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	Pleroma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The heavenly pleroma is the center of divine life, a region of light "above" (the term is not to be understood spatially) our world, occupied by spiritual beings such as aeons (eternal beings) and sometimes archons.
		Jesus is interpreted as an intermediary aeon who was sent from the pleroma, with whose aid humanity can recover the lost knowledge of the divine origins of humanity.
		Pleroma is also used in the general Greek language and is used by the Greek Orthodox church in this general form since the word appears under the book of Colossians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pleroma (236 words)

	Encyclopedia: Pleroma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		soul of the mother (the correspondence to the Pleroma or universal soul) and is coincident with the
		pleroma -- [the realm of ] the thirty highest aeons that are the attributes of the supreme being; also: [the realm of] the beings who exist beyond the sensory world.
		The gospel of truth is joy for those who have received from the Father of truth the grace of knowing him, through the power of the Word that came forth from the pleroma, the one who is in the thought and mind of the Father,...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pleroma (618 words)

	Pleroma: Gnostic references (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This [is] the word of the gospel of the discovery of the pleroma for those who await the salvation which is coming from on high.
		All emanations from the Father are pleromas, and the root of all his emanations is in the one who made them all grow up in himself.
		(The aeon was) an image of those things which are in the Pleroma, those things which came into being from the abundance of the joy of the one who exists joyously.
	members.aol.com /projbin/plergnos.htm (332 words)

	Words and pleroma and pleromatic and peromic and copacetic and Nag hammadi
		Pleroma can be translated as "fullness" or "plenitude," but it has a wonderfully rich context in the theological tensions between Gnostic and more orthodox Christianity in the first few centuries after Christ.
		The OED defines pleroma as follows: "In Gnostic theology, the spiritual universe as the abode of God and of the totality of the Divine powers and emanations." If that sounds obscure, you are on the right path.
		But, one aspect of the pleroma is as a place, the place where God resides and from where divine emanations and messages come to earth.
	www.willamette.edu /~blong/Words/PleoII.html (540 words)

	Pleroma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Pleroma (Greek) Fullness, completion, entirety; used by the Gnostics, as for instance by Valentinus in the Pistis Sophia, to denote the fullness of the manifested universe as a whole; hence, space and its contents.
		Therefore, it is the kosmic abode of the invisible gods or divinities in all their many ranges and ranks, together with the planes, worlds, and spheres composing the fullness; the whole elaborately divided and subdivided into planes and hierarchies of emanations, one manner of treatment being geometrically symbolized by squares, circles, points, etc.
		His teachings on pleroma are defined by a vast, intricate diagrammatic scheme, representing a process of emanation on a hierarchical plan with threefold, sevenfold, tenfold, and twelvefold hierarchies; mankind itself forming a lower branch of these hierarchies.
	www.experiencefestival.com /pleroma (922 words)

	RightDivision.com \| Audio Lessons on "Pleroma: The Fullness of Christ"
		Consequently, studying the Pleroma is an exercise in understanding the big picture and the plan of God for the ages.
		The pleroma speaks to the fact that God was “all in all” in the beginning and He will be “all in all” in the future (end).
		Pleroma handout which you should download and review with all the lessons on the Pleroma.
	www.rightdivision.com /html/audio_pleroma.html (3211 words)

	Gnosticism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The error of Sophia, which is usually identified as a reckless desire to know the transcendent God, leads to the hypostatization of her desire in the form of a semi-divine and essentially ignorant creature known as the Demiurge (Greek: dêmiourgos, "craftsman"), or Ialdabaoth, who is responsible for the formation of the material cosmos.
		When the disruption, brought about by the desire of Sophia, disturbed the Pleroma, this was not understood as a disturbance of an already established unity, but rather as the disturbance of an insupportable stasis that had come to be observed as divine.
		The purpose of the Pleroma was to exist as a living, collective expression of the intellectual magnitude of the Father, and if any single being within the Pleroma were to attain to the Father, all life would cease.
	www.iep.utm.edu /g/gnostic.htm (8278 words)

	Pleroma - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		Pleroma is a Greek word meaning "fullness, completion, whole." It is equivalent to the Sanskrit Purna, meaning "wholeness'" and used in Tantric texts to refer to the ground state of all that exists.
		In Gnostic metaphysics, the Pleroma is understood as the Godhood or the primal ground of being.
		In other words, there is both one God and a company of Gods in the Pleroma.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/Pleroma (195 words)

	Ecclesia Gnostica in Nova Albion: Gnosticism 101
		The Pleroma is the Primal Source, and every universe, and the potential for every universe, is an emanation of the Pleroma.
		A critical part of the Archon's agenda is to hide the truth of the Pleroma from their pawns.
		One aspect of the Pleroma, the Logos ("Word") is sent down through the Archons to rescue Her.
	egina.blogspot.com /2004/12/gnosticism-101.html (1409 words)

