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In the next years, Saint Dominic tried to carry out the plan of Petreño and founded a
semi-secular brotherhood, to the type of the Chivalric Orders, denominated «Militia Christi»,
from which would emerge the Tertuis ordo de paenitentia Sancti Dominici, whose members
were known as «Tertiary Friars»; but soon this organization resulted ineffective for the
searched objectives and had to be thought in something more perfect and of greater amplitude.
For many years was planned the new Order, taking in consideration the collected
experience and the formidable task that was proposed to carry out, this is, to fight against the
Golem strategy: collaborated with Saint Dominic in such projects a group of sixteen Initiates,
coming from different places of the Languedoc who gathered periodically in Tolosa, amongst
them was the Bishop Fulco. As a consequence of those speculations was decided that the most
convenient was to create a «Hyperborean Circle» hidden behind a Catholic Order: the «Circle»
would be a super-secret Society directed by the Lords of Tharsis, which would operate inside of
the new monastic Order. Only in this way, they concluded, would be obtained the searched
objective with the principle of security.
Such secret group, integrated in a beginning just by sixteen Initiates that I’ve already
mentioned, was called Circulus Domini Canis, i.e., Circle of the Lords of the Dog. That name is
explained remembering the premonitory dream of the Mother of Dominic de Guzmán, in
which his future son appeared as a dog who carried a burning axe, and considering, that for the
Initiates in the Cold Fire the «Dog» was a representation of the «Soul» and the «Lord», par
excellence, was the Spirit: in every Hyperborean Initiate the Spirit must dominate the Soul and
assume the function of «Lord of the Dog»; thence, the adopted denomination for the Circle of
Initiates, which also had the advantage of being confused with the name Dominicani, that is,
Dominicans, that the people gave to the monks of Dominic de Guzmán. It must be added that
to be a «Lord of the Dog» in the Mystical of the Cold Fire is analogous to be a Lord of the Horse,
which means a «Knight», in the Mysticism of the Knight age, where the Soul is symbolized by
the Horse.
One of the Initiates, Pedro Cellari, had donated many houses in Tolosa: some of them
were destined to secret places for meeting of the Circle and others were adapted for their use of
the future Order. When all was ready, was arranged to obtain the authorization of Innocent III
for the foundation of preacher mendicants Order, similar to the founded by Saint Francis of
Assisi in 1210: to this Order Innocent III had approved immediately, but the new solicitude
came now from Tolosa, a country in Holy War in which everybody was suspect of heresy; and
was necessary to act with caution; the plan was ambitious but just the unquestionable
personality of Saint Dominic would smooth away all difficulties, just as the own Saint Francis
did; it must not be forgotten that the Golem controlled all the occidental monasticism from the
Benedictine Order and that they were hostile to the creation of new independent Orders. The
opportunity was presented only in 1215, when the Bishop Fulco was convoked to the IV
General Council of Lateran and took with him Saint Dominic.
There they stumbled with the closed negative of Innocent III who, as it is known, only
cede after dreaming with the Basilica of Lateran, threatening to collapse, was sustained in the
shoulders of Dominic de Guzmán. However, the authorization was merely oral, although
perfectly legal, and was limited to accept the Rule of Saint Agustine reformed proposed by
Dominic and to recommend the mission to fight against the heresy. After the dead of Innocent
III, in 1216, Honorius III gives the definite approval of the «Order of Preachers» or Ordo

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