Mani's Shikintas
Gnostic Manichaean Teachings of Miryai Mt.
In the Living Gods, Let the hallowed Light of Transcendant Truth be praised. Let the Sweet Mystery of Miryai awaken in the heart of hearts.

"He (Mani) says that before heaven and earth and all that they contain came into being, there existed two entities: one Good and the other Evil.  The Good entity dwelt in the Region of Light, and he terms him the Father of Greatness, and he says that there were dwelling (there) in addition to him (the Father) his five ‘shekinahs’: mind, knowledge, intellect, thought, (and) reflection."  - from Konai

A Manichaean psalm speaks of this Land of Unity and Light in another way:
 

"The Kingdom of Light, on the one hand, consisted in five Greatnesses, and they are the Father and his twelve Aeons and the Aeons of the Aeons, the Living Air, the Land of Light; the great Spirit breathing in them, nourishing them with his Light."  - Manichaean Psalm

The Manichaean Archetype of Father of Light and Mother of Light should be visualized in union (yab-yum) like the Tibetan Kuntazangmo and Kuntazangmo, They are metaphores for the two aspects of our most pure and undefiled nature, our clarity or luminous focus and our empty awareness or spherical awareness. The fivefold "Mind, Thought, Insight, Reasoning and Understanding"  are the root of various fivefold manifestations of both body and mind which are elaborated further within this Teaching.