All 23 Uses
doctrine
in
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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- "THE TRUTHS CONTAINED in religious doctrines are after all so distorted and systematically disguised," writes Sigmund Freud, that the mass of humanity cannot recognize them as truth.†
p. xii.1
- It is only those who know neither an inner call nor an outer doctrine whose plight truly is desperate; that is to say, most of us today, in this labyrinth without and within the heart.†
p. 17.7
- This doctrine of the incommunicability of the Truth which is beyond names and forms is basic to the great Oriental, as well as to the Platonic, traditions.†
p. 25.6 *
- Though he is the founder of a widely taught world religion, the ultimate core of his doctrine remains concealed, necessarily, in silence.†
p. 25.9
- for seven days he abode in a pavilion furnished by the gods and reviewed the whole doctrine of causality and release;†
p. 26.8
- for seven days he sat beneath the tree where the girl Sujata had brought him milk-rice in a golden bowl, and there meditated on the doctrine of the sweetness of nirvana;†
p. 26.8
- The Future Buddha preached the Doctrine to him, subdued him, made him self-denying, and then transformed him into a spirit entitled to receive offerings in the forest.†
p. 72.9
- All doctrines are only so many paths; but a path is by no means God Himself.†
p. 135.9
- The understanding of the final—and critical—implications of the world-redemptive words and symbols of the tradition of Christendom has been so disarranged, during the tumultuous centuries that have elapsed since St. Augustine's declaration of the holy war of the Civitas Dei against the Civitas Diaboli, that the modern thinker wishing to know the meaning of a world religion (i.e., of a doctrine of universal love) must turn his mind to the other great (and much older) universal communion: that of the Buddha, where the primary word still is peace—peace to all beings.†
p. 136.2
- I do not mention Islam, because there, too, the doctrine is preached in terms of the holy war and thus obscured.†
p. 136.3
- Nevertheless, the popular and orthodox expression of both the Mohammedan and the Christian doctrines has been so ferocious that it requires a very uphisticated reading to discern in either mission the operation of love.†
p. 136.4
- The vivid personifications prepare the intellect for the doctrine of the interdependence of the inner and the outer worlds.†
p. 139.6
- No doubt the reader has been struck by a certain resemblance of this ancient mythological doctrine of the dynamics of the psyche to the teachings of the modern Freudian school.†
p. 139.7
- The sophistication of the humor of the infantile imagery, when inflected in a skillful mythological rendition of metaphysical doctrine, emerges magnificently in one of the best known of the great myths of the Oriental world: the Hindu account of the primordial battle between the titans and the gods for the liquor of immortality.†
p. 152.8
- This is the orthodox teaching of the ancient Tantras: "All of these visualized deities are but symbols representing the various things that occur on the Path"; as well as a doctrine of the contemporary psychoanalytical schools.†
p. 155.3
- 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
- Briefly formulated, the universal doctrine teaches that all the visible structures of the world—all things and beings—are the effects of a ubiquitous power out of which they rise, which supports and fills them during the period of their manifestation, and back into which they must ultimately dissolve.†
p. 221.2
- According to the Stoic doctrine of the cyclic conflagration, all souls are resolved into the world soul or primal fire.†
p. 224.3
- Twenty-three world saviors are born; each restating the eternal doctrine of the Jains in terms appropriate to the conditions of his time.†
p. 225.7
- See Evans-Wentz, Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrine, pp.206, 239 f. According to the Indian Samkhya philosophers of the eighth century B.C., the void condenses into the element ether or space.†
p. 232.9
- The simpler members of the populations may regard the resultant images with undue seriousness, but in the main they cannot be said to represent doctrine, or the local "myth."†
p. 249.9
- Fray Pedro Simon reports, in his Noticias historiales de las conquistes de Tierra Firme en las Indias Occidentales (Cuenca, 1627), that after work had been begun amongst the peoples of Tunja and Sogamozzo in Colombia, South America, the demon of that place began giving contrary doctrines.†
p. 265.3
- These are not contradictory doctrines, but different ways of telling one and the same story; in reality, Slayer and Dragon, sacrificer and victim, are of one mind behind the scenes, where there is no polarity of contraries, but mortal enemies on the stage, where the everlasting war of the Gods and the Titans is displayed.†
p. 303.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(doctrine) a belief (or system of beliefs or principles) accepted as authoritative by some group
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)