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Alpha141

26th March 2017, 07:40

Hi all,

Here is a clip of a discussion between myself and Andrew Bartzis on The Cathars during middle ages Europe. It is about 26mins from a 4hr discussion (4x 1hr videos yet to be released) on how the play for our technology era we now all find ourselves in was setup as a by product the Industrial Era in a gathering in Genoa Italy 1717-20. It is also part of a much bigger 10000yr plan also and a Wizard vs Priest battle that the Priesthood won and eliminated much of the wizard lineages.

Enjoy this clip however. It is very informative and many in this sort of community may have possibly had past life experiences in this expression. As it is triggering many to have conformational recalls.

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Cheers

lunaflare

26th March 2017, 08:43

So Andrew stated he was getting his info from Wikipedia at one point in the interview.
Where does he source his information when he was speaking about the Cathars being traders of technology? Can you explain what kind of technology and for what specific purpose.
Some clarification would be helpful. It was a little hard to hear as Andrew sounded as though he was eating chunks of bread and dip..
Thanks

Alpha141

26th March 2017, 09:54

Fair Qs Lunaflare,

He has Akashic Access related to the crystals / stones of a a planet which have information in their structure. That is what the Akashic Records of a planet are. He checks Wiki at times just to get the frequency of the whole of what has been said / taugh etc as a focal point to tune into things...then uses a reference of it to offer the more broader perspective. Like gain a feel. The linguistics used there are interesting at times. So, if he hasn't accessed some info like that then checks the reality and marries up what is from his perspective.

The 'Technology' trade would in part refer to Human DNA. Our codes in our bodies are a very sought after prize throughout the universe. Relationship of that with particular soul consciousnesses highly sought after. Entire civilizations have been cultivated and harvested. The Mayans. Pix of Scotland (sorry bad spelling of that people right now) are 2 examples. Our codes by being in a 'skin suit' from Earth allow us access to the entire universe. DNA is the key to access areas. Species are in trouble and need it to rectify their issues. And, there is alot of non DNA stuff here on Earth too which is also sought after. Alot of the time though from him it refers to our body as technology. DNA is traded for device sort of tech. These sorts of linguistic things become clearer when a certain volume of his perspectives is explored. At the word patterns can be pretty complex.

The relaxed nature of it. No problem and welcome the feedback. These weren't intended to be public and just mates chatting. He had some people close pass on and it helps to tune into some theme to ground him and stay here. The info is pretty amazing, never offered and i just said i can do something if all cool with him. I had a joke with him today that we might have a chat and he goes to reveal the great mystery of the universe and just munches through something and we miss the whole elusive secret wisdom. Headphones are pretty helpful. But yeah, we are aware. It takes a fair bit of energy to hold the frequency so sustenance is a necessity. Because i am in AUS the times usually are around his dinner time.

If you want to see him in action doing radio / studio akashic readings of people from all over the globe on how amazing our fuller history is do have a look at his YouTube channel below. The individual callers also are pieces to the bigger puzzle and display his abilities wonderfully:

https://www.youtube.com/user/galactichistorian/videos

Enjoy :)

EFO

26th March 2017, 21:14

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?96149-Melania-says-the-Lord-s-Prayer-the-way-we-remember-it-&p=1135546&viewfull=1#post1135546

PurpleLama

26th March 2017, 21:49

The Akashic records are not held within the material of a given planet, stone, crystal, or otherwise.

Delight

2nd May 2021, 20:37

This is strange but awesome. I was taken by the Cathars when I read a post on an unrelated thread So found this one and then when i went back to copy the original post to start more HERE... Bill had already written this post

... I first came across the Cathars when I stumbled on a book in a charity shop 45 years ago 'We Are One Another' by Arthur Guirdham - it's about group reincarnation ...

... Legend denotes 700 years after the last Cathar was burnt at the stake, 1321, the laurel tree will blossom once again and Cathars will return. Certainly the tree is green and while they may never have disappeared completely, the Cathars are openly returning.

700 years from 1321 is NOW....

My apology for leaping onto this little tangent :blushing:, but the Cathars thing jumped out at me, as one of my very dearest friends is highly likely connected to this. Would you know if there is a dedicated thread that goes into this more deeply? (I did look but did not see a specific one on this topic.)

The only thread I see that discusses the Cathars (an important historical topic!) is this one.

The Cathars - Middle Ages Europe History - A Catholic Opposition - Andrew Bartzis (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?96831-The-Cathars-Middle-Ages-Europe-History-A-Catholic-Opposition-Andrew-Bartzis)

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I am listening to this now. I FEEL like maybe if such a thing can be true that I am a returned Cathar.

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Delight

2nd May 2021, 20:55

Jaybee posted

Even though people have willingly gone forward for the jab for all their different reasons, can it be called free will when what the jab actually does and its ingredients have been hidden? Those that are in the know must have an antidote. I have heard Suramin mentioned. Has anyone investigated this further?

This is a really basic question concerning free will. I think I have to get over the feeling of frustration that I did report concerns to my family and friends and they discount what I suggest. Perhaps the deprivation of free will began long ago when people with herbal and other deep knowledge were hunted and murdered?

The DOCTOR knows best and MUST be obeyed. You WILL OBEY. Some sort of insinuation was introduced into the consciousness that only certain "specialists" can help us with our maladies? Moreover, we the supplicants to the specialists cannot be let in on the ingredients or even our own "diagnosis"> Maybe that was when people associated medical treatment with pain, knives, poison and EXPECTED illness, debilitation and helplessness? Then people still feel letdown and angry when they can get no help. They will talk endlessly about the bad doctors and care... NOT KNOWING that the whole SYSTEM on which their hopes are based is BOLLOCKS.

The pharmaceutical industry did not create the hole. They stepped in to deepen and widen the disconnect. In my whole life of study about various aspects of medicine/nursing/health, OVER and OVER new books have been written "Health Secrets they do not want you to know". "Your Doctor Your SELF" and people will read the miracle stories and be wowed that SOMEONE SURVIVED CANCER. How is it that decades and centuries and eons pass and people still cannot pass along essentially good news about us (and have it STICK)?

In recent years, IMO the vaccination campaign has been the out picturing of a tortured human psyche who is at bottom line THREATENED, not empowered. Despite not wanting this latest round of jabbs, we hear so many apologize for themselves as in" "Polio was cured by vaccines. Small pox was cured by vaccines. I am NOT an antivaxxer". This is an absurd position for a human. The reason is that it is accepting that one MUST have a vaccine.

If PUBLIC HEALTH demands vaccination as a PRINCIPLE, then TRY to bargain for what kind. It will be a futile battle as the very notion assumes no matter the price, it will be paid. The very notion is that mankind is toast without vaccines means that dead and injured individulas are just the price paid this time. IMO there is ONLY one reason people seek the jab and won't listen to me. They believe more in jabs than Humanity.

Thank you

I realized a while back that because much of modern medicine, practice and drugs - is based on the torture and suffering of millions - billions? of animals that are used for experiments..... it's based on evil / darkness of the soul - then the logical conclusion is that it's fruits must be rotten as well - even though it doesn't always feel like it and it all gets jumbled up with helpful and unhelpful things and people...

Re you first paragraph - that I bolded...

That makes me think of the Cathars that were ruthlessly stamped out and burnt at the stake and generally hounded out of existence around the 12th and 13th and 14th (ish) centauries...

They were very much about healing - natural remedies and whatnot - and were considered to be an expression of primitive Christianity spreading out over Europe but especially remembered in Southern France -

You yourself are probably a reincarnated Cathar :) maybe .... I first came across the Cathars when I stumbled on a book in a charity shop 45 years ago 'We Are One Another' by Arthur Guirdham - it's about group reincarnation -

The Cathars have been 'with me' ever since and had a big revival in my life this year when they came (are coming) in real strong... I bought 'We Are One Another' and another of Arthur Guirdham's books 'The Cathars and Reincarnation' off ebay and re- read them in March -

Don't want to go off topic too much but it's to do with what you said.... and there is a story about one of the last Cathars that was burnt at the stake - that he made a prophesy...

https://inkblurb.com/sacred-france-montsegur/#:~:text=Legend%20denotes%20700%20years%20after,the%20Cathars%20are%20openly%20returning.

quote from the above random link about it....

The weather is perfect, warm, clear skies. We leave the bus and walk towards the laurel of Catharism. Legend denotes 700 years after the last Cathar was burnt at the stake, 1321, the laurel tree will blossom once again and Cathars will return. Certainly the tree is green and while they may never have disappeared completely, the Cathars are openly returning.

700 years from 1321 is NOW....

I wonder, what will the reincarnated Cathars do now?

This was an interesting article

The Cathars and Reincarnation: The Strange Revelations of Arthur Guirdham
BY RICHARD SMOLEY

From New Dawn 145 (Jul-Aug 2014) (https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/the-cathars-and-reincarnation-the-strange-revelations-of-arthur-guirdham)

The Cathars remain an enigma. An austere, world-denying sect, they were nevertheless associated with a remarkable cultural renascence in the southern France of the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Beloved in the regions that supported them, they were popularly known as the bonshommes, the “good men.” Labelled by the Catholics as “the great heresy,” Catharism was so formidable a rival that the church formed the Inquisition to crush it.

Arthur Guirdham’s story is told in his book The Cathars and Reincarnation
Who were the Cathars, and where did they come from? The name comes from the Greek katharós, meaning “pure” or “clean.” Their origins are obscure, but they appear to have some connection with sects that stretched back at least to the time of Christ, with exotic names such as the Bogomils, Paulicians, Massalians, and most famously the Manichaeans. I cannot sketch out this history here (I have tried to do so in my book Forbidden Faith: The Secret History of Gnosticism), but it is probably safe to say that some kind of continuous link connects all these groups spanning the first millennium of the Common Era.

The chief feature these sects all shared was dualism. This word has many meanings. Here it means the belief in a cosmos that is made up of two opposing and more or less equipotent forces: good and evil, light and dark. This polarity is cosmic: it began with the universe and will end only when the universe ends. Our world, the world of matter, is the creation of the dark forces; the light is imprisoned and alien here.

Note how this differs from conventional Christianity, which teaches that the world, including the world of matter, is fundamentally good. Its evil arises from the Fall of man in the garden, prompted by that old serpent, the Devil. By the old Catholic axiom, natura vulnerata, non deleta – “nature was wounded but not destroyed” by the Fall.

But the differences are not quite as clear-cut as they may seem. Mainstream Christianity – by which I mean practically all of the churches that call themselves Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant – has its own strain of pessimism and world-denial. One obvious example is the pathological hatred of the body that Christianity has shown almost since its earliest days. Conventional Christianity may not teach that the world is evil, but it frequently acts as if it is. And while Christianity claims that the sole and ultimate power is good, it also makes the Devil and his minions seem very nearly as powerful. Some scholars even say that Christianity is semidualistic.

Moreover, if Catholic Christianity and its offspring teach that this world is fundamentally good, why have they so often cast shadows of fear, gloom and barbarism? And if the Cathars were so gloomy and world-renouncing, why was the culture they influenced the most – Languedoc in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries – the most prosperous, open, tolerant, and cultivated society of medieval Europe? What did the Cathar have to do with this efflorescence?

You can read a great deal about the subject and still be left groping for an answer. The scholarly books, however serious and exhaustive, offer no real clue to this puzzle; the authors themselves often seem baffled by it.

A Psychiatrist’s Past-Life Memories
The most vivid and plausible picture of the Cathars comes from an extremely strange source: past-life memories as assembled by a twentieth-century British psychiatrist.

Arthur Guirdham (1905-92) was born in Cumbria, England, the son of a steelworker. By sacrificing the education of his sisters, his parents were able to give him a decent enough education so that he was able to attend the University of Oxford. Eventually he qualified as a psychiatrist. He was practicing in this capacity in 1962 when he met a patient that he calls Mrs. Smith. His first words to her (as he would be reminded later, to his own surprise) were “Have I seen you before?”

Mrs. Smith, an otherwise normal woman in her early thirties, came to him with a complaint about a recurring dream that had been disturbing her: “A man entered her room from the right side. She was lying on the floor. His approach filled her with terror.” Although in itself “the dream was not of any particular interest,” it struck a chord in Guirdham. He had been having a similar recurring nightmare in which “a tall man approached the place I was sleeping. He came from behind me on the left. Sometimes he bent over me. I felt rigid and speechless with panic.” Although he could not remember exactly when his nightmares had started, he was certain about when they ended: it was around the time he encountered Mrs. Smith. Moreover, as he later learned, her dreams of this kind stopped as well. “Is this significant?” he wrote. “Not in itself but… I feel that my nocturnal visitor was the same man who disturbed Mrs. Smith’s dreams.”

For the next year, curious coincidences and synchronicities continued to occur linking Guirdham, Mrs. Smith and the Cathars. Then, in a session in December 1964, Mrs. Smith made a remark to the effect that “love was an immensely creative force and that through it mankind would be bound together.” She attributed this statement to Guirdham himself, even though he was sure he had never said any such thing.

A member of Dr. Guirdham’s circle made this drawing when she was seven years old. It is said to depict two Inquisitors killed by the Cathars, as well as an English child’s attempt to render “Avignonnet” – a site were Cathars were massacred – in her own language.
Mrs. Smith then revealed a startling fact. When she was a teenager she had written a novel, which she later destroyed, about life in a medieval women’s community and a man she loved named Roger.

Two months later, in February 1965, Mrs. Smith told Guirdham something still more astounding: he himself had been Roger, the man she loved, in a past life. “We were from a very poor family but you were of noble birth. I fell in love with you then, and my father said I must never meet you again – you were not of our class and what was more important to him, you were not of our faith. I refused to be parted from you, and was eventually excommunicated. I went to live with you. We weren’t married. You told me that if anything should happen I should go to Fabrissa.” But she was not sure whether this was a person or a place.

Soon after Mrs. Smith’s revelations about her past life as a Cathar, other women started coming forward with similar flashbacks and detail, leading Dr. Arthur Guirdham to believe he was witnessing an unbelievable occurrence – mass reincarnation. The above photo of Dr. Guirdham with some of his incarnated soul group was taken at Montségur, France in the 1970s.
Thus began a strange series of revelations, dreams and encounters, combined with serious historical research into the Cathar saga. It developed that a certain Fabrissa de Mazerolles was a well-known protector of heretics (i.e., Cathars) in early thirteenth-century Languedoc. The identity of the man in Guirdham’s and Mrs. Smith’s dreams also became clear: he was Pierre de Mazerolles, Fabrissa’s nephew. Although Mrs. Smith, or her previous incarnation (named Peirone or Puerilia), was frightened by her memory of Pierre, he had not meant to harm her. He had come to announce gleefully that he had committed murder.

This crime, which took place in Avignonnet in 1242, is well-documented. It was of two Inquisitors who had been sent by Rome to ferret out Cathars. This did not signal the start of the great persecution launched by the papacy (which had begun in 1209). But it did provoke a reprisal that ended in the climactic siege of Montségur in 1244, the most famous episode in the Cathar epic, which ended with two hundred parfaits being burned alive, and marked the beginning of the end for Catharism as a movement. (Pierre de Mazerolles, incidentally, was not a Cathar; he was motivated by greed and by the sheer joy of murder.)

Guirdham’s story, told in his book The Cathars and Reincarnation, continues with many ramifications. He does not tell it well. His narrative lurches back and forth between Mrs. Smith’s revelations, his own experiences, actual historical events, the love story of Roger and Peirone, and the teachings of Catharism. Many other characters are introduced, a number of whom can be identified from historical records but who begin to blur together in the narrative.

Of the two main characters we learn that Roger was imprisoned and died, probably of tuberculosis, while awaiting interrogation by the Inquisition. Peirone suffered a more dramatic fate, and one of the most memorable passages of Guirdham’s books gives her first-person recollection of being burned at the stake:

The pain was maddening. You should pray to God when you’re dying, if you can pray when you’re in agony… I didn’t pray to God. I thought of Roger and how dearly I loved him. The pain of those wicked flames was not half so bad as the pain I felt when I knew he was dead. I felt suddenly glad to be dying. I didn’t know when you were burnt to death you’d bleed. I thought the blood would all dry up in the terrible heat. But I was bleeding heavily. The blood was dripping and hissing in the flames. I wished I had enough blood to put the flames out. The worst part was my eyes. I hate the thought of going blind… I tried to close my eyelids but I couldn’t. They must have been burnt off, and now those flames were going to pluck my eyes out with their evil fingers.

As compelling as this is, does it stem from an overactive imagination? The answer lies in the historical veracity of many details in this bizarre story. Mrs. Smith knew many things that she could not have known from her conventional education; indeed some of them were not discovered until after her experiences.

Active Imagination or Real Memories?
One example is the colour worn by the Cathar parfaits (“perfect ones”). The parfaits were the elite, the few who had received the initiation known as the Consolamentum and who served more or less as a clergy. Most of the books say they always wore black robes. But Mrs. Smith remembers that Roger’s were dark blue. It was only several years after these revelations that Guirdham came across a statement in La vie quotidienne des Cathares du Languedoc au XIIIe siècle (“The Daily Life of the Cathars in Languedoc in the Thirteenth Century”) by the well-known scholar René Nelli that, although the parfaits had originally worn black, they often switched to dark blue as a disguise in times of persecution. Since Mrs. Smith’s memories were of those days of persecution, this would make sense. This detail had not appeared in print when she had her dreams. Nelli, whom Guirdham consulted, was so struck by the accuracy of her recollections that he told him that when in doubt about some detail he should trust the memory of the patient.

And the memory was considerable. Like many people of the era, Peirone/Mrs. Smith had a facility for remembering songs and verses that was much better developed than that of people today. She wrote down some of the songs she remembered that Roger had sung. She had transcribed them when she was a teenager. Moreover, some of her verses strongly resemble those in anthologies of medieval French poetry. She only knew a little French, which she had studied at school, and had no knowledge of Languedoc (the Romance dialect spoken in that region) or of medieval French. But, for example, in her verses she uses the word foliete for “foliage.” The French equivalent, which she would have learned at school, is verdure, but the word in Provençal, a language close to that of Languedoc, is folhet.

Behind all this is a background of detail that brings a lost age vividly to life. Of Peirone’s house, she recalls, “It was little more than a hovel. One room, that’s all… I am sure there was no upstairs. The only furniture was a rough bench and a table. It was almost as dark inside as out, for the small window had no glass in it and was covered with a crude wooden shutter to keep out the elements.” She and her family slept in their clothes on the floor. Frequently she gives details about medieval life that Mrs. Smith knew nothing about, such as the custom of drinking diluted wine.

Beyond a certain point it is useless to argue about whether these are genuine past-life memories or not. Our age has forgotten that scepticism is not in and of itself a sign of intelligence. It would be more interesting to see what we can learn from these accounts, and how they supplement conventional sources on Catharism.

The Cathars: New Revelations
Let us begin with a question already asked: how, if the Cathars were such a dour sect, did they thrive in the free, open, joyous atmosphere of the Languedoc of the period? Guirdham’s answer is clear and sensible. The Cathar parfaits were extremely strict with themselves: they wore robes like monks, they ate no meat, they were celibate, and they fasted often. Those demands were only made of the parfaits. Unlike the Catholic priests of the time, the parfaits actually lived up to their vows; thus they won the affection of the people, and the nickname bonshommes. But ordinary believers – the croyants – were under no such obligations. The demands made on them were light.

Nor was Catharism as gloomy and world-denying as it has been painted. The Cathars, it is true, believed in covalent forces of good and evil, which existed from the beginning and would last until the end of the universe. They also believed that the world of matter was fundamentally evil (a case that is easy to make). But unlike the Catholics, they did not cling to the gloomy and improbable doctrine of eternal damnation. Guirdham writes:

In the Middle Ages people were dominated by the fear of Hell. Catharism to some extent dissipated this fear. If the world was regarded as being made by, or under the domination of Satan, it followed that one was entitled to regard this life as Hell. Considering that one got through it somehow, and that there were many compensations in the sunshine of the Languedoc and the Midi, the idea that the world was Hell was really an optimistic one. If this world is the worst Hell one has to put up with, it must have been, even at its lowest, vastly preferable to the perpetual damnation of the orthodox Christians of that epoch.

This view helps explain how the supposedly sombre Cathars were able to thrive in, and foster, the lively and cheerful civilisation of Languedoc. The world is evil, so one does not need to take it too seriously, and certainly there is no point in making things worse than they already are.

Another detail casts some light on the cultural impact of the Cathars: they put little stock in marriage. There was no Cathar wedding ceremony, and many Cathar couples lived in what the Catholics would call sin. It is clear from Mrs. Smith’s evidence that Roger and Peirone were not married either.

Courtly Love
This point explains another strange fact about the Cathar milieu: it was when the curious tradition of courtly love came into being. (Actually this was in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, earlier than the time of persecution that we have been discussing, in the thirteenth century.) Courtly love, a kind of intense love from afar that was usually unconsummated, was the inverse of marriage: it was often practiced between a man and a woman of divergent social classes, it was not for the purpose of having children, and it was, at least ostensibly, chaste.

