Mandaean Protective Prayer Witnesses

Layer

Wider Ancient Witness Archive

Collection

4.5 Mandaean, Manichaean, and Late Antique Comparative Prayer Witnesses

Classification

Late-antique comparative witness

Relationship to Scripture

Background / comparative · not Scripture

This text is included as a comparative, historical, philosophical, ritual, textual, or fragmentary witness. It is not presented as part of the Restored Bible.

Mandaean Protective Prayer Witnesses

[Archive witness: a comparative late-antique text, preserved as historical evidence, not as doctrine or scripture.]

Prayers seeking the guarding of the soul on its way past the watch-houses of the lower worlds.

Guard me, O Great Life, from the keepers of the watch-houses, from the powers of darkness, and from all who would seize the soul on its ascent. Let your light go before me, and your messengers guard me, until I come to the place of light. [Text missing]

[Fragment breaks here.]