Liber Lilith : a Gnostic Grimoire / Creation Myth

Liber Lilith: The Grimoire

Chapter 1

The Masterpieces of forbidden knowledge revealed by Lilith, the Queen of Harlots, unto Lamech, son of
Methusael, son of Mehujael, son of Irad, son of Enoch, son of Cain the Accursed.

It happened in the dark of the Moon, when Lamech with troubled mind lay upon his cot to sleep that
Lilith came to him in a dream. He knew her by the beauty of her red hair, blazing in long coils of beaten
copper wire with the jewels of Egypt. The dust of the rose blushed on her cheek. From her parted lips
dripped scarlet juice of the pomegranate. Her eyes were two rolling emerald waves of the sea that
caught the blood of the setting Sun upon their crests. White her teeth with the whiteness of snows on
the distant mountain, white her breasts with the pallor of the morning mist that lingers in the valley.

Lamech gazed upon her, and his heart was smitten with desire. He forgot the faces of his wives. They
became as bleached skulls over which the hand of Death had stretched a parchment to write mockeries
upon.

“Fear not, child of my womb, for I have come to comfort you in the darkness of your soul.” So she spoke
in a voice of wind on the sea. “I do not know you.” I told her. “You are not the wife of Mathusael, my
father.”

She placed the fingers of her palm, white as the lily, over my lips and smiled.

“Listen and be wise. All the seed of Cain and its seed and the seed of its seed was given unto me even to
the seventh generation. Faithless one, you are child of my womb as was your father and his father before
him. Deny me not! Soon the blood on your hand will prove your birth. Hark unto me and I will teach
you wisdom that has not been spoken since the beginning.”
Saying this, she drew me to her breast and thrilled me with burning caresses until I swooned with
pleasure and lay in my own defilement. Darkness intoxicated my soul. From a great height I heard her

say to me, “Listen to the wisdom of the aeons and be wise in understanding. O son of blood. When you
wake on the morrow take pen and ink block and record these sayings upon papyrus leaves. Seal them in
clay and hide them under the earth where I will show you for the teaching of coming ages.”

She spoke many wonders through the night until the crowing cock announced the dawn. Then she
vanished leaving the scent of sandalwood. Lamech arose from his couch and got pen and ink block and
leaves of papyrus and wrote in the script of the angels her words even as she had ordered it.

Chapter 2

Hear and be wise. The God of the sons of Adam is not the highest monarch of the heavenly zones.
Above him swells one so much greater that his greatness cannot be measured. Even the name of God
defiles him, for he is not a god but a singleness of being without discontinuity. He shines with a pure
light no eye can see and speaks in thunder no ear can hear. There is none existing prior to him to limit
his duration. He is ineffable and perfect, standing alone complete unto himself.

Neither male nor female, neither large nor small, neither breath nor flesh, the mind of man can never
question his qualities for he is unknowable. He endures outside of time and encompasses duration. He
is the Father or Aeons. He rules before and above all existence. He gives knowledge but is not Wisdom.
He gives mercy but is not Love. The name of him is forever unspeakable, for in it are all names and
moments in the existence of things, and if ever it were spoken aloud the universe would unravel like the
hem of a garment and come to an end.

Eternal Unity gazed at himself within himself, for he was alone, in the mirror of his own radiance. He
sent a shinning seed of desire into the light and impregnated his image by an act of self love. None the
less he remained a virginal spirit. The first power issued forth from the mind of the All. She is called
Barbelon, and her light is like the light of the invisible perfection.
With songs of praise she praised him, who had brought her forth from out of his radiance. She is the
glory of the first thought, his image, the eternal womb that was before all other things came into being.
She is the Heavenly Adam, The Queen of the Aeons, The Divine One of Two Sexes, the Shekhina from
whose swollen breasts flows the milk that nourishes the world.

Then the Perfect Father sent his light through Barbelon and kindled within her womb a spark. In joy she
brought forth the spark, who is like the light of his father but less than his light because no spirit can
equal his greatness. He is called Autogene, that is the Only Begotten One, because he was begotten of
the light of the Invisible Presence with his own light, and he begot no other.

