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commands were those that are dissipaters and afflictive for the rules and laws of Moses.
155. Upon this subject, however, as far as here is complete.
CHAPTER XVI. 1. Again, about the delusion of Mânî, one out of the thousands and myriads is written ; (2) for I am not unrestrained (anatang) as to writing more fully of the delusion, twaddle, and deceit of Mâni and the Mânichaeans, (3) and much trouble and long-continued daily work is necessary for me therein.
4. Now you Mazda-worshippers of Zaratūst should know that the original statement of Mânt was about the unlimitedness of the original evolutions, (5) the intermediate one about their mingling,. (6) and the final one about the distinction of light from dark, (7) that which is much more like unto want of distinction?
8. Again, he states this, that the worldly existence is a bodily formation of rudiments of Aharman; (9) the bodily formation being a production of Aharman. 10. And a repetition of that statement is this, that the sky is from the skin, (11) the earth from the flesh, (12) the mountains from the
1 Except the belief in the two original existences (whose main characteristics are, respectively, light and darkness) the account of Mâni's doctrines, given in the Fihrist of Muhammad bin Is'hâq (see Flügel's Mânî seine Lehre und seine Schriften), appears to contain none of the details mentioned in this chapter.
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| SR No. | 007677 |
| Book Title | Saddharma Pundarika |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | H Kern |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1884 |
| Total Pages | 2546 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 46 MB |