Mandaean Qolasta — Prayer Selections

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 Qolasta — Prayer Selections

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

Selections from the canonical prayers of the Mandaeans, used in the rites of the soul.

In the name of the Great Life,

may the soul be set free and ascend.

I go toward my likeness,

and my likeness comes toward me;

it embraces me and draws me near,

as if I had come out of captivity.

The soul speaks: I go to behold the light; I go to the place where the sun does not set, and the lamps do not grow dim. The good ones receive me, and lead me to the dwelling of the great first Life, the place of which there is no end. [Text missing]

[Fragment breaks here.]