The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
592 MANICHAEAN LITERATURE THE TWIN APPEARS AND COMMISSIONS MANI "When I finished praying and was filled with grief, my most bles ...
39. The Story of the Death of Mani T he various descriptions of Mani's last days and death range from the one here, which says n ...
594 MANICHAEAN LITERATURE cut up and the head set on a pike high over the city gate. This burning torch may be compared to the s ...
MANICHAEAN LITERATURE 595 MANI'S SPIRITUAL VOYAGE TO THE FATHER IN THE SKY Like a sovereign who removes and lays his weapons asi ...
596 MANICHAEAN LITERATURE and for them I was sent into the world. Take me now into the peace of salvation where I will no longer ...
MANICHAEAN LITERATURE 597 Whoever strikes you, do not strike back. Whoever hates you, do not hate back. Whoever envies you, do n ...
40 40. Kephalaia T he Kephalaia (sing., Kephalaion), meaning the headings or central principles, is a series of chapters of vary ...
MANICHAEAN LITERATURE 599 THE KEPHALAIA Kephalaion 26 1 Mani speaks: The primal man is a great distinguished figure whose treasu ...
6oo MANICHAEAN LITERATURE the sons and their soul, and the soul may be shown in the land where it is imprisoned. Again Mani turn ...
MANICHAEAN LITERATURE^601 Second, I ask, if he is a great god, unchanging and immeasurable, how could he come and be found in th ...
602 MANICHAEAN LITERATURE BODY OF THE LIGHT MIND IN HUMANS The messenger speaks to the student: All that error comes from the en ...
MANICHAEAN LITERATURE^603 and his life. The living spirit and the envoy and the five sleepless guardians. CUSTODIAN OF SPLENDOR ...
604 MANICHAEAN LITERATURE He has made these camps strong, those above and below. Each of them will be safe in the circle of his ...
MANICHAEAN LITERATURE^605 and a betrayal came about in his camp.^26 It happened when the abortions plunged down to earth. They f ...
6o6 MANICHAEAN LITERATURE They bound the watchers with an eternal chain and thrust them in a prison of the darkened ones, and th ...
MANICHAEAN LITERATURE 607 So they are the masters in the watched districts of his outer brothers. There, in the great body, the ...
6o8 MANICHAEAN LITERATURE in the five members of the body. It bound mind in bone, thought in sinew, insight in vein, the counsel ...
MANICHAEAN LITERATURE^609 and release it from the bone. He will release the thought of the soul from sinew and bind the thought ...
6io MANICHAEAN LITERATURE from the word of sin, and add it to his word so he becomes the nourisher and strengthener.^36 WHEN HE ...
MANICHAEAN LITERATURE^611 They inform wisdom and consideration. Wisdom is set in place and well. SIN WILL RISE AND LIGHT MIND WI ...
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