How we cite our quotes: (Page.Paragraph)
Quote #4
The ordeal is a deepening of the problem of the first threshold and the question is still in balance: Can the ego put itself to death? (100.1)
Whoa… so you're saying we have to die? Well yes – it's inevitable – but it also means surrendering your identity and sense of self. The ego is a block to the things the hero needs to understand about the universe. Death of the ego, death of your own identity, is the only way to get there.
Quote #5
It represents one of the basic ways of symbolizing the mystery of creation: the devolvement of eternity into time, the breaking of the one into the two and then the many, as well as the generation of new life through the reconjunction of the two. (141.1)
Death is implied here as a breaking, the one into many. But the many eventually move back into the one, which means that death and loss are an important and necessary part of the universe's cycle.
Quote #6
We are taken from the mother, chewed into fragments and assimilated to the world-annihilating body of the ogre for whom all the precious forms and beings are only the courses of a feast; but then, miraculously reborn, we are more than we were. (149.1)
There is no permanent death here…only destruction and rebirth, which is pretty much how the universe has decided to operate.