Secret_History

166 The Secret History of the World
This is quite clearly a Gnostic idea. The Gnostics taught that Jehovah/Yahweh
was an “Evil God” more like a demon than anything else. But, a part of their
teaching as well was that he did have something to do with the creation of the
material world. So, he clearly wasn’t just a “demon” in the sense of an ethereal
attacker of human beings who could be “cast out” by an exorcism. No, indeed, he
was far more than that! He was a hyperdimensional being of great power and
cunning!
They affirmed also, that all the fathers of the Old Testament were damned; that
John the Baptist was one of the greater demons. 81
This is an interesting remark since it relates in a curious way to a comment of
“Jesus” in the Secret Book of James. His disciples are asking him: “Lord, how can
we prophesy to those who ask us to prophesy to them? For many people ask us,
and they expect to hear a sermon from us.” The Lord answered and said:
Do you not know that the head of prophecy was removed with John? When you
realize what the head is, and that prophecy comes from the head, then understand
what this means: its head was taken away. At first I spoke with you in parables, but
you did not understand. Now I am speaking with you plainly, and you still do not
perceive. 82
This is, no doubt, an extremely mysterious remark. Writers of the present day,
not understanding the symbolism of the “talking head” and the head of John the
Baptist as it relates to the head of Bran the Blessed, the Ark of the Covenant, and
the Holy Grail, have erroneously come to the conclusion that John the Baptist was
the true object of worship of the Cathars and Templars. [Picknett and Prince.]
Some writers have even ignorantly proposed that this “talking head” is the
armillary sphere of Pope Sylvester, and that it “talks” about “precessional cycles”.
It is quite probable that the remark of Raynaldus about the condemnation of
John the Baptist by the Cathars has some foundation in fact. If so, what are we to
make of the claims of those who propose that there has been a secret society for
millennia that actually worships John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene in secret?
Certainly, if that had been the case with the Cathars, Raynaldus would have said
so because such a claim was damning enough in its own right. But that is not what
he said. He said that the Cathars damned John the Baptist as one of the greater
demons. And then we see the “Jesus” of the Gnostic texts saying that the head of
this “demon“ had been related to “prophecy” and was “removed.”
They said also, in their secret doctrine, (in secreto suo) that that Christ who was
born in the visible, and terrestrial Bethlehem, and crucified in Jerusalem, was a bad
man, and that Mary Magdalene was his concubine; and that she was the woman
81 Ibid.
82 Meyer, Marvin W., The Secret Teachings of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospels, (New York: Random
House 1984) p. 7.