While she spoke thus, I was with her without her knowing it. Then I said: "There will be a day when you, Ruha, will give birth. Your son will be Ur, the giant of darkness."

From the day when Ruha said this until the day when I appeared to her as her companion Gaf, she wavered and said: "What shall I do with the man who took me from my parents and made me a captive, who took me away from my place from which I came forth?"

When Ruha said this, I said to her: "How many years is it since you have been pregnant with Ur?" She answered: "Alas, two thousand years." Then I said to her: "Suffering still awaits you." She asked: "How many more years must I carry?" I answered her: "Seventy thousand myriads of years and eleven days you shall carry in your womb, and then you shall bear Ur, the great, warlike giant. When you see him at his birth, you will no longer wish to see me."

When I told her this, her heart was oppressed and she said: "Alas, how long must I carry and bear the burden in my body?" Then I said to her: "When I am no longer with you, the years will pass quickly." She said: "Go, you are right. When you are not with me, my heart will find a support, and I do not long for you."

When she spoke so, I ascended to my Lord. He embraced me, and His garment leapt toward me. The Spirit of Knowledge and his likeness set me upright beside them and said: "What have you done, beloved son, whose splendor is wondrous, whose form is radiant and whose enlightenment is wondrous, whom we called forth and whose form was set up by us? He supports our mind and our knowledge."

When my Lord spoke so to me, I stretched myself out before them in prostration to God, in enlightenment, insight and praise, as they have taught me. They let me receive in fullness: my splendor was their splendor, their splendor my splendor. Then they said: "By your life, Hibil-Jawar, messenger, tell us how it went with you in that world in which you were so long that we almost forgot you. Every day we thought of you and drew before us your form, your splendor and your countenance. Your Lord read a prayer for you every day and said: May Hibil, Sitil and Anosh, my three servants, who are my chosen friends, ascend and come."

I conversed quietly with them and said to God and to the Spirit of Knowledge and his likeness: "Where my power is great, by your splendor, which is extraordinary and great, by the power that you have given me, by the helpers that you created for me, of what shall I be afraid? In the shelter in which you have sheltered me, I am not afraid of them, and fear does not enter my mind. No, trusting in you I lived until the day when I came, sat down and spoke with them as one of them. All called me 'our lord' and 'our king.' I took from them all their secrets and carried them off. They gave me a pass, because of the man from whom the plan has come to us, that when he is there he will contend with us. By the enlightenment, the knowledge and the revelation that is revealed in your mind, you created me. You spoke to me, taught me and planted me. You sent me into that darkness, before the mother and father of Ur existed, indeed before their parents existed. I shut all the gates and bolted all the bolts, so that they cannot go to one another. No one goes into the world of the other, and no gate is opened to them."

Then God, my Lord, said to me: "O Hibil-Jawar, hidden messenger, upon whom the hand of his Lord was laid, and whom we made like ourselves. If we had not done this and you had not set it in order, we should not have been a match for Ur and his mother."

When they spoke so to me, I said to them: "I will arise and go to Ruha, who is near to giving birth to Ur." "Go," they said, "and set it in order, as you set it in order before."

So I went, arrived and found Ruha restless and distressed, having come to the pangs of birth. The day was to draw near on which she was to bear her son Ur. She stood there and wound swaddling bands. Three hundred and sixty bands she wound, saying: "I wind bands, so that on the day when I give birth I may lay him from one band into the other."

While she wound the bands, I said to her: "Prepare yourself, for your month is coming." But she did not speak with me. Then I said to her: "Your works are worthless."

Then I left her, set out and settled at the border place. I said to myself: "Now the great plan of the rebel is being fulfilled. He was created, he came into being and begot sons." I kept silence and did not speak.

Then Ruha had her birth pangs and was to bear Ur, the lord of darkness. When she bore him, I saw him, and he resembled a small Gimra. I saw him. After a thousand years Ruha took her son and moved him out of the first band. In every band he lay a thousand years. She laid him from one band into the other. Until Ur reached the last band, he had not left the garment of his mother's womb. When he came out of the garment of his mother's womb, he fell into the black water. He lay there and writhed.

Then I said: "Now Ur has been born." His mother saw him, and he was still very small and appeared hideous to her. She did not know that he would grow into a greater giant than the mighty giants, his parents.

