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The Birth of Cain + Abel

"The first ruler raped Eve, and produced in her two sons, a first and a second: Elohim and Yahweh. Elohim has the face of a bear, Yahweh has the face of a cat. One is just, the other is unjust. He placed Yahweh over the fire and the wind, and he placed Elohim over the water and the earth. He called them by the names Cain and Abel, for he meant to deceive.

To this day copulation has persisted because of the first ruler. He planted the lust for reproduction within the woman who was with Adam. Through copulation the first ruler produced duplicate bodies, and he breathed some of his contrary spirit into them. He placed these two rulers over the elements, that they might rule over the bodily tomb."

(The Secret Book of John, from Marvin W. Meyer’s The Secret Teachings of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospels, pp.79-80, pub A.D.1984)