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... MANICHEISM . Historical Notices . MANES , born in Persia about the beginning of the third century , appears to have drawn his doctrine from the lectures and writings of a personage named Terebinthus , who took also the Hindu name of ...
... MANICHEISM . Historical Notices . MANES , born in Persia about the beginning of the third century , appears to have drawn his doctrine from the lectures and writings of a personage named Terebinthus , who took also the Hindu name of ...
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... Manicheism belong ori- ginally either to Gnosticism , or to the doctrines or the Persian Magi , who had corrupted the ancient teaching of Zoroaster . We have , therefore , to recall those elements to mind merely to note the modifica ...
... Manicheism belong ori- ginally either to Gnosticism , or to the doctrines or the Persian Magi , who had corrupted the ancient teaching of Zoroaster . We have , therefore , to recall those elements to mind merely to note the modifica ...
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... Manicheism , in respect to the final consummation of things , agrees with Gnosticism in maintaining the return to God of all purified divine emanations ; but differs from it with regard to the final destination of matter . It did not ...
... Manicheism , in respect to the final consummation of things , agrees with Gnosticism in maintaining the return to God of all purified divine emanations ; but differs from it with regard to the final destination of matter . It did not ...
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