Courtly love was also associated with the poetry of the troubadours, which had Cathar echoes of its own. Guirdham mentions the tradition that says the troubadour poets would wear a rose when singing songs with esoteric themes; when they did not, the songs were about ordinary human love. Denis de Rougemont, in his influential book Love in the Western World, argues that the troubadours invented what we now call romantic love. This view is hard to sustain. Greek lyric and Roman elegiac poetry show people in love much as they are today. But de Rougemont may be right to this extent: the troubadours, and the courtly love they celebrated, were the first (at least since Plato) to connect human love with divine love.

The Cathars’ indifference to marriage resembles the attitude of another religion that may be called world-denying. The Buddhists have no marriage ceremony as such. Monks do not marry a couple; the couple marry each other; a monk may bless the ceremony, but he does not perform it. This peculiar fact may have something to teach about world-denying religions and their fate in the world, particularly in the West.

Religion, whose name originates in Latin roots meaning “to bind back” or “to connect,” plays more than one role in society. It attempts to connect man with God, but it also has a social function. Religion holds society together; at least that is how it worked in the past. If, however, religion is to do this, it must take society’s concerns somewhat seriously. A religion that regards the world as ultimately rather unimportant is not likely to be enthusiastic about taking on the role of guarantor of the social order. This attitude may help explain why dualistic movements such as the Cathars and the Manichaeans never established any long-lasting dominance in societies and nations. It is true that Buddhism, which is also somewhat world-denying, has managed to establish itself, but it is striking that a number of Buddhist nations have continued to use native traditions – Shinto in Japan, Confucianism and Taoism in China – to continue to fill some social functions.

Bodywork, Herbal Healing & Plant Auras
Guirdham has much more to say about the Cathars in their context, informed by both Mrs. Smith and a woman he calls Miss Mills, who had similar past-life memories. But at this point we may turn to another dimension of Guirdham’s portrait: his own contact with discarnate entities who in their last lives on Earth had been Cathar adepts, including the important and much-honoured Cathar bishop Guilhabert de Castres (c.1165-1240).

These teachings, assembled in the final section of Guirdham’s book The Great Heresy, deal with subjects ranging from the properties of plants to reincarnation and intercourse with divine beings. These things do not, on the face of it, strike one as part of Catharism. On the other hand, they do not contradict what we know about the Cathars either. In their way, like the rest of Guirdham’s work, they serve to fill out its portrait.

The Cathar parfaits were, as we have seen, a kind of clergy; they administered the Consolamentum (the only sacrament they acknowledged), taught doctrine, and led services. But they had another important function: they were healers. Guirdham points out that one of Christ’s original commands to his followers was to heal the sick. The parfaits did this using a number of techniques, including what we today would call bodywork and administering herbs and tinctures. Guirdham also discusses the use of jewels in healing, although he acknowledges that they are not as useful for this purpose as they were in bygone ages, when people were more psychically sensitive.

Guilhabert also told Guirdham a great deal about plants. Plants have auras like human beings, and when, in certain instances, a person finds a certain plant, like a tree, to give off a healing quality, it is the result of this aura. Guirdham himself recalled the case of an old miner who was subject to periodic bouts of depression. At these times he would go off and sit under a particular roadside tree, and afterwards he felt better. But plants can have negative properties as well; some thrive on maleficent vibrations, including perhaps toadstools and fungi that thrive in dank underground cellars. Guilhabert makes the arresting remark that evil can insert itself in nature, citing as an example the lurid aniline-dye colours of recently developed varieties of roses. “The harsh colours bred into the roses were a flamboyant challenge to reinforce their attractiveness to man,” according to Guilhabert.

Some of these remarks are reminiscent of the ideas of the Austrian visionary Rudolf Steiner, who also spoke of the etheric bodies and auras of plants. This may not be a complete coincidence. Steiner laid claim to the heritage of the Rosicrucian brotherhood of the seventeenth century, and Guirdham suggests that the Rosicrucians may have been the spiritual descendants of the Cathars. “It is traditional,” he observes, “that the Rosicrucian movement arose in Germany in a family where a monk from Narbonne [in Languedoc] had been a tutor.”

A Secret Cathar Lineage?
Did the Cathars survive in any other form after finally vanishing from history in the early fourteenth century? Conventional scholarship says they did not. But there may be some evidence of underground Cathar survivals. In a persuasive book called The Secret Heresy of Hieronymus Bosch, author Lynda Harris suggests that the great Netherlandish painter and forerunner of surrealism may have been secretly a Cathar two hundred years after the faith supposedly perished. Harris’s argument is too intricate to go into here, but the facts that Bosch’s ancestral home was the town of Aachen, a former Cathar centre, and that many of his bizarre images have curiously heterodox implications, suggests the Cathars may not have perished as thoroughly as the Inquisitors wished.

The question keeps presenting itself to the minds of those who think about these subjects. These lost, half-forgotten faiths – the Cathars, the Manichaeans, the Gnostics – did they really die out completely? Did they survive sub rosa under other names, handed down through lineages of secret and untraceable initiations? Or do they reflect something that continually arises out of the depths of human experience? Guirdham suggests as much, writing, “Perhaps it is best to regard Dualism as analogous to a repressed impulse. It passes from memory but continues to exert its influence in different directions below the conscious level.” Perhaps, too, there is another answer, suggested in his books: the religions may vanish, but their adherents do not, and as they return in later centuries and in other bodies, the teachings and truths of those ancient faiths may return as well.

This article was published in New Dawn 145.

The text of this Cathar hymn contains an encoded message,
Joana being the medieval cathar church,
which has been weakened and finally eliminated in Southern France (Occitanie)
through the horrible Albigensian crusade.
The spiritual essence of the cathars is still vibrating in caves and waters.
very little remains of this vibrant community
which has for centuries, been reduced to a museum diorama in the conquerers history section.
may this fragment of a past time bring back perhaps a memory in some.
they said the leaves of the tree would green again after 700 yrs had passed.
https://www.religiousforums.com/threads/hymn-of-the-cathars-lo-boi%C3%A8r.231769/

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Journeyman

2nd May 2021, 21:28

Delight

2nd May 2021, 21:46

I am really fascinated by all the comments and "connection" to the Cathars I see for instance posted below youtube videos about Cathars. I found a whole thread of people resonating with this idea of being reincarnated as a Cathar.

Pleased to meet you all and any Cathars! One poster Kaye has a fascinating account

(http://www.reincarnationforum.com/threads/pleased-to-meet-you-all-and-any-cathars.677/page-3)I had a past life regression last year, over an hour long. I have tried looking up different Cathar groups but all seemed focused on new catharism which was not what I experienced at all. I was with women, with an older one specifically who I wad learning from. The outlook was so unusual. It really moved me. They were 'gathered' and not taken, 'without a destination'. The word Dying or Death was not in my regression. It was thought of as transitioning, and I was told it was like 'Stepping over a stone'. That we were from light to light, returning through light (fire). That we were well prepared for the transition. Also some huge emphasis that 'All time is one'. That message was told to me over and over and I do not understand. I was told it was very important I understand that. Except I do not and it frustrates me. The clothing I describe as dark blue, midnight blue, black blue and she had on some plin white shift under it with something around her waist. Extremely plain. Extremely thin, older. What floored me is as I am watching her I am struck by how humble and plain she was. That it was not about knowledge but about understanding. That she understood her place within the transition into forever. That I was going to experience illness in this life and not to dwell so much. I was told 'endure what you must as we did and then you step into forever and then forever was simply forever'. Also they had a 'sympathy' for everyone who was here now but it was important we chose to be here now. That they were able to move back and forth but could not impact matter here. Again, huge impact that 'there is only one Time, Time is one' over and over. I have zero idea what that means. It hurts my head trying to understand that. Anyhow, my life was really impacted by that.
Oh also, HUGE emphasis on being chaste and 'free from desire'. Not just sexually, free from wanting. We were from light to light returning through light. And the fire did not matter. The preparation was like hypermeditation, to not focus around you but to focus inward like stepping over a stone together. I was with 4 women, 1 older one. And I am blown away by the beauty of it all in simplicity, humble, and living with the purpose of returning to light which the thought of as forever.

Also.. they were really quiet, not full of constant chatter like life is now. I was also told that me now, because I 'dwell' that I had 'scattered my energies'. Some of it made me feel I would not live a very long life now, not into an old lady but the message was I was to understand they were there. Also that it was when I felt the most hopeless that they were close to me. It left me feeling just cut off from modern catharism and some incredible yearning to find someone from then. Also, you are not special or anything just because you saw your regression. Its about the loss of you concept of self in the material word. There are a lot of cathars born now. I dont know why, was not told that. I cant add anything other than the regression scenes. Its a mistake to. I saw through a window of past. Just a window though and nothing more.

I was shocked my regression was so detailed and long, when he brought me out I could not remember the dialog but he recorded it. Here were some unusual points:
- I bought some books later and found it pretty absurd to see history said they walked into the fire singing. What I saw was they knew they would die and were prepared. That was done in prayer and meditation. I was instructed to not look around me, to not look back, to focus on the light we would enter into by figuratively stepping over the stone. Talking, panicking, being caught up in your body would break your concentration. It was going inward, inward and further still. Ir was being in a state of within
Singing would never have happened.
- I say that we are part of something very established and it was consideted an honor to be there
- The concept was very personal. That is that each soul is within a body here. Great emphasis to not be of the body. But to understand the personal journey of each soul to return to light, to complete its journey. To return to light.
- that part of the other dide being light you carry as light in terms of the soul. So no death but a transition.
- Abstinence was seen as spiritual over the physical, with the intent of being free of want, of desire. Not driven by 'want'
- the elder one knelt before like 1 long stone.. I describe it looking like a step in middle of floor on stone.
- Zero adorment, on her or walls. Her clothes I describe as material draped on her, of no importance
- I am im awe watching her, the simplicity. Describe her gesture as humbling herself beneath something far greater. And that she understood her link into forever, something like that. I say 'her undetstandimg is what carries her'.
- it was Montsegur, 4 women with those who burnt. I have to wonder if it was Rixende??
- I say that the moment we had standing close together before we were separated to be burned, that the moment was imprinted on us. Which is why The regression opens with me seeing them in spirit first.
- when I saw them in spirit, from shouldets up with gold ligjt streaming from behind them towards me.
- I say if the light had a name it would be kindness.

I was regressed by Karl Schlotterbeck. He is psychologist and regressionist. I had a passing interest in cathars in 1992. Never shared that and moved on with life. 2 years ago, maybe 2 1/2 I came down with a 5 day fever which resulted in broken red spider veins and very large 1-2 inch bruises all over my lower legs and shoulders and the whites of my eyes were red. I was scared I had some horrible disease like lupus since I have RA. Took a lot of pictures and kept sending to my rheumatologist, what is wrong with me? Lots of lab work and no answers, not disease. Took about 3 months to fade. In meantime I began to have back to back dreams over 1 month. Always viewing scenes that had some lesson or challenge and end of each dream I found out its directed at me. Each dream had me looking at something else. Then glimpses of me, but maybe 22 and fire. Really quick, maybe seconds I started experiencing a gut wrenching crying related to the cathars. Where does this leave a person, in a place of nowhere. Did not know any cathars, no exposure, no one I knew had even heard of them. It felt like neing pulled into a cathar lige. But for what, why, why now and for what reason as this had zero to do with any beliefs. Karl was in my state hiving workshops and I had reached out to him how troubling all of this was. Then he regressed me and it changed my life. I had had dreams of celibacy and that my life would be forever day and never night. And I moved into that mindset. I reached out online then trying to find places to connect and it was very disappointing. So I gave up and decided I would quietly live a cathar life. Some that I connected with were very full of self, as if it was of great importance to have beem someone 'famous' with the cathars. I had seen the complete opposite, that your connection to your sense of self or personal acclaim haf zero importance. It was instead an inner pathway that had nothing to do with your body.

The cathars were very threatening to the catholic church, they were supported by a lot of nobelmen and became entirely too popular. They scorned the catholic chuch for what they perceived as a false church, corrupted. They did not have reverence for the crucifix as they considered that pretty much the same as if you carried around a knife that had stabbed someone.

Also, the cathar perfects had male and female equality. Women could perform anything their male counterparts did. In the 12th and 13th centuries, how offensive would that have been? They believed as we had all been male or female by reincarnation, then therefore we were same. Only a small % were the parfait, the overwhelming cathars were believers. They also believed held Mary Magdeline in high regard and she was not the prostitute the Catholics insisted she was.

Their core beliefs were on reincarnation, in direct contrast to the catholic church. They considered a complete separation of earthly life where they felt their souls were passing through, and the other side of spirit and light. The light from other side was present inside you and the goal was to focus on that and live within those ideals. They saw sex as ending in procreation and as a result more souls became trapped in this realm. The earthly realm was seen as the realm of bodily distractions, needs, and excessive desires.

So in order to live a life connected to the light, they chose to be aesthetics and not give in to the world. In their minds, they were attaining the simplistic lige of Jesus. Jesus had Mary by his side, he appeared to her first, clearly she was of equal status as the disciples. The catholic church has always collected wealth, had been infused with sex, idolatry, etc. The life of a golden palace had nothing to do with living in the truth as they perceived it. So they embodied that simplistic made of living. Completely passive, owning nothing, chastity, equality of women, vegetarian except fish. (I have been vegetarian since 1976 as a choice, not cathar though). That purity of life, of truly loving but in the realm of heart and spirit, rather than the body. Its very important why their concept of earthy life was so extreme, they lived in times of public executions. Can you imagine how horrifying passing people on fire must have been?

Of course you weren't just rounded up, you were interrogated and tortured first. To break your spirit and force you to confess or denounce others. They would come into a town and demand the names of heretics. If a persons name was given who was dead, they would dig the corpse up and publicly burn the corpse as a heretic. These times were barbaric and the birth of any more souls who were trapped into this existence was intolerable. No one used contraceptives then and to prevent the possibility of souls being trapped here, sex was the means to be shut down.

The women I lived to express their femaleness through spirituality. I think a lot see them as too strict, hung up on this or that but reasons are behind those choices. By the defined choice to follow this path, yet be equal with men, to understand and unveil their inner light until they transitioned... it was their attempt to bring their light into a darkened world.

That energy is needed now for balance and as it was before the mass majority were cathar believers who had families. We live in trying times now. Of complete excess, of destruction of our planet and resources to open warfare on TV. Cathars are here now to try to bring some type of light back. Even as an individual flame. But again, by the loss of self and of what you give off rather than what you acquire. Simply a flame of spirit in a world that is in a spiral.
Kaye

Delight

2nd May 2021, 22:06

This is part of an article that demonstrates the scope of genocide of the Cathars.

John C. CarletonAmerican by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God
IN THE 12TH-13TH CENTURIES, ROME (VATICAN) HOLOCAUSTED (BURNT ALIVE TILL DEATH), GENOCIDED ABOUT 1 MILLION OF JESUS THE CHRIST FOLLOWERS WHO WOULD NOT BOW DOWN TO ROME (VATICAN)
(https://www.johnccarleton.org/BLOGGER/2021/04/10/in-the-12th-13th-centuries-rome-vatican-holocausted-burnt-alive-till-death-genocided-about-1-million-of-jesus-the-christ-followers-who-would-not-bow-down-to-rome-vatican/)

All in all some 500,000 men women and children were massacred in the Church’s campaign*. The holocaust was so severe that, apparently by accident, it extinguished the high culture of the troubadours. Educated and tolerant rulers were killed, and replaced by relative barbarians from France, who were prepared to toe the Church’s line. At the end of the extirpation of the Cathars, the Church had convincing proof that a sustained campaign of genocide can work. It also had the precedent of an internal crusade within Christendom, the machinery of an inquisition, and two bodies of dedicated men, Dominicans and Franciscans, prepared to man it.

Cathars were exterminated elsewhere. There were mass burnings at Montwimer in Champagne in 1239, at Plaisance in Lombardy in 1268 (28 cartloads), and at Verona in 1278*. From a secular point of view there was no harm in the Cathars. Their fate is still mourned in the Languedoc to this day. Yet it is not difficult to find Roman Catholic authorities that seek to justify the Church’s genocide and make out that it acted for the best. A Handbook of Heresies, approved by a Roman Catholic Censor and bearing the Imprimatur of the Vicar General at Westminster, refers to Guzmán’s “heroic exercise of fraternal charity”*. His failure as a preacher is not mentioned, nor the fact that even using trickery and torture no more than a handful of perfecti could be induced to abandon their faith. The thousands of Cathar deaths are not referred to — except in the most oblique terms: “The long and arduous task was at length successful, and by the end of the fourteenth century Albigensianism, with all other forms of Catharism, was practically extinct”*. The handbook also takes the opportunity to condemn Cathar beliefs once again: “This anti-human heresy, by destroying the sanctity of the family, would reduce mankind to a horde of unclean beasts …” *. There is not a hint of remorse or regret for the holocaust, and one can only assume that, if it could, the Church would act in the same way again if similar circumstances arose in the future.

Most chillingly, numerous Catholic websites, including many associated with seminaries feature variations on the following joke, refering to Cathars as Albigensians. A young man with a religious vocation asks

“Which Order is most successful, the Jesuits or the Dominicans?”

“Well, the Jesuits were founded by a Spaniard to wipe out the Protestant heresy, and the Dominicans were founded by a Spaniard to wipe out the Albigensian heresy”.

“So which is best?”

“The Dominicans, obviously.”

“Why?”

“Seen any Albigensians lately?”

jaybee

2nd May 2021, 22:12

Delight

3rd May 2021, 04:48

I am listening to this now. I FEEL like maybe if such a thing can be true that I am a returned Cathar.

I knew it !!!! :)

I'm too tired to write much more tonight but when I was about half way through the video about the Cathars + 700 year old prophesy that you posted on the other thread (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36SeyxSkYwE)

I paused it and went and opened the back door to let my dog out and as I stood in the garden a little bat was flitting about - then 2 - then three... the light was fading and the silhouette of the trees and the bats was a beautiful sight - with the birds singing their late night songs before settling down for the night...

It felt like a shamanic sign... it was a meaningful moment - in two ways combined

One because of the timely visitation of bat spirit - but also because of the connection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and how the poor little bat is the fall guy... and they could have created the virus using the bat genes / DNA somehow - so it's got a bad rap with it all and doesn't deserve it...

anyway...

aaa - eee - iii - ooo - uuuuuuuuu .... lol

I played that Cathar chant many times during March this year... thanks for posting it here - and the article about Arthur Guirdham...

I have always been attracted to the Essenes. Intuitively I wonder if there was an originally "true" religion which filtered out and still is present in Christ's words... the red letters.

There is an emphasis of the Christ on our emulating his example.

I read a book that is the past life memory of Elizabeth Haich. Initiation. My major take away is that this woman was a prodigy who insisted on being give knowledge TOO SOON. I am impressed that she had not lived enough to be harmless. She wanted to skip over the lessons lived by experience. She was a princess and could demand her way. It backfired on her terribly because her passion for a man led her to misuse power. Haich reports having to make up so many lifetimes of struggle with her terrible betrayal of the responsibility of power.

I read on the Cathars. The story about them is almost nonexistant and what there is came from a POV of a genocidal victory.

There were Cathars who were extremely powerful and wise. They were initiated. The perfect ones were those who had vowed to act in a perfect manner commensurate with the power they held. They were only a few of the followers and with the community, people appear to have been joyfully living in abundance, creative expression and peace. I am reminded of the idea of mirror neurons where we learn from others.

My ideal of a teacher is to learn form his/her example. Personally at this time in life, simplicity, austerity seem no problem. However I doubt that I would have enjoyed them at one time and where there is no punishment for being free to express, we move through phases easily. Eventually it is just natural to renounce "stuff" and be more free. Desire is something that needs to be lived or it will IMO fester and be a poison.

I personally think that any teaching of The need for general renunciation comes from hypocrisy and an intent to control others.

I do not recall any past lives except for one story of a past life regressoion. It seemed like a day dream in which I imagined a broken man in a dungeon dying. He was there for reasons of how he lived. He had been seeking knowledge and "the power of the secrets" and become a dangerous kind of threat. He had rebuked an authority by refusing to cooperate. He had refused because he really had nothing the authority sought from him, like some kind of arcane formula?

I felt that he would have kept seeking if this was not the "end". He had never found that tantalizing "philosopher's stone". But this personae NOW regretted so much the home he had left on his quest. OMG regrets are the worst torture.

Home was in a bright sort of dry landscape, not humid. This was a Mediterranean kind of sea side with vineyards and terraces and stone dwellings... not primitive but ancient. He had a daughter whom he loved more than any other person. Now she is grown with children. He wishes so much he could be there and die but he is in dirt, starved and thirsty and so regretful. I have used that deep feeling to try to transmute my regrets. It is such a deep sorrowful but connected feeling. One can project oneself to a location and transmute the intense "negative" to something else... like wisdom? Like an imaginary mirror neuron vision which I can use to change my destiny.

My imaginary instructor had abandoned his family. To abandon is as painful as being abandoned. Now he was trying to send a message to his daughter so she would KNOW him fully, his failures, regrets, love for home which he knew had been his REAL place of power. In my reverie he travelled to the house and was on a veranda and there he found his daughter who knew why he was there.

They communed and he revealed and she revealed and the peace of a complete forgiveness came in. He was taken form there to the light. It was satisfying as a reverie to me. I wonder now if She was not a Cathar and he a renunciate of the true god of light.... UNTIL he realized the truth and went home? That thought is because of the way he felt, like one who had been a bit unwilling to be humble with any authority, even one's own inner "god". A huge ego.

