The Cathar Library

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The Cathars
By Sean Martin

The gripping true story of the peaceful sect who were wiped out in Europe's first genocide.
Price 22.00 euros (includes postage)

Cycling in Search of the Cathars
By Chris Ratcliffe and Elaine Connell

(Full colour digital book on CD)

This is the story of an historical investigation carried about by bicycle in the foothills of the Pyrenees into what some have described as ‘the Buddhists of the West’.”
Price 22.00 euros (includes postage)

God's Heretics: the Albigensian Crusade
By Aubrey Burl

Colourful narrative capturing the drama of the unjust war against the Albigensians.

The Perfect Heresy: the life and death of the Cathars
By Stephen O'Shea

Sympathetic, vivid and well-informed account of the Cathars, their beliefs and the destruction of the movement, with reference to present-day Languedoc, and with an epilogue on how their myth has fared subsequently.
Price - 22.00 euros (includes postage)

The Other God - Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy By Yuri Stoyanov

Traces the evolution of dualism from later Egyptian religion and Zoroastrianism through its rise and suppression in the West and its later fate in the Balkans.
Price - 22.00 (including postage)

The Tragic History of Esoteric Christianity
By Sean Byrne

"The Church's War Against the Spirit of Sophia". This book on the feminine aspect of God, suppressed by Orthodox Christianity, contains a chapter on the Albigensian Holocaust.
Price - 22.00 euros (including postage)

In Search of Zarathustra - the first prophet and the ideas that changed the world
By Paul Kriwaczek

Zarathustra taught of a single universal god, the battle between good and evil and the eventual end of the world. The author traces the Zarathustran legacy under layers of Islam in Iran, Afghanistan and elsewhere, discusses its relationship with Manicheism, Mithraism, Judaism and the Parsees amongst much else, and shows how its moral vision and revolutionary religious ideology survived in the world of the Cathars (and also Nietzsche). An engaging, geographically and historically wide-ranging and informative book.
Price - 22.00 euros (including postage)

Montségur and the Mystery of the Cathars - Jean Markale

The history and philosophy of the mysterious Cathar religion and its lost treasure
Price - 22.00 euros (including postage)

The Great Heresy: History and Beliefs of the Cathars - Arthur Guirdham

Describes how Catharism was the medieval expression of one of the oldest and most influential philosophies, and is amazingly contemporary in its implications. The first fourteen chapters deal with the history and beliefs of the Cathars; the second section is concerned with reincarnation, auras, alchemy, the healing power of jewels, and other subjects.
Price - 22.00 euros (including postage)

Thye Cathars and Reincarnation - Arthur Guirdham

Relates how a 20th-century English schoolgirl recalled her previous life in 13th-century Languedoc.
Price - 22.00 euros (including postage)

We are one Another - Arthur Guirdham

A personal story of the far memory of a group of people who lived together as Cathars, 700 years ago in the Languedoc.
Price - 22.00 euros (including postage)

The Fire and the Light: A Novel of the Cathars and the Lost Teachings of Christ by Glen Craney