BOG MOSS. See SPHAGNUM. BOGNOR BEDS. See LONDON CLAY.
BOGODOIIIKFIOr, or BOHODUKHOV% a fortified t. of Russia, in the government of Kharkov, 29 m. n.w. of the city of that name. It is situated on the Merle—the chit f industry of its population, which amounts to about 10,000, consisting in leather-dressing and boot-making. B. has also a considerable trade in cattle and hides.
BOGOMIld, a religious sect which came into notice in the 12th c., whose chief scat was in Thrace. They resembled the Paulicians and Kathari. Their name, which is derived from the Bulgarian Bog, "Lord," and willed, " have mercy," refers to the fre quency of their prayers. The basis of their creed was as follows: Out of the eternal divine essence or being sprang two prineiples—Satanael and Logos; the former, at first good, afterwards rebelled, and created in opposition to the original spiritual universe a world of matter and human beings. These human beings, however, received front the Supreme Father a life-spirit; but this was kept in slavery by Satanael until the Logos or Christ came down from heaven, and assuming a phantom body, broke the power of the evil spirit, who was henceforth called only Satan. The B., like all similar sects, prac
ticed a severe asceticism, despised images, and rejected the sacraments. Instead of baptism, they placed their hands, and an apocryph5.1 gospel of St. John, on the head of the neophyte, singing at the same time the Lord's Prayer, which they repeated seven times during the day, and five times during the night. They accepted the whole of the New Testament, but of the Old Testament only the Psalms and Prophets, which they interpreted allegorically. Iu 1118, that vehement hater of heretics, Alexius Comnenus. burned their leader Basilius. Persecution, however, did not put an end to the B., and at the time of the Mohammedan conquest of Bosnia (16th c.), we find that the greatest number of the renegade Christians who embraced the religon of the conquerors belonged to this sect. There are some B. even at the present day.