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aeonor eonIn 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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During the three terrible hours that the play had lasted, he had lived centuries of pain, aeon upon aeon of torture. I have a dream of laying my head on your breast and sleeping an aeon or so, and the dream will come true ere another year is gone. I sighed, following the sartorial train of thought, even to the loathly arrows that had decorated my person once already for a little aeon. |
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