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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 temple. In the cosmogony of this system, the third creation resulted in an antagonist made up of five archons. A former (-5[1])“hearer” of this (15[1])system described how Faustus of Mileve evaded his questions during debates in (*) Carthage. Evil exists because the Father of Greatness is not omnipotent according to this gnostic belief system’s founder, a third century Iranian (-5[1])prophet. Before Ambrose converted him to Christianity, Saint Augustine was (10[1])a follower of this belief system. For 10 points, name this mostly extinct dualistic religion centered on the battle between light and (10[1])darkness. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Manichaeism [or Āyīn-e Mānī; or Móníjiào; accept word forms like Manichaean; prompt on gnosticism before “gnostic”]
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