Item: i34568   Authentic Ancient  Coin of: Carinus - Roman Emperor: 283-285 A.D. - Bronze Antoninianus 22mm (3.12 grams) Rome mint: 284-285 A.D. Reference: RIC 243c, C 11 IMPCMAVRCARINVSAVG - Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right. AETERNITAVGG Exe: KA - Aeternitas  standing left, holding phoenix on globe and raising skirt. You are bidding on the exact  item pictured, provided with a Certificate of Authenticity and Lifetime  Guarantee of Authenticity.  Eternity (or forever) is endless time. It is often referenced in the context of religion, in the concept of immortality, whereby death is conquered, and people may live for an  unlimited amount of time (cf. Heaven). The existence of gods or God  is said to endure eternally and sometimes also the natural cosmos, in respect to  both past and future. By contrast, the concept of a mathematically infinite duration, is called sempiternity  or everlasting. Whereas the eternal is said to be unchanging and outside time; a potentially  sempiternal span of time can never come to pass in actuality.[1] Aristotle argued that cosmos has no beginning. The idea of eternity The  metaphysics of eternity studies that which  necessarily exists "outside" or independently of space and time. Another important question is  whether "information"  or  Form is separable from mind and matter. God and eternity Theists say that  God is eternally existent. How this is  understood depends on which definition of eternity is used. On one hand, God may  exist in eternity, a timeless existence where categories of past,  present, and future just do not apply. On the other hand, God will exist for  or through eternity, or at all times, having already existed for  an infinite amount of time and continuing to exist for an infinite amount of  time. One other definition states that God exists outside the human concept of  time, but also inside of time. The reasoning for this definition is that if God  did not exist both outside time and inside time, God would not be able to  interact with humans. Aristotle established a distinction between actual infinity and a potentially infinite  count, for example, instead of saying that there are an infinity of primes, Euclid prefers instead to say that there are  more prime numbers than contained in any given collection of prime numbers.[2]  According to Aristotle, a future span of time must be a potential infinity,  because another element can always be added to a series that is inexhaustible:  "For generally the infinite has this mode of existence: one thing is always  being taken after another, and each thing that is taken is always finite, but  always different".[3] Augustine of Hippo wrote that time exists only  within the created universe, so that God exists outside time: In the eminence of thy ever-present eternity, thou precedest all times  past, and extendest beyond all future times, for they are still to come  - and when they have come, they will be past. But "Thou art always the  Selfsame and thy years shall have no end." Thy years neither go nor  come; but ours both go and come in order that all separate moments may  come to pass. All thy years stand together as one, since they are  abiding. Nor do thy years past exclude the years to come because thy  years do not pass away. All these years of ours shall be with thee, when  all of them shall have ceased to be. Thy years are but a day, and thy  day is not recurrent, but always today. Thy "today" yields not to  tomorrow and does not follow yesterday. Thy "today" is eternity.[4] -St. Augustine, Confessions, Book XI, Chapter XIII See all the biblical passage 2Pe:3:8: "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this  one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand  years as one day." Symbolism Eternity is often symbolized by the image of a snake swallowing its own tail,  known as  Ouroboros (or Uroboros), though the symbol can  also carry a number of other connotations. The circle is also commonly used as a symbol for eternity. The related  concept,  infinity, is symbolized by ,  which may be based on the Ouroboros. The Ouroboros. The phoenix is a mythical  sacred firebird that originated in Persian mythology, ancient Phoenician  mythology (according to Sanchuniathon), Chinese mythology, Egyptian religion and later Greek mythology. A phoenix is a mythical bird that is a fire spirit with a colorful plumage  and a tail of gold and scarlet (or purple, blue, and green according to some  legends). It has a 500 to 1,000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds  itself a nest of twigs that then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and  are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises,  reborn anew to live again. The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its  old self. In some stories, the new phoenix embalms the ashes of its old self in  an egg made of myrrh and deposits it in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis (Greek  for sun-city). It is said that the bird's cry is that of a beautiful song. In  very few stories they are able to change into people. The Roman poet  Ovid  wrote the following about the phoenix: Most beings spring from other individuals; but there is a certain kind  which reproduces itself. The Assyrians call it the Phoenix. It does not live  on fruit or flowers, but on frankincense and odoriferous gums. When it has  lived five hundred years, it builds itself a nest in the branches of an oak,  or on the top of a palm tree. In this it collects cinnamon, and spikenard,  and myrrh, and of these materials builds a pile on which it deposits itself,  and dying, breathes out its last breath amidst odors. From the body of the  parent bird, a young Phoenix issues forth, destined to live as long a life  as its predecessor. When this has grown up and gained sufficient strength,  it lifts its nest from the tree (its own cradle and its parent's sepulchre),  and carries it to the city of Heliopolis in Egypt, and deposits it in the  temple of the Sun. French author Voltaire  thus described the phoenix: It was of the size of an eagle, but its eyes were as mild and tender as  those of the eagle are fierce and threatening. Its beak was the color of a  rose, and seemed to resemble, in some measure, the beautiful mouth of  Formosante. Its neck resembled all the colors of the rainbow, but more  brilliant and lively. A thousand shades of gold glistened on its plumage.  Its feet seemed a mixture of purple and silver; and the tail of those  beautiful birds which were afterwards fixed to the car of Juno, did not come  near the beauty of its tail. Marcus  Aurelius Carinus (died 285) was Roman  Emperor (283 - July, 285) and elder son of the Emperor Carus, on whose  accession he was appointed governor of the western portion of the empire. He fought with success against the Quadi tribes,  but soon left the defence of the Upper Rhine to his  legates and returned to  Rome, where he abandoned himself to all kinds of debauchery and excess. He  also celebrated the ludi Romani on a scale of unexampled magnificence. After the death of Carus, the army in the East demanded to be led back to  Europe, and  Numerian, the younger son of Carus, was forced to comply.  During a halt at Chalcedon,  Numerian was found dead, and Diocletian,  commander of the body-guards, who had claimed that Numerian had been  assassinated, was proclaimed emperor by the soldiers. Carinus at once left Rome and set out for the East to meet Diocletian. On his  way through Pannonia he put down the usurper Sabinus Iulianus, and encountered the army of Diocletian in Moesia. Carinus was successful in several engagements, and at the Battle of the Margus River (Morava),  according to one account, the valour of his troops had gained the day, when he  was assassinated by a tribune whose wife he had seduced. In another account, the  battle is represented as having resulted in a complete victory for Diocletian,  for Carinus' army deserted him: this second account is also confirmed by the  fact that Diocletian kept Carinus' Praetorian Guard commander in service. Carinus has the reputation of having been one of the worst of the emperors.  This infamy was possibly supported by Diocletian himself. For example, Historia Augusta has Carinus marrying nine wives, while neglecting to  mention his only real wife, Magnia Urbica, by whom he had an only son, Marcus Aurelius Nigrinianus. 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