Background information
from Drower
Various sections
of the Canonical Prayerbook
Copyists
BOOK OF SOULS Prayers 1-31
MASIQTA Prayers 32-72
The Letter ('ngirta) Prayer 73
COLOPHON #74
HYMNS OF PRAISE Prayers 75-77
The Responses ('niania) Prayers 78-103
The Rusma (Daily Ablution Prayers)--Prayer 104
ASIET MALKIA Prayer 105
Rahmia (Daily Devotional Prayers)--Prayers 106-168
Colophon 169
Tab Taba Ltabia (the full Commemoration prayer forthe dead and living--Prayer 170
Hymns of Praise--Prayers 171-172
Sumhata (The Names)--Prayers 173-176
Little New Year's Feast Prayer--Prayer 177
Prayers for honoring the crown--Prayer 178
Hymns of marriage and a new priest (including the series Kt Azil Bhira Dakia-- Prayer 179-198
Colophon 199
Prayers 200-283
Colophon 284
Prayers 285-304
Coronation Prayers and hymns (including two for myrtle)-- Prayers 305-328
Colophon 329
BANNER HYMNS Prayers 330- 347
Blessed Oblation Prayers and Hymns--Prayers 348- 374
Blessings on the chief celebrant after Blessed Oblation-- Prayers 375-381
Myrtle prayers and hymns--Prayers 382-385
Various prayers 386-409
Prayer of Yahia--Prayer 410
Odd hymns--411- 412
OF THE MANDAEANS
Prayers 107 - 108
Prayer 109
Prayers 110 - 112
Prayers 113 - 116
Prayer 117
Prayer 118
Prayers 119 - 124
Prayers 125 - 130
Prayers 131 - 136
Prayers 137 - 142
Prayers 143 - 148
Prayers 149 - 154
Prayers 155 - 160
Prayers 161 - 162
Prayers 163 - 164
Prayers 165 - 168
# 131
In the name of the Great Life
Sublime Light be magnified!
"Thou camest from the House of Life;
Thou camest - what didst Thou bring us?"
"I brought you that ye shall not die:
That your souls shall not be pent back.
I brought you on the day of death, Life;
On the day of affliction, Joy.
I brought you a serenity
That existeth not in the unrest of nations"
"This, this hast Thou brought, Good One!
To the true man what hast Thou brought!"
"I have made him My treasurer,
Made him ruler over all that I have.
I have given him precepts of right-dealing
By which he entereth and departeth
As a man who hath realised his desire.
Chosen ones! ye have asked and have found;
Furthermore, my chosen, ye shall seek and find
Just as the first (believers?) sought".
And Life is victorious
#132
Come, come, King of 'uthras,
Lofty Messenger, who came from His Father's House.
Come! receive my prayer and my praise
And lift it up in peace to the Place of Light!
#133
Thou camest from the House of Good Beings.
(0) would that Thou hadst not come into corruption
Into the evil and falsity of this world!
Would that Thou hadst not come into corruption
And hadst not been seen by my eyes!
"If verily I came, if verily I appeared,
Thine eyes are eyes of falsehood
Whilst my eyes are eyes of truth.
Lying eyes are darkened utterly.
Eyes of falsity behold not the Truth!
If thou wishest to see, Ruha,
Go to the house of him who knoweth Me,
Those who know me, for I dwell amongst them
In the hearts of my friends
And the thoughts of my disciples".
And Life is victorious.
#134
Come, come, King of 'Uthras,
Lofty Messenger for whom my eyes look!
Hearken, hear my cry
And lift up my prayers and my praise
To the Place of Light.
# 135
Fragrance came from its place,
Truth came from its Home,
Fragrance came from its place,
It came and settled in the House
It crieth and maketh the dead live,
It arouseth those who who are dying
And lying prone.
It awaketh souls who are fit for and worthy
Of the Place of Light.
This, this is what the Good One did,
And set up that which liveth, His Sign.”
The planets assembled, they went.
They confronted him that ruled them,
Saying to him,:
"Hast thou not seen, Alaha-Alihun (God of gods),
That a Fragrance hath come from its place,
A fragrance from its place hath come?
The (And that) Mana hath moved from its place?
It calleth and maketh the dead live,
And rouseth the dead and the sleeping;
It awaketh souls who are fit for and worthy
Of the Place of Light.
This, this hath the Good One done,
And hath set up that which liveth, His Sign".
Alaha-Alihun opened his mouth,
Saying to his sons, his first-born:
"Come, come, my children,
My first-born and my offspring!
Listen to the thing which I say unto you!
If ye find a righteous man,
Bow yourselves low before him,
One bow for himself, and the second
For the I;ragrance of Life which resteth upon him"
Behold, Life is victorious!
Life triumpheth over this world.
#136
Come, come, Manda-d-Hiia!
The Mount of Darkness becometh light,
It groweth light, the mount of Darkness,
And the turbid waters become fresh
Background information
from Drower
Various sections
of the Canonical Prayerbook
Copyists
BOOK OF SOULS Prayers 1-31
MASIQTA Prayers 32-72
The Letter ('ngirta) Prayer 73
COLOPHON #74
HYMNS OF PRAISE Prayers 75-77
The Responses ('niania) Prayers 78-103
The Rusma (Daily Ablution Prayers)--Prayer 104
ASIET MALKIA Prayer 105
Rahmia (Daily Devotional Prayers)--Prayers 106-168
Colophon 169
Tab Taba Ltabia (the full Commemoration prayer forthe dead and living--Prayer 170
Hymns of Praise--Prayers 171-172
Sumhata (The Names)--Prayers 173-176
Little New Year's Feast Prayer--Prayer 177
Prayers for honoring the crown--Prayer 178
Hymns of marriage and a new priest (including the series Kt Azil Bhira Dakia-- Prayer 179-198
Colophon 199
Prayers 200-283
Colophon 284
Prayers 285-304
Coronation Prayers and hymns (including two for myrtle)-- Prayers 305-328
Colophon 329
BANNER HYMNS Prayers 330- 347
Blessed Oblation Prayers and Hymns--Prayers 348- 374
Blessings on the chief celebrant after Blessed Oblation-- Prayers 375-381
Myrtle prayers and hymns--Prayers 382-385
Various prayers 386-409
Prayer of Yahia--Prayer 410
Odd hymns--411- 412
