This is also true for the lesser-known Christian gnostic religions, such as Bogomils, Catharism, and so on.

For Bogomils the Logos was for them not the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, the Eternal Word incarnate, but merely the spoken word of God, shown in the oral teaching of Jesus.

The Secret Book is a Macedonian feature film combining the detective, thriller and conspiracy fiction genres, based on a fictional story of the quest for the original Slavic language " Secret Book ", written by the Bogomils in Bulgaria and carried to Western Europe during the Middle Ages.

The group continued to exist for several centuries, influencing the Bogomils of Bulgaria, whose name appears to be a translation of " Messalian " ( see Bogomils ) and, thereby, the Bosnian Church, the Paterenes and Catharism.

Sava stays in Serbia, and continues his education of faith to the Serbian people, later he calls for a council outlawing the Bogomils, who were regarded heretics.

The phenomenon of Bosnian medieval Christians has been attracting scholars ' attention for centuries, but it was not until the latter half of the 19th century that the most important monograph on the subject, " Bogomili i Patareni " ( Bogomils and Patarens ), 1870, by eminent Croatian historian Franjo Rački, had been published.

Areas of today's Bosnia and Herzegovina also had an indigenous Bosnian Church which was often mistaken for Bogomils.

In 1004, scarcely 25 years after the introduction of Christianity into Kievan Rus, we hear of a priest Adrian teaching the same doctrines as the Bogomils.

It has often been suggested that the Muslims of Bosnia are the descendants of Serbs who converted from Orthodox Christianity to Islam under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, but this is not true since Bosnians at that time were either Chatolics or followers of Bosnian Church, an indigenous branch of the Bogomils that existed in Bosnia during the Middle Ages.

Whether the dualism of the Paulicians, Bogomils, and Cathars and their belief that the world was created by a Satanic demiurge were due to influence from Manichaeism is impossible to determine.

They appear to have been originally founded by some soldiers from the Second Crusade, who, on their way back, were converted by a Bulgarian sect, the Bogomils.

" The Bogomils wore garments like mendicant friars and were known as keen missionaries, traveling far and wide to propagate their doctrines.

The Historiated Bible, the Letter from Heaven, the Wanderings through Heaven and Hell, the numerous Adam and Cross legends, the religious poems of the " Kaliki perehozhie " and other similar productions owe their dissemination to a large extent to the activity of the Bogomils of Bulgaria, and their successors in other lands.

The old Slavonic lists of forbidden books of the 15th and 16th century also give us a clue to the discovery of this heretical literature and of the means the Bogomils employed to carry on their teachings.

* Book 15: Last expeditions, the Bogomils, death of Alexius ( 1116-1118 ) ( War against the Turks and the new battle tactics-Victorious battle-Peace with the Turks-Sultan is murdered by his brother-Alexius builds the Orphanage-Suppression of Bogomils, burning of their leader Basil-last illness and death of Alexius )

Like all the apocalyptic literature preserved only in Slavonic, there is the problem of possible textual alterations made by the Bogomils, who were interested in this kind of literature, which contains some traces of the Dualistic principle typical of their beliefs.

Other groups sometimes referred to as " neo-Manichaean " were the Paulician movement, which arose in Armenia, and the Bogomils in Bulgaria.

Christian sects such as the Bogomils and the Cathars, who professed reincarnation and other gnostic beliefs, were referred to as " Manichean ", and are today sometimes described by scholars as " Neo-Manichean ".

The Bogomils were dualists in that they believed the world was created not by the Abrahamic God, but by an evil demiurge — the Devil.

The core of Samuil's empire corresponds to the region where the Bogomils were most active.

From the imperfect and conflicting data which is available, one positive result can be gathered: that the Bogomils were both Adoptionists and Manichaeans.

There is a tradition that the Bogomils taught that prayers were to be said in private houses, not in separate buildings such as churches.

The Bogomils were the connecting link between the so-called heretical sects of the East and those of the West.

In the 12th and 13th century, the Bogomils were already known in the West as " Cathars " or in other places as " Bulgari ", i. e. Bulgarians ( българи ).

The words " bugger " and " buggery " emerged, by way of the word " bougre " in French, from " Bulgar " ( Bulgarian ), which was understood to mean the Bogomils, who were believed to be devoted to the practice of sodomy.

These included the Cathar, Paterene or Albigensian church of western Europe, the Paulician movement, which arose in Armenia, and the Bogomils in Bulgaria.

The word " bugger " was derived, via the French " bougre ", from " Bulgar ", that is, " Bulgarian ", meaning the medieval Bulgarian heretical sect of the Bogomils, which spread into Western Europe and was claimed by the established church to be devoted to the practice of sodomy.

Some scholars believe it was a dualist church related to the Bogomils of Bulgaria, while others dispute this claim, citing lack of historical evidence.

In 1211 Boril convened a church synod at the capital Tărnovo, which commemorated the synod held in 1111 by Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, and likewise condemned the Bogomils.

He organized two anti-heretical church councils, in 1350 and 1359 – 1360, that condemned various sects such as the Bogomils, the Adamites and the Judaizers.

Next, Alexios had to deal with disturbances in Thrace, where the heretical sects of the Bogomils and the Paulicians revolted and made common cause with the Pechenegs from beyond the Danube.

Catharism had its roots in the Paulician movement in Armenia and the Bogomils of Bulgaria which took influences from the Paulicians.

The name of Bulgarians ( Bougres ) was also applied to the Albigenses, and they maintained an association with the similar Christian movement of the Bogomils (" Friends of God ") of Thrace.

" Their doctrines have numerous resemblances to those of the Bogomils and the earlier Paulicians as well as the Manicheans and the Christian Gnostics of the first few centuries AD, although, as many scholars, most notably Mark Pegg, have pointed out, it would be erroneous to extrapolate direct, historical connections based on theoretical similarities perceived by modern scholars.

Manichaeism may have influenced the Bogomils, Paulicians, and Cathars.

They may have been influenced by an earlier religious sect of Armenian " Paulicians ", who became known as the " Bogomils " of Thrace, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Serbia.

The Bosniaks, whose ethnonym initially referred to Slavic Christians ( Orthodox, Catholic and Bogomils ) which co-existed in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Middle Ages, are today majority Muslim, since the Ottoman occupation.

# Several panegyrics, persuasive speeches ( including works against the Bogomils and Euchites ) and speeches addressed to his patron emperors at court.

The British historian Edwin Pears wrote in 1912 that the Pomaks might have been Bogomils or Paulicians.

The Bogomils are identified with the Massaliani in Slavonic documents from the 13th century.

The Bogomils had a system of altered traditional orthodox beliefs and rituals.

The Bogomils taught that God had two sons, the elder Satanail and the younger Michael.