What will life be like in the
World to Come? God will be seated in His great academy, and seated in His
presence will be the righteous of the world, along with their wives, their
sons, their daughters, their manservants, and their maidservants. The needs
of their households will all be provided for them. There will be no hunger or
thirst or sexual desire, but the righteous will feast on the splendor of the Shekhinah.
(Seder Eliyahu Rabbah 4:19, in Howard Schwartz, Tree of Souls: The
Mythology of Judaism [New York: Oxford University Press, 2004], 507,
emphasis added)
2,1 For in this regard they agree
with the previous sect, the sect of the Cainites: Two men were born at the very
beginning, and Cain and Abel were the sons of the two. And in quarreling about
them the angels went to <war with> each other, and so brought it about
that Abel was killed by Cain. (2) For the angels’ quarrel was a struggle over
the human stocks, since these two men, the one who had sired Cain and the one
who had sired Abel, <were at odds with each other>. (3) But the power on
high has won, the one they call Mother and Female. For they have the idea that
there are both mothers on high, and females and males, and they all but say
“kindreds and patriarchies” too. (Against Sethians, 2,1-3 in The
Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis Book 1 (Sects 1-46) [2d ed.; Nag Hammadi
and Manichaean Studies 63; Leiden, Brill: 2009], 277)
