User blog comment:Godisme/HOT HOT HEAT/@comment-1332195-20121205142703/@comment-1268838-20121205143303

Aizen's apparently seen the Soul King before somehow, so I suppose it's difficult to say. Plus there's no real way of discerning how powerful he was in his final Hogyoku form, which could have very well been his motive for becoming a supposed "transcendent being."