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 Antonin Gadal was an inspired speaker. The power of his words was in the absolute certainty of his knowledge which had its foundation in ‘pre-remembrance’.
He did not try to convince nor to gain someone else’s adherence, but his intuitions persuaded many seekers that he held spiritual truths unfathomable by ordinary men, truths he wanted to share with those who were sensitive to them.
Birth
The cave of Bethlehem was for him the most fascinating of all.
It was the heart of the Cathar initiation, the matrix of the Cathar priesthood. The ‘New Christ’, the New Man was born there. The initiate there became a ‘Perfect One’.
The oblong cave has two entrances, like many initiation caves: the one on the west side is the entrance of the ‘Perfect Ones’, the other is reserved to the Grand Master. Facing the first entrance, there is a large pentagon, engraved by nature in the rocky wall.
Not far from the pentagon is a granite altar on which the Cathar Gospel of John was lying open at the first page. On each side of the wall, within cubicles, lights were shining softly.
One of them sheltered a cup which will be identified as the Holy Grail.
Purity, simplicity, depth of these first apostolic rites – well anterior to the blending of Christianity with paganism that took place in the fourth century – and which characterise the real ‘Co-naissance’ (in French: knowledge is co = with; naissance = birth; connaissance : a knowledge that can come to life within man), the Gnosis, which gives access to the Mysteries of the Spirit-Life.
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