When Adam came to life, the Rulers panicked as they realized that the creature they had created was becoming too clever for them to manipulate:

“The body moved, and became powerful. And it was enlightened.

At once the rest of the powers became jealous. Although Adam had come into being through all of them, and they had given their power to this human, yet Adam was more intelligent than the creators and the first Ruler.” ^[1]

Moving quickly to regain control of the creative process, Yaldabaoth and his angels decided to knock Adam unconscious, rape Eve, and then alter Adam’s memories so that he would believe she had been created from his rib:

“When they saw Eve speaking with him, they said to one another, “What is this female light-being? For truly she is like the likeness which appeared to us in the light. Now come, let us seize her and let us cast our seed on her, so that when she is polluted she will not be able to ascend to her light, but those whom she will beget will serve us.

But let us not tell Adam that she is not derived from us, but let us bring a stupor upon him, and… teach him in his sleep as though she came into being from his rib so that [she] will serve and he will rule over her.” ^[2]

NOTES

“Memory blocks may… have to do with the abductee’s role as a “human specimen” unwittingly being studied over a period of years. If people are being picked up as children, implanted with monitoring devices, and abducted a second time after puberty, at the very least the first abduction would have to be concealed. If the study is truly long range, the subjects would have to be kept in the dark about their role for many years, and a strongly effective block would have to be imposed. There lurks the disturbing possibility that these enforced memory blocks may be extremely effective; the few hundred cases in which the amnesia has been pierced may ultimately represent only a tiny percentage of the actual number of abductees. The epidemic, I believe, may be almost entirely invisible…” ^[3]

1. “The Secret Book of John.” The Secret Teachings of Jesus. Trans. Marvin W. Meyer. Vintage, 1984. 75. [↩]
2. “On the Origin of the World.” The Other Bible. Ed. Willis Barnstone. Harper San Francisco, 1984. 70. [↩]
3. Hopkins, Bud. Intruders. Ballantine Books, 1987. 223. [↩]