The formation of Maíoral

Maioral inhabits into the four bodies of men:

Physical body - earth;
Astral body water;
Mental body - air;
Spiritual body - fire.
These four bodies are associated with four demonized gods:
Physical body Belial - Destroyer of physical chains;
Astral body - Leviathan - Abolitionist of the astral forms;
Mental body - Beelzebuth - Liberator of the thought;
Spiritual body - Lucifer - Bringer of the Wisdom.
His power is driven to the four directions:
North - earth;
West- water;
East airs
South- Fire.
One of His symbols of manitestation is the pentagram. The tips represent the
elements, the cardinal point, and the gods representing Him. The tip facing down
is the manifestation of Maioral himself,

Ac said previously, Maioral is the fusion of many Gods and cultures. A Supreme
and having a Gnosis tree of dogma. This force cannot be named, and for such
and magnanimous bein forged with freedom of time and space, exhaling powers
reason, presents itself as Maioral, in other words, he is the "Head", the chief, who
acts As the power tutoring the Empire; who accepts or dismisses the herded souls
according to the need along the battles.
In the pentagram of Maioral, we can see a circumference in the tip that represents
His ethereal essence. Different from the other tips expressing dynamic and
receptive qualities, this tip has a circle representing the supreme sign of perfection
and divinity. The circle also represents the formation of Maioral concomitantly
to the formation of the universe itself, and the continuous state of movement,
whose search is triumph. In a broader sense, the circle is bound to the search for
the detachment from the bonds and all illusion. The circle also represents the fight
against the linear time and inertia.
ne roots surrounding the circumference have a much more complex meaning.
However, in a simpler way, we understand it as power entering in the minds of the
adepts and unlocking all doors preventing the ascent to liberating Wisdom.
Maioral pervades the spaces and discharges the force of everything that forms Him, like a poison that
slowly taints and kills the slave conceptions in human beings or leads them to spiritual madness.

The Ponto of His Holiness Maioral according to our Tradition. This Ponto
evcais the elemental greatness, as well as the power of tutoring over the
whole Kingdom of Quimbanda.

Inside the manners and traditions of Quimbanda, most of Temples/ Terreiros uses an
image very similar to the Goddess Baphomet as a representation of the "Emperor
Maioral". This way of idolatry also happened due to the religious syncretism that
occurred during the formation of the cult, mainly because the great influence of
literary works of the "Christian magus Eliphas Levi, creator of this image. Among
his works, the book "Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie", which was translated into
English asTranscendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual", was one of the works
responsible for the profanation of the "Mistress of the Earth" and for spreading of
one of the greatest errors in occult circles. We will transcribe from this work an
excerpt detailing Baphomet:

A pantheistic and magical figure of the Absolute. The torch placed between the two
of the triad. The goats head, which
is synthetic, and unites some characteristics of the dog, bull, and ass, represent
exclusive responsibility of matter and the expiatioon ofbodily sins in the body The hands
are human, to exhibit the sanctity of labour; they make the sign of esotericism above and
belou, to impress mystery on initiates, and they point at two lunar crescents, the upper
being white and the lower black, to explain the correspondences ofgood and evil, mercy
horns represents the equilibrating intelligence
nts the
er
and justice. The lower part of the body is veiled, portraying the 1ysteries of evi, universal

Pation, which 1s expressea soley by the Ymbol of the caduceus. The belly of the r
gen d should be colored green; the semi-circle above should be blue; the plumage,
to the breast, should be of various hues. The goat has female breasts, and thuS
nh human characteristics are those of maternity and toil, otherwise the signs of
demption. On its foreheaa, between the horns and beneath the torch, is the sign of
h microcosm, or the pentagram withh one beam in the ascendant, symbol of human
intelligence, which placed thus below the torch, makes the flame of the latter an imae
of divine revelation. This Pantheos should be seated on a cube, and its footstool shouid
be a single ball, or a ball and a triangular stool

Levi, Eliphas. Transcendental magic, its doctrine and ritual (1896), London:
G. Redway.

