Page 411 - Revelation

Svetlana de Rohan-Levashova. Revelation

Ray in the Temple of the Sun ... The Temple of the Sun has survived to the present day
It was a farewell... Montsegur said goodbye to them, tenderly seeing them off to
another life...

Meanwhile down, at the foot of the mountain, an enormous terrible fire was
prepared; or rather it was a structure in the form of a flat wooden area with thick
posts...
More than two hundred Perfect ones began solemnly and slowly to go down on
the slippery and very stony path. The morning was windy and cold. The sun peeped
from the clouds only for a short instant... for the last time to display its kindness to its
beloved children, its Cathars going toward death... The leaden clouds crept up again
in the sky. It was grey and unfriendly... and alien. Everything around was frozen. Wet
air saturated thin clothes with moisture. The feet of the walking people froze to the
bone, sliding on wet stones...

The snow still remained on mount Montsegur.
Down the mountain a short man, mad with the cold weather, hoarsely shouted at
the Crusaders, ordering more trees to be cut down and thrown onto the fire. The fire
did not want to burn properly for some reason, and the man wanted it to blaze to the
skies! He deserved it. He had waited for it ten long months and now it finally came
true! Yet yesterday he dreamed of returning home as quickly as possible, but malice
and hatred toward the godamned Cathars won and now he wanted only one thing – to
see the Perfect ones, these children of Devil, burn at last! And only then, when they
were turned into hot ash, would he go home with a peaceful conscience. This short man
was a seneschal of Carcassonne. His name was Hugues des Arcis. He acted on behalf
of His Majesty the King of France, Philip August.

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