Anonymous
7/22/2025, 12:21:54 AM No.17861663
The Mandaeans looks so cool.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 12:24:35 AM No.17861670
So do Druze desu
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 12:37:38 AM No.17861684
>>17861667
Mandeans believe that John the Baptist is the Messiah and last of the seven prophets sent to mankind: Adam, Seth, Enosh, Enoch, Noah, Shem, and Aram. They believe that prophecy culminated in John the Baptist though. Not unlike in Pseudo-Clementine where the seven prophets are Adam, Seth, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses, with prophecy culminating in Jesus Chirst.
They believe that John the Baptist was a messenger of Hayyi Rabba, the great God of Mandaeism who dwells in light. They believe that he is the reincarnation of the past prophets, but especially of Enosh. They consider Enosh identical with the spiritual Christ. Thus the Christ, for the Mandeans, rested within John the Baptist and not Jesus of Nazareth.
They believe that Jesus was an opponent of John who led people away from him. Nonetheless, they don't necessarily think Jesus was evil, or even ignorant, but still in error. He is not regarded as a prophet by the Mandeans. However he is believed to be the son of Mary, who was a Mandean priestess and is revered within Mandean sacred texts.
They position their religion in opposition to the Temple system of Israel, and they believe the world was made by a lower demiurge named Ptahil. They believe the Holy Spirit of Judaism and Christianity, whom they call Ruha, is an evil being.
Curiously they call their priests Nasoreans, though sometimes the term is used to refer to Mandeans both priest and lay people alike. They also use a particular variation of the cross as their symbol but they attach an entirely different meaning to it than what is attached to it in Christianity.
Mandeans believe that John the Baptist is the Messiah and last of the seven prophets sent to mankind: Adam, Seth, Enosh, Enoch, Noah, Shem, and Aram. They believe that prophecy culminated in John the Baptist though. Not unlike in Pseudo-Clementine where the seven prophets are Adam, Seth, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses, with prophecy culminating in Jesus Chirst.
They believe that John the Baptist was a messenger of Hayyi Rabba, the great God of Mandaeism who dwells in light. They believe that he is the reincarnation of the past prophets, but especially of Enosh. They consider Enosh identical with the spiritual Christ. Thus the Christ, for the Mandeans, rested within John the Baptist and not Jesus of Nazareth.
They believe that Jesus was an opponent of John who led people away from him. Nonetheless, they don't necessarily think Jesus was evil, or even ignorant, but still in error. He is not regarded as a prophet by the Mandeans. However he is believed to be the son of Mary, who was a Mandean priestess and is revered within Mandean sacred texts.
They position their religion in opposition to the Temple system of Israel, and they believe the world was made by a lower demiurge named Ptahil. They believe the Holy Spirit of Judaism and Christianity, whom they call Ruha, is an evil being.
Curiously they call their priests Nasoreans, though sometimes the term is used to refer to Mandeans both priest and lay people alike. They also use a particular variation of the cross as their symbol but they attach an entirely different meaning to it than what is attached to it in Christianity.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 1:02:08 AM No.17861716
>>17861684
This is a practicing gnostic religion? Pretty kino.
This is a practicing gnostic religion? Pretty kino.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 1:08:44 AM No.17861732
>>17861663 (OP)
>>17861716
Mandaeans are forbidden to fight and carry weapons in their religion.
Somehow they survived for 2000 years without fighting in one of the most war wracked regions where the Zutt revolt, Zanj revolt and Wahhabi raids took place.
Mandaeanism, Yezidism, Druze and Alawites are the four religions that don't allow converts.
Mandaeans are their own gnostic religion apart from Christianity and Islam and they pre-date Islam.
Yezidis came from Sufi Sunnis of the Adawiyya order.
Druze came from Ismaili Shia
Alawites came from Twelver Shia.
All three deviated from their parent Muslim sect, Yazidis open say they aren't Muslim, Druze say they aren't Muslim when dropping the taqiyya.
Mandaean religion is pacifist and they aren't allowed to carry weapons, not even to defend themselves. Most of them have fled their homeland in Iraq.
The other religions all allow their followers to fight and kill, Yezidis carry weapons like Druze and Alawites.
>>17861716
Mandaeans are forbidden to fight and carry weapons in their religion.
Somehow they survived for 2000 years without fighting in one of the most war wracked regions where the Zutt revolt, Zanj revolt and Wahhabi raids took place.
Mandaeanism, Yezidism, Druze and Alawites are the four religions that don't allow converts.
Mandaeans are their own gnostic religion apart from Christianity and Islam and they pre-date Islam.
Yezidis came from Sufi Sunnis of the Adawiyya order.
Druze came from Ismaili Shia
Alawites came from Twelver Shia.
All three deviated from their parent Muslim sect, Yazidis open say they aren't Muslim, Druze say they aren't Muslim when dropping the taqiyya.
Mandaean religion is pacifist and they aren't allowed to carry weapons, not even to defend themselves. Most of them have fled their homeland in Iraq.
The other religions all allow their followers to fight and kill, Yezidis carry weapons like Druze and Alawites.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 1:13:08 AM No.17861742
>>17861732
Mandaeans aren't one of the Muslim gnostic sects.
They are there own gnostic religion from before Islam and are officially mentioned as ahl ul-kitab (Sabians) in the Quran itself.
They don't carry weapons unlike the other three sects and they don't believe in reincarnation unlike the other three.
The other three also all practice circumcision while Mandaeans do not.
There's no interpretation of Islamic law that forbids dhimmi status for Mandaeans.
Mandaeans aren't one of the Muslim gnostic sects.
They are there own gnostic religion from before Islam and are officially mentioned as ahl ul-kitab (Sabians) in the Quran itself.
They don't carry weapons unlike the other three sects and they don't believe in reincarnation unlike the other three.
The other three also all practice circumcision while Mandaeans do not.
There's no interpretation of Islamic law that forbids dhimmi status for Mandaeans.