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The garden between records

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01storyEzekiel · The chariot vision02researchAncient Text Research Kit03storyAt the threshold of Kesh · The temple hymn’s conclusion04storyA Vessel on a White Lotus · Amoghapāśa05storySamuel · The source of the voice06storySpeech that went unheard · Vāk and understanding07storyWind, Dust and the Body · An Incantation of Ningirim08storyMoses · Fire in the bush09storyElijah · After the fire10storyA Voice from the Depths · Jonah11storyJacob · The place he did not know12storyThe empty space · A wheel, a vessel and a room13storyJacob · Tell me your name14storyKena · That through which15storyThe yaksha · Power that is not enough16storyWho knows the beginning · The hymn of origins17storyThe Waters of Nun · Book of the Dead18storyZhuang Zhou · The butterfly dream19storyForm and Emptiness · Heart Sūtra20storyThe Kālāmas · When you know for yourselves21storyThe ending of hostility · Pairs22storyThe cessation of suffering · What can change23storyDiscern and choose · Thought, word and deed24storyMusa · Where the two seas meet25storyThe Plant That Could Not Be Kept · Gilgamesh26storyAfter the Flood · Gilgamesh and Genesis27storyNachiketas · The third boon28storyThe unborn · The body and its dweller29storyA Weapon That Can Be Recalled · Mahābhārata30storyThe Stayed Hand · Abraham and Isaac31storyJob · Before explaining32publicationSuffering is not a required course.33storyAn explanation is not pain relief.34storyWhat Shall I Bring? · Micah and Hosea35storyWho sinned? · A question on the road36storyTo follow · To save and to lose37storyLife within me · No longer I38storyThe transfiguration · A voice from the cloud39storyAre you Elijah? · Three Gospel testimonies40storyWords on the Gates · Deuteronomy41storyElijah and Elisha · On the other side of the Jordan42storyThe seven seals · Who can stand?43storyThe image of the beast · Breath and a name44storyThe river and tree after the end · After the visions of judgment45storyAt the foot of Sumeru · Four mountains46storyMani · The name Maitreya47storyWait here for Maitreya · A dialogue48storyBuddha Mani · The Moon God49storyA place by the water · The garden between records

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Wait here for Maitreya · A dialogue

M42 · Parthian hymn · R I 1 — V II 26

1[Damaged beginning; these lines have not yet been deciphered.] ⟨R I 1: [ 7-8 ](.)yyšn⟩ ⟨R I 2: [ 4-5 ](ẖ) rngs pd⟩ ⟨R I 3: [.. r](w)šnʾn brhm⟩ From amazement(?) the four regions of the world tremble. And you, beloved, endure here for the souls that [are to receive] salvation through you.

2Love and service are plainly shown: you, god, have shown them to me again and again. But I grieve over one thing: you have ascended, and I am left an orphan.

3Leader of warriors, youth, remember the Father—the god Ohrmizd, who rose out of darkness. He too left children in the depths for the great improvement [of their lot](?).

4I address a request to you, loving teacher: if this time you cannot [come] soon, send many gods so that I may gain release from those who do harm.

5I gave a command to the Great Manwahmed to send you messengers in due time. And show your long patience in the mystery of the fruitful lights(?).

6He endured the world and sufferings(?) for me. Zarathustra descended into the lands of Persia; he showed the truth and chose my members from the seven bright regions(?).

7When Satan learned of this descent, he sent spirits of wrath, strong beyond measure. You, beloved, were harmed by their deeds and perverted wisdom.

8At that time suffering left me: Buddha Shakyamuni heard me. He opened the door of liberation to the fortunate souls whom he delivered among the Indians.

9Because of the skilful means and wisdom you received from the Buddha, ⟨dybt⟩ envied you. ⟨qnyyg qlʾn⟩ [“great maiden”; whom this designation refers to has not been established.] When he entered nirvana, he commanded you: “Wait here for Maitreya.”

10Then Jesus showed compassion a second time. He brought the four pure winds to my aid. Bound [me(?)] to three winds, cast into Jerusalem and the dwellings of wrath(?).

11The cup of poison and death was poured upon you, youth, [in their] wickedness, by Iscariot and the children of Israel. And much more suffering took place […].

12[Two lines are lost; further damage follows.] […] help […] ⟨pdycyhr wyd(n)[g 6–7]⟩ […] glorious messengers […] ⟨rngs⟩. You have two armies that fight within me, innumerable(?).

13Great is [your] power on the battlefield; [you] are like the god Ohrmizd, and your collection of treasures(?) is like a chariot of the luminous ones. And this Living Soul, which is in flesh and wood, you are able to deliver from Az.

14All three gods helped [me] in this suffering. They sent me the saviour, Lord Mani, so that I might rise from the bondage in which I was oppressed by enemies against my will, in fear.

15I gave you freedom, my companion, from […]. [The surviving text ends here.]

Reading notes

In the dialogue, a plea for deliverance gives way to reminders of earlier help. Zarathustra, Shakyamuni, Jesus and Mani are named in the hymn itself.

The promised release concerns the Living Soul present in flesh and plants. Salvation here extends beyond the fate of one human being.

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