May healing, victory and forgiveness of sins be granted to me, N, my wife, N, my father, N, my mother, N, and my children, N, N.

Further, may forgiveness of sins be granted to all priests and Mandaeans who seek instruction in these books.

In the Name of the great, unseen God from the worlds of light, the exalted, who stands above all works.

This is the mystery and the book of the radiance that blazes in the Offering, which shone in its own radiance and was great in its light. That first spirit dwelt, worked and abode in it. It believed in the spirit that dwelt in it, it believed in the radiance and the light that was in it, whose name is Sarhabel. Radiance came forth from the Offering, light spread over the Offering and came forth from it. He called himself Offspring, Radiance and Light, whose radiance, whose light blazes of itself. The furnace glowed, the furnace melted in which he was. As he blazed over the furnace, the offerings came into being, the fellowship came into being that is without interruption. The fellowship with the Living One came into being; the Living God took His seat, the Living God stood over the springs of the water that poured out from it. His Throne was over the water. The name of the living teaching took its place in their radiance, with which he clothed himself and by which he was made firm, as well as the name of the radiance and of the light that blazes in it. The truth was from of old, it was created at the very beginning. The Living God, who is from Himself eternal, was in His own glory.

The Living God devised within Himself, in His own handiwork, in the hidden, to create a servant and to make him an attendant for Himself. God knew that the servant whom He intended to create would bring forth servants, that the servants he brought forth would counsel him to create other worlds, him whom God had created from His own will as a support, set up as His reflection, and caused to dwell in the dwelling, that in the future he would proceed to other worlds. Then He created a servant, made him an attendant, set him in the Jordan of living water that came from God, and handed him