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MANI

216-276 AD

The prophet of the third century (Mani) is the founder of the Manichaean sect, a religion that has become extinct these days, but it included a large number of followers at the time of its spread, which included several regions in the Middle East to the Atlantic Ocean. And in the Far East to the Pacific Ocean, and its influence lasted more than a thousand years. The religion established by Mani is an interesting synthesis of ideas taken from religions older than him. Mani recognized Zoroaster, Buddha, and Jesus Christ as true prophets, but claimed his religion was better. That the elements of Buddhism and Christianity are present in the German religion, but the manifestation that seems more clear is the presence of Zoroastrian beliefs in Deuteronomy. Mani knew that the world is the center of a struggle between two forces, one of which is the principle of evil, which Mani associated with darkness and matter, and the second force is the principle of goodness, which he associated with light and spirit. This belief seems similar to the Christian belief about God and Satan. According to Germany, the principles of good and evil are considered equal in strength, and as a result of this belief, the apparent contradiction in philosophy about the existence of evil, which disturbed Christian and Jewish philosophers, does not constitute any problem for German philosophy.

As a result of this philosophy, the Germans believed that sexual relations should be avoided even for the purpose of producing offspring. And they were forbidden to eat meat and drink wine.

Mani was born in the year 216 in Mesopotamia, which was part of the Persian Empire, and he was raised in a family with beliefs influenced by the Christian religion. He dreamed of religious visions when he was twelve years old, and began preaching his new religion when he was twenty four years old. He traveled to northern India after he failed to spread his religion in Mesopotamia. During his life, he wrote several books, one in Persian and the other in Syriac, and these books became the official books for the German religion.