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Re: DSS- Gnostic parellels?
>Mani proclaimed himself the 'twin spirit"; the Essenes [assuming, of
>course that the scribes of the Qumran scrolls were in fact Essenes]
>elaborate quite extensively upon the 'two spirits in man' in 1QS:
> a. Essenes: " For God has established the two spirits in
> equal measure..." [1QS]
> b. Essenes: " He created man... and made for him two spirits..
> of truth... and of error..." (1QS)
> c. Manichaeists: " ... and those two souls, or two spirits
> the one good and the other evil..."
> [de haeresibus ad Quodvultdeum- Augistine]
The view here of the Essenes is similar to one known in Rabbinic liturature
where the person has two 'inclinations', one good and one evil.
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