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.
"(The heavenly) wheels and chariots quaked. Sun and Moon weep, and the eyes of Ruha shed tears."
He says:
"Yahya, thou art like to a scorched mountain, which brings forth no grapes in this world. Thou art like to a dried-up stream, on whose banks no plants are raised. Thou hast become a, land without a lord, a house without worth. A false prophet hast thou become, who hast left no one to remember thy name. Who will provide thee with provision, who with victuals, and who will follow to the grave after thee? "
When Yahya heard this, a tear gathered in his eye; a tear in his eye gathered, and he spake:
"It would be pleasant to take a wife, and delightful for me to have children. But only if I take no woman, --and then comes sleep, desire for her seizes me and I neglect my night-prayer. If only desire does not wake in me, and I forget my Lord out of my mind. If only desire does not wake in me, and I neglect my prayer every time."
When Yahya said this, there came a Letter from the House of Abathur:
"Yahya take a wife and found a family, and see that thou dost not let this world come to an end. On the night of Monday and on the night of Tuesday go to thy first bedding. On the night of Wednesday and on the night of Thursday devote thyself to thy hallowed praying. On the night of Friday and on the night of Saturday go to thy first bedding. On the night of Sunday and (? yea) on the night of the Day devote thyself to thy hallowed praying. On Sunday take three and leave three, take three and leave three.' See that thou dost not let the world come to an end."
Thereon they fashioned far Yahya a wife out of thee, thou Region of the Faithful. From the first conception were Handan and Sharrath born. From the middle conception were Birham and R'himath-Haiye born. From the last conception were Nsab, Sam, Anhar-Ziwa. <and Sharrath> born. These three conceptions took place in thee, thou Ruins, Jerusalem.
Yahya opened his mouth and spake to Anhar in Jerusalem:
"Instruct thy daughter that she may not perish; and I will enlighten my sons and teach [them], that they may not be hindered."
Thereon Anhar opened her mouth and spake to Yahya in Jerusalem.
" I have borne sons in this world," said she to him, " yet have I not given birth to [theirl heart in the world. I they let themselves be instructed, then will they ascend to Light's region; if they let not themselves be instructed, then will the blazing fire consume them."
Mandaean John-Book by G.R.S. Mead pages 52 - 54
