Yochanan's Treasure

CHAPTER 35

After Yeshua helps restore of the sight of the only daughter of an Egyptian merchant, in appreciation, the man offers him a small house to live in with his family while they are in Memphis. Yochanan seeks out a sect of Egyptian priests that he knows are interested in the use of crystals for their rituals and, with the help of Yeshua’s translation skills, is able to sell the crystals that he had gathered in the desert about Gimron for a tidy sum of money. Yeshua explains to Yochanan how he can benefit from the crystal of rainbow light.

 1 Babuaten was so overcome with happiness that he could not speak for many minutes and cried greatly with exceeding joy, and his wife did also.

 2 At last, he came unto Yeshua and said, “You have given me back my most precious treasure. Therefore, anything I have I would give to you. What do you desire?”

 3 And Yeshua said, “I have only showed you the path to the one true God and the miracles that you can accomplish with your own love and faith. As to my family, I must remain in Memphis for some time, and we seek a house wherein we may abide and where I can do my work in carpentry.”

 4 Babuaten answered joyously, “I have a house upon the far reaches of the southern part of the city that is near a well and has even now just become empty. It has only three rooms, but they are large and you may stay there as my guest for as long as you are in Memphis.”

 5 Yeshua thanked Babuaten for his kindness and accepted his offer to abide in the house to which he directed. Shortly thereafter, with many heartfelt thanks for Babuaten and his family, Yeshua and his family bid them good-bye, with a promise to return.

 6 A short time after they had deposited their belonging in the house at Memphis that Babuaten had offered them, Yochanan desired to journey back into the city to seek out a certain sect of priests who were familiar with the use of rare crystals of the Earth and used them in their rituals. And he asked Yeshua to travel with him that he might speak to the Egyptians.

 7 Thus, it was that after some inquiry among the people and visits to other temples, they came to a particular temple where they had been told dwelt the priest of the crystals. And they went in and found the priests that Yochanan sought.

 8 When Yochanan revealed his treasures, those that he had kept hidden, the priests were delighted to see the clear crystals of rainbow light, which he possessed, especially those with two opposite points, one larger than the other; those with ghosts; and those with spots of blood and silver frozen inside.

 9 Though Yochanan had but two small sacks full, they gave him gold of twice the weight of every crystal that he gave them, and for some, they gave triple their weight in gold. And they pleaded with him to return with more, for to them, the rare natural crystals were more valuable than gold or diamonds or rubies or emeralds.

 10 As they returned to their home, Yeshua said, “How is it that you obtained the rainbow crystals or knew that these priests of the Egyptians would desire them when those at other temples did not?”

 11 Yochanan chuckled and answered, “When I was a youth living in Gimron, an Egyptian priest came into the community. He stayed with us for three days and showed us some strange crystals, even those such as I delivered today to these priests that he was seeking. He said that if ever we were to find any crystals such as these, that his sect, which was in Memphis, would pay for them in gold.

 12 In my wanderings after you had departed, I often journeyed far from the community. One day when I was in the wilderness, I came upon an area with many small holes in the rock ground. When I looked inside the holes, there were crystals all covered with dirt. I took all that I could easily reach.

 13 Some days later, when I washed them with water and removed a dirt most difficult to get off, I saw that they were different than others I had seen, and I remembered the words of the Egyptian priest and kept them. When I came upon this journey with you, I knew I must take these crystals at some point to the priests at Memphis.”

 14 Yochanan had not sold all of his crystals to the Egyptians, and he placed one of the two rainbow crystals that he had retained in the hand of Yeshua and said, “I know not what use the Egyptians have for these stones, but they are pretty. I will keep one and give the other to you. Perhaps, you would like to give it to Miriam as a gift.”

 15 “Thank you, my brother,” Yeshua replied. “You should know that the gift you give has more value than you think or even than the Egyptians understand. Nor is it because it is rare, for it is more common upon the Earth than men realize.

 16 Look then into the rainbow light when the Sun is upon it after you have fasted for a day and hold the pure love of God within your heart with malice toward no man. Then call upon Elohim that you might understand that which is beyond your knowing. And the rainbow light will be about you, and you will be within it; and your spirit shall leave your body upon the Earth and commune with God amongst all that is.

 17 Verily, the rainbow crystals have no power unto their own, but they can help the Children of Light to find the peace and power of God within their heart, mind, and soul.”

 18 Yochanan was amazed by Yeshua’s explanation of the uses of the rainbow crystals, and he said, “Had I known their worth, I would not have parted with them.”

 19 And Yeshua replied, “You have all that you need, my brother, and whatsoever you have need of in the days to come, Elohim will provide when you seek for a righteous purpose, with a true love and faith.”

 20 When they returned to their house, they greeted Miriam, and Yeshua showed her the rainbow crystal, which Yochanan had given to him. Miriam looked at Yochanan and gave a mischievous smile and pulled from her wrappings a golden string that hung about her neck. Upon the string, held in a gold wire, was a clear rainbow crystal just like the crystals of Yochanan.

 21 And she said, “This was a present from Yeshua upon the day that we were married. It is most sacred to me and I do not show it to others, but I look upon it often, for it helps move my spirit to commune with the life of all the Earth and all the heavens.

 22 And in that moment, I am so close to God and at peace with my soul and all the world, and I know with a certainty that I am a daughter of the most high God and far more than this mortal body.”

 23 Then Yeshua returned to Yochanan the rainbow crystal, which he had given unto him, and said, “Thank you greatly for your generosity, but keep this crystal that you may give it to your wife soon to be, that she may have a portal to leave the world and commune with God. And keep the other that you may also have this portal to open the heavens in your times of need.”

 24 Yochanan protested weakly, saying, “But what of you, my brother? Shall I and my wife to be and Miriam, all have such a treasure and you have not?”

 25 And Yeshua said, “The rainbow light surrounds me in my every breath, and the spirit of God communes with me in my every thought. Therefore, I have no need for that which already is in my soul.”