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Pleroma Pleroma (Greek ) generally refers to the totality of divine powers. The word means "fullness" from ("I fill") comparable to which means "full", and is used in Christian theological contexts: both in Gnosticism generally, and by St. Paul the Apostle in (the word is used 17 times in the NT).
Pleroma and the verbal substantive in -"ma" may express either
Pleroma It may emphasize totality in contrast to its constituent parts; or fulness in contrast to emptiness ("kenoma"); or completeness in contrast to incompleteness or deficiency ("hysterema" , , "hettema" ).
Pleroma John M. Dillon in his "Pleroma and Noetic Cosmos: A Comparative Study" states that Gnosticism imported its concept of the ideal realm or Pleroma from Plato's concept of the cosmos and Demiurge in Timaeus and of Philo's Noetic cosmos in contrast to the aesthetic cosmos. Dillon does this by contrasting the Noetic cosmos to passages from the Nag Hammadi, where the aeons are expressed as the thoughts of God. Dillon expresses the concept that Pleroma is a Gnostic adaptation of Hellenic ideas, since before Philo there is no Jewish tradition that accepts that the material world or cosmos was based on an ideal world that exists as well.
Pleroma In its semi-technical application it is applied primarily to the perfection of God, the fulness of His Being, 'the aggregate of the Divine attributes, virtues, energies': this is used quite absolutely in ("oti en auto eudokesen pan to pleroma katoikesai"), but further defined