My first encounter with "The Baphomet Codex" came while browsing through a second-hand book store in my neighborhood. I considered myself a student of the occult (only now do I know how I was a mere dabbler... a tourist). My friends and I, as I was with friends on this day, would often joke loudly while perusing the New-Age and Occult Books section of this store. "Which of these books holds the key to ultimate power?", I would ask allowed, then playfully pluck a book from the shelf and flip to a random page. I would then just as quickly say "no" and place the book back on the shelf while retrieving another. It was a game that I played with great flourish, with the purpose of clearing the section of other shoppers or to actually get a true-believer to challenge my mockery.
I am, in fact, a "true-believer", just as I was then, though then I had fooled myself into believing that I had it all figured out, or at least that I held enough pieces of the puzzle to be above and beyond what little of value was offered in those tomes. I was a cynical practitioner of the occult and seeker of hidden truth. It all would have been quite pathetic if not for the humor I found in it all.
I saw this book on the shelf, large, black, and pretentious. That is what drew my attention at first. The book was larger than similar books, its cover emblazoned with occult symbols that I was familiar with yet arranged in a manner that suggested something different than I had seen before. The name "Ego Diabolus", bad Latin for "I throw-against", was written in bold red letters across the bottom of the cover. Everything about this book dared you to read it.
In my opinion, the book itself is a craft of magic.
I purchased the book, and once I began reading it, I could not stop. Much of the book is common-sense, but of the type that we have been taught to ignore. It brings to bear ideas proliferated in the occult community, shattering many of the glass castles that have been built and exposing the bedrock beneath. It gets to the root of things, and lays them out plainly.
The rest of the book suggests ideas about the self and reality that shakes those exposed foundations. It is a crucible, in which the reader's perspective is broken and reforged into a weapon.
"The Baphomet Codex" is a challenge. It is a challenge to think for yourself. It is a challenge to define yourself. It is a challenge to truly see. I have learned also, that it is merely an introduction. It is a doorway to something deeper.
I am writing this blog to further explore the ideas in "The Baphomet Codex", as well as the expanded information that the author has graciously shared with me. I encourage other explorers to share their ideas about the material here as well, commenting on the various posts and subscribing to this blog. "The Baphomet Codex" is leading us somewhere, and I intend to find out just where that may be.
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