The thing is, if we are Cathars returning en masse, were we unable to let go of our attachment to earth before? is it just so we will remember the light and THIS time follow it to the Source? I of course have no idea of the truth but I have so many suspicions like RAW.

Delight

3rd May 2021, 05:32

Why are the Cathars important for now?

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I read this and thought it has elements of what I find is said about the Cathars. A thread of light stretches Atlantis to Egypt and then finally to the Cathars?

Thoth-the-Atlantean — The Emerald Tablets (http://www.philosophy-of-religion.org.ua/emerald_tablets_of_thoth_the_atlantean.html)

“I began preaching to people the beauty of religion and knowledge.

“O people, men born on the Earth, who indulge in drunkenness, sleep, and the ignorance of God! Sober up, cease your surfeit, awake from your dullness!

“Why do you give up yourselves to death while you have power to partake of immortality?

“Depart from the dark path, be partakers of immortality, abandon forever your vices!

“Nowhere but in God can you find good!”

(From Hermes’* address to the Egyptians)

Atlantis was an archipelago consisting of two large islands situated in the Atlantic Ocean near the Mediterranean Sea. There existed a highly developed civilization of the Atlanteans. The most important point about this civilization is that it possessed the true religious-philosophical knowledge, which allowed many people to advance quickly in their development — up to the Divine level — and accomplish thus their personal human evolution.

However, with time Atlantis’ spiritual culture degraded, and as a result the power in the country was taken over by aggressive people, who preferred black magic and domination over others rather than the principle of the true spiritual development. Then God made the islands of Atlantis sink into the ocean.

But the higher spiritual knowledge was preserved by some Atlanteans, Who achieved Divinity. They brought it into Egypt and other countries, where this knowledge existed for some time providing a basis for the local spiritual culture.

About the Emerald Tablets*
In the Emerald Tablets, Thoth-the-Atlantean explains the reason for the destruction of Atlantis: confidential knowledge was imparted to unworthy people and the latter began using it for evil purposes. They also adopted bloody sacrifices — and this resulted in numerous incarnations of hellish beings among people.

When the destruction of Atlantis happened (two islands submerged into the ocean one after another according to the Divine Will), Thoth-the-Atlantean moved to Egypt (Khem) with a group of other Divine Atlanteans.

The Primordial* advised Thoth thus: “Go forth as a Teacher of men! Go forth preserving the records (with Teachings) until in time the Light grows among men!

“Light* shall You be all through the ages, hidden yet found by enlightened men.

“For working on all the Earth, give We You power, free You to give it to others or take it away.”

And then Thoth worked as a Representative of the Primordial.

… Thoth relates that He went the entire Path to Mergence with the Primordial. He writes that anyone can traverse this Path. The Path necessarily contains obstacles, which create difficulties for travelers: these difficulties prevent weak, ethically unworthy, or intellectually immature people from going further. “Go! But do not take with you the unwise, insincere, weak!” says Thoth.

Thoth gives basic recommendations for initial harmonization of the chakra system. For fulfilling just these recommendations He promises health and longevity.*

On the higher stages of meditative practices (i.e. on the stage of Buddhi Yoga), one has to dive with the consciousness into the Depths of the multidimensional space and cognize there “star worlds” and the Light of the Great Fire on the Path to the Abode of the Primordial*. There are also other spatial dimensions, which are “vacant to all seeming, yet hidden within them are the keys…”*

Thoth also explains one of the higher meditations — the Temple and its particular variation — the Pyramid.

About the history of His own spiritual ascent Thoth says the following:

“Once in a time long forgotten, I, Thoth, opened the doorway, penetrated into other spaces and learned of the secrets concealed.

“Often did I journey down the dark pathway unto the space where the Light ever glows.

“Long then dwelt I in the Temple of the Primordial until at last I was One with the Light.”

Later Thoth embodied Himself again in Egypt and was Hermes Trismegistus (Thrice-born)*.

* * *

Thoth gives the following directions to spiritual seekers:

Preserve and keep the command of the Primordial One:

Look in your life for disorder and get rid of it! Balance and order your life!

Quell all the chaos of emotions and you shall have harmony in life.*

Conquer by silence the bondage of words.

Keep ever your eyes on the Light!

Surely when you deserve it, you shall be one with your Master! And surely then you shall be one with the All*!

Know My commandments! Keep them and fulfill them, and I will be with you, helping and guiding you into the Light!

Out of the darkness shall you rise upward, one with the Light!

Man has to strive to become the “Divine Sun”*.

Follow this Path and you shall be One with the All!

Light comes only to those who strive. Hard is the Pathway that leads to the Wisdom; hard is the Pathway that leads to the Light. Many stones shall you find in your pathway, many mountains shall you climb towards the Light.

Man, know that always beside you walk the Messengers of Light. Open to all is Their Pathway, to all who are ready to walk into the Light!

Suns are They, Messengers of Light to shine among men. Like man are They and yet are unlike.

Know that many dark shadows shall fall on your light* striving to quench with the shadows of darkness the light of the soul that strives to be free. Many the pitfalls that lie on this Way. Seek ever to gain Greater Wisdom! Cognize — you shall know the Light!

Light is eternal and darkness is fleeting. Seek ever, O man, for the Light! Know ever that as Light fills your being, darkness for you shall soon disappear!

Open the soul to the Messengers of Light! Let Them enter and fill you with Light!

Keep ever your face to this Goal!

… Open the soul, O man, to the cosmos and let it “flow” through you as one with the soul!*

Man’s evolution consists in the process of changing to forms that are not of this world. Grows he in time to the formless — to live on a higher plane. Know that you must become formless before you can be one with the Light.

Listen, O man, to My voice, telling of pathways to Light, showing the way of attainment: how you shall become one with the Light:

Search first the mysteries of the Earth’s Heart! Seek the Flame* of the Living Earth! Bathe in the glare of this Flame!

Know, O man, you are complex, a being of matter and of Fire. Let your Flame* shine out brightly! Be you only the Flame!

Seek ever more Wisdom! Find it in the Heart of the Flame! Know that only by your striving can Light pour into you!

Only the one, who of Light has the fullest, can hope to pass by the guards of the Way, who prevent unworthy people from entering it.

You shall cognize yourself as Light and make yourself ready to pass on the Way.

Wisdom is hidden in darkness. When shining with Soul-Flame, find you the Wisdom, then shall you be born again as Light, and then shall you become the “Divine Sun”.*

Grow into One with the Light! Be a channel of Divine Principles to the world of men!

Seek, O man, to find the great Pathway that leads to eternal Life — through the image of the “Divine Sun”!

… Know, O man, you are only a soul! The body is nothing! The soul is everything! Let not your body be a fetter!

Cast off the darkness and travel in Light! Learn to cast off your body, O man, and be free from it!* Become the true Light and unite then with the Great Light!*

Know that throughout space the eternal and infinite Consciousness exists. Though from superficial knowledge It is hidden, yet still forever exists.

The key to these Higher worlds is within you; it can be found only within.*

Open the gateway within you, and surely you, too, shall live the true life!

… Man, you think that you live… but know that your former life can bring you only to death. For as long as you are bound to your body, no true life exists for you! Only the soul which is free from the material world has life which is a really true life! All else is only a bondage, a fetter from which to be free!

Think not that man is born for the earthly! Though born on the Earth, man is a light-like spirit! Yet, without true knowledge, man can never become free!

… Darkness surrounds the souls seeking to be born in Light. Darkness fetters souls… Only the one who is seeking may ever hope for Freedom!

Let you be the “Divine Sun” of the Great Light! Fulfill this and you shall be free!

The Great Light that fills all the cosmos is willing to help you, O man! Make you of your body a torch of Light that shall shine among men!

… Hear and understand: the Flame is the source of all things; all things are its manifestation!

Seek to be One with the “Divine Sun”!

Hold your thought on uniting the Light with your human body.

Light is the Source of all the life; for without the Great Light nothing can ever exist!

Know, Light is the basis of all formed matter.

Know, O man, that all space is filled by worlds within worlds.

Deep beneath the image of the Pyramid lies My secret. Seek and find it in the Pyramid I built.

Follow this key I left for you. Seek and the doorway to the true Life shall be yours! Seek in My Pyramid deep beneath it, and in the Wall.*

Know that it is in the Pyramid I built that you shall find the secret way into the true Life.

… Seek and find there That Which I have hidden! There shall you find the “underground entrance” to the secrets hidden before you were men.

Know We that of all, nothing else matters except the growth of the soul. Know We the flesh is fleeting. The things men count great are nothing to Us. The things We expect from you are not of your bodies but are only the perfected state of the souls.

When you can learn that nothing but progress of the soul can count in the end, then truly you are free from all bondage, free to work in accordance with your predestination!

Know, O man, you are to aim at Perfection, for only thus can you attain to the Goal!

Know that the future is never in fixation but follows man’s free will! Man can only “read the future” through the causes that bring the effects in destinies.

Know that your body when in perfect balance may never be touched by the finger of death! Aye, even “accidents” may only approach when you abandon your predestination! When you are in harmony with your predestination, you shall live on in time and not taste of death.

… Know you not that in the Earth’s Heart is the source of harmony of all things that exist and have been on its face? By the soul you are connected with the Earth’s Heart, and by your flesh — with the matter of Earth.

When you have learned to maintain harmony in yourself, then shall you draw from the harmony of the Earth’s Heart. Exist then shall you while Earth is existing, changing in form, only when Earth, too, shall change: tasting not of death, but one with this planet, living in your body till all pass away.

… Three are the qualities of God in His Light-Home*: Infinite Power, Infinite Wisdom, Infinite Love.

Three are the powers given to spiritual Masters: to transmute evil, to assist good, to use discernment*.

Three are the things They manifest: Power, Wisdom, and Love.

Three are the Manifestations of Spirit creating all things: Divine Love possessing the perfect knowledge, Divine Wisdom knowing all possible means of helping living beings in their development, Divine Power which is possessed by the Primordial Consciousness Whose essence is Divine Love and Wisdom.

Darkness and Light are both of one nature, different only in seeming, for each arose from one Source. Darkness is chaos. Light is Divine Harmony. Darkness transmuted is Light.

This, My children, is your purpose in being: transmutation of darkness into Light!

Adding this here for those interested:
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Hym

3rd May 2021, 06:30

Les, Mes Albigeois:

Les catholiques, un culte très étrange et sombre. Les Cathares, ne sont pas restreints par beaucoup de dogmes.
Je me souviens de la chanson "Dominique" comme un enfant, par la nonne chantante.
Dans la première partie de la chanson, elle parle de son père combattant les Albigeois.

Plusieurs siècles après la persécution des Cathares, l’orgueil de l’arrogance religieuse encore vend le mensonge, et confirme la menace de ceux qui s’opposent à l’obscuritées
Intéressant que j’ai quitté l’église quand on m’a donné le nom de confirmation qui me semblait si mal à l’aise, Dominic.
Tout à fait en dehors de la famille, mais plus à l’aise avec la séparation.
Il est bon de voir que l’Univers a aussi un sens de l’humour.

The, My Albigeois:

The catholics, a very strange and dark cult. The Cathars not constricted by much dogma.
I remember the song "Dominique" as a child, by the singing nun.
In the first part of the song she talks about her father fighting the Albigensians.

Many centuries after the persecution of the Cathars, the pride of religious arrogance still sells the lie, and confirms the threat of those who oppose the darkness.
Interesting that I left the church when I was given the confirmation name that seemed so uneasy to me, Dominic.
Quite apart from the family, but more comfortable with the separation.
It is good to see that the Universe also has a sense of humor.

C’est la chanson...

This is the song.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=6g_G5U4Ze9Y

J’ai des souvenirs de la langue et d’autres, mais ils n’étaient pas si formels.
Dans cette vie, je ne sentais pas de contenu émotionnel dans l’enseignement, mais je me sentais naturellement en train de le dire.
Je préfère écouter Eloise, chanter avec la chanteuse...dont l’habitude est beaucoup plus saine, avec ou sans les reines.
Si j’écris une chanson sur la vérité des Cathares, c’est elle qui la chantera..Comme nous, elle doit être différente.

I have memories of the language and others, but they were not so formal.
In this life, I felt not emotional content in the teaching, but I did feel natural speaking it.
I prefer to listen to Eloise, and sing with the singer...whose habit is much healthier, with or without the queens.
If I write a song about the truth of the Cathars, she would be the one to sing it.
Just like the few of us, she must look different at this time.

Bassplayer1

3rd May 2021, 17:22

I just want to say thank you Alpha141 and everyone posting here.

This is a wonderful discussion!

I've been browsing through this and the links since about 8:30 this morning. I was using another browser and hadn't logged in to comment!!! Anyway, I really should be getting on with my work, but I'll think about that later and spend some more time exploring this.

Thank you so much for sharing the links.

I'd never heard of the Cathars before and now I'm so happy to be learning about them! (Though I'm upset to learn of their persecution)
xxx

Delight

4th May 2021, 00:50

These are fascinating articles

Hidden History of the Secret Church
By Tau Mikhael (https://www.gnostic.info/2018/03/31/hidden-history-of-the-secret-church/)

“Where is the true Church of Christ?” This is a question that has plagued Christians since the time of the apostles. For millions of believers, the Roman Catholic Church remains the ‘One True Church’ led to this day by the successors of the apostle Peter. Other Christians are convinced their particular church is equally ‘true’ and faithful to the ‘original teachings’ of Christ.

Beyond all the apparent confusion and division, what unites the overwhelming majority of professing Christians is a shared acceptance of doctrinal statements drawn up back in the fourth century. The story of Jesus as the unique Son of God, born of a virgin, who died and rose again on the third day, only became Christian dogma thanks to the Council of Nicea which convened in 325 CE in an attempt to unify the diverse Christian communities under Emperor Constantine. Bart Ehrman, professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, describes the process that brought this about:

One form of Christianity… emerged as victorious from the conflicts of the second and third centuries. This one form of Christianity decided what was the “correct” Christian perspective; it decided who could exercise authority over Christian belief and practice; and it determined what forms of Christianity would be marginalised, set aside, destroyed. It also decided which books to canonise into Scripture and which books to set aside as “heretical”, teaching false ideas… Only twenty-seven of the early Christian books were finally included in the canon, copied by scribes through the ages, eventually translated into English, and now on bookshelves in virtually every home in America. Other books came to be rejected, scorned, maligned, attacked, burned, all but forgotten – lost.

Back in the early centuries after Christ there were also many Christians who did not accept the Christian ‘orthodoxy’ that was fast becoming dominant thanks to the patronage of the Roman Empire. These Christians had their own sacred writings and distinct traditions received from the apostles. One significant group of these early Christian ‘dissenters’ are identified as the ‘Gnostics’.

Gnostic Christians distrusted the surface manifestations of the orthodox Christians: the deity piously on display, officially worshipped and within everybody’s easy reach. The Gnostics spoke of a hidden God, the true and nameless One, who goes unperceived by the materially minded mob. Only through the experience of the Gnosis – that is through the gift of profound spiritual insight – can human spirits approach the Secret of Secrets.

The Gospels record Christ’s sayings which point to this path, rather than tell the story of a god-man sacrificed for the sins of the world, as the orthodox Christians believed. Christ was the cosmic teacher who took on the form of the man Jesus to impart His gnosis to the apostles, but only gradually and not to all of them in equal measure. Mary Magdalene and St. John the Evangelist were held in particularly high regard by Gnostic Christians. It was to these disciples, rather than the apostle Peter, that Christ had imparted His profoundest ‘secret teachings’.

With the triumph of the Roman Catholic Church in the fourth and fifth centuries, Gnostic Christians suffered persecution and were forced underground. The Gnostic tradition could not be exterminated and it survived to resurface throughout history in various movements. This is the story of Christianity’s other tradition, the hidden one.

Hidden Church of John
You know without doubt, dear Unknown Friend, that many …promulgate the doctrine of the so-called ‘two churches’: the church of Peter and the church of John, or of two ‘epochs’ – the epoch of Peter and the epoch of John. You know also that this doctrine teaches the end – more or less at hand – of the church of Peter, or above all of the Papacy which is its visible symbol, and that of the spirit of John, the disciple loved by the master, he who leaned on his breast and heard the beating of his heart, will replace it. In this way it teaches that the ‘exoteric’ church of Peter will make way for the ‘esoteric’ church of John, which will be that of perfect freedom.
– Valentin Tomberg1

In the Gospels it is the apostle Peter who openly denied Christ Jesus, while it the ‘beloved disciple’ John to whom the dying Jesus commended His mother Mary (symbol of wisdom). The Gospel of John speaks more about the Holy Spirit than the other Gospels. Gnostic Christians invoked the mystical and apocalyptic St. John as the source of their authority. The twentieth century mystic Omraan Mikhael Aivanhov explains in his book Aquarius:

All the Initiates in the past, the purest, most learned men were all disciples of St. John; they were also all persecuted by the official church because of their superiority. But the church of St. John, obliged as it always has been to exist and work in secret, continues to produce sons and daughters of God, and the time is coming when it will manifest itself in the world and show how far above the other churches it is. When it does, the church of St. Peter will have to reform and make many changes, whether it likes to or not.

Unlike the church of Peter – the church of empire, the exoteric, involved with law and power – the church of John is an underground church of the esoteric, concerned with transcendence. It is the ‘Secret Church’ whose only law is love. The Johannite church of Love (Amor) is decentralised, shamanistic, free and eternal; the church of Rome (Roma) is centralised, hierarchical, complex, and worldly. The battle between the two churches is the Old Testament battle of the prophets with the priests. Mystic vision versus organised religion. The church of John is the affirmation of spiritual brotherhood and rejection of the alienation of a worldly material civilisation. We find signs of this universal church of John in the different Gnostic communities appearing through the ages.

The Gnosis in the West
France plays a prominent role in the spread of the Gnostic tradition in the West. Mary Magdalene, it is said, fled for safety to the South of France with Lazarus and his sister, Martha. Early French literature tells of her arrival on the shores of Provence. Her Feast Day, July 22, was a major celebration in France during the Middle Ages and is still observed to this day.

Lyon, today France’s second largest city, is also the place from where in the second century the virulently anti-Gnostic bishop Irenaeus penned his writings which helped forever define ‘orthodox’ Christianity. Ironically, until the discovery of the Nag Hammadi texts in 1945, much of what we knew about the early Gnostics came from Irenaeus, one of their fiercest critics.

Southern France is also the area where the ‘Good Christians’ or Cathars (the name derived from the Greek word katharos, meaning ‘The Pure’) emerged in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The Cathars received their Gnostic teachings from the Bogomils (meaning ‘beloved of God’), a Gnostic community active in the Balkans since the tenth century.

At the heart of Cathar doctrine is the notion that true Christianity (which the Cathars claimed to receive in a secret line of apostolic succession from St John) is a life lived, not simply a doctrine believed. For them the life of Jesus was a model the ‘Good Christian’ must strive to emulate, not a vicarious sacrifice to be blindly accepted on trust. The existence of the Cathars challenged the legitimacy of the Roman Church as Zoe Oldenbourg explains in Massacre at Montsegur:

The Cathars declared themselves the heirs of a tradition that was older than that held by the Church of Rome – and, by implication, both less contaminated and near in spirit to the Apostolic tradition. They claimed to be the only persons who had kept and cherished the Holy Spirit which Christ had bestowed upon His Church; and it looks as though this claim was at least partially justified….

After the manner of the Bogomils and the followers of the Eastern Gnostic Prophet Mani, the Cathars believed in a cosmic battle between the principles of Light and Darkness on whose meetings and encounters everything in the universe is based. Darkness was for them dark matter, the unperfected, the transient. They identified all clerical and secular rulers, principally the Roman Church, as the personification of the Darkness.

“Today we are better informed than they were concerning the practices of the Early Church,” writes Zoe Oldenbourg, “and have to admit that the Cathars merely followed a tradition somewhat more ancient than that of the [Roman] Church herself. It was with some appearance of reason that they claimed Rome as the party guilty of ‘heresy’ through her falling-out from the original purity which had characterised the Church of the Apostles.”2

As with the ancient Gnostics, Rome saw the Cathars as a threat. “Catharism was spreading with extraordinary speed in Southern France,” points out the French writer Maurice Magre. “It was the radiant cult of the pure spirit which took possession of men’s souls, and it seriously endangered the materialistic Church of the pope.”3 We know from their sacred books, primarily the Book of the Two Principles and The Questions of John, which relates a discussion between Jesus and the apostle John, that the Cathars believed they were true Christians faithful to a secret tradition stretching back to St. John. Rejecting most of the Old Testament, whose deity they identified with Satan, the Cathars held the Gospel of John in highest esteem and made use of it in their rituals.

Early in the thirteenth century Pope Innocent declared a Crusade against the ‘Good Christians’ of Southern France, announcing:

Attack the followers of heresy more fearlessly even than the Saracens – since they are more evil – with a strong hand and an outstretched arm. Forward then soldiers of Christ! Forward brave recruits to the Christian army! Let pious zeal inspire you to avenge this monstrous crime against your God.

