What is the Aeon's? Seen this word on another queastion?

Question

What is the Aeon's? Seen this word on another queastion?

Answer 1

It's the Latin word for "forever."  In common usage it refers to an extremely long period of time.

Answer 2

Supernatural beings from the video game Final Fantasy X. They were once human souls who accepted enormous magical power upon their pre-planned death and became the allies of the Summoners, humans who could call upon them in their centuries long battle with the gigantic entity known as Sin. What was not known, was that Sin was actually the last Aeon that had beaten the previous incarnation of Sin, taking its place in a cycle that would ensure the immortality of the First Summoner, whose spirit it was that possessed each new Aeon as it became Sin. The cycle was finally broken by the Summoner Yuna and her protectors, with the unlikely help of the Sin Aeon itself who sent Yuna its own son, Tidus from the dream world of the sleeping Aeons. Tidus was a dream made real, but when Sin was finally destroyed he and his father vanished. Even so, Yuna's love for Tidus caused her to embark on a great quest which culminated in the Aeon spirits utilizing the last of their power to restore Tidus to her permanently.

Answer 3

If you are asking that here, you probably heard it in a Gnostic or Thelemic context, whether you were aware of what the context was or not.  One thing I am not is a Catholic, but I am not a Gnostic either and I am going to share a link with you which discusses the Gnostic view of them from a Catholic (that is deeply antagonistic) perspective.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01173c.h...

Valentinus taught about them and you can find reference to them in the Nag Hammadi Gospels (see sources)

The Thelemic view of them is not substantively different.  Obviously I am biased but while I freely admit that Catholic article is biased, I think it is also fair and correct.

I'm tired, so I'll just quote from the above:

"The term appropriated by Gnostic heresiarchs to designate the series of spiritual powers evolved by progressive emanation from the eternal Being, and constituting the Pleroma or invisible spiritual world, as distinct from the Kenoma, or visible material world.

"The word aeon (aion) signifying "age", "the ever-existing", "eternity", came to be applied to the divine eternal power, and to the personified attributes of that power, whence it was extended to designate the successive emanations from the divinity which the Gnostics conceived as necessary intermediaries between the spiritual and the material worlds. The Gnostic concept of the aeon may be traced to the influence of a philosophy which postulated a divinity incapable of any contact with the material world or with evil, and the desire to reconcile this philosophy with the Christian notion of a direct interference of God in the affairs of the material world, and particularly in the Creation and Redemption of man. Jewish angelology, which represented Jehovah ministered to by a court of celestial beings, and Hellenic religious systems, which imagined a number of intermediaries between the finite and the infinite, suggested the emanation from the divinity of a series of subordinate heavenly powers, each less perfect, the further removed it was from the supreme deity, until at length increasing imperfection would serve as the connecting link between the spiritual world and the material world of evil."