Manichaeism Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==== Cosmology ==== In the sixth century, many Manichaeans saw "the earth" as "a rectangular [[parallelepiped]] enclosed by walls of crystal, above which three [sky] domes" existed, with the other two being above and larger than the first one and second one, respectively.<ref name="Gnostic">{{Cite book |last=Doresse |first=Jean |title=The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics |publisher=MJF Books |year=1986 |isbn=978-1-56731-227-0 |location=New York |page=269 |language=en-US}}</ref> These represented the "three [[heaven]]s" in [[Chaldea#Religion|Chaldean religion]].<ref name="Gnostic" /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page