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) 9 Further, Reflection of Light was concealed inside Adam, so that the archons would be unknowing, but that Reflection would be a rectification of the deficiency of the mother, and the man became visible on account of the light-shadow inside him, and his intellect surpassed (that of) all those who had made him. (APJ)
Apocryphon of John 14:8–9
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