The Eleusinian Mysteries and the Great Work
The Eleusinian mysteries were divided into two classes: the lesser and the greater. The Lesser Mysteries, dedicated to Persephone, teaches therefore that man must depart from his desire for material possessions and rise above ignorance or he is doomed to wander forever making the same mistakes again and again. He will pass into death no wiser than how he passed into life and will sleep for all eternity just as he slept through his existence.
The Greater Mysteries, dedicated to their patron Ceres, tells the legend of how Persephone is abducted by Pluto, also known as Hades - or Plouton the Wealthy One, and brought to the underworld to become his queen. Ceres wanders the world in quest for her daughter carrying two torches, one for intuition the other for reason, and when she finally finds her pleads to Pluto, the god of the souls of the dead, to allow her daughter to return to her. Pluto at first refuses because Persephone has eaten of the pomegranate, the fruit of mortality, but then agrees to let her live in the upper world half of the year and in the lower the other half. The solar energy, which in the winter months lives under the earth with Pluto and in the summer returns with the goddess of productiveness was what the Greeks saw Persephone as a manifestation of.
In other words the Soul is abducted and chained to the darkness of the underworld and refused its freedom because it has accepted, tasted, mortality. Freedom can only come if reason and truth is applied to the bondage of material ignorance. The soul need to enter into the light of understanding and, like the teachings of Buddha, end the cycle of rebirth to achieve a nirvana after death and in this life.
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