Hear my of tragedy: "Alas, philosophy I explored as well as and law add to these my studies in Yet I sit, a foolish bore no wiser than I was No dog can like this knowledge gained is far from So I resolved my soul to through blackest magic and alchemy" (Goethe: Faust) And my library old I have this which I am told the key to strangest lands Places never by man It will, no doubt, my eyes Hell I will finally find my Paradise The From through this book I have learned that all that I ever yearned may be accomplished with words feasibly As long as I in my remain can harm me, the demons are chained And the next word I do burn The devils back to Hell As a fool summons a devil, so I summon the Angel of Light And his widom in my sight I remain (both day and night) as as a man can be for no knowledge be strange to me Of stars in I will know As life itself I will Rain and I do endure, likewise and ice the are torturing me the only purpose that I shall see and know the of the lord Lucifer I thee! I have come to you this late (although spells are out of date) To see who mocks the of God he be of interest to my lord Then I will speak, and you this: In my for eternal bliss I give my very soul to you If what you is really true Then you will serve me my orders accurately For me any task bring me the if I should ask When time is up you your prize: My soul forever from heavenly paradise As I do sign this in blood a cut in my hand My soul is not for God to I will have twenty-four years maidens and fame And now I do of you The secrets of life, of Oceans of upon the mighty sky of and planets far up high That is not for man to as words can not tell what are of and man cannot what words cannot command for words are far glorious than ever was man Your lies are powerless You do not convince me, for I do I not love and hate, pleasure and pain, lust and ? I cannot describe these, yet I that in my with fire they flow How I repent my deeds, these devils do not my needs... Faustus, I am not at all you try to escape, yet you no will but to in all pleasures that flesh can give even though, as it appears, your virgin is a and now is the day of your I will collect what is mine after years as day and night I gave you (twelve and is four-and-twenty) thus, what was is now mine"