“Is Baphomet the “Devil”? Do we worship an “evil" deity? Not by our definition, or even by the definition used by our detractors. The “evil" of Baphomet, the “Devil" of the Tarot, is not the evil of crime or oppression or superstitious blasphemy, but that which was considered most “evil" by the Manichaeans and other Old Aeon Gnostics, namely generation, which results in incarnation, the “imprisonment" of pure Spirit in the impure “Tomb" of matter.“