Their history is fascinating to me as a student of world faiths and I’m … The subjects knew nothing of Cathar history but remembered some events, usually the most tragic ones, as Cathars. This ‘easy-going attitude about sexual morals’, Runciman continues, made them very popular among the Southern French troubadours – the poets of love. Dr Joanna Kujawa Eventually, this search led me to a temple garden, which is a place within the human heart that we construct throughout many lifetimes. Today, to channel spiritual knowledge, we must have a consort to create a union with. So I am going to look specifically into the theories about Mary Magdalene, the possible connection she had to the Cathars (medieval French heretics). Roibeard and I were intrigued about the “Arnold”, Roibeard saying he always thought he had been reincarnated from Arnold Aimery, one of the Cathars that attacked the Papal legate at Avignonet, but that event took place much later in 1243. This can either be due to the intended or unintended omission of the approach for the purpose of hiding ‘difficult to handle’ information, or because the information is considered untruthful and not worthy of proper scholarly scrutiny. Their objective was to maintain their own power (claimed through the apostolic succession of Peter in contrast to the hereditary succession of Mary Magdalene's children). But I also know that very little was and is understood about what it was that they really believed. Much Love, After initiation one joined a community which shared all goods in common, as it explains in Acts 2,44-47. They were afraid they too would be crucified. In esoteric traditions, there is the archetype of the Saint and Virgin. The notion of Jesus as a man of flesh and blood was rejected by the Cathars, yet neo-Cathars underline how the Cathars believed that Mary Magdalene was the wife of Christ. I live near Narbonne and my research found that Mary Magdalene and Jesus came to the Corbières, specifically to Rennes-les-Bains, which was almost a suburb of Narbonne at the time, because Narbonne had no luxurious suite of baths of its own. Mary Magdalene and the Cathars; Who were the Cathars? 2020 is considered the year of clear vision. Thank you. I have searched in Guirdham’s books for any mention of Mary Magdalene but have not been successful as yet. It culminated into a war that threw the earth into a massive dark age. This is exactly what the Cathars believed. As for the Atlanteans, I have also heard from Regina Meredith of Gaia TV that she also has a memory of those times and that she clearly remembers other higher beings (interdimensional or in other way extraterrestrial) watching over the tragic drama of Atlantis. The church of Saint Mary Magdalene where 7,000 people were massacred according to Peter of Vaux-de-Cernay. There are many names for the source of love, vitality, and intelligence. The first Christians, the Jesus Christians, were intense, deeply spiritual people. Therefore I concluded that Catharism was never Manicheeism before it was Catharism. Mary Magdalene reassures them. But history tells us very little about the Cathar belief system and the theological reasons for Rome wanting them exterminated at all cost. Sophia means wisdom. Refund … We are truly the children of the living Father. Hello Paul, I look forward to more blogs and writings from you. I have not touched yet upon Atlantis as my knowledge here is limited at this stage but, like you, I do believe in the transmissions of Cayce, Steiner or Blavatsky – they did have access to that knowledge. The Cathars too had a serious initiation ceremony – the consolamentum. Thus it became obvious the Mary Magdalene church at Rhedae remained Arian/Cathar until as late as 1059. Then Mary stood up and said to her brethren, Do not weep and do not grieve nor be irresolute, for His grace will be entirely with you and will protect you. Thank you also for the suggestions of readings. Dr Joanna Kujawa Cathar churches had no crucifixes in them for they did not believe that Jesus was crucified, nor that he rose again from the dead. The meaning is both hidden and apparent; that is, apart from the obvious mystery surrounding Mary Magdalene and the Cathars themselves there is a deeper philosophical meaning to this topic. Nimboli, India, Namaste Jeanette, 1.7K likes. His position had been purchased for him when he was ten years old, for his Cerdagne family wanted the riches of the Narbonne region – the Narbonnais. my husband Dewa and I manage Fire Mountain Retreat,, across the river. Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 9:00 AM – Sat, Jul 31, 2021, 10:00 AM PDT. But in researching the 13th century Inquisition records of Cathar testimonies, I found an account of an articled clerk, searching through the ledgers of his employer and finding a book written in Occitan and bound with parchment. For example, Ms Milles spontaneously remembers a line from an enigmatic Cathar verse, ‘Then they rose up in the sky of glass and for everyone that rose aloft another fell and was lost and God came down from heaven with the twelve apostles and took ghostly shape in Holy Mary’. Once again, Thank you for your beautiful insights and sharing them here. It is certain, however, that the mystery of both Mary Magdalene and the Cathars is locked together in France, and is only one of many examples of the retelling of the one of the greatest stories of all time – that of the expelled goddess and her connection to the mystery of transfiguration and the passage between death and