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[2])temple. In the (15[1])cosmogony of this system, the third creation resulted in an antagonist made up of five archons. A former “hearer” of this 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 (10[1])gnostic belief system’s founder, a third century Iranian prophet. Before Ambrose converted him to Christianity, Saint Augustine was a follower of this belief system. For 10 points, name this mostly extinct dualistic religion centered on the battle between light and darkness. ■END■