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[[File:Seal of Baphomet.png|300px|thumb|right|The Sigil of Baphomet from a book published in 1897]] | [[File:Seal of Baphomet.png|300px|thumb|right|The Sigil of Baphomet from a book published in 1897]] | ||
What is the Sigil of Baphomet? Is this the symbol that was originally displayed on the front of the Branham Tabernacle? | What is the Sigil of Baphomet? Is this the symbol that was originally displayed on the front of the Branham Tabernacle? | ||
In the illustration on the right, Samael is another name for Satan and Lilith is his wife, a feminine demonic creature of the night, possessing wings and long flowing hair, derived from Babylonian legends. Together they form an anti-Adam and Eve.<ref>D. E. Aune, “Night Hag,” ed. Geoffrey W Bromiley, The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1979–1988), 536.</ref><ref>Isidore Singer, ed., The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, 12 Volumes (New York; London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1901–1906), 38.</ref> | |||
The inverted pentagram with a goat's face drawn in it has become the official symbol of the Church of Satan. Here is a description of it from a book published in 1897: | The inverted pentagram with a goat's face drawn in it has become the official symbol of the Church of Satan. Here is a description of it from a book published in 1897: | ||
:''...oriented in the opposite direction, the pentagrammatic Star is nothing more than a symbol of iniquity, perdition, blasphemy: its two points in the air become the horns of the foul Goat threatening Heaven, and whose head is framed with the stellar pentacle, with its low ears in the side branches, and its beard in disorder in the single lower point.''<ref>Stanislas de Guaita, ''La Clef de la Magie Noire'', 1897, Page 386</ref> | :''...oriented in the opposite direction, the pentagrammatic Star is nothing more than a symbol of iniquity, perdition, blasphemy: its two points in the air become the horns of the foul Goat threatening Heaven, and whose head is framed with the stellar pentacle, with its low ears in the side branches, and its beard in disorder in the single lower point.''<ref>Stanislas de Guaita, ''La Clef de la Magie Noire'', 1897, Page 386</ref> | ||
=Quotes of William Branham= | =Quotes of William Branham= | ||