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Gnosticism & Christian Mysticism

The Kephalaia of the Teacher

by Iain Gardner · Iain Gardner (trans.)

An English translation of the Coptic Kephalaia preserved in the Medinet Madi codices, a collection of chapters presenting Mani's teaching in question-and-answer form. It is a central source for Manichaean cosmology and doctrine.

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