The Pleroma and the calling
Douglas M. Parrott (composite) · Public domain / scholarly composite. Reproduced for educational and religious commentary.
1Now then, you who would know the truth — pay attention to what I say.
2The Father is one. The Self-Father is two. The Man is three. The Saviour is four. The Aeon is twelve. The hosts are seventy-two. The kingdoms are three hundred and sixty. The whole is one.
3Each Aeon is named. Each Aeon is filled. Each Aeon is a son. Each Aeon sings. Each Aeon is at rest. The Aeons are the Pleroma; the Pleroma is the Father; the Father is in the Pleroma.
4And from the Pleroma the human being has come — not the human being of the world, but the immortal Man-of-Light, the spiritual one. And the human being of the world is the image of him.
5Therefore the human being can return — through gnosis — to his original source. He who knows the Pleroma is in the Pleroma. He who is in the Pleroma is at rest.
6Such is the testimony of Eugnostos. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.