Kebra Nagast

And if his heart intentions), five good, and five bad. inciteth him to good, he walketh with good intent ; and the Devil seduceth him, he walketh with him on an As for you, ye have no other object in your minds but praise of Me, with the exception of that arrogant one who produced evil, and became an evil And being, and was driven forth from your assembly. now, why do ye magnify yourselves over Adam ? If ye were as he is, and I had created you of water and dust, ye would have been flesh and blood, and ye would have transgressed My commandment more than he hath done, and denied My word." And the angels said Far be it unto Him, " Praise be unto Thee, O Lord from us We will not transgress Thy commandment, and we will not oppose Thy word ; for we are spiritual beings for life, and he is a creature of dust [doomed] to And now try us well, and put us to the test so folly. if evil path. ! ! that Thou mayest know whether we are able to keep Thy word." And when they had vaunted themselves in this manner God, the Lover of men, said unto them, " If now ye go astray so far as this in transgressing My word, the wrong will be upon your own heads, [for] Jahannam and fire, and sulphur,- and fervent heat, and shall be your habitation until the Great shall be kept in chains which can neither be Day ye loosened nor broken for ever. But if ye keep truly My word, and ye do My commandment, ye shall sit upon My right hand and upon My left. For everyone who hath conquered is mighty, and he who is conquered shall be overpowered. Now Satan hath no power whatsoever, for he hath only what he maketh to germinate in the mind and he cannot grasp firmly, and he cannot perform anything, and he cannot beat, and he cannot he can drag, and he cannot seize, and he cannot fight mind. in the to make thoughts germinate silently only And him who is caught by the evil mind he prepareth for (or, hell), whirlwind : ; ; 1 86