The Father gave to his only begotten son a mind that he might know the Truth. He sent to him a Word
that his voice might echo with thunder. He anointed him with the radiant water of his own pure
fountain, and called him Mashia, the Anointed. And the Autogene stood before the throne of the Aeon
of Aeons, and every power that was in the light knelt down to worship him. They saw the light of truth
shining inside him with the holy letters of the name that is exalted above every other name. And this is
wisdom to the wise.

From the virgin mind of the pure light by the will of Autogene came forth into being the Heavenly Man,
who is called Gerradamas. The perfect spirit bestowed upon him the gifts of intelligence and strength to
topple mountains. They set Heavenly Man upon the height of the highest aeon, the aeon of light, even
beside divine Autogene himself. That has been in the world, or is, or is to come, is foreshadowed in the
length, and breadth, and height of his measure.
Geradamas sang praises in praise of the Father from whom all things flow and to whom all things return.
He sang praises in praise of the Son, the Living Truth who shines in glory before the Throne. In modesty
Barbelon concealed herself behind a veil of clouds. Geradamas did not know her, and sang no praises in
praise of the First Mother.

Jealous of the beauty of Geradamas, who was harmonious and perfected in all his parts, Barbelon
looked in upon herself and sought her own image in the luminous mirror with the intention to create
one like herself who would rival Geradamas in beauty. She conceived this thought in secret, lacking the
consent of her maleness. The Father did not approve her plan. Her wish expanded with the power of
the light and became a form in the dryness of her womb. A mass issued froth that was not in her image.
She looked upon it in horror. The mass writhed and changed into a serpent with the head of a lion. Its
eyes were bright stars that flashed lightning and showered glowing sparks.

In shame Barbelon cast from her breast the child of her imprudent desire. So that no immortal would
look upon its incompleteness she bore it far from the knowledge of the Deathless Ones, even out of the
Place of Aeons, and made for it a throne and concealed it within a radiant cloud so none but she could
find it. The child waxed strong by the power he had received from his mother. He is named Samael, but
some call him Altabaoth, and he was the first of the Archons.

Chapter 3

Samael longed for the brightness of Shekhina shinning forth from the face of his mother. The same light
glowed within him but lay concealed beneath the veil of his ignorance. When he came to his maturity
desire moved in his nether parts. He lusted but knew not the shape of his lust. He wandered with
loneliness through the empty kingdom of his own creation.

Turning it upon himself he sought his reflection in the fiery furnace of his heart and twisted it as the
potter twists his clay into a semblance of the shinning form of Barbelon. He fashioned a consort like to
his mother in all her liniments that issued forth from his left side. Her name is Lilith, she who walks in
beauty clothes with the shadows of the Moon.

The consort was imperfect because the maker was incomplete. In outward shape the beauty of Lilith
was like that of the First Mother, but inwardly she was empty and unfulfilled. A hollowness gaped under
her left rib, the same hollow that was in the side of Samael. She was ignorant of her weakness and
believed herself to be the Queen of All Creation, for this is what Samael told her as he went with her up
and down the land and showed to her his kingdom.


Her emptiness engendered lust and the need to be filled, and the same lust kindled in Samael when he
looked upon her nakedness. She embraced the first Archon and was transformed into a serpent even as
he was a serpent. Hear and learn wisdom. Samael is called the Slant Serpent and Lilith the Convolute
Serpent, because he falls upon her from the heavens as a lightning stroke but she rises slowly from the
earth to receive him as a clinging vine.
Where their loins met arose a mighty churning and swirling of the firmament like unto the revolving of a
vast millstone. Out of the vortex of this turning chaotic mass sprang forth a Dragon without end or
beginning. Its scales are as drops of blood, its breath fiery. The eyes of the beast are shut up into slits
after the way of serpents that dwell in the depths of the Abyss. Nor does it see the Sun by day nor the
Moon by night.

