The Inquisition Phase II

In 1244 the Inquisition won its first Crusade against heresy with the fall of the Cathar Castle at Monteseure.  Two hundred or more Cathars were burnt alive.

The Inquisition saw this not as the end but the beginning of phase II In their quest against heresy.  By this time they monitored the whole of the south of France through a network of informants.

The Inquisition was there to stay to support the power of the Catholic church of Rome. It has stayed until the present day.

It has tried to sanitize itself. In 1908, the Inquisition was renamed “ The Sacred Congregation of The Holy Office!’  Then in a further change it became the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1965.  The Inquisitions softened image is to maintain the Orthodoxy of the church.

The head of the  Congregation called the ”prefect” is the Grand Inquisitor.  On May 15, 2005 California born Monsignor William Levada, formerly Arch –Bishop of San Francisco, his immediate predecessor was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who was elected Pope in 2005.  Ratzinger was quite clear about the churches doctrine.

There is no flexibility with regards to its precepts.  “Revelation terminated with Jesus Christ”  Ratzinger has stated throwing out a direct challenge to those who might think that TRUTH is there to be discovered even today.

Conveniently forgetting the vote at the Council of Nicea that defiled Jesus.  He is dismissive to those who think that the church is anything but divine.  The church appears to be a human constraint”.  “One cannot establish the truth by resolution but can only recognize and accept it”.  “ Truth cannot be created through ballots”.” The church bearer of Faith does not sin!”

The Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith clearly maintains the stance of its ancestor the Inquisition. In shoring up the boundaries of belief and placing limits on the discovery of truth, it serves in effect as the Vatican’s command and control center.

This department’s only reason for existing is to keep at bay the Vatican’s greatest and most secret fear. That evidence might emerge that would prove that Jesus was not a God which the council of Nicea proclaimed, but a man.

  Perhaps that is what Pope Leo the X meant when he stated  that this “ myth of Christ has served the Church well”.   Or  “ how much we and our family have profited by this legend of Christ” as reported by John Bale the apostate English Carmelite to Queen Elizabeth I in 1560.  If this is true, it would be a crushing blow for all of Christendom for it would mean that the entire christen faith was based on fraud!

After the termination of the Cathar faith, by the inquisition, in the forty year crusade by the Catholic Church known as the Albeserian Crusade.  They then set their sights on the Knights Templar, who had served Christian nations for over two hundred years!

 Then in the fourteenth century they turned their attention to the Order of the Franciscans, who because of their determined simplicity, were assumed to be infected with heresy!

  A hundred years later the inquisition turned upon the Jews and Muslims of Spain, particularly those who had converted to Catholicism and suspected of secretly turning to their former faith.

  Two hundred and eighty- eight people were burnt alive between April and November 1481.  In 1485 an inquisitor was murdered in retaliation and a whole new reign of terror took place.

                 

The Toulouse Heretic

  In August 1234, a women laid on her death bed in a home in Toulouse owned by her son in law.  She was a Cathar which was a Religion despised and feared by the Church of Rome.

  For many Cathars the Pope himself was the Anti-Christ!  And the Church of Rome was the “harlot of the Apocalypse” of the church of wolves.

  On that day in 1234, some Cathar Priests visited the women and gave her the sacred rite of consolidation Into the “last rites” of their religion.  A common occurrence  on the death bed of their faithful  believers. 

  But their arrival was noted by an informer hostile to the religion.  Perhaps she was being spied upon, because she was known as a Cathar supporter.  Her son in law acted as a courier for the Toulouse Cathars.

  The Dominican Inquisitors were with the Bishop of Toulouse, who had just said mass.  It was on this day that their founder Dominic de Guzman had been canonized and proclaimed in Toulouse. 

  The monks were about to have their evening meal then by divine “providence” the Prior was told of this dying woman openly accepting Cathar rites.   

 The Prior notified the Bishop who insisted that the Inquisition deal with this outrage to the “True” religion and So without finishing their meal the Inquisitors left with the Bishop to the home of the woman.

   They entered her home so suddenly that her friends weren't able to warn her of their arrival.   The bishop sat down beside her and calmly began to discuss her beliefs with her.  She felt no alarm, perhaps she didn't realize who was visiting her!  Perhaps she thought he was a Cathar priest, not a Roman priest Bishop! 

  Evidently unconcerned, she began to talk freely, thinking that this was part of the Cathar “death rites”.  The Bishop led her on, encouraging her to talk and telling her you “must not lie”.  “I tell you must be steadfast in your belief do not confess anything you do not believe in”.

