The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy; Or, the Geography, History, And Antiquities of the Sassanian Or New Persian Empire 1
The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy; Or, the Geography, History, And Antiquities of the Sassanian Or New Persian Empire 1
Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902
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§§ 1-3. Compare Milman, History Ch. IV. I RELIGIOUS STIR — RISE OF MANES. 97 to have been admitted to priest's orders and to have ministered to a congregation ; ^ but after a time he thought that he saw his way to the formation of a new creed, which should combine all that was best in the religious systems which he was acquainted with, and omit what was superfluous or objectionable. He adopted the Dualism of the Zoroastrians, the metemp- sychosis of India, the angelism and demonism of the Talmu...d, and the Trinitarianism of the Gospel of Christ. Christ himself he identified with Mithra, and gave Him his dwelling in the sun. He assumed to be the Paraclete promised by Christ, who should guide men into all truth, and claimed that his ' Ertang,' a sacred book illustrated by pictures of his own painting, should supersede the New Testament.^ Such pretensions were not likely to be tolerated by the Christian community ; and Manes had not put them forward very long when he was expelled from the church * and forced to carry his teaching elsewhere.
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