Manichaeism : a dualistic religion founded in the 3rd century by Mani, a Persian who had a vision in his early youth & came forward as a prophet inspired by divine revelation. The religion flourished for over two centuries.
... Perhaps there is nothing for us to remove or to add, not even "something else" to discover, but the same thing , only perceived differently. If we want to find the Goal, we must set aside our Manichaeism and come to a realistic appreciation of what Sri Aurobindo called "the dark half of truth." 230 Human knowledge , he wrote, throws a shadow that conceals half the globe of truth from its own ...
... realize that the evolution, the road back to the glory of the Origin, started from the absolute negation, from the extreme contraries of that Origin. In some traditions and religions (Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, and even Christianity) the separation between Positive and Negative, Light and Darkness has been seen as permanent. In the Vedantic view, which is the basis of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s vision ...
... men and women from all over the world are trying to do at the Pondicherry Ashram. In your reply to the Swedish magazine, you emphasize, "The major obstacle to tolerance is not agnosticism but Manichaeism." That is also why religions will never be able to unite humanity, because they have remained Manichaean in their principle, because they are founded on morality, on a sense of good and evil, necessarily ...
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