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ANATHEMA AGAINST MANICHEISM
(Commonitorium, PL. 42 :1154 1155)
I. Let him who believes there are Two Natures
existing in different origins: one good, which is God, 1 the other evil,
which God has not created, having its own Rulers and evils which God has
not created be accursed.
2. Let him be accursed who believes that the
Two Natures waged war one on another, and in that war a part of God's Nature
was thoroughly mixed with the Rulers of Darkness and all the races belonging
to the Evil Nature, and by them was held fast, smothered, defiled which
also make (it) believed that God's Nature is changeable and can be .polluted.
3. Let him be accursed who believes a part
of God is held bound and polluted in demons and in all living things and
in varieties of shrubs, and is freed and purified through the food of the
Manichean Elect, so as to believe a part of God is held defiled in cucumbers
and melons and radishes and leaks, and in every meanest herb, and that
escapes when such things are eaten by the Elect of the Manicheans.
4. Let him be accursed who believes the first
man who was called Adam was not made by God but begot-ten by the Rulers
of the Darkness, so that the part of God held captive in their members
might be more firmly and fully held in the earth; and was in this way created:
When the male and female Rulers of the Dark ness had had intercourse and
given their embryos to the Chief Ruler of the Darkness, and he had eaten
all and lain with his own Spouse, he so generated Adam from her, binding
in him a large part of God that had been bound in all the embryos of the
Rulers of the Darkness which they had given him to devour.
5. Let him be accursed who believes the Rulers
of the Darkness were bound in the sky, having confined in themselves in
pains and misery the Life Substance that is, the part of God and in this
way it was liberated from their members; When the blessed Father, who has
Light Ships and various little dwell-ings, namely the Sun and the Moon,
changes His Powers into beautiful women whom He sets before the male Rulers
of the Darkness to lust after, and into handsome men whom He sets before
the female Rulers of the Darkness to lust after, so that by this same lust
the Life Substance which is the part of God might be freed and purified
out of their members.
6. Let him be accursed who believes the part
of God which could not be freed and purified from the mixing with the Race
of Darkness is to be condemned and for ever fixed to a horrible 'Sphere'
where the Race of Darkness is confined.
7. Let him be accursed who believes the Law
given through Moses was not given by the Good and True God, nor did the
Prophets who have been in the people of Israel and are kept in the Canon
of divine Scriptures in the Catholic Church speak by the Spirit of the
Good and True God.
8. Let him be accursed who believes the Son
of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, had no true flesh, nor did he undergo a
real death and rise again from the dead, but was only a spirit without
flesh, so also willed to appear that what he was not should be considered
flesh and in this way contradicts the Gospel where it
is said, the Lord himself speaking, . . .
(Lk. 24:39), who thus so declares Christ a God as to deny the true and
natural Man also.
9. Let him be accursed who believes Mani or
Manicheus, who preached and taught all the above things which deserve a
curse and condemnation, had the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, when not the
Spirit of Truth but the Spirit of Falsity could have taught them all.
10. And especially may the same Mani or Manicheus
be accursed, who has taught and written down, and has persuaded miserable
folk to believe, all the above written impieties, with other sacrilegious
and damnable fables, tending to seducing spirits and the doctrines of lying
demons.
Prosper's Refutation, PL. 65 23 30).
l2.1 Let him be accursed who believes human
souls are transferred again in other bodies or living creatures.
13. Let him be accursed, whoever says the
Sun and Moon are heavenly Ships for carrying over Souls, or the Substance
of God, and ascribes honor to them or something of divinity to that visible
light, and not as a created thing left behind for the service of mankind
and made by the Lord of heaven and earth.
14. Let him be accursed who believes all flesh,
all quadrupeds, serpents, flying and swimming things, or all that are in
the world is created by not the True God but the Rulers of Darkness.
15. Let him be accursed who believes the Creed
or prayers of the Manicheans, not detesting or abhorring,
or has wished to remember or utter (them)
with the mouth.
16. Let him be accursed who believes human
souls are of the Substance of God, and human bodies either made by or derived
from the Ruler of the Darkness.
17. Let him be accursed who believes the Devil
is not a good angel made by God and having fallen through pride by his
own will became a devil, and declares that the same one was not created
by God along with the rest of the Angels, but was always co eternal with
God. |