According to this description, Baphomet is a philosophical and hermaphrodite

higure, whose function is to maintain the balance between the energetic poles
(+and ) and promote a supposed redemption motivated by impulses of mercy
and justice. These Christian scholars have conceived the idol Baphomet as a set of
sparks from many ancient cultures that enabled the understanding of generation,
polarity, duality, as well as among many other meanings.
."Baphomet", according our understanding, is not the pantheistic figure of the
"Ahsolute", neither some representative outline of the holiness of the man. We
helieve that the word Baphomet is the junction of the Greek words "Baphe-Metra"
(BaońunTEpa), which corresponds to the "dyed/bloody Mother", the "Tincture
of the Mother" or yet "the baptism of the Mother", where occurs the encounter
with the face of the Sinister Goddess. The name, in spite of being philosophic,
represents the "Great Black Womb" that generated and has enabled powers to make
war against the inertia of the stigmatized religions.
In order to demystify some of these ideas, we will expose a set of concepts that
make us believe that "Baphomet" or "Bafomé' is not the "Ancient Templar God"
who motivated catholic authorities and kings to persecute the "knights of Christ
or a corruption of the name Mohammed" as some miserable occultists continue
perpetuating in senseless writings.
Clearly, the image of Baphomet is full of esoteric meanings. Such signs are so wide
tnat they give rise to many interpretations, and for this reason, each philosophical
Current sees the image with different attributes. It is associated with the god Pan
arcek pantheon), to the Watcher Azazel (Hebrew), to the demon Behemot, and to
the Christian Satan himself. Some claim that the image is the pure "Akasha (hrst
, other say that is the representation of the "Baptism of Wisdom (corruption
One Greck expression "Bapbes-Metis") or "Sophia", and the most unfortunate
S Claims that the name is the corruption of Abufihamat (or Bufibima, aspronounced in Spain), a Moorish
expression for "Father of derstanding' or
of the
"Head of the Knowledge". Dozens of theories engraft the formative mass
most corrupted gnostic icon in the history of the esoteric philosophy.
As previously stated, the author and Christian occultist Eliphas Levi, who onc.
was an abbot with impulses to the "unknown, has shaped through pre-existent
concepts a philosophical figure full of meanings and named it as The Baphome
goat or The goat of the Sabbath", a figure clearly corrupted and full of devilish
infuences. Thus, the idol Baphomet was built upon the drawing boards of an
abbot who merged dozens of concepts and cultures in order to draw it.
once
The image of Baphomet, full of daemonic traits and Christian symbolisms, was
the perfect vessel for the dwelling of the "enemy of God". The Christian Church
merged both concepts and created a physical shape to spread the fear needed
to keep its doctrine alive. The image of Baphomet became the image of Satan/
Lucifer, worshiped by sorcerers and their rituals of "Black Sabbath', where the god
worshiped was the "black goat', also known as "Master Leonardo".

In the formative process of Quimbanda, the image of Levi arrived in Brazilian

lands along with other inquisitorial books of demonology. Since the image is strong
and expressive, boasting the head of a goat, (repudiated animal), it was soon to be
spread as the image of the demon himself, or yet the image depicting the demon
and his legions. In this way, it was the image used to represent the forces of Maioral
and the extent of His powers within the cult of Quimbanda. This knowledge is
fundamental for the comprehension of the image of Maioral.
Obviously, a gap remains in the mind of adepts: "If the image of Maioral was the
drawing of an esoteric abbot corrupted by the Catholic Church, inside the cult of
Quimbanda it become a figure devoid of power and truth. How could it be the
image of Maioral?"
In order to solve this gap, we must readapt our understanding of this image. as well
an amorphous Being, thus, all images or pictu are only representative forms rhat
that
as the foundations carried by it. According our Iradition, His Holiness Maioral is
ease the evolutionary process. Another important point is that reg
regardless of the
image has being the product of the imagination of a human being, araless has acqui of the
uired
a condensed energetic power through hundreds of years of egregore. las Is up acquired to
o the
spiritual leaders to understand and adapt new concepts to enable the image to be
used in the cults.
Observing the image of Baphomet, we will find some very important aspects for
associating it to the cult of Maioral. The image has:
The head of a goat indicates a direct relation with bestiality, with chaos, and
aggressive animal instincts, which man tries to suftocate and Laws try to imprison.
This is a way to understand, that despite the appearance, we are animals and we
must sate our instincts. The torch above the head reminds us that such instincts
must be controlled and manipulated according to need and the will. The horns
are also an expression of the animal side and of the energetic duality (by the force
of penetration and by its openness in form of receptacle) that all adepts possess.
They indicate the ancestry, the power, the crown, and the protection of the torch of
Lucifer, after all, "it is the light that blinds the profane". The horns of the goat are
symbols of sexuality and procreation, showing the connection with the Earth and
all quarrels occurring on it. Under a more esoteric vision, these horns are symbols
related to the infernal powers, after all, they represent the lunar aspect and not the
solar, like those of the ram. We can summarize this explanation in one phrase said
by the grand Exu Pantera Negra: "Open your eyes, be brave and become a black
goat!
Under such understanding, in spite of Maioral having the flame of Lucifer in His
Essence, He protects it from fools and the profane. His horns represent that in the
Earth He is Emperor and has receptive and dynamic powers, male and female,
positive and negative, building or destroying according to need. He is not an androgynous Being, but a
Being who has dominion over both energies.

