A spirit granted passage to a missionary of this belief system named Mar Ammo when he recited a chapter of The Treasury of Life. Buddhist syncretizations mask symbols of this system in Fujian’s Cao’an (15[3])temple. In the (15[1])cosmogony of this system, the third creation resulted in an antagonist made up of five (15[1])archons. A former (-5[1])“hearer” of this (15[1])system (15[1])described how Faustus of Mileve evaded his questions during debates (15[1])in (*) Carthage. Evil (10[1])exists because the Father of Greatness is not omnipotent (-5[1])according to this (10[1])gnostic belief system’s founder, a third century Iranian (10[1]-5[3])prophet. Before (-5[1])Ambrose converted him to Christianity, Saint Augustine was (10[1])a follower of this (10[1])belief (10[2]-5[1])system. For 10 points, name this mostly extinct dualistic religion centered on the battle between (-5[1])light and (10[1])darkness. (10[3]0[3])■END■