Cathars, Catholics and the Katha Upanishad
Medicine and the Priest class, Part 3
Part 1 can be found here.
Part 2, here.
The Cathars were a medieval religious sect whose centre was in the Occitan region of Southern France. Modern tours bring to life the ruined castles of the Cathars known as the citadelles du vertige — the castles in the air— burnt by fire, sun, wind and time.
The Cathars were burned at the stake for heresy by the Catholic church in the 12-1300’s. At the time, criminals were punished by death according to misdeed: robbers were hanged, noblemen were beheaded by sword, or hung, drawn and quartered, commoners were executed by the axe.
Adulterers were stoned to death, those guilty of infanticide were impaled; highway men, heretics and unfortunate others were ‘broken on the wheel’ (a particularly gruesome end involving breaking and threading of limbs through spokes of a large cartwheel, and bludgeoning/torture till death). Counterfeiters were boiled in oil, and ‘punishment by fire’ could mean being roasted to death or burning on a gridiron.
Someone, somewhere had given the most torturous methods of death a great deal of highly imaginative thought. The concept of the guillotine dated to 1210 but was trending for the Reign of Terror (1790’s) when about 17,000 people were beheaded.
The guillotine was replaced by state-sanctioned electric chair, invented by dentist Alfred P. Southwick, who, in the early 1880’s, advocated that it be used as a more humane replacement for hanging. After some trial and error involving stray dogs, calves and lame horses, the first state-sanctioned death by electric chair was of a chap called Kemmler, (a hatchet-wielding wife-murderer) executed in 1890.
The first 17-second passage of 1,000 volts AC through Kemmler caused unconsciousness, but failed to stop his heart and breathing. Attending physicians came forward and after confirming he was still alive, called out, “Have the current turned on again, quick—no delay.” In the second attempt, Kemmler was shocked with 2,000 volts. Blood vessels under his skin ruptured and bled, and some witnesses claimed his body caught fire. The New York Times reported instead that “an awful odor began to permeate the death chamber, and then, as though to cap the climax of this fearful sight, it was seen that the hair under and around the electrode on the head and the flesh under and around the electrode at the base of the spine was singeing”.
The execution took approximately eight minutes. The New York Times ran the headline: “Far Worse Than Hanging,” and War of the Currents member George Westinghouse later commented “They would have done better using an axe.” -Wiki
The voltage was perfected and The Chair remained the prominent execution method until mid-1980 when lethal injection became widely accepted for judicial executions.
One can’t see electricity, making its comprehension difficult. We can feel it when shocked, and see its effects with lighting, but the ghost in the machine is not visible.
Georg Ohm of Ohm's law, a Bavarian teacher of mathematics and physics in the early 1800’s found a direct proportionality between the voltage applied across a conductor and the resultant electric current. Combining the elements of voltage, current, and resistance, Ohm developed the formula: V=I.R
V = Voltage in volts
I = Current in amps
R = Resistance in ohms
Exploring the esoteric root of “vir” one finds connections to virus and virility.
If one has a circuit with the potential of 1 volt, a current of 1 amp, and resistance of 1 ohm, using Ohm's Law one can express the equation: 1V = 1A . 1Ω (omega)
While anything to do with symbolic equations is usually over my head, one can see the Bible-writing monks wrote using the Greek alphabet; Alpha to Omega, representing a full cycle. Omicron means “little O” o micron. Omega literally means “great O” o mega.
“The end of a world never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion.”
—René Guénon
Further to Mr. Ohm’s electrical resistance; OM is a sacred sound, known as the primeval sound of consciousness and the supreme Absolute, the Source, God and every other name man has referred to as the One. AUM is another common spelling of OM.
Ave Maria is an esoteric echo of this AUM, written in Latin as AVM. Catholics might pray to and sing Ave Maria but the electrical vibration won’t function in this way.
Staying with the OM/Ohm theme, we find the meaning and etymology of cathode (n.):
“Negative pole of an electric current, 1834. Latinised form of Greek kathodos a going down, a way down, from kata down + hodos a way, path, track, road, a word of uncertain origin (see Exodus). Cathode was proposed by the Reverend William Whewell, English polymath, and published by English chemist and physicist Michael Faraday. So called from the path the electric current was supposed to take.
