22-03-2019, 11:34 PM
(22-03-2019, 04:48 PM)Paris wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Morten,
I know a few about Cathari.
Do we have some (or a lot of) manuscripts written by cathar authors ?
If yes, did you already identify the name of the VMS ?
If no, is there a database of these books writeent by cathar authors ?
Hi Paris,
An excellent source of information about the Cathars is the following website:
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It has a "Cathar Books" section with many entries but these are books about the Cathars rather than written by them. As far as I know, beyond the VMS, no books written by Cathars (and there were likely a great many of them) have survived. All were destroyed by the Inquisition.
If another book written in Voynichese were to exist, the most likely place to find it would be the secret archives of the Vatican.
To the Catholic mentality, books that make historical predictions that fail are perfectly OK, but books that make accurate predictions are deemed to be the work of Satan. This explains why the Papal crusades were so brutal in exterminating the Cathars and their literature.
Under normal circumstances, I would have no interest at all in the religious literature of medieval times. But a great curiosity arises with regard to the writings of the "good god" of the Cathari: as best as I am able to determine, his predictions are more relevant to our contemporary times than to the 13th century.
--Morten