Hear my of tragedy: "Alas, philosophy I have as as medicine and law add to these my studies in Yet I sit, a foolish bore no wiser than I was No dog can live this knowledge gained is far bliss So I resolved my to free through blackest magic and alchemy" (Goethe: Faust) And from my old I this book which I am told the key to strangest lands Places travelled by man It will, no doubt, my eyes through Hell I will find my Paradise The From through this book I have learned that all that I have ever may be easily with uttered feasibly As as I in my circle remain nothing can harm me, the are chained And the next word I do burn The devils back to return As a fool a devil, so will I summon the Fallen Angel of And with his widom in my I will (both day and night) as as a man can be for no knowledge be strange to me Of in heaven I will know As life I will explore Rain and I do endure, likewise and ice the elements are me with the only that I shall see and know the of the lord I summon thee! I have come to visit you this (although spells are out of date) To see who the name of God he might be of to my lord Then I will speak, and you this: In my for eternal bliss I will give my very to you If what you claim is true Then you serve me loyaly obey my orders For me any task bring me the moon if I ask When time is up you claim your My soul forever absent from paradise As I do this covenant in blood from a cut in my My is not for God to claim I will have twenty-four years maidens and fame And now I do of you The secrets of life, of blue of stars upon the sky of and planets far up high That is not for man to as words can not tell what are of and man cannot grasp what words command for words are far more glorious ever was man Your lies are powerless You do not convince me, for I do I not love and hate, pleasure and pain, and fate ? I cannot describe these, yet I that in my with fire they flow How I my loathsome deeds, these do not fullfill 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, was thine is now mine"