1.3. The Fall of Man; the Fall of the Angels

On a day of Sunday I bear witness to the works of God written in the Scriptures from which I, Jesus Christ, read two thousand years ago so as to prove their fulfilment for the time of then; and again, I bear witness now from the Scriptures of My speaking with man in paradise, for I built him and set him in paradise and gave him counsel and work to work; and I, the Word from the beginning, was in the unseen things of the making and spoke with man, and he spoke with Me, oh, but he did not listen to My word and made himself greater than Me between him and Me if he did not listen, oh, and he hid himself to do this, for he did not understand that I from the unseen things of the making see into the seen ones; and I saw him erring against Me and against himself and I asked him why he gave himself to hide, and I said to him: “Where are you, Adam?” That I might be able to speak with him I asked him so, and he told Me that he had hidden himself, oh, and I rebuked him for the pain he had done Me; and Adam did not stand humbled for his error and for hiding himself in order to err, and he hid himself again, he hid himself behind the woman whom I had given him, and with whom he rebuked Me in his turn, that I had given him a woman, oh, and I rebuked her also, but she too excused herself; and then I uttered their punishment for disobedience and for the tempting of God, and I put them out of paradise, and they remained without God upon the earth, they remained on their own; and from then so is every man, and if he does not see Me he no longer takes into account that I see him all the time, oh, and I wept after him five thousand years and more, and then the Father sent Me upon the earth to give Myself as a ransom for man; and I died in the place of every man through death upon the cross, but I also rose for every man as a God and Maker of all things and of man.