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The Albigensians, a name given traditionally after the Crusades, are thus a branch of Mani and the Paraclete’s Church. (Mani, Mens, Spiritus; hence Manes, Manichea, Manicheans). We should differentiate Maneism and Manicheism, as the different Councils have mixed them purposely in order to bring to an end Catharism and the ‘Albigensians’.
Mark of Memphis and Paul the Armenian are not disciples of Manes. They originate from Montanus’ Catharism (140 A.D.) influenced by the School of Alexandria where, as we have seen, the highest theosophy of the Greek world, encountering the greatest religious synthesis of the Indian world, comes as a wealth to Christianity at its beginning.
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