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The Albigensian Crusade (French: Croisade des albigeois), also known as the Cathar Crusade (1209-1229), was a military and ideological campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc, what is now southern France. The Crusade was prosecuted primarily by the French crown and promptly took on a political aspect. It resulted in the significant reduction of practicing.. Catharism was a dualist Christian movement that flourished in southern France and northern Italy from the 12th to 14th centuries. Cathars believed the material world was created by an evil god (Rex Mundi), that human souls were trapped angels, and that salvation came through the consolamentum sacrament. The Catholic Church destroyed the movement through the Albigensian Crusade (1209-1229) and.

War in Heaven, illustration by Gustave Doré Gnostic cosmology identified two creator deities. The first was the creator of the spiritual realm contained in the New Testament, while the second was the demiurge depicted in the Old Testament who created the physical universe. [35] The demiurge was often called Rex Mundi ("King of the World"). [36] Some gnostic belief systems including Catharism.. A heresy in the Languedoc (southwestern France), most prominent during the early Gothic period. Also called the Albigensian heresy, Cathar theology arose out of a question that Christian philosophers have asked themselves for a very long time: If God is perfect, how can he have created an imperfect world? To answer this question, the Cathars postulated the existence of two Gods, a lesser and a.