Seven Sermons to the Dead (Appendix V to Memories, Dreams, Reflections)
The Seven Sermons (1916) are personal journaling rather than reflective writings, published only hesitantly, and then privately, but they were included as an appendix to the autobiography completed in the last year of Jung's life (1961). The term Pleroma appears throughout the Sermons as the name for the realm of the collective unconscious, as distinguished from the Creatura (The creature, created being). For example,
p. 379 -- "Nothingness is both empty and full. ... This Nothingness or Fullness we name the PLEROMA."
9i: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
par. 533n (p. 295) -- lightning indicates sudden, unexpected, overpowering change of psychic condition. Note refers to Hippolytus' reference to inability of the (Gnostic) Aeons to withstand "the effulgence of the Pleroma."
9ii: Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self
par. 75n (p. 41 ) -- Gnostic teaching: "Christ cast off his shadow from himself." Note: (fm. Irenaeus), "Christ (in creating his mother's being) "cast her out of the Pleroma -- that is, he cut her off from knowledge." Creation took place outside the Pleroma, in the shadow, in the void. Christ did not spring from the Aeons of the Pleroma, but from the mother outside it, created "not without a kind of shadow." He cast off his shadow from himself and returned to the Pleroma.
par. 80 (p. 46) -- Irenaeus objected to gnostic idea that within the Pleroma of light there could be a dark void.
par. 120n (p. 66) -- Pleroma as that which is contained within the Father; Jung: i.e. as description of unconscious contents.
par. 344n (p. 219) -- (Irenaeus) the pneumatikoi [spiritual persons] contain a small part of the pleroma (the spinther, spark, scintilla)
11: Psychology and Religion: West and East
Answer to Job
par. 620 -- "In the pleromatic, or (as the Tibetans call it) the Bardo state, there is perfect interplay of the cosmic forces..."
par. 629 -- time as relative concept; all historical processes complemented by "simultaneous" existence in the Bardo or pleroma
par. 675 -- pleromatic = metaphysical
par. 727 -- preexistence of Jahweh and Sophia in "original pleromatic state"
par. 733 -- John knew that "the fire in which the devil is tormented burns in the divine pleroma forever."
par. 748 -- [of the desire for the birth of a savior] "Although he is already born in the pleroma, his birth in time can only be accomplished when it is perceived, recognized, and declared by man."
12: Psychology and Alchemy
par. 138 (p. 107) -- Pleroma similar to suprapersonal Atman
13: Alchemical Studies
par. 116n (p. 87) -- [Herakleon] Primordial Man from the Bythos (depths of the sea) produced and was complemented by the inner man "who came down from the Pleroma on high."
par. 451 (p. 334) -- Sophia separated from the Pleroma of light
par. 456 (p. 336) -- Primordial Man (Christ) coexisted with Sophia in the pleroma
14: Mysterium Conjunctionis
par. 574 (p. 401) -- Sophia is "below and outside the Pleroma"
18: The Symbolic Life
par. 1513 -- Jung: [a Gnostic would reproach me for] "the cluelessness of my gnosis in regard to the happenings in the Pleroma."
p. 131 -- Artists have a "very primitive side"; the Gnostics had that idea and expressed it as Pleroma, "a state of fullness where the pairs of opposites, yea and nay, day and night, are together ... "
p. 593 -- [Re: the hermaphroditic condition of the collective unconscious] "So that original condition of pleroma, of paradise, is really the mother from which consciousness emerges."
p. 601 -- [of the appearance of Eros when the person "had come to an end" with the rational intellectual attitude] "The analyst knows that something has happened but is not yet visible; it has happened in the pleroma and has not come through into time."