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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 258 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AEON  , a

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term often used in
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Greek (a w) to denote an indefinite or
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infinite duration of
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time; and hence, by
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metonymy, a being that exists for ever . In the latter sense it was chiefly used by the Gnostic sects to denote those eternal beings or manifestations which emanated from the one incomprehensible and ineffable
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God .

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