Here are some excerpts from our podcast on 8/17/23 entitled Satan is The GOAT: Satan is The Greatest Opponent Against Truth! Spirit of the Goat: Baphomet, Azazel, and Pan:
H.P. Blavatsky The Secret Doctrine: Baphomet, Azazel, and Pan
In The Secret Doctrine P. 406, Madame Helena Petrovna
Blavatsky writes a footnote comparing Baphomet to the Azazel:
In Demonology, Satan is the leader of the opposition in
Hell, the monarch of which was Beelzebub. He belongs to the fifth kind or class
of Demons (of which there are nine according to the medieval Demonology), and
he is at the head of witches and sorcerers. But see elsewhere the true meaning
of Baphomet, the goat-headed Satan, one with Azazel, the scape-goat of Israel.
Nature is the God Pan
Se’irim-Hebrew word (singular: se’ir) are goat-shaped
Semitic spirits. Their name derives from sai’ir meaning “hairy” or “shaggy
goat.” In Leviticus 17:7, the Children of Israel are forbidden to sacrifice to
them.
On a biological level, Baphomet represents all life:
The scales of a fish and reptile.
The body of a man and woman(representing both sexes as
hermaphrodites).
The wings of bird.
And the head of a beast.
Source: The Pagan Book of Wisdom and Knowledge: Baphomet
Lodge P. 9, Jonathan Ludd
Baphomet is the Union of Babylon and the Beast.
The “Sat” and “Tan” become one, thus becoming Satan.
Source: The Pagan Book of Wisdom and Knowledge: Baphomet
Lodge P. 9, Jonathan Ludd
Goat Azazel in
Leviticus 16
The word “Azazel” in the Hebrew text can be translated “the
goat that goes away.” This is the justification for the common “scapegoat”
translation (NIV, NASB, KJV). The scapegoat, so the translator has it,
symbolically carries the sins of the people away from the camp of Israel into
the wilderness. Seems simple enough.
However, “Azazel” could also be a proper name. In Lev. 16:8
one goat is “for Yahweh” while the other goat is “for Azazel.” Since
Yahweh is a proper name and the goats are described in the same way, Hebrew
parallelism suggests Azazel is also a proper name, which is why more recent
translations, sensitive to the literary character of the Hebrew text, read
“Azazel” and not “scapegoat” (ESV, NRSV, NJPS). So what’s the big deal?
In the Day of Atonement ritual, the goat for Yahweh—the goat
that was sacrificed—purifies the people of Israel and the Tabernacle/Temple.
Sins were “atoned for” and what had been ritually unclean was sanctified and made
holy. But purification only described part of what atonement meant. The point
of the goat for Azazel was not that something was owed to the demonic realm, as
though a ransom was being paid. The goat for Azazel banished the sins of the
Israelites to the realm outside Israel. Why? Because the ground on
which Yahweh had his dwelling was holy; the ground outside the parameters of
the Israelite camp (or, nation, once the people were in the Land) had been
consigned to fallen, demonic deities back at Babel. Sin could not be tolerated
in the camp of Israel, for it was holy ground. Sins had to be “transported” to
where evil belonged—the territory outside Israel under the control of gods set
over the pagan nations. The high priest was not sacrificing to Azazel. Rather,
Azazel was getting what belonged to him: the ugly sinfulness of the nation.
Source: The Day of Atonement in Leviticus 16: A Goat for
Azazel, By Dr. Michael Heiser
The Goat god Pan and The Gates of Hell
To the pagan mind, the cave at Caesarea Philippi created a gate to the underworld, where fertility gods lived during the winter. They committed detestable acts to worship these false gods.
Caesarea Philippi's location was especially unique because
it stood at the base of a cliff where spring water flowed. At one time, the
water ran directly from the mouth of a cave set in the bottom of the cliff.
The pagans of Jesus' day commonly believed that their
fertility gods lived in the underworld during the winter and returned to earth
each spring. They saw water as a symbol of the underworld and thought that
their gods traveled to and from that world through caves.
To the pagan mind, then, the cave and spring water at
Caesarea Philippi created a gate to the underworld. They believed that their
city was literally at the gates of the underworld the gates of hell. In order
to entice the return of their god, Pan, each year, the people of Caesarea
Philippi engaged in horrible deeds, including prostitution and sexual
interaction between humans and goats.
Source: https://www.thattheworldmayknow.com/gates-of-hell-article
All Goats Are Going
to Hell
Matthew 25:31-34, 31 “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
Matthew 25:41, 41 “Then He will also say to those on
the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire
prepared for the devil and his angels:
