Ophites

Alex Rivera on Baphomet, Cathar Prophecy & the Infinity Working

Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioSep 27, 2026

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.

Miguel Conner on the Rape of Eve

Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioSep 20, 2026

Miguel Conner explores how three ancient Gnostic texts retell the Genesis story with Eve being assaulted by the Archons, the false rulers of the material world. Drawing on Dr. Celene Lillie's book The Rape of Eve, he argues these myths condemned Rome's founding myths of sexual conquest and offered a sophisticated ancient blueprint for trauma survival, dissociation, and healing. Speaking openly as a survivor himself, Conner presents the Gnostics as radically compassionate, refusing to blame or shame the victim and imagining healing through consensual, equal partnership.

Miguel Conner on The Assassins: Gnostic Theology & Templar Connection

Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioJul 16, 2026

Miguel Conner explores the medieval Nizari Ismailis, better known as the Assassins, and argues they carried forward a hidden Gnostic and Persian Mithraic tradition rather than being simply a Muslim sect. Drawing on Jason Reza Jorjani's 'Iranian Leviathan' and Tracy Twyman and Alex Rivera's 'Baphomet: The Templar Mystery Unveiled,' he traces a lineage from the Carpocratian Gnostics through the Mazdakite movement to Hassan-i Sabbah's fortress of Alamut. He reinterprets the famous maxim 'Nothing is true, everything is permitted' as a Gnostic statement of spiritual liberation, and he previews a connection between the Assassins and the Knights Templar.