Hear my of tragedy: "Alas, philosophy I explored as well as and law add to these my studies in Yet here I sit, a foolish no wiser I was before No dog can like this gained is far from bliss So I resolved my to free through blackest and dark alchemy" (Goethe: Faust) And my library old I have book which I am told Holds the key to strangest never travelled by man It will, no doubt, open my through Hell I will find my Paradise The From browsing through this I have learned that all that I have yearned may be accomplished with uttered feasibly As long as I in my remain can harm me, the demons are chained And with the next word I do The devils to Hell return As a fool summons a devil, so I summon the Fallen of Light And with his widom in my I remain (both day and night) as as a man can be for no knowledge will be to me Of in heaven I will know As life itself I will Rain and thunder I do endure, and ice the are torturing me with the purpose that I shall see and the wisdom of the lord Lucifer I thee! I have to visit you this late (although spells are out of date) To see who the name of God he might be of to my lord Then I will speak, and you hear In my search for eternal I will give my very to you If what you claim is true Then you serve me loyaly obey my accurately For me accomplish any me the moon if I should ask When time is up you claim prize: My soul forever absent from paradise As I do this covenant in blood a cut in my hand My soul is not for God to I will twenty-four years with maidens and fame And now I do of you The of life, of Oceans blue of upon the mighty sky of and planets far up high That is not for man to as words can not what they are of and man cannot grasp what cannot command for words are far more than ever was man Your tracherous are powerless You do not convince me, for I do I not grasp and hate, pleasure and pain, and fate ? I describe these, yet I know that in my with fire they flow How I repent my deeds, these do not fullfill my needs... Faustus, I am not at all you try to escape, yet you no will but to bath in all pleasures that can give even though, as it appears, your is a devil and now is the day of fears I will collect what is after twelve years as day and night I gave you (twelve and is four-and-twenty) thus, what was is now mine"