All 12 Uses
transcendent
in
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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- The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man.†
p. 21.3
- Whereas the truths of science are communicable, being demonstrable hypotheses rationally founded on observable facts, ritual, mythology, and metaphysics are but guides to the brink of a transcendent illumination, the final step to which must be taken by each in his own silent experience.†
p. 25.8
- Through all, the transcendent force is then perceived which lives in all, in all is wonderful, and is worthy, in all, of our profound obeisance.†
p. 36.2 *
- Thus the tales are both pitiless and terrorless—suffused with the joy of a transcendent anonymity regarding itself in all of the self-centered, battling egos that are born and die in time.†
p. 37.9
- As a symbol of the world to which the five senses glue us, and which cannot be pressed aside by the actions of the physical organs, Sticky-hair was subdued only when the Future Buddha, no longer protected by the five weapons of his momentary name and physical character, resorted to the unnamed, invisible sixth: the divine thunderbolt of the knowledge of the transcendent principle, which is beyond the phenomenal realm of names and forms.†
p. 73.2
- These all inflect the manifested powers of the transcendent, one and only Adi-Buddha ("Primal Buddha"), who is the highest conceivable source and ultimate boundary of all being, suspended in the void of nonbeing like a wonderful bubble.†
p. 129.3
- Amaterasu, ancestress of the Royal House, is the chief divinity of the numerous folk pantheon, yet herself only the highest manifestation of the unseen, transcendent yet immanent, Universal God: "The Eight Hundred Myriads of Gods are but differing manifestations of one unique Deity, Kunitokotachi-no-Kami, The Eternally Standing Divine Being of the Earth, The Great Unity of All Things in the Universe, The Primordial Being of Heaven and Earth, eternally existing from the beginning to the end of the world.†
p. 181.3
- The boon brought from the transcendent deep becomes quickly rationalized into nonentity, and the need becomes great for another hero to refresh the word.†
p. 188.8
- The race and stature of the figure symbolizing the immanent and transcendent Universal is of historical, not semantic, moment; so also the sex: the Cosmic Woman, who appears in the iconography of the Jains,* is as eloquent a symbol as the Cosmic Man.†
p. 202.3
- Such terms are only clues to the transcendency.†
p. 221.9
- The first view would lead one to imitate the master literally, in order to break through, in the same way as he, to the transcendent, redemptive experience.†
p. 275.2
- No longer referring the boons of his reign to their transcendent source, the emperor breaks the stereoptic vision which it is his role to sustain.†
p. 299.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(transcendent) beyond the ordinary range of human experience or understanding
or:
surpassing usual limits of excellence - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)