In this movie, Bobby is a loser who runs away from the abuse of his stepfather and step-sister, only to get raped by a bunch of men and left for dead. His troubles are only beginning, however, as he is discovered unconscious by the members of a Satanic cult. He must then prove his manhood by getting revenge on those who victimized him. He sells his soul to Satan and becomes instantly imbued with testicular fortitude, which enables him to do this. His reward is the girl of his dreams and the admiration of everyone in the cult. This film illustrates the “social Darwinism” embraced by modern Satanists, who believe that anyone who is victimized is a should of lower evolution who is destined to lose. This is how Bobby is perceived by the leadership of the cult when he is first taken in by them. The head of the cult, “Simon,” (undoubtedly named after Simon Magus) “don’t like victims,” as it is explained. This is just like the words Aleister Crowley channeled in The Book of the Law.: We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is [...]
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Loser makes good in Satanic cult —“Satan’s Children” from 1975
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Templars of Terror: Crusading knights in old horror movies
I became confused a few days ago when watching an old foreign horror film from the 70s, Tombs of the Blind Dead, that I happened to come across. Hadn’t I already seen this? But I remembered it being called Night of the Seagulls and being just slightly different. With a little research I discovered that both films were part of a four-part series all about zombie Templars directed by Amando de Ossorio. Tombs of the Blind Dead was the first in the series. It establishes a number of motifs that will be found throughout the rest of the series, including lesbians with complicated relationships, casual rape that is shrugged off by the victims, bloody sacrifices of naked women to Satan that involve torture, and of course, painfully slow-moving skeletal zombies in hoods and robes riding on horseback, looking for people to drain of their blood. It takes place in a ruined castle that once belonged to Satan-worshipping knights that were excommunicated by the Pope. I don’t think the word “Templars” is actually used in this film. Their symbol is the Egyptian ankh, an emblem of eternal life. It is revealed that they discovered the key to immortality through the drinking [...]
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Timeless wisdom of the Picatrix
Originally titled Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm or The Goal of the Wise in Arabic, The Picatrix is a book of magic and astrology attributed by some to the pen of Hermes Trismegistus, and thought to represent the practices of the Sabian Magi. They were a sect of seemingly monotheistic pagans mentioned in The Koran as being “People of the Book,” whom Muslims were ordered to treat equitably along with Jews and Christians. Along with some rather interesting essays explaining the philosophy behind the magic, here are some of the more ridiculous “pearls of wisdom” contained therein: Every man who suffers from nightmares should be washed with water of feces, and he will be healed. Great. Now I’m going to have nightmares about being washed with “water of feces.” Also about the next one: Take the skin of a woman’s vulva all the way around, so that it retains its opening; if you look at someone through it, it is the sign of death. This is a thing of great sacredness. Gee, I wonder how you go about obtaining something like that? Take the leaves of a garden onion, and fold them up one inside another. Give them to whatever chicken you wish [...]
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Updated version of Baphomet book, and Kindle version, now available on Amazon
I don’t know what took so long, but the updated version of Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled (with errors removed) is available in print on Amazon, and for the Amazon Kindle as well. Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled by Tracy R. Twyman and Alexander Rivera “Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? And be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” For seven centuries, the enigma of Baphomet has mystified both scholars and the general public. Did the Knights Templar really worship a demonic idol of that name? If so, what does the word mean? What is the origin of this figure? What was the nature of the rituals that the Templars performed in secret? What were their covert beliefs? And why, if the Templars initially described their idol as a mummified severed head, is this figure now represented as a hermaphrodite human with the head of a goat? Authors Tracy R. Twyman and Alexander Rivera have dived head-first into the bottomless abyss of mystery and returned with some astounding wisdom to share. Here for the first time they reveal the genesis of these symbols, showing how they relate to the Witches’ Sabbath, traditions of [...]
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Hermes, Sabians and Islam: Traditions of Hermes in Islamic and Pre-Islamic Sources
The following is an excerpt from Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled by Tracy R. Twyman and Alexander Rivera. During the start of the Sassanid dynasty (the last pre-Islamic Iranian/Persian empire, which ruled from 224-651 AD), a translation of ancient Iranian writings was commenced that included works supposedly written by “Hermes the Babylonian, who had been king over Egypt.” This perhaps accords with the references made in the first century AD text Carmen Astrologicum by Dorotheus (originally written in Greek, then translated into Middle Persian before ultimately surviving only in Arabic), which mentions both “Hermes Trismegistus, King of Egypt,” and a “Babylonian Hermes.” At that time, the territory known as “Babylon” was part of the Persian Empire. It would seem that the Persians had their own tradition of Hermes, which was influenced by the original Greek Hermetica, but which was also uniquely added to by them. It formed part of the basis for the traditions later proliferated in Arabic-language works. As Kevin Van Bladel put it in The Arabic Hermes: What is certain is that the earliest appearance of Hermes in Arabic, in the eighth century, is from the Middle Persian tradition, not the Greek. These traditions include the ones reflected [...]
