Cathars and the Noble Lie
St Corbinian and the Bear

Reinhold Neibuhr and the Noble Lie
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Reinhold-Niebuhr
A section from Popper and Leo Strauss in wiki entry on the Noble Lie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_lie
Plato’s Republic book 3 with a quote on the Noble Lie http://perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0168%3Abook%3D3%3Apage%3D414
Write up on Eric Jan Hanussen
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/78979/jewish-psychic-who-tricked-hitler
The Albigensian Crusade
https://www.britannica.com/event/Albigensian-Crusade
Cathari and write up on the Perfecti https://newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Cathari
Otto Rahn the original Indiana Jones
https://historycollection.com/otto-rahn-openly-homosexual-ss-officer-searched-holy-grail/2/
A little about the Cathars, their castle stronghold http://sekhmet.co.nz/about-the-cathars-of-france.html
A chapter from Hillaire Belloc’s books on the Great Heresies entitled “The Albigensian Attack”
https://sensusfidelium.us/apologetics/the-great-heresies-hilaire-belloc/chapter-iv-the-albigensian-attack/
The Persian prophet Mani https://newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Mani
The Troubadours of France
https://www.britannica.com/art/troubadour-lyric-artist
The Paulicians, a gnostic sect which may have persisted into the Cathars
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Paulicians
A write up on the Bogomils, another Gnostic sect
https://www.dailysabah.com/feature/2016/08/24/the-bogomils-of-bosnia-forgotten-gnostics
Steven Runciman’s book: the Medieval Manichee https://amazon.com/Medieval-Manichee-Christian-Dualist-Heresy/dp/0521289262
The Waldensians:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Waldenses
The Cagots, an “untouchable” caste in France
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-last-untouchable-in-europe-878705.html
St. Corbinian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbinian
The Gallic Empire, one of three breakaway empires from Rome for a short period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallic_Empire
Queen Zenobia of Palmyria. Not related to Xenophobia
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zenobia
Finally BAP has wild speculation on the cult of Moloch….careful!
https://allthatsinteresting.com/moloch