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Chapter 14  
     
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 And to I said to the savior, Lord, was it not the serpent that taught Adam to eat?
 
2.
 And Jesus the Christ smiled and said,
 
3.
 The serpent taught them to eat from wickedness of begetting, lust, (and) destruction, that he (Adam) might be useful to him.
 
4.
 And he (Adam) knew that he was disobedient to him (the chief archon) due to light of the Epinoia which is in him, which made him more correct in his thinking than the chief archon.
 
5.
 And (the latter) wanted to bring about the power which he himself had given him.
 
6.
 And he brought a forgetfulness over Adam.
 
7.
 And I said to the savior, What is the forgetfulness?
 
8.
 And he said It is not the way Moses wrote (and) you heard.
 
9.
 For he said in his first book, He put him to sleep (Gn 2:21), but (it was) in his perception.
 
10.
 For also he said through the prophet, I will make their hearts heavy, that they may not pay attention and may not see (Is 6:10).
 
11.
 Then the Epinoia of the light hid herself in him (Adam).
 
12.
 And the chief archon wanted to bring her out of his rib.
 
13.
 But the Epinoia of the light cannot be grasped.
 
14.
 Although darkness pursued her, it did not catch her.
 
15.
 And he brought a part of his power out of him.
 
16.
 And he made another creature, in the form of a woman, according to the likeness of the Epinoia which had appeared to him.
 
17.
 And he brought the part which he had taken from the power of the man into the female creature, and not as Moses said, his rib-bone.
 
18.
 And he (Adam) saw the woman beside him.
 
19.
 And in that moment the luminous Epinoia appeared, and she lifted the veil which lay over his mind.
 
20.
 And he became sober from the drunkenness of darkness.
 
21.
 And he recognized his counter-image, and he said, This is indeed bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.
 
22.
 Therefore the man will leave his father and his mother, and he will cleave to his wife, and they will both be one flesh.
 
23.
 For they will send him his consort, and he will leave his father and his mother ... (3 lines unreadable)
 
24.
 And our sister divine Wisdom is she who came down in innocence in order to rectify her deficiency.
 
25.
 Therefore she was called Life, which is the mother of the living, by the foreknowledge of the sovereignty of heaven.
 
26.
 And through her they have tasted the perfect Knowledge.
 

 
 
 

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