All 18 Uses
annihilate
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The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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- For if he has won through, like the Buddha, to the profound repose of complete enlightenment, there is danger that the bliss of this experience may annihilate all recollection of, interest in, or hope for, the sorrows of the world; or else the problem of making known the way of illumination to people wrapped in economic problems may seem too great to solve.†
p. 29.2
- One can only cling, like Satan, furiously, to oneself and be in hell; or else break, and be annihilate at last, in God.†
p. 50.3
- The hero whose attachment to ego is already annihilate passes back and forth across the horizons of the world, in and out of the dragon, as readily as a king through all the rooms of his house.†
p. 78.1 *
- That perhaps is how the divine Minos became the monster Minotaur, the self-annihilate king the tyrant Holdfast, and the hieratic state, wherein every man enacts his role, the merchant empire, wherein each is out for himself.†
p. 78.9
- The meaning is that the grace that pours into the universe through the sun door is the same as the energy of the bolt that annihilates and is itself indestructible: the delusion-shattering light of the Imperishable is the same as the light that creates.†
p. 124.3
- To withhold the seminal waters would be to annihilate; yet to give them forth is to create this world that we know.†
p. 124.7
- The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence.†
p. 125.1
- When the envelopment of consciousness has been annihilated, then he becomes free of all fear, beyond the reach of change.†
p. 127.8annihilated = completely destroyed or defeated
- Ego is not annihilated in them; rather, it is enlarged; instead of thinking only of himself, the individual becomes dedicated to the whole of his society.†
p. 133.9
- We are taken from the mother, chewed into fragments, and assimilated to the world-annihilating body of the ogre for whom all the precious forms and beings are only the courses of a feast; but then, miraculously reborn, we are more than we were.†
p. 138.1
- Here the Son and the Father alike are annihilated—as personality-masks over the unnamed.†
p. 164.4annihilated = completely destroyed or defeated
- But at the termination of the present period, instead of beginning again immediately to improve (as in the cycle described by the Jains), all is first to be annihilated in a cataclysm of fire and flood, and thereby reduced to the primordial state of the original, timeless ocean, to remain for a period equal to that of the whole length of the four ages.†
p. 226.9
- Siva is the World Annihilator.†
p. 266.7
- And according to the whim or destiny of the hour, either a hero-savior or a world-annihilating demon may be conceived—one can never know.†
p. 267.3
- With a gesture as simple as the pressing of a button, he annihilates the impressive configuration.†
p. 289.9
- The adventure itself had given him the capacity to annihilate all opposition.†
p. 295.5
- The national idea, with the flag as totem, is today an aggrandizer of the nursery ego, not the annihilator of an infantile situation.†
p. 335.1
- Its parody-rituals of the parade ground serve the ends of Holdfast, the tyrant dragon, not the God in whom self-interest is annihilate.†
p. 335.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(annihilate) to completely destroy or defeat
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)