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Roman Catholic Church, this was as alarming as the worst of the Gnostic
heresies, radical Manichaeanism. 752
The difficulty for all religious interpreters of the Great Heresy of
the Bogomils is that the cosmic strand (three are one) and the anti-cosmic
strand (one versus one) of Zoroastrianism are enormously convoluted.
Generally, the omnipotent God is Good, except in the Jewish Talmud
where he is both good and bad in the sense of being vengeful and
unpredictable. The second son is also Good except again in the Jewish
Talmud, which does not recognize him at all. The Qumran Covenanters
recognized Michael instead.
Satan is the real conundrum. Interpretations range from the
respected agent of God (the Accuser in the Jewish Talmud) to a son of the
Good God turned bad by his own choice, to a son of the Good God bad by
design, further to the bad son of an intrinsically bad primordial god.
Finally, Satan is a bad primordial god himself, the Devil of the New
Testament. To complicate things even further the Old Testament changes
its view of Satan at I Chronicles. At this point, Satan transforms from
Yahweh's subordinate into the evil, archenemy of God. 753 Finally, to
complete the mad mélange, the radical Gnostics identified Yahweh as
Satan.
In all this confusion of dualism, the Roman Catholic Church was
unable to differentiate between the various sects and eventually
condemned the Bogomils and Cathars alike as Persian Manichaeists. The
Cistercian papal legate Arnald-Almaric, General of Cîteaux, encapsulated
this at Béziers in 1209CE with his infamous order:
… kill them all, the Lord will look after his own.
Arnald-Almaric became Commander-in-Chief of the Albigensian
crusade when the King of France declined this doubtful honor. After
murdering seven thousand catholic women, children and priests
celebrating a Eucharist in St Mary Magdalene, Arnald triumphantly
reported to Pope Innocent:
Today, your highness, twenty thousand citizens were put to the
sword, regardless of age or sex.
Inquisition records show that the Cathars’ treasure was smuggled
away on two or three occasions during the siege. 754 The Cathar deacon of
Toulouse, Pierre Bonet, and a Parfait called Mathieu carried money and
jewels to Pons Arnaud de Chateau-Verdun, at his castle near Ussat.
Mathieu returned to collect some of the treasure that he had not been able
to carry on the first journey. On the night before the final massacre, four
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