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Revision as of 00:02, 5 February 2014
- This article is about the third son of Adam and Eve, Seth.
Genesis
According to Genesis 4:25, Seth was born after the slaying of Abel by Cain, and Eve believed God had appointed him as a replacement for Abel.
Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth. Genesis 5:3
The Genostics believed that Seth was given as a replacement for Abel and it was said that late in life, Adam gave Seth secret teachings that formed part of the esoteric traditions which were later incorporated into the Kabbalah.
Generations of Adam
"Generations of Adam" refer to the line of descent going through Seth rather than Cain or any of Adam's other offspring. The Sethite line extends to Noah and his three sons. Lamech, the nineth generation from Adam is described as the father of Noah. Geneis 4:17:22, Genesis 5:1-32
Sethianism
The Sethians were a Gnostic sect so called for their veneration of the third son of Adam and Eve and the lineal descendants who were considered more originally divine than other men. Iranaeus is the main source of information about the Sethians who were considered a pre-christian Jewish sect.
Sethian texts
Non-Christian texts
- The Apocalypse of Adam - but surviving with Christian redaction.
- Adam tells Seth how he learned a word of knowledge of the eternal God from Eve and that he and Eve were indeed more powerful than their supposed creator. But that knowledge was lost in the fall when the subcreator - the demiurge [1] - separated Adam and Eve. Adam relates how three mysterious strangers brought about Seth's begetting and so a preservation of this knowledge. Adam then prophecies at length attempts of the subcreator god to destroy mankind, including the prophecy of the great Deluge.
Christian texts
- The Apocryphon of John
- The Thought of Norea
- The Trimorphic Protennoia
- The Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians
- The Gospel of Judas
- The Untitled Apocalypse (or The Gnosis of the Light)
Later texts (arguably with a Platonist influence)
References
- ↑ The demiurge is a concept from the Platonic(SP), Neopythagorean(SP), Middle Platonic(SP), and Neoplatonic(SP) schools of philosophy for an artisan-like figure responsible for the fashioning and maintenance of the physical universe. The term was subsequently adopted by the Gnostics(SP). Although a fashioner, the demiurge is not necessarily thought of as being the same as the creator figure