On the annual Feast Day of Mary Magdalene, July 22, 1209, the pope’s army prepared to attack the city of Beziers, many of whose sixty thousand inhabitants were devout Catholics, in order to wipe-out the Cathar ‘heretics’. “It was here, in the name of the Christian religion and through the fanaticism of one of the most venerated popes,” says Maurice Magre, “that there took place one of the most ferocious massacres in all history.” When asked how they were to distinguish pious Catholics from the Cathar ‘heretics’, the pope’s envoy the Abbot of Citeaux, replied, “Kill them all, the Lord will know His own.” The fall of the fortress-town of Montsegur in the Pyrenees in 1244 marked the end of the Cathars as a ‘public’ movement.

The Cathars were the legitimate heirs of the early Gnostic Christians and through them of the first apostles. The central tenets of the Cathars, particularly the prominence they ascribed to Mary Magdalene and St. John, confirms they were a manifestation of an underground stream of secret teachings called by the prophet Mani, the universal ‘Religion of Light.’ The persecution and massacres unleashed by the Roman Church again forced the Gnostics underground to reemerge at a later time in fulfilment of the Great Plan.

The Gnostic Revival
Six hundred years after the pope launched the murderous Crusade against the ‘Good Christians’, three French mystics were each inspired to play unique roles in the revival of the Gnostic Johannite tradition in the modern world.

Dr. Bernard-Raymond Fabré-Palaprat (1773-1838) was deeply immersed in the esoteric traditions of France, particularly those relating to the medieval Knights Templar who were said to have imbibed Gnostic ideas while in the Holy Land. Only a few years after the bloody massacres of the Cathars, the Templars met a similar tragic fate at the hands of the pope and king of France. In 1812 Fabré-Palaprat claimed to have discovered a manuscript written in Greek called the Levitikon, containing a version of the Gospel of John. Most historians today believe the work actually dates from around the seventeenth or eighteenth century, but some researchers say it may originate as early as the eleventh century. To Fabré-Palaprat it was an ancient text revealing the truth about the Church of John and the secret history of true Christianity. According to Peter Partner, the author of a scholarly book on the Knights Templar, in the Levitikon “the orthodox presentation of Christ had been excised in favour of a version which eliminated the miracles and the Resurrection, and presented Christ as an initiate of the higher mysteries, trained in Egypt.

God is understood as existence, action, and mind, and morality as rational and benevolent conduct. The cosmos, in the ancient Gnostic tradition, is viewed as a hierarchy of intelligences. The part played by privileged initiation in the transmission of divine knowledge is central. Christ conferred the essential knowledge of this Gospel on John as the best-loved apostle, and it was transmitted thence through the Patriarchs of Jerusalem until the arrival of the Templars in 1118, after which the secret teaching was kept by the Templar Grand Masters. The esoteric doctrine was passed down through the official medieval Order until its fall in 1312, and then through their successors who extend the chain down to the present.4

Inspired by what he found in the mysterious Levitikon, Fabré-Palaprat set about establishing a ‘Johannite Church’, with himself as the Sovereign Pontif or outer head of ‘John’s Church’. Around 1828 he reorganised the fledgling Johannite community under the name of the “Holy Church of Christ,” or the “Church of Primitive Christians.” Six years later Fabré-Palaprat, on the authority he claimed to have as successor of St. John, publicly celebrated a ‘Johannite Mass’. Facing considerable opposition from the Catholic clergy, the Johannites discontinued their open activities. Fabré-Palaprat retired to Southern France, where in a region alive with the memory of the Cathars and Mary Magdalene, he died in 1839.

On August 6, 1839 Eugene Vintras had finished work in the French village of Tillay when an extraordinary event irrevocably changed his life. An old man knocked at his door and addressing Vintras by his baptismal name ‘Pierre-Michel’, told him the time had come for him to carry out a special mission. The end of the age (that is, the age of the Second Reign, that of Christ) was at hand, and Vintras was to announce the coming of the Holy Spirit and the commencement of the ‘Reign of Love’. The old man ‘whose face shone so brightly you could not look at him,’ again appeared to Vintras while he was on a visit to Paris. Subsequent visionary experiences confirmed the ‘old man’ was the Archangel Michael and Vintras a reincarnation of the prophet Elijah. In addition to Archangel Michael, Vintras told of being visited by the Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, as well as other angelic beings, who disclosed to him the secret teachings of the original Christians. Followers flocked to Vintras, who now known by his spiritual name “Elie-Strathaniel,” celebrated Mass wearing a vestment adorned with an upside down cross. “I want this cross to be known as the cross of grace, because this is an age of crime and corruption, having drawn down on all the earth the terrible effects of my Father’s justice,” Christ had told Vintras in a vision.

Vintras, the pious, mild-mannered Catholic, had been transformed by his experiences and as ‘Elijah returned’ radiated a powerful presence. People from all over France rushed to join his “Church of Carmel” or “Work of Mercy,” with its new priesthood which was to replace the ‘corrupt’ priesthood of the Catholic Church. Lacking any formal religious training and with only a basic education, Eugene Vintras, the Prophet Elie-Strathaniel, preached complex rites and doctrines which remarkably resembled those of the ancient Gnostics. As the historian Richard Griffiths explains:

These rites were sacrificial in nature, and they enabled those who performed them to receive the merits of ‘redemption’, and to participate in the preparation for the coming of the Paraclete. The belief in the efficacy of a specific rite in freeing man from the fetters of matter and bringing him nearer to the spiritual redemption which would announce the Third Reign is very near to that of most gnostic sects, for whom the method of redemption consisted not so much in the profession of certain opinions or virtues as in the practice of certain rites.

The ancient Gnostics included both men and women in the priesthood, a tradition revived by Vintras in the Church of Carmel.

Women were permitted into the priesthood of the rite, in fact they held a very important place, for it was through Woman that salvation was to come. And in the attitude towards the Virgin Mary we find a conception of her as ‘created Wisdom’, the invariable reflection of ‘uncreated Wisdom’. This can be seen to be very close to one form of Valentinianism, a gnostic belief in which Sophia, or Wisdom (a divine principle which had fallen from the realm of light into the realm of matter) was conceived as being a double figure. The higher Sophia remained in the sphere of light, the lower Sophia had sunk into darkness. Through this duality Sophia became the fallen divinity through whom the mingling of light and dark, of spirit and matter, in the world, had been achieved; she was also seen as the intermediary between the lower and higher worlds and an instrument of redemption.5

In 1842, under pressure from the Catholic Church, Vintras was arrested by the French authorities and imprisoned for five years on the trumped-up charge of soliciting donations from people to whom he claimed to reveal the name of their guardian angel. While he was in prison, the Abbe Marechal, known as Ruthmael, took over the community. He apparently began publicly teaching certain rituals that had a sexual content. According to some reports, he confided to his congregation, “Those who feel love for one another should share it often. Every time they do, they are sure to create a spirit in heaven.”

In 1848 the Church of Carmel was formally condemned by the Vatican, and during the years 1852 to 1862 Vintras lived in London, where he published The Eternal Gospel. On his return to France he founded new congregations and a ‘college of prophets’ in Lyon, a city with a strong connection to the Gnostic tradition. For some years the Church of Carmel continued with congregations in Spain, in Belgium, in Italy, and in England. The Church survived Vintras’ death on December 7, 1875, but by then the rites were only celebrated in the utmost secrecy. A Vintrasian church functioned in London up until at least the beginning of the Second World War. From England, Vintras’ followers resettled in other countries, free of the acrimonious scrutiny of the Catholic Church. Others went on to join the new spiritual groups that emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Dr. Bernard-Raymond Fabré-Palaprat and Eugene Vintras made unique contributions to the rediscovery of the Johannite Gnostic tradition. The religious movements started by these French visionaries helped prepare the way for the establishment of the modern Gnostic Church in 1890 by Jules-Benoit Doinel (1842-1902). Doinel had for some years frequented esoteric and mystical circles, where he encountered the teachings of Fabré-Palaprat and Vintras. One of these circles, formed around the Countess of Caithness, took a particular interest in ancient Gnosticism. Lady Caithness was well acquainted with France’s occult and mystical groups, including the Church of Carmel. Jules Doinel also entered Freemasonry, being initiated Master in 1885 with the “congratulations and encouragement” of Albert Pike. Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller informs us:

It was into this milieu that the ancient Gnostic tradition was reborn in France in the late nineteenth century. Jules-Benoit Doinel du Val Michel, a scholarly esotericist who had been a devoted researcher of the documents of the Cathar faith, had a mystical experience in 1890, in which he received spiritual empowerment to reconstitute the Gnostic church of old. His experience occurred in the splendid chapel at the residence of the Duchess de Pomar, Countess of Caithness, in Paris. This remarkable noblewoman was a friend of Madame Blavatsky and an early Theosophist and patroness of esoteric movements….

Jules Doinel gathered a following and established the Eglise Gnostique, which was organised along sacramental lines. The teachings of the new church were strictly Gnostic, and in homage to Valentinus, Doinel assumed the ecclesiastical title of Patriarch Tau Valentin II. In a most progressive step he ordained women to priestly and episcopal offices; he also established once again the sacrament of the Consolamentum reminiscent of the Cathars.6

Given Jules Doinel’s connections to France’s leading mystics and occultists the Gnostic Church soon became known as “the church of the initiates.” Doinel consecrated the remarkable esoteric writer Papus (Dr. Gerard Encausse) as a Gnostic bishop, and also joined Papus’s Martinist Order. Among Doinel’s acquaintances was Abbe Berenger Sauniere, the parish priest of Rennes-le-Chateau.

At this time a number of gifted esotericists joined the French Gnostic Church, among them Fabré des Essarts, Albert de Pouvourville, Paul Sedir, Lucien Mauchel, Victor Blanchard and René Guénon.

In 1908, Joanny Bricaud (1881-1934), held at Lyon the Holy Synod of Gnostic Bishops, which elevated him as patriarch of the Gnostic Church under the name Tau Jean II. Bricaud had studied the Johannite teachings and greatly admired Eugene Vintras and the Church of Carmel. He was committed to fully restoring the ancient Gnostic wisdom, faithful to the sacred tradition of Saint John. On becoming patriarch he declared:

The religious evolution of which we are a part shows us that a new religion is necessary. Gnosticism offers itself as the desired religion. Gnosis is the complete and definitive synthesis of all beliefs and all ideas of which humanity has need to realise its origin, its past, its end, its nature, the contradictions of existence and the problems of life….

Gnosis is the very essence of Christianity. Here, my beloved, is the just definition of Gnosticism. But, by Christianity, we do not only mean the doctrine taught since the arrival of the divine Savior, but also the one taught before Jesus’ arrival, in the old temples, the doctrine of Eternal Truth. Our Church is the antinomy of that of Rome. The name of that one is Force; the name of ours is Love.

Our Sovereign Patriarch is not Peter, the impulsive, who denied three times his master and took up the sword, but John, the Savior’s friend, the apostle who relied on his heart and in it knew best the immortal sentiment, the oracle of light, the author of the Eternal Gospel, who took up only Speech and Love.7

In The Esoteric Christian Doctrine, published in 1907, a year before he became patriarch of the Gnostic Church, Bricard wrote:

The main aim of the Universal Gnostic Church is to restore the original religious unity, that is to establish and spread a Christian Religion true to the universal religious tradition. It is not hostile towards any Church. It respects the customs and laws of all peoples. It is essentially large and tolerant, which permits it to admit all men without distinction of nationality, language or race.

Sadly, the ecumenical brotherhood and openness of spirit cultivated by Bricaud could not prevent persecution and strife befalling the Gnostic Church in France. Bricaud’s successor, the saintly Monsignor Constant Chevillon, Tau Harmonious (1880-1944), was cruelly executed by Nazi collaborators after the Vichy government suppressed the Gnostic Church. Nevertheless it was from France that the Gnostic Church spread to Portugal, Italy, Belgium, and South America. “The Gnostic tradition, which originally had its home in France,” Dr. Stephan Hoeller tells us, “came to be established in England and later in the United States, initially as a result of the efforts of a bishop of French descent who was raised in Australia.”

The Gnosis Restored
With fascism and communism on the rise across Europe, far away in Australia a young spiritual seeker began questioning the historical foundations of Christianity. In his quest for truth, Richard, Duc de Palatine (born Ronald Powell in 1916), joined “the biggest occult library in the Southern Hemisphere at the Theosophical Lodge in Melbourne,” where he studied “the extant writings concerning the Gnostics, Essenes and Secret Mysteries.” By 1944 he became convinced “that one day he would cause to be formed a Brotherhood which would partially restore the Sacred Lore and encourage people to prepare themselves for the Illumination and Interior Communion with the God within.”

In the 1940s Richard, Duc de Palatine, a learned and charismatic figure, attracted much attention. His insight was uncanny, but for all this, he was perceived as being a very humble person who seemed to exude love and peace wherever he went.8 In 1948 he told his friends his mission was not in Australia and he travelled to London, where in 1953 he was consecrated as Bishop Richard John Chretien Duc de Palatine by the Patriarch Hugh George de Willmott Newman. The name of Duc de Palatine is a personal and spiritual title.

In October, 1953 the Most Rev. Richard, Duc de Palatine established in London the “Pre-Nicene Gnosto-Catholic Church,” with the stated object of “restoring the Gnosis – Divine Wisdom to the Christian Church, and to teach the Path of Holiness which leads to God and the Inner Illumination and Interior Communion with the Soul through the mortal body of man.”

From his base in London’s Kensington, Richard, Duc de Palatine travelled on several occasions to France where he made contact with bishops of the French Gnostic Church. They encouraged him to fulfil his mission of transmitting the Gnostic tradition to the English-speaking world. He was also received by representatives of France’s leading mystical orders, including the surviving Grand Master of the Johannite Templar Order. In a profile of Richard, Duc de Palatine’s life we read that he held high office in many esoteric bodies:

Through these Orders and his many contacts, particularly in France which he frequently visited, Richard was able to bring forth in a semi-public forum the hidden teachings, the Gnosis of the Soul, which exposed the false vestiges of truth that had been foisted onto the people.

Through his London based Pre-Nicene Publishing House, Richard, Duc de Palatine issued a series of booklets on Christian Gnosticism, with titles like “The Inner Meaning of the Mystery Schools,” “The Christian Mysteries,” and “Christ or Jesus?” He also published “The Lucis Magazine” as the official organ of ‘The Sovereign Imperium of the Mysteries.’ Reviewing Richard, Duc de Palatine’s early writings it is obvious how far-sighted and spiritually gifted he was. Articles in his magazine ranged from discussions of “The Fallen Angels” and the “Dead Sea Scrolls” to the “Christian Fathers on Reincarnation” and “Spiritual Illumination”. In the book The Key to Cosmic Consciousness, he is described as an “outstanding mystic and illumined teacher and writer” whose “knowledge and experience stems from his own illumination in 1956, after applying the teachings of the early Gnostic Fathers…”

Writing close to fifty years ago, Richard, Duc de Palatine contrasted the Gnostic spirit of tolerance with the dogmatism of the mainstream Churches:

The true Gnostic or Christian makes no claim that he alone is right or that his teaching is the only one required or necessary for salvation. He demands that no one accept the statements of himself or anyone else on faith, but insists that every one should prove these things for himself.9

Richard, Duc de Palatine’s magazines and booklets were disseminated around the world and his ‘Brotherhood and Order of the Pleroma’ had branches in South Africa, Nigeria, the USA, and Australia. In 1971 he moved to the United States where he continued his work up to the time of his death in 1977. “He left behind a rich heritage, and because of his pioneering work a breach was made in the consciousness of the people…. but the keys to find the Door are still guarded and can only be found within the Wisdom Schools which through its Rite of Succession pass on the Keys to the Door.”

Since Richard, Duc de Palatine’s passing, the work of the Gnosis, of necessity, has taken on many guises and has appeared in different forms. In the United States the Gnostic tradition restored by Richard, Duc de Palatine is carried on chiefly by Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller, Regionary Bishop of Ecclesia Gnostica, who was consecrated in 1967 by Bishop de Palatine. In Great Britain and Australia the Gnostic work has taken on a private approach in order to implement links with the more esoteric side of the Gnostic tradition. The Universal Gnostic Alliance, a consortium of Gnostic organisations in the Asia and Pacific region, was established in Australia at Easter, 2005. Formally chartered “to perpetuate the work of encouraging the study and propagation of the Ancient and True Universal Philosophy of the Inner Gnosis,” the Universal Gnostic Alliance is faithful to the vision of Bishop Richard, Duc de Palatine, and the Great Teachers of the Gnosis who went before.

Experience of the Heart
The first followers of Jesus the Christ did not see His teachings as merely intellectual fodder meant for endless debate, nor as a mere set of humanitarian principles and moral pronouncements. The teachings of Jesus were meant to be lived so that the individual person may awake to “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” For as the mystic Angelus Silesius wrote: “Even if Christ were born a thousand times in Bethlehem, But not in you, you would still be lost for all eternity.”

The ‘Secret Church’ still exists in the world in the twenty-first century. Gnostic Christians are a worldwide community united not by a rigid set of beliefs, but by a mysterious bond of brotherhood derived from a shared vision and experience of the living Christ. Gnostic Christianity is experiential. It is about transformation, about a higher consciousness, not about dry words or external forms. Theologies and commandments are the formulations of men. No matter how sublime or noble, rational or logical, they are all man-made. Gnosis is the experience of the divine. Words along with all theological and philosophical discourses are insufficient to explain it. You must taste it, as the Psalmist declares: “O taste and see that the Lord is good” (Psalm 34:8).

The goal of the Gnostic Christian is nothing short of Awakening, of Christ Consciousness. Following the Way of the Christ, as revealed in the Gospels, we are called to “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.”

Almost the entire history of Christendom is a protest against the words of Jesus the Christ. Hatred and persecution, hypocrisy and ignorance, intolerance of one’s neighbours: all in the name of Him who gave the command to love your enemies. In the name of Him who said: “My kingdom is not of this world”! Institutional Christianity, with its religious dogmatism and obsession with commandments, is a contemporary example of the same force that confronted and sought to kill Jesus in his own time. But behind worldly Christianity is the interior Church of John, the universal Gnostic Church where the Living Christ continues to impart spiritual knowledge.

This is the other tradition of Christianity, the hidden one, but it is always accessible to seeking souls.

Footnotes
1. Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot (Tarcher, 2002).
2. Zoé Oldenbourg, Massacre at Montségur: A History of the Albigensian Crusade (Pantheon Books, 1962).
3. Maurice Magre, Return of the Magi (Philip Allan, 1931).
4. Peter Partner, The Murdered Magicians: The Templars and Their Myths (Oxford Univ Press, 1982).
5. Richard Griffiths, The Reactionary Revolution (Constable & Co Ltd, 1966).
6. Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller, Gnosticism: New Light On The Ancient Tradition Of Inner Knowing (Quest Books, 2002).
7. Extracted from the Patriarchal Homily of Tau Jean II, Bishop Primate in France, Patriarch of the Universal Gnostic Church, Lyon, 25 February 1908.
8. Reminiscences, Lucis Magazine, Vol. 8 No. 2, 1966.
9. Bishop Richard Duc de Palatine, The Christian Mysteries (Pre-Nicene Publishing House, 1958)

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From 1209-1249 one of the worst genocides in history was conducted against the Cathars, a heretical sect in southern France.

Pope Innocent III, promising gold and indulgences (the remission of punishment due for sins) in exchange for the blood of the Cathars, sent 30,000 crusaders into France to massacre the Cathars and their supporters.

The Cathars were hunted, tortured, burned at the stake and savagely murdered by the Church's hired killers. Estimates place the total number of Cathars and sympathizers murdered between 300,000 and 1,000,000 men, women and children. Throughout this bloodbath, an amazing phenomenon was witnessed.

The Cathars did not express fear, anger or pain, but only bliss, despite the most horrendous atrocities committed against them.

What were they on?

According to William Henry in Mary Magdalene: The Illuminator, it was a psychoactive substance produced by the brain - the Cathars had learned the techniques necessary to produce it from the secret teachings of Jesus.

It was called Christos (anointing oil) by the Essenes, who passed on their secrets to Jesus from Moses, who had obtained them in Egypt from descendants of the banished Atonite priests of Akhenaton.

These teachings involve the power of the sun and the power of the spoken word and constitute what I call "the mysteries of the sun."

They were part of the Egyptian, Babylonian and Greek mysteries, and the Gnostic teachings of the early Christians and secret societies. They have been given to every culture by great adepts as means of enlightening the minds of the people and freeing them from the darkness of ignorance and superstition.

In this article, I will briefly examine the life and teachings of the founders of various mystery schools in the Middle East and Mediterranean area from the Pharaoh Thutmose III to Omraam Mikhail Aivanhov.

There were other mystery schools in India, China, Peru and elsewhere, but the ones I have chosen represent a continuity that spanned millennia and formed the spiritual roots of the Judeo-Christian heritage.

The story of the mysteries of the sun is as old as mankind and as new as the latest scientific breakthrough.

In 1882, Ignatius Donnelly published Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. In this book, he argued convincingly that Atlantis had established colonies in Peru, Egypt and elsewhere and that the mythologies and mysteries of these peoples represented the original religion of the Atlanteans, which was a form of sun worship.

He wrote,

"The religion of the Atlanteans, as Plato tells us, was pure and simple; they made no regular sacrifices but fruits and flowers; they worshipped the sun.

