Authors: Ramona Fradon
ISBN-13: 9781594772047, ISBN-10: 1594772045
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear & Company
Date Published: December 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Ramona Fradon has been investigating the Faust legend since 1978 in order to decipher the mysteries of its spiritual framework. She has also practiced astrology and energy healing and studied shamanism and hypnotherapy. She is a visual artist with extensive illustration credits in the comics industry. She was the artist for Aquaman, Metamorpho, and the comic strip Brenda Starr. In 2006, she was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. She lives in upstate New York.
Book Synopsis
Ramona Fradon shows the legend of Doctor Faustus to be a composite Gnostic creation myth that reveals the process of spiritual salvation. The elements of alchemy, sacramental sex, and worship of the divine feminine that are encoded in the Faust Book provide an account of spiritual initiation whose goal is ecstatic union with the divine.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Setting the Stage 1
Here Beginneth Doctor Faustus: His Vita & Historia 39
Introduction to the Faust Book 42
Of His Parentage and Youth 45
How Doctor Faustus Did Achieve and Acquire Sorcery 51
Here Followeth the Disputatio Held By Faustus and the Spirit 64
Introduction to Chapters 4-7 71
The Second Disputatio with the Spirit 74
Doctor Faustus's Third Colloquium with the Spirit, Which Was Called Mephistopheles-Concerning Also the Pact Which These Two Made 79
Doctor Faustus's Instrumentum, or Devilish and Godless Writ Obligatio 85
Concerning the Service That Mephistopheles Used Toward Faustus 90
Introduction to Chapters 8-11 95
Concerning Doctor Faustus's Intended Marriage 97
Doctor Faustus's Quaestio of His Spirit Mephistopheles 109
A Disputatio Concerning the Prior State of the Banished Angels 116
A Disputatio Concerning Hell; How It Was Created and Fashioned; Concerning Also the Torments in Hell 119
Doctor Faustus His Historia: Here Followeth the Second Part, Adventures & Sundry Questions 131
His Almanacs and Horoscopes 134
A Disputatio or Inquiry Concerning the Art of Astronomia, or Astrologia 138
A Disputatio and False Answer Which the Spirit Gave to Doctor Faustus 141
How Doctor Faustus Traveled Down to Hell 148
How Doctor Faustus Journeyed Up to the Stars 167
Now I Will Tell You What I Did See 175
Doctor Faustus's Third Journey 184
Concerning the Stars 195
A Question on This Topic 200
The Second Question 204
The Third Question 207
Here Followeth the Third Part: Doctor Faustus, His Adventures, the Things He Performed and Worked with His Nigromantia at the Courts of Great Potentates 209
A History of the Emperor Charles V and Doctor Faustus 212
Concerning the Antlers of a Hart 217
Concerning Three Lords Who Were Rapidly Transported to a Royal Wedding in Munich 221
Concerning an Adventure with a Jew 229
An Adventure at the Court of Count Anhalt 236
The Manner in Which Doctor Faustus as Bacchus Kept Shrovetide 244
Concerning Helen Charmed Out of Greece 250
Concerning a Gesticulation Involving Four Wheels 259
Concerning Four Sorcerers Who Cut Off One Another's Heads and Put Them On Again, Wherein Doctor Faustus, Attending Their Performance, Doth Play the Major Role 267
Concerning an Old Man Who Would Have Converted Doctor Faustus from His Godless Life 273
Pact 285
Doctor Faustus: His Last Tricks and What He Did in the Final Years of His Contract 289
How Doctor Faustus Brought About the Marriage of Two Lovers 292
Concerning Divers Flora in Doctor Faustus's Garden on Christmas Day 298
Concerning an Army Raised Against Lord Hardeck 301
Concerning the Beautiful Helen from Greece, How She Lived for a Time with Doctor Faustus 309
Concerning One Whose Wife Married While He Was Captive in Egypt and How Doctor Faustus Informed and Aided Him 315
Concerning the Testament: What Doctor Faustus Bequeathed to His Servant Christof Wagner 321
The Discourse Which Doctor Faustus Held with His Son Concerning His Last Will and Testament 324
What Doctor Faustus Did in the Final Month of His Pact 327
Doctor Faustus: His Lamentation, That He Must Die at a Young and Lusty Age 329
Doctor Faustus Lamenteth Yet Further 331
Doctor Faustus: His Hideous End and Spectaculum 332
Notes 338
Bibliography 355
Index 361
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