 She replied with considerable composure and dignity “my lord what I say I believe, and I shall not change my commitment out of concern for the miserable remainder of my life”.

At this the Bishops demeanor changed and turned foul “therefore you are a heretic!”  He exclaimed for what you have confessed is the faith of heretics.  Accept what the Church of Rome believes......Believe!! 

  Showing courage the woman refused.  So the Bishop evoking Jesus Christ formally proclaimed her a Heretic and by doing so condemned her to death! 

 So was immediately picked up in her bed and carried outside to a nearby meadow outside of the city limits owned by the Count of Toulouse.  She was immediately burned to death!

The Bishop and the Dominican Inquisition made their way back through the streets of Toulouse and thanking God and their saintly founder they “ate with rejoicing what had been prepared for them." 

 A Dominican Monk, who had been present in the room concluded "God performed these works on the first feast of the Blessed Dominic to the glory and praise of his name."

The Blessed Dominic was a cruel and fanatical Spanish Monk, Dominic de Guzman who joined the anti-Cathar crusade and such was the zest and zeal for his passion that the Pope established in 1216 the order of the Dominicans.

They were to destroy heresy, utterly and finally by whatever means was necessary.  He died in 1221 and in 1234 the year the woman in Toulouse was burned to death he was made a saint by his friend who was made a Pope the previous year,Pope Gregory IX.

The Vatican Christ

 By 400AD the plains of Provence had already been Christianized. Convents and Basilicas had been built over the ruins of pagan temples, making well use of their stones and columns Relics of the martyrs of the new doctrine were deposited in these churches.

 By becoming saints the martyrs became more acceptable to the pagans, who were accustomed to numerous gods and semi-gods. Only the Druids in the Pyrenees continued their sacrifices to Abellio, their “god of light”, which had nothing to do with other persecutions or cruelties. 

 This divinity had not created the world nor the creatures that inhabited it.The Judeo-Roman christologists preached it but could not make any inroads with these spiritualists.  Since the church couldn’t convert these pagans it osterized them by becoming more materialistic and opulent before exterminating them.

 For the Druids a Christ emerging from the house of the murderous adulterous King David appeared as a contradiction.  The Christ who died on the cross could never be the divinity of light.  A God cannot die, and would never allow others to kill in his name, because they differed with his views.

 Persecuted and cursed, the Druids were confined to the mountain tops and deepest caves, praising the Holy Father, according to their ancient  and Holy custom. 

 The Christians came to the Pyrenees. They were persecuted by their brothers, who declared them heretics, in the councils of Saragossa and Bordeaux in 380AD.  

 Their leader Priscillian was tortured and killed in 380AD by the Roman Emperor Magnus Maximus, himself a convert to Christianity, and Bishop Itacius.

 The Gnostic Priscillian were welcomed by the Druids and it was they who eventually converted the Druids to Christianity. Their new homeland was in the Sarralunga forest  between Sarbarth’es and Olmes, in the mountain range of Saint Bartholomew’s Peak .  

 From the Druids, the Priscillians, the bards and the Troubadours  the  Cathars were born.

 The Cathars taught that  God is a Spirit.  That love is absolute, perfect in itself, immutable, eternal and just.  Nothing evil or transitory can exist in it or come from it.  Its works can only be perfect, immutable, eternal, just as pure in the end as the fountain from which they flow. 

 This world is made up of imperfect matter and Gods Perfection.  A world of misery and a God who is love itself. Between creatures who are only born to die, and a God who is eternal life. 

 The Cathers came to conclude that there is an incompatibility between what is perfect and what isn’t.  A cause and effect if you will.  If the cause is immutable , so are the effects.  If the cause or the world is the work of a good God, then why was it not made perfect like himself. 

 If he wanted to make it perfect and couldn’t, then it is obvious that he is neither all powerful nor perfect.  If he could have made it perfect and didn't want to, he would have a conflict with the perfection of love. Therefore for the Cathars, God did not create the terrestrial world! 

 Could God be happy with so much disorder and confusion in the world.  How is it that all of Gods creatures, who seem to concentrate on torture and terrorizing others, could come from a perfect creator, of pure kindness. 

 How can the fires, floods, earthquakes volcanic eruptions and other natural disasters which make the poor homeless, destroy the crops that feed his people, and kill and or destroy thousands of families, be created from a God of perfection? 

