1:1
This is the revelation Adam made known to his son Shet in Adam’s seven-hundredth year. He said: “Hear my words, my son Shet.”
1:2
“When the deity who fashioned me from the earth made me together with Chavvah your mother, I walked with her in a glory she had perceived, a glory from the aeon from which we had come to be.”
1:3
“She taught me a word of knowledge concerning the eternal Elohim. We resembled the great eternal messengers, for we stood above the deity who had fashioned us and above the powers accompanying him—beings we had not known.”
1:4
“Then the ruler of the aeons and powers divided us in wrath. We became two aeons, and the glory within our hearts withdrew from me and from Chavvah your mother. The first knowledge that had breathed within us departed.”
1:5
“It fled from us into [manuscript damaged] great aeons. It had not arisen from the aeon in which I and your mother had been formed; it entered the seed belonging to the great aeons.”
1:6
“For this reason I called you by the name of that man: the seed of the great generation comes from him—or from the one represented by him.”
1:7
“After those days, knowledge of the eternal Elohim of truth withdrew from me and your mother. We were instructed in dead works as ordinary human beings are instructed.”
1:8
“Then we knew the deity who had fashioned us. We were no longer strangers to his powers, and we served him in fear and bondage.”
1:9
“Darkness filled our hearts. While I slept in the inward thought of my heart, I saw three men standing before me. I could not recognize their likeness, for they were not from the powers of the deity who had fashioned us.”
1:10
“They surpassed [manuscript damaged] in glory. Their words are partly lost, but this command remains: ‘Rise, Adam, from the sleep of death. Hear about the aeon and the seed of the man to whom life came—the one who proceeds from you and …
1:11
“When I heard the great men, Chavvah and I sighed within our hearts. The master—the deity who had fashioned us—stood before us.”
1:12
“He said, ‘Adam, why did you sigh in your hearts? Do you not know that I am the deity who fashioned you? I breathed into you a breath of life, making you a living soul.’ Then darkness covered our eyes.”
1:13
“The deity who fashioned us then made a son from himself and Chavvah [manuscript damaged]. In the movement of desire I knew your mother.”
1:14
“The strength of our eternal knowledge was destroyed within us, and weakness pursued us. Thus the days of our life became few, and I knew that I had come under death’s authority.” 4