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