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 143-148

THURSDAY

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

# 143 In the name of the Great Life Sublime Light be glorified. In the glory of my Father I stand, And with praise of the Being who is my Creator In the glory of my Father I stand And am upright in the House of Perfection. At my voice the earth trembled; At my radiance the heavens were shaken, The seas dry up, Flowing Streams fall into barren wastes. Destroyed, rent asunder are fortresses And earthly men of might are quelled. Mountains, however lofty, Like bridges are laid flat. As for the wicked, who rise up against me, There is a Being who will hew them down, Not with my strength but in the strength of the mighty Life. And Life is victorious and victorious the man Who went hence. # I44 By my pure radiance am I protected; And the 'uthras, my brothers, are covered with light. Throub·I1 the vigilance and praisegiving of the 'uthras, My brothers, the glory of Life cometh and resteth upon me. # I45 When the Mighty (Life) speaketh In the Great Place, the House of Perfection The Great and Mighty One transporteth (or createth) Šilmai and Nidbai: It transported Šilmai and Nidbai And gave them to Nsab-Ziwa as his helpers. When Nsab-Ziwa had reliance on the 'uthras, The perfect beings whom They had sent down, He spoke with his calm voice And the chosen go out towards him Towards him go out the chosen. And he giveth them some of his glory Some of his glory he bestoweth on them, And the chosen on earth are confirmed The elect righteous are confirmed They rise up and behold the Place of Light. Extolled is Life victorious, And victorious is the man who went hence. #146 I am preserved by my pure radiance Like the Mighty One in His Glory. My raiment shone forth in the House And my prayer and praise rise upward to His Place # I47 Miserable am I! When shall I go (hence?) (When wiill) my aching heart find relief? My heart that aches (when wiill it) find relief? And my soul, that they made an alien, Find its vent? In the place where they are much questioned The glory of Life will rest on me. And it will rest upon my priests and (those) Whom the Seven persecute in this world. (Yea) the Seven persecute sorely! The worlds which persecute and wrong, The Seven, they and their king, Are bound for conflagmtions of fire. (But) the good, the elect, the just And the perfect rise And behold the Place of Light. Life is extolled, victorious, And victorious is the man who went hence. #148 "I am poor and submissive, An elect righteous one. Listen, hearken to my cry!” "Thou, poor one, with thy children, Thine offspring and thy priest, Shalt rise and thou wilt behold The Place of Light".

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