Mani began preaching at an early age and was possibly influenced by contemporary Babylonian-Aramaic movements such as Mandaeanism, and Aramaic translations of Jewish apocalyptic writings similar to those found at Qumran (such as the book of Enoch literature). With the discovery of the Mani-Codex, it also became clear that he was raised in a Jewish-Christian baptism sect, the Elcesaites, and was influenced by their writings as well. According to biographies preserved by Ibn al-Nadim and the Persian polymath al-Biruni, he allegedly received a revelation as a youth from a spirit, whom he would later call his Twin (Aramaic Tauma (?????), from which is also derived the name of the apostle Thomas, the "twin"), his Syzygos (Greek for "partner", in the Cologne Mani-Codex), his Double, his Protective Angel or ’Divine Self’. It taught him truths which he developed into a religion. His ’divine’ Twin or true Self brought Mani to Self-realization and thus he became a ’gnosticus’, someone with divine knowledge and liberating insight. He claimed to be the ’Paraclete of the Truth’, as promised in the New Testament.redicecreations.com coook network-twins
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we are not the body mind. Body and mind belongs to us.
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in the way of Ramalinga vallalar who attained deathlessness.
Allah is light of heaven
we are not the body mind. Body and mind belongs to us.
We are soul. How to experiance soul?
http://deathlesseducation.blogspot.in/2012/04/who-am-i-body-or-mind-or-soul.html
in the way of Ramalinga vallalar who attained deathlessness.
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