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aeon

Age or immense period of time. The Gnostics used the term to indicate manifestations from God, or spirits which form a separate existence and have influence over phases in the world's progression.



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During the three terrible hours that the play had lasted, he had lived centuries of pain, aeon upon aeon of torture.
I have a dream of laying my head on your breast and sleeping an aeon or so, and the dream will come true ere another year is gone.
I sighed, following the sartorial train of thought, even to the loathly arrows that had decorated my person once already for a little aeon.
 
 
 
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