Hear my of tragedy: "Alas, I have explored as well as and law add to regrettably my in theology Yet here I sit, a bore no wiser I was before No dog can live like knowledge gained is far from So I resolved my to free through blackest and dark alchemy" (Goethe: Faust) And from my old I this book which I am told Holds the key to strangest Places travelled by man It will, no doubt, my eyes through Hell I will finally find my The From browsing through this book I learned that all that I have yearned may be easily with uttered feasibly As long as I in my circle can harm me, the demons are chained And the next word I do burn The devils to Hell return As a fool a devil, so will I summon the Fallen of Light And his widom in my sight I remain (both day and night) as as a man can be for no will be strange to me Of stars in heaven I will As itself I will explore Rain and thunder I do endure, and ice the are torturing me with the purpose that I shall see and know the wisdom of the Lucifer I thee! I have come to you this late (although your are out of date) To see who the name of God he might be of to my lord Then I will speak, and you this: In my search for eternal I give my very soul to you If what you claim is true Then you will me loyaly my orders accurately For me accomplish any 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 from a cut in my hand My is not for God to claim I will have twenty-four with maidens and fame And now I do of you The of life, of Oceans blue of stars the mighty sky of and planets far up high That is not for man to as words can not tell they are of and man cannot grasp what cannot 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, and pain, lust and fate ? I describe these, yet I know in my heart with fire they flow How I my loathsome deeds, these devils do not my needs... Faustus, I am not at all you try to escape, yet you have no but to bath in all pleasures flesh can give even though, as it appears, your is a devil and now is the day of fears I will collect what is mine twelve years as day and night I you plenty (twelve and is four-and-twenty) thus, was thine is now mine"