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 proclaims in the nights and says:
In the name of Him who is wondrous and all-surpassing! The Sun sat in his Court and the Moon sat in the Dragon. The Four Winds of the House get them gone on their wings
and blow not.
The Sun opened his mouth and spake unto Yahya: Thou hast three headbands and a crown which equals in worth the whole world. Thou hast a ship of Mashklil, which sails about here on the Jordan. Thou hast a great vessel, which sails about here twixt the Waters (above the firmament). If thou goest to the House of the Great One, remember us in the Great`s presence.
Thereupon Yahya opened his mouth and spake to the Sun in Jerusalem: Thou enquirest about the headbands, may the Perfect watch over thy Crown. This Mashklil-ship they have carpented together with glorious splendor. On the vessel that sails twixt the Waters, the seal of the King has been set. She who in thy house plays the wanton, goes hence and approaches the dung-house ; She seeks to have children from her own proper spouse and she does not find them. If she then has fulfilled her vow, and she depart, she is unworthy of the House of the Life and will not be allotted to the Light Dwelling.
And Praised be Life.
Mandaean John-Book by G.R.S. Mead pages 42 - 43
