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Solomonic Magic & the Grimoires
Faust
- First published1808
- TraditionSolomonic Magic
- Shelf122 books
Goethe's verse drama, published as Part One in 1808 and Part Two in 1832, turns the old pact legend into a wager between Mephistopheles and God about human striving. It ends not in damnation but in Faust's redemption, and became the most influential modern retelling of the bargain with the Devil.












