The
Christ Angel Continues to Explain his True Nature: The Angel of Death
24)
Now then, Mary, give the sign to the apostles that so they will tell the
mystery to those who believe. The one to whom it is given will hear: thus will
my name and my power be known. And I want to who them, Mary, what power was
given to me from God the Father when he sent me into the world to destroy sinners
and to bless the just.
25)
I am the third that was created, and I am not the Son (alt. B: “I am the one
who was created third in divinity, and I am the Son”); there is no one
greater than me. I am the one who destroyed every firstborn of Egypt because of
the great evil that was in them, and because of the great cry, and because of
the blood that was shed by them. Ask the people of the earth, Mary, why I
destroyed all the firstborn in Egypt. Ask those who say, ‘There is no one who
saw us, and there is no one who knows us,’ as they should know. Ask then those
who believe and trust in their treasures, and they will tell you why I destroyed
all the firstborn of Egypt, so that they ate many lentils in the teeth of their
children [?], and they will always sin, and affliction will remain on their
children. And behold, these who say, ‘Nevertheless, we are.’ For this mystery
is among us together, with the blood of those who were destroyed. This I tell
you, Mary, so that you know about these things. (“The Book of Mary’s Repose,” in The Dormition and
Assumption of the Virgin Mary [trans. Stephen J. Shoemaker; Apocryphes:
Collection De Poche De L’Aelac 17; Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2023], 74)
Elsewhere in the text, we learn
the name of the angel:
. . . I have spoken to you, who is
before me. Her then my name: ‘Adonai’el. (Ibid., 82)
Note that the name is a
combination of both Adonai and El.
