[1] The Coptic version is found in Nag Hammadi Codex VI, where it is text no.
The Latin version is found at paragraph 41b at the end of the translation of the Greek treatise Asclepius, part of the Hermetica.
[1]In the Nag Hammadi codex, the Prayer follows the Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth and shares its bipartite, as opposed to tripartite, anthropology.
A short scribal note in the first person comes immediately after the Prayer and indicates that it was selected for copying from a larger library of texts.
[4] The Prayer is evidence for the existence of ritual kissing and communal meals among the liturgical practices of the Hermetic community in Roman Egypt.