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The Esoteric Gnosis Library

The G. R. S. Mead Collection


Gnostic John the Baptizer:

Selections from the Mandæan John-Book

by G. R. S. Mead

[1924]


Title Page
 
Contents
 
Foreward
 
I. John the Baptist and Christian Origins
 
II. From the John-Book of the Mandæans - Introduction
   i. The Gnostic John the Baptizer
   ii. The Story of the Breach with Judaism
   iii. Some Typical Extracts
 
III. The Slavonic Josepus' Account of the Baptist and Jesus
 
IV. The Fourth Gospel Proem
 
Afterword
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