The Doctrine Of "The Pure Ones" - Conclusion

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The Cathars explained the Fall of Lucifer, the origin of the Earth, and the birth of man with the following mythological formula:

Seven heavens. The purest and most brilliant was the Kingdom of God and the celestial Spirits. Each one of these heavens had special superior angels, whose hymns of praise rose incessantly to God's throne in the seventh heaven. Beneath the celestial regions four other elements existed, immobile and without form, but separate one from the other. Beneath heaven: the air, with clouds; further down, the ocean with its endless rolling waves; further down still, the Earth, and in the interior of the Earth, fire. Air, water, earth, and fire: the four elements, each one presided over by an angel.

Commanding the celestial armies was Lucifer, to whom God had entrusted the administration of the heavens. Flying high, he visited all the regions of the infinite celestial world, from the deepest abyss to the throne of invisible eternity. His privileged position sparked rebellious thoughts in him; he wanted to be like his Creator and Lord. First, he seduced the four angels of the elements and then a regiment of the celestial army. Then God expelled him from the Kingdom of the Heavens. The Light that until then had been soft and pure was taken from him and was replaced by another, reddish, similar to incandescent iron. The angels seduced by Lucifer were stripped of their finery and and crowns and were expelled from the heavens. Lucifer fled with them to the outer limits of the firmament. Tormented by remorse, he said to God, "Have patience with me, I will return everything to you".

And God, having compassion for His preferred son, gave him seven days -- which meant seven Days of Manifestation -- to do everything that he thought was proper. Then Lucifer established his residence in the firmament and ordered the rest of the angels who had followed him to shape the Earth. He took his crown, which had been broken since his expulsion from the Kingdom of Heavens, and with half of it formed the sun, and with the other half, the moon. Then he converted his precious stones into the stars. From the primitive mud he fashioned the first terrestrial creatures, animals and plants.

The supreme angels of the third and second heavens desired to share power with Lucifer and pleaded with God to allow them to descend to Earth, promising to return immediately afterward. God read their thoughts, but He did not deny their wish. He wanted to punish them for their lie, but He advised them not to fall asleep during their voyage, because if they did, they would forget the way to return to the Heavens. If they fell asleep, He would not call them before 7,000 years had passed. The two angels began their journey. But Lucifer put them into a deep sleep and locked them in bodies that had been shaped from the original clay. When the angels awoke, they were the human beings Adam and Eve.

To get them to forget Heaven, Lucifer created Earthly paradise. But he decided to cheat them with a new strategy. He wanted them both to sin in order to make them his slaves forever. When he put them in paradise, he forbade them -- to give more encouragement to their natural curiosity -- to eat from the tree of science. He transformed himself into a snake and seduced Eve, who in turn induced Adam to commit the original sin.

Lucifer knew very well that God had also forbidden the first pair to eat the wretched fruit. Because God would never want to see the multiplication of Lucifer's nature, Lucifer acted as if the prohibition of eating the fruit came from himself, to triumph in this way with greater certainty.

Humanity had to reproduce, because Lucifer needed fresh souls, In the new bodies produced by Adam and Eve, he confined all the angels who had abandoned the celestial regions with him.

And then, with the death of Abel, murder entered into the world.

After a while, God had compassion with the fallen angels who had been expelled from Heaven and transformed into humans. So He decided to reveal Himself to them, and sent His most perfect creature down to the Earth. His supreme angel, Christ, who would assume an outwardly human appearance. The Christ came into the world to indicate how they could return to Heaven, to the Kingdom of the Eternal Light.

I am come a Light unto the world, that whoseoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. While ye have Light, believe in the Light, that ye may be the children of the Light. John 12:46, 36

The Christ did not become a man, a creature of Lucifer; He only appeared as one. He only gave the impression that He ate, drank, taught, suffered and died, revealing to humans a sort of shadow of His real body. This is the reason He could walk on water and transform Himself on Mount Tabor, where He revealed to His disciples the real substance of His body. Since the Fall of Lucifer, the Christ was the greatest of all angels, and for this reason He is called "the Son of God". When the Christ said that He wasn't of this world, but rather from above it, the Cathars applied this passage of the New Testament not only to the spiritual nature of the Savior, but also to His body. With this ethereal body, the Aeon Christ entered the body of Maria, like the "Word of God", through her ear. He left her as pure as He had entered her, without taking any of her matter. For this reason, he never called her "mother", and this is why he said to her, "Woman, what have I to do with you?".

