Praised be my Lord with pure heart.

In the name of the Great Living God, the strange, the exalted, who stands above all works, may your garment shine and your form be honoured with your Lord there, the Lord of Greatness.

First Piece

Who are the mountains that do not waver,

and the water-heights that do not change,

that did not tremble, did not quake,

and whose body did not quake in its garment?

The Great Living God is the mountains that do not waver,

and the water-heights that do not change,

who did not tremble, did not quake,

and whose body did not quake in its garment.

They are our brothers, who offered abundant wages and alms, who lit up the building, who walked on the earth, rich in stumbling-blocks and altogether lack, and did not tremble, did not quake, and whose bodies did not quake in their garment before the storms, lightnings and clouds, who did not shake and tremble before the wicked and the stirrers of wrath of the earth.

They are our brothers, the Nasoraeans, the perfect, those of tested righteousness, who did not forget wages and alms, who lit up the building, who walked on the earth, rich in stumbling-blocks and altogether lack, and did not tremble, did not quake, and whose bodies did not quake in their garment before the storms, lightnings and clouds, who did not shake and tremble before the wicked and the stirrers of wrath of the earth.

The Living God considered and made it clear. The Living God sat in His own great splendour and said: "Come, We will decree the penalty of death upon that world of the wicked and that dwelling that is rich in stumbling-blocks and altogether lack. For Adam is now a thousand years old. Now he shall be called and fetched from the body, before he becomes aged, before he becomes feeble with age, before his little children rise up and commit many follies upon him."

Thereupon the Great, First Living God called, charged, equipped and sent the releaser Saurel-Qmamir-Ziwa, who releases the spirits and souls from the body and leads them away. "Death" he is called in the world, but "Faithfulness" by the knowing ones who know of him. Everyone who commits the offence of cursing death heaps up before himself sixty-six offences. For he is called, he is charged, he is sent out. He accepts no bribe, receives no gift and exchanges no one for another.

Then the Great Living God said to the releaser Saurel-Qmamir-Ziwa: "Descend, go to that world of the wicked and that dwelling that is rich in stumbling-blocks and altogether lack, call a call to Adam and teach him with excellent knowledge. Say to him: 'O Adam, first man, dumb one, foolish one, deaf one, veiled one! Up, leave the earth, which is rich in stumbling-blocks and altogether lack — for you are a thousand years old — before you become aged, before you become feeble with age, before your little children rise up and commit many follies upon you.'"

Thereupon the releaser Saurel-Qmamir-Ziwa descended and came to that world of the wicked and that dwelling that is rich in stumbling-blocks and altogether lack. They called a call to Adam and taught him with excellent knowledge. They said to him: "O Adam, first man, dumb one, foolish one, deaf one, veiled one! Up, leave the earth, which is rich in stumbling-blocks and altogether lack — for you are a thousand years old — before you become aged, before you become feeble with age, before your little children rise up and commit many follies upon you."

Then Adam was angry, he clothed himself in anger, clothed himself with anger and wrapped himself in anger. Sweet, not bitter saliva he spat and threw upon the ground. He bent himself together and did not stretch out, and his heart filled with lament. A tear fell into his eye, he cried and lamented, howled and wept. He threw himself down and stretched himself on the ground. He clenched his fists, struck them against the courts of his chest and cried: "O voice that calls to me, O excellent knowledge that is taught me! I am now a thousand years old. In this world in which I live, first the blossom-clusters are eaten before the dates, and then the dates are eaten. First the green corn is eaten before the ears, and then the ears are eaten. Further, in this world in which I live, first the tender vegetables are eaten before the strong, and then the strong are eaten." Then he said to them: "Let us ascend to the mouth of the Frash-Ziwa, to the bank of the great Jordan of the Living God and to the great building of our forebears, and look in the dwellings whether tender vegetables are there to eat or strong ones."

Thereupon the releaser Saurel-Qmamir-Ziwa ascended, stepped before the Great, First Living God and said to the Great, First Living God: "You know and it is evident to You, my Lord; the secret things are revealed before You. You need no instruction and need not ask. As for Adam, we spoke with him, but he loves the company and pleasure of that world and will not leave it."

