Istoria lui Faust, un mit fondator al lumii moderne
History Faust, a founding myth of the modern world

Summary/Abstract: Faust is without any doubt the most used mythical figure in modern literature – in fact, the only myth, we may say, in which the contemporary man willfully admits his image. Indeed, the appearance of this myth during Renaissance announces and prefigurates a new orientation – without precedent in human history – the Western societies which progressively adopt an anthropological pattern founded on a materialist vision of the world and of the human being, the overturning of the values which are opposite to the theocentric Christian pattern. Agreeing with the material sciences, considered an indisputable unique source of the truth and therefore abusively rated at a metaphysical level, modern humanity repeats at a collective scale the pact of Faust, who sells his immortal soul in order to dominate the nature through magical powers and to possess, due to his satanic allegiance, all the worldly goods. This pact with the material world – which sets the man in the universe of perishable things, is, at the same time, a pact with death – is, at its turn, a modern and collective reproduction of Adam’s fall. The biblical serpent – forced to crawl on the earth – represents, in fact, a lower intelligence (sneakiness – a form of animal intelligence which has as purpose the material benefits and advantages), which disputing God’s will assigns to itself, in an abusive manner, a metaphysical authority, attributing the supremacy of the sensual man in front of the spiritual existence. Hence, we can notice here a idolatry of the flesh and of the matter which, after it has become the „universal” model for modern societies, confers to the primordial sin, as to the Faustian sin, the collective and global dimension of an up-side-down religious phenomenon (“the theology of God’s death”, as Mircea Eliade calls it), which brings about a confirmation of the relative biblical prophecies of the event, at the end of time, of the Antichrist – in other words, a collective model which has as goal world domination, which is visibly opposed to the Christian anthropologic pattern.

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