Glossary
See: The Other Bible (Willis Barnstone, editor. Harper & Row, 1984)
aeon -- an age (of indeterminate length, hence eternal; an eon); in gnosticism, one of the pretemporal beings ruling the pleroma
pleroma -- [the realm of ] the thirty highest aeons that are the attributes of the supreme being; also: [the realm of] the beings who exist beyond the sensory world.
The Jung Codex
The first codex of the Nag Hamadi Library (discovered 1949), was purchased in 1952 for the Jung Institute. It was later returned to Egypt, where it is kept in the Coptic Museum, Cairo, with the other volumes. It includes:
Letter of James
Gospel of Truth (attrib. to Valentinus by Irenaeus)
Letter to Rheginus (Valentinus?)
Treatise on the Three Natures (also Valentinian)
[Ency.Brit. 15th Ed (1986): 16:329b, and CGJ:Col.Wks. 18:1514n (p. 671) ]
(These texts are of interest to analytical psychology as manifestions of collective psyche. Psyche reveals itself in psyche's works. Their place in the history of ideas is of only secondary interest here.)
The Gospel of Truth, I:16. The gospel of truth is joy for those who have received from the Father of truth the grace of knowing him, through the power of the Word that came forth from the pleroma, the one who is in the thought and mind of the Father, ... the Saviour ...
The Nag Hamadi Library in English, James M. Robinson, editor (HarperSanFrancisco, 1988) p. 40 [cited NHLE]
The Gospel of Truth, I:34. This [is] the word of the gospel of the discovery of the pleroma for those who await the salvation which is coming from on high. NHLE p. 47
The Gospel of Truth, I:40-41. [The Son] spoke about his secret things, knowing that the Father is a being without evil. For that very reason [the Father] brought him forth in order to speak about the place and the resting-place from which he had come forth, and to glorify the pleroma, the greatness of his name, and the sweetness of the Father. ... And his own resting-place is his pleroma. NHLE p. 50
The Gospel of Truth, I:41. All emanations from the Father are pleromas, and the root of all his emanations is in the one who made them all grow up in himself. NHLE p. 50
The Tripartite Tractate, I:5. (9) That in which the Logos set himself, perfect in joy, was an aeon, having the form of matter, but also having the constitution of the cause, which is the one who revealed himself. (The aeon was) an image of those things which are in the Pleroma, those things which came into being from the abundance of the joy of the one who exists joyously. NHLE p. 81