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And I said to the savior, "What is the forgetfulness?" And he said "It
is not the way Moses wrote (and) you heard. For he said in his first
book, 'He put him to sleep' (Gn 2:21), but (it was) in his perception.
For also he said through the prophet, 'I will make their hearts heavy,
that they may not pay attention and may not see' (Is 6:10).
"Then the Epinoia of the light hid herself in him (Adam). And the chief
archon wanted to bring her out of his rib. But the Epinoia of the light
cannot be grasped. Although darkness pursued her, it did not catch her.
And he brought a part of his power out of him. And he made another
creature, in the form of a woman, according to the likeness of the
Epinoia which had appeared to him. And he brought the part which he had
taken from the power of the man into the female creature, and not as
Moses said, 'his rib-bone.'
"And he (Adam) saw the woman beside him. And in that moment the luminous
Epinoia appeared, and she lifted the veil which lay over his mind. And
he became sober from the drunkenness of darkness. And he recognized his
counter-image, and he said, 'This is indeed bone of my bones and flesh
of my flesh.' Therefore the man will leave his father and his mother,
and he will cleave to his wife, and they will both be one flesh. For
they will send him his consort, and he will leave his father and his
mother ... (3 lines unreadable)
"And our sister Sophia (is) she who came down in innocence in order to
rectify her deficiency. Therefore she was called Life, which is the
mother of the living, by the foreknowledge of the sovereignty of heaven.
And through her they have tasted the perfect Knowledge. I appeared in
the form of an eagle on the tree of knowledge, which is the Epinoia from
the foreknowledge of the pure light, that I might teach them and awaken
them out of the depth of sleep. For they were both in a fallen state,
and they recognized their nakedness. The Epinoia appeared to them as a
light; she awakened their thinking.
"And when Yaltabaoth noticed that they withdrew from him, he cursed his
earth. He found the woman as she was preparing herself for her husband.
He was lord over her, though he did not know the mystery which had come
to pass through the holy decree. And they were afraid to blame him. And
he showed his angels his ignorance which is in him. And he cast them out
of paradise and he clothed them in gloomy darkness. And the chief archon
saw the virgin who stood by Adam, and that the luminous Epinoia of life
had appeared in her. And Yaltabaoth was full of ignorance. And when the
foreknowledge of the All noticed (it), she sent some and they snatched
life out of Eve.
The Apocryphon of John
(Nag Hammadi Scroll- dating Egypt 80-200AD)
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3.15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed
and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
3.16
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy
conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire
shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
3.22
And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know
good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the
tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
3.23
Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till
the ground from whence he was taken.
GENESIS. The Bible |
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