While their origins remain mysterious, The Weavers were clearly influenced by Manicheism, an ancient religion, and later, Gnosticism. They believed in reincarnation, gender-equality and the idea that the God of the New Testament was in fact Satan who had trapped humanity in a material prison with the one True God residing outside.

See an explanation of Gnoticism here.

Unfortunately, the Weaver’s rejection of the Crucifixion, Resurrection, and indeed most of the Catholic Church’s doctrine, led to their bloody execution as heretics at the hand of papal thugs in 1204.

While Catharism was the dominant religion of the South of France at the time, locally its followers went by the name of ‘Weavers’, after the sect’s artful skill with cloth. Indeed, for them, weaving was simultaneously a trade, an art and a symbolic enactment of their deepest beliefs. The trade made the Weavers very wealthy and persistent rumours from the time and in local folklore talk of “mysterious treasures” and “secret relics” (“le tresor cathar”) that somehow survived the crusade against them. Some believe the Weavers buried the treasure or somehow disguised it.

The nature and content of these relics has remained a mystery for over 800 years. Until now...

UPDATE 5th April 2008 Weaver Code Censored on Wikipedia

In my book, The Weaver Code, I reveal what happened to those ‘mysterious treasures’.

The truth is paradoxical. There were no treasures. After much independent research and detailed investigation into this area, I have concluded that the so-called treasures were in fact ornate cloths, many of which still survive today. But that the true treasure lies hidden inside the cloth.

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The cloths are encoded with hidden text and other information.

The Weavers, I have discovered, used a system of forced errors - known as “overshot” code-drafting - to bury hidden messages in their cloths and shrouds. After the Crusade, hunted by the Inquisition, the Weavers scattered. Their written teachings and artefacts were systematically destroyed until nothing was left. I believe these ornate ‘code-cloths’ were in fact The Weavers way of preserving their doctrines and certain key messages for future generations. Moreover, the majority of these messages appear to be prophecies of ‘end times’ and injunctions to any followers still alive at the ‘end-times’.

The codes they use are simple but multi-layered in their sophistication. These simple layers add up to a dense encoding schema, equivalent in strength to modern day encryption techniques. Indeed many of the codes would require not one but several supercomputers to crack. If the secret key is not known.

Fortunately, using my skills in cryptology, computer programming and code-breaking - and no small amount of luck! - I believe I have discovered this key and cracked the Weaver Code.

Obviously I cannot reveal all my methods but see these technical details for a summary and proof of concept.

(If you are curious about my cryptographic qualifications, I was a key researcher on the GNU Privacy Guard for OpenPGP encyption and did some code for Seahorse though, due to intra-team politics, I was never credited and still remain uncredited to this day. A lawsuit is pending.)

The codes, which I will reveal in my book The Weaver Code, pertain to a long held prophecy that intersects various cultural trends we are already witnessing today, at the beginning of the 21st century. Top of that list is the forthcoming "evolution of consciousness" in 2012, peak oil, and climate change and the imperilling sense of looming social disaster that these memes anticipate.

That the Weavers, an obscure Christian sect in the 12th century, anticipated these events is quite amazing. That they were able to use encryption techniques, sophisticated even by today’s standards, to encode and hide their prophecies is also amazing.

Even more incredibly, if you apply what is revealed by the themes of the codes as a lens, you can begin to see patterns, codes if you will, woven into the key events and important stories circulating through culture. Taken together, these coded messages can provide a context, a backcloth, if you will, to the mindlessness and apparent horror of daily events. I am eager to share these findings so that others can gain new understandings from it and learn from it, rather than watching mindless soap operas or reality TV or pointless websites or TV series glorifying torture and violence or martital infedility or lethal weapons or other kinds of morally unsustainable behaviour that pervades the world today.

In my soon-to-be-published book, The Weaver Code, I attempt to draw these disparate threads together. The end result is a map that links forthcoming world events or series of events which will promulgate in a breaking point in the fabric of civilisation, a cultural crisis, a group gnosis as anticipated by Cathar faith.

The book contains many revelations including backed up my detailed scientific research:

• There may be Weavers still in existence today...
• The prophechies are less predictions, more injunctions to surviving members
• Codes that resemble map co-ordinates and other clues are suggestive of an important object, hidden somewhere...

Combined, all the evidence leads to an even more earth-shattering conclusion...

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