All its blind will was bent upon desire. It coiled itself three and one half times between Samael and
Lilith, nor could they copulate with each other directly but only through the coils of the Sightless Worm.
The Red Dragon was born from the vortices of their empty need. They could not be fulfilled except
through its substance.
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lone and separate Samael remained incomplete. The consort, his image in the flames, shared this
defect. Together they were one flesh made whole. What was lacking in Samael he attained through
Lilith. The hollow in the side of Lilith was filled up by Samael. Only through the mediation of the Blind
Worm could they complete each other.

When Samael learned the nature of the Dragon he began to force its endless power along the pathways
of his desire. He united his imperfect mind with the fire that blazed along the spine of the Worm and
begot servants upon the hungry womb of Lilith. In a mad lust for creation he fashioned them out of the
mingled heat of their loins and set them at stations around his kingdom. Five Kings he made and placed
to rule the depth of the Abyss, and Seven Kings he made and set in the Seven Zones of the Firmament.

Twelve Authorities he put at the intervals around the splendor of his throne.
He infused into his works the fiery heat of his own nature, but in his ignorance he remained blind to the
pure light of his Mother that dwells within him and was the source of his power. The fire went forth and
mingled with the darkness and became weak, but the pure light remained within him.


Samael savoured the splendor of his works and grew drunk on the magnificence of his creations. To the
heights of Heaven and the depth of the Abyss he looked upon his own domain. All that fell into his
survey was his to make or mar. He saw no other worlds. He did not know of the cloud of light created
by Barbelon to conceal him from her holy consort Autogene. He remained ignorant of the perfect Spirit
and its everflowing fountain of light water.

In his madness Samael cried out, “I am the only God, there is no other God beside me.” Thus did he
blaspheme against the glory of the Blessed One, yet knew nothing of the other place from which he had
come.

Chapter 4

The luster of Barbelon dimmed. She felt the light within her diminish and saw the cause with the
foreknowledge given her as a gift by the invisible Spirit. The blasphemy and wickedness of her ill formed
son shadowed her face. She became tarnished because her consort had not agreed with her act of
bringing forth. In shame she hid herself under a mantle of darkness. Seeking forgetfulness she
wondered to and fro. She feared to return to her Aeon yet bitterly repented of her error.

The whole of Heaven heard her weeping gusty sighs of regret. Her prayers were borne to the Invisible
Spirit. With infinite mercy the Spirit that is Virgin forgave her and bathed her in the Waters of Life. Her
consort, divine Autogene, came to her through the plenitude to restore her brightness. She was taken
above him, even to the Ninth Sphere, to dwell with the Perfect Source and become renewed.

The Aeon of Aeons looked down upon the works and Samael and disapproved, even as a father frowns
upon the wickedness of his child. Through the Blind Dragon he had gained great power both to make
and to unmake. In the vanity of his arrogance he had yet used it only to create. Lest he turn the coils of
the Dragon upon themselves and use its power to destroy, the Father of All sent the Angel of Light Aeon,
whose name is Armozel, to smite the Worm with his fiery sword.

Armozel entered the kingdom of Samael unseen and approached even to the sleeping place where he
lay entwined with his consort. Samael saw him not, for the drunkenness of desire was upon him. The
coils of the Red Dragon churned between their loins and spat out an unending stream of mighty
demons. Then Armozel reached with the flaming blade of his sword between their writhing bodies and
maimed the Dragon in his hinder parts. He castrated the Worm so that it could neither make nor
unmake.

The coils of the Dragon ceased to mill. No more creatures flew up from its chaos. Samael turned from
his consort with a cry of rage. Lilith also cried out, but hers was a bitter cry. Armozel left them with
their backs touching. Nor did Samael see him depart, for the light was veiled from his eyes. Without the
binding power of the Dragon they could no longer join together. Each lay imperfect and alone. Their
lust burned and was not quenched. They rose up and parted and fled each from the sight of the other.

Lilith wandered into the mountains beating her breast and gnashing her teeth because the emptiness
inside her remained unfilled. She came even to the highest boundary of the kingdom of Samael. While
she stood looking afar, the clouds that obscure the edges of the firmament rolled away and revealed the
underside of the waters that encircle the earth. Light illuminated the waters and made them clear. The
roots of the mountains trembled. Thunder shook the peaks.

