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 speaks;
"Is there any one greater than I? They measure my works ; my wage is assayed and my crown, and my praise brings me on high in peace."* * * * *
Yaqif leaves the house of the people, Beni-Amin leaves the temple, Elizar, the great house, leaves the dome of the priests. The priests spake unto Yahyã in Jerusalem:
"Yahya , go forth from our city! Before thy voice quaked the house of the people, at the sound of thy proclamations the temple did quake, at the sound of thy discourse quaked the priests dome"
Thereon Yahya answered the priests of Jerusalem:
" Bring fire and burn me, bring sword and hew me in pieces."
But the priests in Jerusalem answered to Yahya :
" Fire does not burn thee, O Yahya , for Life's Name has been uttered o`er thee. A sword does not hew thee in pieces, O Yahya , for Life's Son rests here upon thee"
And Life is Victorious.
Mandaean John-Book by G.R.S. Mead pages 48
