The Castle of **Montségur**, the Last Cathar Stronghold, *Image* *Source*

The Cathars were a mystical Christian movement that flourished in southern France — especially in Occitania (Languedoc) — from the 11th to 13th centuries. They called themselves "Good Christians" or "Good People", and were deeply aligned with the Gnostic, Essene, and early Magdalene teachings.

They believed in a spiritual Christianity, free from the corruption and materialism of the Catholic Church. Their teachings were radical, luminous, and deeply empowering — especially for women.

🌹 Core Cathar Teachings

The Divine Feminine & Sacred Union
The Cathars honored a divine duality — a balance of masculine and feminine within the energy of God. This aligns with the sacred union of Yeshua and Magdalene. They believed salvation came not through belief in a dying God, but through inner transformation and love.
Reincarnation & Purification
They taught that the soul returns over lifetimes to purify itself and remember its divine origin. This was part of the Gnostic path of gnosis — direct inner knowing.
The Body as Temple — and Illusion
Unlike the Church, which taught bodily damnation and sin, the Cathars saw the body as neither evil nor all-powerful — but as a temporary vessel through which the soul grows in light. They practiced vegetarianism, non-violence, and simple living.
The Priesthood of All Souls
They rejected Church hierarchy, stating that everyone had access to the divine directly — no need for priests, confessions, or the institutional Church.
The Consolamentum
Their sacred ritual, given at the time of initiation or death, was a spiritual baptism — a transmission of the Holy Spirit that awakened the soul to its true nature. Many believed this rite carried the lineage of Magdalene’s laying-on of hands.
Honor of Women
Women could be Perfects (initiated teachers), revered as spiritual leaders, healers, and channels of divine wisdom. Many Magdalene souls — then as now — were born into this lineage.

⚔️ Their Persecution

Because their teachings threatened the control of the Catholic Church, the Cathars were declared heretics.

The Albigensian Crusade (1209–1229) was launched to exterminate them. Entire towns were slaughtered. The infamous line: “Kill them all. God will know His own.” was spoken at the massacre of Béziers, where tens of thousands were murdered.

And finally, in 1244, at the fortress of Montségur, 225 Cathar Perfects were burned alive in a great fire. It is said they walked into the flames singing, carrying the Grail flame in their hearts — never extinguished, only hidden.

After being given an ultimatem to declare their teachings as heresy and embrace the Catholic Church, they chose death.

They walked together into the flames, prepared for ascension, and moving to a higher realm of love, to be united with Yeshua and Magdalene.

Some say the Cathar treasure — the Book of Love, a gospel written by Jesus himself, the Grail teachings of the Yeshua Magdalene lineage— was smuggled out before the fall.

🌹 Why This Matters

If you are reading this, and feel something stirred in your heart, you may be connected to Mary, Yeshua and the Cathars. Many women who feel connected to this spiritual lineage are awakening now, and feeling called to the Priestess path.

May we join together, to remember the true teachings of Yeshua, The Way of Love, the lineage of the rose. Not as historians — but as a living vessels of remembrance.

These teachings — of the Divine Feminine, the Grail within, sacred union, direct communion — are rising again through women like you.

The Magdalene flame was never lost. It burns now in our hearts.