Then the Great, First Living God called and charged the releaser Saurel-Qmamir-Ziwa and said to him: "Descend, go to that world of the wicked and that dwelling that is rich in stumbling-blocks and altogether lack. Call a call to Adam and teach him with excellent knowledge. Say to him: 'O Adam! Should no one be there, wiser than you, sitting, giving you good teachings and saying to you: No! Rise, leave the earth, which is rich in stumbling-blocks and altogether lack, before you become aged, before you become feeble with age, before your little children rise up and commit many follies upon you?' Say to him: 'O Adam, up, die, as if you had never been, and pass away, as if you had never been created. For your soul is demanded for the primal receptacle (of souls), for the great, first home and for the place where it formerly dwelt.'"

Thereupon the releaser Saurel-Qmamir-Ziwa descended and came to this world of the wicked, this dwelling that is rich in stumbling-blocks and altogether lack. They called a call to Adam and taught him with excellent knowledge. They said to him: "O Adam! Should no one be there, wiser than you, sitting, giving you good teachings and saying to you: No! Rise, leave the earth, which is rich in stumbling-blocks and altogether lack, before you become aged, before you become feeble with age, before your little children rise up and commit many follies upon you?" Further they said to him: "O Adam, up, die, as if you had never been, and pass away, as if you had never been created. For your soul is demanded for the primal receptacle, for the great, first home and for the place where it formerly dwelt."

Thereupon he said to them: "O caller who called to me, O excellent knowledge that is taught me! I am a thousand years old and would like to live another thousand years. But go to my son Sitil and call him; he is the one who is needed for that world. He is younger than I, more tender than I. He is eighty years old in this world. He has not yet trodden on the hem of a woman, and great fruits have not yet been granted him. He has not yet drawn a sword and has shed no blood in the dwellings. He is the one who is needed for that world."

Then the releaser Saurel-Qmamir-Ziwa came before the Great, First Living God and said to Him: "My Lord! You know and it is evident to You; the revealed and the secret things are revealed before You. You need no instruction. As for Adam, we spoke with him, and he sent us to his son Sitil, saying: 'I am a thousand years old and would like to live another thousand years. Go,' he said, 'to my son Sitil, who is younger than I, more tender than I. He is eighty years old in this world. He has not yet trodden on the hem of a woman, and great fruits have not yet been granted him. He has not yet drawn a sword and has shed no blood in the earth. He is the one who is needed for that world.'"

Thereupon the Great, First Living God called, equipped and sent the releaser Saurel-Qmamir-Ziwa and said to him: "Descend, go to that world of the wicked and that dwelling that is rich in stumbling-blocks and altogether lack. Call to Sitil, the son of Adam, and teach him with excellent knowledge. Say to him: 'O Sitil, son of Adam, up, die, as if you had never been, and pass away, as if you had never been created. For your soul is demanded for the primal receptacle, [for the great, first home] and for the place where it formerly dwelt.'"

Then they descended and came to this world of the wicked, this dwelling that is rich in stumbling-blocks and altogether lack. They called a call to Sitil, the son of Adam, and taught him with excellent knowledge. They said to him: "O Sitil, son of Adam! Up, die, as if you had never been, and pass away, as if you had never been created. For your soul is demanded for the primal receptacle, for the great, first home and for the place where it formerly dwelt."

Thereupon Sitil, the son of Adam, said: "O caller who called to me, O excellent knowledge that is revealed to me! I am eighty years old in this world. I have not yet trodden on the hem of a woman, and great fruits have not yet been granted me. I have not yet drawn a sword and have shed no blood on the earth. Go to my father Adam. He is a thousand years old in this world. (Let him die,) before he becomes aged, before he becomes feeble with age and before his little children rise up and commit many follies upon him."

Then they said to him: "O Sitil, son of Adam! Before we called this call to you, we called it to Adam and spoke with him, but your father Adam sent us to you."

Then Sitil, the son of Adam, said to himself: "I fear to say that I do not wish to leave my body, lest the Great Living God be angry with me in His own great place."

Thereupon Sitil, the son of Adam, rose and performed a great, not a small prayer. Then he laid aside the trunk of flesh and blood and put on a garment of splendour and an excellent, pure turban of light. 990000 myriad times his light shone more than the light of the sun, and 990000 myriad times his brightness was brighter than the brightness of the moon. A thousand times a thousand and ten thousand times ten thousand led him at the right and at the left. Winds, winds took Sitil, the son of Adam, away, storms, storms led him away, lifted him up and set him in a great cloud of light. He performed a prayer that was very great, not small. Sitil, the son of Adam, said: "I make a petition to You, O God, the First, the Living, the Mighty, the Eternal, and to Your angels Jofin-Jofafin and Sam, the well-guarded soul, to the vine that is all life and the great tree that is all healing, that the blindness be taken from the eyes of my father Adam, the stoppers from his ears and the piece of flesh from his heart, that he may behold this world to which I go."