 The Cathars did not recognize the reality of the miracles of Jesus. Why would He cure physical illnesses when He considered the body an obstacle to the redemption of the soul? When He cured the blind, He was curing men who were blinded by sin and allowing them to see Reality. The" bread" that He divided among the five thousand was His Word, the Bread of the Soul that gave real Life. The storm that He calmed was the storm of passions unleashed by Lucifer. In this respect, it is possible to apply the written words of the Christ: the written word kills, but the Spirit breathes Life.

Because the body of the Christ was not of an earthly nature, His crucifixion was only an apparition; this was the only way possible He could rise to Heaven. A heavenly ascension with a body of flesh and blood appeared absurd to the Cathars. A human body cannot go to heaven; an Aeon (such as the Christ), cannot die.

From "The Pure Ones" and Their Doctrine - Crusade Against the Grail - Otto Rahn

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The Doctrine Of "The Pure Ones" - Part II

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The spirits are of God; the bodies are of the Evil one.

The Cathars believed that Lucifer, whom they also called Luzibel, had created everything visible, material and perishable. Not only do all terrestrial things belong to him, but he also governs them and tries to keep them under his dominion.

But the Old Testament tells us that Jehovah is the creator of Heaven and the Earth and virtually everything on it. This is true, the Cathars said: He "created" human beings, man and woman.

In the New Testament, you can read, "There is neither man nor woman, but you are all one thing in Christ": and that "for God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in (Christ) and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on Earth or things in Heaven". By contrast, Jehovah said, "I will put enmity between you and the woman". Jehovah curses and God blesses. All the "children of God" in the Old Testament sinned, and in the New Testament, "those born of God do not sin". Don't they contradict one another?

The Cathars referred specifically to the passages of the Old Testament that speak of the vengeance and anger of Jehovah. They were convinced that Jehovah -- who sent the Great Flood, destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, and repeated over and over again that he wanted to destroy his enemies and transfer the sins of the fathers onto the sons of the third or fourth generations -- was neither God nor absolute and eternal love.

Jehovah forbade Adam from eating from the tree of science. He either knew that other human beings would eat the fruit or he didn't. If he knew it, he did nothing other than to push Adam toward temptation, make him a sinner, and provoke his destruction.

Above all, the Albigensian "heretics" invoked the seventh chapter of the epistle to the Romans, where Paul calls Mosaic Law a "law of death and sin". Lot committed incest with his daughters, Abraham lied and committed adultery with his servant, David was a murderer and adulterer, and the rest mentioned in the Old Testament were not any better, affirmed the Cathars. For them, the law that Jehovah announced to the Jews through Moses was of satanic inspiration, and if it contained some good things (for example, the seventh commandment), it was in order to gain some hearty souls for the cause of Evil.

A divinity who reveals himself in a burning bush to a man -- Moses -- cannot be "God" because God is Spirit and does not reveal Himself to mortals in a physical manner. Jehovah is not God. He is the Anti-Christ; he is Lucifer.

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Unless one is completely brainwashed or braindead, even a cursory look at the two books of the Bible will present a significant dilemma. How can the vengeful, bloodthirsty, jealous god of the Old Testament be the same as the benevolent, forgiving, loving "Father" that the Christ speaks of in the New Testament? How do we reconcile this?

We don't. There is no way to reconcile the two because they are completely different entities. The fact that the organized church turns a blind eye to this, the fact that its clergy sidesteps the issue while continuing to mislead their "flock" is proof that the organized church on Earth is under the aegis of "the prince of this world", Lucifer.

For having the termity, the gall, to exercise independent thinking and the use of common damn sense to expose the lie of the Old Testament, the Cathars were slandered, persecuted and eventually exterminated by the Crusade that your history books never talk about -- the Albigensian Crusade (1209-1255).

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The Doctrine Of "The Pure Ones"

Note 1: Divine Love bears no relation to the degenerated human "love" that is venerated in this fallen world. Human "love" is lustful, selfish, possessive, conditional. Divine Love has nothing to do with desire or emotion. Divine Love, the Love of the Creator, is a universal, omnipresent, omnipotent, all-powerful force whose characteristics are unlimited, absolute and pure. This is why it has always been stated that 'God is Love' .

