| 1 | from where did the counterfeit spirit come? |
| 2 | the Epinoia of the foreknowledge of light, he raised up the offspring of the perfect race and its thinking and the eternal light of man. |
| 3 | When the chief archon realized that they were exalted above him in the height - and they surpass him in thinking - then he wanted to seize their thought, not knowing that they surpassed him in thinking, and that he will not be able to seize them. |
| 4 | He made a plan with his authorities, which are his powers, and they committed together adultery with Sophia, and bitter fate was begotten through them, which is the last of the changeable bonds. |
| 5 | And it is of a sort that is interchangeable. |
| 6 | And it is harder and stronger than she with whom the gods united, and the angels and the demons and all the generations until this day. |
| 7 | For from that fate came forth every sin and injustice and blasphemy, and the chain of forgetfulness and ignorance and every severe command, and serious sins and great fears. |
| 8 | And thus the whole creation was made blind, in order that they may not know God, who is above all of them. |
| 9 | And because of the chain of forgetfulness, their sins were hidden. |
| 10 | For they are bound with measures and times and moments, since it (fate) is lord over everything. |
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Book IV - The Adam