Manichaeism

wanted to give a PG rating.

There's these articles about how Star Wars is surprisingly Christian cosmology, but then they think that it is Manichean.

It is Manichean.

That's obviously Gnostic.

So it says he was inspired by Chi and Prana.

Oh, the force, by the way, I forgot to mention, is impersonal.

And that's why it's not Christian.

It's like the overriding power of the deity is this impersonal force that good and bad can tap into to basically have this eternal dialectical Manichean struggle.

But at the same time when Christianity took over, they were persecuted and so they ended up forming inevitably that secret environment, that secret society, which is the same thing that happened also with the Muslims.

Because when, you know, where is that Islam spread? Spread in the areas where you had ancient Babylon, where you had the Zoroastrians, the Manichaeans, they had all these ancient forms.

And so the sectarian forms didn't disappear because suddenly their local Illuminati embraced Islam.

They actually hid this knowledge in what became Sufism.

The problem with the Abrahamic religions is that they do not allow for countervailing forces, as in Shakti and Shiva, which provide balance for our earthly existence.

It is perhaps worthy of note that the most ruthlessly persecuted religion, philosophy of ancient times was Manichaeanism, which taught an inherently dualistic philosophy.

Of course, it entailed a struggle to gradually return the world in which we live to the light, to divinity.

There was an elaborate cosmology that need not concern us here.

And that sort of dualistic cosmology thing is not Christianity's sole preserve.

Indeed, it basically stole it from Manichaeanism and Zoroastrianism.

So, yeah, I mean, if L. Ron Hubbard is allowed to make a bar bet with Robert Heinlein... and thereby generate a religion that now controls untold billions of dollars and makes people literally fucking vanish i suppose the juggalos are entitled to make their own theology too

yeah they are entitled but we'll see how it goes but hey at least they're you know kind of true to their own sentiment and our conduct too wishy-washy on it

Like this gets rounded to Coptic.

This gets around into, We have a piece in Middle Persian that makes its way to Northwest China that was being read by the Manichaeans.

We know Manichaeans also had some interest in this text somehow.

It makes a way into like Irish canon law in the medieval period.

So it's everywhere.

Okay.

And also you mentioned that there seems to be a touch of Manichaeism in Islam.

We're going to briefly touch on that now as we go through this.

And then, of course, we'll explore that as another strand a little later.

So I want to bring this up, and this is going to be paid for.

We have to look up Mene.

So this is called Prologomena to a History of Islamic Manichaeism by John C. Reeves, very well-known religious historian, John C. Reeves.

And let's have a look at, look for this word Mene.

fought.

He fought against Manichaeism because he was a Manichean before he converted.

Yeah, and I don't think it's just the anti- He fought against

Donatism.