Related: Cathodic, cathodal. Cathode ray is attested by 1880, but the phenomenon was known from 1859.” -Etymonline
Rev. Whewell seems to have known something because he also proposed cation (n.):
Positively charged ion, 1834, from Latinised Greek: kation, going down from kata, down.
Looking at the root of ‘cathode’ one sees and hears cath just as one does in Cathar, Catholic, Catherine, cathedral etc.. Cath originates from kato in Greek and kata/kato in Sanskrit. What about words like catacomb, specifically cata; any difference in meaning when one changes the kato/a to cato/a? No.
Words relating to cata are many but not varied, relating to the sense of going down;
“catalytic (adj.)
having the power of decomposing a compound chemical body [alchemical!] 1836, from Greek katalytikos able to dissolve, […] from kata, down
catabolism (n.)
1876, katabolism, destructive metabolism, from Greek katabole a throwing down (also a foundation), from kata, down
catastrophe (n.)
1530s, reversal of what is expected from Greek katastrophe an overturning; a sudden end from kata, down
catarrh (n.)
disease characterized by inflammation of, and discharge from, a mucous membrane; a cold in the head or chest, late 14c. from Greek katarrhous a catarrh, a head cold (see kata- down)
cataclysm (n.)
a deluge, a flood, originally especially Noah's flood, 1630’s, directly from Greek kataklysmos deluge, flood, inundation, from kata, down (see cata-)
catatonia (n.)
disturbed mental state involving immobility or abnormality of movement and behaviour, replacing katatonia (1880’s), which was formed directly from Greek kata, down
Also sometimes used [...] with a sense of completion of action (catalogue).” -Etymonline
The Cathari interpretation of their name was “The Pure Ones.” The priests lived simply, had no possessions, imposed no taxes or penalties, and regarded men and women as equals, recognising the divine feminine principle as Sophia (wisdom).
They rejected priesthood and worked for a living through manual labour.
The female name Catherine means pure too, with such derivations as Kate, Cate, Cath/Kath, etc.. The list of variants seemed like a good image to screenshot, except the wiki page flowed in to c.three pages. The languages listed with Catherine/Katerina variations have Proto-Indo-European roots, and are found in every European country.
The Catherine wheel torture device (early 13c.) was a mythical spiked wheel upon which St. Catherine of Alexandria was said to have been martyred. Wiki says; “Medieval hagiographies [lit. ‘holy writing’] record that St. Catherine of Alexandria was sentenced to be executed on [the Wheel] for refusing to renounce her Christian belief, which thereafter became known as the Catherine wheel. It is said the wheel miraculously broke when she touched it; she was then beheaded.”
Meanwhile, back in the Languedoc…
Great bonfires made it possible to eliminate vast numbers of Cathars at once. The Cathars walked in to the fires singing hymns rather than accept the Catholic church, rejecting its teachings as ‘immoral, criticising the church for hypocrisy, greed, the lechery of its clergy,’ and its acquisition of land and wealth. An estimated half-million Languedoc men, women and children were killed, Catholics as well as Cathars at first, from whence the saying, "Kill them all. God will recognise His own."
Was their violent end all in the name of heresy? Define heresy little wik:
“Any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs […]. Heresy in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam has at times been met with censure ranging from excommunication to the death penalty.”
Etymology: Heresy from Ancient Greek haíresis, in English it originally meant choice or thing chosen. One may be interested to note the current Pope has “Pity and Choice (Choosing)” written in Latin on his coat of arms.
Did the Cathars name themselves at the same time as the Catholics? Their sound is identical. Catherine was a christian saint and all three Cath’s appeared at the same times and places. One may recall the knowledge pouring through the Mediterranean ports from the previous essays — did the Cathars and Catholics call dibs on one document in particular? How radically different their interpretations if so.
Or perhaps — how radically different the scale of their divinely ordained goals.
So far, one has a thousand shades of death over an eight hundred to a thousand year period involving Cathars, Catholics, Catherines and the torturous Wheel.
