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148 PART THREE
a man, a magician no doubt, but one who could no longer dismiss the spirits that
he had conjured.
Before the image of Christ and in the silence of the night
Innocent knelt and prayed aloud:
Did he feel, perhaps the horror of the silence
That he cast over the world?
He raised his look to the image of God,
Whose love and tenderness terrorized him.
While he thinks about what he did
In the bloodthirsty way he led the world.
He looks intensely into the face of the image,
A moth blocked the light
And everything around him turned dark
And silent, because he poses no more questions to the image
Soon he sees other lights that rise
And other crosses that cannot hide
The flames of the Provence show
The crosses on the chests of the executioners
The ruins collapse, the swords resonate, And the savage crackle of the fire,
He listens how his name is cursed When this horrible vision assaults him
He presses his conscience in his fist And impassive, mumbles: Amen,
Amen.
LENAU, THE ALBIGENSES
If metempsychosis exists, the soul of Diocletian must have reincarnated in Pope
Innocent III. The God for whom the pilgrims of the crusade fought against the
Albigenses was not Yahweh, Baal, or Thor, nor even Lucifer. It was Moloch, the
god of the valley of the son of Hinnom.
Until the Albigensian crusade, Provence and Languedoc resembled a "tranquil
island, happy and flourishing in the heart of a sea of storms." The bloody atrocities
of the holy war against the heretics constituted one of