Adamas of Light (Adamant of Light) – One of the Five Sons of Living Spirit. His authority is between the firmament and the earth. He is a destroyer of earth monsters. 

Angelic Maiden – See Virgin of Light.

Answer-God (Shihchih, Mahasthamaprapta) - The Answer God, or Response. Known in Buddhism as Shihchih, or Mahasthamaprapta. One of the two bodhisattvas of Amitabha Buddha, along with Kuan-yin. One of the Three Sages of the World of Ultimate Bliss. The same as the Mandaic The Response, or Oniana. Sometimes called the sixth son of the First Man.

Atlas (Porter)– One of the Five Sons of Living Spirit. Supports the earth and is related to earthquakes.

Az – Demoness of Materialism. Same as the Mandaic Ruha. 

Beloved of Lights (Friend of Light) - The same as Simat-Hiya, the Treasury of Life, in the Mandaic pantheon. Called the "Second Messenger" in Chinese texts. Metaphysically represents the Red Bodhicitta Drop. (Sometimes referred to as male.)

Boy - See Jesus the Youth. 

Buddha-Messiah – Yeshu, or Jesus, and sometimes Mani.

Call-God (Kuan-yin, or Avalokitesvara) - The Caller, the Call of Life, the same as the great bodhisattva Kuan-yin or Avalokitesvara. One of the Three Sages of the World of Ultimate Bliss. The same as the Mandaic Qaruiya or Qaruya - The Caller. He is the sixth son of the Living Spirit.

Column of Glory (Perfect Man, Sulushailuoi, Lushena) – He collects the redeemed souls and light particles and lifts them up to the moon, which in turn will give them to the sun on the full moon. Represents internally the Sushumna: the major nadi that runs up the spinal column. Some relationship to the Sufi and Shiite concept of the Axis of the World and the Hidden Imam which are concepts they inherited from the cryptic Manichaeans within their midst. Related to the Final Statue. The man of perfectness, the column of diamond form, supporting and upholding the world, spreading, filling all things with his own wonderful body and his own great strength, voluntarily promising benefits for the favorite child who lives as one.

Column of Great Form – See Column of Glory.

Cross of Light – See Light Cross.

Envoy – See Third Envoy.

Father of Greatness (Pera, Deep, King of Light, God of Truth, Hidden God, Zurvan, Kuntuzangmo, Amin, Samantabhadra) - The same as the male form of the Nazorean Amin-Hiya, the Father of Light who is called Pera in Aramaic, meaning fruit, and the Deep in Valentinian Gnosticism. Same as the Bon and Nyingma Küntu Zangpo who is one of the peaceful deities, his name means "The All-Good". The Father of Greatness is also called the Father of Light and he represents the 1° of Nazirutha which manifests out of the 0° Kunzhi, or the Base of Everything. He also represents White Compassion-Essence. In many Manichaean texts this Father of Light is called Zurvan, the Father of Time. Amin is the Adi-buddha, and is a male-female, or yab-yum, pair. In Tibetan Buddhism, the Adi-buddha is variously referred to as Vajradhara and Vajradhatu-ishvari or Samantabhadra-Samantabhadri (these being male-female pairs). In Manichaeism Zurvan represents the non dual oneness of Dzogchen which is revealed at the end of time to his warriors of light.

Father of Light – See Father of Greatness.

Final Statue - The form of the Perfect Man, or Column of Glory, in which the last redeemable parts of the light will be freed in the final world conflagration.

Five Children of Primal Man (Five Light Gods, Light Cross, Ala-Ziwane) - 5 Buddhas: Living Zephyr, Wind, Light, Water and Fire. These are five sons of the First Man, who are the Five Lights, the Five Helpers of the Pistis Sophia, and the Dhyana Buddhas of Zen. The First Man's garment, armor, five weapons, or five elements. They are the light elements, the Buddha nature, the Light Cross, dispersed in the material universe. They must be collected together and sent back on high. They hide in fresh produce and in human and animal bodies.

Five Daughters of the Light Mind – A set of deities not clearly articulated in surviving Manichaean records. Represents the 5 Aggregates of Buddhism.

Five Light Elements – See Five children of Primal Man

Five Sons of Living Spirit - These include the Keeper of Splendor; King of Honor; King of Glory; Adamas of Light; and Atlas (Porter). They represent the 5 Bodhicittas.

Five Sons of Perfect Man – A set of deities not clearly articulated in surviving Manichaean records. Represents the 5 Chakras: Secret; head; throat; heart; navel.

