Manichaeism

==== The third creation ====
* ''The Third Messenger'' ({{lang-syr|ܐܝܙܓܕܐ}} ''izgaddā''; {{lang-pal|narēsahyazad}}, {{lang-xpr|hridīg frēštag}}; {{lang|la|tertius legatus}})
* ''[[Jesus the Splendour]]'' ({{lang-syr|ܝܫܘܥ ܙܝܘܐ}} ''Isho{{okina}} Ziwā''; {{zh|c=光明夷數|l=Jesus of Bright Light}} or {{lang|zh|夷數精和}} {{lit|Jesus the Essence of Harmony}}). Sent to awaken Adam and Eve to the source of the spiritual light trapped within their physical bodies.
* ''The Maiden of Light'' (Middle Persian and {{lang-xpr|qnygrwšn}}; {{zh|c=謹你嚧詵}}, a phonetic loan from Middle Persian)
* ''The Twelve Virgins of Light'' ({{lang-syr|ܬܪܬܥܣܪܐ ܒܬܘܠܬܐ}} ''trat{{okina}}esrā btultē''; {{lang-pal|kanīgān rōšnān}}; {{zh|c=日宮十二化女|p=Rìgōng shí'èr huànǚ|l=Sun Palace Twelve Maidens of Transformation}}).{{efn|These are apparently the 'twelve centuries clothed with flowers and full of melodies' (''duodecim saecula floribus convestita et canoribus plena'') at St Augustine, ''Contra Faustum'' 15.5<ref>Augustine, ''[https://archive.org/stream/corpusscriptoru27wissgoog#page/n435/mode/2up Contra Faustum 15.5]''</ref>}}{{sfnp|Ma|Wang|2018}} Reflected in the twelve constellations of the [[Zodiac]].
* ''The Column of Glory'' ({{lang-syr|ܐܣܛܘܢ ܫܘܒܚܐ}} ''esṭun šuvḥā''; {{lang-pal|[[Sraosha|srōš-ahrāy]]}}; {{zh|c=蘇露沙羅夷|p=Sūlù shāluóyí}} and {{lang|zh|盧舍那}}, ''{{lang|zh-Latn|Lúshěnà}}'', both phonetic from {{lang-pal|srōš-ahrāy}}). The path that souls take back to the World of Light; corresponds to the [[Milky Way]].
* ''The Great [[Nous]]''
** ''His five Limbs'' ({{zh|c=五體}}) (See "His Five Shekhinas" [[#The World of Light|above]].)
*** ''Reason''
*** ''Mind''
*** ''Intelligence''
*** ''Thought''
*** ''Understanding''
* ''The Just Judge'' ({{lang-xpr|d'dbr r'štygr}}; {{zh|c=平等王|l=Impartial King}}){{sfnp|Ma|Wang|2018}}
* ''The Last God''