{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 8/l05/p032-p035","extent":"range","passage_number":32,"through":35,"paragraph_count":4,"first_locus":"GA 8/l05/p032","last_locus":"GA 8/l05/p035","lang":"en","edition":"AP1947","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"V. The Wisdom of the Mysteries and the Myth","date":null,"location":null,"alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["AP1947","RPC1961"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.82,"band":"fuller_than_original","note":"This witness is longer than the original — paraphrastic or padded. That makes it a less faithful witness to wording, not a more complete one. 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The festivals, which were celebrated twice a year, presented the great world-drama of the destiny of the Divine in the world, and of that of the human soul. The lesser Mysteries were observed in February, the greater in September. With the festivals, initiations were connected. The symbolical presentation of the cosmic and human drama formed the final act of the initiations of the mystics that took place here.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/8/l05/p032","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l04","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 8/l04/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/8/l04/p022"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":417,"en_words":390,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Demeter left the house. Keleus then built a temple. The grief of Demeter for Persephone was limitless. She spread sterility over the earth. The gods had to appease her in order to prevent a great catastrophe. Thus Zeus induced Pluto to release Persephone into the upper world, but before letting her go he gave her a pomegranate to eat. This obliged her to return periodically to the nether-world. Henceforward she spent a third of the year there, and two-thirds in the world above. Demeter was appeased and returned to Olympus; but at Eleusis, the place of her suffering, she founded the cult which should keep her fate in remembrance.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":238,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/8/l05/p033","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l04","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 8/l04/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/8/l04/p022"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":417,"en_words":390,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. 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That which lives alternately above and below is the soul. The immortality of the soul and her perpetually recurring transformation by birth and death are presented in pictures. The soul derives from the immortal—Demeter. But she is led astray by the transitory and is even condemned to share its destiny. She has partaken of the fruits of the nether-world: the human soul is satisfied by the transitory, therefore she cannot permanently live in the heights of the Divine. She has always to return to the realm of the perishable. Demeter is the representative of the being out of which human consciousness arose; but we must think of it as the consciousness capable of coming into being through the spiritual forces of the earth, Thus Demeter is the primordial essence of the earth, and her endowment of the earth with the seed-forces of the fruits of the fields points to a still deeper aspect of her being. This being wishes to give man immortality. Demeter hides her nursling in the fire by night. But man cannot bear the pure force of fire (the spirit). Demeter is obliged to abandon the idea. All she can do is to found a temple service through which man can participate in the Divine to the extent of his ability.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":229,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/8/l05/p034","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l04","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 8/l04/p023","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/8/l04/p023"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":213,"en_words":229,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. 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Dionysos, the god, poured into the world and torn to pieces in order to be spiritually reborn, ( *cf*. p. 74) had to be worshipped together with Demeter.[^2]","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":89,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/8/l05/p035","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l04","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 8/l04/p024","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/8/l04/p024"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":105,"en_words":89,"ratio":0.85,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. 