The Secret Supper: A Codex of the Apellean Line — The Interrogatio Iohannis Restored

The book the institutional church spent twelve centuries silencing. "I am God, and there is no other." The line survives on a thirteenth-century Cathar manuscript in the Austrian National Library at Vienna — copied onto the blank endleaves of a New Testament catalogued as Lat. 1137. The convert who wrote it knew exactly what it was. He copied it as evidence: the Builder's own signature, naming itself, inside the scriptures the church had assembled. The Interrogatio Iohannis — the Secret Supper — is the dialogue Christ delivered to John the Beloved at the Last Supper, carried through the Marcionite, Apellean, Paulician, Bogomil, and Cathar communities across eleven centuries before the Vienna codex preserved it. This is the first English critical edition to bring the Latin source, phonetic transliteration, line-by-line exposition, eleven-century lineage, and surviving iconography together in one volume. Inside: • Parallel Latin from the Vienna and Dôle witnesses — together in English for the first time • Phonetic transliteration, to voice the dialogue as it was spoken • Translation tracking every variant the manuscripts preserve • Movement-by-Movement theological exposition • The full lineage: Marcion → Apelles → Paulicians → Bogomils → Cathars → Concorezzo → Vienna • The V codex marginalia — the perfectae's own interpretive hand • A contamination map separating authentic transmission from Holy-Bloodline pseudo-history • Iconographic plates, layered bibliography, glossary, and three-column concordance What you walk away with: the Apellean diagnostic — the distinction between the Prince's permitted operation and the Father's ungated address — and the discipline to read the canonical scriptures with a sorting capacity their reception was built to suppress. This is not a book about heresy. It is the recovery of a tradition that was deliberately erased — and the method required to read it on its own terms. Critical edition · 400 pages · Eleven plates · Parallel Latin / English / phonetic · Six appendices