I looked at him, then left him and ascended upon those iron walls. I stood upon them and spoke in my enlightenment and praise, which my Lord, God, had given me, and by the great Mystery that dwelt with me. I made seven golden walls and surrounded that whole world with them. Over each single wall I pronounced secret names and secret designations, the names Hamamel, Hathmel, Natrel, Zarzel, Pashrel and Halsel, which no one can move from their place.

When I had built those walls and set them in order, I came and found him lying in the black water like a worm and writhing. I measured him: his length was a span and his breadth a span. Then I said: "Now I will ascend, go and sit at the border place, until he grows up and becomes as was said of him, when his mother called him the great giant, the power of darkness."

When it happened that he became big and strong and had grown mighty, I said: "Why do I sit here? I will arise, I will know and understand, I will go down and beneath this black water create a copper earth and make it dense, whose thickness shall be eight hundred and eighty thousand miles, that Ur may rest upon it." When this had come out of my mouth, the mouth of Jawar-Hibil, it came into being of itself and stood ready.

Then I went up and came upon the black water and saw that he had grown very much, and I said to myself: "I will pass my hand over his side, so that his strength is shaken and he grows no more. For if he grows more, the whole world will burst from his strength and his growth."

Then I laid aside the splendor and the light from me and passed my hand over his side. Then he sank into the black water a thousand myriads of miles, until he arrived and came to rest on the copper earth. From his weight and his fall a rift came about in the copper earth, twelve thousand miles long and wide, and a trembling went through all the worlds of darkness. Then his parents said: "Now the copper earth will collapse and crush us on the spot."

Ur hid in that rift out of the fear that he had and the dread that he felt. I waited until he came out of the rift and the black water. I hid my splendor from his eyes.

Then he said to his mother: "What have you done to me? I was to grow, and you passed your hand over me without my knowing it, and I became afraid."

Then his mother rose and swore to him by her parents: "There has not been a day on which I passed my hand over your side." But he fell into evil bitterness and in his rage wanted to devour his own mother. "Where are your parents?" he asked her. She answered him: "Come, let us go to them."

Further she said to him: "Come, I will show you a crown, put it on your head, and you shall be king. From the day you were born I have made it for you." "Show it to me, that I may see it," he said to her. Then she answered him: "Come, I will show it to you; it is hidden by the walls."

He cast his eye on the crown, he took the crown and put it on his head. Ruha then said to him: "Rejoice in your crown, for this crown is your strength." But he said to his mother: "Mother! Do not die an evil death! I will not take it from my head; indeed, I will guard it." Further he said to her: "Come, show me the gate, that we may go to our parents." But she answered him: "Before you were born I searched much about the world and did not find the gate."

Then he wanted to devour his mother, until she ran away from him. She cried and called: "Woe, woe before a son who despises his mother."

He ran groaning about the world and could not find the gate to enter in. Then he called to his mother and said to her: "Do not be afraid, come, show it to me." But she said to him: "You do not believe my oaths?" Then he said to her: "Is there a world that has no gate? Is there anyone whose parents shut and bolt the gate in his face? Is there a gate through which someone goes out and does not recognize it again? Is there anyone whom his parents shut out from themselves?" She answered him: "Am I such a one? I search and ponder over everything." Then he asked her: "Is there nothing that we could do?" She said to him: "I know high and powerful incantations, before which, when I recite them, the earth melts." He said to her: "Recite your incantations and tell me some of them." She said to him: "When I recite them, you will learn them." "Recite," he said to her. Then she said to him: "Come, let us go to those walls where your crown lay."

He rose and went with her, they went and arrived, and she spoke a thousand times a thousand endless and ten thousand times ten thousand countless words, without the walls melting. Then he said to his mother: "Did you not say: I know great and powerful incantations?" She answered him: "What shall I do, when I do not know what has come over me?" He said to her: "Come, do as you know."

Then she rose and with her incantations and secrets created warlike demons. When he saw them with his eyes, he knew that his mother knew great, powerful and mighty incantations. "These demons," he said to her, "shall be helpers to me." He fawned on his mother and said to her: "Since you understand these works, why have you not made yourself a companion?" She answered him: "My son! I told myself that I desire no one but you." When she told him this, he caressed her and kissed her.

I, Jawar, had not known, when I brought her from her place, that she was versed in these works. While she did this, I was invisible to them, and they did not notice me. I stood before them, hidden from their eyes, and saw what they were doing.

