Manichean Dualism - The Father of Light and the Father of Darkness

Christian occultism is derived from the manicheans, whose founder, mani, lived on the earth 300 years after jesus the christ. The great feature of manicheanism is that it studies the function of evil and of suffering in the world. It's not a kind of monotheistic, it's dualistic. There's the realm of darkness and the realm of light. And so out of this sort of moment is how we get the universe. In town gani was killed by a sorastrian priest and strung up on the gates of shapor. This doesn't go away - manys still promulgate this belief today.

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