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Every entry from the Pleroma lexicon, bound into one book you can keep offline: 269 terms in 9 chapters, from Aeon and Archon to Nigredo and the Emerald Tablet, each with its etymology, a plain definition, a deeper reading and a note on practice.
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Made for readers working through the Nag Hammadi texts, the Corpus Hermeticum or the alchemists who want the vocabulary in one place.
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A preface, a table of contents, then 9 chapters, one for each pillar of the site. Terms are sorted alphabetically inside each chapter.
One Gnostic, one Hermetic and one alchemical term, taken from the current lexicon. The PDF carries the full entries.
Gnostic Cosmology
πλήρωμα · /pleh-ROH-mah/
Etymology: Greek: πλήρωμα (plērōma) — fullness, completion
Definition
The Pleroma is the divine fullness in Gnostic cosmology: the whole of the Father's emanations, the Totality from which every spark of consciousness comes. The Gnostic texts call it ineffable and innumerable. It names a state rather than a place, and the material world is its copy.
Esoteric Mastery
/EM-er-uld TAB-let/
Etymology: Latin: Tabula Smaragdina — the Emerald Table/Tablet
Definition
The Emerald Tablet is a short Hermetic text attributed to Hermes Trismegistus: a dozen lines carrying the sentence popularly condensed to as above, so below and a compressed account of the alchemical Great Work. It surfaces first in Arabic, and Latin Europe read it as alchemy's founding charter.
Related: Hermes TrismegistusCorrespondenceGreat WorkThe Kybalion
Practical Alchemy
/ni-GRAY-doh/
Etymology: Latin: nigredo — blackening, from niger (black)
Definition
The first stage of the alchemical Great Work — the blackening or putrefaction phase where the practitioner confronts the Shadow, buried traumas, and false identities. The necessary decomposition that precedes all genuine transformation.
Related: AlbedoCitrinitasRubedoPrima Materia
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The term with its original form and pronunciation where known, its etymology, a short definition, a deeper reading, a note on practice and a list of related terms. The 269 entries are grouped into 9 chapters, one per pillar of the site.
The English edition runs to 577 A4 pages (2.1 MB), and there is a Bulgarian edition of 593 pages (2.2 MB). The download button on each language version of this page gives you that language's edition.
No. Historical grimoires were manuals of ritual magic. This one is a glossary: it explains the vocabulary of Gnostic, Hermetic and alchemical writing, words such as Pleroma, Demiurge or Nigredo, so the primary texts become easier to read.
The Grimoire is published by Stefan's Alkimia as part of Pleroma Guide. Its entries are drafted with AI and published without a human reading them first. Most do not cite sources yet; citations are being added to the online lexicon term by term, and mistakes are fixed on the Corrections page.
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