num_pages: 160
description: as the Primordial Man fell unconscious into the depth of darkness and neither heard nor saw anything which the Manichaean gnostics interpreted as the forgetfulness blindness and deafness of man in the material world. The forgotten blind and deaf man in their view has fallen into the depth of darkness or into this earthly inferior world and there is no hope for his salvation. Thus a large number of prayers hymns and poems composed by Manichaean gnostics as well as gnostics of other schools describe the human sorrow of alienation forgetfulness and bewilderment.
language: English
title: Manichaean Gnosis and Creation Myth
publisher: Sino-Platonic Papers