Yesterday, I was led to information about a text called the 'Prayer of Joseph' and it speaks of how men can become Archangels and Sons of God. Its great confirmation of what I already know to be true about being born again a Son of God due to experience.
The original prayer was well known to Origen and of course most of his works were destroyed by the orthodox as well. Origen's teacher was the wonderful Clement of Alexandria.
It is written that only three fragments of it survive, although it is mentioned in the works of others.
"I told him his name and how great he was among the sons of God; Are you not Uriel my eighth, and I am Israel and archangel of the power of the Lord and a chief captain among the sons of God? Am not I Israel, the first minister in the sight of God, and I invoked my God by the inextinguishable name?"
There is also an unknown text called the Apocalypse of Abraham
"The most obvious and perhaps the correct explanation of this passage is to declare it a late Christian interpolation, yet “the man” does not fit the medieval Christian concept of Jesus. His function is not clearly messianic. This problematic passage therefore may have originated in some Judeo-Christian sect, which saw Jesus as precursor of the Messiah, or it may be Jewish, badly rewritten by an early Christian editor Perhaps it reflects a Jewish view of Jesus as an apostle to the heathen, an explanation which would make it unique, and indeed startling." [1]
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