Alex Rivera on Baphomet, Cathar Prophecy & the Infinity Working

Summary

Occult researcher Alex Rivera walks through his books, including The Baphomet co-written with the late Tracy Twyman, framing them as stages of an alchemical Great Work. He traces the Baphomet from the heresy charges against the Knights Templar through the Austrian orientalist Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall and Eliphas Levi, and links it to Gnostic, Sufi and Hermetic currents. Along the way he weighs whether Templar artifacts in the British Museum reveal a hidden Gnostic religion that later resurfaced in Freemasonry.

Key takeaways

• 1Rivera's books: 'The Baphomet: The Temple of Mystery Unveiled' (with Tracy Twyman), 'The Sun Lady Unveiled', 'The Laurel Turns Green', and the forthcoming 'The Infinity Working', which touches on the CIA Gateway Project
• 2Eliphas Levi's Baphomet image came from Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall's 1818 work 'Mysterium Baphometis Revelatum', which read the Baphomet as a Gnostic, Ophite symbol
• 3Rivera claims Templar artifacts in the British Museum, including a coffer depicting the goddess Mete, are genuine rather than fabrications by Hammer-Purgstall
• 4Idries Shah's 'The Sufis' derives Baphomet from the Arabic 'Abu fihamat', meaning 'father of understanding'; another derivation links the word to medieval Christian forms of 'Muhammad'
• 5Templars allegedly used an animated oracular head, like a golem, for prophecy; Rivera ties this to Tracy Twyman's 'Money Grows on the Tree of Knowledge' and to biblical teraphim
• 6Many charges against the Templars echo earlier accusations Church Fathers such as Epiphanius made against the Gnostics
• 7Heinrich Khunrath's alchemical androgyne predates the Baphomet image, and Abraxas, whose name adds up to 365, appears on Templar seals

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Excerpt from Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio, Sep 27, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.