tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post4678493260130595634..comments2024-01-26T21:38:25.924-08:00Comments on Duane's PoeTree: Anca Mihaela Bruma writesDuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-48027940061068542752016-04-01T05:40:11.541-07:002016-04-01T05:40:11.541-07:00Very good insights on the word "aeon/eon"...Very good insights on the word "aeon/eon". Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04087722934974680748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-74787896264990403172016-03-31T17:22:25.140-07:002016-03-31T17:22:25.140-07:00An "eonian moment" is one that lasts a l...An "eonian moment" is one that lasts a long time, perhaps forever. The word "eon" (aeon) originally meant "life," "vital force" "being," "generation," or "a period of time," though it tended to be translated as "age" in the sense of "forever," "timeless," or "for eternity." Aeon may also be an archaic name for omnipotent beings, such as gods. Homer used it to mean life or lifespan, but for Plato it was the eternal world of ideas. Emanationism is the idea that everything is derived from the First Reality or Principle via steps of degradation to lesser degrees of the first reality, and at every step the emanating beings are less pure, less perfect, less divine; some Gnostics called the various emanations of God "Aeons." In geology, cosmology, or astronomy (written "AE" in notation) it is used in reference to a period of a billion [10 to the 9th power] years (or to one of the four geological aeons: the Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic, or the current Phanerozoic; and Roger Penrose, in his theory of conformal cyclic cosmology, referred to the period between cyclic "big bangs" as an aeon), and Thelemites (followers of Aleister Crowley, who proclaimed himself to be the prophet of the Aon of Horus) sometimes spoke of a "magical Aeon" that lasts for far less time, perhaps as little as 2,000 years, each of which is accompanied by its own forms of "magical and religious expression."DuanesPoeTreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com