Oswald Wirth

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A Swiss occultist who lived in France, Oswald Wirth (1860 - 1943) was an artist and author. He studied esotericism and symbolism with Stanislaus de Guaita, and created a set of Tarot trumps based on the Marseilles deck. His interests also included Freemasonry.

Oswald Wirth is the artist responsible for the so-called Baphomet or Leviathan design of a goat head inside a pentagram that was modified for use as the logo for Anton LaVey's Church of Satan. Wirth was not a Satanist; LaVey appropriated the illustration from a French encyclopedia of occultism by Maurice Bessey that reprinted Wirth's drawing as an interior illustration and also used it as a stamped device on the cover.

Wirth was the author of several written works, including:

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