religious_doctrine

manichaean doctrine of evil

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malignant mind
description
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
manifestations
gross (earth), thin and subtile (air)
proponents
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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