synarchy movement of empire - Pierre Beaudry's Galactic Parking Lot
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on {have pity on us}, the hesychast would suddenly experience an ineffable<br />
sensation <strong>of</strong> felicity and would find himself enveloped with a powerful<br />
"supernatural" white light, and thus, experiment a "vision <strong>of</strong> God," somewhat like<br />
the witnesses who contemplated the transfiguration <strong>of</strong> Christ on Mount Tabor. The<br />
difference, however, is that the hesychast had induced himself onto<br />
hyperventilation, and was about to lose all consciousness.<br />
The Cathars were originally imported into southern France, in the<br />
Languedoc region, from Bulgaria where was spawned the cult <strong>of</strong> the Bogomils,<br />
otherwise known as the {Buggers}, a radical religious cult that rejected<br />
procreation as dirty and sinful, but vented their sexual impulses on each other.<br />
They had networks all across Europe, in France, Germany, Italy, Bosnia, Croatia,<br />
Bulgaria and Switzerland. In France, the cult had been organized around the<br />
estates <strong>of</strong> the Duke <strong>of</strong> Toulouse, during the Papacy <strong>of</strong> Innocent III (1198-1216).<br />
The Cathars began to be chased out <strong>of</strong> France by the local Catholic communities,<br />
around 1204, at the Monsegur fortress-temple, which their members claim to have<br />
used as a refuge for the Holy Grail. There are close affinities between the Cathars,<br />
the Sufis, the Cabalists, or any other sort <strong>of</strong> {blood and soil} cult. The fanatical<br />
Gnostic Cathars resisted until 1244, when Montsegur was taken and most <strong>of</strong> their<br />
followers committed suicide by throwing themselves from the walls.<br />
The Cathar tradition, however, lived on among the Templars and different<br />
secret societies throughout the ages. During the French Revolution, Martinists<br />
such as Joseph de Maistre <strong>of</strong> Savoy, and Fabre d'Olivet <strong>of</strong> the Languedoc, and<br />
Cagliostro <strong>of</strong> Italy, were the more notorious. During the nineteenth century, one <strong>of</strong><br />
the most active Martinist Cathar leaders was Charles Nodier who became the<br />
grand Master <strong>of</strong> the highly controversial {Prieure de Sion}, a notorious {blood and<br />
soil} cult, which circulated the heresy that Christ did not die on the cross, but<br />
escaped with Marie Magdalene, and gave birth to the dynasty <strong>of</strong> the Habsbourg<br />
Emperors. Most <strong>of</strong> the so-called classic French cultural elites <strong>of</strong> that period, such<br />
as, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas Son, Delacroix, Gerard de<br />
Nerval, etc., were members <strong>of</strong> that Martinist Cathar cult.<br />
A reasonable person might think that such a myth is so unbelievable that its<br />
exaggeration alone should keep people away, however, this is not the case for the<br />
Martinists. Martinists believe that it is precisely because myths are "unreasonable"<br />
that they attract people. They assume that the common people will always be<br />
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