>>12893940Baphomet was the house Egregore for their secret society, through which they stored and compounded knowledge unto the distinct collective consciousness it engendered within the group. Think of it as a psychic server of sorts, with its data being the consciousness of the initiates therein.
It wasn't so much an object of worship as a tool for the cultivation / sustainment of divine knowledge. Its androgyne nature is meant to represent the state of the Godhead - which simultaneously precedes and manifests the constructs of all facets of identity. Not evil in the slightest, just misunderstood by the masses
