6o8 MANICHAEAN LITERATURE
in the five members of the body.
It bound mind in bone, thought in sinew, insight in vein,
the counsel in flesh, and consideration in skin.^33SIN FINDS THE SOUL
Sin set its five powers, its mind on the mind of the soul,
its insight on insight of the soul,
its counsel on counsel of the soul,
its consideration on consideration of the soul.
It placed its five angels and authorities
on the five members of the soul,
which it brought in and bound in flesh.
Others spoke to the soul and led it on
to all that is evil, to all the sins of lust,
to the worship of idols, to wrong opinions,
to humiliation in the humiliation of slavery!
As it is set fast, worshiping things impermanent,
bowing before idols of wood and gold and silver,
worshiping beasts unclean and polluted!
Think of them. How ugly in form and appearance!
The soul assumed error and forgetting.^34
It forgot its essence and its race and its kin.
It didn't know the door of the place to pray to him.
It grew hostile to the father.
It was wicked in its own light.THE LIGHT MIND FINDS THE SOUL AND
RELEASES THE NEW MAN
The light mind comes and finds the soul
and assumes it into wisdom. He will become
for it... the bonds and members of the body.
He will loosen the mind of the soul- The body is made by sin from evil matter. The soul comes from the divine but is trapped in
the body. - The soul becomes forgetful of its nature and origin—the fundamental problem of life in
the world, according to gnostic and mystical texts.