She said to her son: "Come, I will show you a mirror that I possess." "Show it to me," he said to her. Then she said to him: "Here, behold, my king and hero."

She showed it to him, and he saw his face in that mirror, he saw the worlds of darkness, he saw his parents and saw the worlds of light.

As he looked so, he bent over, drew himself together and did not straighten. His stature bent, and he said to his mother: "Why have you not given me the mirror until today? I have seen my face in it."

She answered him: "My son! This mirror and the crown, from the time when I came up and my protector brought me up to this place, your crown, your mirror and this one Gimra were with me, and I told myself that when you were born they should belong to you." She asked him: "What have you seen, my son?"

"I saw," he said to her, "the worlds of my parents; I saw each one in his own world. I saw the worlds of light and said to myself: What shall I do, that I may see my parents, that I may see with my eyes the light that is not ours?"

Then she said to him: "Show me the mirror, that I may look into it." He gave it to her, and she saw in it what her son had seen. "What shall we do now?" he asked her. She stood there and angered him, for she said: "Now I know nothing." Yet her heart fell from its support, for she understood everything. "My son," she said to him, "set your eyes on your place of origin and on your own parents, but undertake no battle against those worlds of light."

When she spoke so to him, he seized her by the hair, pulled her to him and trampled her with his feet. Then she uttered three hundred and sixty cries in one cry and said to him: "Woe, woe, my son, do all that you wish." Then he said to her: "I will fight against the light, not against the darkness."

When Ur spoke so, he cried out against the black water. The black water whirled before him in a whirl, until it struck against the walls and ramparts that separate the darkness from the light, and knocked against the walls. He raised his voice and uttered a cry, until all the walls shook.

Then God said to me, Jawar: "Why do you sit there now, Jawar-Hibil, messenger? Rise, go to Ur, the arrogant lord of darkness."

I, Jawar, did not depart from the word of my Lord, but went and came to Ur, I and the Uthras of my company and my helpers, whom my Lord had created for me.

When Ur, the lord of darkness, saw me and my form, he buried himself in the black water. I now took the crown from his head, laid it in seven garments and went my way.

Ur came out of the black water and said to his mother: "Who was that, who came against me?" She answered him: "This one who came against you has come to subdue you." Then he asked his mother: "Is there anyone who is able to subdue me?" His mother answered him: "If you are a match for this man, whose power is his splendor, why can you not take your crown from him?"

When his mother spoke so to him, he threw his hands upon his head and cried: "Woe, woe is me!" He bent over and did not straighten, and said to his mother: "He seized me, so that my backbone broke."

When he spoke so to his mother, she wept and groaned over him. Then he sprang up from his throne and said to her: "Whatever is to come over me, let it come."

Then he rose and came in rage and wrath with a thousand myriads of demons of his company. But when they saw me, they died and perished and became as if they had never been.

Then he sprang up in fury and went his way. He entered the black water and called countless demons. He called a demon as great as himself, and came against me anew. But when the demons saw me, they died, also those who were otherwise with him.

He looks behind him and before him and says: "What shall I do?" Then his mother said to him: "You are not a match for the power of this light." "Am I not?" he said to her, "where my power is great?" "If you can," she said to him, "rise, let us go to the walls, and shake them from their place." Then he said to his mother: "Come, let us go."

They went. When he tried to move the walls, they were not moved by him, and he was ashamed before his mother. Then she said to him: "There is no one who can move these walls from their place. For I have muttered an incantation for many years without the walls melting."

Then he said to his mother: "What shall I do?" She answered him: "You own a certain pearl; put it on your head, then your power will increase."

When she brought the pearl and put it on his head, he cried out at the black water. Then the water whirled and ran away before him.

Then he said: "I will ascend to the light and to the great spring of water."

But I, Jawar, appeared to him in that garment, and he shrank and fell down before me. I seized that pearl which his mother had given him, with which he adorned himself, and lifted it up. Then I left him and went to my own, who dwelt with me.

Then he said to his mother: "Woe, woe, mother! Alas, our power and our firmness were taken from us." She said to him: "My son, you can accomplish nothing against this man." Further she said to him: "Come, let us enter the black water and look for the Gimra that is within me. When it falls into the water, the black water boils. Then we shall see what we should do."

