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And since it is the source of all existence, it yields the world's plenitude of both good and evil.†
p. 35.7 *

yields = gives or produces
But these seekers, too, are saved—by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millennia.†
p. 17.6
The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.†
p. 19.5
The dreadful mutilations are then seen as shadows, only, of an immanent, imperishable eternity; time yields to glory; and the world sings with the prodigious, angelic, but perhaps finally monotonous, siren music of the spheres.†
p. 22.9
In Dante's vision the part is played by Virgil, who yields to Beatrice at the threshold of Paradise.†
p. 60.6
Yet Pan was benign to those who paid him worship, yielding the boons of the divine hygiene of nature: bounty to the farmers, herders, and fisherfolk who dedicated their first fruits to him, and health to all who properly approached his shrines of healing.†
p. 67.1
Bernard, becoming aware of her, yielded in silence the part of the bed in which he lay, and rolling over to the other side returned to sleep.†
p. 103.9 *
In his mercy, in his love for the forms of time, this demiurgic man of men yields countenance to the sea of pangs; but in his full awareness of what he is doing, the seminal waters of the life that he gives are the tears of his eyes.†
p. 124.8
For the son who has grown really to know the father, the agonies of the ordeal are readily borne; the world is no longer a vale of tears but a bliss-yielding, perpetual manifestation of the Presence.†
p. 126.6
Thenceforward my vision was greater than our speech, which yields to such a sight, and the memory yields to such excess.†
p. 164.2
Thenceforward my vision was greater than our speech, which yields to such a sight, and the memory yields to such excess.†
p. 164.3
Shinto, "The Way of the Gods," the tradition native to the Japanese as distinguished from the imported Butsuclo, or "Way of the Buddha," is a way of devotion to the guardians of life and custom (local spirits, ancestral powers, heroes, the divine king, one's living parents, and one's living children) as distinguished from the powers that yield release from the round (Bodhisattvas and Buddhas).†
p. 181.2
That paradisiac period endures for ten millions of ten millions of one hundred millions of one hundred million periods of countless years, and then yields slowly to the only half as blissful period when men and women are only four miles tall.†
p. 225.5
At last, the earth will sweeten and the waters turn to wine, the wish-fulfilling trees will yield their bounty of delights to a blissful population of perfectly wedded twins; and the happiness of this community again will be doubled, and the wheel, through ten millions of ten millions of one hundred millions of one hundred million periods of countless years, will approach the point of beginning the downward revolution, which again will lead to the extinction of the eternal religion and the gradually increasing noise of unwholesome merrymaking, warfare, and pestilential winds.†
p. 226.5
But from the center of the emanating presence, the flesh was yielded willingly, and the hand that carved it was ultimately no more than an agent of the will of the victim herself.†
p. 246.8
When he traveled about on his snowshoes, the new ground yielded under him like thin and pliant ice.†
p. 250.1
Behind this foolishness, it is possible to see that the one cause (the obscure being who cut himself) yields within the frame of the world dual effects—good and evil.†
p. 251.3
Metaphysics yields to prehistory, which is dim and vague at first, but becomes gradually precise in detail.†
p. 271.6
Accordingly, the cosmogonic cycle yields an emperor in human form who shall stand for all generations to come as the model of man the king.†
p. 273.1

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(1) (yield as in: will yield valuable data)
to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced
(2) (yield as in: yield to pressure)
to give in, give way, or give up
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