More Tony Kline on Mephistopheles“(Goethe’s) Faust turns away from unnatural learning, and from the pursuit of intellectual Truth. Rejected by the overpowering Earth-Spirit, he makes his pact with Mephistopheles. Mephisto will provoke him to activity in order to find what will content Faust, and make him desire the Moment to continue, winning the wager if Faust finds that contentment. Mephisto is therefore, as the Creative Spirit, God, proclaims, the agent planted on Earth within man to stir him to activity, and as Mephisto himself says forces him to work the good while attempting to work evil. “Pasted from <http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German/TheRestlessSpiritPartII.htm>
The legend of Faust from the Renaissance times. The end of civilization.