by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph. D
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Very recently a new vision of Catharism has spread out. Some Cathar documents would have been found in Northern Italy, which would wholly change the perspective about Catharism. It would make Cathars just ordinary Christians among others for Atheist (or "Scientific") historians. After all, they were just calling themselves "Good Christians" or "Bonshommes et Bonnes femmes", and never "Cathars" which was a nickname given by the Catholic Church. Another nickname was "Patarins", as they were using only "Pater noster" as a prayer. So then, their specificities would be rather gummed... which looks a bit weird in truth !
The Cathar Manicheism (a dualism opposing a bad God and a good God, like the famous Zarathustra) would have appeared in reaction, only some time after the crusade of the Papacy (1209- 1229), between 1241 and 1321. And about the link with the Bogomiles ("the friends of God") of Bulgaria, it is now put in question, as well as the "Chart Niquinta" of 1167 which was concluding the coming of Nicetas (also called "Niquinta"), the Orthodox bishop of Constantinople in Saint Félix de Caraman - now denominated Saint Félix de Lauragais. He was there to arbitrate a dispute between the Cathar churches of Toulouse and Carcassonne, and it is very difficult to deny it in reality !
With those modifications of appreciation, nobody can understand anymore why the Papacy lead the bloody crusade mentioned above against the Albigeois - Cathars - in Languedoc (South of France), and even after in 1244 in Montségur (Ariège in Occitania, Kingdom of France) thus. Again, why in that case the last "Parfait", the Cathar bishop Guilhem Bélibaste (c. 1280 - 1321) was he burnt alive in Villerouge-Termenès (near Narbonne) in 1321 then, after the treason of his Cathar friend, the cobbler Arnaud Baille or Sicre ? Were really Cathars so "scientifically" ordinary among Christians ? "Theologically" anyway, the answer is no !
For Atheist historians, Cathars believed in fact that Jesus had come on Earth not really to save mankind, but to save Fallen Angels lost among bad human beings with their Earthly offspring (for their Redemption then). It would appear through the new documents found. That's quite an unusual and original point of view ! And this is implying Jesus Christ, Prince of Orion, would have just wanted to bring all the Fallen Angels (symbolized by the number 144) and their offspring back to the real Eden of Cosmos, id est Orion ! But, this new position is entering in contradiction with the sacrament of "Consolamentum" ("Consolation") opened equally to everybody - except if Cathars were considering themselves to be among the 144,000 elect. It was the only sacrament recognized by Cathars (without water and by laying on of hand), and it allowed the soul of all the faithful to attain directly Paradise !
The strange paradox of the Atheist vision about Cathars, is that it could almost lead to a miraculous reconciliation of Catharism with Catholic religion, and even of Templars with Catholicism in reaction ! It would be a real feat, as those various spiritual groups are fundamentaly considered for centuries as irreconciliable enemies ! Yet, as an aside, there is indeed a rumor of possible recreation of the Templars Order by the Papacy, with all the consequences it would imply for their old possessions scattered in Europe... and more specifically in Eastern Europe !
But may be those people that Atheist historians are identifying as Cathars from Northern Italy connected to the new documents, who were just ordinary Christians, were not Cathars in reality, but another group of dissidents ? Perhaps are they making a confusion, especially if they were taking in consideration all the Gospels of the Church and not uniquely the Gospel according to Saint John ! Let's recall that Cathars were stressing the predominance of the Gospel according to Saint John, like Templars, even they ended up to be not so friendly to each other : the famous story of the "Patarin" Guilhem or Guillaume de Nogaret (born c. 1260 in Saint Félix de Caraman - died in Paris in 1313) demonstrated it under Philip IV the Fair (1285 - 1314), King of France !
Was Catharism (born discretely around the year Mil), after all "a simple vegetarian movement of religious protest with spontaneous vocation" ? If it took a rather long time for the Papacy to denounce it as an Heresy in the beginning of XIIIth century, the crusade it finally lead after the failure of various proposals of talks seems to clearly demonstrate the opposite. And if Inquisition was especially created in Toulouse (Kingdom of France) on April 20th, 1233 to combat methodically Catharism, then Cathars can hardly be taken as ordinary Christians among others !
We don't know if by two years now (in 2025 then), the prophecy of the "Perfect" Guilhem Bélibaste, the last Cathar bishop will come true, and thus if Catharism will be brightly reborn in the Kingdom of France (perhaps with the help of Vegans, in the double meaning of the word) ? And it's the same about the still inexistent OTH (Order of the Temple of Hattin) !
About the final opposition of the famous descendant of Cathar, Guilhem or Guillaume de Nogaret towards Templars, we have given the reasons in a previous article, published on Global Politics and Economics on January 21st, 2016 : "Rediscovering famous characters III : Guilhem, the hidden revanchist Cathar !"
A lot of unforecasted changes are affecting presently the World, so not only Eastern or Western Europe but also the Asia-Pacific area. And the Atheist approach of Catharism is certainly provocative and surprising, but it's not uninteresting. It raises completely unexpected questions, which is perhaps not a bad thing in a time as chaotic as it seemed boring !
Usually people think there is an invisible hand guiding those changes, but never a simple Chinese balloon. Yet the changes are possible in most cases, because deep down people are calling for them, without an outside hand. In a way, people create the world which is surrounding them, more powerfully than any invisible hand which cannot always handle everything - especially when things are coming from the world of Fantasy !
Concerning the civilization of Orion, the authors of science-fiction consider it is mainly populated by Vegans (from Vega) justly, and then Lyrians, Pleiadians, Alpha Dracos and Greys essentially. Just a minority think about Venusians which are influencing Spatial China. The assessments made on Orion are perfectly ambivalent in truth. That's why it is so complicated for a human being, to be able to understand what is exactly representing the world of Orion !
