Pleroma — fullness

Outer field of divine completeness

The Pleroma shell names the fullness in which the aeonic orders are presented in the Apocryphon of John. Its large envelope is a diagrammatic way to show encompassing completeness; no Nag Hammadi witness defines the Pleroma as a measurable field around a human body.

Pleroma — fullnessPleroma — fullnessBarbelo — First ThoughtAutogenes — Self-GeneratedFour LuminariesSophia — WisdomPneuma — awakening spark

Point 1 of 6 in Gnostic Pleroma — Aeon Layers

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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The Apocryphon of John (NHC II,1; III,1; IV,1; BG 8502,2) (primary_canonical)

The cosmological opening and revelation sequence presents the transcendent fullness and its emanative orders; the whole-body shell is an editorial visual mnemonic, not an ancient anatomical claim.

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