The apocalypse of Adam

The Apocalypse of Adam. The revelation which Adam taught his son Seth in the seven hundredth year, saying:

Listen to my words, my son Seth.

When the god had created me of the earth with Eve your mother,

I lived with her in a glory that she had seen in the aeon from which we had become.

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 who were with him, whom we did not know.

Then the god, the sovereign of the aeons

together with the powers, decided (against) us in wrath.

Then we became two aeons, and the glory in our heart left us,

me and your mother Eve along with the first knowledge

that breathed in us. And it fled from us, it entered into great generation,

which had not become from this aeon from which we became, I with Eve your mother.

But it (the generation) entered into the seed of great aeons.

Because of this, I myself have called you by the name of that man

who is the seed of the great generation or rather is from him.

After those days the eternal knowledge of the god of truth

withdrew from me and your mother Eve.

Since that time we received wisdom 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 that we were in the darkness of our heart.

And I slept in the thought of my heart for I saw three men before my face

whose Likeness I could not know, since they were not from the powers

of the god who had created us.

They passed through like men and they said to me arise: Adam from the sleep of death

and hear about the aeon and the seed of that man to whom the life has come,

who came from you and Eve your wife,

When I had heard these words from the great men

who were standing before me, then we sighed,

l together with Eve, in our heart. And the lord, the god

who had created us, stood before our faces. He said to us: Adam, why were you

sighing in your heart?

Do you not know that I am the god who created you? And I breathed into you a spirit of

life in a living soul,

Then darkness came upon our eyes.

Then the god who had created us, created a son from himself [together] with Eve

[your mother]

l in the thoughts [myself] I knew a sweet desire

for your mother. Then the vigour of our eternal knowledge

was destroyed in us and weakness pursued us.

Therefore, the days of our life were made few.

For I understood that I had come under the power of death.

Now my son Seth, I will reveal to you the things

which were revealed by those men whom I first saw before my face:

After I have completed the times of this generation

and the years of have been finished, then slave

For rainwater of the [god] the almighty will be spilled [to] destroy all flesh of

the god the almighty to destroy [all] flesh from tl1e earth

through this (the water) which it (the flesh)

seeks after, with those from the seed [of] the men

to whom the life of the knowledge was given.

This which came from me and Eve your mother.

For they were strangers to him.

After this, great angels will come on high clouds.

They will take those men to the place where the spirit of life dwells

glory there come from heaven to earth

all the [people] of the flesh will be left

in the [waters.]

Then the god will rest from his anger and he will throw

his power upon the waters.

And he will give power to his sons together with their women through the

box, together with the cattle which he; liked, together with the

birds of heaven which he called.

He released them upon the earth. And the god

will say to Noah, whom the generations will call

Dedication: Behold, I have protected you in the box

together with your woman, your sons,

their women, their cattle and the birds of [heaven] which you called

[and released upon the earth]

Therefore, I will give the earth to you and your sons.

You will reign over it as kings, you and your sons.

And no seed of the men who will not step

into the presence of my face in another glory

will come from you. Then they will become as the cloud of the

great light. Those men will come who have

been thrown away from the knowledge of the great aeons and the

angels. They will step into the presence of Noah and the aeons.

And the god will say to Noah: Why have you turned away from

what l told you? You have created another generation so that you

can bring disgrace on my power. Then Noah will say: I will

testify in the presence of your wing that the generation

of these men did not come into existence [through me,] nor through

my son's knowledge

those men to bring them into their land

which is worthy (and) build them their holy dwelling place.

And they will be called by the name which is there and they will be there

six hundred years in a knowledge of incorruption.

And angels of the great light will be there.

No disgusting deeds will be in their heart,

only the knowledge of the god.

Then Noah will divide the whole earth among his sons

Ham, Japheth and Shem.

He will say to them: My sons, hear my words. Behold,

I have divided the earth among you, but serve him in fear and slavery all the days of

your life. Do not let your seed turn away from the face

of the god the almighty I and your son of Noah: seed will please in your presence

and in the presence of your power.

