Aeons
“collective”
group · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
the Aeons · the Pleroma · the thirtyfold divinity
spoken of as
1 expressionthe Aeons1 mention
De Anima (Latin)
The school of Valentinus stuffs into the soul the seed of Sophia, through which they recognize the histories and Milesian tales of their Aeons out of the images of visible things.
in the texts
De Anima
Gnostic divine emanations whose 'histories' Valentinians read into the soul's seed of Sophia.
The school of Valentinus stuffs into the soul the seed of Sophia, through which they recognize the histories and Milesian tales of their Aeons out of the images of visible things.
For from this they snatch the difference between the corporeal senses and the intellectual powers, which they accommodate even to the parable of the ten virgins — so that the five foolish ones figure the corporeal senses, foolish, namely, because easy to be deceived, while the wise express the mark of the intellectual powers, wise, namely, because they touch that truth which is hidden and supernal …
Adversus Valentinianos
The collective divine emanations constituting the Valentinian Pleroma
" This will be that secret Pleroma, the fulness of a thirtyfold divinity.
You have an Ogdoad, a double Tetrad, out of the conjugations of males and females—the cells, so to say, of the primordial Aeons, the fraternal marriages of the Valentinian gods, the whole census of heretical holiness and majesty, a crowd I know not whether of crimes or of deities, certainly the fountain of the rest of the fecundity.
And so, as sailors always exult at a club-feast, something of the kind the Aeons too: