The Manichaeans

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Title:	The Manichaeans
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
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Excerpt: Chapter 1. THE EXCELLENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY; THE ORIGIN OF HERESIES AMONGST CHRISTIANS. The philosophy of the Christians is termed simple. But it bestows very great attention to the formation of manners, enigmatically insinuating words of more certain truth respecting God; the principal of which, so far as any earnest serious purpose in those matters is concerned, all will have received when they assume an efficient cause, very noble and very ancient, as the originator of all things that have existence. For Christians leaving to ethical students matters more toilsome and difficult, as, for instance, what is virtue, moral and intellectual; and to those who employ their time in forming hypotheses respecting morals, and the passions and affections, without marking out any element by which each virtue is to be attained, and heaping up, as it were, at random precepts less subtle the common people, hearing these, even as we learn by experience, make great progress in modesty, and a character of piety is imprinted on their manners, quickening the moral disposition which from such usages is formed, and leading them by degrees to the desire of what is honourable and good.[2]

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: OF THE MANICHAEANS, 1 -- Alexander, 1 -- Chapter I. THE EXCELLENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY; THE ORIGIN OF HERESIES AMONGST Chapter II. THE AGE OF MANICAEUS, OR MANES; HIS FIRST DISCIPLES;THE TWO PRINCIPLES; MANICHAEAN Chapter III. THE FANCIES OF MANICHAEUS CONCERNING MATTER, 3 -- Chapter IV. THE MOON'S INCREASE AND WANE; THE MANICHAEAN TRIFLING RESPECTING IT; Chapter V. THE WORSHIP OF THE SUN AND MOON UNDER GOD; SUPPORT SOUGHT FOR THE MANICHAEANS Chapter VI. THE TWO PRINCIPLES OF THE MANICHAEANS; THEMSELVES CONTROVERTED; THE Chapter VII. MOTION VINDICATED FROM THE CHARGE OF IRREGULARITY; CIRCULAR; STRAIGHT; Chapter VIII. IS MATTER WICKED? OF GOD AND MATTER, 6 -- Chapter IX. THE RIDICULOUS FANCIES OF THE MANICHAEANS ABOUT THE MOTION OF MATTER Chapter X. THE MYTHOLOGY RESPECTING THE GODS; THE DOGMAS OF THE MANCHAEANS RESEMBLE Chapter XI. THE TRANSMITTED VIRTUE OF 'THE MANICHAENS; THE VIRTUES OF MATTER MIXED Chapter XII. THE DESTRUCTION OF EVIL BY THE IMMISSION OF VIRTUE REJECTED; BECAUSE FROM Chapter XIII. EVIL BY NO MEANS FOUND IN THE STARS AND CONSTELLATIONS; ALL THE EVILS Chapter XIV. NOXIOUS ANIMALS WORSHIPPED BY THE EGYPTIANS; MAN BY ARTS AN EVIL?DOER; Chapter XV. THE LUST AND DESIRE OF SENTIENT THINGS; DEMONS; ANIMALS SENTIENT; SO ALSO Chapter XVI. BECAUSE SOME ARE WISE, NOTHING PREVENTS OTHERS FROM BEING SO; VIRTUE 0 Chapter XVII. THE MANICHAEAN IDEA OF VIRTUE IN MATTER SCOUTED; IF ONE VIRT0UE HAS BEEN Chapter XVIII. DISSOLUTION AND INHERENCE ACCORDING TO THE MANICHAEANS; T1HIS IS WELL Chapter XIX. THE SECOND VIRTUE OF THE MANICHAEANS BESET WITH THE FORMER1, AND WITH Chapter XX. THE DIVINE VIRTUE IN THE VIEW OF THE SAME MANICHAEUS CORPORE2AL AND DIVISIBLE; Chapter XXII. THE LIGHT OF THE MOON FROM THE SUN; THE INCONVENIENCE OF TH3E OPINION Chapter XXIII. THE IMAGE OF MATTER IN THE SUN, AFTER WHICH MAN IS FORMED; T3RIFLING Chapter XXIV. CHRIST IS MIND, ACCORDING TO THE MANICHAEANS; WHAT IS HE IN 4THE VIEW Chapter XXV. THE MANICHAEAN ABSTINENCE FROM LIVING THINGS RIDICULOUS; T5HEIR MADNESS Chapter XXVI. THE MUCH?TALKED?OF FIRE OF THE MANICHAEANS; THAT FIRE MAT5TER ITSELF.