"You'll hear much more before we leave her. I know, it sounds like that for many pages. I lost much time on this accursed affliction, Because a perfect contradiction intrigues not only fools but also sages. This art is old and new, forsooth: It was the custom in all ages to spread illusion and not truth with Three in One and One in three they teach it twittering like birds; with fools there is no intervening. Men usually believe, if only they hear words that there must also be some sort of meaning." (p, 253).
The idea of spreading "illusion" and "not truth" is something that most at Goethe's time would not attribute to the Church. It is obvious that there is some sort of animosity toward not only the Church, but the idea of the trinity. Where father, son, and holy spirit are one, Mephistopheles disagrees. Are the words spoken through Mephistopheles the actual thoughts of Goethe's? Where does this disagreement come from and what other signs do we see towards this type of thinking?
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