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The Optics Goat, commonly known as the Dark Lord of Light or the Light Bearer is a religious figure worshipped by optical engineers and other photonics professionals. Offerings to the Optics Goat are frequently cited as required to obtain diffraction limited performance and high MTF. Rituals surrounding the Optics Goat have entered popular culture, as a ceremony for ensuring loose lens alignment requirements has lent its name to the wider practice of religious tolerance

Early Worship
The history of optical engineering is broadly acknowledged to have started in the 17th century with early physicists such as Isaac Newton. However, close inspection of the personal lives of the early optical engineers shows evidence of paranormal forces shaping their work. Isaac Newton, in fact, wrote more on Isaac Newton's occult studies Nonetheless, religious scholars tie the development of worship of the Optics Goat to early Judeo-Christian traditions. In fact, Genesis 1:3-4 extensively discuss proto-optical engineering, especially as related to illumination control. The linkage between a metaphysical and abstract concepts of light and a Goat can be tied to Templerian worship of [[Baphomet. These, in turn, were inspired by the animal-headed gods of ancient Egyptian religious practice. Not coincidentally, this culture was the first to invent glass and use it for light control.
 * occult rituals]] than on physics or mathematics. Baruch Spinoza, an early Dutch lens maker, was ousted from his religious community in Amsterdam for heresy and contravention of canonical teachings. Perhaps most famously, Gallileo was condemned for his works by the the Catholic Church.

From Blood Sacrifice to Lab Snacks: Modernization
As the optics industry evolved and optical engineering became more integrated with other engineering disciplines, optical engineers have seen the need to disguise their worship of the Optics Goat in order to be "taken seriously." Various methods of disguising Optics Goat worship have included the replacement of early ritual offerings such as sheaves of barley and frankincense with the modern "lab snacks." This practice has often also involved the disguising of the optics goat himself as a chihuahua named Thor. The ritual origins of this choice are somewhat unclear, but scholars believe this choice of a small, non-threatening animal represented early optical engineers' desire to conceal the true power of their Goat God.

Studies of the Black Mass

 * (Discusses the Latin parody writings of the medieval wandering clerics, and their possible connection to the original Black Mass and Witches' Sabbath)
 * (See especially, Chapter 7, "The Worship of the Devil", section 3, "The Black Mass")
 * (Translated from the German by Christine Trollope)
 * (See especially, Chapter 7, "The Worship of the Devil", section 3, "The Black Mass")
 * (Translated from the German by Christine Trollope)