Note 2: The Cathars (the word "Cathar" means "pure one") were the preceding gnostic brotherhood on earth who lived in the South of France over 700 years ago. Their pure doctrine was deemed "heretical" by the Roman Church, who ordered them exterminated. Thus, the Albigensian Crusades came into being. Tens of thousands of Cathars and their supporters were burned at the stake, walled up in caves, or massacred in the thousands by the marauding, blood-thirsty "Army of the Pope". Although the Church succeeded in eradicating the physical threat, they failed miserably in their true aim, which was to eradicate the presence of the Gnosis on earth.

The fact that we are here today is proof positive that Gnosis, the "True Knowledge of God" can never be exterminated.

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The Occitan Cathars taught that God is Spirit. For all eternity, Love is absolute, perfect in itself, immutable (unchangeable), eternal and just. Nothing evil or transitory can exist in it or come from it. Consequently, its works can only be perfect, immutable, eternal, just and good, as pure in the end as the Fountain from which they flow.

If we contemplate this world, its imperfection, impermanence, and changeability are self-evident. The matter from which it is made is perishable and is the cause of innumerable evils and sufferings. This matter of life contains within it the principle of death, a death from which no man can escape.

Out of this opposition between imperfect matter and God's perfection, between a world full of misery and a God who is Love Itself, between creatures who are born only to die and a God who is eternal life, the Cathars came to the conclusion that an incompatibility exists between what is perfect and what isn't. Don't the foundations of modern philosophy establish the principle of cause and effect? If the cause is Immutable, so are its effects. Consequently, a being with a contradictory nature could not have created the terrestrial world and its creatures.

If the Creation is the work of a good God, why did He not make it perfect like Himself? And if he wanted to make it perfect and couldn't, it is obvious that He is neither all-powerful or perfect. If He could have made it perfect and didn't want to, he would be in conflict with the perfection of Love. Consequently, for the Cathars, God did not create the terrestrial world.

If so many things that happen in this world have nothing to do with Divine Providence and the will of God, then how do we believe that God is happy with so much disorder and confusion? And how to explain that all the creatures whose only purpose is to disturb and torture mankind come from a creator who is pure kindness for man? How can the fires and floods that destroy crops and cause the death of so many people or destroy the shacks of the poor be ascribed to this God? A God who is used by our enemies to justify our destruction, we who only wish for and seek the Truth? Such were the thoughts of the Albigensian Cathars.

And how could a perfect God give man a body whose ultimate destiny is death after having been tortured with all kinds of evils?

The Cathars saw far too much intent in visible creation to somehow deny it an intelligent origin. From the analogous principle of cause and effect, they deduced that bad effects came from bad causes and that our world, which could never have been created by a good God, had to have as its creator a bad principle. This dualist system bases itself in the fundamental opposition between Good and Evil. The Cathars believed that Evil was really nothing other than the negation, or absence, of Good.

When the devil tempted Christ -- "All these things I will give you if you fall down and worship me" -- how could he offer it if it did not already belong to him? And how could it belong to him if he wasn't its creator? When John the Evangelist  speaks of "the children of God that are not born of flesh and blood," from whom do the children of flesh and blood come? Are not these children from another creator -- the "devil" -- who according to Christ's own words is "their Father"?

"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the Father of it....He that is of God heareth God's words; ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God" John 8:44, 47

For the Cathars, all passages of the New Testament that mention the Devil, or the fight between the flesh and the Spirit, or the old man who should be cast out (to make way for the New Man), or the world submerged in sin and darkness, were sufficient to demonstrate the antithesis between God, whose kingdom is not-of-this-Earth, and the true prince of this world, Lucifer.

The Kingdom of God is the invisible world, absolutely good and perfect, the world of Light: the Eternal City.

God is the "Creator" of all things, because "to create" signifies producing something that did not exist before. He also created matter, which before was non-existent. He created it from nothing*, but only from principle. It was Lucifer, himself a creature of God, who gave "shape" to matter; this was his principle.

Who is the cause of this world? Can you resolve this question?

*g: this sentence fragment is in error, for there is no such thing as "nothing". There is no empty space. All matter was created from God, The All. Think upon it. If God is The All, then where would He find "other" material to create with? The existence of some "other" sort of matter would mean that God is not The All, because there would be something that exists which is outside of God. Therefore, in order for the sentence to be more in line with truth, it should read: "He created it from Himself" If we take this one step further, we can conclude that God essentially permeates all matter, whether subtle or gross. The essence of the Divine is within every created thing, however these creations are not completely conscious of their innate Divinity).

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From "The Pure Ones" and Their Doctrine - Crusade Against the Grail - Otto Rahn

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