16/05/2024
The good get erased and then replaced.
Bactra was the spiritual center for the Oxus Civilization, where Zoroaster emerged. And later Buddha. And lastly Mani.
Zoroaster's Persian was closely related to Greek and Sanskit, indicating all three emerged out of the Oxus, a route also traveled by cannabis out of the Hindu Kush all the way to the banks of the Casbian Sea, the great elevator of the vibes, inspiring innovation wherever it lands.
Zoroaster's hymns inspired the creation of the Magi, the Persian brain-trust, masters of astronomy, medicine and magic. Mani was brought to them as a young boy and they were astounded by his unique interpretation of Zoroastrianism.
Zoroaster set off a spiritual revolution that decimated the pagan pantheons. He had a complex rationalization for the existence of evil in a world ruled by a good god. The world was ruled by evil, but heaven ruled by the good god, who could help you resist the lures of the devil provided you followed his rules.
The Zoroastrians were vegetarians, and abhorred slavery and war. Cyrus the Great became the first Zoroastrian king and he immediately freed the Jews and all other minorities enslaved by Babylon.
Mani was more advanced in medicine, art, calligraphy, and philosophy than the Magi (who had trained Pythagoras), so they conspired to have him brutally skinned alive and beheaded. All Mani's works were destroyed and all followers (he had the biggest movement of his time) who didn't recant the faith, were either killed or reduced to poverty.
But an echo of Mani travels down Oxus and enters Europe, and evolves into peace people who call themselves "The Good Christians." They are non-violent vegetarians who abhor war. They publish the scriptures in local languages, a great blasphemy to Roman dogma.
They claim the church of Rome is run by the devil.
Rome sends a flurry of operations directed at the Cathars in Italy and France. They share concepts and scrolls with the Bogomils of Bulgaria, and other smaller sects, all of whom reject Rome's authority.
When they can't bribe the Cathar leaders to switch sides, or bribe the local authorities to declare a pogrom against the Cathars, they fund an army of invasion to march through Europe killing every man, woman in child living in towns known to harbor Cathars, who built no Cathedrals and held their ceremonies in the forest and farmland.
It was the opening salvo of a 300-year massacre known as "The Inquisition."
Clearly, the Cathars were right about Rome, and like the Nazi's, kept extensive records of their criminality.
