събота, 1 януари 2011 г.

Angels-AEON

The aeons are superior spiritual beings in the ancient religious system
known as Gnosticism. According to the Gnostics, the aeons were the
first beings to emerge from the pleroma, “the absolute spirit,” which is
the true home of the human spirit.
The precise number of aeons varied. In one common schema—discussed
by the Christian anti-Gnostic Irenaeus—there were thirty aeons,
arranged in fifteen pairs, from Depth and Silence to Theletos (Desire)
and Sophia (Wisdom). According to the Gnostic Basilides, there were
365 aeons. Yet other sources specify eight, twelve, or twenty-four.
Prior to the general acceptance of the Dionysian schema of the
hierarchy of angels, some Christian writers used the term aeon to refer
to one of the angelic orders.

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