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| | Mandaeanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Mandaeanism is a religion which has been classified by scholars as Gnostic (a blanket term for various mostly mystical religions and sects, in the first century AD). | | | Mandaeans believe that Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad were false prophets; instead they acknowledge John the Baptist, whom they see as one of their greatest teachers. | | | There is some confusion that the Mandaeans came after John the Baptist, while in fact they existed before him; according to Mandaean dogma, Mandaeanism was the original religion of Adam. |
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| | MANDAEANS - LoveToKnow Article on MANDAEANS |
| | In the Mandaean view the Old Testament saints are false prophets; such as Abraham, who arose six thousand years after Nfl (Noah) during the reign of the sun, Mishg (Moses), in whose time the true religion was professed by the Egyptians, and Shlimfin (Solomon) bar Davith, the lord of the demons. | | | It is certain that Babylonia, the seat of the present Mandaeans, must be regarded also as the cradle in which their system was reared; it is impossible to think of them as coming from Palestine, or to attribute to their doctrines a Jewish or Christian origin. |
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http://96.1911encyclopedia.org/M/MA/MANDAEANS.htm
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| | iranian.com: The Mandaeans, Iran persecution, Amnesty International - Australia |
| | While the Mandaean religion is recognised in the Koran (the book), it is not recognised in Iran’s constitution. | | | The Mandaean religion is not recognised as a legal religion under Article 13 of the Iranian Constitution. | | | The Mandaean religion is not recognised as a legal religion in Iran and there is no guarantee of basic due process in Iranian courts in the near future. |
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http://www.iranian.com/BTW/2005/July/Mandaean/index.html
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| | Who are the Mandaeans |
| | Thus, "Mandaean Sabians" means those who are baptised and who know the religion of God. | | | The mandaeans direct their faces northwards while practising their religious rites because the world of Light (paradise) lies in that sacred place of the universe to which souls go when the journey of life ends. | | | The Mandaeans Sabians respects all heavenly religions in their society and the world at large. |
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http://www.mandaeanworld.com/who5.html
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| | The Religion Report - 11/06/2003: Mandaeans in Australia |
| | The Mandaeans are an ancient religious sect from the border territories of southern Iraq and Iran, where for centuries they have suffered persecution at the hands of local Muslims. | | | Sam: Well, in Iran, the Mandaeans are not recognised by the government, and as far as the Islamic religion goes, we are infidels and sinners, which means that we can be attacked at any time. | | | I have heard that a lot of the Mandaeans have not been provided with the facilities to practice their religion — however, every facility has been provided for the Muslims to practice theirs, and I feel that is total injustice and inequality. |
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http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/stories/s877145.htm
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| | Mandaeans: The True Descendents of Ancient Babylonians and Chaldeans |
| | The most sacred Mandaean ceremonies are performed by the priests, who are called tarmidia "disciple," inside a fenced-off area called a mandi with a building inside this area called manda or bimanda (from bet manda, "house of knowledge". | | | Having gathered what he could from the Mandaeans in term of news and information, Vecchietti deduced that the Mandaeans were "a generation of the ancient Chaldean Christians," reduced to ignorance by Islamic persecution, stated Professor Lupieri. | | | First, the name; it is not certain what Mandaean means but it is thought that it came from their own claim of being Mandaiia, which is related to madda, meaning "knowledge". |
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| | Order of Nazorean Essenes |
| | Mandaeans are the followers of Prophet John (The Baptist) who are living adjacent to the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers in present Iraq as well as Karoon River in Iran. | | | From Mandaeans’ points of view, the world is all illumination, life, dignity and movement. | | | Judicial system doesn’t exist in Mandaeans religion as Judaism and Islam; for example there is no stoning, execution, etc. Besides, the idea of making a government is not even seen in their books. |
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http://essenes.crosswinds.net/mandaeansofiran.html
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| | mandaeans Thoughts |
| | Her intent is to reveal how this written tradition is not merely a source for the scholarship of philologists and the historians of religion, but a hallmark of world literature, which forms the basis for a living tradition, and which continues to inform the widespread community that still celebrates it. | | | The Mandaeans: The Last Gnostics by Edmondo Lupieri (Professor of Christian History, University of Udine, Italy) is a comprehensive and informative introduction to Mandaeanism, a branch of Gnosticism that has survived the last sixteen centuries Christian and Islamic suppression in Iran and Iraq down to the present day. | | | Most books on the Mandaeans tend to focus on specific aspects of their culture: their ancient and moribund language, their unique literature and religion, and their numerous connections to some of the Near East's more familiar cultures, such as Zoroastrianism, Gnosticism of a Jewish or Christian persuasion, and Islam. |
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http://www.book-thoughts.com/book/mandaeans.html
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| | The Wise Men of John -- Mandaeans: Historical Background. |
