Then I told him:
“My Lord, the moment that someone is contemplating your appearance, is it by means of his psyche (soul) that he is seeing? Or is it by means of his pneuma (spirit, breath)?”

The Master answered:
“Neither by means of his psyche, nor of his pneuma; but being the nous between them, it is the nous who sees, and who (…)”.

JEAN-YVES LELOUP, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene