The Gnostic Faustus: The Secret Teachings Behind the Classic Text by Ramona Fradon

Author:Ramona Fradon [Fradon, Ramona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Company
Published: 2011-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

Then his disciples were amazed at all the things that he had said to them and they accepted them on faith.

But he had only come to the bottom of Hell. Here there were many worthy personages in a fire: emperors, kings, princes, and lords, many thousand knights at arms.

And they concluded that it is useless to regard wickedness.

FAUST BOOK

A cool stream ran along at the edge of the fire, and some were drinking, refreshing themselves, and bathing,

but some were fleeing from its cold, back into the fire.

Doctor Faustus stepped up, thinking he might seize one of the damned souls, but even when he thought he had one in his hand it would vanish.

On account of the intense heat he knew he could not stay in this vicinity, and he was seeking some way out when his spirit Beelzebub came with the pavilion. Doctor Faustus took a seat and away they soared,

for he could not have endured the thunderclaps, fog, fumes, sulphur, water, cold, and heat, particularly since it was compounded with wailing, weeping, and moaning of woe, anguish, and pain. Now Doctor Faustus had not been at home for a long while. His famulus felt sure that if he had achieved his desire of seeing Hell, he must have seen more than he had bargained for and would never come back.

But even while he was thinking thus, Doctor Faustus, asleep in his pavilion, came flying home in the night and was cast, still asleep, in his bed. When he awoke early the next morning and beheld the light of dawn, he felt exactly as if he had been imprisoned in a dark tower.

At a somewhat later date, he became acquainted only with the fire of Hell, and with the effects of those flames, but now he lay in bed trying to recollect what he had seen in Hell. At first he was firmly convinced that he had been there and had seen it, but then he began to doubt himself, and assumed that the Devil had charmed a vision before his eyes.

And this is true, for he had not seen Hell, else he would not have spent the rest of his life trying to get there. This history and account of what he saw in Hell—or in a vision—was written down by Doctor Faustus himself and afterward found in his own handwriting upon a piece of paper in a locked book.

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