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The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.†
p. 2.6

incarnation = embodiment
Again, the figure may be that of the cosmic man or woman (for example the Buddha himself, or the dancing Hindu goddess Kali) seated or standing on this spot, or even fixed to the tree (Attis, Jesus, Wotan); for the hero as the incarnation of God is himself the navel of the world, the umbilical point through which the energies of eternity break into time.†
p. 32.9
Indeed, this young hero was none other than the Future Buddha, in an earlier incarnation.†
p. 72.4 *
For she is the incarnation of the promise of perfection; the soul's assurance that, at the conclusion of its exile in a world of organized inadequacies, the bliss that once was known will be known again; the comforting, the nourishing, the "good" mother—young and beautiful—who was known to us, and even tasted, in the remotest past.†
p. 92.4
The hero who can take her as she is, without undue commotion but with the kindness and assurance she requires, is potentially the king, the incarnate god, of her created world.†
p. 97.7

incarnate = embody
The meeting with the goddess (who is incarnate in every woman) is the final test of the talent of the hero to win the boon of love (charity: amor fati), which is life itself enjoyed as the encasement of eternity.†
p. 99.4
Mahayana Buddhism, on the other hand (the Buddhism of the north), regards the Enlightened One as a world savior, an incarnation of the universal principle of enlightenment.†
p. 129.1

incarnation = embodiment
Such ease distinguishes numerous fairy tales and all legends of the deeds of incarnate gods.†
p. 148.8

incarnate = embody
His awakening came—but with a surprising turn that throws into new perspective the whole problem of the hero-circuit, as well as the mystery of the mighty king's request for sleep as the highest conceivable boon, Visnu, the Lord of the World, had become incarnate in the person of a beautiful youth named Krsna (Krishna), who having saved the land of India from a tyrannical race of demons, had assumed the throne.†
p. 168.5
Muchukunda turned and the second glance struck the garlanded, beautiful youth, whom the awakened old king straightway recognized by his radiance as an incarnation of God.†
p. 169.1

incarnation = embodiment
* The Lord, the beautiful youth Krsna, is an incarnation of Visnu, the Universal God; Prince Arjuna is his disciple and friend.†
p. 198.3
Uncomprehended inherited themes, such as that of the Minotaur—the dark and terrible night aspect of an old Egypto-Cretan representation of the incarnate sun god and divine king—were rationalized and reinterpreted to suit contemporary ends.†
p. 213.2

incarnate = embody
And in modern progressive Christianity the Christ—Incarnation of the Logos and Redeemer of the World—is primarily a historical personage, a harmless country wise man of the semi-Oriental past who preached a benign doctrine of "do as you would be done by," yet was executed as a criminal.†
p. 213.5

incarnation = embodiment
His parents were already followers of a much earlier Jaina savior-prophet, Pargvanatha, who is represented with snakes springing from his shoulders and is reputed to have flourished 872-772 B.C.Centuries before ParSvanatha, there lived and died the Jaina savior Neminatha, declared to have been a cousin of the beloved Hindu incarnation Krsna.†
p. 224.6
Reynard the Fox is a European incarnation of this figure.†
p. 253.9
The people yearn for some personality who, in a world of twisted bodies and souls, will represent again the lines of the incarnate image.†
p. 264.7

incarnate = embody
And among other things, he sought to discredit what the priest had been teaching concerning the Incarnation, declaring that it had not yet come to pass; but that presently the Sun would bring it to pass by taking flesh in the womb of a virgin of the village of Guacheta, causing her to conceive by the rays of the sun while she yet remained a virgin.†
p. 265.4

incarnation = embodiment
Now is required no incarnation of the Moon Bull, no Serpent Wisdom of the Eight Diagrams of Destiny, but a perfect human spirit alert to the needs and hopes of the heart.†
p. 272.9
In the present chapter, therefore, we shall consider first the miraculous childhood, by which it is shown that a special manifestation of the immanent divine principle has become incarnate in the world, and then, in succession, the various life roles through which the hero may enact his work of destiny.†
p. 276.1

incarnate = embody
However, when the hero in question is a great patriarch, wizard, prophet, or incarnation, the wonders are permitted to develop beyond all bounds.†
p. 278.1

incarnation = embodiment
Then the god realized that the opponent must be an incarnation of the Primal Being.†
p. 282.5
Heroes of this second, highest illumination are the world redeemers, the so-called incarnations, in the highest sense.†
p. 299.5

incarnations = embodiments
The work of the incarnation is to refute by his presence the pretensions of the tyrant ogre.†
p. 300.1

incarnation = embodiment
The latter has occluded the source of grace with the shadow of his limited personality; the incarnation, utterly free of such ego-consciousness, is a direct manifestation of the law.†
p. 300.2
They have stepped away from the realm of forms, into which the incarnation descends and in which the Bodhisattva remains, the realm of the manifest profile of The Great Face.†
p. 304.9

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