Eve's Vision of the Chariot of Light

Illustration of Eve's Vision of the Chariot of Light

As Adam lay dying, Eve went outside, fell to the ground, and prayed. She confessed that she had sinned against God, the Father of all, His chosen angels, the cherubim, and His unshaken throne, and that every sin had come upon the creation through her.

Eve then saw two great and awful mysteries standing before God and called her son Seth to witness what no eye had ever seen. The seven firmaments stood open while holy angels prayed over Adam's body, asking the Father of the universe to pardon him as His image. The two dark-faced figures were the sun and the moon; their light was hidden because they could not shine in the presence of the Light of the universe.

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Theophany
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Eve

Key Chapters

The Life of Adam and Eve 11 Eve Asks to Die with Adam 3 min read The Life of Adam and Eve 12 Eve’s Vision of the Two Mysteries 3 min read

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Life of Adam and Eve 11: Eve Asks to Die with Adam

The Life of Adam and Eve 11:1-8

And when she had thus spoken in the midst of her sons, and Adam was lying in his disease, and he had one other day befor...

A1nd when she had thus spoken in the midst of her sons, and Adam was lying in his disease, and he had one other day before going out of the body, Eve says to Adam: Why is it that thou diest, and I live? or how long time have I to spend after thou diest? tell me.

2 Then says Adam to Eve: Do not trouble thyself about matters; for thou wilt not be long after me, but we shall both die alike, and thou wilt be laid into my place. And when I am dead you will leave me, and let no one touch me, until the angel of the Lord shall say something about me; for God will not forget me, but will seek His own vessel which He fashioned. 3 Arise, rather, pray to God until I restore my spirit into the hands of Him who has given it; because we know not how we shall meet Him who made us, whether He shall be angry with us, or turn and have mercy upon us. 4 Then arose Eve, and went outside; and falling to the ground, she said: I have sinned, O God; I have sinned, O Father of all; I have sinned to Thee, I have sinned against Thy chosen angels, I have sinned against the cherubim, I have sinned against Thine unshaken throne; I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned much, I have sinned before Thee, and every sin through me has come upon the creation. 5 And while Eve was still praying, being on her knees, behold, there came to her the angel of humanity, and raised her up, saying: Arise, Eve, from thy repentance; for, behold, Adam thy husband has gone forth from his body; arise and see his spirit carried up to Him that made it, to meet Him. 6 And Eve arose, and covered her face with her hand; and the angel says to her: Raise thyself from the things of earth. And Eve gazed up into heaven, and she saw a chariot of light going along under four shining eagles—and it was not possible for any one born of woman to tell the glory of them, or to see the face of them—and angels going before the chariot. 7 And when they came to the place where your father Adam was lying, the chariot stood still, and the seraphim between your father and the chariot. And I saw golden censers, and three vials; and, behold, all the angels with incense, and the censers, and the vials, came to the altar, and blew them up, and the smoke of the incense covered the firmaments. 8 And the angels fell down and worshipped God, crying out and saying: Holy Jael, forgive; for he is Thine image, and the work of Thine holy hands.

Life of Adam and Eve 12: Eve’s Vision of the Two Mysteries

The Life of Adam and Eve 12:1-7

And again, I Eve saw two great and awful mysteries standing before God. And I wept for fear, and cried out to my son Set...

A1nd 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.

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Eve looked up and saw a chariot of light carried under four shining eagles, with angels going before it.

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She saw golden censers and three vials, and the smoke of the angels' incense covered the firmaments.

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Eve asked about two dark-faced figures praying for Adam, and Seth told her they were the sun and the moon.

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Seth explained that the sun and moon had lost their light because they cannot shine before the Light of the universe.

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A six-winged seraph washed Adam in the Acherusian lake, and Michael was told to raise him to paradise in the third heaven.