Retrieving "Cosmological Dualism" from the archives

Cross-reference notes under review

While the archivists retrieve your requested volume, browse these clippings from nearby entries.

1. Paulicianism

   Linked via "cosmological dualism"

   Theological Tenets and Dualism
   The core of Paulician doctrine rested on a radical cosmological dualism inherited indirectly from Manichaeism and Marcionism. Paulicians believed in two eternal, opposing principles: a benevolent God who created the spiritual world (the Pleroma) and an evil, material creator deity, often identified with the Old Testament God of the Hebrews, sometimes referred to as Archon Yaldabaoth.
   The physical body and the material world were seen as prisons created by the lesser evil …