num_pages: 17
description: [...]wholly transparent body becometh neither light nor dark through the light which pervadeth it. We are however the pleroma itself for we are a part of the eternal and infinite. But we have no share thereof as we are from the pleroma infinitely removed; not spiritually or temporally but essentially since we are distinguished from the pleroma in our essence as creatura which is confined within time and space. Yet because we are parts of the pleroma the pleroma is also in us. Even in the smallest point is the pleroma endless eternal and entire since small and great are qualities which are contained in it. It is that nothingness which is everywhere whole and continuous. Only figuratively therefore do I speak of created being as a part of the pleroma. Because actually the pleroma is nowhere divided since it is nothingness. We are also the whole pleroma because figuratively the pleroma is the smallest point (assumed only not existing) in us and the boundless firmament about us. But wherefore then do we speak of the pleroma at all since it is thus everything and nothing? I speak of it to make a beginning somewhere and also to free you from the delusion that somewhere either without or within there standeth something fixed or in some way established from the beginning. Every so-called fixed and certain thing is only relative. That alone is fixed and certain which is subject to change. What is changeable however is creatura. Therefore is it the one thing which is[...].
language: English
title: The Seven Sermons to the Dead
publisher: None