Mephistopheles

Mephistopheles or Mephisto is one of the names of the devil. In Goethe's Faust drama, he appears as a luciferic-ahrimanic hybrid, in which - especially in the second part of the tragedy - the destructive-ahrimanic part predominates. In some respects, he resembles the Dajjal (Arabic الدّجّال ad-Dajjāl ‚the deceiver‘), who is known from the tradition of the Hadith in Islam and who, according to Islamic eschatology, represents the epitome of evil. In the end times of the world, the Mahdi would confront him as the Messiah sent by God and kill him.

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Ursprung und Ziel des Menschen, GA 53 (1981), ISBN 3-7274-0532-5 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Geisteswissenschaftliche Menschenkunde, GA 107 (1988), English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Der Zusammenhang des Menschen mit der elementarischen Welt, GA 158 (1993), ISBN 3-7274-1580-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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