The three illuminators — flood, fire, and judgment

1And I saw three men before me whose likeness I was unable to recognize, since they were not the powers of the god who had created us. They surpassed in glory.

2They said to me, Rise up, Adam, from the sleep of death, and hear about the aeon and the seed of that man to whom life has come, who came from you and from Eve, your wife.

3When I heard these words from the great men who were standing before me, then we sighed, I and Eve, in our heart. And the lord, the god who had created us, stood before us. He said to us, Adam, why were you sighing in your hearts? Do you not know that I am the god who created you and I breathed into you a spirit of life?

4Then darkness came upon our eyes. Then the god who created us created a son from himself and Eve, your mother. I knew sweet desire for your mother. Then the vigour of our eternal knowledge was destroyed in us, and weakness pursued us.

5Therefore the days of our life became few. For I knew that I had come under the authority of death.

6Now then, my son Seth, I will reveal to you the things which those men whom I saw before me at first revealed to me: After I have completed the times of this generation and the years of this generation are fulfilled, then a slave will appear, the seed of the slave-girl. The flood will come down by the will of the ruler. He will gather a great nation and bring them to a high place. The waters will pass over them and over those who lived in his region.

7Now the great angels will come on high clouds, who will bring those men into the place where the spirit of life dwells. The great glory of God shall lift upon them. And they shall be like the angels.

8A second time, fire will descend upon those generations to destroy them. But the holy seed will be saved. They will be brought up upon a high mountain, upon a rock of truth.

9Yet again, after this, an illuminator of knowledge shall pass through them in great glory in order to leave the seed of Noah and the sons of Ham and Japheth — to leave for himself fruit-bearing trees. And he will redeem their souls from the day of death. For the whole creation that came from the dead earth will be under the authority of death. But those who reflect upon the knowledge of the eternal God in their heart will not perish.

10For they have not received spirit from this kingdom alone, but they have received it from a great eternal angel. The illuminator will come and perform signs and wonders to scorn the powers and their ruler. The god of the powers will be angered, saying, What is the power of this man who is higher than we? Then the powers will pursue him.

11Then in glory of his Father he ascends. He gives knowledge to the seed of Seth, the seed without sin, the seed of the truth.