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Valentinus (ca. 100–ca. 160) was the best known and, for a time, most successful theologian in early Christian Gnosticism. In his Alexandrian ...

A kalpa is a Sanskrit word meaning an aeon, or a vast period of time in Hindu and Buddhist cosmology. In Hinduism, a kalpa is equal to 4.32 billion ...

In the Gnostic codex On the Origin of the World, the aeon named Sophia sends seven archangels from her light to save the Archon Sabaoth, the ...

be referred to as the Monad, or the first Aeon. In gnosticism, God cannot ... named androgynous one, and the eternal aeon among the invisible ones, ...

Irenaeus (Greek: Εἰρηναῖος), (c. 120- c. 200) was a notable early Christian apologist and bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, which is now ...

Shingon Buddhism (眞言, 真言 "true words") is a major school of Japanese Buddhism, and is the other branch, besides Tibetan Buddhism ...

to use words meaning time, such as chronos or aeon] when He did not exist. Arius disliked homoousios because it is not found in the Bible and ...

aeonmagazine.com/writersguidelines.html Aeon Magazine Writer's Guidelines]. Aeon Magazine, 2006-04-26. accessdate 2007-01-16 Fantasy is closely ...

Venus in Ancient Myth and Religion. Ames, IA: Aeon Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0965622909 * Dundes, Alan. "Binary Opposition in Myth: The Propp/Levi ...

this the Great Year, and other Greeks called it an aeon or eon. In researching this topic, Giorgio de Santillana, the former professor of the history ...

(Logos). This origin and action resemble a gnostic aeon (emanation from God) being sent from the pleroma (region of light) to give humans the knowledge ...

God who is trying to return to the Absolute or 13th Aeon. author=Samael Aun Weor | title=The Pistis Sophia Unveiled | origyear=1983 | year=2005 | isbn ...