SYNOD OF SIDE
Synod/Council of Side, in Pamphylia – Messalians (390 AD)
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/7224/Rick/chron41.htm, Church History Timeline: The Fourth Century: Part 2:
390 At the Synod of Side in Pamphylia, the Messalian heresy was condemned (they were then called Adelphians). The Messalians believed that Satan was Christ’s elder brother. On account of his pride, he had rebelled against the Father and created the material world, which they considered wicked. Each person’s soul was held to be inhabited by a demon, which the Messalians sought to eject in the form of mucous or saliva through prayer. The only prayer they said, however, was the Our Father. Those who succeeded in expelling the demon could be unified with the Holy Spirit and behold God. When they had reached this state, sin was impossible for them: Messalians had a reputation for licentious behavior. They refused to reverence the cross or the Virgin Mary, since the cross was the instrument of Jesus’s death, and Mary was simply the mother of a human, Jesus, whom the Holy Spirit later inhabited. Effectively, Jesus was reduced to a teacher or example. Epiphanios (Ephanius) reported that if a Messalian were asked, “Are you a Patriach? Prophet? Angel? Jesus Christ?” he would always respond with “Yes.” Messalians were also known as Euchetes (praying people) or Enthusiasts.
http://books.google.com/books?id=d1LGB7u5iD0C&pg=PP1&dq=%22The+Medieval+Manichee&sig=1r2xyWwxcwpVMtgkjXSe7r7hfKM#PPA23,M1, The Medieval Manichee: A Study of the Christian Dualist Heresy – Google Books Result, by Steven Runciman, 1982, p. 23, “The Gnostic Background”:
“Primitive” here means “closer to Christ’s era.”