Apocalypse of Adam
Adam, in the seven hundredth year of his life, summons Seth and discloses what was revealed to him by the three heavenly men — the loss of the original glory and the separation of Adam from Eve.
1The revelation which Adam taught his son Seth in the seven hundredth year of his life, saying:
2Hearken unto my words, my son Seth. When God had created me out of the earth, together with Eve thy mother, I walked with her in a glory which she had seen in the aeon out of which we had come forth.
3She taught me a word of knowledge of the eternal God; and we were like the great eternal angels, for we were higher than the god which had created us, and the powers which were with him, whom we knew not.
4Then God, the ruler of the aeons and the powers, separated us in wrath. Then we became two aeons. And the glory in our hearts left us — me and thy mother Eve — together with the first knowledge that breathed in us.
5And glory fled from us, and entered into a great aeon and a great generation, which had not come from this aeon, neither from the aeons of the powers.
6Therefore I myself called thee by the name of that man, who is the seed of the great generation — even the great generation that hath not come from this aeon. For after these days, the eternal knowledge of the God of truth withdrew from me and from thy mother Eve.
7Since that time we learned about dead things, like men. Then we recognized the god which had created us; for we were not strangers to his powers. We served him in fear and slavery.
8And after these things we became darkened in our hearts, and I slept in the thought of my heart. For I beheld three men before me, whose likeness I was unable to recognize, since they were not from the powers of the god which had created us.
9And they passed beyond his glory, and went above him. They said unto me: Arise, Adam, from the sleep of death; and hear concerning the aeon, and the seed of that man unto whom life hath come, who came from thee, and from Eve thy companion.
10Then I — when I had heard these words from the great men which were standing before me — we sighed; and my heart wept within me, and I said unto Eve: Hearken unto my words.
11Behold, Adam thy father — his life is no more than a thousand years; and the children which he hath begotten shall be carried away by the powers of the god which made us; and they shall serve him in fear and slavery.
12But there shall come a time when light shall shine forth from us. And the eternal knowledge of the God of truth shall come upon thee, and thy son, and the seed of thy son. And the children of his seed shall preserve the words which I have heard.
13Now therefore, my son Seth, I will reveal unto thee the things which those three men — Yesseus, Mazareus, Yessedekeus — revealed unto me, the things which they spake in the hearing of my heart.
14Hear, Seth: a great generation shall arise from thee. They shall be a holy seed, untouched by the powers. They shall walk in the light of the eternal God. They shall not be put to shame, neither shall they be cast out from before His face.
15But the world shall hate them; for they bear the name of the living. The rulers shall labour to find them; for they shall reign over the powers.
16Therefore keep thou the words which I tell thee. Hide them not from those who shall come after thee. Set them upon the holy mountain. Let them be a witness in the day of the consummation.
