aeonian

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Being and not being came round in endless succession for all save him, into whom all being was resolved, and out of whom it emerged again, as from the vortex of some aeonian Maelstrom.

From Guide to Stoicism by Stock, St. George William Joseph

His soul had moved amid similar evocations in some aeonian past, whence now the sand was being cleared away.

From Four Weird Tales by Blackwood, Algernon

That a thing must cease takes from it the joy of even an aeonian endurance—for its kind is mortal; it belongs to the nature of things that cannot live.

From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by MacDonald, George

In memory of John Greenleaf Whittier, September 7, 1892," and this verse: "Some sweet morning, yet in God's Dim aeonian periods, Joyful I shall wake to see Those I love, who rest in Thee.

From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Marvin, Frederic Rowland

If the days of Genesis mean indefinite periods of aeonian duration, how is the seventh day of rest to be understood?

From Creation and Its Records by Baden-Powell, Baden Henry