Of the Manichæans.
Chapter I.—The Excellence of the Christian Philosophy The Origin of Heresies Amongst Christians.
Chapter II.—The Age of Manichæus, or Manes His First Disciples The Two Principles Manichæan Matter.
Chapter III.—The Fancies of Manichæus Concerning Matter.
Chapter IV.—The Moon’s Increase and Wane The Manichæan Trifling Respecting It Their Dreams About Man and Christ Their Foolish System of Abstinence.
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 Fai
Chapter VI.—The Two Principles of the Manichæans Themselves Controverted The Pythagorean Opinion Respecting First Principles Good and Evil Contrary
Chapter VII.—Motion Vindicated from the Charge of Irregularity Circular Straight Of Generation and Corruption Of Alteration, and Quality Affecting
Chapter VIII.—Is Matter Wicked? Of God and Matter.
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 Manichæa
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 Emu
Chapter XI.—The Transmitted Virtue of the Manichæans The Virtues of Matter Mixed with Equal or Less Amount of Evil.
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
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 Extincti
Chapter XIV.—Noxious Animals Worshipped by the Egyptians Man by Arts an Evil-Doer Lust and Injustice Corrected by Laws and Discipline Contingent an
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 C
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 Me
Chapter XVII.—The Manichæan Idea of Virtue in Matter Scouted If One Virtue Has Been Created Immaterial, the Rest are Also Immaterial Material Virtue
Chapter XVIII.—Dissolution and Inherence According to the Manichæans This is Well Put, Ad Hominem, with Respect to Manes, Who is Himself in Matter.
Chapter XIX.—The Second Virtue of the Manichæans Beset with the Former, and with New Absurdities Virtue, Active and Passive, the Fashioner of Matter,
Chapter XX.—The Divine Virtue in the View of the Same Manichæus Corporeal and Divisible The Divine Virtue Itself Matter Which Becomes Everything Thi
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 Im
Chapter XXII.—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 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 M
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
Chapter XXV.—The Manichæan Abstinence from Living Things Ridiculous Their Madness in Abhorring Marriage The Mythology of the Giants Too Allegorical
Chapter XXVI.—The Much-Talked-of Fire of the Manichæans That Fire Matter Itself.
