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.(a) was originally published by von Thalloczy,  Bruchstücken aus der Geschichteder nordwestlichen Balkanlander, V , and it was re-edited and reprinted inFicker, Die Phundagiagiten, p.172.A more recent edition is to be found in Eleuteriand Rigo, pp.136 55, together with the texts of (b) and (c).(a) CONCERNING THE BLASPHEMOUS MANY-FORMED HERESY OF THE ATHEIST MESSALIANSWHO ARE ALSO KNOWN AS PHUNDAITES1 ANDBOGOMILS AND EUCHITES AND ENTHUSIASTSAND ENCRATITES AND MARCIONISTSThose of the foul heresy of the Bogomils who approach the most holygreat Church of God, those who derive from the Manichaeans and areworse than they, should be received like this.1 sic; for the same spelling see [46].207CHRISTIAN DUALIST HERESIESOne who has already associated and mingled with them, has sharedtheir table and accepted the heresy, but has not received the epode2 orapproached the cosmocrator or worshipped him in their demonicnocturnal initiatory rites in their customary places, nor abjured Christ,should be received and be instructed, after he has been shriven andprayed for forty days on end.After this period he should preparehimself, and take his stance in front of the holy font with his headuncovered, and anathematize the kephalaia3 of the Bogomils.Next heshould set this out in writing in a libellum, and so say the propitiatoryprayers and the one written against those who have apostasized.Thenimmediately he is worthy of the pure and life-giving mysteries andChrist, while they impose on him that he should be instructed by somespiritual monk.If anyone has spent some time in this sort of heresy, has received theepode and worshipped the evil one, as he should not, whether he ap-proaches the holy Church of God of his own accord or because he hasbeen detected, he is to be accepted and instructed, and needs theanathemas and the libellum, but he is not wholly worthy of the anointingof holy chrism or of the holy mysteries.When he has completed twiceforty days in church, let him be entrusted to some well-known monas-tery.The abbot should command him4 to remain within the monasteryall his life and not permit him to leave it; all the more experienced monksshould observe his way of life and make sure that he does not entice anyof the monks into his heresy; anyone who has experienced this is hard tocure or to change.He ought to be isolated within the monastery, to eatdry food and to bend the knee as the pastor may determine, and observehis penance, and this must continue for the whole of his life, even if heappears to approach the holy icons with fervour of soul, as is the way ofEnthusiasts and Euchites.If he is near to death, then he shall be deemedworthy of the holy sacrifice, so that he may not be without the goodviaticum.If he persists in his heresy and is recognized as being of thisopinion, he shall not share the divine mysteries even on his death-bed.If,when he has spent three years in the monastery, as has been enacted, itis then clearly seen and witnessed that he has been converted to the Lord2 For the  reception of the epode as the initiation ritual among Bogomils see EP [19].3 Mani was the author of a work with this title; perhaps the use of the term here isdesigned to suggest a link? No other source makes a specific reference to a Bogomilteaching work with this title.Alternatively some general meaning such as  teachingsmay be meant.4 Reading paranggelon, with Eleuteri and Rigo.P208ABJURATION FORMULA AND FORM OF RECEPTIONin sincerity and simplicity, he shall be deemed worthy of holy chrism andthe sacraments.The anathematization takes this form.After the candidate s head hasbeen anointed by the priest in front of the holy font, he says three times, I, so-and-so, who have approached the holy great Church of God todayfrom the blasphemous and manifold heresy of the atheist Messalians,that is the Bogomils, not from any force or necessity, nor in craft orhypocrisy, but with my whole soul and a sincere and pure heart, for thelove of Christ and with faith in Him make this present written libellum asa guarantee to you, catechists, so-and-so and so-and-so, and throughyou to our most holy lord, the ecumenical patriarch, the divine and holycanons and the pious laws, as shall be made clear.So then, havinganathematized these views with my own lips in the presence of the greatChurch, see, I also subject to anathema through this present writtenlibellum of mine all those who are involved in the satanic heresy of theMessalians or Enthusiasts and Epeuchites and those who share theirviews, saying as follows:1.To Peter, the leader of the heresy of the Messalians or Lycopetriansand Phoundaiates and Pogomils [sic], who called himself Christ.[Thetext continues as in the parallel anathemas in the Synodikon of Orthodoxy [16].After these anathemas there is a concluding paragraph [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]