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Praedicatorum and allowed its expansion; due to in that moment it only had the monasteries
of Prouille and Tolosa. In first instance entered to the Order all the clerics of the House of
Tharsis that, as I said, were in majority, universitary professors, carrying with them many other
wise and erudites of the Age. In a short time, because, the Order became in an organization
suitable for the high level teaching, nonetheless, that the first general Chapter gathered in
Bologna, in 1220, declared that is was treating about a «mendicant Order», with minor rigor in
the poverty that the one of Saint Francis. Saint Dominic died in 1221, leaving the control of the
Order in hands of an Initiate of Pure Blood, the General Master Blessed Jordan of Saxony.
However: in that moment the Golems were struggling to achieve the institutionalization
of a systematic inquisition of the heresy that allow them to interrogate any suspect an to
obtain the information conducive to the site of the Grail; if such institution was entrusted to
the Benedictines, as was pretended, the end of the Cathar Strategy would be faster than the
predicted, not giving time to Frederick II to realize his plans to dilapidate the Golem papacy.
Thence, the insistence and the eloquence deployed by the Dominicans to present
themselves as the best prepared Order to perform such sinister function; but the Dominicans
had some real advantages over the Benedictines: they not only constituted a local Order,
autochthonous of the Languedoc where the Benedictines had lost influence long time ago, but
they also disposed of monks with great theological instruction, appropriated to analyze the
declarations that the inquisition of the faith demanded. The Dominicans disposed of
indubitable capacity of mobilization in the Languedoc and when the Golems were convinced
that the new Order would be under their control and would allow the entry of their own
inquisitors, they also approved the concession. In 1224 the Emperor Frederick II, who even
being already confronted with the papacy, he had clear the situation of the Languedoc and the
necessity to support the Order of Preachers, renovates through a new imperial law the old
Roman legislation that considered the non-official Cults as «lese majesty», i.e., liable of death
sentence: in this case the law would be applied to the repression of the heresy. In 1231,
notwithstanding that they were already working, the Pope Gregory IX institutes the «special
tribunals of the Inquisition» and entrusted its office to the Orders of Saint Dominic and Saint
Francis, in this last instance the Friar Elias, a secret agent of Frederick II in the Franciscan
Order, who would be general minister from 1232 to 1239, and that at the end, discovered by
the Golem, would pass openly to the Ghibelline side. However, prompt would only remain the
Dominicans in charge of the Inquisition.
Two facts must remain clear when evaluating the step taken by the Order of Saint
Dominic when accepting the responsibility of the Inquisition. One is that represented the
minor evil for the Cathars, due to the repression executed directly by the Golem would have
been terribly more effective, as was demonstrated in Bezier, and in that way would be achieved,
at least, sabotage the quest of the Grail and to retard the fall of Montsegur, objective that was
reached in great measure. And the other fact was that the Lords of Tharsis were perfectly
conscious that the Order would be infiltrate by the Golem and that they would open the doors
to the most cruel and fanatic personages of the catholic orthodoxy, who would destroy without
mercy neither remorse the Cathars and their Work: even so the balance indicated that would be
preferable to run that risk and allow the Golems to be managed by their own account.
To the most fanatic inquisitors, that soon would act in the Order, should not be
hampered openly because that would alert to the Golem. The tactic consisted, then, to subtly

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