 For those who seek truth, it is hard to ascribe these events to a perfect and all powerful God. The God that our enemies  use to justify our destruction. 

 These were the thoughts of the Albigensian Cathars. How could a perfect God have created man whose ultimate destiny was death after being tortured by all types of evils?

The fundamental opposition between good and evil is found in Mazdaism, Druidism, and Pythagorean philosophy and now Catharism and is known as the "Dualist system."

 The predecessor of Catholicism  the Church of Rome was very much apposed to this theology as they supported the all powerful and all knowing and one and only True God. 

 Any theology that didn't support or questioned the dogma was deemed heretical and would soon be dealt with by a cold horror that would sweep the land in the name of Christ, but not the Christ of history but the Vaticans Christ!

                       

The Cathar's and Inquisition

During the 12th century particularly in the South of France the church had become overtaken with corruption. The church fathers were more concerned with taking care of their real estate and increasing their income than administering to their flock. They had mistresses, they gambled, they were involved in money-lending, charging fees for eccentric offices, permitting illegal marriages and acting as lawyers.

Finally Pope Innocent III, in 1198, condemned these practices. According to the Pope the arch Bishop of the Landudec, was worshiping at only one alter, the alter of money! He charged large fees for consecrating Bishops, let monks marry, condoned other practices not acceptable to church dogma.

The Pope dismissed him, another Arch bishop and also seven Bishops. Several of the bishop’s families were turning away from Rome. The nobles were constantly in dispute with Rome over matters of property, and income.

Staunchly loyal to their regions, they formed alliances with groups of Cathars. Some even became full members of the Cathar Faith. The wife of the Count of Foix in the 12th century, became a “perfect” as did the Counts sister Escomande.

The Cathars were a group of Holy Men and Women who lived a life of Simplicity, renunciation, and spirituality. They refer to themselves as the ”good men” or good Christians. They served a group of people whose needs weren’t being met by the church. The Church of Rome left to its spiritual role to one of materialism.

The Cathars rejected worldly materialism, they lived a life of simplicity, prayer and teaching. They were vegetarians, they traveled in pairs and gave spiritual comfort for those who wished to know more. They represented truth and honesty to those who have had enough lies and decent from Rome.

All could partake both men and women it was not a male dominated society, unlike the Church of Rome! At first there wasn’t a hierarchy or organizational chart.

Bernard of Clairveaux of the Cisterarian monastery was dedicated to simple living. Bernard traveled extensively in the South of France, in 1145, debating with other “perfects” in village squares. He recognized their simplicity and piety but condemned their heresy.

Many of the Noble's supported the Cathars because they saw it as a movement centered in the Languedoc and not in Rome.

The church was not happy and in 1209 it launched a crusade to wipe out the Cathars. Northern armies of knights descended upon the Languedoc destroying many of the cities and towns. Burning thousands of Cathars, alive sometimes hundreds at once, in huge arenas. By this time the dilapidated castle at Montsequeur, perched upon an impregnable rocky hill top, had been rebuilt as a base for the Cathar Church.

After destruction of the lower valleys in 1232, it became center of the faith, and the seat of a Bishop of the Cathars. A small village for Cathar “perfects” was built between the castle and the nearby cliffs, the remains can be seen to this day.

Accompanying the northern armies was a cleric Dominic de Guzman, who formed the Order of Dominicans which later became known as the Inquisition.

A cold horror swept the land as the inquisition tortured and burned its way through the South of France. The Inquisition was feared and hated everywhere. Many were beaten or murdered as the order continued its pursuit of the heresies.

For the Cathar’s it was a war they could not win. Their ways were simple, those suspected of heresy were put to the question! A process of pain centered information extraction that even the notorious Gestapo would have admired for its cold and ruthless efficiency.

The suspect was arrested after a confession, the Dominicans had a firm grasp of psychology and knew that incarceration and fear would do most of the work for them..

They moved on to a torture, but they had a sensitivity to blood, the torturers tended to use instruments that were blunt, red hot and restrictive. Bones could be broken, limbs dislocated, so that any blood spilled was by accident and not on purpose. And thus acceptable to the church rules. Once a victim was in a mind to confess—to anything probably—Dominican Lawyers would copy everything, record their testimony and often detailed the events they witnessed, then the victim was asked to confirm that the confession was free and spontaneous. Then they were turned over to the state for execution.

The church as a Christian organization didn’t execute or so they claimed, unconcerned with the level of hyprocacy involved. Through these testimonies they created a vast archive that held data on all they encountered. Although they burned thousands they came into contact with they usually did it only after extensive interrogation.