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Band 3, Heft 3.) Die Weisheit, welche befähigte, hier den Dienst zu tun, war die griechische Mysterienweisheit. Die Feste, die zweimal im Jahre gefeiert wurden, boten das große Weltdrama von dem Schicksal des Göttlichen in der Welt und dem der Menschenseele. Die kleinen Mysterien wurden im Februar, die großen im September begangen. Mit den Festen waren Einweihungen verbunden. Die symbolische Darstellung des Welt- und Menschendramas bildete den Schlußakt der Mystenweihen, die hier vorgenommen wurden. Der Göttin Demeter zu Ehren sind ja die eleusinischen Tempel errichtet worden. Sie ist eine Tochter des Kronos. Dem Zeus hatte sie vor dessen Vermählung mit Hera eine Tochter, Persephone, geboren. Diese war einst beim Spiel von Pluto, dem Gott der Unterwelt, geraubt worden. Demeter durcheilte wehklagend die weite Erde, sie zu suchen. In Eleusis wurde sie auf einem Stein sitzend von den Töchtern des Keleus, eines Gebieters von Eleusis, gefunden. Sie trat in Gestalt einer alten Frau in den Dienst der Familie des Keleus, zur Pflege des Sohnes der Gebieterin. Sie wollte diesem Sohne die Unsterblichkeit geben. Deshalb verbarg sie ihn jede Nacht im Feuer. Als die Mutter das einmal gewahrte, da weinte und wehklagte sie. Die Erteilung der Unsterblichkeit war fortan unmöglich. Demeter verließ das Haus. Keleus erbaute einen Tempel. Die Trauer der Demeter um Persephone war unendlich groß. Sie ließ Unfruchtbarkeit über die Erde kommen. Die Götter mußten sie versöhnen, wenn nicht Furchtbares geschehen sollte. Da wurde Pluto von Zeus bewogen, die Persephone wieder in die Oberwelt zu entlassen. Vorher aber gab ihr der Gott der Unterwelt noch einen Granatapfel zu essen. Dadurch war sie gezwungen, doch immer und immer wieder periodenweise in die Unterwelt hinabzusteigen. Ein Dritteil des Jahres verbrachte sie fortan in der Unter-, zwei Dritteile in der Oberwelt. Demeter war versöhnt; sie kehrte zum Olymp zurück. In Eleusis aber, der Stätte ihrer Angst, stiftete sie den Festdienst, der fortan immer an ihr Schicksal erinnern sollte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":417,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/8/l04/p022"},{"locus":"GA 8/l04/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Unschwer erkennt man den Sinn des Demeter-Persephone-Mythos. Was abwechselnd in der Unter- und der Oberwelt ist, das ist die Seele. Die Ewigkeit der Seele und deren ewige Verwandlung durch Geburt und Tod hindurch wird im Bilde dargestellt. Vom Unsterblichen, der Demeter, stammt die Seele. Sie ist aber von dem Vergänglichen entführt, und selbst zur Anteilnahme an dem Schicksal der Vergänglichkeit bestimmt worden. Sie hat von der Frucht in der Unterwelt genossen: die menschliche Seele ist mit dem Vergänglichen gesättigt; sie kann daher nicht dauernd in den Höhen des Göttlichen wohnen. Sie muß immer wieder zurück ins Reich der Vergänglichkeit. Demeter ist die Repräsentantin jenes Wesens, aus dem das menschliche Bewußtsein entsprungen ist; aber es muß dieses Bewußtsein dabei so gedacht werden, wie es durch die geistigen Kräfte der Erde hat entstehen können. Demeter ist also die Urwesenheit der Erde; und die Begabung der Erde mit den Samenkräften der Feldfrüchte durch sie deutet nur auf eine noch tiefere Seite ihres Wesens hin. Dieses Wesen will dem Menschen die Unsterblichkeit geben. Demeter verbirgt des Nachts ihren Pflegling im Feuer. Aber der Mensch kann die reine Gewalt des Feuers (des Geistes) nicht ertragen. Demeter muß davon ablassen. Sie kann nur einen Tempeldienst stiften, durch den der Mensch, soweit er es vermag, des Göttlichen teilhaftig werden kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":213,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/8/l04/p023"},{"locus":"GA 8/l04/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Die eleusinischen Feste waren ein laut sprechendes Bekenntnis des Glaubens an die Ewigkeit der Menschenseele. Dieses Bekenntnis fand in dem Persephone-Mythos seinen bildhaften Ausdruck. Zusammen mit Demeter und Persephone wurde in Eleusis Dionysos gefeiert. Wie in Demeter die göttliche Schöpferin des Ewigen im Menschen, so wurde in Dionysos das ewig in der ganzen Welt sich wandelnde Göttliche verehrt. Der Gott, der in die Welt ausgegossen, zerstückelt worden ist, um geistig wieder geboren zu werden (vergleiche Seite 72 f), mußte mit der Demeter zusammen gefeiert werden. (Eine glänzende Darstellung des Geistes der eleusinischen Mysterien findet man in dem Buche «Sanctuaires d'Orient» von Edouard Schuré. Paris 1898.)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":105,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/8/l04/p024"}],"beads":[{"from":[32,33],"to":[22],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[34],"to":[23],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[35],"to":[24],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}