Morning, couple of chapters here from Hancock and Bauval from their work Talisman.This is the real Schism in Christianity not Luther

Up till now we have been able to treat the problem of the Cathars as if their heresy existed in isolation. Of course, this was not the case. They posed a massive threat to the Church of Rome on the basis of their success in nearby Occitania and northern Italy. But they were in fact part of a much larger heresy that threatened the entire Christian establishment in Europe – not only the Roman Catholics in the West but also the Orthodox Church of the East based in Constantinople (ancient Byzantium, known today as Istanbul).

The Catholic/Orthodox schism had been developing for centuries and became official in AD 1054. By that date the former Bishops of Constantinople had already long been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Oecumenical Patriarchs’ – literally ‘Patriarchs of the entire inhabited world’. 2 Since this seemed to challenge the Pope’s own claim to the top job, it was a source of great mutual hostility. Nevertheless, both churches were of one mind on the subject of heresy – which was to be stamped out. 3 And just as Rome faced the heresy of Catharism in the West in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, so too, and for rather longer, the Patriarchate in Constantinople confronted the heresy known as ‘Bogomilism’ in the East, which began its period of expansion some 200 years earlier and survived until the end of the fourteenth century.

It was called ‘Bogomilism’ after its supposed founder, whose name in Greek was Theophilis and in Slav Bogomil – meaning ‘Beloved of God’. 4 Active in Bulgaria in the first half of the tenth century, this enigmatic individual preached a form of dualism that was identical, in almost every detail, to the creed that would later be introduced into Western Europe as Catharism. Hand The Balkans, tenth to fourteenth centuries. in hand with these spiritual teachings, he is also remembered as the organizer of a political rebellion that gave the persecuted Slav peoples a voice and incited them to withdraw their labour and fealty from their Graecized Bulgar overlords.

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