Date/Time
Date - Nov 18 2016
Service starts at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Fellowship of the Inner Light
Categories
A Conversation With…” will present the well-traveled, fascinating, unique people we call Fellowship members. Many right in our midst have amazing stories to share about their Soul’s Journey in this lifetime.
“A Conversation With…” will offer a chance to interact, participate and ask questions – and together learn and open our minds.
In 1988, Francis Sporer and Robert Krajenke joined a group from Holland on a pilgrimage to the south of France, where they visited many Cathar chateaux and learned about the mysterious French Christian gnostic sect who were slaughtered for heresy in the 13th Century. Francis will be sharing the lessons from this peace-loving group and also beautiful photographs from the many chateaux he and Robert visited.
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Catharism “The Good Men”
The eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries were marked by resurgence in Europe of spiritual movements of clearly Gnostic character. During the late eleventh century a Gnostic religion that had survived orthodox persecution for many centuries in the Byzantine Empire and on the Balkan Peninsula – the Bogomil religion – found its way to the Languedoc region of Southern France and to areas of Northern Italy. There it took root and flourished over the next three centuries as the Cathar religion — the tradition of the Good and True Christians, the Bons Hommes. (The term “Cathar” was used in medieval times in a derogatory fashion by opponents of the Bons Hommes; Cathars simply called themselves “Good Christians.”)