life. I like your take on the Cathars as the evolved form of Manicheism – this makes the perfect sense to me as I, to believe, in the inherent spiritual evolution of all consciousness but it is the humans that need it most. The chroniclers emphasized that this killing took place on the feast day of Mary Magdalene. The Cathars formed around the tenth century. This observation is inherent, and true at many levels. Jerusalem Diary: Searching for the Tomb and House of Jesus. In so doing, we were prevented from having a powerful female role model and an appropriate place in our religions. In a world that has lost all sense of truth, it becomes the hero’s quest to reinstate the sovereignty of the True King in union with the Divine Feminine through the emergence of our spiritual authority that we carry within our self. In his books he describes experiencing an astounding collection of synchronicities when he met a small group of people (separate from each other) who, through a very painful and lengthy process, remembered fragments of their lives as French Cathars in the 13th century. Much Love, Enter your email address to subscribe to Joanna's blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. It makes it quite clear that the early Christians, that is, contemporary followers of Jesus, accepted women initiates who could freely enter or even orchestrate discussions. That’s just one fact that separates early Christianity from the Roman church, which decided that women could not preach, itself based on the even older Judaic ideas that women should be seen and not heard, must cover their heads, could sit quietly in a synogogue to absorb the advice of worthies such as St. Peter. by The Awake Within the Dream Productions Team $333 – $488 Actions and Detail Panel. By allowing the poet to speak his native language and praising him and his culture, Dante, in his own poetic disguise, showed support to all truth seekers and free-thinkers. I wish I had the opportunity to come to Ganeshpuri (a place of great Shakti) and met you but somehow that has not yet happened. The Cathars believed Jesus was sinless, but they also believed sex was sin. In this book, Jesus returns to the disciples eleven years after his ascension into Heaven to exchange views on his teachings. That was the Gnostic belief when the book was written, over 200 years after Jesus and Mary Magdalene fled to France. You can see that Cathar beliefs stem from Christianity in the time of Jesus. Before I plunged into the mystery of the Black Madonnas in my recent blog https://www.joannakujawa.com/two-tale-of-the-two-black-madonnas/ , I decided to look into the first set of ‘conspiracy’ theories surrounding Mary Magdalene. And luckily, wealth was never an issue. I could not be call myself a spiritual detective if I were not attracted to these kinds of speculations. ~Vincent Van Gogh Riveting proof But the church of Mary Magdalene was not consecrated until 1059. This was a ceremony of cleansing, and the cold salty water of the Sals was considered particularly suitable. Even in Hindu, Buddhist, and others, women are not believed to be able to realize the Truth of Our Universal Beingness. In 1945 the Gnostic Gospels were discovered and added to other Gnostic fragments found earlier, which made a body of knowledge that completely changed all the Roman Christian ideas of Christ and his teachings. The Visigoths were Christian after the teachings of the Alexandrian priest called Aruis, thus they were Arian Christians. On one occasion, in a Church debate, they said that God was so good he would even forgive archbishops! In the departments of Ariège and Aude, where the Cathars lived in the Middle Ages, the earliest traces of Christian religion can be dated 5th or 6th century, that is, the period between 414AD and 507AD. What was the place of Mary Magdalene in the Cathar religion ? Where does the connection between Mary Magdalene, France and the Cathars come from, apart from in Starbird’s A Woman with an Alabaster Jar and The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Michael Baignent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln? Greek and Hindu Goddesses: Which One Are You? Coincidence? The most common comparison is to the Manicheans, who flourished from the early third century onwards, with their influence spreading as far as China. I sense that these events, especially for this month are “unmasking” (and I use this term specifically) the dark shadow elements within the human soul that many of us can no longer live with. Find event and ticket information. This year began with unusually significant celestial alignments and it will end in a similarly spectacular fashion. In it, his protagonist meets the troubadour and Cathar Arnaut Daniel, whom Dante introduces as a master of poetry and romance and allows him to speak in his native langue d’oc, the language of the conquered Cathars. In fact, this still happens to us in our dream states, as little information is usually retained. Our Connection with God: A Very Personal yet Universal Journey, Mary Magdalene: The Myth and the Mirror (essay 1), Mary Magdalene: The Gnostic Mary Magdalene (essay 2), Journaling to Manifest the Lost Goddess in Your Life, Mary Magdalene, Dark Madonnas As the Archetypes of the ‘Other’ Goddess, The Secret Traditions of Gnosis and Tantra. Malgorzata Debowska 891 views. The Gnostics believed in reincarnation, for the search for knowledge can take you through many lifetimes. Castle lake road . Your comments are a source of great intellectual