(^612) MANICHAEAN LITERATURE
and his reputation spreads in the church,
the wise in the church will come to him
to straighten out his heart,
encourage it with god's edification.
If he took his brothers' advice and listened,
and freed himself from anger,
he might live and conquer sin and all its wars.
AN EARTHLY MAN
But if he fails to make this watch secure,
sin will rise and assume his mind
and disturb his mind, which earlier was calm.
It will disrupt his love and take it away
from his teacher and instructor.
It will take love from his heart and his church
and fill it with hatred.
Then all his brothers become hateful before him.
His brothers and loved ones and friends
who love him will be like enemies before him.
He is disturbed and lets his love and his will turn from him.
He will be a vessel of loss; he will leave the church
and drop down to the world. Mind who was in him
will scatter away and go to the envoy who sent him.
He will be filled with evil spirits,
and they will drag him about.
He will be like worldly men.
He will change and become like a bird
with its feathers plucked out.
He becomes an earthly man.
INSTRUCTION ON THE WAYS OF
THE LIGHT MIND
I, Mani, have taught you and opened your eyes
about confusion in the zone.
How can it rise in the camps of the mighty gods?
Such disturbances happen in the light mind
and in the keepers of the watch,
elliott
(Elliott)
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