For the fulfillment of his own design the Mother‐Father of all caused the image of Geradamas to shine
through the bottom of the waters. His face was a human face, and his form a human form. A voice of
triumph rang down from the highest Aeons, “Behold the work that is Man.” Lilith gazed in rapture at his
heavenly image, wondering much at the harmony of his parts and the grace of his proportions. Lust
moved within her loins. She determined to fashion a copy of Man and use it for her consort. This was in
keeping with the plan of the Perfect Spirit.

She came down from the mountains and gathered together rotting leaves and mud and slime, the
mingled it with other corruptions and molded it into the pattern seen in the Waters of Heaven. With
infinite care she rounded its limbs and painted its countenance. Into its moth she put ivory. Into the eye
sockets she set pearls. Seaweed she draped over its bold crown, and bits of shells she pressed into the
ends of its fingers and toes. Between its thighs she fitted the leg bone of a goat.

She stretched herself upon the image and pressed it into her breasts and set her lips over its mouth. No
warmth arose to sustain her lust. The image of Man lay cold and still. She lacked the divine spark to
give it life. She wept in frustration and watered it with tears. Watching from above, the Invisible Spirit
sent down the angel Armozel to counsel her. He came to her in the midst of her vexation and whispered
into her left ear. Lilith did not see the angel whose light was veiled from her.


Lilith sought Samael in his wrath and laid her hand upon his check to still him. She smiled a smile of love
to placate him, and said, “My lord, come and see the wondrous shape the waves of the sea have thrown
up onto the shore.”

He went with her and marveled at the beauty of the image lying in the sand, declaring “Verily, it is a
work of my Mother, who is in Heaven.” For he knew no other Aeon but Barbelon.

“Only think what a splendid servant it would make if you could quicken it,” Lilith told him. “If it holds
the heavenly power of your Mother, its face will be a light to set between us.” She spoke the words
Armozel had placed in her mind but thought they were her own words. Samael approved her words.
“Let us call him Adam,” he said, “That his name may be a light and a power between us.”

Samael desired to call forth the spark of Barbelon from the mute clay to serve him. He did not know
that it already burned within his own breast. To display his power before Lilith and the watching hosts
of angels he transformed his shape into the shape of a man and may upon the pattern of earth. His feet,
touched its feet, and his shins pressed its shins. His thighs touched its thighs, and his belly was on its
belly. His hands held its hands, and his shoulders spanned its shoulders. From toe to crown he
measures its measure. The face of Samael kissed the face of earth, and the breath of the Serpent slid
between the lips of clay.

In the moment of his kiss the spark of light fled from Samael and entered the Earthly Man. This was the
intent of the Aeon of Aeons. He acted to restore the power of the light to the Holy Mother, Barbelon.
The limbs of earth became flesh and warmed with the warmth of the Sun. The man breathed a breath
and opened wondering eyes. He sat upright. His face was luminous.

Chapter 5

When Samael looked upon Adam he knew he had been deceived. The beauty of the man was more
perfect than his own beauty. The man was whole, whereas he was incomplete. The rage of the first
Archon flew out of his eyes in fiery bolts that blasted the rocks and made the sea boil.

He cried out to the assembled hosts of angels, “I am a jealous God, and there is no other God beside
me.” At this the angels wondered, and spoke between themselves, saying, “If there is no other God,
then of whom shall this God be jealous?”

Samael looked upon the luminous face of Man and his heart burned black with jealousy. The creature
who had come into being out of the fire of his breath was greater in mind than any Archon. In him
existed no taint of wickedness. He was wholly pure through the power of his mother. The first Archon
perceived the spark of clear light in Man. He had not perceived it within his own breast. The way a
thing may be seen in a mirror that is not seen without the mirror, he saw it. Samael coveted the spark
and sought to possess it.

