Left Ginza

Book 1

• Chapter 1.1 is about Adam and his three sons. One of Adam's sons, Sheetil, volunteers to die before his father. 49 paragraphs in Gelbert. The chapter begins with the opening lines:
• Chapter 1.2 continues the story of Adam after his soul is cast into a material body. 80 paragraphs in Gelbert.
• Chapter 1.3 is about Hawa mourning the death of her husband and her encounters with the uthras. It also describes the death of Hawa. 58 paragraphs in Gelbert.
• Chapter 1.4 is a detailed description of the masiqta and the maṭarta that lie between Earth and the World of Light. 43 paragraphs in Gelbert.

  Book 2

1. Who has let me dwell in the Tibil? /
2. Who has thrown me into the of secrets and winks? /
3. Who has thrown me into the misery of the worlds? /
4. Who took me out of my treasure-house? /
5. A son of great radiance, a son of the lustrous glory /
6. I am confirmed through the goodness of my Father /
7. Who threw me into the misfortune of the angels? /
8. I went away in order to come into the world. /
9. Why did my appearance change? /
10. From Thee, my Father, I am learning /
11. Who has let me dwell in the bodily vestment? /
12. They went and brought me into the Tibil. /
13. Who brought me here? /
14. Into this world they sent him /
15. Arise, go the house of the Seven! /
16. In the reliable treasure he sits /
17. There is no treachery or cunning in him /
18. Who brought me out of the house of the Life? /
19. There is in me from the treasure of the Life. /
20. I lived among the hidden fosterers. /
21. When did they take me into captivity /
22. I was in the hidden treasure-house /
23. Who has planted me, sent me away /
24. They brought me out of the house of the Great / ; I have come in order to raise the stem on high /
25. Who brought me away from my place? /
26. Here I stayed with the generations. /
27. Who brought me away from my place? /
28. Who brought me away from my place? /

    Book 3

1. After the firmament was spread out
2. Provided and provisioned I am
3. Hail to thee, hail to thee, soul
4. Go in peace, chosen one, pure one
5. Repose and peace will prevail
6. Repose and peace prevail
7. On the day on which the soul goes out, on the day on which the perfect one ascends on high
8. On the day on which the soul goes forth, on the day on which the perfect one ascends on high
9. Between the concealment and the radiance, and between the revelation and the hidden place
10. Among the chosen ones I am the head of the well-versed
11. Let the Great be mentioned in goodness, let the Mighty be mentioned in goodness
12. How greatly I rejoice
13. Faith in the Good came to me, they say: "thou shalt go forth".
14. When the darkness was thinking, Adam departed his body
15. My measure has come to an end and I am heading out, the spirit speaks to the soul
16. The soul in the fruit of the Life
17. The voice of the soul of the Life I hear
18. Although a child, my lifespan ended
19. I am standing upon my high place, and my eyes look upon the earthly world
20. Between the concealment and the radiance, between the light and the uthras
21. The soul is going out ; her measure is full, and her time has come.
22. I am redeemed, my measure is full
23. A voice called out from the heights
24. I passed by the gate of the prisoners
25. I have a soul in the Tibil ; she is dying and sleeping in the world; she is dying and sleeping in the world
26. Whose soul is this, who is edified and cultivated ?
27. It is a sealed letter which goes out of the world
28. I am going out from my body
29. I was saved, my measure was full
30. At the garden gate I passed by, I heard the voice of the gardener.
31. At the door of the house of detention, the radiance of Sunday passed by.
32. When will my measure be full
33. What do the good ones look like, when they go out of their body ?
34. Whose soul is this, who is edified and cultivated ?
35. She spoke: They arranged me in of the Life.
36. My measure is full and I am heading out.
37. As a child my lifespan ended
38. The sound, the sound of a sound
39. Good is the Truth for the good one
40. I hear the voice of the soul
41. a mana from the house of the Great
42. The soul, the soul of the Life speaks, Who held me down in the earthly world ?
43. I came to my end and am sleeping
44. My measure has come to an end and I am heading out
45. As a child, my lifespan ended
46. The mana weeps through the generations
47. The mana speaks to the generations, I am a circlet of beryl
48. I am a good one, a son of the Great I am
49. A great radiance am I
50. Out of a righteous place
51. My soul longed for the Life
52. How long hast thou been standing here ?
53. I passed by the door of the prisoners
54. O ye birds of the carob trees
55. At the construction, at the beginning of the whole construction
56. My measure has come to an end and I am heading out, an expert who has learnt from the watchful ones
57. I hear the voice of a soul, who is tearing herself away from the dwelling of the evil ones
58. I hear the voice of a soul, who is going out from the body of grossness
59. One of children of kušṭa
60. A being of radiance, I am a son of a being of radiance, I am a being of radiance, a son of the Mighty
61. Whom and whom, soul didst thou
62. At the door of the house of the Abaddons, a throne for the spirit is set up

Colophon

External parallels

Qulasta

''Psalms of Thomas''

Theodore bar Konai