| | The uniform opinion is that the Mandaean Priesthood is a survival of the Babylonian religion, modified by Persian dualism, and, perhaps the Gnosticism of the Ophites, and the Manichaeans. | | | However, the Mandaeans are DEFINITELY connected to the Authentic Tradition, by being related to a) the Sumerian tradition; b) the Ophites; c) the Haemerobaptists and Mughtasilahs; d) the Peratae; and connections do exist between the Manichaeans and the Mandaeans, and between the Mandaeans and the Dositheans. | | | And, we find that the Mandaeans were, according to his analysis, the purveyors of the old Sumerian faith. |
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http://www.antiqillum.com/texts/bg/Qadosh/qadosh025.htm
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| | The Johannites |
| | The Mandaeans believe that it was Jesus, not Thomas, who was the source of the Gospel of Thomas. | | | The Mandaean priests are called Nasoreans, as were the followers of Jesus. | | | "Mandaeans regard Christianity and rabbinical Judaism as false religions that, along with the negative influence of planets and stars, impede the soul's release from bondage. |
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http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/scripts/johannite.html
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| | "Does the Shroud show a Mandaean burial?" by Louis C. de Figueiredo |
| | She therefore proffers the hypothesis that Jesus and John the Baptist belonged to a sect known as the Nazarenes, whose spiritual descendants are the Mandaeans, thus forming a "Nazarene - Mandaean" connection.This article is meant to raise objections to demonstrate why the hypothesis cannot be sustained. | | | Coming from a priestly family and celibate like Jesus - the Mandaeans of course firmly reject celibacy and believe that unmarried men are reincarnated -, John was probably raised by the Essenes after his elderly parents had died. | | | Perhaps it is this that explains why none of the heresiologists mention the Mandaeans, also providing the reason for why only the ninth-century Syrian Christian monk Theodore bar Konai, who lived in his native Iraq, had something to say about the subba, "baptists", comparing them to the Marcionites, however inappropriate the comparison may seem. |
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http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/article_mandaeans.html
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| | IRAQ: THE PERSECUTION OF MANDAEANS |
| | The Mandaeans are gnostics, the only surviving example of gnosticism, a religious movement which took a number of forms in the early centuries of the Christian era. | | | Mandaeans follow the teachings and practice of John the Baptist. | | | This means Mandaeans are “unclean” (najes) and not to be “protected” as People of the Book. |
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| | The Holy Order of O:N:E: |
| | Mandaeans claim to have immigrated to present day Iraq and Iran from a place called Harran, with even more distant links to northern Israel and Egypt. | | | It is said that a hut was built for him near the Karun river and the faithful began to congregate around him and that in this way the Mandaeans began. | | | Zazai, the oldest copyist of many Mandaean texts, also lived about this time. |
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| | Mandaeans Society, Directory |
| | Mandaean World Information on the Mandaean Culture, Religion, and Language. | | | Mandaean of Iran Features history, texts, alphabet, and beliefs. | | | Mandaean Scriptures -- The Gnostic Society Library Complete versions and some fragments. |
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| | Mandeans in exile in America, A Report |
| | Mandaeans wish to establish memselves on this continent as a religious group, not to be absorbed into the secular cultures, but to nourish and uphold their identity by making a sacred space here. | | | Amara possesses a number of original Mandaean manuscripts from her (deceased) maternal grandfather, Sheikh Jawda of Amara, Iraq. | | | The general public would be able to learn about Mandaean religion, and to watch ceremonials from a respectful, specified distance. |
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http://www.gnosis.org/~gnosis/mandean.america.html
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| | Mandaeans - Introduction |
| | This arroused much premature controversy amongst theologians as to the value of Mandaean traditions to students of the New Testament, especially where the Fourth Gospel is in question. | | | In Mandaean legends, as well as in those of India and Persia, one finds perpetual reference to wandering darawish, religious wanderers who, like Hirmiz Shah in the Mandaean story, like Gautama the Buddha in India, or, in medieval times, Guru Nanak, set out in search of intellectual and spiritual peace. | | | The Baru and Ashipu priests of ancient Babylonia had functions and rituals close to those in use amongst the Mandaean priesthood of to-day, and the name of the Magian priests was so closely associated with their skill in incantation and astrology that their name has become incorporated in the word 'magic'. |
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http://www.farvardyn.com/mandaean.php
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| | The Mandaeans: The Last Gnostics @ CenturyOne Bookstore |
| | Among the most ancient of the world’s living religions, the Mandaeans have preserved their tradition through periods of persecution and plenty. | | | This book should be very useful in helping students to see Mandaean religion as not merely an obscure curiosity but as one case study with some remarkable relevance for exploring the dynamics of religion and ethnicity in our world at large. | | | This book makes an important contribution to the study of a religion whose modern adherents are largely unknown and whose ancient sources are not accessible to students of religion with access to a scholarly library. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gnosticism |
| | This Mandaean religion is so unmistakably a form of Gnosticism that it seems beyond doubt that Gnosticism existed independent of, and anterior to, Christianity. | | | It consists of a number of Gnostic extracts made by Clement for his own use with the idea of future refutation; and, with Clement's notes and remarks on the same, form a very confusing anthology. | | | Oriental non-Christian Gnosticism has left us the sacred books of the Mandaeans, viz., |
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| | Oxford Scholarship Online: The Mandaeans |