They wished always to maintain and augment this collective memory that formed the heart of their power. They believed that a convert who would betray his friends was worth more than a roasted corpse.

The Inquisition was the intelligence agency of the thirteenth century. It maintained an extensive sophisticated data base for its time. It investigated suspected heretics recorded testimonies, denunciations, and confessions in intricate and legal detail and maintained archives of these records so that information could be retrieved long afterwards.

The Inquisition became the churches KILLERS. Their family of secret informers, ruthless interrogators and cold judges all acting in the name of Christ.

The historical Messiah had long been forgotten what mattered now was the VATICAN CHRIST.

In 1244 the Inquisition won its first Crusade against heresy with the fall of the Cathar Castle at Monteseure. Two hundred or more Cathars were burnt alive.

The Inquisition saw this not as the end but the beginning of phase II In their quest against heresy. By this time they monitored the whole of the south of France through a network of informants.

The Inquisition was there to stay to support the power of the Catholic church of Rome. And it has stayed until the present day.

It has tried to sanitize itself. In 1908, the Inquisition was renamed “ The Sacred Congregation of The Holy Office!’ Then in a further change it became the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1965. The Inquisitions softened image is to maintain the Orthodoxy of the church.

The currant head of the Congregation called the "prefect” is the Grand Inquisitor. Appointed on May 15, 2005  California born Monsignor William Levada. Formerly Arch –Bishop of San Francisco, his immediate predecessor Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope in 2005. Ratzinger is quite clear about the churches doctrine.

There is no flexibility with regards to its precepts. “Revelation terminated with Jesus Christ” Ratzinger has stated throwing out a direct challenge to those who might think that TRUTH is there to be discovered even today.

Conveniently forgetting the vote at the Council of Nicea that defiled Jesus. He is dismissive to those who think that the church is anything but divine. The church appears to be a human constraint”. “One cannot establish the truth by resolution but can only recognize and accept it”. “ Truth cannot be created through ballots”. "The church bearer of Faith does not sin.”

The Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith clearly maintains the stance of its ancestor the Inquisition. In shoring up the boundaries of belief and placing limits on the discovery of truth, it serves in effect as the Vatican’s command and control center.

This department’s only reason for existing is to keep at bay the Vatican’s greatest and most secret fear. That evidence might emerge that would prove that Jesus was not a God which the council of Nicea proclaimed but a man. 

 Perhaps that is what Pope Leo the X meant when he stated that this “myth of Christ has served the Church well”. Or “ How much we and our family have profited by this legend of Christ."  As reported by John Bale the apostate English Carmelite to Queen Elizabeth I in 1560. 

 If this is true it would be a crushing blow for all of Christendom for it would mean that the entire christen faith was based on fraud !

The Merovingian' s Book III

After the council of Nicaea, in the latter half of the third century AD, the church of Rome represented
what was an administrative organization, a center of literacy, and formal education. The church was a
spiritual power and not a military or secular power.

Prior to the council of Nicea there were many pagan and christian faiths that were secular poorly
organized and difficult to control and maintain an accounting of, after all, the world has always centered
around money and power, which means Tax!

Cesar Constantine was very much seeking an organized state religion which could be used to control
the populace. The church was also seeking a way to eliminate its competition, an array of pagan
religions, other christen religions that had a different take on Christianity, a way to control these small
but troublesome institutions and collect taxes known today as tithe.

I just recently had a conversation with an elderly women from the American south, who described how
the local church had a strangle hold on the little town she lived in. where if you didn't belong to the
church it was basicly impossible to survive in the town, we are going back into the 1950's in this case.
The church would go and visit each household audit them give them a budget, and tell them how much
they must give to the church, it wasn't a voluntary donation on behalf of the family.

The Roman Church sought a cohesive military—social structure which it could use. The Merovingian
dynasty was the solution to their problem. Although they were considered pagans, they were
considered controllable pagans by the church. They appreciated civilization and respected the church
for the organization which they maintained. The church set out to convert the “Long Haired
Monarch’s”.

Clovis was the Merovingian Monarch which was the first to become a convert to Christianity. The
Kingdom of the Franks was converted along with him. Clovis ruled between 481 and 511A.D. And is
considered to be a contemporary of king Arthur. Clovis was baptized in 496 A.D. By St. Remy. This
event was considered to be the birth of a new Roman Empire, or a new Roman Church. This would
give the church spiritual control and much administrative influence over the Merovingian or Clovis
military and secular control.

