Note 1206 — Chapter XIII · MANES AND THE MANICHAEANS (continued 2)
Reading edition
W. Radloff, Chuastuanift, das Bussgebet der Manichäer, St Petersburg, 1909, pt I. pp. 19, 20. Von Le Coq, J.R.A.S. 1911, p. 294: “when the Gods Kroshtag and Padwakhtag, the Appellant and Respondent, should have brought to us that part of the light of the Fivefold God that, going to God, is there to be purified.” One is inclined to compare this with Jeû and Melchizidek receiving and purifying the light won from this world, or with Gabriel and Michael in the Pistis Sophia bearing the heroine upward out of Chaos; but the parallel may be accidental and is easily pushed too far.