Miryai Saga
Miryai is Expelled from Jewry
A Variant of the Above from the Oxford Manuscript
The Exiled Community Settle on the Euphrates
The Jews Persecute the Mandaeans
They Beg Then to Return
Yahi-Yohanna Saga
Portents of John`s Birth
John`s Proclamation concerning himself
and his assumption of the Prophet's mantle
John`s Light-Ship
John the Ascetic
Of Judgement Day
The Letter of Truth
John`s Invulnerability
John and the Baptism of Jesus
John's Marriage
John on His own Passing
John's Birth , Uprising, and First Appearance
John's Answer to Jesus Concerning the Angel of Death
Fisher Saga
The Fisher of Souls Saga
The Light Ship of the Fisher
The Good Fisher Rejects the Overtures
of the Evil Ones and Overwhelms Them
The Final Submission of the Evil Fishers
Good Shepherd Prayers
THE LOVING SHEPHERDS
OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
THE GOOD SHEPHERD
Odds and Ends
The Song of the Poor's Exhaltation
Exhortations
In the Beginning
The Treasury of Life
Yahya peoclaims in the nights and says:
Through my Father`s discourses I give light and through the
praise of the Man, my creator. I have freed my soul from
the world and from the works that are hateful and wrong.
The Seven (rulers/planitary spirits) put question to me the Dead who have not seen Life, and they said unto me;
"In whose strenght dost thou stand there, and with whose
praise dost thou make proclamation?"
Thereupon gave to them answer:
"I stand in the strenght of my Father and with the praise of
the Man, my creator. I have built no house in Judea,
I have set up no throne in Jerusalem. I have not loved the
wreath of the roses, not commerce with lovely women.
I have not loved the defective (deficiency) , not loved
the cup of the drunkards. I have loved no food of the body,
and envy has found no place in me. I have not forgotten
my night-prayer, not forgotten the wondrous Jordan.
I have not forgotten my baptizing, not forgotten my pure sign.
I have not forgotten Sun-day, and the Day`s evening has not
condemned me. I have not forgotten Shilmai and Nidbai,
who dwell in the House of the Mighty. They clear me and let me ascend; they know no fault, no defect in me."
When Yahya said this, Life rejoiced over him greatly.
The Seven sent him their greeting and the Twelve made obeisance before him.
They said to him:
"Of all these words which thou hast spoken,
thou hast not said a single one falsely. Delightful and fair is thy voice and none is equal to thee. Fair is thy discourse in thy mouth and precious is thy speech, which has been bestowed upon thee.
The vesture which First Life did give unto Adam, the Man, the vesture which First Life did give unto Râm, the Man, the vesture which First Life did give unto Shurbai, the Man, the vesture First Life did give unto Shum Bar Nû (Shem,son of Noah) has He given now unto thee. He hath given it thee, O Yahya, that thou mayest ascend, and with thee may those descend * * * * * * *
The house of the defect (thy body) will be left behind in the desert.
Everyone who shall be found sinless, will ascend unto thee,
in the Region of Light,; he who is not found sinless,
will be called to account in the guard-houses.
Mandaean John-Book by G.R.S. Mead pages 40 -42
