"And our sister
Sophia (is) she who came down in innocence
in order to rectify her deficiency.
Therefore she was called Life, which is
the mother of the living, by the foreknowledge
of the sovereignty of heaven. And through her
they have tasted the perfect Knowledge. I appeared
in the form of an eagle
on the tree of knowledge, which is the Epinoia
from the foreknowledge of the pure light,
that I might teach them and awaken
them out of the depth of sleep. For they
were both in a fallen state, and they
recognized their nakedness. The Epinoia
appeared to them as a light (and) she awakened
their thinking.
"And when Yaltabaoth
noticed that they withdrew from him,
he cursed his earth. He found the woman as she was
preparing herself for her husband. He was lord
over her, though he did not know the mystery
which had come to pass through the holy decree.
And they were afraid to blame him. And
he showed his angels his
ignorance which is in him. And
he cast them out of paradise and
he clothed them in gloomy darkness. And the
chief archon saw the virgin who stood
by Adam, and that the luminous
Epinoia of life had appeared in her.
And Yaltabaoth was full of ignorance.
And when the foreknowledge of the All
noticed (it), she sent some and they snatched
life out of Eve.
"And the chief archon
seduced her and he begot in her
two sons; the first and the second
(are) Eloim and Yave. Eloim has a bear-face
and Yave has a cat-face. The one
is righteous but the other is unrighteous. (IV 38, 4-6: Yave
is righteous but Eloim is
unrighteous.)
Yave he set
over the fire and the wind, and Eloim he set
over the water and
the earth. And these he called with the names
Cain and Abel with a view to deceive.
"Now up to the present day,
sexual intercourse continued due to the chief archon.
And he planted sexual desire
in her who belongs to Adam. And he produced through
intercourse the copies of the bodies,
and he inspired them with his counterfeit spirit."
