Although it disappeared in the West by the 6th century, this religion's doctrines reappeared in the teachings of the Albigenses and other heretical sects during the middle ages.
Although it disappeared in the West by the 6th century, this religion's doctrines reappeared in the teachings of the Albigenses and other heretical sects during the middle ages. It taught that salvation could be gained by liberating the seed of light, the soul from the material darkness of the body. Its prophet considered his task to be completing the incomplete religions left by the earlier prophets, Zoroaster, Christ, and the Buddha. Christianity always regarded this religion as a mere heretical sect, with Justinian issuing an edict against it. FTP name this religion which was founded in Babylonia in the 3rd century A.D. by a Persian called Mani.
Although it disappeared in the West by the 6th century, this religion's doctrines reappeared in the teachings of the Albigenses and other heretical sects during the middle ages.
{Manichaeism}