A chapter of divine comfort.  
 
1 Then came the Word of God to Adam, and said to him:—
 
2 "O Adam, look at that garden of joy and at this earth of toil, and behold the garden is full of angels, but look at yourself alone on this earth with Satan whom you obeyed.
 
3 Yet, if you had submitted, and been obedient to Me, and had kept My Word, you would be with My angels in My garden.
 
4 But when you transgressed and obeyed Satan, you became his guests among his angels, that are full of wickedness; and you came to this earth, that brings forth to you thorns and thistles.
 
5 O Adam, ask him who deceived you, to give you the divine nature he promised you, or to make you a garden as I had made for you; or to fill you with that same bright nature with which I had filled you.
 
6 Ask him to make you a body like the one I made you, or to give you a day of rest as I gave you; or to create within you a reasonable soul, as I created for you; or to take you from here to some other earth than this one which I gave you. But, O Adam, he will not fulfil even one of the things he told you.
 
7 Acknowledge, then, My favor towards you, and My mercy on you, My creature; that............