"And in that moment the rest of the powers
became jealous, because he had come into being
through all of them and they had given their
power to the man, and his intelligence was greater
than that of those who had made him, and
greater than that of the chief archon. And when they recognized
that he was luminous, and that he could think better
than they, and that he was free from wickedness, they took
him and threw him into the lowest region
of all matter.
"But the blessed One, the Mother-Father,
the beneficent and merciful One,
had mercy on the power of the mother
which had been brought forth out of the chief archon,
for they (the archons) might gain power over the
natural and perceptible body. And he
sent, through his beneficent
Spirit and his great mercy, a helper
to Adam, luminous Epinoia
which comes out of him, who is called
Life. And she assists the whole creature,
by toiling with him and by restoring
him to his fullness and by
teaching him about the descent of his
seed (and) by teaching him about the way of ascent,
(which is) the way he came down.
And the luminous Epinoia was hidden in Adam,
in order that the archons might not know her,
but that the Epinoia might be a correction
of the deficiency of the mother."
