See Eucharist A., and B., in the Nag Hammadi Library. ", "Pistis Sophia by Mead."...And Jesus said unto them: "Bring me fire and vine branches". They brought them unto him. He laid out the offering, and set down two wine-vessels, one on the right and the other on the left of the offering. He disposed the offering before them, and set a cup of water before the wine-vessel on the right and set a cup of wine before the wine-vessel on the left, and laid loaves according to the number of the disciples in the middle between the cups and set a cup of water behind the loaves". Jesus explaineth the vision of fire and water, and wine and blood. Jesus,--that is Aberamenthō,--said unto his disciples "Amēn, I say unto you: I have brought nothing into the world when I came, save this fire, this water, this wine and this blood. I have brought the water and the fire out of the region of the Light of the lights of the Treasury of the Light; and I have brought the wine and the blood out of the region of Barbēlō. And after a little while my father sent me the holy spirit in the type of a dove. "And the fire, the water and the wine are for the purification of all the sins of the world. The blood on the other hand was for a sign unto me because of the human body which I received in the region of Barbēlō, the great power of the invisible god. The breath on the other hand advanceth towards all souls and leadeth them unto the region of the Light.. And for this cause I took also a cup of wine, blessed it and give it unto you and said: "This is the blood of the covenant which will be poured out for you for the forgiveness of your sins". (P.S. Bk. 5.)