Many pagan cultures believed that the goat was a divine animal and full of the
forces of libido and procreation, whose blood has the power to "temper iron'
association with fire itself. However, the figure of the expiratory animal, Starred
through the religions of Israel that symbolically have concentrated the redemption
of their sins in the head of these animals. The Christian religion turned the goat
into the image of the "devil" himself, removing from this sacred animal the right to
be divine and full of the energies of procreation.

. in both cases, however, it is important to emphasize that both the ram and
the goat are clear symbols of solar deities, and in the first instance there is the
exaltation of divinity, while in the second the expiation and death of that god.

Chevalier, Alain Jean Geerbrant. Dicionário de Símbolos. José Olympio Editora.

Rio de Janeiro, 2000); p. 134.

The image presents a pentagram over the chakra Ajna, which in our tradition is
called "Abaddon". This energetic center is directly connected with both the Lord
Astaroth and the journey into the unconscious mind that has dark "valleys",
aiming to find the answers for our evolutionary paths. In the traditional image,
a cosmic pentagram represents this energetic center, however, according to our
understanding, only the "inverted pentagram can represent this path, because the
tip representing the spirit must be pointed to the underworld (downward), place
where the darkness of our unconscious dwells. Thus will exist the self-knowledge
and the power of Maioral will have the power of liberation over His chosen through
the unification of the elementary forces, as in the old traditions of the horned gods.

The muscular arms show the warrior aspect, strong and omnipotent, bearer of
the eternal forks (tridents) in the cult of Quimbanda, and the hands positioned
upwards and downwards are symbols of the equation: "What is above and what is
below are mysteries that only the initiates will see!", however, as only two fingers
points to the path (Light or Slavery), we conclude that the occult path must be
preserved. It is not a symbol of balance, but the mystery of the journey of self-
knowledge itself.
The breasts of the image of Maioral are just representations of the "primordial
ocean and honors to the being who gave birth to the sacred lineage. They also
show that He was created as a form of resistance against pre-established dogma and behaviors, a being
who eternally protects His chosen

emblematic phallus", termed as "Caduceus of Hermes/Mercury. The phallus

appears in a peculiar manner, after all, it jumps from a mantle covering the legs of
the idol, and crosses a "semicircle" that divides the image.
The phallus fertilizes and acts as a totem for force beyo d matter and like a scepter power, ruling over the
dynamic balance of two forces .

According to the esoteric tradition that we

Follow and understand to be correct (without debunking others), it represents the
accension of the BIind Dragon carrying Lilith through the energetic centers of the
body to promore the reunion with Samael/ Satan and receive the sacred seeds. It is
a symbol to awaken a form of serpent/dragon, profanely named as "Kundalini",
and generate a powertul energetic discharge in the microcosm that will reflect in
the macrocosm.

This image has two intertwined snakes positioning their heads like they are ready to
make war. These two serpents have a great number of meanings, but we believe that
in the cult of Lord Maioral they represent the two polarities in clash, communion
and procreation. Additionally, we commune with the idea that they represent the
unity of the same body of Light and Darkness (foundation of our belief). In an
esoteric way, along with the phallus (central axis) it represents the drawing of the
Otz Daath (Tree of Death) itself. Another interesting concept is to associate both
serpents with the lunar and solar currents, termed as Ob and Od (venom and
antidote).

Ihe mantle covers which cannot be seen, that yet is in formation, or that which
never existed. It covers the intercrossed legs of Maioral, in a sort of authoritative
position, seated over the Earth where He rules over His kingdoms, people, and
legions, as well as His slaves.

From these perspectives, the image of Baphomet, adapted to the cult of Quimbanda
to represent the Lord Maioral, becomes real and truthful. Some see the image as the
representation of the Lord Beelzebuth. This vision is valid also, after all, the image
contains the essence of this "Being" in His formation.