Eve was not produced from Adam’s rib; rather, Adam was created by fallen angels who abandoned him as lifeless experiment, a soulless robot who lay twitching helplessly on the ground until Sophia’s daughter Eve descended from the heavens and brought him to life:
“When Eve saw her co-likeness cast down, she pitied him, and she said, ‘Adam, live! Rise up on the earth!’ Immediately her word became a deed… Adam rose up [and] he opened his eyes. When he saw her, he said, ‘You will be called ‘the mother of the living’ because you are the one who gave me life.‘” [1]
In yet another version of the story, Sophia took pity on Adam and tricked Yaldabaoth into bringing him to life by sacrificing some of his own, stolen power:
“Yaldabaoth breathed into man the breath of life [Gen. 2:7] and was thus secretly deprived of the power; hence man had mind and desire, and these are the parts of man which are saved.” [2]
NOTES
“Satan’s goal is to teach humans to regain the conscious control of their spirit bodies. Many do. Once this is achieved, these people can perceive the spirit world as well as the physical world. They can talk freely with demons, leave their physical bodies with their spirit bodies, and with full conscious awareness go places and do things with, what seems to the average human, supernatural power. They can levitate objects without ever touching them physically, light candles without a match, create physical healings, etc. Human spirits torment and afflict many people just the same as demon spirits do. We can’t see them because our physical eyes cannot see the spirit world. Only a spirit can see a spirit or the spiritual world…
God does not want His people to control their spirit bodies in such a manner. If we did so, not only would we be open to overwhelming temptations to sin, we would not need to be so dependent upon Him and we would also be constantly aware…“ [3]
- “On the Origin of the World.” The Other Bible. Ed. Willis Barnstone. Harper San Francisco, 1984. 70. [↩]
- “The Sethian-Ophites.” The Other Bible. Ed. Willis Barnstone. Harper San Francisco, 1984. 662. [↩]
- Brown, Rebecca. Prepare For War. Whitaker House, 1992. 253-54. [↩]
