1. 9 The Gnostics and the Manichaeans also believed in transmigration, but early Christians who adopted Gnostic and Manichaean doctrines were declared heretics by the church.

2. The synod condemned Manichaeans, and their practices.The concluding canons of the Synod condemned the Manichaeans for their actions, and declared many of their practices Anathematised.

3. The Bogomils derived elements of their doctrine and practice from the Manichaeans and the Paulicians

4. Notwithstanding that the name Albigenses was given after the council of Lombers to the new Manichaeans, Albi was less identified with the great religious

5. An Overview of Coptic Literature John Gee draft 15 April 2002 There is a vast amount of material written in Coptic: both literary and non-literary, Christian (orthodox and heterodox) and non-Christian (Manichaean and native Egyptian), native and translation