The Twelve Labors of Hercules
2025-10-29; revised: 2025-10-29
About
A cycle of songs woven as a musical tapestry, inspired by Alice A. Bailey’s The Twelve Labors of Hercules. Lyrics are adapted from her book and set to music by José Becerra with the assistance of AI.
The book frames the Labors of Hercules as the archetypal journey of the soul. Humanity slowly learns through cycles of discipline; one soul (Hercules) is chosen as the exemplar. He is prepared, tested, and given twelve tasks — each linked to a Portal — so that through service, sacrifice, and victory, his true divine nature may be revealed.
Note: The use of the masculine pronoun for the soul is symbolic and inclusive, for the soul itself is androgynous: projectively masculine in its relation to the personality, and receptively feminine in its relation to the Spirit.