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

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 279

and they went where they could not come out.

Then Christ came.

Those who went in he took out.

Those who went out he took in.

EVE IN ADAM

When Eve was in Adam there was no death.^49

When she was cut from him,

death came into being.

If he enters what he was and takes her in him fully,

death will disappear.^50

CRUCIFIXION

"My god, my god, O lord, why have you abandoned me?"

He said these words on the cross.

But not from that place. He was already gone

RISING FROM THE DEAD

The lord rose from the dead.

He became as he was,

but now his body was perfect.

He possessed flesh,

but this was true flesh.

Our flesh isn't true.

Ours is only an image of the true.^52

BEDROOM

Animals don't have a bridal bedroom,

nor do slaves or dirtied women.

Bedrooms are for free men and virgins.

49. This is the original androgynous state.


50. This is the return to (androgynous) unity, a theme emphasized in the Gospel of Thomas.


51. Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34; both quote Psalm 22:1.


52. Partially restored.