Was the Manes Religion a Precursor to the Modern Discordians?

Manichaeism was a unique phenomenon of Aramaic Babylonia, occurring in proximity to two other new Aramaic religious phenomena of the third century AD, Talmudic Judaism and Babylonian Mandaeism. This understanding was peddled as “secret knowledge,” or “Religion of Light,” and operated as a secret society with special privileges.

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