/lit/ - Literature

>>16987739
Why not be Manichaean?
It's basically Buddhism+Christianity+Zoroastrianism

>read 19th century book
>manichaeism this
>manichaeism that
Why does Mani live eternally rent free in the heads of Christian and esoteric authors? Are there any books on what the Manichaeans actually believed and why they're so heavily referenced?

What is /lit/'s take on Manichaeism?

>>13957688
Demonstrate what? That evil is the lack of Good? Why should the Good lack?

>>13957663
>As a conglomeration of divine substance, concentrated in sufficient quantity to cross the threshold to consciousness, the human soul
possesses the potential to hold itself together and continue along a process of ever-increasing re-unification. If it fails to hold on to that consciousness, or if it fails to find "the open gate" through which it can continue its ascent, that soul will, at death, fly apart once again
into its separate components.

>Salvation comes by means of establishing an integrity for the self: an identity beyond contingency.

>The Manichaean Elect form a perfected soul within themselves, that is, a full collection of all of the soul substance within their bodies, solidified and scaled in its ideal form, and so able to hold together as a packet at death and ascend directly the realm of light