With unseen light. No might Imaginall
May reach that vast profunditie.”
(I. 16.)
The Son is identified with the second hypostasis,—universal intellect. In this all realities are present not as created things in time or space, but embraced as essential forms with no spatial or temporal relation. This character of universal intellect is thus named αἰών, or eternity. (“Enneads,” III. vii. 4.) More thus writes of Christ—
“The youthfull Æon, whose fair face doth shine
While he his Fathers glory doth espy,
Which waters his fine flowring forms with light from high.
“Not that his forms increase, or that they die.
For Æοn Land, which men Idea call,
Is nought but life in full serenitie,