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) 7 However, the Blessed One, the Mother-Father, the beneficent and merciful one, showed mercy to the power of the mother which had been brought forth from the chief ruler, because they might acquire power over the psychic and sensory body, and through his beneficent Spirit and his great mercy he dispatched to Adam a helper, Radiant Reflection who emerges out of him, who is called ‘Life.’ (APJ) 8 She, however, helps the entire creation by laboring together with him, and by restoring to him his perfection, and by instructing him concerning the descent of his seed, and by instructing him concerning the way of ascent, the way by which it descended. (APJ)
Apocryphon of John 14:6–8
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