Nirvritti the same as the Pleroma of the Gnostics, 169.
In him dwells the whole Pleroma of the Godhead in bodily shape.
The Church, which is his body, the Pleroma of him that filleth all in all.
It was the Father's good pleasure that in him the whole Pleromashould have its home" (Col.
I said that Buddha, like the Gnostic Christ, ruled the Pleroma or Pravritti.
It was the Father's good pleasure that in him the whole Pleroma should have its home.
Of his Pleroma have we all received," says the fourth evangelist.
Whether Christianity be really such a pleroma of truth or not, must be ascertained by a careful comparison of its teachings, and the ideas lying back of them, with those of all other religions.
Valentinian proud of knowledge] neque in coelo, neque in terra putat se esse, sed intra Pleroma introisse et complexum jam angelum suum, cum institorio et supercilio incedit gallinacei elationem habens.
Through this three hundred and sixty-five times repeated emanation the Pleroma approaches the borders of the hyle, a seething mass of forces wildly tossing against one another.
The prophets whom Jaldabaoth sent to his people, were at the same time unconscious organs of Achamoth, who also sent down the Ano-Christus from the Pleroma upon the Messiah, whose kingdom is yet to spread among all nations.
She is indeed prevented from this by the Horos; but the breach in the Pleromahas been made.
Hence even the blessed spirits of the Pleroma can never forsake her.
They all suffer with the unfortunate, until she who had sprung from the Pleroma is restored to it purified and matured.
With this is joined another characteristic notion, that in the historical development of the Pleroma the original types of the three great crises of the earthly history, Creation, the Fall, and Redemption, are met with.
The pre-existence of Jesus, as an emanation from God, in whom were summed up the attributes of the pleroma or full scale of Gnostic aeons, was now generally conceded.
Jesus of Nazareth were the deeds of the incarnate Logos, in whom was exhibited the pleromaor fulness of the divine attributes.
It will be attained when every individual shall have become complete in Christ, and therewith also in his own person a pleroma of Christ.
The Church is not only destined to present herself at the close of her historical development as the pleroma of him that filleth all in all; she is even now entitled to this attribute, by virtue of her essential character.
Thus the Church is seen to be the pleroma of the Godhead in a twofold {677} point of view.
Let the productions of the human mind, at a given stage of its development, be ever so glorious and sublime, they can never supplant the pleroma of the Church.
Why is she alone the body of Christ, the pleroma of the God-head?
We have as yet, however, come to know but the one phase of this relation of the Church to Christ, or to the pleroma of the Godhead.
As the pleroma of him who filleth all in all, the Church harbors in her bosom a treasure, the richness of which is inexhaustible.
The topographical conception of the pleroma moreover is carried out in the details of the imagery.
In this work the word pleroma occurs with tolerable frequency; but its meaning is not easily fixed.
This corporate being must grow up into the one colossal Man, the standard of whose spiritual and moral stature is nothing less than the pleroma of Christ Himself.
The Valentinian notion of a spiritual marriage between the souls of the elect and the angels of the Pleroma originated with Cerinthus’.
In this pleroma every existence which is suprasensual and therefore true has its abode.
Indeed the localization of the pleroma is as complete as language can make it.
The pleromais the region of ideas, of archetypes, which intervenes between the author of creation and the material world, and communicates their specific forms to the phenomenal existences of the latter.
As St Paul tells the Ephesians that the ideal Church is the pleroma of Christ and that the militant Church must strive to become the pleroma of Christ, so St John (i.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pleroma" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
