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