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Goethe - Faust Part 1
Identifier
000275
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Faust part one – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The Lord |
I give you freedom to appear at will For you and your kind I feel no hate Of all the spirits of denial and of ill Such rogues as you I can well tolerate For man’s activity can slacken all too fast He falls too soon into a slothful ease; The devil’s a companion who will tease And spur him on, and work creatively at last But you, true sons of God attend your duty Rejoice in rich creation’s living beauty The vital process that eternally informs All things, embrace you with the bonds that love has wrought To what appears in evanescent forms Give substance with the lasting power of thought |
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Heaven closes, the archangels disperse |
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Mephisto |
I like to drop in on him if I can Just to keep things between us on the level It’s really decent of the Grand Old Man To be so civil to the very Devil |