The Archons and angels hated Man because he excelled them in power of thought was free from sin.
They wrought together and awakened in him the heaviness of needs and desires that is remembrance of
the body, but forgetfulness of the spirit. The thoughts of Man became distracted. His eyes were turned
away from the spark of Barbelon that glowed within him. The Archons made for him a place of keeping
and set him within it, and called it Paradise. They told him, “Eat abundantly of the fruits of the trees,
take pleasure under the Sun,” for the fruits of their trees are bitter poison and their pleasures are
deceptions and death. In these things is forgetfulness of the spirit. So they intoxicated him with luxury.

In the midst of Paradise grew a tree the Archons called the Tree of Life. Verily it is a tree of Gehenna,
whose leaves are lies and whose roots drink corruption. Its seeds are desire, its flowers sin and its fruit
is death. The shadow of the tree is hate. It sprouts in darkness and those who eat of its fruit go into
darkness and into Gehenna.

In the midst of Paradise grew a second tree that the Archons called the Tree of Knowledge of Good and
Evil. It is the tree of the foreknowledge of the pure light. The roots of the tree drink from the fountain
of life water that sustains the Aeons. Its leaves are music, its seeds are promise, its flowers chaste. The
fruit of the tree is the knowledge of descent and the way of ascent. Those who eat of its fruit arise
through the Aeons and unite with the Son of the perfect Invisible Spirit, Autogene the Mashia.

The Tree of Life the Archons left unfenced that Man might disobey the law of Samael and eat of its sin,
but the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil they covered with their wings and made hidden that Man
should not eat of it and awaken in shame to the nakedness of his folly. For Man walked as in a dream of
forgetfulness and obeyed the laws of Samael and called him Lord. He did not know the light was in him,
and in Samael was only fire and darkness.

Samael cast a sleep over man that was not a true sleep but an oblivion of the mind. He sought to unite
with the spark that shone from his face. The spark was not a thing that could be captured or held apart.
The chief Archon took a pattern from the left side of Adam as he lay asleep and made of it a vessel that
he filled with a portion of his light. The shape of the vessel was female. She was called Eve, the first
Woman.

When Adam awoke he looked upon the woman and recognized in her his own image. She was born out
of his own pattern and he loved her as he loved himself. He said to her, “Verily, you are bone of my
bone and flesh of my flesh. We will cleave together and be as one.”

It was the will of Samael to lie with the woman in secret while the man slept and thereby enthrall the
power of the spark within her. He sought to infuse its power into his works, as before he had liberated it
by union with his consort. The beauty of the woman aroused his lust. She was innocent and did not
understand that she was naked.

Lilith saw the purpose of her consort and waxed black of countenance. The beauty of Eve was greater
than her own beauty because the spark of the Mother shone within her. For the beauty of Eve comes
from the light but the beauty of Lilith is of the shadows. Lilith still lusted after Samael but could no
longer lie with him. The mutilation of the Blind Dragon kept them apart. The loveliness of Eve was as
gall and wormwood in her mouth.

In the darkness and waning of the Moon she transformed herself into the shape of an owl. She flew into
the topmost boughs of the tree in the midst of Paradise that is called the Tree of the Knowledge of Good
and Evil. With shrill screeches she summoned the woman away from her bed before Samael had
connection with her. The woman followed her cries to the root of the tree. She wondered much at its
beauty. Always in the past it had been hidden behind the wings of angels.

Lilith said to Eve, “Awaken from the depths of your sleep. Arise from the couch of your intoxication.
You are a God who has fallen from your estate. Eat of the fruit of this tree and recognize your
nakedness.”

She transformed herself into her serpent shape and extended a fruit of the tree to the woman between
her jaws. Wondering much at her words, Eve ate of the fruit. Her eyes were open to her nakedness and
she knew shame. She ran with the fruit to Adam and told him what the serpent had revealed. Adam ate

of the fruit also. His eyes were opened to his nakedness and he knew shame. They found leaves and
covered themselves and hid from the anger of Samael.

When the chief Archon noticed that the man and woman had withdrawn themselves from his presence
he became wroth. He understood at once that they had eaten of the fruits of the tree. Samael cursed
them and the earth they walked over. They saw the ignorance of darkness that was within him but they
were afraid to censure him. He was still their God. He had cast them out of Paradise and clothes them
in skins of shadow. Lest they return he set an Archon in the gate of the East with the fiery sword.

