[Steppes] RE: Living in the past

[Gerita/Carolle Cox]

I have to toss my tuppence in here:

Only the "Perfect" or "Elect" were Required to be celibate.  The others
were encouraged to attempt to do the same, but since they weren't
perfected, back-sliding was understood although frowned upon.  These
"lower echelons" might produce a child that became perfected, and that
was ok.

I think they died out because of the extreme and intense persecution
they suffered under "the Church" 's belief that they were heretics,
devil worshipers, and worse. I seem to recall one walled town that was
almost entirely Cathars being utterly depopulated by a French King.

Gerita
Too tired to go find that book now, sorry.

People are like stained glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the
sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their beauty is revealed only if
there is a light from within. -- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross