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Chapter 3 ⇦****⇨
Adam is crowned and given dominion—All angels worship God and then Adam—Satan refuses and exalts himself—The Father casts him down with those who followed him—Satan's rebellion is complete, and he falls to become the devil.
1 And when Adam had risen up, he cast himself down before My Father, saying: My Lord and my God! Thou hast made me to come into being from a state in which I did not exist.
2 Thereupon My Father set him upon a great throne, and he placed on his head a crown of glory, and he put a royal scepter in his hand.
3 And My Father made every order of angels in the heavens to come and worship him, whether angel or archangel.
4 And all the hosts of heaven worshiped God first of all, and then they worshiped Adam, saying: Hail, thou image and likeness of God!
5 And He intended that the order of the angels who were fashioned before Adam should worship him, and My Father said unto him (i.e. their chief), Come, thou thyself shalt worship my image and likeness.
6 And he, a being of great pride, drew himself up in a shameless manner, and said, It is meet that this man Adam should come and worship me, for I existed before he came into being.
7 And when My Father saw his great pride, and that his wickedness and his evil-doing were complete, He commanded all the armies of heaven, saying: Remove the writing which is in the hand of the proud one, strip ye off his armor, and cast ye him down upon the earth, for his time hath come.
8 For he is the greatest of them all, he is the head over them and is like a king, and he commandeth them as the general of an army commandeth his soldiers; he is the head over them, and their names are written in his hand.
9 Thus is it with this cunning one, and the names of the angels were written in his hand.
10 And all the angels gathered together to him, and they did not wish to remove the writing from his hand.
11 And my Father commanded them to bring a sharp reaping-knife, and to stab him therewith on this side and that, right through his body to the vertebrae of his shoulders, and he was unable to hold himself up.
12 And straightway My Father commanded a mighty Cherubim, and he smote him, and cast him down from heaven upon the earth, because of his pride, and he broke his wings and his ribs and was made helpless, and those whom he had brought with him became devils with him.
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