Pleroma
place · 2 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
the Pleroma · the fulness · the mysteries of the heretical Ideas · the palace of the Pleroma
in the texts
Adversus Valentinianos
The realm of divine fullness containing the Aeons, bounded by Horos
" This will be that secret Pleroma, the fulness of a thirtyfold divinity.
For Enthymesis—or now Achamoth, which name from here on is written by this alone as untranslatable—when, with the vice of the inseparable Passion, she was expelled into the regions foreign to light (which is a thing of the Pleroma), into that void and empty of Epicurus, she is pitiable even by reason of place.
The Demiurge, then, set outside the limits of the Pleroma, in the ignominious waste of an eternal exile, founded a new province, this world, the confusion of that double substance, disclosed, being cleansed and its diversity distinguished, of the animal and the material.
De Anima
The Valentinian supramundane 'fullness', identified as a Gnostic reworking of Plato's realm of Ideas.
For from this they snatch the difference between the corporeal senses and the intellectual powers, which they accommodate even to the parable of the ten virgins — so that the five foolish ones figure the corporeal senses, foolish, namely, because easy to be deceived, while the wise express the mark of the intellectual powers, wise, namely, because they touch that truth which is hidden and supernal …