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by a Persian, also dualist. The true God was the New Testament God, the bad God was the Old Testament God. Man who pushed matter. Particularly offensive forms of it were the Bulgamills [corrected to Bogemils in pencil] from Bulgaria. Well these guys were eventually burned at the stake. They were by that time known as Cathars and Simone de Montfort burned 200 of them in a field. I should make an aside that this all got started when they started worrying about the problems of good and evil and the early Christians said that it should have more Greek philosophic content and they used this Platonic essay by Pathagarus [corrected to Pythagorus in pencil]. It talked about [Timaeus added in pencil] the sculptor fashioning the world and that he was not really God but it was his helper, Demiurge. And thus we came to the Gnostics and all the troublemaking Christians that were finally burned at the stake. St Augustine was in and out of this movement, and thought maybe evil was a lack, or maybe men deal with a primordial sin, and was the original sin of which we are familiar. Some have thought that evil is good in the long run and we know that the girlfriend we didn't marry turned out not to be so good after all and all that. The course we didn't take. Another way to do it is turn to another enterprise. There was a Spanish soldier who lost an arm at the Battle of Laponta and was five years in an Algerian prison. Then he went home and nobody payed any attention to him and he was igored by the