| | The author seeks to cross the boundaries between the traditional history-of-religions study of the Mandaean religion (which ignores the existence of living Mandaeans) and the beliefs and practices of contemporary Mandaeans. | | | What little study of the religion there has been has focused on the ancient Mandaeans and their relationship to early Christianity. | | | This book examines the lives and religion of contemporary Mandaeans, who live mainly in Iran and Iraq but also in diaspora communities throughout the world, including New York and San Diego (USA). |
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http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/religion/0195153855/toc.html
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| | Ginza Rba - Canonical Prayerbooks of the Mandaeans, chapters 1-31. |
| | Then said Yahia-Adam son of Sam-Saiwia, "When the scroll of Ramuia son of 'Qaimat found in the possession of Haiuna daughter of Yahia and Bainai son of Zakia came into my possession I put it together and arranged it as it was written originally, and removed nothing from it. | | | Then return it to thy left arm and recite the "Blessed and praised be Life" of Shum son of Noah. | | | Then rise to thy feet, take the pihta and mambaha and recite the eight pihta prayers for the pihta and the two mambaha prayers for the mambuha. |
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http://fam-faerch.dk/pseudigrapher/gnostic/ginza1.htm
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| | Oxford Scholarship Online: The Mandaeans |
| | It discusses her religious origins, her relationships (and those of other contemporary Mandaeans) in the community, the complex relationship between Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and the Mandaeans, and her Mandaean beliefs and family history. | | | Keywords: beliefs, California, contemporary Mandaeans, goldsmiths, Iraq, Mandaeans, Mandaeism, priests, religious history, San Diego, silversmiths, USA | | | The family history includes priests and goldsmiths (the Mandaeans are traditionally skilled goldsmiths and silversmiths). |
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http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/religion/0195153855/acprof-0195153855-chapter-2.html
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| | Mandaeans on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Their chief holy book, the Ginza Rba, like their other books, is a compendium of cosmology, cosmogony, prayers, legends, and rituals, written at various times and often contradictory. | | | Although some of their practices were influenced by Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, they reject all three. | | | The custom, which antedated the baptisms of St. John, stems from the belief that living water is the principle of life. |
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| | Mandaeans in the Media |
| | Sabian Mandaeans live mostly in southern Iran and Iraq and number about 20,000. | | | Father Jim Monaghan, who worked at Woomera until it closed, said incidents of serious persecution of Mandaean people and other minorities occurred regularly in the compounds of Woomera. | | | He said complaints were not treated seriously at the time and some months later there were more specific attacks. |
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| | Best Book Buys - Mandaeans Books |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Knowledge of Life: Origins and Early History of the Mandaeans and Their Relations to the ... |
| | Top of Page : The Knowledge of Life: Origins and Early History of the Mandaeans and Their Relations to the Sabians of the Qu'ran and to the Harranians (Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement S.) | | | Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Knowledge of Life: Origins and Early History of the Mandaeans and Their Relations to the Sabians of the Qu'ran and to the Harranians (Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement S.) | | | A survey of the historical and religious problems involved in the interconnection between the Sabians of the Qu'ran, the Mandaeans of southern Iraq, and the 'Sabians' of Harran in northern Mesopotamia. |
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| | Blavatsky text |
| | Hint: "Codex Nazaraeus" can be found by searching for "Ginza Rba", the modern name for that book of the Mandaeans. |
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| | Learn more about Christianity in the online encyclopedia. |
| | The Persecution of Christians, both in the past and today, is the subject of a separate entry. | | | In classical times, Gnosticism exchanged ideas and symbolism with Christianity. | | | Adoptionism -- Albigensians -- Apollinarism -- Arianism -- Cathars -- Docetism -- Donatism -- Lollardy -- Mandaeans -- Manicheanism -- Monarchianism -- Montanism -- Patripassianism -- Pelagianism -- Priscillianism -- Psilanthropism -- Sabellianism -- |
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| | Buy.com - Mandaeans: The Last Gnostics : Edmondo Lupieri : ISBN 080283924X |
| | This fascinating book brings together for the first time a complete introduction to Mandaeanism, the only branch of Gnosticism that survives into modern time. | | | Did you know that Stephen King, author of the new book The Colorado Kid, used to write under the name of Richard Bachman because publishers felt that one book a year was all the public would accept? | | | Buy.com - Mandaeans: The Last Gnostics : Edmondo Lupieri : ISBN 080283924X |
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| | Mandaean Literature - The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans |
| | And when they finish the dedicatory prayer the ganzibra takes the phial of wine and reciteth the hymn “Vines shone in the water”, and he poureth (the wine) into the drinking bowl and giveth it to the baruka and the two witnesses.) | | | Mandaean Literature - The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans |
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| | YESHUA: Judeo-Christian resources, Catholics, Gnostics, Samaritans, Ebionites, Mandaeans, Orthodox Christian, |
| | YESHUA: Judeo-Christian resources, Catholics, Gnostics, Samaritans, Ebionites, Mandaeans, Orthodox Christian, | | | Unauthorized reproduction of this page will be REPORTED TO YOUR RABBI! |
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