Adam to Seth — the original glory and its loss
George W. MacRae (composite) · Public domain / scholarly composite. Reproduced for educational and religious commentary.
1The revelation that Adam taught his son Seth in the seven hundredth year, saying:
2Listen to my words, my son Seth. When God had created me out of the earth, along with Eve your mother, I went about with her in a glory which she had seen in the aeon from which we had come. 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 with him whom we did not know.
3Then God, the ruler of the aeons and the powers, divided us in wrath. Then we became two aeons. The glory in our hearts left us, me and your mother, Eve, along with the first knowledge that breathed within us. And it fled from us; it entered into the great age which has not become this aeon, the great generation that does not perish.
4When I heard these words from the great men who were standing before me, then I sighed in my heart. I, your father, Adam, said with great fear, what kind of god is this who has separated us in his wrath?
5And we knew the god who created us. For we were not strangers to his powers. And we served him in fear and slavery. And after these things we became darkened in our heart. Now I slept in the thought of my heart.