Seal it with your hand which is strong in fear and

commandment, so that all the seed which came from me

may not turn away from you and the god the almighty

but they will serve in humility and fear of their knowledge.

Then others from the seed of Harn and Japnetti will go. namely four hundred thousand men.

They will enter another country, they wiII settle down with those men who

have come from the great eternal knowledge, so that

the shadow of their power will protect those who have settled

with them from every bad thing and every desire which is unclean.

Then the seed of Ham and Japheth will establish twelve kingdoms. And their other

seed will enter into the kingdom of another people, then will consider aeons to who are dead of the great aeons of incorruption.

And they will go to Sakta their god. They will enter the powers, accusing the great

men, those who are in their glory. They will say to Sakta

What is the power of these men who stood in your presence?

those who were taken from the seed of Ham and Japheth,

who will be four hundred men?

They have been received in another aeon.

from which they became. And they have converted all the glory of your

power and the kingdoms of your hand.

For the seed of Noah has done all your will

through his son together with all the powers in the aeons which your power

reigns over. Those men and those who have settled down in their glory

have not done as you wanted.

But they have converted all your people. Then the god

of the aeons will give them those Who serve him they will come upon the land

in which the great men will be, those who have not been defiled, nor will be

defiled by any desire. For their soul has not become from a defiled hand, but it

became from a great commandment of an eternal angel.

Then fire, sulphur and asphalt will be cast upon

those men. And fire together with mist will come over those aeons.

The eyes of the powers of the illuminators will be

darkened, the aeons will not see with them in those days.

And great clouds of light will descend, other clouds of light from the great aeons

will descend upon them.

Abrasax, Sablo and Gamaliel will descend. They will bring those men out of

The fire and the wrath.

They will take them beyond the aeons and the sovereign of the powers, they will

take them away from life they will take them aeons of the great

there, together with the holy angels

and the aeons.

The men will be like those angels for they are not strangers to them, but

they will act in the imperishable seed

Once again for the third time, the illuminator

of knowledge will pass in great

glory, to give to the seed of Noah

and the sons of Ham and Japheth,

to give it (the seed)

fruit-bearing trees, and he will redeem their souls from the day

of death. For all that which is moulded

which has come from the dead earth, will be

under the power or death.

But those who think of the knowledge

of the eternal god in their heart will not perish.

For they have not received spirit

from this kingdom only but they have received from an eternal angel

illuminator come upon dead of Seth. And he will do signs and wonders to

dishonour the powers and their sovereigns

Then he will be worried, the god of the powers, saying: What

is the power of the man which is higher than ours? Then he will arouse

a great wrath against that man. And

the glory will leave, it will dwell in holy houses, those

which it has chosen. And the powers will not see it

with their eyes, nor will they see the other illuminator

Then they will punish the flesh of the man, he whom

the holy spirit has come upon. Then the angels and

all the generations of the powers will consult the name

in (their) error saying: From where has it become, or

where did the words of falsity come from which

all the powers have failed to find?

The first kingdom says about him [that] he has become! from

to heaven. namely a spirit. He was nourished

in the heavens. He received the glory

of that one and the power. He came

to the bosom of his mother.

And thus he came upon the water.

And the second kingdom says

about him that he has become from a great prophet.

And a bird came, it took the child who was begotten. it took him

to a high mountain.

And he was nourished by

the bird of heaven. An angel

came there, he said to him:

Arise, the god has given glory

to you. He received glory and strength.

And thus he came upon the water.

The third kingdom says about him that he has become

from a virgin womb.

He was cast out from his city

he and his mother. He was brought to a desert place. He was nourished

there. He came, he received glory

and power, and thus he came upon the water.

The fourth I kingdom says about him that he has become from a virgin Solomon

sought after her, he together with Phersalo (Phersalis) and Sauel and his armies

which had been sent out. Solomon himself sent out his army

of demons to seek after the virgin. And they did not find

the one whom they sought after, but the virgin who was given to them.

she whom they brought

took Solomon. The virgin became pregnant,

she gave birth to the child at that place.

She nourished him at a boundary mark

of the desert. When he had been nourished, he received

glory and power from the seed

from which he had been begotten.

