^^^^ a sect of Manichaean Gnosticism, and they have sod all to do with any current Christian groups beliefs. For the record the particular group referred to here is the Albigensians, a medieval Gnostic sect. They believed the material universe was created by the evil one, Ialdabaoth, an emanation of Sophia (wisdom) which came to believe it was god. The Albigensians believed that Ialdabaoth, immature, insecure, and psychotic, was the God of the Old Testament and refused to have anything to do with him, for this rank heresy they were annihilated by the Catholic church in the Albigensian Crusade. They believed anything material was corrupted by evil but that humanity was animated by a shard of the original creator's spirit which was the only part of the material world which had not been corrupted by Ialdabaoths madness.