The First Book of Adam and Eve

for they had killed them

to raise them a

d to them; that they should s

nsgressed of your own free will, until you ca

and an exalted state, such as I have; so that I deprived you of the bright nature in which

and had not eaten of the fruit of the tree which I told you not to co

ered Me to be useless, and sought the Godhead for himself; for this I hurled him down from heaven so that he could not rema

ommandment, and therefore I have

d not intend to destroy them. But after they had sorely roused M

continue hardened in their transgressio