The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

172 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM Adam said, "I heard your voice and was afraid because I was naked, and I hid."^42 The ruler sai ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 173 He answered, saying, "Am I my brother's keeper?" God said to Cain, "Listen! The voice of your b ...

174 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM NOREA BATTLES THE RULERS The rulers went to meet her, intending to lead her astray. Their supre ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 175 appeared in the final ages, and these authorities will be restrained. And these authorities can ...

I76 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM "And he said to his offspring, 'I am the god of all.'^71 "Zoe^72 the daughter of Pistis Sophia ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 177 "There, I have taught you about the pattern of the rulers and the matter in which it was made v ...

The Revelation of Adam ^ 1 "1 I he Revelation (or Apocalypse) of Adam is a mythic narration poem I attributed to Adam, who commu ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 179 But there follows a series of contentions between Adam's descendent Noah and the creator, leadi ...

l80 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM angels. At this point the illuminator of knowledge passes by a third time, after flood and holo ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM l8l earth along with your mother Eve, I went about with her in a glory that she saw in the eternal ...

182 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM Then the god who created us created a son from himself and Eve, your mother^15 1 knew a sweet d ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 183 And god says to Noah, "Why have you strayed from what I told you? You have created another gene ...

184 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM They say to Sakla, "What is the power of these people who stood in your presence, who were take ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 185 THE ILLUMINATOR OF KNOWLEDGE Once again, for the third time,^37 the illuminator of knowledge pa ...

186 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM mountain. And he was nourished by the bird of heaven. An angel came forth there. He said to him ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 187 were over the desire nourished him. And he received glory there and power, and in this way he c ...

188 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM Then the peoples^55 will cry out with a great voice, saying, "Blessings on the soul of those pe ...

7 Three Forms of First Thought ^ I 1 I he Three Forms of First Thought, or the Trimorphic Protennoia, I is a Sethian tractate th ...

190 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM Protennoia, first thought, is female. But she lives in the light, who is the fa- ther of all, a ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 191 I am the womb that gives shape to all by bearing light shining in splendor. I am the coming ete ...