And thus he came upon the water. And the fifth

kingdom says about him that he has become from a

drop of the heaven. He was thrown into the sea. The depths

received him, gave birth to him.

brought him to the heaven. He received

glory and power. And thus he came upon the water.

And sixth kingdom says that a down to the aeon

which is below, to spread flowers. She became pregnant of

her desire for the flowers. She

gave birth to him at that place.

The angels of the floral splendour nourished him.

He received glory at that place and power.

And thus he came upon the water.

And the seventh kingdom says about him that he is a drop.

It came from the heaven to the earth.

Dragons brought him down into caves,

He became a child.

A spirit came upon him, brought him to the high place from which the

drop had come.

He received glory and power at that place. And thus

he came upon the water. And the eighth kingdom says

about him that a cloud came upon the earth, it surrounded a

rock. He was begotten from it.

The angels who were above

the cloud nourished him. He received glory and power at that place.

And thus he came upon the water.

And the ninth kingdom says about him that from the nine

Muses one separated.

She came upon a high mountain, she spent some time there, so that

she desired herself to become man-woman. She fulfilled her desire and

became pregnant from her desire

He was born. The angels who were over the desire nourished him.

He received glory at that place and power. And thus he came upon the water. The

tenth kingdom says about him that his god loved a cloud

of desire. He brought him forth in his hand. And he threw out

from the drop to the cloud hear him

And he was born. He received glory and power at that place. And

thus he came upon the water.

And the eleventh kingdom says that the father desired his own daughter.

She became pregnant herself by her father. She threw in a tomb

in the desert, the angel nourished him at that place.

And thus he came upon the water. The twelfth kingdom says

about him that he has become from two illuminators. He

was nourished there. He received glory and power.

And thus he came upon the water. And the thirteenth kingdom says

about him that every birth of their sovereign is a word.

And this word received a destiny at that place.

He received glory and power.

And thus he came upon the water to conjoin the desire.

of those powers. And the generation without a king over it says

that the god chose him from all the aeons.

He caused knowledge of the undefiled of truth to come in his heart.

He said that he came from foreign air, from a great aeon, namely the

great illuminator.

And the generation of those men

shone, those whom he had chosen for him,

so that they should shine upon the whole aeon.

Then the seed will resist the powers,

those who will receive his name upon the water and unite

all of them. And a dark cloud will come upon them.

Then the peoples will cry with a loud voice

saying:

Blessed is the soul of those men, they knew

the god with a knowledge of truth.

They will live till the aeons of the aeons, because they have not been

corrupted in their desire with the angels.

Nor have they fulfilled the works of the powers.

But they have stood in his presence in a knowledge

of god as light which came from fire

and blood. But we have done everything in the heartlessness

of the powers. We have praised in the transgressions

of our works we have cried against the god of truth because all his works

eternity. Those are against our spirit. For now, we have known that

our souls will die in a death.

Then a voice came to them

saying: Micheu and Michar and Mnesinous, those

who are over the bath which is holy and the water which is life, why

were you crying against the god who is life with lawless voices

and tongues without law and souls

full of blood and defiled works. You are full of

works, not from the truth, but your ways are full of

mirth (gladness) and jollity (joy). You have defiled the water of life,

you have drawn it in the will of the powers,

those whom you have been given to serve.

And your thought is not like the thought of

those men whom you persecute desire

Their fruit does not wither.

they will become known to the great aeons, because the words.

which they protected, of the god of the aeons, were not put in

the book, nor were they written.

But angelic beings will bring them.

whom all the generations of men will be ignorant of.

For they will be upon a high mountain.

on a rock of truth.

Therefore, they will be named:

The words of incorruption and truth of those who know

the eternal god in wisdom of knowledge and

teaching of eternal angels:

He knows everything:

These are the revelations which Adam showed Seth his

son. And his son taught his seed. This is the secret knowledge of Adam

which he gave to Seth, which is the bath which is holy, for those who

know the eternal knowledge through the logosborn (by those born of the word)

And the incorrupted illuminators who came from the holy seed:

Jesseus, Mazareus,

Jessedekeus. The water which is life.

The apocalypse of Adam