The Mistery of Belicena Villca Domingo de Guzmán ' s mother , in which her future son appeared as a dog carrying a flaming ax , and considering that for the Initiates in the Cold Fire the " Dog " was a representation of the Soul and the " Lord " par excellence was the Spirit : in every Hyperborean Initiate the Spirit had to dominate the Soul and assume the function of " Lord of the Dog "; from there the denomination adopted for the Circle of Initiates , which also had the advantage of being confused with the name of dominicani , that is , dominicans , that the people gave the monks of Domingo de Guzmán . It should be added that being " Lord of the Dog ” in the Cold Fire Mystique is analogous to being Lord of the Horse , that is " Knight ", in the Mystique of Chivalry , where the Soul is symbolized by " the Horse ".
One of the Initiates , Pierre Cellari , had donated several houses in Toulouse : Some were destined for secret meeting places of the Circle and others were adopted for the use of the future Order . When everything was ready , it was sought to obtain the authorization of Innocent III for the foundation of an Order of mendicant preachers , similar to that formed by Saint Francis of Assisi in 1210 : Innocent III had approved this Order immediately , but the new request now came from Toulouse , a country in Holy War in which everyone was suspected of heresy ; and one should proceed with caution ; the plan was ambitious but only the unquestionable personality of Saint Dominic would pave all difficulties , just as Saint Francis himself had done ; let ' s not forget that the Golen controlled all Western monasticism from the Benedictine Order and were hostile to the creation of new independent Orders . The opportunity only arose in 1215 , when the Bishop Fulco was summoned to the IV Lateran General Council and took Saint Dominic with him .
There they encountered the closed refusal of Innocent III who , as it is known , only gave in after dreaming that the Lateran Basilica , threatening collapse , was supported by the shoulders of Domingo de Guzmán . However , his authorization was merely verbal , though perfectly legal , and he limited himself to accept the amended Rule of Saint Augustine proposed by Dominic and recommend the mission to fight heresy . After the death of Innocent III , in 1216 , Honorius III gives the final approval to the “ Order of Preachers ” or Ordo Praedicatorum and allows its expansion , since by then , it only owned the monasteries of Prouilhe and Toulouse . From the start they enter the Order all the clerics of the House of Tharsis who , as I said , were in their vast majority , university professors , dragging with them many other wise men and scholars of the time . In a short time , then , the Order was transformed into an organization suitable for high-level teaching , although the first General Chapter meeting in Bologna in 1220 declared that it was a " Mendicant order ", with less rigor in poverty than that of Saint Francis . Saint Dominic died in 1221 , leaving control of the Order in the hands of a Initiate of the Pure Blood , the Master General Beatus Jordan of Saxony .
Now , at that time the Golen were struggling to get the institutionalization of a systematic inquisition of heresy that allowed the interrogation of any suspect and obtain the information leading to the site of the Gral ; if such an institution was entrusted to the Benedictines , as intended , the end of the Cathar Strategy would be faster than anticipated , not giving time for Frederick II to carry out his plans to ruin the Golen papacy . Hence the insistence and eloquence displayed by the Dominicans to present itself as the Order most apt to carry out that sinister function ; But the Dominicans had some real advantages over the Benedictines : they constituted not only a local Order , native to Languedoc where the Benedictines had long since lost influence , but they also had monks with great theological instruction , adequate to analyze the statements that the inquisition of faith required . The Dominicans had undoubted mobilization capacity in the Languedoc and when the Golen were convinced that the new Order would come under their control and allow the entry of their own inquisitors , also approved the concession . In 1224 the Emperor Frederick II , who despite already being at odds with the papacy , was clear about the situation in the Languedoc and the need to support the Order of Preachers , renews the ancient Roman legislation
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