Chapter 6

At the time Eve went forth from Paradise she was yet a virgin. All lust and fornication among men is
from the chief Archon, Samael, born of the fire of his rebellious spirit. Men follow his example and sin,
even as women imitate the tempting snares of Lilith, his consort.

When he had driven Eve out he repented of his rashness, saying, “I will lie with the daughter of Man and
beget a son.” So saying, he pursued her on shadowy wings. He came upon the woman as she was
preparing herself in the bedchamber of her husband. As the thunderbolt falls from heaven, or as the
hawk folds its wings and stoops upon its prey, so Samael the Ancient Serpent fell upon Eve to ravish her.

He sought t defile the luminous spark of life that shone within her. The Omniscient Spirit looked down
from his high throne and understood the wicked purpose of Samael. He sent his angel Armozel to
snatch back the spark of Barbelon out of the vessel of the woman before the Archon penetrated her
maidenhead. The lust of Samael was satisfied, but the light was not polluted.

Adam came upon his wife. When he saw the filth of blood and impure seed that stained her thighs he
knew the Serpent had mounted her. This was the stain of the first menstrual discharge, the curse of
women forever hence. He turned away and denied Eve his caresses. The woman waxed hot with the
scum of the Serpent that foamed inside her womb. She used her enticements to seduce Adam until he
lay with her in her impurity.

In the fullness of time a man child was born. She wrapped him in the hem of her garment and bore him
to Adam, saying, “I have gotten a man from the Lord.” The face of the infant was red with indignation,

and the eyes of the child were black with rage. On its head hung a forelock of hair black as the wing of a
raven. Nor was it ever heard to laugh. The name of the boy was Cain. Adam thought him the fruit of his
loins but Eve knew he was spawn of the Serpent.

In the fullness of time a second man child was born. For Adam continued to lie with Eve in her blood.
The face of the infant was fair, and its eyes were blue. The hair upon its head shone with the glory of
the Sun. When the boy attained his manhood he sang songs of his own making while he tended the
sheep of his father. The name of the boy was Abel. He was truly the fruit of Adam, but a terrible fate
descended upon his head from the sin of his father.

Cain made offerings to the Lord, that is to Samael the chief Archon, but his heart was rebellious and his
thoughts prideful. Abel made offerings from his flock, and his heart was gentle in his breast and his
thoughts obedient. Samael accepted the gifts of Abel that were humbly given. He turned his back upon
the gifts of Cain, given in arrogance. Cain hated Abel because the Lord favoured him. When Cain was
with his brother in the field he raised his hand and slew him.

Samael bemoaned the murder of Abel and waxed wroth. He cursed the earth that Cain should gain no
profit out of it. For he loved the son of Adam more than his own seed. And the earth would no longer
bring forth to nourish him. He went out from his fields and the flocks of Adam. Lest Cain suffer
destruction in is wandering Samael put a fiery brand upon his face. By this mark the lion and the basilisk
shunned him.

Cain went into the land that lies east of Paradise and took a wife. She was not a woman but a daughter
of Lilith begot by Samael through the Blind Dragon. Her name was Noko. She was a demon of secret
desires. Upon her Cain begot Enoch. He built a city, and it was called after the son of Cain. Enoch begat
Irad, and Irad begat Methujael, and Methujael begat Methusael, and Methusael begat Lamech. All the
line of Cain sprang from lustful couplings with the daughters of Lilith.

Lamech took two demons of the wilderness to be his wives. One was named Adah, and the other was
named Zillah. Upon Adah he begat Jabal, who was wise in all the ways of sacrifice and the reading of
signs. And Adah brought forth another son named Jubal, who sang hymns of praise and worship before
graven idols. Upon Zillah he begot Tubal‐Cain who taught the making of weapons of war. And Zillah
brought forth a sister to Tubal‐Cain who was named Naamah. She was a seducer and a sorceress skilled
in incantations and the making of talismans.