Then the weeping, the lament and the humility of Sitil, the son of Adam, rose before the Great, First Living God, and He took the blindness from the eyes of Adam, the stoppers from his ears and the piece of flesh from his heart. He beheld that world which Sitil saw, and said to him: "My son! Come, come! I will go to that world, for which I am demanded." Then he answered him: "Go, old man, who are without wisdom, and great Marib, who are without understanding. Is there anyone who has spat spittle from his mouth and swallowed it again? Is there anyone who has come out of the mother's womb and whom one has led back into the former place? No! As I had to depart from this world before my years, let the foetus come from the womb, looking like an egg-yolk, let the little children come, while their mouth is still full of milk, let the sealed letters, the virgins, come, let the brides come, while the oil still drips from their wreath, let the little boys and little girls come through, while their mouth in this world. The householder, on the other hand, will wish for death, and it will not approach him, until they despise him and are ashamed (of him). Everyone who says: Let this little boy remain here and this old man go, will be called to account in the great place, in the house of the great."

Winds, winds took Sitil, the son of Adam, away, storms, storms led him away, lifted him up and set him at the watch-house of Silmai, the treasurer, who holds the pegs of splendour in his hand and carries the keys of faithfulness on both arms. They opened for him the gate of the treasure-house, lifted up before him the great curtain of security, led him in and showed him that vine whose inside is splendour, whose sides are light, whose roots are water, whose branches are angels, whose leaves are lamps of light, whose seed is the great receptacle of the souls. They eat what is not blameworthy and drink what is not wine. Ajar-Ziwa, a servant of the Great, First Living God ... They eat, and the delight of life comes and lies upon them. They weave wreaths of delight and put them on their heads. They laugh, leap, exult and rejoice over the glorious splendour. They are resplendent in the glory that rests upon them.

Sitil, the son of Adam, said: "On this way, path and ascent on which I have ascended, the truthful, believing, excellent and perfect men shall also ascend and come, when they depart from their body."

Thereupon the Living God, the angels and kings of the earth of light and of the bright dwelling held out faithfulness, they held out the hand of faithfulness to Sitil, the son of Adam.

God sustained the faithful,

God found His own.

His own God found,

and my soul found what it hoped for.

Life to our knowing ones, life to our understanding ones, life to the men who instruct us. Say: The Living God stands firm in His dwelling, the Living God is victorious.

Second Piece

In the name of the Living God.

When the plan went forth from the house of the Great Living God, He sent the messenger to Adam, to release him and bring him out of the body, out of this world, out of the stocks, the fetter, the cords and the snares, to take him away from the earth in which he had been placed and had been allowed to dwell and sit, to release him and bring him out of the filthy, stinking, consuming, perishable body, the ravening lion, the blazing, perishable fire, the melting, dissolving (body), the sea that cannot be fathomed, and the chasm that cannot be stopped up, the dragon that circles the world, whose power no one can withstand.

Then the soul in the body of Adam considered; it considers and feels itself too short, by an inch it feels itself too short in the body. The soul sits and speaks with the spirit and the stinking body: "Why do we sit here, why do we lie here, when we have not provided ourselves with provision for our journey? Very soon the releaser may come to us and fetch us out of this world."

Once the soul spoke with the spirit and the stinking body, but the spirit and the stinking body gave it no answer. While the soul stands and speaks with the spirit and the stinking body, the releaser came near. The releaser came near, the messenger arrived. He came near, stepped to the couch of Adam, to the couch of Adam he stepped and woke him from sleep. He said to him: "Rise, rise, Adam, lay aside your stinking body, the coat of clay in which you dwelt. Lay aside the bodily coat, the decaying body in which you dwelt. Lay aside the bodily garment in which you dwelt, and strike it about the head of those who made it. Leave the body at once in the world, for your time has come, your measure is full, to depart from this world. The Living God has sent me to you, for He longs for you. Let your course be toward the place of the Living God, toward the place where you formerly dwelt, toward the dwelling where your Lord is."

