The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
552 MANDAEAN LITERATURE darkness filled with light. On the day the light rises darkness will go to its cave. She came to clouds ...
MANDAEAN LITERATURE and the third and the fourth. When you go among them, they will shout the name of death, and chain and torme ...
554 MANDAEAN LITERATURE LOVING LIFE, PERFORMING GOOD DEEDS Loving life, I let Manda dHayye, the messenger of light, calm my inne ...
36. Hibil's Lament from the Book of John f • i I he gnostic text called Hibil's Lament is from the Mandaean Book I of John. The ...
556 MANDAEAN LITERATURE and feels compassion for those whom he must send on to the toll keepers to weigh and destroy: of the fri ...
MANDAEAN LITERATURE Will one of you release me from Abathur the high judge? How long must I walk with weights on my neck? How lo ...
(^558) MANDAEAN LITERATURE When will I stop waving my fists, killing, stomping on the bad and the liars? How soon will I give up ...
< MANDAEAN LITERATURE 559 I created white fruit into which souls are placed. From it they shoot out to sit on the scales. I c ...
56o MANDAEAN LITERATURE Whoever wishes a second death, but who is dead to light, his eye will see no light and his foot feel no ...
37. Songs from the Mandaean Liturgy i LHHI rom Mandaean liturgical texts, collected together under the rubric I Mandaean Liturg ...
(^562) MANDAEAN LITERATURE SONGS FROM THE MANDAEAN LITURGY 1 Song of the Poor Man A POOR MAN TAKEN FAR I am a poor man from the ...
MANDAEAN LITERATURE He told me in a pure voice as light beings speak in the house of perfection. He said, "Poor man, don't be al ...
564 MANDAEAN LITERATURE where the planets live. They sit on rebel thrones and work with a whip. Gold and silver excite them, and ...
MANDAEAN LITERATURE and found, again and again. My chosen ones, you looked and found as our ancestors looked. Life is victory. A ...
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INTRODUCTION PAUL MIRECKI anichaeism was one of the major world religions and the only such religion to align itself closely wit ...
570 MANICHAEAN LITERATURE the angel ordered him to begin his public ministry by openly preaching the newly revealed doctrine. Th ...
MANICHAEAN LITERATURE 571 of the former Manichaean Augustine of Hippo, and the works of the Arab au- thors al-Biruni and Ibn al- ...
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