Mani's Manicheanism

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Mani was the founder of the religion Manicheanism. The reason why he is even relevant in this book is because at the end of Gnosticism, Mani was the individual to take Gnosticism and make it into a religion. The religion itself taught that life is a dualist system in which all is black or white. Also, because of this dualism, none of the things that seemed opposite shall meet. At the time, Mani was famous for his story strikingly resembling the story of Jesus. It is said that at the age of twelve, he got his first visit from his light body self. Mani was born on April 14, 216 CE, and at the age of twenty-four, on the date of April 19, 240, he had been fully realized in his ambitions to deliberately create a dogma doctrine to become king or …show more content…
It is said that the one who utilizes those principles are sure to never taste death. They are reason, thinking, insight, speculation, and reflection. Just like in Gnosticism, Manicheanism has a focal point redeemer. Seth is this redeemer who survives as the same name in almost all religions. He is also redeemed as Seth-el, who is one of the names of God. There are other names of redeemers in maniche religion, but Seth seems to be the most important one. Mani wanted his religion to be the “religion or light”??? because Mani grew up in Gnosticism and he knew the importance of light (knowledge). The most important principle in Manicheanism is the dualistic nature between light and darkness. In reality there is no difference—the darkness is only something that is a mystery; the light is something that isn’t hidden. This correlates to the body and the soul because the higher up you are, the lighter it is. The lower you go, specifically in the sexual organs, the darker it is from the concentration of melanin. The head and the sexual organs are the two extremes of the production of …show more content…
The Sufis or the Moors in America gave the Gnostics in Egypt the knowledge they know to civilize the Eastern Hemisphere. Supposedly, when the religion was being made, Muhammed actually got his knowledge from Jews and Christians. Like in Manicheanism, there was no room for anything else. No space for any doctrine. The deity in Islam is Allah, who gave birth to a young baby girl named Allat. Allah, in the ancient world, was also referred to as America. The Allats were referred to as the Kemites or Egyptians, thus shows the mother countries. Muhammed, as a man, gave birth to two daughters, one was named Kuni and the other is Qadar (cadar). The two were the principles of intelligence and soul in early Gnosticism. These two are based on two sections of Islam bearing tribes called the Ghulats and Ismailis. These two factions are from tribes in America that they gave to the eastern part of the world to domesticate certain people into being civilized enough to understand this material. The Shi’ites were a tribe in Syria who predicted Islam and were originally

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