- published: 18 Jan 2010
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Mandaeism or Mandaeanism (Modern Mandaic: Mandaʻiūtā (מנדעיותא); Arabic: مندائية Mandāʼīyah/Mandāʾiyyah; Persian: مندائیان Mandâ'iyân) is a gnostic religion[citation needed] (Aramaic manda means "knowledge", as does Greek gnosis) with a strongly dualistic worldview.
Its adherents, the Mandaeans, revere Adam, Abel, Seth, Enosh, Noah, Shem, Aram and especially John the Baptist, but reject Jesus of Nazareth and are hostile to Christianity. They are sometimes identified with mentions in the Quran of the Sabian religion, particularly in an Arabian context, but the Sabian religious community is extinct today.
According to most scholars, Mandaeans migrated from the Southern Levant to Mesopotamia in the first centuries CE and are certainly of pre-Arab and pre-Islamic origin. They are Semites and speak a dialect of Eastern Aramaic known as Mandaic. They may well be related to the "Nabateans of Iraq" who were pagan, Aramaic speaking indigenous pre-Arab and pre-Islamic inhabitants of southern Iraq.
It's not my desire, it's not my choice
It's not intentional, I'm hypnotized by your voice
The same old thing but always new
It's unbelievable how strongly I feel for, towards you
It's more like magnetism than anything else
I can't fight, I'm pulled against my will
It was not my decision, if you couldn't tell
It's more like magnetism, I can't even control myself
Cannot keep away, I feel the tension grow
It's getting stronger now, it's getting stronger now
It's getting stronger now, you're all I see
You have so much power over me
It's more like magnetism than anything else
I can't fight, I'm pulled against my will
Oh, it was not my decision, if you couldn't tell
It's more like magnetism, can't even control myself, myself
It's more like magnetism between you and me
I can't fight, I'm pulled against my will, yeah
My appetite to coincide with you grows stronger every night
And I can't fight magnetism, you know I can't even control myself