This relationship lasted for about three hundred years, after Clovis, the leadership of the Merovingian
declined, they were no longer the bold warriors that the church needed to meet its dogma. The last
monarch's were referred to as the “enfeebled kings”. Power ended up being passed from the kings to
the mayors of the palace which were the ancestors of Charlemagne.

The Merovingian Kings became a liability for the church and for Europe as a whole, during this period
of history. The Islamic armies had invaded Spain and were threatening to invade France. With this
overwhelming catastrophe looming over the church they turned not to the Merovingian but to the
Mayors of the palace.

Charles Martel was the son of Pepin the “fat' who won the battle of Poiters in 732 A.D. and halted the
Moorish invasion of France. In 754 A.D. Charles Martel's son Peppin III, was anointed King of the
Franks and established the Carolingian dynasty.

Charles the Great Charlemagne, the son of Pepin the “short” was made Holy Roman Emperor in
800A.D., and the church had broken its agreement made with the Merovingian. This needs to be
understood to understand European and world history!

The church had a “perpetual pact " with Clovis and the lineage of the Merovingian dynasty. Which
means essentially that it would go on forever not a contract like we have today with a starting point and
ending point.

The church needed to resolve this problem by eliminating the monarch and the heirs to the throne of
the Merovingian dynasty. Dagobert II, was the last Merovingian Monarch, who was assassinated by
the Carolingian Mayor of the Palace in 679 A.D.

It was thought that Dagoberts son, Seibert IV, had died as well, but he survived. He was a young boy
of about five years of age, he was taken to live with his mothers noble family in the South of France,
and the Counts of Razes.

This lineage which is the bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, survived in the foot hills of the
Pyrenees mountains in the South of France. It prospered and intermarried with other noble houses in
France, England and Scotland.

To protect themselves from the church and the Inquisition the lineage of the Merovingian legacy was a
secret kept to a select few. This lineage were the ancestors of Godfri de Boulion and the Rex Deus, and
the Kingship of Jerusalem.

This family was centered out of the South of France but eventually had branches throughout Europe.
The family seat of the Count of Razes, was called Rhedae in the middle ages. It later became known as
Rennes le Chateau.

The Merovingian were known to be “super natural” or Divine. In the early “Dark ages” this reputation
of being Divine was very relevant to the church. During the reign of Merovech a first century Monarch
of the Sicambrian branch of the Frank dynasty something happened to cause the name change of the
Sicambrian Kings, to the Merovingian named after Merovich.

Researcher's led by information gained from the Dossier secrets have concluded that an infusion of
“Holly Blood” occurred during the rule of Merovich. Holly Blood is the lineage of Jesus! This is the
reason for the name change from the Frank/Sicabrian dynasty in the first century under the rule of
Merovech to Merovingian. This is the reason for the reputation of “supernatural” or divinity amongst
the Royalty of the Merovingian dynasty.

This was secret knowledge reserved for those who reached the highest levels of church and state. This
was the reason for the perpetual pact that the church had with Clovis, and was broken by Rome.

The church was very vigilant in trying to destroy the lineage of Jesus for several reasons. If Jesus had a
family it would question his divinity or “Godliness”. But there is also a secret associated with this that
the Knights Templar became very involved with and became part of the Holly Grail, which I will
discuss in future posts.

Second they were guilty over the broken pact they had with Clovis, and feared public reaction to the
churches behavior.

Third the church feared anything that would hurt the churches dogma on Jesus being a God, who died,
ascended to heaven, returned in three days, made various appearances, and that the faithful will rise to
join Jesus in heaven.

 We will also be discussing this in future posts. However this is why the church has the inquisition, to seek out heresy, which frequently questions the divinity of Jesus, and yes the inquisition still exists to this day with a few name changes, and cleaned their act up a bit.

 We will also be having some discussion on this in future posts. At various times in the history of the church it goes through changes. During this period the church was gradually trying to “modify” its behavior or image.
The bishop of Rome who wasn't known as Pope yet but was going in that direction, up until this
point was just as powerful as any other bishop. But at this time in history the bishop of Rome was
trying to establish control over the entire christen community.

The bishop of Rome was slowly moving towards being Pope of the entire church and a complicated
spiritual dogma was being created to justify this process. The existence of any flesh and blood
descendants would diminish the Papal authority. The Papacy was fighting for its survival