Pistis Sophia

‘The last shall be first and the first shall be last.’ The first then, who were created before us, are the invisibles, for indeed they arose before mankind, they and the gods and the rulers; and the men who shall receive mysteries, will be first into the kingdom of heaven.”

Amen, amen, I say unto you: Ye shall be the first in the kingdom of heaven before all invisibles and all gods and rulers who are in the thirteenth i æon and in the twelfth æon; and not only ye, but also every one who shall accomplish my mysteries.”

concerning this word then thy light-power prophesied aforetime through David, in the eighty-first Psalm, saying :
“ ‘ God shall sit in the assembly (synagogue) | of the gods and try the gods.’ ”
Jesus said unto her : “ Well said, Mary.”

and thou shalt judge the tyrant gods, who have not given up the purification of their light,

from all the gods down to the demons

That John was Elias in a former birth.