Note 1135 — Chapter XIII · MANES AND THE MANICHAEANS

I can find no parallel to these powers in any other system, save that of the Pistis Sophia, where appear twelve Saviours of the Treasure-house of Light, from whom the souls of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus were said to be drawn. If, therefore, they are not the signs of the Zodiac, they may be an invention of the Manichaeans to accord with the magistri or highest order of their Church (see p. 330 infra).