{"id":62523,"date":"2025-01-16T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=62523"},"modified":"2025-01-24T23:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T22:07:38","slug":"the-turning-point-of-time-in-eleusis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-turning-point-of-time-in-eleusis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Turning Point of Time in Eleusis"},"content":{"rendered":"The Mysteries of Eleusis, located near Athens, can be thought of as the \u201cMysteries of Mysteries.\u201d Its cult was based on the myth of the abduction of Persephone by Hades, the god of the underworld; the mourning of her mother Demeter; the resulting barrenness of the Earth; and the renewal when Persephone again reappeared on Earth. The soul\u2019s entry into the realm of death and the overcoming of death are the deeper meaning of its initiation.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the Greek mythical worldview according to Rudolf Steiner, the recurring motif of the passage into the underworld (the kat\u00e1basis) means \u201covercoming the temporal and a resurrection of the eternal within the soul.\u201dRudolf Steiner, Christianity as Mystical Fact and the Mysteries of Antiquity, CW 8 (Tiburon, CA: Chadwick Library Editio<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mysteries of Eleusis, located near Athens, can be thought of as the \u201cMysteries of Mysteries.\u201d Its cult was based on the myth of the abduction of Persephone by Hades, the god of the underworld; the mourning of her mother Demeter; the resulting barrenness of the Earth; and the renewal when Persephone again reappeared on Earth. The soul\u2019s entry into the realm of death and the overcoming of death are the deeper meaning of its initiation. In the Greek mythical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9291,"featured_media":61777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8788,9201],"tags":[11597,8798,11600],"class_list":["post-62523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay-en","category-religion-en","tag-ausgabe-49-2024-en","tag-deepening","tag-english-issue-3-4-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}