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Davos weighs pros and cons of letting AI robots make military decisions
Reminiscent of the sci-fi film Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), this year’s Davos World Economic Forum held a round table discussion (sans table) to explore the question “What if autonomous weapon systems replace both soldiers and generals?” The discussion was pretty interesting. At 23:06, Stewart Russell (computer scientist at UC Berkeley) mentions that the USA is the only country that has an official policy against autonomous weapons, and in that case only for a limited number of years: At the end, painfully stupid questions from the audience (presumably mostly journalists) are taken, demonstrating how clueless the average person is likely to be at grasping the implications of these technological trends. Note the results of a poll taken of the forum audience, showing they overwhelmingly support the use of AI to make military decisions: The picture above is a screenshot, not a playable video. In Colossus: The Forbin Project, AI computers controlling the nuclear arsenals of both the USA and the USSR join forces to enslave humanity. Here’s the entire film, available for free on YouTube: UPDATE: It’s the following morning (1/28) after I posted this, and Foreign Policy in Focus (published by the Institute for Policy Studies) just ran an [...]
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The latest episode of the X-Files was about Nicholas de Vere
I’m going out on a limb here, but I have to go there. I was once associated publicly with a now-deceased writer named Nicholas de Vere (the full-length name he gave himself was “Prince Nicholas de Vere von Drakenberg”). He claimed to be the head of a secret society with an ancient lineage called “the Dragon Court,” and said that he himself was the foremost scion of a royal bloodline going back to praeterhuman creatures that pre-dated the Garden of Eden. He had a lengthy genealogy for himself drawn up that connected his lineage to virtually every important person in history, including biblical and mythological figures as well. De Vere seriously purported that his lineage made him super-human, a member of the “Dragon race,” and he would accept applications to his order from other people with lineage stemming from royal bloodlines that he claimed were part of the Dragon family. I was actually asked to join and even, for a time, lead the “Dragon Court,” and helped Nicholas de Vere to publish his first book explaining his claims: The Dragon Legacy. He had many fanatical followers who believed his claims, and I admit, I helped to promote them. De Vere’s [...]
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The Invisible Mountain and the Flat Earth
I am not necessarily a proponent of the “flat Earth theory” quite yet, but I find it very interesting. I have long been convinced that we are living in an artificial reality of some sort, whether it be a computer simulation, controlled hallucination, or whatever you might want to call it. To me, if this is the case, it doesn’t matter much the extent to which one can, as a participant in the simulation, explore places beyond Earth. If it is all purely artifice, it seems that it was put together with Earth as the “main event.” So just as, in a video game, nothing exists for the players beyond what is shown and experienced, to most people, everything purported to be beyond our solar system is so abstract and remote that we feel no personal connection to it. Also, for thousands of years, the only experience man had of the stars and planets was what he could see with his own eyes from the surface of the Earth. Nowadays, when we look at the night’s sky, our minds immediately extrapolate from the “photos,” illustrations, and computer animations we’ve all seen in books and movies about outer space. Most of [...]
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R.E.M., the Fake Moon, and the Flat Earth
In this article I will suggest that Michael Stipe of the band R.E.M. has embedded clues in his music, and in related music videos, indicating a belief in the Flat Earth conspiracy theory, long before it was cool. This includes the idea that we live in an artificial, controlled and domed environment, on a flat disc, with an artificial sun and moon. (To understand more about that, viewed through a mythic and archetypal lens, read my previous article.) I also suggest the possibility that someone has orchestrated it so that at least two films featuring the actor Jim Carrey contain hints indicating this as well. Why R.E.M.? Why Jim Carrey? I don’t know. My realization came to me after pondering the title of the Jim Carrey film Man on the Moon, which is named after the R.E.M. song of the same name, the chorus of which goes: If you believe they put a man on the Moon If you believe there’s nothing up his sleeve, then nothing is cool. The context of the song definitely seems to be casting doubt on the authenticity of the NASA Apollo missions. The lyrics also mention Isaac Newton (whose theory of gravity, rejected by [...]
