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
In the name of the Great Life,
Sublime Light be magnified!
Stand by Me, be steadfast,
(Ye who) know Me
Stand by Me, be staunch,
My friends.
Stand by Me staunchly
(Ye who) know Me,
Like a stone column in storm-winds
Tempest may go, tempest may come;
(But), MY friends, change not
(The words of?) My mouth.
For men who stand firm will live,
(Whilst) those who turn away will meet their end,
Those who turn away will die
Those who remain staunch will find
Sure truth.
My brothers,
Speak truthfully, not with lying lips
Prevaricate.
Be not like a pomegranate
Which on its outer face is sound,
Outwardly sound is its surface,
But inside it is full of dry husks.
Be Like a wine-jar full of Azmiuz wine;
Its outside is clay and pitch
But inside it is Azmiuz wine.
The Voice of Life calleth
And the ears of the chosen hearken.
Extolled is Life and victorious
And victorious the man that goeth hence.
#156
By the bank of the great Jordan of the First Life,
A sublime Vine standeth erect.
Each and every day my prayer and praise
Riseth before it.
#157
To the mountains I say:
“How fragrant are your odours,
How delightful your perfume!
Within you all is full of brightness!”
They reply,
"The Being who passed through our midst
Hath no tangibility or substance,
No substance or tangibility hath He,
Nor is there any kind of need in Him.
The Being who passed amongst us,
Released some of his vivifying power amongst us.”
The wicked hold their power of reproduction
(To consist of) questions (?) and words.
But not in questions (?) and words can the vivifying power
Of Life be comprehended,
But in truth and belief
Which the Elect hold as their vital principle.
Every man who holdeth to his vital principle
And is steadfast therein, raiseth up life,
To support it (life).
(But on) one who did not grasp his vital principle
And did not stand firmly upon it,
From yonder they loose strife,
They loose strife from yonder
And he will become the portion of the world.
And Life is victorious.
# 158
O shoot which sprouted within the Tanna
O prayer and praise
Which came to us from the Place of Light!
#159
In the name of the Great Life
Sublime Light be magnified!
The departure of the sabbath
With its evening (marketh),
The entry of Sunday for good.
At the departure of the sabbath
With its night,
The Good One set forth and came into being
And he took his lofty throne
And placed in it that which he brought.
And he took his shepherd's pipe of Truth
That is filled with prayers and praise.
Once on a time, Good One,
I played thereon.
The door of the heavens opened!
A second time, Good One,
Did I hymn therewith
And all the wicked became good!
And a third time, Good One,
I hymned therewith.
All were stirred to consciousness
And they arose.
It said to them, "Rise up, come.
Ye sleepers who lie sleeping!
Arise, ye erring ones who have stumbled!
Is not my rule hard upon you?
And doth not my high lash fall heavy upon you?”
They say to him, "By thy life,
Our father'), Son of the Life,
Because of the radiance and light
Thou hast brought with thee
Thy rule is not hard on us.
Nor does thy high lash strike hardly upon us!
But as for the wicked,
The son of the wicked,
It entered his body
And felled him (to the ground)".
Once I cried to the evil one
"Keep aloof from my gnostic!"
I repeated, saying to him,
"Keep aloof from my friends!"
And a third time I spoke to him
To the wicked one, and I will not let him go free,
I will slay him utterly, the evil one,
And will cast him into world's end
Into world's end will I cast him
For I cried to him in his ear and he heard not,
In his ear I cried and he heard not.
I showed him, before his eyes, but he looked not.
I showed him, but he saw not with his eyes.
He will meet his end on the great Last Day.
As for us, who praise our Lord,
Thou wilt forgive us our sins and trespasses.
Life is renowned and victorious,
And victorious the man who went hence.
#160
It revealed itself, and set off and came,
The face of the day the name of which is holy
Secret mysteries were revealed to the 'uthras
Enlightenment was revealed, and praiseging
That was great and boundless
The 'uthras who were transported thereby
Rejoice in its wondrous radiance
From beginning to 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
