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.
He deserves from them a preferment, he for whom all heresies are procured.
Why should he not be diffused with all jocundity, the Pleroma being set free?
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 …