g the time that the first
human life was created to the time when somebody finally decided to
write it down. This particular version is the work of unknown
Egyptians. The lack of historical allusion makes it difficult to
precisely date the writing, however, using other pseudepigraphical
works as a reference, it was probably written a few hundred years
before the birth of Christ. Parts of this version are found in the
Jewish Talmud, and the Islamic Koran, showing what a vital role it
played in the original literature of human wisdom. The Egyptian author
wrote in Arabic, but later translations were found written in Ethiopic.
The present English translation was translated in the late 1800's by
Dr. S. C. Malan and Dr. E. Trumpp. They translated into King James
English from both the Arabic version and the Ethiopic version which was
then published in The Forgotten Books of Eden in 1927 by The World
Publishing Company. In 1995, the text was extracted from a copy of
The Forgotten Books of Eden and converted to electronic form by Dennis
Hawkins. It was then translated into more modern English by simply
exchanging 'Thou' s for 'You's, 'Art's for 'Are's, and so forth. The
text was then carefully re-read to ensure its integrity.

Chapter I - The crystal sea, God commands Adam, expelled from Eden, to
live in the Cave of Treasures.

1 On the third day, God planted the garden in the east of the earth, on
the border of the world eastward, beyond which, towards the sun-rising,
one finds nothing but water, that encompasses the whole world, and
reaches to the borders of heaven.

2 And to the north of the garden there is a sea of water, clear and
pure to the taste, unlike anything else; so that, through the clearness
thereof, one may look into the depths of the earth.

3 And when a man washes himself in it, he becomes clean of the
cleanness thereof, and white of its whiteness--even if he were dark.

4 And God created that sea of his own good pleasure, for He knew what
would come of the man He would make; so that after he had left the
garden, on account of his transgression, men should be born in the
earth. Among them are righteous ones who will die, whose souls God
would raise at the last day; when all of them will return to their
flesh, bathe in the water of that sea, and repent of their sins.

5 But when God made Adam go out of the garden, He did not place him on
the border of it northward. This was so that he and