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Richie Allen interviews Tracy R. Twyman on Jordan Maxwell’s recommendation
On February 4th, writer Jordan Maxwell, during an interview on the UK-based Richie Allen radio show, recommended by work on economic alchemy to the host, saying it would “blow your mind.” The following Monday, February 8th, Richie Allen had me on for an interview! We talked a bit about the Templars, the alchemy of credit, elite royal bloodlines, their connection to the Serpent of Eden, even dealing with the Dragon Court and Dragon race concepts. Thanks to both Maxwell and Allen for making this possible. Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled by Tracy R. Twyman and Alexander Rivera. “Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? And be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” For seven centuries, the enigma of Baphomet has mystified both scholars and the general public. Did the Knights Templar really worship a demonic idol of that name? If so, what does the word mean? What is the origin of this figure? What was the nature of the rituals that the Templars performed in secret? What were their covert beliefs? And why, if the Templars initially described their idol as a mummified severed head, is this figure now represented as a hermaphrodite human [...]
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Announcing the Baphomet Mystery Club
I am pleased to announce the launch of the Baphomet Mystery Club, a new mailing list devoted exclusively to my investigation with Alexander Rivera and others into the enigma of Baphomet, as chronicled in our new book Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled, the most comprehensive study ever written on the central mystery of the Templars and Freemasons. I have invested thousands of dollars and many hundreds of hours into this research over the course of more than seven years. The investigation continues even now, and I will be releasing an exclusive English translation of the pivotal text Mysterium Baphometis Revelatum by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, soon to be published with commentary from me over the coming weeks. Image of Mete from Mysterium Baphometis Revelatum I am inviting members of the Baphomet Mystery Club to follow along as we study and carefully interpret the words and fascinating images in this important text. We will also be attempting to track down more of the artifacts featured in Hammer-Purgstall’s book, in addition to the other two that I have already discovered in the British Museum for the first time in well over 100 years. Among other things we will try to have these items [...]
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Cathars and Cat Worship
The following is an excerpt from Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled by Tracy R. Twyman and Alexander Rivera. The descriptions of many of these groups’ secret rites are quite clearly similar to what the Templars were accused of. For instance, in some of their confessions, Templar knights told of worshipping Baphomet in the form of a black cat, and kissing its anus instead of that of a goat. Likewise, according to Walter Mapes, as quoted by Thomas Wright, speaking of the Patarini of Milan: Some apostates from this heresy, he tells us, had related that, at the first watch of night, they met in their synagogues, closed carefully the doors and windows, and waited in silence, until a black cat of extraordinary bigness descended among them by a rope, and that, as soon as they saw this strange animal, they put out the lights, and muttering through their teeth instead of singing their hymns, felt their way to this object of worship, and kissed it, according to their feelings of humility or pride, some on the feet, some under the tail, and others on the genitals, after which each seized upon the nearest person of a different sex, and had [...]
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Star-bathing, alchemy and the cold light of the Moon
In my article “The Crucified Serpent and The Book of Nabathean Agriculture,” which I published last February, I talked about the ancient Mesopotamian magic technique, described in The Book of Nabathean Agriculture, of “bathing” ritual items in the rays of the Moon or certain stars or planets at night. The item is then, according to that book, referred to as al-munajjam (star-bathed). I also mentioned the term used in several alchemical texts, “the Bath of the Stars,” illustrated by images of the Sun and Moon, sometimes represented as a king and queen, bathing in a basin together, along with images of babies being killed and drained of their blood. These images are accompanied with drawings representing stars and planets in the heavens being drawn down to Earth, or pouring forth their essences onto things: either in the form of a liquid shower, or in the form of light rays. The implication is that the blood of the planets, the “children,” is offered to the Sun and the Moon for them to bathe in, and also to drink, as at least one illustration seems to show them drinking it out of a straw. This is something we see all over alchemical [...]
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Antonin Scalia, St. Hubertus, and the assassination of Saint Dagobert
By now we all know that Antonin Scalia died while on a hunting trip with his brothers in the Order of St. Hubertus, a three century old hunting fraternity with roots going back to Bavaria via the Bohemian Club in California. St. Hubertus was the patron of the Ardennes forests. It was here that Dagobert II (the Merovingian King of Austrasia who lived contemporary with St. Hubertus and who was also made into a saint) was assassinated while with a hunting party on December 23, 679. According to The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg, Cain also died while hunting, accidentally killed by his descendant, Lamech. Just some interesting details. I may add more to this in the coming hours or days. Saint Hubert, (Franz Mayer & Co., St. Patrick’s Basilica, Ottawa, Canada) Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled by Tracy R. Twyman and Alexander Rivera. “Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? And be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” For seven centuries, the enigma of Baphomet has mystified both scholars and the general public. Did the Knights Templar really worship a demonic idol of that name? If so, what does the word [...]