He and his mother then entered the black water, and I, Jawar-Ziwa, entered behind them. Ruha then took that Gimra from within her, and it fell into the black water. The black water boiled and whirled, until the rift became visible that had come about from the weight of Ur. Then he said to his mother: "Mother! See this rift, which came about when I fell, when you passed your hand over me." She saw the rift and was alarmed by it.

I, Jawar, blinded and confused Ruha and took that Gimra away from her. She searched for it but could not find it. Then she lamented, struck her head with her hands and cried: "Woe, woe, our sorcery and witchcraft are lost, and speech and being heard were taken from us." She wept and he wept, and they uprooted the earth through their agitation. He rose out of the black water and said to his mother: "I will arise and make war."

Then he called for the last time, raised his voice, heated himself in agitation and cried out at the black water. Then the black water fell upon the walls, the walls were struck and resounded like a bronze basin. At this sound the Uthras sat in clouds, and the Lord of Greatness sat in his own hiding place.

But I, Jawar-Ziwa, the messenger, the foremost among all the messengers, said: "In the power of the great Mystery that dwells with me, and in the power of God, my Lord." I opened the gate, took the high staff and showed it. Then his eye contracted with a tear, and he wept over himself. I bound him and threw him before me, Jawar, son of Jawar. Then I brought a chain heavier than all his worlds, ten thousand times as heavy as he himself, and laid it around Ur, the chief of the whole host of darkness. I shook his bones, and he cried out and called: "Woe, woe, my lord!" His mother also cried and wept over her son Ur. Then I said to her: "O Ruha, go and sit still. God has sent me in wrath against him."

I appointed four guardians over him. I threw him on his face and wrapped him in four cloths. I made four corners to them: one toward the west, one toward the east, one toward the north, one toward the south.

In the west I appointed over him Azazel, Azaziel, Tagfel and Margazel the Great, who is angry with his companions; they keep watch over him. In the east I appointed four others over him: Urpel, Marpel, Tagfel and Hannel, who is at times gracious to them, at times threatens. In the north I appointed over him Kanfan and Kafan, Gubran and Guban, who is strong and vigorous over them: they keep watch over him. In the south I appointed four others over him: Hailel, whose power is great, Qarbel, Nurel and Nuriel, who looses fire against him and the angels, his companions; they keep watch over him.

When I had appointed them, had brought it about that Ur could undertake nothing, and had informed myself about this world of the black water, which was to be the dwelling place of Ur, until Abathur should be created, I ascended to the house of God and said to my Lord: "Rejoice and be of good cheer, for Ur is subdued and brought low."

He kissed me with His pure mouth, caressed me and kissed me, revealed to me and said to me: "Hibil, pure servant! The rebel has created three sons. One of them guards the nest of his parents, one dwells with his father, one, that Abathur, goes into that world in which you have been. He sees his face in the black water, and his likeness and son will be formed for him from the black water."

When God, my Lord, spoke so, Abathur rose, opened the gate, looked into the black water, and in the same hour his likeness was formed in the black water. Ptahil was formed and ascended to the border place. Abathur looked closely at Ptahil and said to his son Ptahil: "Come, come, Ptahil, you are the one whom I saw in the black water."

When he saw him in his own form, clothed with seven garments of every kind and every color, he took them off him and took them away from him. He clothed him with his splendor and covered him with his light. But he (Ptahil) did not ascend to the worlds of light, since he was afraid of his parents. Abathur set him down at the border and said to him: "Stay, Ptahil, sitting in this your place, until God asks for you, in order to know you."

When Abathur spoke so, I, Jawar-Hibil, addressed Abathur and said to him: "Rejoice in the son whom you have created. He will be a companion and helper to you."

When I spoke so to him, Abathur rose before me, bowed in reverence before me, Hibil-Uthra, and said: "Yes, by your power the son Ptahil came into being and was granted (to me)." Then I said to him: "Consider what you expect from this world, that such a plan could arise! Take care that you do not foolishly charge Ptahil with something that he does not understand." But he did not listen to what I told him. So I ascended to my Lord.

Abathur then gave him a task and said to him: "Rise, Ptahil, my son, make a condensation in the black water!"

He set about the condensation, but it did not come about. Then he stood there thoughtful and said to his father: "Father! I took of those seven garments in which I was created, and entered the water, but no earth condensed."

Then his father said to him: "Fool! Take care not to set yourself on a level with me. Take of the seven garments of splendor, light and glory with which I clothed you, and throw them into the black water, that a condensation may now form."

