In my latest book, Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled, co-written with Alexander Rivera, we traced the history of all of the ideas currently connected to the figure of Baphomet, the allegedly worshipped in blasphemous rituals by the Knights Templar during the Crusades. In the course of our research, it became necessary to reexamine the early history of Christianity. Among other things, we noted that the way in which some anti-Christian Roman chroniclers described the “Agape feasts” of early Christian sects sounded more similar to descriptions of the Satanic Black Mass or the Witches’ Sabbath rather than what we think of now as the traditional Eucharist celebration, as they reportedly involved intoxication, orgies, infant sacrifice and cannibalism. It is now thought that these chroniclers were probably mixing up in their minds reports on the activities of both Christian groups, Gnostic Christian groups, and non-Christian Gnostic groups, not being able to tell the difference. Perhaps, though, the differences were not quite as great as modern Christians would like to think. The Agape feast Another thing we wrote about in that book was the presence of a great many medieval churches in Europe containing idols and other artwork sporting what could only be [...]
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