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

THE CANONICAL PRAYERBOOK OF THE MANDAEANS

RAHMIA

Prayer  106 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

Prayers 137-142

WENESDAY

The following three hymns and three chants are for the fourth day of the week

# 137 In the name of the Great Life Sublime Light be magnified! There was a Cry in the firmament And thunder sounded in the House of Stars. Ruha and the planets sit in lamentation, They sit in lamentation over a man Who sprang up from the Earth About a man who sprang up from the Earth And rent a fissure in the House, A fissure he rent in the House And into it he cast dispute. A dispute he cast into it, Not to be resolved for an age of ages; (Not) until Manda-d-Hiia cometh Bringing with him three chosen ones, Bringing three chosen ones with him And lifting them up to the everlasting Abode, To the place which is light-giving and effulgent. Summoned and invited (thither) are your souls, And the souls of our good brothers And those of our sisters who are believing. Thou art victorious, Manda-d-Hiia, Good One, who establisheth his friends! And Life is victorious. #138 The voice of a hidden Sprout It spoke and discoursed from the Earth, From the Earth it spoke and discoursed. The Great Life, from the Occult, answered it, From the Occult the Great Life gave it reply. And It transferred thither and sent a Messenger. The Messenger (whom) It transferred and sent Subdueth the might of rebels. # 139 I ascended the mountain Carmel, Thee I ascended, Mountain, Mount Carmel! The mountain of Carmel I ascended. Twelve vines  awaited me. The vines saw me, the Vines beheld me. When they saw me, the vines waxed great, They spread out their foliage. They increased, spread out their foliage, Increased their fruit and their blossom. (Yet) they knew me not, did not discern me, Nor did they take heed of me. They knew me not, did not discern who I was, Nor whose son I was The man who saw me and discerned me, His course is set for the Place of Life! Thou art victorious, Manda-d-Hiia And leadest all thy friends to victory. #140 Between mountains twain, And between three škintas, Between mountains twain Yawar, the Chosen One, founded a škinta A škinta did Yawar found, And chosen righteous were established therein, Therein were the chosen righteous established And they arise and behold the Place of Light. # 141 Who will come, who will tell me, Who will inform me, who will teach me, Who will come and who will tell me What 'uthras are like, what 'uthras resemble, And what do rays-of-light resemble? 'Uthras resemble Radiance, "Rays" resemble Light. 'Uthras pledge their word And do not lie. The planets lie They come to an end On the Great Last Day. Life is extolled, and victorious And victorious is the man Who went hence. #142 The advent of Hibil-'Uthra Like Sitil, he goeth to the house of his friends, Priests who hearkened to the voice of Anuš the great They worship and praise the Great Life From the beginning unto the end.

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