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All Twyman print books available autographed now
I have decided once again to make all of my printed books available for sale directly from me, with autographs. (The first two are available in hardcover, the rest in paperback). If you do not want your copies autographed, please say so. Otherwise I will assume all customers purchasing from this site want their books autographed. Below are the books, starting with the most recently. You can pay with any credit card, debit card, or PayPal just by clicking the PayPal buttons next to each book listing (no PayPal account required). Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled by Tracy R. Twyman and Alexander Rivera Hardcover 628 pages $34.95 + shipping ($10 domestic, $15 int’l) “Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? And be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” For seven centuries, the enigma of Baphomet has mystified both scholars and the general public. Did the Knights Templar really worship a demonic idol of that name? If so, what does the word mean? What is the origin of this figure? What was the nature of the rituals that the Templars performed in secret? What were their covert beliefs? And why, if the Templars initially described [...]
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Money Grows on the Tree of Knowledge YouTube documentary
This is a reprise of a little “YouTube documentary” I made in 2010 featuring myself reading the beginning of my book Money Grows on the Tree of Knowledge, with images to illustrate. It’s about 20 minutes long, covering the origins of the US dollar and dollar sign in alchemy, the Knights Templar’s invention of the checking system, and the symbolism of Baphomet, the caduceus and the Serpent of Eden in regards to these things. Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled by Tracy R. Twyman and Alexander Rivera. “Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? And be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” For seven centuries, the enigma of Baphomet has mystified both scholars and the general public. Did the Knights Templar really worship a demonic idol of that name? If so, what does the word mean? What is the origin of this figure? What was the nature of the rituals that the Templars performed in secret? What were their covert beliefs? And why, if the Templars initially described their idol as a mummified severed head, is this figure now represented as a hermaphrodite human with the head of a goat? Authors Tracy R. Twyman and [...]
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Twyman interviewed by Jesse Waugh
I just got interviewed on a podcast by a guy named Jesse Waugh. He says it’s the best interview he’s ever done! Check it out here.
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The Goat-Faced Wildman: Excerpt from Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled
The following is an excerpt from Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled by Tracy R. Twyman and Alexander Rivera. If the Freemasons are continuing the secret doctrine of the Templars, one would expect the rituals to Baphomet to have continued on in the Masonic order as well. Indeed the subject of Baphomet is addressed in the handbook for Scottish Rite Freemasons entitled Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike. Echoing the thoughts of Eliphas Levi, he wrote of Baphomet as the magical force of the universe: There is in nature a most potent force, by means whereof a single man, who could possess himself of it, and should know how to direct it, could revolutionize and change the face of the world. . . . This force was known to the ancients. . . . If science can but learn to control it, it will be possible to change the order of the seasons, to produce in night the phenomena of day, to send a thought in an instant around the world, to heal or slay at a distance, to give our words universal success, and make them reverberate everywhere. This agent . . . is precisely what the adepts of the [...]
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The Secret Templar Rule and The Book of the Baptism of Fire
The following is an excerpt from Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled by Tracy R. Twyman and Alexander Rivera. . . .[L]ong before the Templars were openly accused and arrested by Philip IV, several papal pronouncements had stated explicitly that the Templars were guilty of the same sort of things they were eventually prosecuted for. Prince Michael of Albany, in his 2006 book The Knights Templar of the Middle East (co-authored with Walid Amine Salhab), recounts some of these: Innocent II (1198-1216), writing to the grand visitor of the order, said, “The crimes of your brothers pain us deeply by the scandal that they provoke within the Church. The knights Templar practice the doctrines of Satan.” Gregory IX (1227-1241) mentions the fact that he knew that the Templars practiced the act of homosexuality and occult sexual magic under a secret new rule established by Roncelin de Fos (later master of Tortosa and Syria) in 1240. This new rule was written in a Templar book known as “the book of baptismal (sic) by fire.” Orgy with ritual kissing of the idol, from Mysterium Baphometis Revelatum. More orgies, with snakes, and a child in a vase next to a strange winged humanoid creature, [...]
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Twyman talks about Baphomet on A Fireside Chat with Lance White
I was recently on “A Fireside Chat” with Lance White to talk about my book Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled. We particularly talk about Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall’s work on Baphomet, the Templar confessions of debauchery in the Chinon Parchment, and the use of severed heads for divination.
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