The Book of the Acausal Way places Baphomet among the Dark Gods, understood by the Church as actual acausal beings. Its account is brief and concentrated. Creation and destruction meet within one living world: birth, appetite, beauty, decay and death remain bound to one another.
This is the Church’s theological description of a distinct current. The book asks readers to retain the differences between beings. Baphomet’s name cannot simply be exchanged with Atazoth’s because both appear in the same chapter.
The living world in its whole extent
The chapter resists a division of life into acceptable and unacceptable compartments. Its account of Baphomet brings processes often held apart into the same view. Beauty does not remove mortality from a living body. The arrival of something new also belongs to a world in which things end.
Read the account with the living world in view. Growth and appetite have real conditions; what sustains one life may also involve the ending of another. The chapter asks for a recognition broad enough to keep these conditions together. Its brief description belongs within the larger account of the acausal and the independent beings who participate in it.
Read before extending the account
Read the complete chapter, including its insistence on independent beings and an honest record of experience. The name belongs inside a religious understanding of the acausal. Turning every image into a psychological explanation would change that understanding, even when psychological observation remains useful to the practitioner.
For a newcomer, Principles begins practical formation with breath, a notebook and simple devotion to Satan. Continue with those foundations while studying this account. The practice record and discernment guide provide concrete ways to preserve what was experienced without forcing an early conclusion.
Read the source
Page numbers refer to the original-language PDF edition, not a translation of the book.
- The Book of the Acausal Way: PDF pp. 22–24, especially p. 23
- Principles of Our Church: PDF pp. 12–13