4 He was unaware, because he exists in ignorance, and the power of the mother went forth from Yaltabaoth into the psychic body they had formed according to the image of he who is from the beginning. (APJ) 5 The body moved and attained strength, and it was radiant, and at that time the rest of «20» the powers grew envious, because he had come into existence through all of them, and they had bestowed their power on the man, and his intellect surpassed (that of) those who had made him, and the chief archon. (APJ) 6 When, however, they saw that he was radiant, and that he could reason better than they, and that he was unburdened by evil, they took him up and thrust him down into the nethermost region of all matter. (APJ)
Apocryphon of John 14:4–6
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