- LXVI.
- In the name of life.
- I lie there wrapped
- In a garment, in which there is no flaw.
- In a garment, in which there is no defect,
- there is no lack and defect in it.
- The life knew about me,
- Adam, who lay there, woke up.
- He seized me by the palm of the right hand
- and gave me not...in my hand.
- They cast light into the darkness,
- and the darkness filled with light.
- On the day when the light rises,
- the darkness will return to its place.
- The souls of this ascension shall approach the cloud of light,
- to the place of light be their path.
- And praised be the life.
Commentary
- This is a hymn for the ascension.
Mandaic transcription
- b-šuma ḏ-hiia
- mkalalna u-šakibna
- b-ˁuṣṭla ḏ-muma lit-bẖ
- b-ˁuṣṭla ḏ-lit-bẖ muma
- u-laiit b-gauẖ hasir u-bṣir
- hiia ˁdun ˁlai
- adam ḏ-šakib ˁtar
- ligṭan b-pras iamina
- u-la-ˁhablia baiin b-iad
- nhura rman b-hšuka
- u-hšuka ba-nhura ˁtimlia
- iuma ḏ-nhura saliq
- nitkamar hšuka l-atrẖ
- nitqarba nišmata ḏ-haza
- masiqta luat anana ḏ-nhura
- u-l-atra ḏ-hiia mizlin
- masiqta luat anana ḏ-nhura
- u-mšabin hiia
- s_____a
- draša ḏ-masiqta hˁ
- s_____a
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