Initiatic sect of northern Italy, to which Dante would have belonged. By means of a graduated process of "platonic love", or of a poetic tantrism of the "Right Hand", totalization was reached, the mystical androgyny. One spoke of a "dead beloved" (Beatriz) and around her memory a whole symbolicmagical ritual was organized. For example, one of the first stages was called "Industry", consisting of keeping in a small bag of precious brocade some small garments of the beloved, which became sacred. The beloved would thus come to represent Sophia, the Shakti, or the Cathar Parakletos, the Holy Spirit, which was feminine and symbolized by the dove. In a word, the eternal feminine.