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The animated TV series Æon Flux draws its name and some of its iconography from Gnosticism, notably aeons (the two main characters forming a syzygy) and a demiurge. [8] [9] The webcomic Homestuck also draws inspiration from Gnostic ideas, with the main character Jade Harley being called "gardenGnostic" as a pseudonym. She also fuses with her ...
In astronomy, an aeon is defined as a billion years (10 9 years, abbreviated AE). [4] Roger Penrose uses the word aeon to describe the period between successive and cyclic Big Bangs within the context of conformal cyclic cosmology. [5]
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The Logos is referred to as the "Aeon" and "Place" of all those he brought forth and is also called the "Synagogue of Salvation," "Storehouse," "Bride," "Kingdom," and "Joy of the Lord." He performed this activity to bring stability to those he brought forth, and the aeon in which he set himself is a form of matter and an image of the Pleroma.
The name is perhaps an echo of the Egyptian Horus. [14] [21] The task of Horos is to separate the fallen Aeons from the upper world of Aeons. At the same time he becomes a kind of world-creative power, who in this capacity helps to construct an ordered world out of Sophia and her passions.
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The Aeon of Horus, identified by Crowley as beginning in 1904 with the reception of The Book of the Law, marks the current era in Thelemic philosophy. This aeon emphasizes self-realization, individualism, and the pursuit of one's True Will, symbolized by the child god Horus representing new beginnings and potential growth. Crowley described it ...
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