Monday, September 2, 2013

Encyclopedia Britannica on Aeon

aeon, also spelled Eon,  (Greek: “age,” or “lifetime”), in Gnosticism and Manichaeism, one of the orders of spirits, or spheres of being, that emanated from the Godhead and were attributes of the nature of the absolute; an important element in the cosmology that developed around the central concept of Gnostic dualism—the conflict between matter and spirit.
The first aeon was said to emanate directly from the unmanifest divinity and to be charged with a divine force. Successive emanations of aeons were charged with successively diminished force. Each Gnostic system explained aeons in its own way, but all concurred that aeons increased in number in proportion to their remoteness from the divinity and that lower aeons shared proportionately less in divine energy. At a certain level of remoteness, the possibility of error was said to invade the activity of aeons; in most systems, such error was responsible for the creation of the material universe. For many, Christ was the most perfect aeon, whose specific function was to redeem the error embodied in the material universe; the Holy Spirit was usually a subordinate aeon.
Interesting that the Sophia is not even mentioned, and in my Strong's Concordance there is only ONE mention of them being "aged".  The Ancient Ones?
                    The Ancient Ones: Call to the Ancients ...Listen to the Music by Atsiaktonke    http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-ancient-ones-call-to-the-ancients-mw0001397471

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