When Adam heard this, he lamented over himself and wept. He lamented and wept, and a tear fell from his eye. Adam opened his mouth and said to the messenger who had come to him: "My lord! If I come with you, who will be guardian in this so wide earth? Who will keep this my wife Hawwa company? Who will be a support to these plants which I have planted, in the ages? Who will be a support to them? Who will dwell in this house in which I dwelt; who shall be in it? When the palm bears fruit, when the Christ-thorn bears blossom, who will be its guardian? When the Euphrates and the Tigris come near, who shall seize [the water-wheel] with his hand and lead the water to the plants? When the woman in labour gives birth, who shall stand by her? Who shall yoke the oxen to the plough and who lead the seed into the earth? Who shall take the rattle in his hand and rattle to the sheep for their fold and to the antelopes for their herd? Who shall hold the orphans together, who fill the pockets of the widow? Who shall clothe the naked and lay a garment about his neck? Who shall ransom the captive, who settle strife in the village?"

Thereupon the messenger of the Living God, who had come to Adam, answered: "O Adam! Rise, ascend to your place, to the good dwelling in which you formerly dwelt, to the place whose sun does not set and whose lamps of light do not grow dark. Take the garment of splendour and clothe yourself with it and wrap yourself in precious light. Set upon yourself the crown, the crown of victories, through which the worlds shine. Bind on the girdle, the girdle of (living) water, in which one remains without pain and sorrow. Sit on your throne of splendour, which the Living God has set up for you in perfect manner. Forget the house of your keeper, in which you had to endure persecution day after day. Do not grieve, Adam, over this place in which you dwelt, for this place is desolate, and the whole dwelling lies in the wasteland. The works will be utterly abandoned and will not come together again. Wickedness is great in it and wrath extended in every city. The sons deny their father, the daughters deny their mother. The brothers kill one another, and the sisters eat one another's flesh. Every man leaves his wife, and every woman leaves her husband. That no wickedness may come and wrath be let loose upon the ages, that there be no orphans, widowers and widows and captives, rise, Adam, and leave this world and the stinking body."

Then Adam opened his mouth and said to the messenger: "My lord! If you knew that it is so, why did you make me leave my place and bring me into the stinking body? If I now leave my body, who will be a guardian to it? When it sleeps, who will wake it, who rouse it from sleep? Who will give it to eat, who to drink, and who will keep it company in the ages? When thunder and lightnings strike upon it, who will build a palace and a structure for it, who make a roof for it? Do not cramps come, does not the sun come and fall upon it? The winds seize dust and throw earth upon it. Do not the birds gather and eat of my body? Of my body they eat, nest in my hair and carry of my flesh up to their nest. They pull off my garment, tear it [and throw it] on the dunghills. Who shall be a sight for me? My lord! If you wish me to come with you, let my body come with me as escort. Let my body come with me and keep me company on my way. I have not father and mother who should come with me as escort. Gold and silver is not carried by me and does not escort me, which I might carry with me as provision for the road, and which should come with me as escort."

Thereupon the messenger who had come to Adam answered and said: "How it pains and grips you, Adam, for the stinking body in which you dwelt! Is there a body [in the house] of the Living God? A body does not ascend to the house of the Living God."

Then Adam answered the messenger who had come to him and said: "Messenger of the Living God! If it pleases and suits you, let my wife Hawwa come with me as escort and keep me company on the way. Let my sons and daughters come with me and keep me company on the way."

When his wife Hawwa heard this utterance of Adam, she cried and called aloud. She cried and called aloud, and a tear fell from her eye. She said to him: "I will come with you as escort, Adam, and keep you company on your way."

Thereupon the messenger of the Living God, who had come to Adam, said to him: "In the house of the Living God there is no body; a body does not ascend to the house of the Living God. In father and mother, in brothers and sisters, in gold and silver you cannot trust in the house of the Living God. There each one is examined only by his deeds, by wages and almsgiving, the sign and the washing and the works he has practised. When they leave the body, they are examined at the watch-houses. Adam! What use to you are false brothers who come to an end, and false sisters who are good for nothing? Your brothers are the angels of faithfulness, and your sisters are believing dwellings. Day after day they stand in the house of the Living God and perform over you a rich, long prayer. Adam! What use to you in this world is gold, which passes away, what use is silver, which grows dark? The way we have to go is long and endless. On it no miles are measured, no milestones set up according to measure. Overseers are left behind on it, and watchmen and toll-gatherers sit on it. The weapon is forged and laid ready, the iron is polished and laid ready. The cauldrons seethe, which hold the souls of the wicked. By the way is a sea without a crossing. No, each one is brought near and brought across only by wages and almsgiving. Only his works go before him as guides. The way we have to go is full of thistles and thorns. Seven walls surround it, mountains into which no breach has been made. The scale sits upright, and from a thousand it chooses one soul that is good and enlightened."

