manichaean doctrine of evil
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- The Manichaean belief system concerning evil, which posits it as a substance with gross forms like earth and subtle forms like air, potentially embodying a malignant mind, and forming one of two opposing masses.
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- two masses, evil narrower
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- gross (earth), thin and subtile (air)
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- Manichees
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- whether gross, which they called earth, or thin and subtile (like the body of the air), which they imagine to be some malignant mind, creeping through that earth
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- I conceived two masses, contrary to one another, both unbounded, but the evil narrower, the good more expansive
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- for the one was wandering amid Manichaean delusions, the other teaching salvation most soundly
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- 2026-03-02T21:55:40.804Z
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