	"Pleroma" in Teilhard de Chardin
		125 -- "At every moment the eucharistic Christ controls -- from the point of view of the organization of the Pleroma (which is the only true point of view from which the world can be understood) -- the whole movement of the universe...
		In the first place, since the pleroma is the kingdom of God in its completed form...
		In consequence, the constitution of the pleroma, from the origins of the world until God, must necessarily make itself apparent to our minds by a progressive advance of spirit."
	members.aol.com /projbin/plerteil.htm (718 words)

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		Although the pleroma pervadeth altogether, yet hath created being no share thereof, just as a wholly transparent body becometh neither light nor dark through the light which pervadeth it. We are however, the pleroma itself, for we are a part of the eternal and infinite.
		We fall into the pleroma itself and cease to be creatures. We are given over to dissolution in the nothingness. This is the death of the creature. Therefore we die in such measure as we do not distinguish. Hence the natural striving of the creature goeth towards distinctiveness, fighteth against primeval, perilous sameness.
		It is the manifest opposition of creatura to the pleroma and its nothingness.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /mr.king/writings/essays/essaysukc/download/Cgjdead2.doc (6159 words)

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		Such a mode of acting would truly entail [the charge of] degeneracy upon the entire Pleroma, since it might from the first have cut off that defect, and those emanations which derived their origin from it,(3) and not have agreed to permit the formation of creation either in ignorance, or passion, or in defect.
		If, then, they assert that whatever is outside [the Pleroma] is ignorant of all things, and if the Saviour went forth to impart form to their Mother, then He was situated beyond the pale of the knowledge of all things; that is, He was in ignorance.
		If, therefore, this AEon was produced by the Pleroma of the same substance as the whole of it, she could never have undergone change, since she was consorting with beings similar to and familiar with herself, a spiritual essence among those that were spiritual.
	www.ewtn.com /library/PATRISTC/ANF1-20.TXT (14587 words)

	HD PLEROMA 1
		Of all the terms used in dispensational truth, the Pleroma by its very nature and meaning is surely one of the most comprehensive.
		The word translated fullness is the Greek pleroma, and its first occurrence in the N.T. places it in contrast with a "rent" or a "gap".
		The pleroma or "fulness" is placed in direct contrast with desolation, waste, flood, fire, scattering, and a condition that is without form and void.
	www.heavendwellers.com /hd_pleroma_1.htm (2396 words)

	CHURCH FATHERS: Against Heresies, II.24 (St. Irenaeus)
		The name Christ, too, ought to be capable of being reckoned up in harmony with the Aeons of their Pleroma, inasmuch as, according to their statements, He was produced for the establishment and rectification of their Pleroma.
		For, in the one case, each of the Aeons is a thirtieth part of the entire Pleroma, while in the other they declare that a month is the twelfth part of a year.
		But, on the contrary, as the case really stands, their Pleroma is divided into thirty parts, and a portion of it into twelve; while again the whole year is divided into twelve parts, and a certain portion of it into thirty.
	www.newadvent.org /fathers/0103224.htm (1635 words)

	VII Sermones ad Mortuos (Seven Sermons to the Dead)
		Although the Pleroma penetrates it completely, the created world has no part of it, just as an utterly transparent body does not become either dark or light in color as the result of the passage of light through it.
		Even in the smallest point the Pleroma is present without any bounds, eternally and completely, for small and great are the qualities which are alien to the Pleroma.
		When you speak about the divisions of the Pleroma, we are speaking from the position of our own divisions, and we speak about our own differentiated state; but while we do this, we have in reality said nothing about the Pleroma.
	www.southerncrossreview.org /15/sermon1.htm (1406 words)

	The Gnostic Account of the Fall and Creation
		Metaphysically what this means is that, for the Gnostics, the Cosmos is not the result of a supreme God, as is taught by monotheism, but rather the creation of the very lowest and most minor of the emanated divinities, and even then an accidental creation at that.
		Achamoth, realising she is outside the Pleroma and unable to return, experiences emotions such as grief, fear, etc. Jesus then descends from the Pleroma and separates her from these emotions, which then become the substance or primal matter of the Cosmos, i.e.
		Because the lower heavens, such as the astrological spheres, are the creation of the inferior world-creator, rather than the supreme principle, the Gnostics adopted a very negative and pessimistic approach to astrology.
	www.kheper.net /topics/Gnosticism/fall.html (1443 words)

	The Pleroma
		One idea that characterises most Gnostic texts are their complex accounts of the unfolding of the various Divine emanations, the Aeons, the "Eternities" or "Worlds", which become the transcendental Pleroma or realm of Light.
		The Pleroma is distinguished from the lower or manifest creation, so the Gnostic Cosmology is based on the idea of a duality between the transcendent Spiritual Reality (which includes the manifest and unmanifest) Absolute) and the imperfect psychic and physical reality, the "Cosmos".
		The exact representations of the Pleroma differ according to different Gnostic sects, but if we take the Sethian and Valentinian schools there is the division into four grades of divine existence, as follows
	www.kheper.net /topics/Gnosticism/Pleroma.html (258 words)