In Peru a single deity was worshipped, and the sun, his most glorious work, was honored as his representative. Quetzalcoatl, the founder of the Aztecs, condemned all sacrifice but that of fruits and flowers. [We can see how far the Aztec religion degenerated over the centuries to the low point of human sacrifice by the time of the Conquest.]

The first religion of Egypt also was pure and simple; its sacrifices were fruits and flowers; temples were erected to the sun, Ra, throughout Egypt. In Peru the great festival of the sun was called Ra-mi."

Between pre-dynastic Egypt and the eighteenth dynasty, the "pure and simple" solar religion of Egypt became very corrupt and complicated.

There were several sun Gods and a whole host of minor Gods. The priesthood was rich and powerful and the people depended on them for magic amulets, praying to the Gods on their behalf and giving them a proper elaborate send-off into the afterlife. Fruits and flowers were no longer fitting sacrifices; animals took their place.

Enter Pharaoh Thutmose III. A younger son of Amenhotep I, he owed his rule to the intervention of the priesthood of Amen-Ra who, in a religious ritual invoking the will of Amen-Ra, appointed him pharaoh, even though he was not in line for the succession.

Thutmose realized that the priesthood was becoming too powerful and sought to curb their power by outwardly paying obeisance to Amen-Ra, but secretly worshipping Aton and supporting a separate priesthood of Aton at Heliopolis who were loyal to the throne.

Under his rule, Thutmose III permitted the common people to indulge in all their fanciful beliefs and superstition such as magic amulets.

He believed that a gradual change in the existing religious beliefs could be more easily and permanently accomplished by establishing a secret mystery school, the students of which would put into practice higher standards. He wanted to gradually infuse into Egyptian religion from the top down those mysteries, myths and rites that would raise the people to a higher understanding and morality.

Thus, in 1489 BCE he founded a secret mystery school, the Order of the Rose Cross, which the Rosicrucians claim descent from and which still exists today. Members of this mystery school were called the Therapeutea, meaning "physicians of the soul."

The sungazing Essene sect of Alexandria later adopted this name and the rosy-cross symbol.

William Henry, in The Healing Sun Code, linked the rosy-cross and the Rosicrucian secrets with the,

"rising of the Healing Sun, the source of life and wisdom."

I recently talked to a woman who studied Egyptology for 25 years and knew about Thutmose III and the Rosicrucians.

She told me that she once knew a Rosicrucian lady, who every time she felt ill would face the sun and do a special breathing exercise in which she would breath in the fire of the sun to burn impurities in her body. She lived to be very old.

This technique was part of the secret teachings of the Rosicrucians, which they were very careful not to reveal to the uninitiated.

Another technique used by Thutmose III and members of his order was the use of healing rods while sungazing. These were copper and zinc tubes that contained hardened coal and magnetite respectively. They were reintroduced to the world by the Russian mystic Count Stefan Colonn Walewski, who was a member of a sungazing mystery school in the Caucasian Mountains.

They amplify the current that passes through the body between the sun and earth while sungazing, enhancing meditation and quickening healing and the development of psychic powers.

Thutmose III's son and grandson continued with the mystery school and the cult of Aton, but it wasn't until his great grandson, Akhenaton, took the throne that things came to a head.

The Revolution of Akhenaton

In 1369 BCE, Amenhotep IV took over the reigns of Egypt from his ailing father Amenhotep III.

During his upbringing, he was educated at the Temple of the Sun at On (Heliopolis) where the priests instilled in him a devotion to Aton. When he became pharaoh, he was given the secret mysteries of the sun handed down from his great grandfather.

He learned that Aton was the one true, self-created, unmanifest God and that most of the other Gods, including Amen-Ra, were man-made. Early in his reign, he changed his name to Akhenaton, meaning "the servant of Aton." Unlike his great grandfather, he had no tolerance for spiritual ignorance.

Akhenaton initiated a change in the religious climate from a fear-based polytheism with its death cult, magic amulets, numerous idols, animal sacrifice, and secretive rituals of a powerful priesthood to a more devotional religion, which was free of graven images, obsession with the afterlife, and magic; which emphasized reverence for sunlight and cleanliness, and simple burial; and which allowed ordinary citizens to freely worship in open-air temples with offerings of fruits, flowers and incense, as was done in the original solar religion of Egypt.

Aton's temples had no idols or graven images other than the one Akhenaton devised - a sun disk from which proceeded rays, the ends of which terminated in graceful hands. Some of these hands held the ankh, the symbol of life, to the nostrils of his sungazing worshippers.

This symbolism shows that Akhenaton understood the relationship between sunlight, prana and breath.

He knew that sunlight is the source of all life upon earth. This was not worship of the physical sun but worship of one God, a supreme deity, whose spirit was in heaven and whose physical manifestation was the sun - the symbol of life. It changed the worship of the sun as a God to the worship of God symbolized by the sun.

Paintings and carvings of Aton were always accompanied with a sort of hieroglyphic footnote, stating that it was just a representation of the All-encompassing Creator.

Thus, Akhenaton established the first monotheistic religion by elevating Aton over Amen-Ra and other Gods. His mother, Tiya, did much to mediate and stem the tide of controversy caused by his bold opposition to the powerful priesthood of Amen-Ra.

However, after she died, he took the offensive and ordered his army to disband the priesthood and deface their false Gods.

Akhenaton loved to officiate at ceremonies as the high priest of Aton.

The following quote from a decree made by Akhenaton upon the founding of his capital city, Akhetaton, shows that morning sungazing was a daily ritual of Atonism:

"Every eye beholds him without hindrance while he fills the land with his rays and makes everyone to live. With seeing whom my eyes are satisfied daily when he rises in this temple and fills it with his own self by means of his rays, beauteous with love, and embraces me with them in life and power forever and ever."

During these ceremonies, Akhenaton and his congregation would sing his Hymn to Aton.

Although the vast majority of Egyptians did not give much credence to Atonism, and Akhenaton's court followed the rituals of the outer religion out of a sense of duty, there existed an inner circle of about 300 initiates who learned from Akhenaton the mysteries of the sun.

Among these were Joseph the son of Jacob, who Robert Feather, in The Mystery of the Copper Scroll of Qumran, claims was Akhenaton's vizier Nakhte.

The Bible records that Joseph married Asenath the daughter of Potiphera, a priest of Aton in Heliopolis, and archaeologists discovered a private chapel to Aton in the ruins of Nakhte's home in Akhetaton.

Robert Feather thinks that after Akhenaton's death, some of these initiates went to the sun temple of Heliopolis and others, including Joseph and his family, went to Elephantine Island in the land of Cush (Ethiopia), where they built another sun temple and established a branch of Judaism that exists to this day.

The Mysteries Formed the Basis of the Judeo-Christian Tradition

After the death of Akhenaton, the teachings of Atonism, its rituals and precepts, were almost completely destroyed by fanatics of the established religion.

This has been the fate of every mystery teaching involving the sun in the past. Most historians and religious writers think that Akhenaton's monotheism was a brief aberration in a long tradition of Egyptian polytheism and that it died with him.

But, buried in the pages of historical and scriptural texts are hints that his ideas survived in the Jewish faith. For example, Psalm 104 is almost identical to the Hymn to Aton.

They also survived in the secret teachings of the Essene and Therapeut Brotherhoods, which were associated with early Christianity.

In the History of Egypt, the Egyptian priest Manetho wrote,

"Moses, a son of the tribe of Levi, educated in Egypt and initiated at Heliopolis, became a High Priest of the Brotherhood…

He was elected by the Hebrews as their chief and he adapted to the ideas of his people the science and philosophy which he had obtained in the Egyptian mysteries when he established a branch of the Egyptian Brotherhood in his country, from which descended the Essenes.

The dogma of an 'only God', which he taught, was the Egyptian Brotherhood interpretation and teaching of the Pharaoh who established the first monotheistic religion known to man [Akhenaton].

The traditions he established in this manner were known completely to only a few of them, and were preserved in the mysteries of the secret societies, the Therapeutea of Egypt and the Essenes."

After returning from Heliopolis, Moses became an annoyance to the priests of Amen-Ra and the court of Ramses II because of his Atonistic ideas.

The historian Josephus records that Moses was sent on a military expedition to Cush in an effort by Pharaoh's courtiers to get rid of the "dissident." There he not only found a wife but another outpost of Atonism on Elephantine Island.

Robert Feather thinks that it was in the wilderness of Cush that Moses saw the burning bush and received his mission.

Flavia Anderson, in The Ancient Secret: Fire from the Sun claimed that the burning bush was actually a small golden tree with a crystal that reflected sunlight so brightly that it appeared to be on fire. A similar talisman, called a punchao, was used by the Incas to put worshippers in a trance so that they could see and communicate with beings of light.

Anderson also relates this golden tree to the Urim and Thummin (perfect light) of the Jews, which was a crystal set in a golden stand, and by which the high priest communicated with God.

Anderson thinks that Moses encountered this golden tree during an initiation in the sun temple of Heliopolis. But it's more likely that he saw it in the sun temple of Elephantine Island right before he returned to Egypt. It's also likely that some of the Atonite priests who were descendants of Joseph and his family joined Moses in his mission.

The Bible records that there were two rival factions of priests during the Exodus. One faction had Egyptian names such as Korah, Dathan, Abiram and On.

In The Secret Initiation of Jesus at Qumran, Robert Feather shows how the descendants of these Egyptian priests, originally appointed at the time of Akhenaton, could have maintained their cohesion down to the beginning of the Qumran Essenes (610 BCE).

When they entered Canaan, they settled around Shiloh and so became known as Shilonite priests. They became prominent around the time of Ezekial (589 BCE), Onias IV (160 BCE) and Jesus (4 BCE). These were also times when the Essenes were active.

The Qumran Essenes, based on the Shilonite priests, came to have a much purer Judaism that rejected animal sacrifice, idols, amulets and burial with worldly goods which crept into the Judaism of the rest of the Israelites. During the Exodus, these priests were pro-Moses and against the priests of Aaron.

It is likely that the priests of Aaron, who backslid into idolatry of the golden calf (the Egyptian Goddess Hathor) while Moses was on the mountain, may have been responsible for reintroducing another Egyptian practice of holocaust sacrifice, prohibited by Atonism. On Mount Sinai, God gave Moses the first set of tablets to present to the Hebrews.

It shows Moses receiving the tablets from the sun, which is depicted as an opening in the sky.

However, when he came down the mountain and saw how the people had lapsed into idolatry, he realized they weren't ready for what was on the tablets. So he smashed the tablets and went back up the mountain where God engraved ten simple commandments on a second set of tablets.

What could have been on the first set? Perhaps the solar mysteries! In any case, the mysteries were handed down by word of mouth from Moses to the Shilonite priests to the Essenes.

Archeologists found in the catacombs of Rome a drawing of Jesus holding a rod of power when raising Lazarus from the dead, showing that early Christians understood that the source of Jesus' power came from the sun.

The Bible records that just before Jesus raised Lazarus, he "lifted up his eyes" to the sun and prayed. The rod is a symbol of the life force, which every Egyptian sun God and sun Gods from Babylonia, India and Peru are shown wielding in paintings and wall carvings.

Many scholars are now coming around to the realisation that Jesus was a member of the Qumran Essene movement and that many of his teachings are similar to the Essene teachings.

The Essenes and Therapeuts considered themselves to be the children of light and so did the early Christians.

According to Gene Savoy in his book 'The Essaei Document: Secret Teachings of an Eternal Race', Jesus received the Essenes' secret teachings, which he calls the paradosis, meaning a divinization process by which one became immortal. Savoy hints at sungazing being a key factor in this secret teaching.

He writes:

"That the Essaei [Essenes] faced the sun at these times [sunrise and sunset] suggests that the sun was used as an intermediary by which men of the earth were linked by 'cords of light' with heaven… and were nurtured on a divine food upon which the angels fed…"

The Therapeuts believed that pure souls returned to the sun and that sunlight indeed is the heavenly, incorruptible food of the soul.

Savoy's "cords of light" linking everyone can be thought of as an energy grid.

The sun is one part of this energy grid; the earth is the other. Savoy wrote elsewhere:

"The followers of Mithra gathered on the summits or stood in the waters, lifting their hands in prayer before the rising sun…"

Savoy also mentioned in Project X that sun worshippers in Peru would stand on the summits of mountains or sun temples.

This made me think of the vortices and ley lines of the earth grid, which are focal points and lines of electromagnetic energy usually found on high points on the earth's surface and in stream beds.

Richard Leviton and Robert Coons, in "Ley Lines and the Meaning of Adam," a chapter from Antigravity and The World Grid, claimed that the electromagnetic system of our bodies, the entire biosphere and the earth grid are part of a much larger solar system grid and it's all connected.

And the energy that powers this grid is the light of God.

They wrote,

"The landscape temple made of stones and crystal… linked Heaven and Earth through Man.

The terrestrial temple also functioned as a Grid Door by which human consciousness… could actually exit this plane and enter 'the realm of the Gods' [what William Henry called 'the dimension of the blessed'].

Through this Grid Door, the Gods could also channel their spiritual vibrations and messages."

Perhaps that's how God channeled the mysteries of the sun and then the Ten Commandments to Moses on the terrestrial temple of Mt. Sinai.

It's significant that key events in Jesus' ministry occurred on the peaks of mountains and in streams (his baptism, his last temptation, the sermon on the mount, his transfiguration, his death, and his ascension).

Jesus passed on the Essene secret teachings on the mysteries of the sun to his disciples, including Mary Magdalene.

The early Christians, who were not privy to these teachings, at first worshipped the spirit of Christ in the sun, but around the third century they lapsed into a personality cult of Jesus worship, which has continued to this day.

Fragments of these secret teachings can be found in the Dead Sea scrolls, in the apocryphal text known as the Pistis Sophia, and in the Essene Gospel of Peace, which was hidden in the Vatican library for centuries before Edmond Bordeux Szekely discovered it in 1928.

In the Pistis Sophia, an ancient gospel suppressed for over a thousand years and ignored by the orthodox churches even after its publication in the last century, Jesus, after his resurrection, elaborates on the solar mysteries and how necessary they are for entering the kingdom of heaven:

"Ye are to seek after the mysteries of the Light, which purify the body of matter and make it into refined light exceedingly purified. Amen I say unto you…

I have torn myself asunder and brought unto them all the mysteries of the Light, that I may purify them… else would no soul of the total race of men have been saved, and they would not be able to inherit the Kingdom of the Light…"

How this purification occurs is hinted at in this further passage:

"Now, therefore, he who shall receive the mysteries of the baptisms, then they becometh a great, exceedingly violent, wise fire and it burneth up the sins and entereth into the soul secretly and consumeth all the sins which the counterfeiting spirit hath made fast on to it."

In the 'Essene Gospel of Peace', Jesus gives a teaching on the purifying role of sunlight in this baptism of fire.

He tells the sick after instructing them on fasting,

"And if afterward there remain within you aught of your past sins and uncleanness, seek the angel of sunlight… For I tell you truly, holy is the angel of sunlight who cleans out all impurities and makes all evil-smelling things of a sweet odor.

None may come before the face of God, whom the angel of sunlight lets not pass.

Truly, all must be born again of the sun and of truth, for your body basks in the sunlight of the Earthly Mother, and your spirit basks in the sunlight of the truth of the Heavenly Father."

The receiving of this fire through sungazing with arms upraised in a Y formation or bent at the elbow and hands spread out and facing the sun was called by the Greeks "fire blooming" because the radiance or essence of the sun thus channeled burned away impurities in the solar plexus, which, by the way, is associated with the sun and with fire.

One can find wall carvings, paintings, statues, woodcuts and photographs of sun worshippers from all over the world - Hindus, Muslims, American Indians, ancient Egyptians, Medieval monks, Russians, Incas, and even aborigines in prehistoric petroglyphs - all with upraised arms.

William Henry wrote in Mary Magdalene: The Illuminator that when Jesus taught his disciples the Lord's Prayer, he also taught them this prayer position, which he learned from the Egyptians, who called it the Ka position.

Moses also learned it from the Egyptians and used it to invoke the light of God during the Israelites' battle with the Amalekites. Significantly, the battle was won at sunset.

This leads us to consider another part of the mysteries revealed by the Pistis Sophia, which is a certain power of the spoken word.

The soul, in order to be cut free from the counterfeit spirit, must utter,

"the mystery of the undoing of the seals and of all the bonds."

This is the science of the spoken word, the uttering of sacred mantras, prayers and songs that remove or restrain the evil self, the "karmic records" of the individual.

These spiritual sciences and techniques were not revealed to all the faithful. According to the Pistis Sophia, the mysteries were to be given only to those initiates who proved themselves worthy through years of testing.

They were also kept secret because of the threat of persecution.

The Mysteries Survive Persecution During the Dark Ages

In Lost Light, Alvin Boyd Kuhn wrote that sun worship,

"was the heart's core of all religion and philosophy everywhere before the Dark Ages obscured the vision of truth… The dreadful shadows of the Dark Age will not end until the bright glow of the solar wisdom is released once more to enlighten benighted modernity."

During the Dark Ages, the mysteries of the sun survived and were passed down through the,

Knights Templar

Cathars

Paulicians

Bogomils

other Gnostics

Many of these saints were brutally murdered by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches in an attempt to suppress their teachings, which threatened the Churches' established authority.

One of the most inspired Gnostics was Saul of Tarsus. Saul experienced a sudden conversion and gnosis on the way to Damascus. Paintings of this experience usually show Saul being blinded by the noonday sun shining through a break in the clouds directly upon him.

Gene Savoy, in The Essaei Document, claimed that Saul had learned that the Essenes sungazed in order to communicate with God. When Saul tried it, he received a powerful, life-transforming message, which left him blind and temporarily insane so that he could not eat or drink for three days.

In 1840, Dr. Gustav Fechner, the father of psychophysics, experimented with gazing at the sun through colored filters and liquids. He did it at noon and, as a result, became blind and insane. However, after much prayer and meditation in a dark room, he recovered his sight and sanity and more.

He began seeing auras and angels, whom he called "beings from the sun."

Socrates taught in his academy that personal transformation was only possible through understanding the word of God, the Light, and that it was attained only through inner illumination absorbed from the sun. Apparently, Saul the persecutor was transformed by the sun into Paul the proselytizer.

Clement of Alexandria recorded that Paul, before going to Rome, said that he would bring to the brethren the Gnosis, or tradition of the hidden mysteries, as the fulfillment of the blessings of Christ, who, Clement says, reveals the secret knowledge and trains the Gnostic by mysteries, that is, revelations made in the state of higher consciousness.

Such a state can be attained through deep meditation, chanting and sungazing. Unfortunately, Paul was arrested in Rome and a few years later executed.

His true teachings on the mysteries of the sun were lost for several centuries until they were resurrected in Armenia and Syria during the late seventh century by the Paulicians. This group was so named because their teachings were the Gnostic mysteries handed down from St. Paul when he brought them to the Balkans and Syria during his ministry.

The Paulicians were persecuted and diminished in the ninth century, although until relatively recently there existed an Armenian sun cult whose adherents were known as Arevorti, "children of the sun."

In the tenth century, a new Gnostic movement, the Bogomils, arose in Bulgaria, which carried many of the same beliefs and practices of the Paulicians, including sun worship.

However, their teachings were based on the Gospel of John.

At the beginning of the 12th century, Byzantium started to persecute the Bogomils. Many were killed, but some fled to Italy, southern France and elsewhere.

By the middle of the 12th century, Gnostic schools like the Knights Templars and Cathars had sprung up and spread throughout Western Europe. These were the Western European counterparts of the Eastern European Bogomils.

The Cathars "pure ones" and the Knights Templars were concentrated in the Languedoc and Midi regions of Southern France.

The Cathars claimed to possess the Book of Love (AMOK) the original initiatory version of the Book of John (the only gospel the Cathars, Knights Templars and Bogomils read) which likely contained the solar mysteries. It taught that a spark or tiny sun of the Christ light dwelt in man's heart and it revealed how to nurture it like a seed of divinity so that it blossomed into the rose of the original rosy-cross mystery school.

This teaching, which reputedly could transform a human into a divine being, once belonged to,

Thutmose III

Akhenaton

Moses

Solomon

Jesus

John the Beloved

It was reputed to be able to dissolve all hatred, anger and jealousy from the hearts of men.

The Cathars believed that the key to this divine transformation was the correct understanding of the symbolism of the Eucharist, that is, the bread and wine and the Holy Grail.

The light of the sun is the bread; its warmth is the wine. The Holy Grail is the brain's third ventricle or cavity containing the pineal and pituitary glands. This secret, known to the Cathars as the consolamentum ("with the sun in the mind"), was kept hidden from the uninitiated.

The Cathars believed man entered the kingdom of God through his soul, the seat of which was considered by Descartes to be the pineal gland. The Cathars believed that the solar elements of the Eucharist transubstantiated into the body and blood of Christ within themselves.

The world transubstantiation comes from the Latin trans, across, and substantia, substance.

This substance or glandular secretion, caught by the Holy Grail (the third ventricle), is what,

the Hindus call Amrita, "the elixir of immortality"

the Greeks called Ambrosia, "the nectar of the Gods"

William Henry, in Mary Magdalene: The Illuminator, wrote,

"All the occult mysteries speak of a key that is required to unlock mystical secrets of enlightenment.