and spiritual joy here so Thank you for yet another beautiful insight on the matter. Therefore, anyone who takes upon themselves the role of spiritual seeker, understands that in this plane of existence, spiritual authority has been withdrawn, leaving a void that the ego fills with corruption and lesser deities. Some of these settled at Bugarach, which was how it got its name. Much love, . My sense is (no proof por any sort of transmission) that it did exist physically but perhaps now has moved to a subtler realm as a form of guidance or possibility for us. As the consort of Jesus, Magdalene is a widow whose suffering is unfathomable. I found her writing so full of wisdom based on her own mystical understandings. As a medieval scholar I studied medieval heresies, and I know that the Cathars were brutally executed for their unorthodox beliefs (they were burned en masse at the stake). When he came down I asked as a joke; “Well, did you meet the wicked archbishop there?” In the Pays de Sault region are three churches dedicated to Mary Magdalene, as well as ruined chapels and wayside oratories dedicated to her. Yet, the truth lives on within the human collective. A day or so later the combined papal and French crown’s forces destroyed the fortress and the Cathars were burned at the stake. Mass murder: Deaths: 20,000: Perpetrators : Crusaders: Motive: Anti-Catharism: The Massacre at Béziers was the slaughter of the inhabitants during the sack of Béziers, an event that took … Also, Sarah is celebrated by the Gypsies as their own holy woman. I somehow doubt that the Gypsies – who are very independent and proud people – would celebrate Sarah if she were a servant (I am currently researching this). Catharism was there long before Catholicism was. Guifred here fortified the Visigothic château (similar in style to the one at Rennes-le-Château except that all the towers are square) to protect himself, his soldiers and his wealth. Thank you for your research. As for evil, this was one thing that the Cathars were against, and they believed (like the early Christians or Manichees) that it was our conduct, the good deeds and the focus on the spirit, that could end the battle between eternal evil and eternal good in favour of the good. Joann Having said that, as a serious spiritual seeker I do not want to waste my time on theories, however fascinating, if there is no truth to them. Monk Peter found this a fitting punishment for the ‘heretical’ Cathars, as they believed, according to him, that Mary Magdalene was Christ’s concubine! The Cathars, like the Gnostics, did not believe one needed priests for that. Still, the Cathars ignored Virgin Mary because the purely spiritual Christ had no mother. Location: Béziers, County of Toulouse: Date: 22 July 1209 () Target: People of Béziers, especially Cathars: Attack type. Therefore, I believe that it is more appropriate to call the Cathars ‘spiritualists’ – the name given to them by Arthur Guirdham. Gradually, Christianity came on top in this struggle, coming to dominate the nations of Europe, becoming closely tied with its politics and expansionist movements of the rulers. Cathars . This has led some to propose that the Cathars’ big secret—their Holy Grail—was knowledge of a holy bloodline established by Jesus and Magdalene. But if the church at Rennes-le-Château was not Roman Christian before 1059 – what was it? Learn more about the Rosicrucians. This involved a brief spiritual ceremony to remove all sin from the believer and to induct him into the next higher level as a perfect. The Gospel According to Mary Magdalene. If you ever find it, please send me a copy. For a … It is also said that in Atlantis we lived in a childlike state. (See our article about Lazarus.) I will comment only briefly on the political side of the events, as they contributed to the demise of the Cathars in France and have some relationship with what I am looking for here – the connection between the Cathars, Mary Magdalene and the Black Madonnas, as Margaret Starbird writes in her work Woman with the Alabaster Jar. They were not too concerned about getting married either; how could a priest marry people in God’s name? Follow the path of Mary Magdalene in France Even the apostle Paul writes about this. These people’s past identities as Cathars were only able to be confirmed much later after many translations of the records of Inquisitors. This is what we know from hard history. Apr 26, 2016 - Explore Kimberly Naranjo's board "The Cathars, Mary Magdalene, Gnostic Gospels, and Rennes le Chateaux", followed by 414 people on Pinterest. The Cathars followed the teachings of Jesus, but did not believe he was an incarnation of God. Did Cathars believe Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married? For the first time, it was clear how close to Jesus Mary Magdalene was. Event Information. Medieval Doctrine. They had contraceptive measures. The capital of the county called Razès, at the far western end of Guifred’s territory in the Corbières, was Rennes-le-Château, called Rhedae in those days. Jesus could not possibly have lived eleven years in hiding in the Holy Land with a death sentence for treason on his head. Many say the Cathars were the spiritual descendants of Mary Magdalene, who came to France soon after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Goddess News. Usually, all evidence of any ‘heretical’ beliefs is burned along with the heretics. I looked at the priest’s life before he came to Rennes-le-Château. But Mary fought hard for this. Yuri