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Pleroma in the plural number, so he may have used Hysterema also in the plural number to denote the powers belonging to these regions respectively. But it seems to us likely that the assertion that Marcus counted a second or a third Hysterema is but an inference drawn by Irenaeus himself, from the fact that he found the name
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Marcus would seem to have used the word
Hysterema, in the sense already explained, to denote the region outside the Pleroma, where, in his usual way of finding mysteries in numbers, he regards the former region as symbolised by the numbers up to 99 counted on the left hand, the latter by 100 counted
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in the celestial kingdom, the ideal counterparts of the Human Race and the
Christian Church in the terrestrial. . . . The topographical conception of the pleroma moreover is carried out in the details of the imagery. The second Sophia, called also Achamoth, is the desire, the offspring, of her elder
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Creator, who is not a celestial Æon at all, but was born in this very void over which he reigns. Here reside all those phenomenal, deceptive, transitory things, of which the eternal counterparts are found only in the pleroma. . . . All things are set off one against another in these two
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Hysterema from the Pleroma, itself partaking of the nature of both; but preserving all inside fixed and immovable by permitting nothing from without to enter. We can understand in the same sense the passage in
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in the supramundane region, and another in the mundane; there is one Christ who redeems the Æons in the spiritual world, and a second Christ who redeems mankind, or rather a portion of mankind, in the sensible world. There is an Æon
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namesake, separated from her mother, cast out of the pleroma, and left ‘stranded’ in the void beyond, being prevented from returning by the inexorable Horos who guards the frontier of the supramundane kingdom.
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872:. 2, 22, in the latter passage in a technical sense; but the context does not enable us to fix its meaning. Hysterema is said by Epiphanius to have been used as a technical word by
839:; for it appears in the case of the word Hebdomas that the Valentinians gave to the Demiurge the name of the realm over which he ruled, and from which he had his origin.
759:. . . they are, or they comprise, the eternal ideas or archetypes of the Platonic philosophy. . . . Separated from this celestial region by
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Missouri, United States, see
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1051:, ed., transl., and intro. by R.P. Casey (London, 1934).
1039:
Saint Paul's
Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon
856:. Irenaeus ordinarily uses the word, usually rendered
1121:. Vol. III. London: John Murray. p. 190.
813:The Excerpta ex Theodoto of Clement of Alexandria.
1048:The Excerpta ex Theodoto of Clement of Alexandria
953:1, p. 90), probably, as Lightfoot suggests (
903:
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1073:. Presses Université Laval. pp. 11, 35–36.
742:, what is manifest, Valentinian initiates could
807:The ancient Greek term for emptiness or void (
1070:Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition
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1062:. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature.
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1060:The Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis
722:, or fullness, which corresponds to the
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868:. The word Hysterema is found also in
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738:. Employing a third concept of
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1105:Salmon, George (1882).
886:Dyad (Greek philosophy)
653:Theosophy (Blavatskian)
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554:Apocalyptic literature
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802:Lightfoot, pp. 266–67
753:
730:thinker and preacher
621:Esoteric Christianity
487:Clementine literature
464:List of Gnostic texts
184:List of Gnostic sects
16:Concept in Gnosticism
1042:. London: Macmillan.
643:Perennial philosophy
269:Christian Gnosticism
850:karpos hysterematos
845:karpos hysterematos
658:Western esotericism
626:Christian theosophy
574:Paul and Gnosticism
497:Mandaean scriptures
477:Nag Hammadi library
415:Chinese Manichaeism
581:Merkabah mysticism
559:Early Christianity
516:Cologne Mani-Codex
421:Islamic Gnosticism
409:Chinese Gnosticism
390:Persian Gnosticism
237:Samaritan Baptist
210:Judean / Israelite
1080:978-2-7637-7834-1
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663:Rene Guenon
564:Christology
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521:Askew Codex
401:Manichaeism
346:Basilideans
335:Alexandrian
246:Simon Magus
83:Anima mundi
73:Adam pagria
1141:Gnosticism
1130:Categories
1030:References
833:Epiphanius
712:, kenoma (
710:Gnosticism
457:Scriptures
377:Marcosians
360:Valentinus
329:Sethianism
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231:Elkasaites
204:Thomasines
163:Yaldabaoth
103:Five Seals
68:Adam kasia
43:Gnosticism
1136:Platonism
874:Basilides
824:Hysterema
818:Hysterema
616:Carl Jung
432:Nusayrism
341:Basilides
302:Nicolaism
280:Cerinthus
250:Simonians
241:Dositheos
221:Mandaeism
199:Maghāriya
1117:(eds.).
1086:15 April
1058:(1989).
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880:See also
854:Achamoth
837:Demiurge
800:—
794:Ecclesia
765:Demiurge
569:Docetism
384:Florinus
256:Menander
118:Luminary
98:Demiurge
36:a series
34:Part of
998:I. xvi.
728:Gnostic
720:pleroma
648:Thelema
504:Codices
324:Ophites
307:Perates
290:Marcion
275:Apelles
261:Quqites
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