The Mistery of Belicena Villca
Faced with the intransigence of the Cathars , Domingo and Diego resort to a extreme procedure , which could not be disapproved of by the Church : they warn , who wants to hear them , about the sure destruction to which the declared support of the heresy will carry . But they are not heard . To the believers , that constitute the majority of the Occitan population and that , like any religious mass , do not master philosophical subtleties , it is impossible for them to believe that Evil may triumph over Good , that is , that the Church of Rome may effectively destroy the Cathar Church . And the Cathars , who know that Evil can triumph over Good on Earth , do not care because , in any case , it is only a matter of variations of the Illusion : for Pure Men , the only reality is the Spirit ; and that Truth means the definitive and absolute triumph of Good over Evil , that is , the Eternal Permanence of the Reality of the Spirit and the Final Dissolution of the Illusion of the Material World . It ' s the year 1208 and , while the people are affirmed in these positions , Pope Innocent III announces the Crusade in retaliation for the death of his legate Pierre de Castelnau . It is too late for the preaching of Saint Dominic to have any effect . However , the main objective of the mission , which was to impose the holy figure of Domingo and make known his aptitudes as an organizer and founder of religious communities , was being achieved . In that year , while both the Beziers massacre and other Golen atrocities occurred , Saint Dominic was carrying out his first foundation at Fanjeaux , near Carcassonne . He had understood , from the outset , that Occitan ladies presented a special predisposition for the spiritual L-ove , and therefore establishes the Monastery of Prouilhe , whose nuns will be dedicated to the care of children and the Cult of the Virgen del Rosario : the first Abbess was Maiella de Tharsis , a great initiate in the Cult of the Cold Fire , sent from Spain for that function . And she applies then one of the strategic principles indicated by Petreño : to escape to the control of the Golen , to some extent , it was essential to discard the Regula Monachorum of Saint Benedict . Hence , Saint Dominic gave the Prouilhe nuns the Rule of Saint Augustine .
Of course , Saint Dominic and Diego de Osma did not act alone : they were supported by some Nobles and clergy who secretly professed the Cult of the Cold Fire and received spiritual assistance from the Lords of Tharsis . Among them were included the Archbishop of Narbonne and the Bishop of Toulouse , who contributed to that work with significant amounts of money . The latter was a Genoese Initiate named Fulco , infiltrated by the Lords of Tharsis in the Cistercian , and would not be discovered until the end : in those days Bishop Fulco passed as sworn enemy of the Cathars , defender of the Catholic orthodoxy , and took advantage of that prestige to promote before the papal legates and their superiors of the Cister , the monastic work of Domingo and his personal sanctity .
In the following years , Saint Dominic tries to carry out the plan of Petreño and founds a semi-lay brotherhood , similar to the Orders of Chivalry , called " Militia Christi ", from which it would emerge the Tertius ordo of paenitentia Sancti Dominici , whose members were known as “ Tertiary monks ”; but soon this organization proved ineffective for the objectives wanted and had to think of something more perfect and far-reaching . For several years the new Order was planned , taking into consideration the collected experience and the formidable task it intended to carry out , that is , fight against the strategy of the Golen : they collaborated with Saint Dominic in such projects a group of sixteen Initiates , coming from different parts of the Languedoc , who met periodically in Toulouse , among whom was Bishop Fulco . As a result of those speculations , it was decided that the most convenient was to create a " Hyperborean Circle " concealed by a Catholic Order : the " Circle " would be a super-Secret Society led by the Lords of Tharsis , that would function within the new monastic Order . Only in this way , they concluded , it would reconcile the objective sought with the principle of security .
That secret group , initially made up of only the sixteen Initiates that I have mentioned , was called Circulus Domini Canis , that is , Circle of the Lords of the Dog . Such a name is explained by remembering the premonitory dream of
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