According to Pierre Klossowski in (1965, Editions Mercure de France, Paris; translated into English by Sophie Hawkes and published as "The Baphomet" in 1988 by Eridanos Press): "The "Baphomet" has diverse etymologies… the three phonemes that constitute the denomination are also said to signify, in coded fashion, : the sovereign of metallurgical philosophers, that is, of the alchemical laboratories that were supposedly established in various chapters of the Temple. The androgynous nature of the figure apparently goes back to the Adam Kadmon of the Chaldeans, which one finds in the Zohar" (pages 164–165).