Editing Gnosticism (section)

===Pleroma===
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''Pleroma'' (Greek πλήρωμα, "fullness") refers to the totality of God's powers. 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 [[Archon (Gnosticism)|archons]]. Jesus is interpreted as an intermediary aeon who was sent from the pleroma, with whose aid humanity can recover the lost knowledge of its divine origins. The term is thus a central element of Gnostic [[cosmology]].

The term ‘pleroma’ is also used in the general Greek language, and it is used by the [[Greek Orthodox Church|Greek Orthodox church]] in this general form, since the word appears in the [[Epistle to the Colossians]]. Proponents of the view that Paul was actually a Gnostic, such as Elaine Pagels, view the reference in Colossians as a term which must be interpreted in a Gnostic sense.