As the author of the "Evolution of Christianity" truly says, we have here a condensation of the Æons of Valentinus. John unifies Christ in Monogenes, Logos, Phos, and Soter. He descends as Phos (Light). He has Æonic relationship with Charis and Aletheia.
"Of his Pleroma have we all received," says the fourth evangelist. (John i. 16.)
"It was the Father's good pleasure that in him the whole Pleroma should have its home" (Col. i. 19).
"In him dwells the whole Pleroma of the Godhead in bodily shape." (Col. ii. 9).
"The Church, which is his body, the Pleroma of him that filleth all in all." (Eph. i. 23.)
We turn now to the Æons or Dhyani Buddhas.
"According to the purpose of the Æons." (Eph. iii. 11.)
"Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations."
The author of the "Evolution of Christianity" shows that the authorised version has no sense. He amends it thus:—