Course XI - Teaching 4: Night Prayers
Before they retire, all together recite these prayers standing, their left arms upon the right ones.
MANETRAS ANK AIN
(Night Prayers) I
Cambuhm cambuhm Amon Adonai
Ain zeman ain Amon Adonai
Abba ahi ye abba Amon Adonai
Bete lama abbami schin Amon Adonai
Out of the depths, out of the depths, oh Lord!
In the deep hour of the night, oh Lord!
You are the true Father, oh Lord!
We beg, kill the pain for ever, oh Lord!
II
Busile sem om el Amon Adonai
Tau tanca tau Amon Adonai
Reschesis betereschis asura Amon Adonai
Ana ain cambuhm Amon Adonai
Hear the voice of man, oh Lord!
Kneeling he begs, oh Lord!,
Drive away and kill the evil spirits, oh Lord!
May the night returns to the primordial sleep, oh Lord!
III
Cambuhm om Amon Adonai
Amon Adonai busile om sem el
Giest ica akasac om ab ominica
Ahi ye zeman ahi ye ain zeman.
Out of the depths we talk to you, oh Lord!
Oh Lord! Hear the voice of man
They wish to utter their words in your ears
He is, he is the time of the night times.
IV (It is I repeated)
Cambuhm cambuhm Amon Adonai
Ain zeman ain Amon Adonai
Abba ahi ye abba Amon Adonai
Bete lama abbami schin Amon Adonai.
V
Zeman ain Amon Adonai
Ada Adonai tau tanca
Amon Adonai ada schin buhm
Ihvac ote iSem elica aba ahi geres.
He is the night time
The Lord reigns, beg kneeling
The Lord is owner of the time, from the beginning to the end
Of Lord, you possess the paternity of men and women.
VI
(It is II repeated)
Busile sem om el Amon Adonai
Tau tanca tau Amon Adonai
Reschesis betereschis asura Amon Adonai
Ana ain cambuhm Amon Adonai
VII
Ahik ye abba abbami Amon Adonai
Ain asura asurica ain abbami
Reschesis menereschis betereschis schin
Ote sem el resch reschesis ana.
Oh Lord, who are Father and The One that you are
We beg to drive away, forget and destroy eternally
Phantoms of the night, phantoms of the night
For great and primordial rest of the man.
VIII (It is I repeated)
Cambuhm Cambuhm Amon Adonai
Ain zeman ain Amon Adonai
Abba ahi ye abba Amon Adonai
Bete lama abbami schin Amon Adonai.
IX
Adac yelica hivac ali alicac
Amon Adonai ahi ye Amon Adonai
Zeman ain ada Amon Adonai
Cur ahi ye curica menva ain
Men and women are disciples and the disciple
God is God
God is owner of the night time
And he knows and examines the secrets of the night.
X (It is II repeated)
Busile sem om el Amon Adonai
Tau tanca tau Amon Adonai
Reschesis betereschis asura Amon Adonai
Ana ain cambuhm Amon Adonai.
XI
Tau tanca Amon Adonai
Abbami abba ana ain
Ahehia clam bote resch
Ain asura abbami betereschis
Kneeling, oh Lord! we beg
Oh Father! grant a perfect night
Ahehia covers the silence and peace with her veil
And please kill the evil spirits of the night.
XII (It is I repeated)
Cambuhm cambuhm Amon Adonai
Ain zeman ain Amon Adonai
Abba ahi ye abba Amon Adonai
Bete lama abbami schin Amon Adonai.
XIII (It is II repeated)
Busile sem om el Amon Adonai
Tau tanca tau Amon Adonai
Reschesis betereschis asura Amon Adonai
Ana ain cambuhm Amon Adonai.
XIV
Amon Adonai ada sem elica
Cambuhm clam aba ahi eret
Abbami reschesis ain schin
Asur asurica gutha Micaël.
Oh Lord, you reign over men
You that are Father! cover even the depths
And please give us peace in the Eternal Life
And make the evil spirits be totally slaves of Michael.
XV
Tau talac talami tanc
Ahehia clam bote Hes
Aib asura sur ain betereschis
Micaël sur surica ada Amon Adonai.
XVI (It is I repeated)
Cambuhm cambuhm Amon Adonai
Ain zeman ain Amon Adonai
Abba ahi ye abba Amon Adonai
Bete lama abbami schin Amon Adonai.
XVII
Cambuhm Cambuhm Amon Adonai
Ana ain cambuhm Amon Adonai
Ain zeman ain Amon Adonai
Reschesis betereschis asura Amon Adonai.
Out of the depths, out of the depths, oh Lord!
Out of the depths of the first night, oh Lord!
From the time of the deepest night, oh Lord!
Drive away and kill the evil spirits, oh Lord!
XVIII
Ain zeman ain Amon Adonai
Tau tanca Amon Adonai
Ada sem elica Amon Adonai
Abbami asura ain Amon Adonai.
Oh Lord! from the time of the deepest night
Kneeling, we beg, oh Lord
You, oh Lord reigning over men
Please, oh Lord, drive away the evil spirits of the night.
XIX
Busile sem om el Amon Adonai
Tau tanca talac talami Amon Adonai
Ali ala alamana Amon Adonai
Ali ala ain Amon Adonai.
Man asks of you, oh Lord!, with words
Kneeling, the virgin and the youth are claiming, oh Lord!
The disciple that has found the way to the truth, oh Lord!
The disciple that overcame the night way, oh Lord!
XX
Tau tanca tau Amon Adonai
Reschesis betereschis asura Amon Adonai
Ihes Ahehia ote Hes Amon Adonai
Ain ote ain abe ain Amon Adonai.
Kneeling, kneeling, we beg, of Lord!
Drive away the evil spirits, oh Lord!
Ihes and Ahehia are equal to Hes, oh Lord!
And our night is equal to the eternal night, oh Lord!