First Book of Adam and Eve | Page 8

and drank none
of it at all; but came and entered the Cave of Treasures.
4 But when in it Adam could not see Eve; he only heard the noise she
made. Neither could she see Adam, but heard the noise he made.
5 Then Adam cried, in deep affliction, and beat his chest; and he got up
and said to Eve, "Where are you?"
6 And she said to him, "Look, I am standing in this darkness."
7 He then said to her, "Remember the bright nature in which we lived,
when we lived in the garden!
8 O Eve! Remember the glory that rested on us in the garden. O Eve!
Remember the trees that overshadowed us in the garden while we
moved among them.
9 O Eve! Remember that while we were in the garden, we knew neither
night nor day. Think of the Tree of Life, from below which flowed the
water, and that shed lustre over us! Remember, O Eve, the garden land,
and the brightness thereof!
10 Think, oh think of that garden in which was no darkness, while we
lived in it.
11 Whereas no sooner did we come into this Cave of Treasures than
darkness surrounded us all around; until we can no longer see each
other; and all the pleasure of this life has come to an end."


Chapter XII
- How darkness came between Adam and Eve.
1 Then Adam beat his chest, he and Eve, and they mourned the whole
night until the crack of dawn, and they sighed over the length of the
night in Miyazia.
2 And Adam beat himself, and threw himself on the ground in the cave,
from bitter grief, and because of the darkness, and lay there as dead.
3 But Eve heard the noise he made in falling on the ground. And she
felt about for him with her hands, and found him like a corpse.
4 Then she was afraid, speechless, and remained by him.
5 But the merciful Lord looked on the death of Adam, and on Eve's

silence from fear of the darkness.
6 And the Word of God came to Adam and raised him from his death,
and opened Eve's mouth that she might speak.
7 Then Adam stood up in the cave and said, "O God, why has light
departed from us, and darkness covered us? Why did you leave us in
this long darkness? Why do you plague us like this?
8 And this darkness, O Lord, where was it before it covered us? It is
because of this that we cannot see each other.
9 For so long as we were in the garden, we neither saw nor even knew
what darkness is. I was not hidden from Eve, neither was she hidden
from me, until now that she cannot see me; and no darkness came over
us to separate us from each other.
10 But she and I were both in one bright light. I saw her and she saw
me. Yet now since we came into this cave, darkness has covered us,
and separated us from each other, so that I do not see her, and she does
not see me.
11 O Lord, will You then plague us with this darkness?"


Chapter XIII
- The fall of Adam. Why night and day were created.
1 Then when God, who is merciful and full of pity, heard Adam's voice,
He said to him: --
2 "O Adam, so long as the good angel was obedient to Me, a bright
light rested on him and on his hosts.
3 But when he transgressed My commandment, I deprived him of that
bright nature, and he became dark.
4 And when he was in the heavens, in the realms of light, he knew
nothing of darkness.
5 But he transgressed, and I made him fall from the heaven onto the
earth; and it was this darkness that came over him.
6 And on you, O Adam, while in My garden and obedient to Me, did
that bright light rest also.
7 But when I heard of your transgression, I deprived you of that bright
light. Yet, of My mercy, I did not turn you into darkness, but I made

you your body of flesh, over which I spread this skin, in order that it
may bear cold and heat.
8 If I had let My wrath fall heavily on you, I should have destroyed you;
and had I turned you into darkness, it would have been as if I had killed
you.
9 But in My mercy, I have made you as you are; when you transgressed
My commandment, O Adam, I drove you from the garden, and made
you come forth into this land;