Revelation of Adam
Nag Hammadi Codices 5:5
(p. 348) 65:24
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Adam narrated :- "I was asleep in the thought of my mind, and I saw in front of me three persons whose appearance I could not recognize ..." |
fn. 9 "On the three persons, cf. Secret Book of John II, 2; Genesis 18:3; Testament of Abraham 6." |
(p. 350) 75.
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"Then fire, sulphur, and asphalt will be cast upon those people". |
fn. 32 destruction of Sdom & of <amorrah in Genesis 19; cf. Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit II, 56 |
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Abrasax, Sablo, and Gamaliel will rescue those people from the fire |
fn. 34 "On these rescuers, cf. Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit III, 52-53; 64-65; Three Forms of the First Thought 48." |
(pp. 351-355) 77:18-83:4 the 13 Kingdoms
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(pp. 351-2) 77-78. 1st -- "He came to the bosom of his mother." |
"bosom" (GM 12.a) of Hera |
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(p. 352) 78. 2nd "A bird came, took the child who was born, and brought him onto a high mountain. He was nourished by the bird of heaven." |
[in the S^ah-Nameh] bird who nourished the infant Sam in nest (or else, sons of S^et [B-MDBR 24:17] in nest [B-MDBR 24:21] on cliff) |
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3rd "He was banished from his city, with his mother, and brought to a desert place." |
Yis^ma<->el, with his mother Hagar, was banished to the desert |
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78-9 4th woman was sought by S^lomoh, along with Phersalo and Sauel |
queen of S^ba>, who visited S^lomoh |
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(p. 353) 79. 5th "He ... was cast into the sea. The abyss received him, gave birth to him, and bore him up." |
Melikertes or Glaukos or Eu-molpos) |
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79-80. 6th "She became pregnant from desire for flowers, and gave birth to him in that place. The angels of the flower garden nourished him." |
Ares & his twin-sister Eris were conceived when their mother Hera "touched a certain flower" (GM 12.c) (or else, Kore who, while "picking flowers in a meadow" [GM 24.c], was abducted by her husband) |
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80. 7th "Dragons brought him down to their caves, and he became a child." |
Eri-khthonios or Erekhtheus or Kekrops |
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8th -- "A cloud came over the earth and enveloped a rock, and he cane from it. The angels over the cloud nourished him." |
Nephalion son (CDCM) of the nymph Paria (allusion to the marble-rock of Paros ?) |
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(pp. 353-4) 81. 9th "One of the nine muses went away by herself ... so that she desired herself alone ... and became pregnant by it. He was born. The angels over desire nourished him." |
son of the erotic mousa Erato, Thamuris had sexual desire for all the Mousai (CDCM, s.v. "Thamyris") |
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(p. 354) 10th "His god ... produced him by his hand and ejaculated" ["God masturbated" (fn. 47)] |
[Kemetian] "Min was depicted as ... holding his penis erect in his left hand (a masturbatory reference ...)" and was identified with "god Pan, a fertility god, whom the Greeks thought had invented masturbation" (M; MI) |
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81-82. 11th "The father desired his [own] daughter, and she became pregnant from her father." |
Kinuras (CDCM, s.v. "Cinyras") |
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82. 12th "He came from two luminaries" ["The sun and the moon." (fn. 48)] |
Phaethon (or else, Perses) |
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13th "Every offspring of their ruler [Arkhon] is a word [Logos], and this word received a mandate there." |
Manda< d H.ayye (word of life) (or else, Trismegistos as incarnation of the Logos) |
GM = Robert Graves : The Greek Myths. 1955.
CDCM = Pierre Grimal : A Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology. 1990.
M = http://www.egyptiandreams.co.uk/min.php?currency=GBP
MI = http://www.life-union.com/6/mi/min.htm
(p. 355) 84.
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Word came to them from Mikheus, Mikhar, and Mnesi-nous |
fn. 54 "Cf. Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit III, 64; Zostrianos 6; Three Forms of the First Thought 48." |
The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, ed. by Marvin Meyer. HarperOne, NY, 2007. pp. 343-356