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An excerpt from the Manichaean scriptures describes the soul saying: “O Light-Mind, the Sun of my heart that gives my Soul the things of the Light, thou art my witness, that I have no comfort save in thee.” To which Jesus answers: “I am thy Higher Self, a security and seal; thou art my body, a garment I have put on in order to terrify the Powers, while I (myself) am thy Light, the original Effulgence!”<ref>Ibid., pp. 221, 225.</ref> | An excerpt from the Manichaean scriptures describes the soul saying: “O Light-Mind, the Sun of my heart that gives my Soul the things of the Light, thou art my witness, that I have no comfort save in thee.” To which Jesus answers: “I am thy Higher Self, a security and seal; thou art my body, a garment I have put on in order to terrify the Powers, while I (myself) am thy Light, the original Effulgence!”<ref>Ibid., pp. 221, 225.</ref> | ||
Mani had taught that the pre-existent souls who came to redeem the world from Darkness became tainted with the lust of the evil | Mani had taught that the pre-existent souls who came to redeem the world from Darkness became tainted with the lust of the evil [[archon]]s and thus had fallen into bodies. The Church Fathers refused to recognize or believe that angels who had fallen had taken on physical bodies. Mani’s exposure of the forces of darkness present and embodied in the world ([[fallen angel]]s, archons, [[Watcher]]s, giants) precipitated an intense persecution of this universal church and religion from those very forces themselves. | ||
== Good and Evil == | == Good and Evil == | ||