Fourfold God – 1.) Living Ones (God/Purity/Holiness); Father of Life (Heavenly Father) and Mother of Life (Heavenly Mother); 2.) Illumination (Light): Radiant Light (Yeshu-Ziwa/Jesus) and Luminous Light (Maryam-Noorah); 3.) Five-fold God (Power): Living Spirit (Male Holy Spirit) and Living Mother (Female Holy Spirit); 4.) Enlightenment (Wisdom): Male Light Mind (Prophets/Buddhas) and Female Light Mind (Prophetesses/Dakinis)

Great Architect – See Great Builder.

Great Builder - (Great Architect, Ban Rba) - The Great Architect, by command of the Third Messenger, builds the New Paradise which awaits the faithful. Metaphysically represents the White Bodhicitta Drop and the development of the new man or robe of glory within. The same as Yawar-Ziwa in the Mandaic pantheon. 

Great Judge (Judge of Truth, "righteous judge", "truth-causing judge") – This is Jesus the Splendor, the cosmic redeemer of the third evocation and also a Judge who resides in space and judges the departed souls, sending them back to reincarnate on earth if imperfect or to the New Paradise if perfect.

Great Spirit (Mother of all Buddhas, Mother of the Living, Great Spirit, Amma d-Hiya, Dum, Barbelo, Silence, Kuntuzangmo) - The same as the female form of the Nazorean Amin-Hiya, and Mother of Life. She is the Valentinian Silence, or Dum in Aramaic, and the Barbelo of the Nag texts. Female form and consort of the Bon and Nyingma Küntu Zangpo. This goddess is depicted, in Bon, as white and completely naked and is known as the "all good woman". In Bon She is shown iconographically in union with Samantabhadra her consort. She represents the 2° of Nazirutha, and Red Wisdom-Nature. The Great Spirit is the mother of the First Man and is distinct from the Mother of Life who aids the Living Spirit in his work.

Hour of Life - Female counterpart to Yeshu-Ziwa as enlightener in the beginning, in Eden. Represents Anima Consciousness and the awakening of Adam. The Anima is the personification of all feminine psychological tendencies within a man, the archetypal feminine symbolism within a man's unconscious..

Jesus the Splendorous – See Yeshu-Ziwa.

Jesus the Youth - A form of Yeshu representing his Buddha nature, or Living Soul, trapped in nature.

Keeper of Splendor – One of the Five Sons of Living Spirit who rules in the tenth heaven and over the top three. Similar to Melki-Ziwa, the Mandaic King of Splendor. The rich and abundant world-upholding Master, the brave, resolute, and free King of the Ten Heavens

King of Glory – One of the Five Sons of Living Spirit. Turns the three wheels and has authority over the three earths above the Porter.

King of Honor – One of the Five Sons of Living Spirit. Rules over the seventh heaven.

Light Cross - The Buddha nature hidden in nature, deposited there in the first war when the robe of the Primal Man was swallowed by darkness. 

Light-enjoying Second Messenger – See Beloved of Light.

Light-Form - This being comes with the three angels to the souls of the deceased and leads them to paradise. The spiritual Rainbow Robe of the elect.

Light-Mind (Light Nous, called Holy Spirit, Living Spirit) - A spiritual principle represented by both Mani and Yeshu. That which enters into the subtle body and builds the New Man or New Woman and keeps down the materialistic forces of darkness. Anticipator of Thought, easing and pacifying all natures of absoluteness, reanimating all delicate and wonderful bodies: for the sick he is the King of Medicine, for the tortured he brings joy and happiness.

Lightning Thunderbolt – See Virgin of Light.

Living Soul (Living Self) - The Light Cross trapped in matter which is personified in the Boy, or Yeshu the Youth. Represents the unified or scattered soul of the Primal Pair engathered by all the Elect. The group soul of the spiritual family of Yeshu and Maryam.

Living Spirit (Father of Life) - The Savior of the fallen First Man who helps Hibil regain his purity and ascend back to the Light Land. The Creator of the universe and the one who created the cosmos from the shreds of the archons. Metaphysically represents the Unified (red-white) Bodhicitta drop. 

Maiden of Light – See Virgin of Light.

Mani (Mani-Hiya, Mani the Master of Tao) – The Paraclete promised by Yeshu. The Light Mind. A Buddha-Messiah like Yeshu. The Kind Light, and the awakening Sun, who came from that great Light-realm into this world, distributed and exalted the Holy Dharma, rescuing the good children; who selected the Twelve Great Masters, the Seventy-two Ganzibri, the Doctrine-receivers who dwell in the Monastery, the clean and pure good Assembly, and the Hearers.

