Pleroma

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Pleroma generally refers to the totality of God's powers. The term means fullness, and is used in several different theological contexts: Gnosticism, Colossians 2.9.

Gnosticism holds that the world is controlled by evil archons, among whom is the deity of the Old Testament, who held the human spirit captive. 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. The term is thus a central element of Gnostic cosmology.