"... And the man came forth
because of the shadow of the light
which is in him. And his thinking
was superior to all those who had made him.
When they looked up, they saw
that his thinking was superior. And they took
counsel with the whole array of archons
and angels. They took fire and earth
and water and mixed them together
with the four fiery winds. And they wrought them
together and caused a great
disturbance. And they brought him (Adam) into the shadow
of death, in order that they might form (him) again
from earth and water and fire
and the spirit which originates in matter, which is
the ignorance of darkness and desire,
and their counterfeit spirit. This
is the tomb of the newly-formed body
with which the robbers had clothed the man,
the bond of forgetfulness; and he became
a mortal man. This is the first one who came down,
and the first separation. But the
Epinoia of the light which was in him,
she is the one who was to awaken his thinking.
"And
the archons took him and placed
him in paradise. And they said to him,
'Eat, that is at leisure,' for
their luxury is bitter and their beauty is depraved.
And their luxury is deception and
their trees are godlessness and their fruit
is deadly poison and their
promise is death. And the tree of their
life they had placed in the midst of paradise."
