Editing Heaven (section)

===Mandaeism===
{{Main|World of Light}}

[[Mandaeans]] believe in an afterlife or heaven called ''Alma d-Nhura'' (World of Light).<ref name="Nashmi">{{Citation |last=Nashmi |first=Yuhana |title=Contemporary Issues for the Mandaean Faith |date=24 April 2013 |website=Mandaean Associations Union |url=http://www.mandaeanunion.com/history-english/item/488-mandaean-faith |access-date=2 February 2022}}.</ref> The [[World of Light]] is the primeval, transcendent world from which [[Tibil]] and the [[World of Darkness (Mandaeism)|World of Darkness]] emerged. The Great Living God (''[[Hayyi Rabbi]]'') and his [[uthra]]s (angels or guardians) dwell in the World of Light. The World of Light is also the source of [[Piriawis]], the Great ''[[Yardna|Yardena]]'' (or [[Jordan River]]) of Life.<ref name="Aldihisi 2008">{{cite thesis|url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1444088/|last=Aldihisi|first=Sabah|year=2008|title=The story of creation in the Mandaean holy book in the Ginza Rba|type=PhD|publisher=University College London}}</ref>