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The Apocalypse of Adam
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Translated by George W. MacRae
The revelation which Adam taught his son Seth in the seven hundreth
year, saying:
Listen to my words, my son Seth. When God had created me out of the
earth, along with Eve, your mother, I went about with her in a
glory which she had seen in the aeon from which we had come forth.
She taught me a word of knowledge of the eternal God. And we
resembled the great eternal angels, for we were higher than the god
who had created us and the powers with him, whom we did not
know.
Then God, the ruler of the aeons and the powers, divided us in
wrath. Then we became two aeons. And the glory in our heart(s) left
us, me and your mother Eve, along with the first knowledge that
breathed within us. And it (glory) fled from us; it entered into
[...] great [...] which had come forth, not from this aeon from
which we had come forth, I and Eve your mother. But it (knowledge)
entered into the seed of great aeons. For this reason I myself have
called you by the name of that man who is the seed of the great
generation or from whom (it comes). After those days, the eternal
knowledge of the God of truth withdrew from me and your mother Eve.
Since that time, we learned about dead things, like men. Then we
recognized the God who had created us. For we were not strangers to
his powers. And we served him in fear and slavery. And after these
things, we became darkened in our heart(s). Now I slept in the
thought of my heart.
And I saw three men before me whose likeness I was unable to
recognize, since they were not the powers of the God who had
created us. They surpassed [...] glory, and [...] men [...] saying
to me, "Arise, Adam, from the sleep of death, and hear about the
aeon and the seed of that man to whom life has come, who came from
you and from Eve, your wife."
When I had heard these words from the great men who were standing
before me, then we sighed, I and Eve, in our heart(s). And the
Lord, the God who had created us, stood before us. He said to us,
"Adam, why were you (both) sighing in your hearts? Do you not know
that I am the God who created you? And I breathed into you a spirit
of life as a living soul." Then darkness came upon our eyes.
Then the God who created us, created a son from himself and Eve,
your mother. I knew sweet desire for your mother, for [...] in the
thought of my [...] I knew a sweet desire for your mother. Then the
vigor of our eternal knowledge was destroyed in us, and weakness
pursued us. Therefore the days of our life became few. For I knew
that I had come under the authority of death.
Now then, my son Seth, I will reveal to you the things which those
men whom I saw before me at first
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