emmerich -8

I saw Adam created... not in Paradise... 

but in the region in which Jerusalem was subsequently [later] situated. 

I saw him come forth glittering and white, from a mound [hoop] of yellow earth, as if out of a mold. The sun was shining, and I thought - I was only a child when I saw it - that the sunbeams drew Adam out of the hillock [heuveltje, hoop]. 

He was, as it were, born of the virgin earth. 

God blessed the earth, and it became his mother. 

He did not instantly step forth from the earth. Some time elapsed before his appearance. He lay in the hillock on his left side, his arm thrown over his head, a light vapor covering him as with a veil. 

I saw a figure in his right side, and I became conscious that it was Eve, and that she would be drawn from him in Paradise by God. 

God called him. 

The hillock opened, and Adam stepped gently forth. 

There were no trees around, only little flowers. I had seen the animals also, coming forth from the earth in pure singleness, the females separate from the males. And now I saw Adam borne up on high [omhoog gedragen] to a garden, to Paradise.

God led all the animals before him in Paradise, and he named them. They followed him and gamboled [dartelden] around him, for all things served him before he sinned. All that he named, afterward followed him to earth. 

Eve had not yet been formed from him. I saw Adam in Paradise among the plants and flowers, and not far from the fountain that played in its center. 

He was awaking, as if from sleep. 

Although his person was more like to flesh than to spirit, yet he was dazzlingly white. He wondered at nothing, nor was he astonished at his own existence. He went around among the trees and the animals, as if he were used to them all, like a man inspecting his fields.

Near the tree by the water arose a hill. 

On it, I saw Adam reclining [leunend] on his left side, his left hand under his cheek. God sent a deep sleep on him, and he was rapt in vision. 

Then, from his right side, from the same place in which the side of Jesus was opened by the lance, God drew Eve. I saw her, small and delicate. But she quickly increased in size, until full grown. She was exquisitely beautiful. 

Were it not for the Fall... 

all would be born in the same way. 

In tranquil slumber.

~bron~