When Adam heard this, he lamented and wept over himself, and his tears flowed down. Thereupon Adam left his body. He turned and saw it, and he trembled. It grieved him to leave the body, and he could not part from it. Then he began his journey through the ether. Adam wanders and journeys like a bird that has not yet built a nest, not yet brooded and not yet received young. Adam wanders and journeys like a bird to which wings have (just) been given. He flies and journeys through the worlds and ages and is like an animal cut off from its herd. He is like the four winds, and the storms drove him on. He is like a lion that has escaped from the cage. He is like a wild boar that has escaped from the ... Adam went on and said: "Woe, woe, that I was made to leave my place, brought away from the midst of my kin and cast by force into the stinking body, the perishable lion, the grim, grim lion. I was cast into the dragon that circles the whole world. I was brought and cast among the evil planets, who daily stir up unrest. Daily they forge weapons against me. They built for me shrines of clay, delusive images, and day after day they slaughter before them and [play] on drums and flutes, to lead me astray in their midst. By the power of the Great Living God I came to them and took a place in their midst, but I did not become their companion and made no fellowship with them. I knew that I would depart, that I would depart alone, alone settle my dispute. When I was made to leave my place and brought into the stinking body, fie! — I did not enter into it and dwelt in it not an hour without treading on it with my feet and hurling it back to the earth, the dust from which it was made. Yet how beautiful (after all) was my body, how wise and beautiful was the Maker who formed it, and the goldsmith who forged it! Very beautifully He formed its head, smoothed and made its hair. He smoothed and made its hair, laid understanding in its head and poured wisdom into its heart. He made for it two eyes that shine by day and night. He made for it a great gate that daily praises the Living God. He made for it two hands that work daily without growing soft. He made for it two feet that walk from east to west. Now the form that was so beautiful goes away and becomes dust and worms in the graveyard. Its eyes went about as constellations, now they are darkness. Stopped are the two windows that daily heard the word of the Living God. Stopped is the great gate that daily praised the Living God. Whereas the hands formerly worked day and night without growing soft, now the birds do not fear my body. Whereas the feet formerly walked miles away, now the birds do not run away. It grieves me to leave it, and yet I cannot carry it with me. I said to myself, we could go while I carry my body, but then its walls burst, and it fell apart. Thereupon I struck my body down and threw it away, and it went and became dust and worms. It went, became dust and worms, it divided and fell into every city."

At the gate of the graveyard

brothers do not ransom one another.

If brothers ransomed one another,

no body would come to the graveyard.

No body would come to the graveyard,

the soul would not lay aside the body.

If the father ransomed his son,

there would be none childless on the earth.

If the sons ransomed their father,

there would be no orphans on the earth.

If the man ransomed his wife,

there would be no widowers on the earth.

If the woman ransomed her husband,

no widow would be called out in the markets.

Thereupon the messenger of the Living God, who had come to Adam, answered and said to him: "O Adam! How it pains and grips you for the stinking body in which you dwelt! Lift up your eyes and behold the cloud of light that comes to meet you, Adam, led by four men, sons of light. A thousand times a thousand miles the cloud travels that has come to meet you. In it lie wrapped up garments of splendour and pure turbans of light. In it lie resplendent wreaths, wide and endless."

The four angels, the sons of light, who had come to him, addressed him and said to him: "Why do you weep, Adam, and why does a tear fall from your eye?"

Thereupon he answered them: "I am a servant without a master, with whom the king is angry." Thereupon they said to him: "You, Adam, are a servant of the Great Living God, the servant of the mighty God. You are the servant of the Great God, so come in peace, chosen one, pure one, one whose sins God has forgiven. Come, ascend and take your place in the great cloud of light. The bright dwelling remembered you, your kin remembered you, for you were theirs, and they lifted you up from the world of this earth, the world that is without worth."

