BAPHOMET - THE GREAT BEAST?

Religious fanatics, with a biblical axe to grind, or simply ignorant persons that have failed to escape the mind control traps set for them by the former have always insisted that Baphomet depicts the ultimate in evil and terror. Is this mysteriously ominous figure really the personification of all that is bad and negative in the world or is there another side to the situation?

Most of us will have at least seen this infernal image erroneously represented in old Hammer Horror - type movies. 

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