Chapter XXV.

Faust and Mephistopheles.

Mephisto and Mephitis--The Raven Book--Papal sorcery--Magic
seals--Mephistopheles as dog--George Sabellicus alias Faustus--The
Faust myth--Marlowe's 'Faust'--Good and evil angels--'El Magico
Prodigioso'--Cyprian and Justina--Klinger's 'Faust'--Satan's
sermon--Goethe's Mephistopheles--His German characters--Moral
scepticism--Devil's gifts--Helena--Redemption through Art--Defeat
of Mephistopheles