in 'The Century Dictionary,' all terms that you do not understand, such as '
Baphometic Fire-Baptism.' 2.
Towards the end of the Everlasting No chapter Teufelsdrockh , after a hard inner struggle against the Devil Universe, comes to the realization that"it is from this hour that I incline to date my Spiritual New-birth, or
Baphometic Fire-baptism; perhaps I directly thereupon began to be a Man" (129) .Later in the Old Clothes chapter, the Clothes-Professor proclaims: " 'Ghosts of Life, come to Judgment!' Reck not, ye fluttering Ghosts: he will purify you in his Purgatory, with fire and with water; and, one day, new-created ye shall reappear" (183).
Emerging from his
Baphometic condition, he was struck by the conviction that "I have work to do in England" (Apologia 40).
Behold, thou art fatherless, outcast, and the Universe is mine (the Devil's), to which my whole Me now made answer, 'I am not thine, but Free, and forever hate thee!' It is from this hour that I incline to date my Spiritual New-birth, or
Baphometic Fire-baptism; perhaps I directly thereupon began to be a Man.
Let it come, then; I will meet it and defy it!" It is from this hour that I incline to date my Spiritual New-birth, or
Baphometic Fire-Baptism; perhaps I directly thereupon began to be a man.