filled with radiant light. He whom you saw coming to me is our intellectual Pleroma, which unites perfect light with my Holy Spirit.” This text exhibits three key features of a direct, revelatory view for Gnostic-like views. First, there is reference to the Pleroma, the pure, heavenly, immaterial fullness that is truly and completely divine. This is the supreme God of these texts. Gnostic views held to a dualism, a radical opposition that taught that the world of ideas was a pure world, while the