Then Adam opened his mouth and said to the angels who had come to him: "If it pleases you, angels, my brothers, wait for me an hour, only an hour wait for me, that I may send for my wife Hawwa to come with me as escort."

Thereupon the angels answered and said to Adam, the head of the whole stock: "Be calm and silent, Adam, and may the calm of the good enfold you. You go and ascend to your place, and your wife Hawwa will ascend after you. Your whole stock will follow you, ascending. Then all generations will come to an end, and all creatures will perish. All wells and seas will dry up, and the rivers and brooks will fail. The mountains and heights will

... destroyed, they fall and sink in. Babel and Borsippa are laid waste and pass away, and become as though they had never existed. The land of the Persians and the land of the Romans are destroyed and become as though they had never existed. Sind and the land of India fall upon one another, and the region of the Simra land, the Tura land and the Iron Mountain slay one another. They pass judgement on their murderers, and the earth passes judgement on him who shed upon it the blood of a son of Adam and destroyed the likenesses of his own kind. The bailiffs, the pursuers, the adulterers, the thieves, the forgers, the informers, the shifters of boundaries, the movers of boundary stones, the sorcerers, the witches, the clerics, the priests, the soothsayers, the slanderers, the makers of charms, the diviners and the astrologers go into the burning fire. When the earth falls into ruins, the heaven stands without stars, the sun and moon return to their place, the lights return to their place, the four winds of the house return to their place, and all the wicked sink into the depths of darkness, then happy are you, Adam, that you were chosen and rose up from the world of the angels and the sorrow of this world. Do not grieve, Adam, for this world which you have left. After you the little children leave it, before they have come to understanding. The youths and maidens, the lads and lasses leave it, before they have celebrated a betrothal. The bridegrooms and brides leave it, and dust falls upon their couch. The nails of their bridal chamber spring out, and they leave the world empty-handed. The married men and women acquire houses and then leave them; they go away and end in the field of the grave. The old men and heads of households long for death, and it does not come to them; then, against their will, they leave the world. The king leaves his crown behind, the nobles leave their splendour behind. Beauty is lost to the women, charm to the noble ladies, and they walk barefoot to the burial ground. You, Adam, rise up and present your case before God, the Great, the First, the case concerning the world in which you dwelt.

Say to God, the Great Life: "Lord, You created this world; the tribes have been commanded away from Your presence, and strife has been cast into the Tibil. Why do You now call me and my whole tribe to Yourself? The whole world has been brought into desolation, while no guardian was there for it, while the Seven and the Twelve, in their own world, exercise lordship over men and my tribes are constantly exposed to persecution. Now, if it is pleasing to You, O Great One, and it is Your will, let that world not be laid waste, but let it shine; let my tribes not be cut off from it, and let Your name, O mighty, First Lord, not depart from there. Let these abodes which the angel Hibil-Ziwa founded not be laid waste, let the Jordan not be taken away from there, and let Satan and the planets not rule over them."

Then God, the Great, the First, said to Adam, the head of the whole tribe: "O Adam! Remain calm in your enlightenment, and let the peace of the righteous embrace you. Hibil-Ziwa is here, your brothers the angels (Uthras) are here, the whole Jordan is here. You, Adam, shall dwell here, your wife Hawwa will come here, and your whole tribe will rise up after you. This is the abode that was founded for you, Adam, and your wife Hawwa, in the presence of the mighty, First Lord, until the Day, the Day of Judgement, until the Hour, the hours of salvation, until the great Day of Resurrection. Then you, Adam, and all your tribes will arise and go to your own earth. So set your mind at ease and let your heart rest upon its support."

And God is victorious.

This book, "When the measure of Adam was full and his reckonings were dissolved in the ages before him," Manda dHaije recites and explains. He says: "Condemnation falls upon everyone who, when he leaves his body and the world in which he was, longs for company; who loves gold and silver; who says what he has not seen and tells what he has not heard; who sets brothers apart and separates sons from their parents; who lends and takes interest; who devours ...; who shifts boundaries, moves boundary stones and commits other ugly deeds. These will be cursed; they will not go the way that Adam, the head of the age, went; they will not rise up and behold the place of light when the good souls ascend to the house of life, but will have to turn back from the great place of light and the luminous dwelling."

Life to those among us who know, life to those who understand, life to the men who teach us. God stands firm in His majesty; God is victorious over all works.