Archon vs Aeon - What's the difference?
archon | aeon |
A chief magistrate of ancient Athens.
:* 1980 : Hated by the archons of Athens for his fearless condemnation of municipal graft, he was hypocritically arraigned on a charge of corrupting Athenian youth. (Burgess, Earthly Powers )
A ruler, head of state or other leader.
:* 1922 : But neither the midwife’s lore nor the caudlectures saved him from the archons of Sinn Fein and their noggin of hemlock. (Joyce, Ulysses )
(gnosticism) A supernatural being subordinate to the Demiurge.
(AU, NZ, British)
* {{quote-book, year=1892, author=
, title=When Earth's Last Picture is Painted (L’Envoi to 'The Seven Seas')
, passage=When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried,/ When the oldest colors have faded, and the youngest critic has died,/ We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it -- lie down for an aeon or two,/Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew.}}
A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
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