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In his book, de Guaita also illustrates an upright pentagram with the Pentagrammaton (יהשוה) at the vertices of the pentagram: an esoteric version of the Hebrew name of Jesus, Yeshua (ישוע), by adding the letter shin (ש) in the middle of the Tetragrammaton divine name Yod-He-Vav-He (יהוה).
Balaam—Hebrew devil of avarice and greed; Baphomet—worshipped by the Templars as symbolic of Satan; Bast—Egyptian goddess of pleasure represented by the cat; Beelzebub—(Hebrew) Lord of the Flies, taken from symbolism of the scarab; Behemoth—Hebrew personification of Satan in the form of an elephant; Beherit—Syriac name for Satan
The right image is the same sigil in cuneiform from the Joy of Satan Ministries, a recreation of the sigil of Baphomet incorporated with cuneiform lettering instead of Hebrew to spell out "Satan", and made after Maxine Dietrich's reinterpretation of the ideology of spiritual Satanism. Sigillum Dei (Seal of God) Europe, late Middle Ages
For example, in the Hebrew book of Job, one of the angels is referred to as a satan, "an adversary", but in the Greek Septuagint, which was used by the early Christians, whenever "the Satan" (Ha-Satan) appears with a definite article, it specifically refers to the individual known as the heavenly accuser whose personal name is Satan. [10]
The rabbis usually interpreted the word satan lacking the article ha-as it is used in the Tanakh as referring strictly to human adversaries. [58] Nonetheless, the word satan has occasionally been metaphorically applied to evil influences, [59] such as the Jewish exegesis of the yetzer hara ("evil inclination") mentioned in Genesis 6:5.
The Leviathan (/ l ɪ ˈ v aɪ. ə θ ən / liv-EYE-ə-thən; Hebrew: לִוְיָתָן, romanized: Līvyāṯān; Greek: Λεβιάθαν) is a sea serpent demon noted in theology and mythology. It is referenced in several books of the Hebrew Bible, including Psalms, the Book of Job, the Book of Isaiah, and the pseudepigraphical Book of Enoch ...
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In the Zohar, Lurianic Kabbalah, and Hermetic Qabalah, the qlippoth (Hebrew: קְלִיפּוֹת, romanized: qəlīppōṯ, originally Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: קְלִיפִּין, romanized: qəlīppīn, plural of קְלִפָּה qəlīppā; literally "peels", "shells", or "husks"), are the representation of evil or impure spiritual forces in Jewish mysticism, the opposites of the Sefirot.