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This means the same thing as the word eon: an eternal frame of time, eternity.
Quantitatively, eon refers to a period of time of 1,000,000,000 years. Though, geologists refer to the period in which animals evolved into abundance as the Phanerozoic Eon, which only lasts 545 million years, to the present day.
The word ĉon was used by Plato to denote the eternal world of ideas, which he conceived was "behind" the perceived world, as demonstrated in his famous cave-allegory .
In many Gnostic systems, the various emanations of the God, who is also known by such names as the One, the Monad, Aiwn teleos (The Perfect Ĉon), Bythos, Proarkh (Before the Beginning), H'Arkh (The Beginning), are called ĉons. This first being is also an ĉon and has an inner being within itself, known as Ennoea (Thought), Charis (Grace), or Sige (Silence). The split perfect being conceives the second ĉon, Nus (Mind), within itself. Along with the male Nus comes the female ĉon Veritas (Truth)
The ĉons often came in male/female pairs called syzygies, and were frequently numerous (20-30). Two of the most commonly listed ĉons were Jesus Christ and Sophia. The ĉons constitute the pleroma, the "region of light". The lowest regions of the pleroma are closest to the darkness; i.e. the physical world.
When an ĉon named Sophia emanates without her partner ĉon, the result is the Demiurge (or Ialdaboth), a creature that should never have come into existence. This creature does not belong to the pleroma, and the One emanates two savior ĉons, Christ and the Holy Spirit to save man from the Demiurge. Christ then took the form of the man, JesusImages of Jesus in which a halo is used to represent divinity. 6 4 BCE to c. 29 33 CE) is the central figure in Christianity, in which context he is known as Jesus Christ (from the Hebrew Yehošua , and Greek Chi;ριστ&sigmaf Chris, in order to be able to teach man how to achieve gnosisThe word gnosis (from the Greek word for knowledge, ) has several uses: Among the gnostics, gnosis was the privileged "knowledge of the heart" or "insight" about the spiritual nature of the cosmos, that brought about salvation to the pneumatics people who; i.e. return to the pleroma.
According to TertullianQuintus Septimius Florens Tertullian (b. 150- 160, d. 220- 240) is a highly ambivalent character in early Christianity. On one hand, he was the first great writer of Latin Christianity. He was born, lived, wrote, and died in Carthage, in what is today Tun's Against the Valentinians (Latin: Adversus Valentinianos) chapter VII and VIII (and we only know the details of this system from its opponents), the Gnostic ValentiniusValentinius or Valentinus (c. 153) was the name of a Christian Gnostic thinker, ca 140 A. He is believed by some to have been the father of Gnosticism. He was born in Phrebonis in Egypt. He was a follower of Theudas who was in turn a follower of St. Paul had 30 different ĉons which emanate each other in sequence. The first 8 of these (corresponding to generation one-four below) is referred to as the Ogdoad.
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