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Manichaean Initiation
AnNadim on the Religion
1 Mani said: He who desires to enter
the Religion must examine himself, and if he sees he can control
Passion and Greed, and (if) he leaves off eating meats and drinking wine
and sex contact, and gives up offending (?) Water and Fire, and sorcery
and idolatry (?), then he may enter the Religion.
2. But if he has no control over all that,
then he 'does not enter the Religion. Now if he loves the Religion and
(yet) cannot control Passion and Greed,1 then he must take opportunity
to protect the Religion and the Elect, and before his vile acts he will
have seasons wherein he detaches activity and (acquires) kindness and night
prayers and pleadings and asking. And if that makes him happy in his eagerness
and his 'death, then his form becomes the ' Second Image' in the Column
(of Glory).
3. Mani enjoined on his followers ten Rules
on the ,Hearers, and they are obeyed: . . . Now the Ten Rulers (are): giving
up the worship of idols, lying, possessiveness, killing, adultery, theft,
the teaching of heresy, sorcery and persistent worry (that is, doubt of
the Religion and looking for the Hope) and sloth in the work (that is,
forgetting the prayer). (332:28 333:12) |
