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