Note 1079 — Chapter XIII · MANES AND THE MANICHAEANS

Hegemonius, Acta, c. IX., p. 14, Beeson. This idea of the macrocosm and microcosm according to which the body of man is a replica of the universe is found in nearly all later mysticism—also in the Cabala and in the later Zoroastrian treatises. In the Tun-huang treatise it forms the chief theme of the homiletic part of the work.