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¡'austus eilcolnpasses in its broad sÏ,reep 'che realms of
his or'¡n personal heaven and liel-l"
ÎÎSu¡eet l-lelen, tnake me irnmortal- with a kiss'
Her lips su.ck forih my soul; see v'¡here iir flies! -
Come, Helen, come, give me rß]r soul again"
Here vrill I dr,n¡ell, for iieaven be in thepe lips,
j.nd all is dross ihat is not Helena.tr röo
'Jhus the god oi ¡'austus has becorne his ol'rn appetite,
and is litile else but a proiection of his ol{n person-
ality for v¡hich he lntends to establish his or¡.rri
instiiution and ritual inod,eled on the ChristÍarl
Sacranents. this rnisapprehension of Faustus is
re-affirmed- by Goethes Erdgeisg: rîDu gleichsb dem
íla-i ci. ¡ì an drr lrc'crnai f qf. - it 19 '
uç¿rf vt uwrr u\¿ LJcë;Iç-LJ-Èu6
It is Lucifer? s introductj-on bo the appearênce
of the Seven Deadly Sins whj-ch restates the dilernma,
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J. UI' rl() L,|.I Ëç Þ I' d. L¿Þ u L¿Ð r'/r.J ÞP(
crear,ion, but to give heed 1,o bhe show which is about
to cornmence. 'I'he important v¡ord in Lu-cif'erls self-
cribical admonition is the woro ?sllotrvf ; it underlies
the tragedy tlia'l; everything is superficial and a display
which never pierces 'ûhe core of }if e "
i{ot uriûil the moinent of u}iimate anci hopeless
rJesn¡-i r i s F"e",^+,ì^ r.ij 1-l ì..^- tO COine tO refrns With iire
Llt;tf,tJcr.-Ll- rÐ r'atlÈtJL¿Þ vï-LIIJriÉ
r;niverse in v¡hich he has his being. He tirus protects
himself rornantically r^¡ith a shell of scorn, bhereby