dissolution, n.Definitions

Dissolution (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not perishing: whatever is will cease to be, yet only be resolved into its elements — our sluggish mind, seeing only what is nearest, calls it perishing.

Dissolution (n.) leaves ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a government no room once its society is gone, any more than a house's frame can stand when a whirlwind has scattered its materials or an earthquake jumbled them into a heap.

Dissolution (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not perishing: whatever is will someday not be, yet it is only dissolved, and only a mind that sees no further than what lies beside it calls this perishing.

Dissolution (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the prerequisite for redemption: the king must return to the prima materia in his mother's body, the dark chaos where all connections come apart, just as the initiate had to suffer a figurative death.