This book is taken from articles and talks, many of them from the White Eagle Lodge magazine Stella Polaris, where they carried the title ‘The White Eagle Cathar’. Colum suggests that although the title Cathar meant little to the followers of the mediaeval heresy, it offers a suggestion of a collection of beliefs and ideals that can really inform the choices we make for our lives in the twenty-first century. If we believe that ‘we were once Cathars’, now is the time to own that title and live up to the heritage that was once so special to us.