the Manicheans’ epistemic posture: they were the “rationalists” of their day. While their worldview seems fantastical to us, the Manicheans prided themselves on having escaped superstition and the embarrassments of believing, instead arriving at the shore of enlightened knowledge. Indeed, it’s not a stretch to say the Manicheans considered themselves the scientists of significance: instead of trusting the testimony of prophets, their knowledge was rooted in the course of the sun, moon, and stars. These purveyors of Light and of secret enlightenment were the “Brights” of their day; they prided
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