The Aeons

The **Aeons** are the various emanations of God and Barbelo, similar to primordials, they are abstractions, personifications of concepts. The Aeons are known as the Lords of Chaos since they represent the other side of the coin of the universe, they represent the Yin side of the cosmos, that is, the Aeons personify chaos, darkness, space, and femininity, while the Lords of Order, the Archons, represent the Yang side, that is, they personify order, light, time and masculinity. Gnostics believed that Order is evil and Chaos is good.

## Overview

The Aeons are ineffable beings who were emanated from the constant mixture between the Ineffable Goddess and the Heavenly Father; as the two were beings without barriers to each other and without limits, when the two met they were like two galaxies when they merge, the two danced, twirled and blended into the into each other, from this ineffable union, the Perfects emerged.

There is a complex hierarchy among the Aeons based on their distance from God and the edge of Pleroma, their home realm. The ones closer to God are held in high regard while the one further from God are mostly ignored. Funnily enough, Sophia is the furthest from God while also being one of the most famous Aeon; though her way of getting notability wasn't finest.

There have been many misconceptions when it comes to Aeons and their relationship to the physical world, especially among Gnostic groups. In their mind, the physical world is rife with sin and pain while the Aeons are supposedly perfect, to be physical is to be wrong. This thinking however has been disproved time and time again. Any being with any amount of sapience is capable of doing good and causing pain, regardless of their physicality.

Aeons may be emanations of the prefect God, but that doesn't mean they themselves are perfect. Emanation are like sun rays, the Sun may be able to melt skin but a sun ray can only bring sweat to the skin.

## Description

Aeons are often emanated in male-female pairs, referred to as syzygies, that are permanently connected in a way. Breaking these pairs causes irreparable damage to the physical plane, resulting in glitches of sorts. Furthermore, Aeons can't create anything without their partner, the only time this was tried was resulted creatures that should have never been born.

Aeons are native to the Pleroma, a spiritual realm of pure light and energy that is made up of the Aeons. If Aeons didn't exist, then neither would the Pleroma. The further the Aeon is from God the further the Aeon is to the edges of the Pleroma, beyond which exist the other more physical realms. The Pleroma is a realm of pure ideal and sense, an immaterial plane where God lives when He isn't in Heaven. In a way, the Pleroma and the Aeons are more "real" than anything on the physical plane.

Aeons are the source of immaterial, they are living hypostatic concepts that hold the universe together. This makes them similar to deities in a way, though they are still, different. If it were to be put in human terms, deities are like batteries while Aeons are pure lightning bolts. The former contains and distributes energy while the latter is the energy itself.

Aeons are different from angels, though similar. Aeons are abstractions, concepts, living forces far beyond human comprehension. Sophia, for example, is the very personification of wisdom and also of faith, while her Mother, Barbelo, is much greater than that, she is ineffability, motherhood and silence. Aeons are always described as absurdly powerful beings, transcending the entire physical universe and the ignorant and blind, Yaldabaoth. They are called perfect and incorruptible, showing their holiness.

## History

Aeons were emanating from God and Barbelo immediately after their union began during Creation.

## Notable Aeons

### Confirmed

* Barbelo
* Sophia
* Anthropos
* Ecclesia
* Logos
* Autogenes
* Zoe
* Pistis
* Theleto

### Unofficial

Beings who are not real Aeons, but who are considered to be Aeons.

* Yesh
* Jesus Christ
* The Holy Spirit
* Yaldabaoth
* Abraxas
* Nebro
* Satanael
* Jehovah

## Myths and Legends

In a Gnostic sense, Aeons are the perfect emanations of God that are variously defined depending on the Gnostic group. Within most systems, they are the immaterial source of all being, embodying non-physical concepts like wisdom or love. In the Gnostic view, Aeons (immateriality) are perfect while physical beings (materiality) are flawed.

While most Gnostic groups have them all directly emanated from God, Valentinus, Ptolemy, and Colorbasus believed that pairs of Aeons could emanate other pairs of Aeons, though their "family trees" depended by the source. According to Marcus, the Aeons were numbers and sounds.

## Quotes

*"Before anything is visible of those that are visible, the majesty and the authority are in him, since he embraces the whole of the totalities, while nothing embraces him. For he is all mind. And he is thought and considering and reflecting and rationality and power. They all are equal powers. They are the sources of the totalities. And their whole race from first to last was in his foreknowledge, that of the infinite, unbegotten Father." - Apocryphon "The Sophia of Jesus Christ."*

*"Aeons are... emanations of my Father's will. Each of them carrying aspects of Him. Think of them as the primordial gods of Gnosticism, with God being the progenitor." - Gabriel.*

## Trivia

* The Aeons are incredibly similar to the Angels.
* Several Aeons were demonized by Christianity, such as Barbelo, once an all-powerful being who represented the most glorious aspects of God, now reduced to mere insignificant Demons, known as Barlebus.