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| Specificity of Pyrenean Catharism |
 There were Jewish Gnostics and Greek-Syrian Gnostics. The Pyrenean Cathars were related to the latter ones. They were Oriental Greeks and in its Indo-Greek nature, Catharism rejected Judaism, the Hebrew books, Moses’ violence, Jehovah’s thunder.
'God is Love'
They clearly set themselves apart from Persian Manichaeism, rejecting its dualism between Spirit and matter, its eternal evil, its remnants of Mazdaism.
Zoroaster is as foreign to them as Moses.
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 Pyrenean Catharism, anterior to the Christianity of the Council of Nicea, does not accept the Jewish books, nor the Judaizing gospels, nor the imperial Church symbols, nor the pagan pomp of the Roman theocracy.
It is rather related to Montanus, to Marcion, the first ‘Cathars' (140-199), to Novatius, to Novatian (the Cathar pope).
Gnostic, it differs from the other Gnostics since it leaves behind Aeons, Abraxas, diagrams, cabalistic numbers.
It distances itself from the Christian trunk by following the branch of John and forms a neo-Christianity with the highly fruitful idea of the Paraclete.
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