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Forbidden History of Europe Page Stamp.Qxd The Forbidden History of Europe - The Chronicles and Testament of the Aryan 801 opposition to the blinding light of their Elect.528 In this age, politics and religion were so deeply related, that an ideological attack on the Church became an attack on the state political apparatus. As defender of the faith, the state refused to sit idly by while such an unmottley crew of dissenters forged on unabated. State responses to such spiritual rebellion varied depending on the level of relations enjoyed between a given monarch and their Holy See. As time went by both sides turned to violence to defend their rights of belief and worship. It was a religious war rarely fought on the streets, but which proceeded with renewed atrocity, time without end, partitioning whole communities wherever heresy had taken root. The pyres of heretical martyrs, a growing conflagration, provided the eternal fuel for anti-Church sentiment. It seems the more who died, the bigger that hate became. What started out as a fight over the penetration of dualistic dogmas into Europe, ended up a protracted conflict over the execution of heretics by the state. For hundreds of years heresy and astrology had been cut out of Western Europe like a gangrenous sore and all MAGIC RETURNED TO but ceased to exist. But from the 10th Century AD, the timetable for the re-introduction of dualistic heresy, astrology EUROPE IN FULL and high magic was going ahead at some pace, the invasion had begun, with Magi, Manichees, Neo-Manichees, MEASURE Magian-Christians, and pagan gnostics pitting themselves against the Byzantine and Roman inquisitors and heresiographers. The latter officers played lead roles in the war of attrition, as the battle to save the teachings of the Roman and Byzantine churches from the corruption of practical dualism mutated into a vortex of incendiaries and wafting smoke. The first canon released by the 4th Lateran Council in 1215 AD amounted to a frontal assault on the dualistic DUALISM CONDEMENED DURING THE 4TH doctrine of ‘the Good God’ and ‘the Evil God’.530 It deemed the teaching forever heretical. The council’s message was LATERAN COUNCIL simple; there only ever was one God. Far from being a God, Satan was really a devil, a deceiving force who prompted man to commit evil acts and engage in the worship of all things false and non-existent. THE MOVEMENTS OF MEDIAEVAL CHRISTIAN HERETICS Armenians Armenians Manichees Manichees Magian Christians Magian Christians Manichees Manichees Bogomils/PauliciansMagian Christians Magian Christians Bogomils Manichees KEY Manichees Bogomils Massalians Known route Bogomils Paulicians Paulicians Bogomils Probable route Paulicians 802 The Forbidden History of Europe - The Chronicles and Testament of the Aryan Pagan holy war in the balkans EVIDENCE FOR A PAGAN Aside from these Norse activities one wonders if the west-east, Arnulf-Vladimir-rasate pact ever really get off HOLY WAR AIMING TO the ground in the west? During the 10th Century Franks and Saxons became embroiled in several anti-Church RE-INSTAL THE OLD WAYS conflicts (esp. in 1075 AD). From that century onwards, the city of Rome (and in particular the Vatican) was repeatedly invaded by several power factions, especially the Franks, who on more than one occasion dethroned popes and flung them into prison, only to install their own anti-Popes in their place. Such were the predations visited on the papacy during those times that a number of Popes had a life expectancy of just 20-30 days once they had been elected, that’s if they were elected at all!531 Just how much of this was attributable to political gesturing, and how much was due to the machinations of Magi inside the royal courts is likely to remain a mystery. Nevertheless this PAGANISM REVITALISED topic will be covered in greater detail later in the book. IN THE BALKANS In the Balkans though, there is every reason to believe the pagan resurgence was well and truly under way. Although dualist pagans (who believed in the divine forces of light and darkness, and in some cases worshiped demons) had firmly entrenched themselves in Bulgaria at least since the time of Krum, the renewed Bulgar pagan offensive (of the late 10th Century AD) seized virtually the entire Balkans, including Albania, Macedonia and Greece! Byzantium had lost the Balkans. The situation there was extremely confusing for the Byzantine Emperors. Not only was there an unwelcome presence of hostile pagan troops, but heretical pagan-Christian and Manichee dualists were running the place BULGARS SEEN AS under the noses of the struggling Bulgarian Church, an unbearable situation made even worse by the 975 AD NOTORIOUS APOSTLES resettlement of 200,000 Paulician dualist heretics from Anatolia to Philippopolis in Greece.532 FOR DUALISTIC DOGMAS As you will read the attacking pagan armies were the least of their worries. The dawn of the 10th Century AD saw the core teachings of the Magisterium (a Roman