1 When they gazed down, they realized that his intellect surpassed (their own), and they convened in counsel together with the group of archons and all angels. (APJ) 2 They took fire and earth «21» and water, and combined them with each other together with the four fiery winds, and they worked them together and made a loud commotion, and they took him into the shadow of death, so that they could once more shape him from earth and water and fire and wind, the one whose origin is in matter, which is the ignorance of darkness and lust and their false spirit. (APJ)
Apocryphon of John 15:1–2
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