{"id":13401,"date":"2025-01-04T01:14:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T01:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.earthempaths.net\/wp\/?p=13401"},"modified":"2025-01-04T01:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T01:14:52","slug":"the-cathars-dark-crusade-hidden-history-they-dont-want-you-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/?p=13401","title":{"rendered":"The Cathars | Dark Crusade &#8211; Hidden History They Don&#8217;t Want You To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join Paul Wallis as he delves into the profound history of the Cathars, a 12th-century spiritual movement that championed peace, equality, and a deep connection to one&#8217;s higher self. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this insightful exploration, Paul examines how the Cathars&#8217; beliefs, which blended Platonic ideas of consciousness and spirituality, presented a compelling alternative to the structured hierarchies of medieval Catholicism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Discover how the Cathars viewed themselves as the &#8220;Church of Love,&#8221; fostering egalitarian communities, and how their mystical ideas about reincarnation, divine consciousness, and interdimensional guidance posed a significant challenge to the Catholic Church, ultimately leading to a brutal century-long crusade to eradicate them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do echoes of Cathar thought resonate today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Speaking for myself, I answered yes to all the question John Paul posed. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1209: Massacre of Beziers, \u201cKill them all, let God sort them out.\u201d  Caesarius of Heisterbach relates this story about the massacre, with the papal legate quoted using the words\u00a0<em>Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius<\/em>: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Paul Wallis as he delves into the profound history of the Cathars, a 12th-century spiritual movement that championed peace,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[433,432],"class_list":["post-13401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recommended-videos","tag-book-of-love","tag-cathars","has-post-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13406,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401\/revisions\/13406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}