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The Forgotten Books of Eden · 15 of 293
First Adam and Eve: Chapter XII
How darkness came between Adam and Eve.
1.THEN Adam smote upon his breast, he and Eve, and they mourned the whole night until dawn drew near, and they sighed over the length of the night in Miyazia.
2.And Adam beat himself, and threw himself on the ground in the cave, from bitter grief, and because of the darkness, and lay there as dead.
3.But Eve heard the noise he made in falling upon the earth. And she felt about for him with her hands, and found him like a corpse.
4.Then she was afraid, speechless, and remained by him.
5.But the merciful Lord looked on the death of Adam, and on Eve’s silence from fear of the darkness.
6.And the Word of God came unto Adam and raised him from his death, and opened Eve’s mouth that she might speak.
7.Then Adam arose in the cave and said, “O God, wherefore has light departed from us, and darkness come over us? Wherefore dost Thou leave us in this long darkness? Why wilt Thou plague us thus?
8.“And this darkness, O Lord, where was it ere it came upon us? It is such, that we cannot see each other.
9.“For, so long as we were in the garden, we neither saw nor even knew what darkness is. I was not hidden from Eve, neither was she hidden from me, until now that she cannot see me; and no darkness came upon us, to separate us from each other.
10.“But she and I were both in one bright light. I saw her and she saw me. Yet now since we came into this cave, darkness has come upon us, and parted us asunder, so that I do not see her, and she does not see me.
11.“O Lord, wilt Thou then plague us with this darkness?”
Asked of Guide
Why does darkness suddenly separate Adam and Eve in this chapter?
The chapter says darkness falls after Adam and Eve leave the garden and enter the cave, and Adam experiences it as a new, separating reality: “we were both in one bright light” and now “darkness has come upon us, and parted us asunder.” The narrative presents the darkness as a consequence of their departure from the garden’s light, an external change that produces fear, mourning, and a literal inability to see one another.
The Lord’s Word revives Adam and opens Eve’s mouth, which frames the darkness as something that provokes speech and petition rather than simple annihilation. This fits the Eden tradition in other texts, like Genesis and the Life of Adam and Eve, where exile brings loss of immediate divine presence and bodily comforts, forcing Adam and Eve into lament and pleading.
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