Mark Lidzbarski

“ For the day of death I brought you life, for the dull day joy. I brought you gentleness, where the tumult of the nations is not. This, this you brought, good one; what did you bring to the true man? I made him my treasurer and appointed him over all that I have. Sayings of the Kuštā I gave him, by which he comes in and goes out, like a man who has achieved his will. You have sought and found, my chosen ones, again you will seek and find. You have sought and found, my chosen ones, as the former ones sought.
And life is victorious. ”

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“ They are baptized with the baptism of the great Bihrām. Let their souls be bound with the bonds of righteousness, with the bonds of truth, with the bonds of Z'hīr, the great light of life. And blessed be the life. Mandaic transcription b-šuma ḏ-hiia ˁsira u-htima halin nišmata ḏ-nhit l-iardna u-ˁṣṭba b-šumaihun ḏ-hiia rbia ṣbˁia b-maṣbuta ḏ-bihram rba ˁsira napšaihun basaria zidqa u-basaria kušṭa u-basaria zhir nhura rba ḏ-hiia u-mšabin hiia s_____a
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