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Maneism
By that term, Gadal understood the ‘Religion of the Spirit’ (Mani, manas, mens all indicate the higher thinking, the Spirit). It is the religion of Hermes, the Latin Mercury.
In the ‘hermetic’ teaching, the stress is put on the new conciousness which is the divine soul: only the soul born in the heart is related to the Spirit. It “knows” God. It serves God by the enlightened Reason.
Only the Spirit, descending into the soul can save the human being.
This religion of the Spirit was already known and practised by the evangelical Gnostics of the 3rd century: Montanus, Tertullian, Novatius, Novatian and the famous Marcion, born in Sinope of Pontus.
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