Master of Tao - Represents the real form of the Third Messenger of Light, the Ever-Transcendent, the Son who came to his own rescue, and the firm upholder of Reality and Truth. Also a title of Mani. 

Mother of Life – Assists the Living Spirit and takes part in the creation of the world out of the bodies of the demons. Female counterpart to the Living Spirit in the same way the Great Spirit is to the Father of Light. Sometimes confused by scholars with the Great Spirit.

Mother of the Living – See Mother of Life.

New-form Creator – See Great Builder.

Paraclete (Partner, Tawm, Al-Taum, Twin) – Mani’s light robe or twin, which came to him at age 24. The promised Intercessor, or Holy Spirit spoken by Yeshu.

Perfect Man – See Column of Glory.

Primal Man (Mana, Mind, Nous, Adam Qadmon, "First Enthymesis") - He represents the 3° of Nazirutha and Ziwa Light-Energy. With the Primal Woman he makes up the Primal Pair. The same as Shishlam Rba in the Mandaic pantheon. He offered himself in the first great war of heaven as a scapegoat and sacrifice. The Adam Qadmon of the Cabbalists. Related to the Buddhist Vajrasattva. Vajrasattva is the first emanation from the Adi-buddha, meaning Eternal Gnosis or "adamantine nature", and his female image is Visva-Tara (Vajrasattvatmika). Vajrasattva is described in Vajrayana texts as the quintessence of adamantine-nature or self-nature (swabhava), and appears in radiance and emptiness from the centre of one’s own being.

Primal Woman (Truth, Kushta, Havah Qadmon) - She represents the 4° of Nazirutha and Noorah Light-Energy. With the Primal Man she makes up the Primal Pair. The same as Ozlat in the Mandaic pantheon. 

Prize Angel - Brings the prize of victory to departed pure souls. One of the Three Angels.

Robe Angel - Brings the robe of victory to departed pure souls.

Saklas – A king of darkness who form the psychic bodies of the first humans through the fires of evolution and in imitation of the image of the Envoy and maiden reflected on their subconscious veils. One of the Three Angels.

Sulushaluoi – See Column of Glory. 

Third Ambassador – See Third Envoy.

Third Envoy (Envoy, Third Ambassador, Third Messenger) - Represents internally the Pingala solar nadi, the male complementary nadi to Ida. A solar Deity. Represents the projected Animus manifest in the sun which the female archons fell in love with. The being who set in motion the pathways within the cosmos, started the wheels turning, inaugurated reincarnation, etc. 

Third Messenger – See Third Envoy.

Thought of Life (Enthymesis of Life, Obedience God) – The union of the Call and Answer God which represents lost pearl’s innate drive for redemption.

Three Angels - When Primal Man sends to one newly released from the body "a god of light in the form of the wise guide”, these three angels accompany him with wreath, robe and prize.

Twelve Hours -The auspicious, clean, and pure embodiments of Light, who appear in forms now of men and then of women, beautiful and unique, graceful and solemn beyond compare. 

Twelve Virgins of Light (Twelve Virgins) - personify twelve virtues and have a similar function to the Virgin of Light.

Virgin of Light (Angelic Maiden, Maiden of Light, Light Maiden, Goddess of Lightning) - Spouse of Third Envoy. Represents internally the lunar Ida nadi which carries feminine essence. A lunar or Lightning Goddess of whom both Miryai d-Magdala and Maryam (Virgin Mary or Maiden Mary) were emanations according to Yeshu. Maryam-Noorah, or Mary the Luminous, in polarity with Yeshu-Ziwa, or Jesus the Splendorous. Represents the projected Anima manifest in the moon which the male archons fell in love with. A Light judge in the Pistis Sophia codex. She figuratively fights against the demons of thunderstorms.

Wreath Angel – Brings the wreath of victory to departed pure souls. One of the Three Angels.

Yen-mo - Judge of the Dead, similar to the Hindu Yama. who has kind thoughts and consideration, and is really the compassionate thinking of Yeshu, the true and sincere Judge; the King of the Balance

Yeshu-Ziwa (Jesus the Splendor, Yeshu, Moon God) - The same as the Nazorean Yeshu and the Mandaean Hibil-Ziwa and oft called Manda d-Hiya in Mandaic literature. Represents the Animus and the awakening of Eve. The Animus is the personification of all masculine psychological tendencies within a woman, the archetypal masculine symbolism within a woman's unconscious. In the Sâhbuhragân he is called Xradišahr, god of the world of wisdom, or god of the nous. He emanates the Light Mind, through such sends out all Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Prophetesses, and apostles of truth.

Zurvan – See Father of Greatness.