Manichaeism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-09

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00:02:05 1 History
00:02:14 1.1 Life of Mani
00:04:45 1.2 Influences
00:15:19 1.3 Spread
00:26:41 1.4 Persecution and extinction
00:32:00 1.5 Later movements accused of "Neo-Manichaeism"
00:33:16 1.5.1 Present day
00:33:43 2 Teachings and beliefs
00:33:53 2.1 General
00:35:26 2.2 Cosmogony
00:40:46 2.3 Outline of the beings and events in the Manichaean mythos
00:42:04 2.3.1 The World of Light
00:42:46 2.3.2 The first creation
00:44:12 2.3.3 The second creation
00:47:03 2.3.4 The third creation
00:48:43 2.3.5 The World of Darkness
00:50:08 3 The Manichaean Church
00:50:18 3.1 Organization
00:53:01 3.2 Religious practices
00:54:13 4 Primary sources
00:57:56 4.1 Originally written in Syriac
00:59:18 4.2 Originally written in Middle Persian
00:59:41 4.3 Other books
01:00:34 4.4 Non-Manichaean works preserved by the Manichaean Church
01:01:28 4.5 Later works
01:02:49 4.6 Critical and polemic sources
01:03:51 4.6.1 Patristic depictions of Mani and Manichæeism
01:04:11 4.6.2 Acta Archelai
01:06:47 4.6.2.1 View of Judaism in the iActa Archelai/i
01:08:11 4.7 Central Asian and Iranian primary sources
01:10:33 4.8 Coptic primary sources
01:11:14 4.9 Chinese primary sources
01:12:43 4.10 Greek life of Mani, Cologne codex
01:13:39 5 Figurative use



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Manichaeism (;
in Modern Persian آیین مانی Āyin-e Māni; Chinese: 摩尼教; pinyin: Móní Jiào) was a major religious movement that was founded by the Iranian prophet Mani (in Persian: مانی‎, Syriac: ܡܐܢܝ /mɑni/, Latin: Manichaeus or Manes from Koine Greek: Μάνης; c. 216–276) in the Sasanian Empire.Manichaeism taught an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness. Through an ongoing process that takes place in human history, light is gradually removed from the world of matter and returned to the world of light, whence it came. Its beliefs were based on local Mesopotamian religious movements and Gnosticism.Manichaeism was quickly successful and spread far through the Aramaic-speaking regions. It thrived between the third and seventh centuries, and at its height was one of the most widespread religions in the world. Manichaean churches and scriptures existed as far east as China and as far west as the Roman Empire. It was briefly the main rival to Christianity before the spread of Islam in the competition to replace classical paganism. Manichaeism survived longer in the east than in the west, and it appears to have finally faded away after the 14th century in south China, contemporary to the decline of the Church of the East in Ming China. While most of Manichaeism's original writings have been lost, numerous translations and fragmentary texts have survived.
An adherent of Manichaeism is called a Manichaean or Manichean, or Manichee, especially in older sources.