Specifically, the lost secret of the Templars… is about building a better human through the release of secretions from the astounding manufacturing plant of spiritual oils, the human brain. This oil or essence was the key secret of Mary Magdalene and the Essenes, recovered by the Templars from between the temples.

The skull [specifically the third ventricle] is… the Cup of Life, the Grail, that catches these secretions from the brain… The Templars' ultimate objective was to restore true Gnostic monotheism to the world, uniting Christianity, Judaism and Islam in a New Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.

The 'new' humans that inhabited this New Jerusalem (or New Atlantis) would know and embody the secret of the Kingdom of Heaven within the brain and its capability of producing… the elixir of life, the Sacred Soma, the tonic of immortality, for these terms all refer to the cosmic essence or brain substance."

It was also called Christos (anointing oil) by the Essenes.

Like their forerunners, the Bogomils, the Cathars engaged in chanting. This along with sungazing was the key to activating the pineal gland and producing the oil of Christos.

The use of mantras and chanting can awaken the pineal because it sits above the mouth suspended in the third ventricle, a chamber filled with cerebrospinal fluid.

Its location above the mouth in a fluid chamber makes the pineal gland quite uniquely positioned to respond to sonic vibrations.

Manly P. Hall, in The Opening of the Third Eye, stated that the pineal gland,

"vibrating at a very high rate of speed, is the actual cause of true spiritual illumination."

The bliss that is experienced during sungazing and chanting is not just a natural high.

According to William Henry, bliss is created by Christos and is a state of extreme happiness and freedom from attachment, conditioned responses and fear. It is the key required to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov said that only those who are happy and carefree like children can enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

The teachings of the Cathars posed quite a threat to the fledgling Catholic Church. Unlike the Cathars, the Church of Rome clearly did not produce a substance that gave people an experience of divine bliss. And if it did, it would keep it from the people.

That's why the Church had to exterminate them.

Fortunately, today we live in an age of spiritual freedom and anyone can teach and learn the science of the spoken word and techniques of sungazing presented by sun yogi Hira Ratan Manek and others.

Although the light of the Cathars was snuffed out in the 13th century, at the beginning of the 20th century, the teachings of the Bogomils were revived by the master Peter Deunov and his chief disciple, Omraam Mikhail Aivanhov.

The Mysteries of the Sun Revealed

On January 31, 1900, Mikhael Aivanhov was born into a poor family in Serbtzi, a small village of Macedonia.

Throughout his childhood and adolescence, he was inspired by reading the Gospel of John, lives of the saints and books on yoga, which led him, at the age of fifteen, to an experience of illumination or samadhi.

He went to the seashore to gaze at the sunrise. After meditating and sungazing for a little while, he sensed the presence of a heavenly being. Suddenly bathed in a cloud of brilliant light, he was plunged into a state of ecstasy.

Later, he commented:

"It was so beautiful that I was beside myself.

To see such a being, with all those colors, all that light! He was almost invisible in the extraordinary luminosity that surrounded him. I found myself flooded with light. I was in a state of bliss, of ecstasy so immense, so powerful, that I no longer knew where I was. It was a delirious joy; it was heaven; it was the universe!

Ever since then I have felt that if God were not all beauty I could not believe in him. It is beauty that remains in my mind as the one essential: neither power, nor knowledge, nor wealth, nor glory.

Only beauty!"

On the basis of his own spiritual experiences and of his reading of what he called the "Book of Nature," he discovered the mysteries of the sun before being taught them by Peter Deunov.

Mikhael and his master would go together to meditate in the pre-dawn stillness and watch the sun rise. Deunov also gave him the basic methods and exercises in mantra, prayer and sacred song: the mysteries of the spoken word.

In 1959, he travelled to India, where he visited numerous ashrams and met several spiritual leaders. He was welcomed by several renowned Hindu sages as an accomplished master in his own right. One adept hailed him as a "solar rishi." Another gave him his spiritual name, Omraam.

One of the masters he met was the immortal bodhisattva, Babaji, who in 1992 and 1998 gave his blessings to another teacher of sungazing, sun yogi Hira Ratan Manek.

Central to Omraam's teaching is the concept of light. He saw in light the first emanation of the Divine, retaining the Divine's qualities more than any other manifestation.

As he insisted:

"Light is a living spirit which comes from the sun and which establishes a direct relationship with our own spirit."

He explains how we can use light to transform ourselves and become radiant as the sun.

In The Splendour of Tiphareth, he wrote,

"Only the sun's rays are capable of replacing all that is impure, worn out or obscure within you, and they can only do so if you learn to receive them.

If you welcome them with your whole heart, they will begin their work of replacing the 'old man' in you, so that you will be wholly regenerated, renewed and resuscitated; your thoughts, feelings and acts will all be different.

Only the sun's rays are capable of working this transformation within you."

Omraam loved to talk about the Spirit of the sun.

In this respect his philosophy coincided with the age-old mysteries of the sun, which taught that the true sun is not the star that is visible in the sky, but the invisible spiritual sun, the source of all life, light and love.

He pointed out that,

"On the physical, material level, the sun is the door, the link and the medium thanks to which we can make contact with the Lord…

Through the sun, we work with God Himself. I can say that certain things that no human can teach me have been revealed to me by the sun. No book can give you what the sun gives you if you learn to have the proper relationship with him… If you want to create a bond between you [and the sun], you have to look at him in all consciousness.

If you do that there will be a communication of vibrations between the sun and you in which forms and colours, a whole new world, will be born… The sun is an intelligence, a life, a living light. And when you understand that, all of a sudden he begins to speak to you…

Try asking him a question and you will see that he will answer you."

Omraam died in 1986, but his teachings on the mysteries of the sun live on in numerous books. Over 90 books have been published in English, and there are enough notes from his hundreds of lectures to fill another 400 books.

Of these books, the ones that are primarily concerned with the mysteries of the sun are,

The Splendour of Tiphareth: The Yoga of the Sun

Toward a Solar Civilization

Light is a Living Spirit

Louise-Marie Frenette's newly-released biography of Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov, The Life of a Master in the West, has just been published in New Zealand by First Edition Press.

Delight

4th May 2021, 01:11

‘Freedom, Equality and Brotherhood under the Sign of Love’. Under that
motto a congress took place in May 2017, in St. Félix Lauragais (France).
This conference, organized by the Bulgarian scholar Damyan Popchristov
and the association ‘Bulgarians in the Pays d’Autan’, wanted to contribute to a spiritual unification of Europe “from a historical and spiritual
perspective.”

The underlying motive was the mission of Nikètas in 1167,
now 850 years ago. The purpose was to investigate how the crucial Bogomil-Cathar synod over which Nikètas presided, could promote a similar
‘convivencia’ in our modern age.

The various texts bore the character
of testimonies, while the meeting itself instigated a great impulse. The
participants experienced that the pure and intelligent Christianity of the
Spirit is still internationally active. It is spiritually very much alive in a time
in which our society changes drastically. And again, the Occitan region is
the scene of action.

The ‘Council of the Cathars’ in 1167 was led by Nikètas, patriarch of the
seven churches of Asia. During this synod – with the allure of a great medieval knight and damsel meeting – tens of the sons and daughters of the
nobility were sealed again with the consolamentum of the living. It was
proof that the Cathar ‘Church of the Spirit’ formed the heart of Occitan
society. The young Esclarmonde of Foix was also present.

It was in 2017 that Damyan Popchristov brought an international group
of speakers together such as the English Anne Baring, the grande dame
of esoteric thinking on the impact of the Light Message through the
ages. She proved how this “Church of the Spirit” was firmly anchored in
the ancient knowledge of the connection between humans and cosmos.
Eduard Berga discussed an old Bogomil text. Dick van Niekerk treated the
impact of the Bogomil version of the ‘Our Father’. Pierre Gohar spoke of
the “universal community of the rose” – which forms a meeting place
for all light-sparks and Petra Augrandjean opened the day with a specific
focus on the work of the patriarch Nikètas.

Pentagram offers only a selection from the various presentations. Not
all texts were available at the time of publication of this issue. For the
“World images”, the editors chose modern images of some cities and
places where the two brotherhoods undertook their work in earlier times.
The accompanying texts are derived from David Lorimer’s contribution.

The Congres
in Saint-FélixLauragais (https://ia802803.us.archive.org/21/items/Pentagram20174English/Pentagram2017-4-English.pdf)

Delight

4th May 2021, 02:07

Here are a few hours of history

From Graham Hancock's "The Master Game", a wonderful account of the most radical and revolutionary Christian sect in History- The Cathars. The Roman Catholic Church INVENTED the Great Inquisition to stamp out the Cathars as they were the greatest threat that, up to that time, had ever been posed to the Roman Empire Catholic Church, the Popish Power and the Vatican Nation-State.

Graham Hancock 2017 - The Cathars LightWeavers of Languedoc Pt.1.mp4

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Graham Hancock 2017 - The Cathars LightWeavers of Languedoc Pt.2.mp4

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Graham Hancock 2017 - The Cathars LightWeavers of Languedoc Pt.3.mp4

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Delight

4th May 2021, 04:09

Immersing myself in what is written about the Cathars, I am thinking about the dualism core belief. There is a split between good and evil. In the genocide of the Chathars, according to GrahamHancock , both the Catholic church and the Cathar community saw themselves in a battle over humanity. There was a spiritual war behind the world play.

The split between good and evil seems too extreme. Also, in a deep way, I feel God is PRESENT in matter and the good/evil split is in a MATRIX THAT EVIL has constructed. EVIL is strangely in English the opposite of LIVE. Also in English Heart/Hearth/Earth are all held together.

IF I AM A CATHAR RETURNEE< NOW WHAT?

At this time, I think I am here with others to embed consciousness of the God Force in ourselves. Once that is embedded, LIGHT begins flowing and this is what I think I am doing with a whole LOT of others. We need not meet one another. It matters that we KNOW we are ONLINE, that we are all here to bring LIGHT into matter.

It is IMO the demons and the angels archetypes showing up. Am I on the side of the angels? I feel like the world is HORRIBLE. This is NOT fun. But I have chosen that I am in a HUGE game with my experience. One goes back to the idea that MIND and thought precede my reality. I intend to manifest a clear vision of what I LOVE.
I do not need to know how it will unfold. I am here to forgive what I remember and The God Force acts as it will do ... who I am is what I get.

In hooponopono we have to take on all of whatever we observe as ours. Then we have to forgive it. This seems overwhelming but focusing on the feeling of God all around us makes it easier. When one feels the PRESENCE, one can FEEL energetically the clearing in our fields. This is a sense we are developing.

I am taking on the idea that my mind place is like my computer operating system. I am the model for all earthly computers and just as I could learn to work on a laptop, I operate my Mind. I am creating the perfect transmitter/receiver for the LIVING GOD becaue I absolutely am in love with God.

The metaphor is I am allow the emptying of stuff (off load the hard drive), Increase my RAM, Increase the battery life of voltage, have a clear channel to receive and have a powerful emanation. WE SHINE the information, good news, like a WI FI of divine miracles. WE ARE ALREADY IN HEAVEN and we are playing a game of Good versus Evil.

I just cannot grok two God's. I can look at the subject more as God expresses in all ways through man and woman. This is a simulation at best and the matrix created is EVIL. I don't understand how but I feel I may see a new earth where evil is transmuted to LIVE with the inspiration and PRESENCE of the Living God. I may not be a Cathar or I am playing in the next stage of the MUNDANE expression on earth of unification of Matter and Consciousness of God. I feel we are building a LIVING new matrix (the matrix being what we create) which is IMO the scheme of things.

Old Student

4th May 2021, 04:19

Hym

4th May 2021, 04:51

Zoroastrian.

Zoro, the hero who combated colonial oppression, and looked good doing it.

That t.v. show was not a coincidence, as weren't the movies of the same name.

Many things are hidden in language, if we only look and listen to the connections hidden in plain sight, and sound.

There are so many cross references in language, culture, history, travel and the battles for the heart of humanity.....
All waiting to be re-discovered..

I often hesitate to write because so many things are obviously connected and being so, I see some of my writing as juvenile, even pedestrian.... But it is best to start off just walking.

I hold back, waiting for others to join in, as I know, quite factually, that some here on Avalon have so much to share....

It is the method of all who wish to control others to hide those connections,

And it is our way to rejoin those things that were separated....

Hym

4th May 2021, 05:20

And, Many Thanks to you D-Light for posting all of the stories....!!!!!
I see many connections, especially in my understanding of sacred languages.

Since we have been studying and discovering the history of the Vikings in South America at around the same time that the Cathars were thriving in the south of France....

The next question, the next discovery is....

Are there many connections between these two, outside of becoming the target of colonial catholicism and it's long history in suppressing not only the fair trade of any competition,

But of being absolutely and literally diabolical in suppressing the more essential connections to the possibilities of dynamic self discovery, alive in the deeper spiritual and historical connections from even before the Essenes, The Ones connected to the Essence.

Whenever the dominating class of politically religious factions, especially the Papa'L ones, sense the presence of an essential truth that leads to individual spiritual growth, and the accompanying courage it always generates.......................

They go out of their way to suppress the receptive power of the divine feminine....the one that listens and learns.....and whose expression is much more impactful, whether it comes from a woman or a man....

Anna70

4th May 2021, 09:55

You may enjoy a wander through this site: https://www.cathar.info/cathar_whoswho.htm

Thank you so much for this! I will forward it to my friend, as a particular section will be especially relevant to her!!

(By the way, I've ordered Arthur Guirdham's "The Cathars and Reincarnation". This whole thing is fascinating!)

Bill Ryan

4th May 2021, 11:31

This extraordinary and classic work of deep research contains a very great deal about the Cathars. It's quite some rabbit hole, but is highly highly recommended.

The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail [Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln]
https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Michael%20Baigent%2C%20Richard%20Leigh%2C%20Henry%20Lincoln%20-%20Holy%20Blood%2C%20Holy%20Grail%20(2004).pdf

https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Michael%20Baigent%2C%20Richard%20Leigh%2C%20Henry%20Lincoln%20-%20Holy%20Blood%2C%20Holy%20Grail%20(2004).pdf

Bill Ryan

4th May 2021, 11:39

Recommend a book, In Search of Zarathustra, by Paul Kriwaczek. Lots of information about the Cathars, the Albigensian Crusade and other groups all around Europe starting in Roman times that had ties back in some way to the Zoroastrians.

Here's the book:

https://projectavalon.net/Paul_Kriwaczek_In_Search_of_Zarathustra.pdf

https://projectavalon.net/Paul_Kriwaczek_In_Search_of_Zarathustra.pdf

Anna70

4th May 2021, 11:47

Wow, thank you, Bill! I'd heard of that book before, but never got round to reading it.

Edit: Wow, and another one, thank you! I'll go and excavate my e-reader! :bigsmile:

Bassplayer1

4th May 2021, 12:10

I'm sitting here, sipping coffee and I'm halfway through watching this talk and I'm loving it! This woman gives her fascinating account of her journey and research into The Cathars.
There's lots of lovely info here. She talks about her travels across France and what she learnt talking to many of the folk who feel in their hearts that they are reincarnated Cathars that burnt in the fires and have returned.

I don't want to get sidetracked here, but last night I was wondering about Dolores Cannon and her Three Waves of Volunteers work. I'm not saying that the possibility of returning Cathars are the Three Waves - the timing doesn't fit, but I wonder if there's a similarity in terms of these people being here on this planet and this desperate time, to shine their light? Perhaps I'll find out more as I carrying on watching ...

Anyway, back on topic, enjoy ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aid_mKZz6ns

Delight

9th May 2021, 23:23

I am pretty sure that duality must be resolved to unity at a larger context. However, I do not know why that seems so true? In thinking about what has been "done" under the name of unity, where it denies individuality, that also seems so true. I am feeling tired, my mind seems muddles when trying to understand what is "true" about "the state we are in". I have felt very uplifted by ideas I hold concerning resolution of PARADOX that seems the only constant in this world.

Once or twice, a little while ago, I thought I was getting a grasp on my POV. The more I learn, the less I know. HOWEVER, I KNOW what happens every day when I hold LOVE in my heart for those around me. They feel it and it seems a bubble of good is right there between us. So, I will hold that thinking is irrelevant to what is important.

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Holy Blood Holy Grail (https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/conspiracy/HOLY%20BLOOD,%20HOLY%20GRAIL.pdf)

A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of The Pyrenees which enables him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. The tale seems to begin with buried treasure and then turns into an unprecedented historical detective story - a modern Grail quest leading back through cryptically coded parchments, secret societies, the Knights Templar, the Cathar heretics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a dynasty of obscure French kings deposed more than 1,300 years ago. The author's conclusions are persuasive: at the core is not material riches but a secret - a secret of explosive and controversial proportions, which radiates out from the little Pyrenees village all the way to contemporary politics and the entire edifice of the Christian faith. It involves nothing less than... the Holy Grail.

Delight

10th May 2021, 02:12

Enjoyed this very much. Plasma (a living light), pleroma and aeons....

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Delight

10th May 2021, 02:25

A series on gnostics

"In 1945 an Egyptian peasant discovered a collection of early Christian scriptures - the Nag Hammadi Codices, which revealed the existence of a Gnostic version of Christianity. Gnostics (derived from the Greek word gnosis - meaning `knowledge') felt that they could get to know God, and their own soul, going a step beyond faith. Their message, and the words of the `Gnostic Gospels' were buried in the sand of the Egyptian desert. Some scholars now believe these scriptures to be just as authentic, if not more so, than the books we collectively know as the New Testament."

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"In the late 12th century `Cathars' started preaching an alternative form of Christianity to that of Roman Catholicism, in the French region of Languedoc. Empowering abstinence and poverty, they called themselves Good Men, and believed that the world was an alien environment for man's soul. The Roman Catholic Church tried unsuccessfully to persuade them they were wrong. Then came the Inquisition, followed by the Albigensian Crusade which crushed the rebels with a military campaign. The `heretics' were burned at the stake by the hundreds, and again Gnosticism was supressed. Brian Blessed plays a Cathar Bishop, and Ian Brooker plays a Spanish Monk, in an attempt to recreate a theological dispute in France, 1206."

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"Egyptian Gnostics texts came to Florence in 1492. The Gnostic idea, that man has the capacity to rise above his worldly fate to become a spiritual being, even to be `as God' was the heretical centrepiece of Renaissance philiosophy. This spiritual notion was forced underground by by the Catholic Church's opposition, and into the world of magic and alchemy. However a modern millionaire, Joost Ritman, is an example of how Gnoticism continues to defy the passage of time, to re-emerge in every spiritual era."

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"The Gnostic Gospels said that the world was no place for the divine soul of man, that the world was tragic and that it wasn't created by God, but by a lower life divinity. To the question "Did a good God create a world of pain" they replied that there was a crack in the universe. The first 20th century scholar to read the Gnostics was C.G.Jung - their `Gnosis', or knowledge, was to him spiritual self-knowledge. In this programme, scholars debate the relevence of the Gnostic `pulse' for modern man."

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Bill Ryan

10th May 2021, 02:42

These two threads might offer some further value. :sun:

Nag Hammadi Codices (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?65264-Nag-Hammadi-Codices&highlight=hammadi)
Gnosis, Mary Magdalene in the Nag Hammadi Library (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?65264-Nag-Hammadi-Codices&highlight=hammadi)

Delight

10th May 2021, 05:15

This seems Gnostic and the world is seen as a simulation for learning

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Anna70

10th May 2021, 14:56

This is really interesting. The part about star constellation connections reminded me of the work of Wayne Herschel (http://thehiddenrecords.com), who discovered that there are many ancient building complexes resembling star constellations. (He also has an interesting theory about certain symbols from various civilisations representing how Orion's belt acts as a marker to find a place near the Pleiades, which he thinks may be a clue to our origins.)

Edit: I realise this may seem a little off-topic, but I do wonder if there is a connection.

Delight

11th May 2021, 03:05

Delight

12th August 2021, 00:05

Dr Zelenko does not mince words here. We are being told we must kneel before a great evil or die and it is now a time when we must choose. What if we MUST die to the OLD paradigm and transcend the "whatever we believe" and that we CAN? We can IF we have the "God" connection IMO.

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Has anyone else been thinking about the Cathar connection of this dilemma we face these days?

Dear Friend,
These past few weeks I have been in LA, Arizona and Colorado working on TV projects. I can't wait to tell you about them as they come together.
For now, I would like to talk with you about the bifurcation happening before our eyes and how our times remind me of what happened to the Cathars.
800 years ago the predatory Catholic Church purged southern France of a population of “heretics”.

The Cathars, as they were known, were called the pure ones and Good Christians because they sought illumination, perfect wholeness/ holiness, and ascension; a state of total love, compassion, empathy, gratitude and positivity.

Branding them with yellow crosses, which the Cathars were forced to wear in public at all times, the Church ignited the flames of segregation, shunning the pure ones, ordering them into lock down and "...not to move about either inside or outside”. After lockdown, the Church exterminated them to eliminate their way to heaven.

This was the first European genocide.

The last stand of the Cathars was in 1244 when the hundreds of Cathars were incinerated at Montsegur.
The Church’s supremacy ended several centuries later with the emergence of a new philosophical movement called the Age of Enlightenment. It was an ideological war against the popes, pimps and politicians of the time. It gave birth to democracy, constitutional government and the freedom to pursue individual happiness.

