{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 87/1901-12-28/p036","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"[Twelfth:] Before Heracles accomplishes the twelfth labor, he is initiated into the mysteries. That is what we are told. We don't need to interpret it. Before he does his twelfth labor, he is initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries. And what does he accomplish here? He descends into the underworld, frees Theseus and achieves what is described by the words: he can bring Cerberus up from the underworld. The secret of the underworld becomes clear to him. Heracles acquires the Heraclitean wisdom of \"overcoming life with death\". He learns to understand Heraclitus' formula, in which he says: \"The worship of Dionysus is at the same time the worship of Hades. In it, the highest deity of life flows together with the god of the underworld, Hades. The fruit is therefore the attainment of the underworld, something that we already encounter in Odysseus. It is the symbolic representation of the initiation process that we find in the Heracles legend. It only remains so incomprehensible that we don't really know what to do with it because it didn't really grow out of Greek philosophy, but out of mystery.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"8. 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Er steigt in die Unterwelt, befreit den Theseus und erlangt das, was man bezeichnet mit den Worten: Er kann den Cerberos aus der Unterwelt heraufholen. Ihm wird das Geheimnis der Unterwelt klar. Herakles erlangt die Heraklit’sche Weisheit von der «Überwindung des Lebens mit dem Tode». Er lernt verstehen die Heraklit’sche Formel, in der er sagt: Es wäre die Verehrung des Dionysos gleichzeitig die Verehrung des Hades. In ihr fließt zusammen die höchste Gottheit des Lebens mit dem Gott der Unterwelt, dem Hades. Die Frucht ist also die Erreichung der Unterwelt, etwas, was uns schon bei Odysseus entgegentritt. Es ist die symbolische Darstellung des Initiationsprozesses, die uns in der Herakles-Sage vorliegt. 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