




Bold claim by Adolphe Bertet on Baphomet being Jesus
In his 1861 book ‘Apocalypse du bienheureux Jean apôtre’, Adolphe Bertet (who was a well known 19th–century French writer on esotericism, occultism, and religious symbolism, and said to be a student of Éliphas Lévi) says: “Thus, the sign of the Beast, instead of being the lamb of John, is the Mendesian goat; its name is Baphomet, which, like the Roman lamb, represents Jesus; likewise, for the Gnostics, learned men or healers, it represents the Redeemer in the divine world”.
Other connections between Baphomet and Christ have been made. In his book ‘The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic’, Lévi explains that through the addition of the letter Shin to the Tetragrammaton, the “symbolic goat” (Baphomet) is linked to Christ. When Lévi says: “It’s this [Jesus’ name, YHSVH] — which the mystagogues of the Middle Ages represented in their nocturnal assemblies by the exhibition of a symbolical goat”, he suggests that these mystagogues symbolically represented the Redeemer (Jesus, as understood through the name YHSVH) in the form of the goat.