Rationalism, Materialism and Science came with Enlightenment and with it a belief that ‘you’ are just information. You are matter. That’s it. Spirit disappeared. This belief killed religion.

Technology aimed at controlling mind and body arose with this enlightened technology and became the primary tool of the new priests.

Today, AI and Transhumanism are the fruits of this mindset. Every time you pick up your smart phone you are affirming the Age of Enlightenment’s belief that you are just information and that it doesn’t matter if ‘you’ are in your flesh and blood body or in some other container for this information. You are you, even if you are in, say, a robot body.

Today, high priest technologists believe they are empowered to tell us what we can think, believe, say, do and be. Total control is their goal, always.

Yes, the predator lives.

So, too, do the Cathars.

In this recurring battle or dance between light and dark, pure and impure, the predator seeks to keep the heretics from attaining perfection (all the while feeding on their spiritual energy) and to close the ascension path. Impure means are used to this impure end (to paraphrase Ghandi). It’s what the predator does.

For the heretics our quest is to perfect or purify our bodies in the model of the spiritualized light body of Christ and to transmute earth into a higher state of being.

As I have been discussing since 2012, these are the two paths before us :

Organic : Soul Rising

The organic path leads to the raising of your body, mind and soul’s vibratory frequencies to angelic levels, resulting in elevated bliss, health and the transformation of your physical body into a spiritualized ‘light body’ mirroring that of the resurrected Christ. For the Cathars (and the Essenes who preceded them), this was a return to our original state of being.

Technological : Soul Descending

The modern Catholic Church’s endorsement of AI is seen as a validation that it represents the technological path. The technological path leads to merger with AI, blurring our physical bodies with pharma + nano technology, and ultimately, a transformation of your physical body into a digital cartoon avatar, a digital light body, that descends into and exists in a black box. (I’m not joking…or joining.)
As you are reading this on your computer or your smart phone you are staring in to the black box. The mirror before you is the altar of Silicon Valley’s Big Tech Swingers.
With every breath we inhale their chemicals in the air, their EMFs from the sky. We eat their genetically modified frankenfood, and line up for their mRNA shots. On average, we spend six or more hours per day parked, worshipping, in front of the black box.

We are already coexisting with the children of AI and the next 'trans human'. Millions of humans are trans-something. Millions of us are working along side robots and synthetic beings -- replacement humans -- made in our image. Millions more have created an online avatar or digital twin of themselves that will long out live their present physical body.

A few more steps and, 'for the benefit of all', some will 'do the right thing' and will drop their physical body and descend.

Do you think I am kidding when I say that Big Tech wants you to shift into a virtual world?

Just last month Facebook announced that it is ‘all in’ as concerns the meta verse, the digital reality the Big Tech Swingers are superimposing over the physical world.

Their vastly evil plan to turn us into virtual beings is now public. It has been since NASA high priest, Dennis Bushnell, told us back in 2000.

So, where do we go from here?

THE LAW OF THREES

Gurdjieff talked about the Law of Threes, which states that every phenomenon in the universe is the direct result of the mutual interaction of not two, but three forces: active, passive and neutral.

The “Law of Three” refers to an assertion that every phenomenon is a new arising that comes into being through three distinct lines of action. The first force is holy affirming, the second force holy denying, and third force holy reconciling.

In a nutshell what the law of three means is that every action requires three forces. When three forces are present, things happen, actions are actualized. But without three forces—with one or two forces—nothing happens.

The three universal forces are described as active, passive and neutralizing. A car’s gearbox has three modes, forward, reverse and neutral, all equally essential.

The organic way is holy affirming.

The technological is holy denying.

The third is holy reconciling.

Just as Cathar and Catholic, pure and impure, could not reconcile or exist together, it is difficult to reconcile such different humans as organic and techno. Will cohabitation be possible? What do we do if we are already one foot in the black box?
If we are to transcend what is to come we must tap the third holy reconciling force. Doing so requires the higher dimensional consciousness of the angels and avatars.
We must call them in.

Join me on line for “Avatars Awakening: Humanity's Last Stand” and Clare in me in Nashville on October 23-24 for HALO:Revealing the Light Within for clarity on what is before us and the next best steps on the ascending path.
Peace and love.
Wm. Henry

William Henry website (https://www.williamhenry.net)

jaybee

25th August 2021, 11:10

Has anyone else been thinking about the Cathar connection of this dilemma we face these days?

Definitely....

Low frequency satanism seems to be at the base of the anti life, anti human, anti nature problem we have going on at the moment, exacerbated by modern technology and the move towards genetically modifying the human race to be even more at the mercy of the dark forces and Artificial Intelligence... ( fake pandemic + vax programme)...

Given the choice I'm sure most people would reject the moves towards transhumanism so they have to do it sneakily using deception and dishonesty..)

I think the Cathars recognised the reality of ..... this reality.... and at the moment Rex Mundi is becoming bolder and coming more out of hiding- coming out of the shadows - to terrorize and dominate more using weak and tainted humans to do the dirty work... ie MSM, politicians, health organizations, key people in positions of power in countries all over the world ......

http://arcana.wikidot.com/rex-mundi

Rex Mundi is Latin for "King of the World".

To the Cathars, Rex Mundi was the false God - the chaotic god of material things, the Demiurge, and the embodiment of evil. The true God was one of spirituality, peace, and love, who created the heavens. Rex Mundi either created the physical world, or somehow captured it from the true God. To this line of thought, Rex Mundi also corrupted the church and worship of the true god, leading much of the church astray with physical power, wealth, and temptation in this life. As you can imagine, there was significant theological disagreement between the Cathars and the Catholics. This conflict eventually boiled into the Albigensian Crusade, wherein the Catholics wiped out the Cathars.

Rex Mundi is also frequently used as a euphemism for The Devil by some Christians (due to references in the New Testament to the "prince of this world"). (These passages of Revelations and the Gospel of John1 may be part of where the Cathars got the concept from. Far from being the apocalyptic fundamentalists of their day, however, the Cathars were more like the Western equivalent of Buddhism. They believed in reincarnation, pacifism, vegetarianism, etc. See Cathars for further details.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItjXTieWKyI

(I just had to do an edit because the actual clip from the film Titanic wouldn't embed here - it's the bit where 'Jack' stands on the front of the ship and shouts... 'I'm the King of the World...' )

mmmmm - we all know what happened to the Titanic - and the same will happen to the human race and maybe all life on Earth... if Rex Mundi, the King of the World is given free reign.... by his minions using Big Tech, genetic modification of the Human Race, 5G and AI...

We're in the middle of this (re~run of) the war against humanity right now and there's no telling how it will all pan out ultimately... everything to play for - everything to win or lose as we slip into the Age of Aquarius...

At the moment I feel it's all in the balance ...

But at the end of the day - it's nothing that a good old Serious Global Natural Catastrophe can't sort out - whenever that comes along....

Anna70

17th December 2021, 11:30

This looks interesting. :-)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1471789771781517317

wondering

17th December 2021, 13:01

The Cathars fascinate me, and I feel very drawn to them. I really look forward to seeing this - thanks, Anna70.

Anna70

17th December 2021, 13:39

My pleasure! :heart:

Delight

21st December 2021, 19:04

Several videos about the Cathars. I have decided that the Cathars have returned. Clif High mentioned the Cathars in his video this week.

"The laurel has turned green! The cathars descend to the world!"

A Church of Love - The Cathar Prophecy of 1244 CE (http://www.norwegiansage.com/fieldnotes/2017/12/14/a-church-of-love-the-cathar-prophecy-of-1244-ce)
The last prophecy of the Cathars was that the Church of Love would grow from our combined cultures, places and lands, like seeds, ignited with love and carried with the winds and water. And don't get confused over the word ‘church’, because it means ‘communion’ - ecclesia in Greek, nothing more. The church represents coming together in community, in a sangha, and sharing the seeds of love, compassion and understanding.

The Church of Love

It has no fabric – only understanding.

It has no membership – save those who know they belong.

It has no rivals – because it is non-competitive.

It has no ambition, because it only seeks to serve.

It knows of no boundaries for nationalisms are unloving.

It is not of itself because it seeks to enrich all groups and religions.

It acknowledges all great teachers of all the ages who have shown the truth of Love.

Those who participate, practise the Truth of Love in all their daily being.

There is no walk of life or nationality that is a barrier.

Those who are, know. It seeks not to teach but to be, and by being, enrich.

It recognises the collectivity of all humanity and that we are all one with the One.

It recognises that the way we are may be the way of those around us because we are that way.

It recognises the whole planet as a Being, of which we are a part.

It recognises that the time has come for the supreme transmutation, the ultimate alchemical act, the conscious change of the ego into a voluntary return to the whole.

It does not proclaim itself with a loud voice but in the subtle realms of loving.

It salutes all those in the past who have blazoned the path but paid the price.

It admits of no hierarchy or structure, for no one is greater than another.

Its members shall know each other by their deeds and being and their eyes and by no other outward sign, save the fraternal embrace.

Each one will dedicate his or her life to the silent loving of their neighbour and environment and the planet, whilst carrying out their daily task, however exalted or humble.

It recognises the supremacy of the great idea which may only be accomplished if the human race practices the supremacy of Love.

It has no rewards to offer, either here or in the hereafter, save that of the ineffable joy of being and loving.

Its members shall seek only to advance the cause of understanding, within whichever church, group or family they happen to be.

They shall do good by stealth and teach only by example.

They shall heal their neighbour, their community and our Planet.

They shall know no fear, and feel no shame and their witness shall prevail over all odds.

It has no secrets, no arcanum, no initiations save that of the true understanding of the power of love and that, if we want it to be so, the world will change but only if we change ourselves first.

ALL THOSE WHO BELONG, BELONG, THAT IS THE CHURCH OF LOVE.

Background

Much has been written and speculated about the Cathars who settled in the Languedoc region in France during the eleventh century; there is no clear evidence where they came from but clues in their belief and practice point to extremely early Christian origins, and in all likelihood they spread from the Byzantine Empire to Bulgaria, and on to the Balkans and Northern Italy. Although they called themselves Christians, the Catholic Church called them Albigenses, or Cathars.

In the Fortress of Montségur, the Cathars maintained a church hierarchy yet rejected any idea of priesthood or the use of church buildings. They believed in reincarnation and refused to eat meat or other animal products; they regarded men and women as equals and had no doctrinal objection to contraception, euthanasia or suicide. It follows that the Catholic Church condemned them as heretics. Following that logic, the infamous Inquisition proceeded to massacre them in their usual zealousness, wiping out every single one of them; the Cathar’s last stronghold was the fortress of Montségur which was entirely pulled down by the victorious royal forces after its capture in 1244."

In 1978 on a visit to Montsegur in the Cathar country of SW France, Colin Bloy had dowsed in a meadow where 300 Perfecti were burned alive in 1244. The dowsing revealed a Latin text which referred to the rebuilding of a church in Andorra in 1986. In March 1985 Colin was prompted to write the proclamation of the Church of Love - he says the words were not his - and this Church was proclaimed in Andorra on Good Friday, 28th March 1986. Colin says: “This was written by my hand, but I would not claim authorship, it was taken down in ten minutes - just like that.."

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Metaphor

21st December 2021, 22:50

Several videos about the Cathars. I have decided that the Cathars have returned. Clif High mentioned the Cathars in his video this week.

This reminded me of the Iron Maiden song Montségur, it has the line "To stand with the Cathars, to die and be free" wich possibly refers to the fact that Catholics in Bezier were given oppurtunity to leave the siege but refused and fought with the Cathars.

If they have returned, I will also stand with the Cathars.

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Lyrics:
I stand alone in this desolate space
In death they are truly alive
Massacred innocence, evil took place
The angels were burning inside
Centuries later I wonder why
What secret that they took to their grave
Still burning heretics under our skies
Religion's still burning inside

At the gates and the walls of Montségur
Blood on the stones of the citadel

As we kill them all so god will know his own
The innocents died for the pope on his throne
Catholic greed and its paranoid zeal
Curse of the grail and the blood of the cross
Templar believers with blood on their hands
Joined in the chorus to kill on command
Burned at the stake for their soul's liberty
To stand with the cathars to die and be free
The book of old testament crippled and black
Satan his weapon is lust
Leaving this evil damnation of flesh
Back to the torture of life
The perfect ones willingly died at the stake
And all of their followers slain
As for the knowledge of god they had claimed
Religion's still burning inside

At the gates and the walls of Montségur
Blood on the stones of the citadel

As we kill them all so god will know his own
The innocents died for the pope on his throne
Catholic greed and its paranoid zeal
Curse of the grail and the blood of the cross
Templar believers with blood on their hands
Joined in the chorus to kill on command
Burned at the stake for their soul's liberty
Still burning heretics under our skies
As we kill them all so god will know his own
Laugh at the darkness and in god we trust
The eye of the triangle smiling with sin
No passover feast for the cursed within
Facing the sun as they went to their grave
Burn like a dog or you live like a slave
Death is the price for your soul's liberty
To stand with the cathars to die and be free

At the gates and the walls of Montségur...

Bill Ryan

22nd December 2021, 10:34

The Cathars fascinate me, and I feel very drawn to them. I really look forward to seeing this - thanks, Anna70.Just a note here (which may be an obvious thought for some!) — if someone feels an unaccountably strong personal connection to a particular historical group, location or event, it really is quite possible that in one of their past lives they were part of it, and were deeply involved.

:sun:

Delight

28th March 2022, 17:05

Interesting connection of Cathars to the Tarot and the "journey" we all are making. Holding the knowledge and teaching of the Divine in plain sight.....

Cathars and Tarot
by Talk Gnosis

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Brigantia

9th February 2024, 13:05

Just listening to this fascinating vid from Thomas Sheridan and Neil McDonald, who have co-written a book on Rennes-le-Château. They're not giving too much away but they're suggesting that the solution to the mystery of Bérenger Saunière is not what was put out by the book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.

One surprising fact that they mentioned is that Rennes-le-Château was not always a small sleepy village, but a large town with about 30,000 inhabitants, and that you can still see the remnants of the houses all the way down the hill.

The book has been published by Lulu, only £10 + p&p; just the right treat for me on payday!
https://www.lulu.com/shop/thomas-sheridan-and-neil-mcdonald/bérenger-saunière-priest-wizard-of-rennes-le-château/paperback/product-955gvjd.html?q=Neil+McDonald&page=1&pageSize=4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZd9Vo6RkCA

Johan (Keyholder)

9th February 2024, 13:33

Hi Brigantia. Thanks for the link and info about the book "Rennes-le-Chateau". I think I will order it too.

The visit to this place was quite an event: climbing Monségur, being in the Magdala tower, the very special small church, and of course all what is being said and written about Béringer Saunière.

Delight

15th January 2025, 00:39

Clif High is talking a lot about the Cathari and bumping this thread with what he said about his family lineage and the Cathar ethos.

I feel very alligned with what I know of the Cathars.The ethos that Clif High describes is what i consider Good.

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Delight

15th January 2025, 01:21

The video I posted above is really valuable. He also talks about biophotonics which IMO we need to learn about. Coherence and incoherence are much better polarities to me than Good/Evil. If we become COHERENT, we build a field. Incoherence strips us of power IMO. IMO that means we become parasitic on our environment, stealing the charge we need which is being drained...it's a cycle.

I am not sure if the following article has been posted? If our souls were imprisoned in clay, IMO we can infuse the body state with the TRUTH AND ABSORB the REAL LIGHT that is not falsely offered. This TRUE light is plasma based. We ususally cannot use the info but WE are plasma. If we know we are that, how may we imprisoned in the last analysis?

I actally FEEL I am infused with the Plasma of Creator beyond the "material" realm. I am not at all planning to sojourn in hell again. IMO we don't have to be GOOD to be able to leave this hell but be infused with LIGHT and then we will naturally be Good in the mean time. Good is IMO whatever is COHERENT.

Obviously we are in a war. It has been called a war between good and evil by many. I personally do think this world is either hell or heaven depending on where your consciousness dwells. For instance, in the paradox where all lies become real if we accept them, we may take the offer of what to dwell on and proclaim what WE want to be so, IS SO and in this realm it is FOR US.

I go with the evidence that we are immortal beings in these clay bodies. We are programmed to make this world by imagination. We have choice. Some are absolutely devoted to the material realm. That is their path.

IMO the teachings of religion do give true inklings but disavow our capacity... calling us fallen. This realm passes away so one had best choose what also will be FOREVER and IMO that is what we learn of OUR OWN truth. I have been asking along the way for the Apocalypse and by golly, it looks like I am having it revealed.

William Henry
Posted on May 18, 2018 :sun: (https://www.williamhenry.net/2018/05/ascension-flash-the-cathars-and-our-escape-from-ai-hell/)

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THE GOOD PEOPLE: BACKGROUND

The philosophy of the “pure”, or “Good People”, as the Cathars were called, was derived from the first Christians. These were the actual family and followers of Jesus. They claimed to have received a transmission of a Christ ‘vibration’ that was passed from Jesus to his followers shoulder to shoulder to shoulder on down to the Cathars. They combined this ‘infusion’ of light with insights gained from the resurrected Jesus and what is known as Christian gnosis or illumination.

This teaching is a mixture of Jewish (Essene) mysticism and the esoteric wisdom of the Middle East and was collated first by Mary Magdalene, and then by Mani, the 2nd century Persian prophet, and passed on to the Cathars.

At its core, this teaching is about ascension or our return to perfection, holiness and wholeness. It is based on the premise that humans were originally whole, holy and complete angelic light beings and that we have fallen into a dark and diabolical world created by an alien entity called Satan.

The Cathars believed this dark angel made or manufactured the human body out of clay and infused it with blessed souls from heaven imprisoning them for eternity.

Creation of the human body from clay is a miraculous birth theme that recurs throughout ancient religions and mythologies. All of them infer an extraterrestrial intervention in human affairs.

Specifically Genesis 2:7, which says:

“And the Lord God formed man of the dust/clay of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

Clay is made up of tiny crystals which when fed with water are capable of growing, splitting off and giving rise to identical (or near-identical crystals).

The latest theory is that clay – which is at its most basic, a combination of minerals in the ground – acts as a breeding laboratory for tiny molecules and chemicals which it ‘absorbs like a sponge’. Over billions of years, chemicals confined in those spaces could have carried out the complex reactions that formed proteins, DNA and eventually all the machinery that makes a living cell work.

You may have heard it said that we are shifting from carbon-based bodies to crystalline-based bodies. These stories are literally saying humans originally had crystalline bodies. Then, we lost them.

This story mirrors the Greek myth of Pandora, the first human being who was artificially created by Hephaestos, the god of technology. Pandora was crafted from the clay of the earth. She had no soul until Athena came along and blew one into her.

The Cathars believed that good souls would incarnate in a body that would be more capable of returning them/us to our original state of being as angels. This means they would be more capable of shifting — or perfecting — the body into a higher, and lighter, form.

The bad souls imprisoned in the ‘lesser, denser’ human body would reincarnate in a body much darker than the one before. This body comes pre-loaded or programmed with the sins of the past (rather than being burdened with just the sins created in its present life).

For the Cathars this new ‘dark’ body and the prison planet it dwelled in was Hell.

This darker body is our current model. No matter what color skin you wrap it in the current model of the human body is the one the Cathars warned us about.

Clearly, this body is weighted down with environmental and spiritual pressures no other humans had to contend with. To compound this assault, it is now the target of genetic and technological augmentation that will transform it from an organic state of being to an inorganic technological one that is nothing more than a puppet, like Pinocchio, wired to the Internet of Things.

For (modern day) Cathars, Transhumanism is the continuation of a metamorphosis of the human body begun long ago and which would come to fruition in a later age (ours?) and is the greatest possible disaster ever to confront humanity.

For Transhumanists it is the fulfillment of their version of the quest to perfect the human body.

It all began in the book of Genesis where we learn humanity was imprisoned in human flesh by the Old Testament God, Yahweh, who punished Adam and Eve for eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge. Before their ‘fall’ Adam and Eve had perfect bodies of light that resembled the angel’s light bodies. After, their eviction from Eden they/we were cast into bodies of flesh.

Adam and Eve’s’perfect’ bodies of light are described as robes or garments of light.

Louis Ginzberg, in his Legends of the Jews, says that Adam’s garment is identical to the celestial robes of the righteous in the Jewish and Christian mystery tradition. It is described as a “shining garment” or “garment of light”.

Ginzberg says it was of extraordinary brilliance and splendor and possessed of supernatural qualities. In the Dead Sea Scrolls Community Rule, the faithful were to receive “life everlasting, and a crown of glory and a robe of honor, amid light perpetual). In 1 Enoch the righteous “shall have been clothed with garments of glory, and these shall be the garments of life from the Lord of Spirits: and your garments shall not grow old (1 Enoch 62:16).

In order to escape this prison world, and its children of darkness, we must ‘change our clothes’ and trade or upgrade our ‘fallen’ earthly/biological flesh for our original celestial flesh or the light bodies of the angels.

THE MIGHTY ONES OF RENOWN

According to Cathar belief, Yahweh/Satan is actually Hell’s angel and his mission is to control humanity by keeping us eternally locked in flesh. The goal is immortality on earth.

