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aeon

 or eon

In Gnosticism or Manichaeism, one of the orders of spirits, or spheres of being, emanating from the godhead. The first aeon emanated directly from unmanifested divinity and was charged with divine force. Aeons increased in number and decreased in divine energy with increased remoteness from the divinity. At sufficient remoteness, error became possible and was the source of the material universe. Aeons may be viewed positively, as embodiments of the divine, or negatively, as media through which the soul must pass to reach its divine origin.

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aeon (esp US), eon

1. a period of one thousand million years

2. Gnosticism one of the powers emanating from the supreme being and culminating in the demiurge

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aeon [′ē‚än]

(astronomy)

A billion (10⁹) years. Also spelled eon.