	C.G. Jung - "Septem Sermones ad Mortuoa" (Sieben Reden an die Toten - 1916)
		We are, however, the pleroma itself, for we are a part of the eternal and infinite.
		But we have no share in it, as we are infinitely removed from the pleroma; not spiritually or temporally, but essentially, since we are distinguished from the pleroma in our essence as creatura, which is confined within time and space.
		Even in the smallest point is the pleroma endless, eternal, and entire, since small and great are qualities which are contained in it.
	www.aracaria.com.au /art/sermo1.htm (1216 words)

	Pleroma
		Once again we see the principle of the pleroma at work, with its promise of a better day, when sorrow and sighing shall have fled away, when the true seed shall flourish, and the seed of the serpent be no more.
		It is in connexion with the "pleroma" of the seasons that this figure of "heading up" is used, no other term being so appropriate or so complete.
		The word pleroma being used in verse 13 as the goal of the Church "the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ"
	www.levendwater.org /analysis/a3/pleroma.htm (15523 words)

	CHURCH FATHERS: Against Heresies, II.1 (St. Irenaeus)
		But if there is anything beyond Him, He is not then the Pleroma of all, nor does He contain all.
		But that which is wanting, and falls in any way short, is not the Pleroma of all things.
		This third kind of existence will therefore bound and contain both the others, and will be greater both than the Pleroma, and than that which is beyond it, inasmuch as it contains both in its bosom.
	www.newadvent.org /fathers/0103201.htm (485 words)

	demiurge23.net: SEPTEM SERMONES AD MORTUOS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		But we have no share thereof, as we are from the pleroma infinitely removed; not spiritually or temporally, but essentially, since we are distinguished from the pleroma in our essence as creatura, which is confined within time and space.
		It is indifferent wether the pleroma is or is not, since in everything it is balanced and void.
		It is the manifest opposition to the pleroma and its nothingness.
	demiurge23.blogspot.com /2005/09/septem-sermones-ad-mortuos.html (3821 words)

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	The First Sermon, Seven Sermons to the Dead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Although the Pleroma penetrates it completely, the created world has no part of it, just as an utterly transparent body does not become either dark or light as the result of the passage of the light through it.
		When you speak of the divisions of the Pleroma, we are speaking from the position of our own divisions, and we speak about our own differentiated state; but while we do this, we have in reality said nothing about the Pleroma.
		We strive to attain to the good and the beautiful, but at the same time we also attain to the evil and the ugly, because in the Pleroma, these are identical with the good and the beautiful.
	www.holysmoke.org /sdhok/sermon1.htm (1336 words)

	The Second Sermon, Seven Sermons to the Dead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		God is a quality of the Pleroma and everything that I have stated in reference to the created world is equally true of him.
		God also is himself the Pleroma, even as every smallest point within the created world, as well as within the uncreated realm, is itself of the Pleroma.
		All things which are brought forth from the Pleroma by differentiation are pairs of opposites; therefore God always has with him the Devil.
	www.holysmoke.org /sdhok/sermon2.htm (642 words)

	Who Owns the Earth?
		Although the pleroma pervadeth altogether, yet hath created being no share thereof, just as a wholly transparent body becometh neither light nor dark through the light which pervadeth it.
		It is indifferent whether the pleroma is or is not, since in everything it is balanced and void.
		Thus it is that both stand very close to the pleroma, in which all opposites are extinguished and joined.
	www.luminist.org /archives/septem.htm (3757 words)

	The true Top
		Creatura is not in the pleroma, but in itself.
		the pleroma itself, for we are a part of the eternal and the infinite.
		quality of the pleroma, as much as non-creation which is the eternal death.
	www.censorthis.com /ouran/GD63.html (964 words)

	Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I
		Chapter III.-The Bythus and Pleroma of the Valentinians, as Well as the God of Marcion, Shown to Be Absurd; The World Was Actually Created by the Same Being Who Had Conceived the Idea of It, and Was Not the Fruit of Defect or Ignorance.
		These latter beings, then, ought also to have been numbered in the Pleroma of the Aeons, or that should be deprived of the honour of those Aeons which bear this appellation (the Tetrad).
		But I have of necessity mentioned their names at present, that from these the absurdity of their falsehood may be made manifest, and also the confused nature of the nomenclature they have devised.
	www.ccel.org /fathers2/ANF-01/anf01-59.htm (16420 words)

	Pleroma Distribution Limited (PDL): Customers: Progress Software (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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		Pleroma Distribution Limited (PDL) is a leader in the UK warehouse and distribution sector with most of the big names in the food industry on its books including Sainsbury's, Heinz, Tesco and Asda.
		PDL wanted to provide its customers easier access and more control over their consignments at PDL.
	www.progress.com /customers/distribution/pleroma/index.ssp?Sol_Id=18136 (201 words)

	pleroma from LiveJournal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		From my own point of view, "the flesh" is a restriction of consciousness to a single set of possibilities.
		In the Pleroma, or fullness of things, all possibilities exist simultaneously, because they are unmanifest.
		The manifest world that we perceive is but one possibility, yet we treat it as if it was all- there...
	www.ljseek.ru /search4/pleroma/1 (555 words)

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