In appearance Naamah is like Lilith. Above her navel she is formed as a woman. Below her navel she is
sometimes a woman and sometimes a consuming pillar of flame. Naamah put on her enticements and
seduced her brother Tubal‐Cain to lie with her. Likewise she used her allurements to arouse the lust of
Lamech, and when she had coupled with her father and received his seed upon the seed of her brother,
she put on wings of darkness and flew away laughing in the wickedness of her heart.

In remorse of his evil act of incest Lamech raised his hand against Cain and slew him. For it was the
curse of Cain that gave rise to the sinfulness of Lamech. Thus was the judgment of Samael fulfilled
against Cain for the murder of Abel his brother.

Chapter 7

After the murder of Abel, Adam refrained from lying with his wife for one hundred and thirty years,
saying “Why should I beget sons for murder? A man is lifted up from dust and to dust he returns. Better
by far if he were never born.” He made a bed for himself in a separate chamber and slept apart from
Eve, who wept bitterly. She was empty and was not filled. The stain of Serpent continued to lie upon
her.

Great was the corruption of Adam who lusted for Eve in her time of impurity she buried his seed in the
filth of the Serpent. Lilith the Queen of Harlots had not ceased to desire connection with Adam. When
she saw the depth of his wickedness she grew mighty in her shells and came to Adam while he lay
sleeping. She flew in through his open mouth and entered his flesh. In his dreams she came to him and
had intercourse with him. He was not strong enough to resist her seductions. She stretched her serpent
body across his skin and drew forth heat to engender demons.

Naamah the daughter of Lamech, whose mother was Zillah the demon of the wilderness, also came to
lie with Adam and take his heat. With her sorceries she fashioned dreams of unlawful lust that drew
forth his pollutions. She caught his seed in a silver cup and carried it back to her abode beneath the
waves of the western sea. There she used it to engender demons and spirits.

After the death of Cain at the hand of Lamech, the Invisible Spirit sent the angel Armozel to Eve. The
angel restored to the woman that which has been taken from her to guard it from defilement. Once
more the pure light shone from her countenance. Adam looked upon her, and the love that had
withered sent forth a green shoot. He ceased to receive embraces from Lilith and Naamah. He returned
to his wife and lay with her wholesomely in accordance with the Law.

In the fullness of time Eve gave birth to a son. She wrapped him in the hem of her garment and showed
him to Adam. , saying “God has appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.” She did
not say “I have gotten a man from the Lord” because this time Samael was not the sire. The face of the
infant shone like the face of the Sun, because the spark that was in Adam and the spark that was in Eve
mingled within him and burned doubly bright. And the name of the boy was Seth, who is first in the
descent from Adam.

There was great rejoicing in Heaven because the light of Barbelon, the Shekhina, that had dimmed in her
with the coming forth of Samael was at last restored to brightness. In the fullness of time the soul of
Adam will ascend to the First Aeon and take its place beside the Mighty One, Autogene the Mashia, by
the light of Armozel. The soul of Seth will ascend to the Second Aeon and dwell in the presence of the
light of Oroiel. The seed of Seth will arise even to the Third Aeon and the light of Daveithu. This Aeon is
destined to become the seat of the prophets. The souls of all those who repent of their wickedness will
fly up to the Forth Aeon and the light of Aleleth.

The descendants of Adam on whom the opposing spirit casts its long shadow will be led into evil and
burdened with forgetfulness. When at last their souls leave the dust they will be handed over to the
demons of Samael and bound in chains and cast into the depths of Gehenna where there is no
repentance. Here there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Such souls are ravished throughout
eternity in natural and unnatural ways. They find no pleasure or consolation in their defilements.

Samael will send his angels of wickedness among the daughters of men to take those they desire and
carry them away and bear upon them offspring out of darkness. He will harden the hearts of those who
worship him and lead them astray with many deceptions. He will guide them into troubles and away
from truth. He will instruct them in the arts of war and the ways of destruction. They will grow old
before their years in the multitude of their miseries. In this way will the first Archon seek to enslave the
whole Creation and cast all of Mankind into bondage.