Stoyanov has indeed confirmed that the Cathars claimed as such and that this belief had no counterpart in Bogomil doctrines, meaning that the Cathars were unique amongst the dualists to have this belief. The Church of St. Mary Magdalene at Béziers, built in 1209, via European Nomad . During his troubles of 1059, Guifred “took refuge in an unconsecrated church in the Razès.” The earliest Jesus Christianity began in Narbonne around 50AD, with St. Paul Serge, whose tomb still exists underneath the basilica dedicated to him in Narbonne. One of these fortifications was the village where I now live, Canet d’Aude, which had been owned by the Archbishop of Narbonne, whoever he might be, since 782AD. Yet they held Mary Magdalene in high esteem. Once again, thank you for your insights into Magdalen and the Divine Feminine. That is why both Mary Magdalene and the Cathars fire up our imaginations because in the depths of our being we can sense that the stories we are currently being fed are like images seen through a broken mirror. In contrast, the Cathars had but one central rite, the Consolamentum, or Consolation. If you love hearing about subjects like sacred geometry, the Knights Templar, the Cathars, Mary Magdalene, the Holy Grail, King Arthur, The Ark of the Covenant, Secret Societies, Egyptian Mythology, lost civilisations and alternative history then Magenta Circle is for you. But I would say that it exists within all of us in one form or another. With pure storytelling passion, I will bring the history of the Cathars alive by introducing you to the key characters, one tale at a time. ~Vincent Van Gogh This new faith was built upon a pre-Christian Gnostic community whose origins go back to Atlantean times when one religion or spiritual understanding existed. They also believed in reincarnation, and how the soul could be reborn to learn all that was necessary to become fully enlightened. Edgar Casey called them the “Sons of Belial.” The rise of this egotistical force led to distortions, perversion, isolation, conflict, and destruction. Cathars, like the Gnostics who preceded them, assigned more importance to the role of Mary Magdalene in the spread of early Christianity than the church previously did. With pure storytelling passion, I will bring the history of the Cathars alive by introducing you to the key characters, one tale at a time: Mary Magdalene John The Beloved … 1059? The vast majority of names were of Roman origin; the villages were there long before the Catholic bishops were. Mary Called Magdalene Saintes Maries-de-la-Mer, where Mary Magdalene is said to have landed in France. There were two churches in Rhedae at that time, one to St. Peter, who ran and hid when Jesus was crucified but was later declared the leader of the Roman Church, and an earlier one to Mary Magdalene, who stayed with Jesus to the very end. The South of France with Mary Magdalene and the Cathars. the last three pages is the story of the vision mary”the tree of eight boughs.” i’m 79 and the vision is the best thing i have read in my life!! Having been brought up Roman Catholic, and left at age of 17 due to a mystical awareness that revealed a greater truth, i am deeply aware that the Boys Club of the 3rd century Christians decided to write out Mary Magdalene’s story. At Rhedae, now known as Rennes-le-Chateau, Charlemagne instituted a survey of the region. The Father (or True King) has no authority within a world ruled by ego and the archons and demiurges that the human mind can foster. The political scene at that time of itself would make for a great historical, if horrific, drama. First and foremost, knowledge and authority must be recognized within the Divine Feminine. And thus, Catholic Christianity dominated Western Europe. Those who understand the gravity of the Christos-Sophia union as the only vehicle that will overcome the darkness, know that they are a Child of the Widow. A local association that had studied the religious history of the area told me the Pays de Sault was fiercely Cathar and the last Cathars of all came from that region until finally executed in 1329. The cult of Isis was so widespread in the Roman Empire that many researchers have explored nearby Rennes-les-Bains and its territory, looking for a temple to Isis, but there wasn’t one, for it was at Rennes-le-Château. Now the plot thickens. Thank you for your dedication to Her and for sharing your findings with all of your fellow Magdalene family. Without a doubt, the Cathars were channeling an evolving truth related to Manichaeism. Soon, I promise as I am currently swamped with my academic responsibilities. Mary Magdalene played a large role in this, more than Peter, more than John. A conspiracy theory is generally an approach which is not accepted in the mainstream discourse or discussions on a given topic. Discover more about Mary Magdalene, the Knights Templar, the Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade, Rennes-le-Château, secret codes, sacred geometry, and more. Some say, the Cathar were originally taught this by Mary Magdalene. The prophet Mani was known as the “Son of the Widow.” This is an ancient mystical term that is present at least to the time of Horus and is prominent in Freemasonry, the Rosicrucian path, and the Grail legends of Parsifal. For example, the famous medieval theme of the tapestry series The Lady and the Unicorn is thought to be the coded representation of Mary Magdalene in art from the thirteenth century onwards.
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