num_pages: 224
description: This fascinating book gives an account of the lives and work of some of the great teachers who attempted to bring enlightenment to the West. In their efforts to convert the Western world with knowledge from the East they were met largely with blind ignorance hostility and persecution.Magre writes with particular feeling about the Albigenses. These unassuming men lived in France in the thirteenth century to rules of poverty and love for their fellow men. The nobles of northern France waged merciless war on them for ten years slaughtering men women and children alike until they were exterminated. The last survivors were hunted to death through the Pyrenees by packs of bloodhounds and were never allowed to realise their original aspirations for peace.
language: English
title: The Return of the Magi
publisher: Sphere Books Limited