All 17 Uses of
incarnate
in
Lord of Light
- "It has taken you seventeen incarnations to arrive at this truth?" said Yama.†
Part 1
- The power of most of the gods, however, is predicated upon a special physiology, which they lose in part when incarnated into a new body.†
Part 1
- We could not permit them to continue their attempts to possess the machines of incarnation and the bodies of men.†
Part 1 *
- It was said that her blessing would ensure one's being incarnated as a Brahmin.†
Part 1
- Hating this thing, he had elected to incarnate time after time as an eminently masculine man, did so, and still felt somehow inadequate, as though the mark of his true sex were branded upon his brow.†
Part 2
- Go now and summon my priest, that I may instruct him concerning your incarnation.†
Part 2
- ' "Other than we priests, when the calendar of devotions requires it, and an occasional townsman, when a loved one is upon the death-bed and has been refused direct incarnation-other than these, no, I have never seen sacrifice made to Yama, simply, sincerely, with good will or affection."†
Part 3
- And when she took Morgan, the poet of the plains, as her lover — he who one day incarnated as a jackbird and flew away-you then hunted jackbirds, until inside a month with your arrows you had slain near every one in Heaven.†
Part 5
- He is judged, and if he has done well, observing the rules and restrictions of his caste, paying the proper observances to Heaven, advancing himself intellectually and morally, then this man will be incarnated into a higher caste, eventually achieving godhood itself and coming to dwell here in the City.†
Part 5
- They cast aspersions upon the probity of those who authorized incarnation.†
Part 5
- Others dared to say that the best of men never achieve godhood, but meet ultimately with the real death or incarnation into a lower life form.†
Part 5
- Why else in recent years would the god Vishnu be moved to incarnate among men, other than to teach them the Way of Enlightenment?†
Part 5
- Might I suggest that he be incarnated as a jackbird?†
Part 5
- No one knew Helba's true sex, for Helba's was the habit of alternating gender with each incarnation.†
Part 5
- It is only during those seasons of life when I incarnate as a man, Sam, that I wield my Attribute and engage in actual plunder.†
Part 5
- By the way, in your last incarnation I did try to save you from the cats out of Kaniburrha.†
Part 6
- The Lady Ratri was banished from the City and sentenced to walk the world as a mortal, always to be incarnated into middle-aged bodies of more than usually plain appearance, bodies that could not bear the full power of her Aspect or Attributes.†
Part 6
Definition:
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(incarnate) embody (made real in a material sense) -- especially in the form of a human body, but sometimes figuratively