Jesus was sent as a cosmic emissary to show us the way to transcend human flesh and return to our original, true nature by remaking our bodies of light. The goal is ascension to a celestial realm (more in a later post).

Satan’s strategy is revealed in the strange days when Noah lived (which will be mirrored in the end times) when the fallen angels created a hybrid race of humans. In Genesis 6:1-4 we read:

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

The sons of God are the fallen angels who mated with human woman, producing giant offspring, known as Nephilim or Mighty Men of Renown. These were hybrid entities, that were part human and part angelic, and (some) were under Satan’s control. This being was intended to have a shelf life of 120 years.

They are called ‘Mighty Men’ because they possessed a transmittable garment that gave them super powers, including invisibility, superhuman strength and the ability to walk between worlds. This garment has a spiritual component. As I discussed in The Watchers: Lost Secrets of Ascension, Resurrection and Perfection, a breakaway group of these angels taught humans the art of spiritual ascension.

In Genesis 6 we have more than just another example of the practice of genetic manipulation and modification described in ancient mythology. What it describes is the goal at the heart of the present day scientific and technological Transhumanist agenda : to create a new suit of skin for humanity composed of super advanced technology and to take total control of the thoughts and actions of this entity.

Does this mean today’s Transhumanists are yesterday’s fallen angels and Transhuman technology is the ‘evil’ product of Satanists?

The Cathars would say YES.

Is history repeating itself in the form of the Transhuman quest to merge us with machines and give us souped up skin?

Again, the Cathars would say YES.

This is part of the prophecy of the Second Coming.

In Matt 24:37 Jesus says:

As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

What this means is that when Jesus returns so will his angels…and Satan’s angels (referred to as the army of the AntiChrist).

The biblical flood was sent as a premeditated attack to destroy the Nephilim giants and to punish the angels who committed the illicit hybridization and make an example of them so that no other angels would ever attempt this again.

Well, until now.

Mass human transformation into a hybrid man-chine is the goal of global elite who are advocating our merger with ‘godless’ Artificial Intelligence as a way to ‘save’ the human race.

But that is not what the Essenes, Christian gnostics and Cathars advocated. They advocated activating our ‘Ascension Intelligence’ and joining the angels who sought to aid humanity in its ascension.

PERFECTION : THE ANTIDOTE TO TRANSHUMANISM

In the Book of Genesis Noah escaped the Nephilim hybridization that had infected humanity. He was chosen/saved to carry on and re-start humanity after the flood because he was a righteous one and a believer in God.

More, he was “perfect in his generations” (Genesis 6:9). The Hebrew word for “perfect” in that verse is tamiym, which means “complete, whole” and is a reference to Noah’s health and physical condition. On one level this means that his genetic bloodline and ancestry was 100% pure human.

In my view, and more importantly, the word also describes his metaphysical condition. He was different from the hybrid humans.

How so?

As I have written and presented extensively since 2006, I look at it through the lens of Tibetan Buddhism where the term “perfect body” refers to our ascended Rainbow Light Body.

Unlike Gilgamesh, the Sumerian hybrid ‘super man’, who was 2/3 divine and 1/3 human, Noah was 100% human, perfect, whole, holy, complete. Wholeness is symbolized by a circle and a circle is 360 degrees. In this way Gilgamesh was 240 out of 360. Noah was 360. This means he was divine…and a perfect human. I know it may sound strange to think of Noah as a being of light, but if we interpret the word tamiym in its fullest meaning that is exactly what it says.

As a perfect human, Noah would have aligned with a race later referred to by Jesus in the Secret Book of John as Perfect Humans.

“I have come to teach you about what is, and what was and what will be.…and to understand the invisible world and the world that is visible and the immovable race of the perfect humanity.”

Next, Jesus encourages John to lift up his face, listen and understand what he is saying and to “proclaim it to your kindred spirits, those who are from the immovable race of the perfect Human.”

Jesus is clearly telling John there is a distinct race of humans — Perfect Light Humans. Noah is a member of this race and probably not by birth, but rather by a light body practice which he mastered. The Cathar perfecti practiced, and mastered, affecting this transformation.

Jesus tells John that understanding these concepts will be difficult for those who are not part of this race (i.e. hybrid transhumans who are programmed to ignore or not accept these teachings). Christ’s mysteries belong to the Perfect Light Humans. (Jesus also tells John he encouraged Adam and Eve to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.)

Further, we are told the perfect ones accompanied Noah the Righteous on the ark. They covered themselves with a cloud of light. Recalling that after his ‘Righteous’ sacrifice God displayed for Noah ‘the Rainbow Sign’ we discover another reason why I equate Noah’s perfect body — covered in a cloud of light — with the perfect light body of Tibetan Buddhism.

The way out of this Hell, in Cathar belief, was to follow the Angel, or emanation of light, God sent to lead the pure back to heaven. This was Jesus. Pure and spiritual. Mystical and mysterious. He came in a flash to spiritually alter the human body to make it into a form that could, flash, shift from the earthly state of being/temple to the perfect ascended one…the Rainbow Light Body.

By converting his flesh into a perfect light body (through the power of faith/consciousness) in his resurrection and ascensionJesus defeated Satan (Hebrews 2:14).

The bigger victory comes at the Second Coming when, in an Ascension/Flash, as I described it in my 2011 book, The Secret of Sion, mass numbers of believers follow Jesus in his transfiguration and trade their earthly flesh and its clothes for a heavenly light body of celestial flesh and a robe of light.

“The way to escape the (coming/evolving) AI hell is to follow Jesus’s lead as taught in Matthew 19:17:

Just then, a man came up to Jesus and inquired, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to obtain eternal life?” 17“Why do you ask Meabout what is good? Jesus replied, “There isonly One who is good. If you want to enter life,keep the commandments.” 18“Which ones?” the man asked. In Luke 10:27 Jesus answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.'”

The answer then is the same as it ever was.

shaberon

15th January 2025, 08:38

I am curious why it would specifically be the Cathars that are of interest.

Is it by rejecting Catholic/Orthodox doctrine? Suffering the consequences wholesale?

What I notice is I have never discovered Cathars as an extension of Neo-Platonism; I am unable to peg them in as a "piece of the pie", so to speak. Everything in Neo-Platonism does concern doctrinal debates on both sides of the "fence of the church". A statement like this:

The philosophy of the “pure”, or “Good People”, as the Cathars were called, was derived from the first Christians. These were the actual family and followers of Jesus.

is really hard to support. If it were supportable, the debate would have been over in a few days, if not immediately.

If we go to a main idea:

According to Cathar belief, Yahweh/Satan is actually Hell’s angel and his mission is to control humanity by keeping us eternally locked in flesh. The goal is immortality on earth.

You could not reject the church any harder. If one did not agree to the "goal", you were a gnostic/heretic, but this is an even sharper statement, to say God and the Church is Satan. It was already said, by Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians who all used that name for each other. Again, here, this is more specific, it is to say the Nicene Creed is a pact with the devil.

I don't agree with it, but I defend anyone's right if they choose to do so.

Yhwh is another matter entirely. His problem is that he is Monolatrous, that is, his existence is to destroy everything else. Almost exactly like Akhenaten. The difference is that Akhenaten's program was repealed rather quickly.

If I take the non-church, gnostic view that Paul and Jesus never knew each other, I would conclude that they independently tried to stop the progress of Yhwh. I will credit them for that. I don't believe the Persians had any idea what Judaism was about. People in that region did. In my evaluation, this is the more relevant and pressing issue, than theologies of Jesus the Logos. I don't react enough to the "resurrection" thing to even get into a discussion about it, aside from the fact it has been applied with force.

I have nothing to do with any of this, so it doesn't affect me. Here is where my realm is being cribbed:

As I have written and presented extensively since 2006, I look at it through the lens of Tibetan Buddhism where the term “perfect body” refers to our ascended Rainbow Light Body.

Buddhism is not Tibetan. The closest potential meaning of that phrase is Prasangika philosophy, which was sculpted in the 1200s and reflects nothing Indian. That might seem like a technicality, but, it is true that indoctrination camps were run for this very purpose, implying there might be a kind of "Buddhist Gnosticism" that is being crowded out. That would be approximately correct. So I could pose a similar argument about "Buddhism" vs. "Tibetan Buddhism" with the reminder that Tibetan has about ten per cent of the vocabulary of Sanskrit, and, before the 700s, Tibetans thought people were just monkeys without soul or anything like that.

It's not a "lens" you can look through pedantically. What is being referred to is really Complete Enjoyment Body. Because I have personally experienced this, I am in a position to speak from that view. That is what I am doing.

When I do that, I find that Catharism mainly derives from a 900s Bogomil text, the Book of the Secret Supper, which is about Satan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Secret_Supper) as John the Baptist.

The difficulty is, if I present the Twenty Parallels of the Gospels to Buddhism, nothing much will be left besides its unique eschatology. I will be left without finding "teachings" if nothing new is said.

Polemically, there is nothing "our" about Rainbow Body. Ordinary people don't have it, obviously, and it is a theological discard of anything outside of itself.

Now, of course, I don't believe in Genesis whatsoever, but I do accept it as a certain fitting of myth. So far -- just in my reaction -- if the myth has usefulness in a symbolic manner, Noah was probably not human. Nevertheless, the argument presented here is a positive value on "perfection":

perfect in his generations” (Genesis 6:9). The Hebrew word for “perfect” in that verse is tamiym...

For the elaboration, we are directed to a Sethian gnostic text condemned by Iraneus, discovered at Nag Hammadi, based in the Spirit Barbelo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocryphon_of_John):

The Apocryphon of John was among the texts, in three Coptic versions translated from the Greek. Two of the versions are very similar and represent one manuscript tradition; they incorporate a lengthy excerpt from a certain Book of Zoroaster appended to the Apocryphon (as chapters 15:29 – 19:8f).

I'm not that familiar with it, because it is the mainstream introductory gnostic text.

The review shows a standard emanational doctrine, in which nothing about a race is mentioned; perfection is attributed to the Monad.

Whatever would be taught here is Greek, moreover, it is still an effort to replace Judaism, and so how "perfection" relates between the two texts might bear some examination.

As pseudodepigriphia, there is nothing less than a Zoroaster Prophesies Jesus (https://www.avesta.org/antia/Zoroaster_in_Gnostic_literature.pdf), and, what is referred to above is highlighted in Green (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocryphon_of_John) in the publication, and, it's not remotely Persian.

Moreover, Zoroaster having any books at the time would be news. It was a transmission.

Its Pahlavi literature is drastically different, and the Sassanian Empire is rather like the Catholics in stamping out non-members.

The complication in most of these works is that of Duality.

This is a particularly westernized idea that has no place in my sphere.

We are able to find a blistering metamorphosis in Zoroastrianism.

Yes, it originally has Disturbed Mind or Angra Mainyu, understood as the antithesis of the Good Law.

It is the later Persian Ahriman that is doctrinalized along with an End Times Resurrection. This leads to "extreme dualism" as expressed by Mani and *some* strands of gnosticism, and a type of Father of Cosmic Evil who is out there and really powerful. Because this creed cannot be specifically dated, it cannot be conclusively shown as the source of Christian belief, but they are eerily close to the same.

Even though the Zoroastrians accept ideas that may be fairly Christian-or-Gnostic, it does not include Yhwh or Monolatry.

I, at least, only accept a form of "moderate dualism", particularly in the interest of blaming everything evil on man, rather than an alternate force.

The name Satan is of Jewish origin; its opposite would be "Paraclete", which is Greek, however in usage it is mainly a Jewish legal term. The context is an argument, those two are the prosecutor and defense attorneys.

I take the intended subject very seriously, but it works a little differently. Rather than focusing on the devil, we would call it Shutting the Door to Hell. It doesn't matter to me how anyone else understands it -- just if that is what they manage to accomplish (or attempt).

In concordance with that, I would agree that "Plasma Individual" is the closest material-speak for "reality", but again it is more like they are admitting what we know from experience. Until a better thesis comes along, I would correspond it to Agni Vaisvanara. That's my own personal opinion or suggestion, which is not coming from any other sources. It's less of a deductive process and more of an "apocalypse" or "revelation" of something that was personally experienced, and propagated through devotees. Call it the Object of Gnosis perhaps.

So, generically, or non-denominationally, I would support Plasma and Hell as of doctrinal significance. If anyone is able to understand those subjects in a serious manner, then, for the most part, we are at least in philosophical alignment, and share values. That's like a Shibboleth, only better.

As to the plausible need for Gospel and Gnostic texts, I suppose if you tell someone the Messiah is coming, and then he is dead and you have to say he's coming back, we wait for a few days. A year? If he's not there in two years, I might need another Messiah. And then nothing for several years. Will I see him in my lifetime? And by the end of that, you'd have a wave of folks going out in despair due to the negative. You'd have to cultivate a whole new crowd and persuade them such a thing was for the "future", which is in complete contradiction to its meaning. So the various texts are apologetics.

I would suggest the Old Testament cripples the Greek language and the New one, the Hebrew Messiah.

In the Septuagint, ca. 300 B. C. E., Messiah is Christ (https://grassrootstheological.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/christ-in-the-old-testament/) as in Isaiah:

“Thus says the Lord to his Christ, to Cyrus…”

It's a "used" word, generally having the connotation "king".

They just invented, or designated it, because it already has a Greek meaning, which has nothing to do with titles or offices, and can even be a little snide like "putting on airs". It can be as mundane as deodorant. By extension, it could also be products applied by oracles.

If someone tried to tell me an equivalent of Cyrus the Great was "certain in the future", it would repel me. I suppose others are attracted to that sort of thing. A subjective one that works in the present through an Emanational doctrine sounds more dynamic and aware. If I don't come up with a weird Christos Messiah, I am left with some of the parting words of Jesus were about the Spirit that will next come to the people. If anyone got this, that's what I'm trawling for.

shaberon

16th January 2025, 08:49

I'm going to add something here that is marginally germane to the Cathars, and more part of the background.

I looked to see if there was any other thread on this subject, and, there is not, so it is at least congruent to this one. I found out relatively recently that Apostle John is an important figure in Christianity. The issue, however, is that it appears that half of the followers of John formed the church, and half of them migrated to the gnostic or heretic camp.

It is a fairly serious debate among these groups; whether there was one "John" or many. The writer of the Epistle *might* be the same as the author of the Gospel; the writer of Revelations is almost certainly *not*. And, there are other works also attributed to this name, not in the canon.

And so the Cathars were holding something where John interviews Jesus, however, this particular text cannot be traced earlier than the 900s.

The compiled article also referred to the Apocryphon of John, which it is not said the Cathars used.

They *did* evidently have one older work, from ca. 75-150, which is known to be complete only in Ethiopia, the Ascension of Isaiah (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_of_Isaiah):

Into the middle of this (3:13–4:22) is a Christian apocalypse called the Testament of Hezekiah, describing a vision of the coming of Jesus, the subsequent corruption of the Christian church, the rule of Beliar, and the second coming. All of this is phrased in such a way that it is clearly a code for the persecution of the Church by Nero and the belief that Nero was an Antichrist.

The second part of the book (chapters 6–11) is referred to as the Vision of Isaiah and describes an angel-assisted journey, prior to the events of the first part of the book, by Isaiah through the Seven Heavens. It is written from a Christian perspective, concentrating on Jesus (named as the "Beloved" in the text) descending through each of the heavens disguising himself as an angel toward earth, his earthly birth, death, his resurrection, and the ascension of Jesus.

Moreover, this work displays a certain inter-textuality:

The demon Beliar appears in quite a number of apocryphal works, including the Book of Jubilees, the Book of Enoch, the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, and the Sibylline Oracles. Finally, Isaiah's journey through the Seven Heavens parallels that of Enoch in the Second Book of Enoch, and the Epistula Apostolorum.

Now, compared to most of the rest of them, if I am forced to deal with the devil one way or another, I notice they mostly use a blame game and put "someone else", or a particular deity, as the devil. Here, we encounter Belial, which is neither a person or place, nor a Canaanite myth in someone else's house of worship, and, it wouldn't be, because it has a very appropriate meaning, Worthlessness.

Alright. If I want to decide what to toss in the discard pile, that is a reasonable criterion.

The cited article at least gave us the suggestion that "perfection" was a central doctrine among gnostics. The Apocryphon of John must have been in Gaul by around 150, over a century in advance of the New Testament. It was also found at Nag Hammadi, which wasn't completely gnostic, because it includes a few books representing Orthodox doctrine, as well as a few Hermetic fragments. The gnostic books on Jesus were quite widespread before the term "Christianity" existed.

I'll start immediately. Going from the published edition, the green text is belial. I just ignore it.

Unfortunately, we are forced to use someone else's translation and commentary. It's not the original. Yet, without explaining it, we are given the Greek term Autogenes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogenes):

In Sethian Gnosticism, Autogenes (Meaning "Self-Born One" in Greek) is an emanation or son of Barbelo (along with Kalyptos and Protophanes according to Zostrianos). Autogenes is mentioned in Nag Hammadi texts such as Zostrianos, The Three Steles of Seth, Allogenes the Stranger, and Marsanes.

Autogenes in Gnosticism is roughly parallel to the Platonic soul.

There is more than one version, and, we can get the next meaning from something hosted in Russia (https://gnosis.study/library/%D0%93%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%81/%D0%98%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F/ENG/Davies%20S.%20-%20The%20Secret%20Book%20of%20John.%20The%20Gnostic%20Gospel.pdf):

In Greek, the word for “spirit,” pneuma, is neuter in
grammatical gender while the Latin spiritus is masculine.
Therefore, in Western theology, while Father and Son are
masculine, the gender of the Holy Spirit is unclear,
although regularly referred to with the masculine pronoun
he. However, in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Syriac, the word
for “spirit” is feminine in grammatical gender.
Accordingly, in early Syriac Christianity (and probably
also in the Aramaic Christianity of Jesus) the Holy Spirit
was conceived to be a feminine being, the Mother. In
those Eastern Christian churches the trinity could have
been “Father, Mother, and Son.

Russian websites are great for providing the "whole thing" on materials such as this. Additionally, the original is not in Greek, and they actually have the Coptic (https://gnosis.study/library/%D0%93%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%81/%D0%98%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F/ENG/Giversen%20S.%20-%20Apocryphon%20Johannis.%20The%20Coptic%20text%20of%20the%20Apocryphon%20Johannis%20in%20the%20Nag% 20Hammadi%20Codex%20II%20with%20Translation,%20Introduction%20and%20Commentary.pdf) version which I can't read, with a few Greek correspondences, which I can.

The "perfection" applied here is:

τέλειος

teleios

Flipping to the Concordance (https://biblehub.com/greek/5046.htm), it is in the Gospel of John, one time, in a less than robust manner. Elsewhere, we see it intertwined with:

Sophia (https://biblehub.com/text/1_corinthians/2-6.htm)

Sophia and Christos (https://biblehub.com/text/colossians/1-28.htm)

And so if the Bible was going to tell me anything about Perfection of Wisdom, it would come down to about two sentences.

The gnostic text begins with an accuser or "Satan", a Pharisee called:

Arimanios

which is not a Greek or Jewish name, and, in fact, has no known attestation as a human being anywhere. They have almost certainly penned in Persian "Ahriman".

It refutes Moses multiple times.

It parallels some sentences from the Gospel of John.

Note this caveat:

In this description of the work of the redeemer it is conspicuous that the
redeemer is nowhere referred to as Christ, nor as Jesus or Saviour or Lord.
Although they all occur in the AJ of CII, these terms are not used as self-designations by the one speaking. Words which suggest the realm of light are
used as self-designations. Pronoia and the memory of Pronoia, or the memory
of fulfillment (Pleroma), the light which is in light, the richness of light, such
are the self-designations which are used.

On the other hand, this and similar texts contain almost no biographical information about Jesus. Instead, it is more like a type of role, which, implicitly, is not exclusive; i. e. perhaps Zoroaster may have been able to work with the redeemer. So this is a bit more flexible and fluid. Buddha and Zoroaster are not framed as people that the universe revolves around, just examples of doing this kind of work. The canonical situation of Jesus as a mandatory ingredient of the trinity has always seemed like a limited viewpoint. I think he would have been able to state the Nicene Creed if that was what he meant, which makes it seem like he was talking about something else.

Although you can skim the brief translation in a matter of minutes, this closer study amounts to over three hundred pages.

As not being a "follower" of any of it, I can say that yes, this literature at least tells me something of a probably-female Spirit and an activity with worlds of light that I and/or we may experience. It does so in the interest of perfection:

complete, perfect, mature

If that cements a Spirit of Wisdom in us, we share the "immovable" trait of the higher world:

...the most certain information about the meaning of the word is given us in BG
and CIII. CIII 33,3 shows us that ATKIM can at least translate the Greek
é&odAeutos, and BG 88,9 gives us some evidence of the objective connection:
here it concerns the primeval being, the existing spirit, who decides to create;
he did this, says the Redeemer, because he did not wish to be alone to enjoy
his wealth of goodness, but so that other spirits of that generation which cannot
be shaken, should enjoy it

From my view, at least, we share a little bit of common ground. I don't think this is utter nonsense, and, there's no way it can be used for nationalism or I would say bigotry. If it has any legitimate descent, it would be among the Druze.