The Life of Adam and Eve 12
Eve’s Vision of the Two Mysteries
Eve wept in fear upon seeing two great mysteries and called Seth to rise from Adam's body and look. Themes: Heavenly Journeys and Revelations
1nd again, I Eve saw two great and awful mysteries standing before God. And I wept for fear, and cried out to my son Seth, saying: Arise, Seth, from the body of thy father Adam, and come to me, that thou mayst see what the eye of no one hath ever seen; and they are praying for thy father Adam.
2 Then Seth arose and went to his mother, and said to her: What has befallen thee? and why weepest thou? She says to him: Look up with thine eyes, and see the seven firmaments opened, and see with thine eyes how the body of thy father lies upon its face, and all the holy angels with him, praying for him, and saying: Pardon him, O Father of the universe; for he is Thine image.
3 What then, my child Seth, will this be? and when will he be delivered into the hands of our invisible Father and God? And who are the two dark-faced ones who stand by at the prayer of thy father? And Seth says to his mother: These are the sun and the moon, and they are falling down and praying for my father Adam.
4 Eve says to him: And where is their light, and why have they become black-looking? And Seth says to her: They cannot shine in the presence of the Light of the universe, and for this reason the light from them has been hidden.
5 And while Seth was speaking to his mother, the angels lying upon their faces sounded their trumpets, and cried out with an awful voice, saying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord upon what He has made, for He has had compassion upon Adam, the work of His hands.
6 When the angels had sounded this forth, there came one of the six-winged seraphim, and hurried Adam to the Acherusian lake, and washed him in presence of God. And he spent three hours lying, and thus the Lord of the universe, sitting upon His holy throne, stretched forth His hands, and raised Adam, and delivered him to the archangel Michael, saying to him: Raise him into paradise, even to the third heaven, and let him be there until that great and dreadful day which I am to bring upon the world.
7 And the archangel Michael, having taken Adam, led him away, and anointed him, as God said to him at the pardoning of Adam.
Did You Know?
Eve wept in fear upon seeing two great mysteries and called Seth to rise from Adam's body and look.
Seven firmaments stood open as holy angels prayed over Adam lying face down, seeking pardon for the divine image.
Seth identified the two dark-faced ones at the prayer as the sun and moon, their light hidden before the universal Light.
A six-winged seraphim hurried Adam to the Acherusian lake, washed him before God, and he lay three hours.
Michael took Adam, anointed him as directed at the pardoning, and led him to paradise in the third heaven.
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