Ancient religion has long looked at the cosmos as a wheel: ‘the orderly motion of the stars on the cosmic canvas’ in reference to, and reverence of, the zodiac cycle.
Then came catarrh, catastrophe, catatonia, cathodes, and now presumably the modern drug company Catalent — a vaccine supplier which, in a certain semitic Google-trans. language means deadly, maybe to remind us of the inhumane days of the electric chair, or just to create a separation between those who can see & hear in these illusive days.
What is the point of being so pedantic about words and their meanings? Sounds are phonetic and they exist on air; an electrical vibration; a magical spell that can’t be seen. The medium through which these spells vibrate is aether (or plasma as it’s called in the Electric Universe paradigm). It is also esoterically referred to as a ‘sea’. Who were the Phoenicians? The Sea Peoples? The clever men who understood these spells.
In the first stage of this aural investigation a Jewish thyroid doctor expressed concern about his Christian patients worshipping Shiva, an Eastern god who/which
a) connotes liberation and final emancipation
b) is one of the principal deities of Hinduism and the Supreme Being in Shaivism and
c) is also known as The Destroyer within the Trimurti
Shiva is also a Jewish mourning tradition of a period of shiv’ah (7) days, and a 2024 United States presidential candidate (to cover all possible interpretations of Shiva).
The Cathars (in Greek, Katharoi) refused to hand over their souls, believing that physical death was preferable to life under the apparently corrupt Catholic dogma.
Catholic theologians debated amongst themselves for centuries whether Cathars were even Christian, much less heretical — and apparently this question is still open.
Catharism did not originate in the Languedoc, nor even in France; their beliefs ultimately derived from the Persian religion of Manichaeism (and another earlier religious sect from Bulgaria known as the Bogomils).
“Manichaeism was begun by Mani, a Persian prophet who spent time in India studying Hinduism and created a universal religion intending to combine, succeed, and surpass [all] religions and mystery cults.” -Wik
Mani is also an interesting name because as seen in Part 2 of this series, Sanskrit letters P, V & M were interchangeable — Pani’s were thought to be the Phoenicians.
Manichaeism offered salvation through special knowledge of spiritual truths; to know one’s self is to recover one’s true Self, and see it as distinct from the bodily form which dies, though Self does not. Knowledge enables the realisation that, despite ones ‘human condition’ in the material, one remains united to the transcendent world by eternal, immanent bonds with it, thus, knowledge is the only way to salvation.
The meaning of Vedanta is the end goal of knowledge; there the search for perfection in thought and the goal of a liberated soul were found in dimensions of sacred sound.
Phonocentrism is the belief that sounds and speech are inherently superior to, and more primary than, written language. The common thread to weave all ideas together became the quest for what the ancients believed to be a perfect language — Sanskrit — in other words, superiority of sound/speech for intellectually certain knowledge.
Enter the Katha Upanishad.
Upanishad means sitting by the teacher… to hear them speak.
Béla Hamvas wrote in ‘René Guénon and the Metaphysics of Society’ (1942):
“A few more words about the present: today, according to Guénon, we are at the end of the Kali-yuga (dark age), when gold sinks into matter, […] becomes smeared with blood and soil, which means that power and spirit, hierarchy and order — broken and humiliated — dissolves. Nothing follows this era. It is impossible to sink deeper.
This is the apocalypse — which is acknowledged by the Vedas, the Eddas, the Egyptians, the Chinese, and the New Testament. Modern man doesn’t want to take this seriously — they say it’s fantasy, religion, vision. And by not believing what was known 10,000 years ago, they fulfil their fate. […] Traditional knowledge sees that the situation cannot be saved and a big epoch has been concluded.”
And the Katha Upanishad?
Philosophers such as Arthur Schopenhauer praised it, Ralph Waldo Emerson credited the Katha Upanishad for the central story at the end of his essay Immortality, and his poem ‘Brahma’, and Edwin Arnold wrote it in verse. What was so great about the Katha (Kata or Kato) Upanishad that so gripped these significant Western minds?
The Katha Upanishad is also referred to as ‘Death as Teacher.’
Brief description of the Katha Upanishad and (not even remotely grim) conclusion found here.
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