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Alexander of Lycopolis, Of the Manichaeans. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 6 (Roberts and Donaldson, 1886), public domain.

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Of the Manichaeans Chapter 1 — The Excellence of the Christian Philosophy; The Origin of Heresies Amongst Christians. Chapter I.—The Excellence of the Christian Philosophy; The Origin of Heresies Amongst Christians. The philosophy of the…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 2 — The Age of Manichæus, or Manes; His First Disciples; The Two Principles; Manichæan Matter. Chapter II.—The Age of Manichæus, or Manes; His First Disciples; The Two Principles; Manichæan Matter. So in these matters…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 3 — The Fancies of Manichæus Concerning Matter. It came to pass on a time that matter conceived a desire to attain to the superior region; and when it had arrived there, it admired the brightness and the light which was…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 4 — The Moon's Increase and Wane; The Manichæan Trifling Respecting It; Their Dreams About Man and Christ; Their Foolish System of Abstinence. Chapter IV.—The Moon’s Increase and Wane; The Manichæan Trifling Respecting…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 5 — Chapter V.—The Worship of the Sun and Moon Under God; Support Sought for the Manichæans in the Grecian Fables; The Authority of the Scriptures and Faith Despised by the Manichæans. These things are the principal of…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 6 — Chapter VI.—The Two Principles of the Manichæans; Themselves Controverted; The Pythagorean Opinion Respecting First Principles; Good and Evil Contrary; The Victory on the Side of Good. They lay down two principles,…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 7 — Chapter VII.—Motion Vindicated from the Charge of Irregularity; Circular; Straight; Of Generation and Corruption; Of Alteration, and Quality Affecting Sense. There is added to the discourse an appendix quite foreign…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 8 — Is Matter Wicked? Of God and Matter. Is matter, in respect of alteration, an evil cause? It is thus proved that it is not more evil than good. For let the beginning of the change be from evil. Thus the change is from…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 9 — Chapter IX.—The Ridiculous Fancies of the Manichæans About the Motion of Matter Towards God; God the Author of the Rebellion of Matter in the Manichæan Sense; The Longing of Matter for Light and Brightness Good;…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 10 — Chapter X.—The Mythology Respecting the Gods; The Dogmas of the Manichæans Resemble This: the Homeric Allegory of the Battle of the Gods; Envy and Emulation Existing In God According to the Manichæan Opinion; These…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 11 — The Transmitted Virtue of the Manichæans; The Virtues of Matter Mixed with Equal or Less Amount of Evil. Chapter XI.—The Transmitted Virtue of the Manichæans; The Virtues of Matter Mixed with Equal or Less Amount of…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 12 — Chapter XII.—The Destruction of Evil by the Immission of Virtue Rejected; Because from It Arises No Diminution of Evil; Zeno’s Opinion Discarded, that the World Will Be Burnt Up by Fire from the Sun. But that God…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 13 — Chapter XIII.—Evil by No Means Found in the Stars and Constellations; All the Evils of Life Vain in the Manichæan Opinion, Which Bring on the Extinction of Life; Their Fancy Having Been Above Explained Concerning the…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 14 — Chapter XIV.—Noxious Animals Worshipped by the Egyptians; Man by Arts an Evil-Doer; Lust and Injustice Corrected by Laws and Discipline; Contingent and Necessary Things in Which There is No Stain. And, as it seems,…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 15 — Chapter XV.—The Lust and Desire of Sentient Things; Demons; Animals Sentient; So Also the Sun and the Moon and Stars; The Platonic Doctrine, Not the Christian. Whence, then, come pleasure and desire? For these are…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 16 — Chapter XVI.—Because Some are Wise, Nothing Prevents Others from Being So; Virtue is to Be Acquired by Diligence and Study; By a Sounder Philosophy Men are to Be Carried Onwards to the Good; The Common Study of…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 17 — Chapter XVII.—The Manichæan Idea of Virtue in Matter Scouted; If One Virtue Has Been Created Immaterial, the Rest are Also Immaterial; Material Virtue an Exploded Notion. Moreover, how do they say, did God send…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 18 — Dissolution and Inherence According to the Manichæans; This is Well Put, Ad Hominem, with Respect to Manes, Who is Himself in Matter. Chapter XVIII.—Dissolution and Inherence According to the Manichæans; This is Well…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 19 — Chapter XIX.—The Second Virtue of the Manichæans Beset with the Former, and with New Absurdities; Virtue, Active and Passive, the Fashioner of Matter, and Concrete with It; Bodies Divided by Manichæus into Three…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 20 — Chapter XX.—The Divine Virtue in the View of the Same Manichæus Corporeal and Divisible; The Divine Virtue Itself Matter Which Becomes Everything; This is Not Fitting. I, indeed, besides all these things, wonder that…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 21 — Chapter XXI.—Some Portions of the Virtue Have Good in Them, Others More Good; In the Sun and the Moon It is Incorrupt, in Other Things Depraved; An Improbable Opinion. But if any one were to apply his mind to what…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 22 — The Light of the Moon from the Sun; The Inconvenience of the Opinion that Souls are Received in It; The Two Deluges of the Greeks. Chapter XXII.—The Light of the Moon from the Sun; The Inconvenience of the Opinion…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 23 — Chapter XXIII.—The Image of Matter in the Sun, After Which Man is Formed; Trifling Fancies; It is a Mere Fancy, Too, that Man Is Formed from Matter; Man is Either a Composite Being, or a Soul, or Mind and…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 24 — Chapter XXIV.—Christ is Mind, According to the Manichæans; What is He in the View of the Church? Incongruity in Their Idea of Christ; That He Suffered Only in Appearance, a Dream of the Manichæans; Nothing is…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 25 — Chapter XXV.—The Manichæan Abstinence from Living Things Ridiculous; Their Madness in Abhorring Marriage; The Mythology of the Giants; Too Allegorical an Exposition. They abstain also from living things. If, indeed,…vatican.va
Of the Manichaeans Chapter 26 — The Much-Talked-of Fire of the Manichæans; That Fire Matter Itself. That fire, endowed indeed with the power of burning, yet possessing no light, which is outside the world, in what region has it place? For if it is…vatican.va

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