Catholic term denoting the essential teachings of the Church) besieged by Dualism - “the Great Heresy”. Bulgar heretical preachers made their way into Europe from the Balkans, into both Germany and France.533 In the east, the indefatigable Bulgar Bogomil heretics were infiltrating and taking over whole Byzantine RENEWED INTEREST IN DUALISTIC THEOLOGY monasteries. For both Rome and Constantinople these preachers were more insidious and devastating than any PROVED DISTURBING FOR military attack could ever be, because they demolished the traditional teachings of the Church, which unlike razed THE CHURCH churches, were much harder to rebuild. If the Norsemen caused Christianity much grief during this period, it AUTHORITIES would be nothing compared with the heathen Bulgars, which eastern and western Christendom saw as the ultimate enemies of the Christian faith, the forces of the Antichrist.534 In the east, uprisings against the Church were by no means confined to the Balkans. The year 1030 AD saw catastrophic attacks on the Polish church, facilitated by the widespread murder of clergy from the lowest to the highest. Following the conversion of Russia in 989 AD, rebellions against the Rus’ Church broke out in 1071 AD, at Kiev, Rostov and other places, which led to church burnings and the assassination of clergy. Suzdal experienced the re-emergence of the Volkhvy in force during the year 1024 AD.535 In Rus’ there were real security problems for the bishops, so much so that they had to dwell inside palisaded enclosures within the cities themselves; behind a wall within a wall. And where can we read of the reasons for the unceasing warfare between the Russians, Bulgarians and Byzantium? Just why were they all fighting? The Bulgar offensive against the Roman and Byzantine Churches were much more subtle that these military adventures, focusing on attempts to destabilise Christendom by infiltrating the priesthood, and by exporting the pagan sciences into Europe. But wouldn’t something as important as a viking and Franco-Bulgar holy war against Rome and Byzantium be amply recorded, or spelled out in bold black and white throughout most mediaeval texts? Surely? As astounding and important as this information may be to the understanding of mediaeval history, politics and religion, it is still something that was never broadcasted openly, perhaps for reasons of internal security, if no other. Certainly many aspects of this religious conflict are to be found in Mediaeval sources. If the level of pagan impenitence was as deep- seated as history suggests, the authorities in Byzantium and Rome would have been loathe to release news of plans for a full pagan revival by a pagan army then amassing in Russia and the Balkans during the 9th-10th Centuries AD, and repeatedly laying siege to Constantinople, the largest city in the “known world”. Any broadcast of that nature would have been absolute insanity, and could have sparked panic or riots in many places. Rome would have no respite from this pressure, for from this time it would appear that large numbers of pagans were again coming back into Europe; many of these would be the very people who the Church labelled The Forbidden History of Europe - The Chronicles and Testament of the Aryan 803 heretics, Manichaeans and Bogomils. A BULGAR BOGOMIL In time the Bulgar Bogomil heretics became quite brazen in their attempts to enter the halls of power, including a TRIED TO CONVERT THE BYZANTINE EMPEROR “winner-takes-all” attempt to convert the Byzantine Emperor himself!536 What was unveiled during the Bogomil conversion mission to the Emperor was never publicly released, and considered “classified information”, to use a modern term. In this way, anyone found with it could not claim that they were only studying the heretics. Much rather, they could be directly jailed or burned as politically subversive cult members, a danger to the existing community and the faith. And not only that. As I perceive it the transcripts of the Bogomil attempt to convert the Emperor (which contained all the essential doctrines of the dualists) were held under lock and key because their release into the Christian society of the Middle Ages would have been damaging to the social order, and might have undone centuries of Christian missionary work. Try as they may, there was no way of stopping these teachings from finding their way out into the suburban streets of Constantinople or the Anatolian monasteries. Concerning all Orthodox and Imperial findings on the Bogomil movement, there was an air of sombre reticence about “the whole sorry affair”. Both Anna Comnena (daughter of Emperor Alexius) and the Byzantine inquisitorial figure Zigabenus had declared openly, that their exposure to the heretics had unsettled them to the point that they no longer wished to desecrate their tongues with another word on the subject.537 For Zigabenus, his tussle with the Bogomils’ Babylonian thought processes538 had pained him deeply.
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