When he heard this from his father Abathur, he rose, took of those seven garments of splendor, light and glory, and threw them upon the black water; then the earth condensed in a condensation of twelve thousand miles, and the whole world stood there. The black water formed a circle around the world.

Then I raised my voice against Ptahil. He was afraid of my voice, he was terrified of my speech, he stretched himself out upon the condensation that he had formed, and cried: "Woe to me, that this Hibil has raised his voice against me."

When I saw him in such fear, I was kind to him, caressed him and said to him: "Do and make what is right, and complete your works before your Lord and before God, who is far from you."

When I had told him this, I surrounded the condensation that he had formed with seven walls.

Then he was in thought. Ruha now devised a ruse against him and said to him: "From what were you created, from what did you come into being, Ptahil, that your form is so beautiful?" Ptahil answered Ruha: "From this world I was created, came into being and was formed."

When Ruha heard this from Ptahil, her heart grew strong, and she said to him: "You are of me." She then rose, came before her son (Ur) and said to him: "Why do you crouch there, my hero, and why do you lie? Come, rise with me, then one like you will come to be for me, and he will free you from your fetter."

When he heard this from his mother, he tried to swing himself up, but he did not swing himself up to her. She saw him and wept over him, because the burden pressed heavily upon him. She bore seven sons. When she saw them, she spat before them and said: "I searched, but did not see it. What shall I do now?" Then she said: "I will go again."

She went again, and in another pregnancy she bore twelve sons. When she saw them, she wept over them and said to them: "How do you look, my sons? You have no power and do not resemble your father. Now I know in my soul that I must have no trust in this world."

When they heard this from their mother, they became embittered. They took one another by the hand and sat down in the lap of mist-clouds that they themselves had made. She then said to them: "Where are you going? Now the man is coming who bound your father and took him captive."

Then each one of them wept over himself, and they said: "Woe, why were we born?"

I, Jawar-Hibil, the pure servant, stood by them and wanted to make them as if they had never been. I considered and said: "What shall I do with these wretches, who are not like those giants whom I saw in the lower worlds? No, I will let them run the course of this world and go the way of this world."

When I said this, God showed Himself in His fullness, without lack. I called to them and spoke to them, and their hearts fell from their support. Ruha wept over them and said to them: "This man who has called to you is the destroyer of your father." Then each one of them uprooted the earth through his agitation. Ptahil cried: "Woe! The condensation that I made has been uprooted for me. What shall I do?" Then I said to Ptahil: "Do not be afraid. Now I have to deal with these who act so."

Then I called to them and said to them: "Do not be afraid! I will take you and assign you a dwelling place."

When I spoke so to them, they did nothing. Then I asked them: "What are your works?" They said: "Lord! Do all that you wish, only be kind to us, stranger."

Then I called the Sun by its name, then the Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and Mars. To each one of them I gave (an appointed course) and said to them: "I appoint for you chariots in which you shall be set. I clothe you with a wondrous garment and give you brightness, that you may give light in this world."

Then all said to the Sun, their eldest brother: "You shall be our king, and Venus shall be our queen in the world. We all wish to be subject to you."

When I heard this from them, I brought them a boat, then I called Sar and Sarwan and said to them: "Guard the boat and be helpers to the Sun, the head of the host, the eldest among his brothers."

The two Uthras did not depart from what I told them. I set them in the vessel, and they gave light to the world three hundred and sixty thousand years in its desolate state.

Then I, Jawar, reflected and said: "I will create Adam." I called the planets and said to them: "Form the bodily shape." They formed it as I had told them.

Then I brought the soul from the treasure of the mighty God, which was kept in the house of Nitufta, which had grown great in Tanna, and cast it into the body of Adam. Then I made for him his wife Hawwa, so that this world might be awakened and established.

I shall be the conveyer of the souls that are born here and, beyond, are called Uthras, which ascend and behold the outer ether and the place from which they were created.

Until the measure of this world is full and they ascend and behold their Original Lord, the Knowledge of Life, Manda dHaije, is recognized, and his servant Hibil, who orders the ranks for God, the Mighty in glory.

Life to our knowing ones, life to our understanding ones, life to the men who instruct us. God stands firm in His dwelling, God is victorious over all works, and victorious is Jawar-Ziwa and his helpers and disciples.