All 11 Uses
dissolution
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The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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- And Chapter IV, Dissolutions, tells of the foretold end, first of the hero, then of the manifested world.†
p. 30.8 *
- For the essence of time is flux, dissolution of the momentarily existent; and the essence of life is time.†
p. 124.8dissolution = breaking something up or bringing it to an end
- The figure rose and the eyes that had been closed for unnumbered cycles of creation, world history, and dissolution, opened slowly to the light.†
p. 168.9
- Having moved a step beyond the creative sphere of all-father Izanagi into the field of dissolution, Izanami had sought to protect her brother-husband.†
p. 178.1
- Redemption consists in the return to superconsciousness and therewith the dissolution of the world.†
p. 222.7
- The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.†
p. 223.1
- During each great round, lesser dissolutions are commonly included, as the cycle of sleep and waking revolves throughout a lifetime.†
p. 224.1
- When this universal dissolution is concluded, the formation of a new universe begins (Cicero's renovatio), and all things repeat themselves, every divinity, every person, playing again his former part.†
p. 224.3dissolution = breaking something up or bringing it to an end
- Just as in the history of the universe, so also in that of nations: emanation leads to dissolution, youth to age, birth to death, form-creative vitality to the dead weight of inertia.†
p. 302.7
- CHAPTER IV — Dissolutions.†
p. 315.1
- This, precisely, is the sense of the prayers for the dead, at the moment of personal dissolution: that the individual should now return to his pristine knowledge of the world-creative divinity who during life was reflected within his heart.†
p. 315.4dissolution = breaking something up or bringing it to an end
Definitions:
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(1)
(dissolution) the act or process of breaking something up or bringing it to an end—for example, ending a relationship or meeting, or a substance breaking apart as it mixes into a liquidIn everyday and legal use, dissolution can mean ending a relationship, meeting, or legal body, such as the dissolution of a marriage or a company.
In chemistry, it refers to a substance breaking apart and spreading evenly through a liquid (for example, salt in water), or a compound separating into its parts by chemical action. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)