Cathars and Christ

[Tsianides Costas]

Sebastian Dangerfield wrote:
> there is a lot of
> fatuous nonsense floating around about the Cathars--their putative
> custody of the Holy Grail, their supposed link to  the Historical Jesus,
> said to have not been crucifed, but rather gone off to the South of
> France where he had lots of kids,

Charatnytsky wrote :
>   Taking this even farther afield:  This is Kazantzakis' great theme, 
>      no?

Costas :  Nicos Kazantzakis (1883-1957) Greek novelist, poet, and
thinker. In the concluding part of his novel " The Last Temptation Of
Christ" (1955,Engl.Transl.1960; film.1983), Christ on the cross in great
pain , hallucinates and imagines what his life would have been like if
he had been free to live as an ordinary man. In his reverie, he maries
Mary Magdalene has children ,grows old.

>From the novel:
     Magdalene jumped up and paced back and forth between the fire and
the door. Her mind had
     grown furious.

     God is the great enemy, she was thinking; yes, God. He never fails
to intrude; he is evil,
     jealous; he won't let a person be happy. She stopped behind the
door and cocked her ear.
     The heavens were bellowing. A whirlwind had arisen and the
pomegranates in the yard
     knocked against one another and were ready to break.


Costas