FAUSTUS

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</style> <img src=https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/logo2.png> ''FAUST.US'' Archival Documentation | Internal Use Only THE KEY //From the personal notes of Dr. █████████// The primary conjuration portal takes the form of interlocking circles. It is interesting that similar intersections of circles can also be found etched into the timbers of medieval buildings for the purpose of apotropaic warding magic... E.g. as a glyph to keep devils at bay. How can it be that that the same markings can be used by devils as a means of travel, and as a powerful symbol to ward against them? It must be within the intent of the one making the marks. Think of the interlocking circles as a lock. As you draw you are working the key in the lock. Turn one way and things are shut out, the other and they enter. I have no fear of devils, hell is a fable! All these allusions to eternal damnation and of demons are the ravings of an unenlightened people meddling with power they could not fathom. But I am a scientist... I intend to unlock the glyph. If anyone finds my research, and makes it this far - then I assume you have followed me in this endeavour, and I don't blame you. Soon I will be like a god. Once mephistopheles returns. You will be too, if you have drawn the circles and found the relics, yes you have come to deep to be able to return. Though, academically speaking. I suppose one could still close the lock. If one wanted to, if one was scared. [[ACCEPT YOUR FATE?]] [[ESCAPE YOUR FATE?]] <audio src="https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/idle.mp3" autoplay loop>

(if: $home is 1)[</style> <img src=https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/logo2.png> ''FAUST.US'' Archival Documentation | Internal Use Only The following links detailing information recovered from the FAUST.US drive are to be considered highly sensitive, not to be published beyond the department. [[1. Background]] [[2. A New Hypothesis]]] (if: $home is 2)[</style> <img src=https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/logoani.gif> ''FAUST.US'' Arcane Documentation | Internal Use Only The following links detailing information recovered from the FAUST.US drive are to be considered highly powerful, not to be brought into the light. [[1. Background]] [[2. A New Hypothesis]] [[3. Marlowe]]] (if: $home is 3)[</style> <img src=https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/glitched2ani.gif> ''FAUST.US'' Abandon Hope | Infernal Use Only The following links detailing information recovered from the FAUST.US drive are dangerous, do not continue. [[1. Background]] [[2. A New Hypothesis]] [[3. Marlowe]] [[4. Lines, Circles, Scenes, Letters, And Characters]]] (if: $choice is 1)[[5. A Choice]] [[relics]] [[APOCRYPHA|ENTER]] <audio src="https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/idle.mp3" autoplay loop>

</style> <img src=https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/logo1.png> ''FAUST.US'' BACKGROUND The story of Faust is well-known in folklore and has been oft retold through European culture. It was once thought that Faust began in medieval chapbooks as quasi-allegorical, low-culture entertainment. The story first came to mainstream prominence through Christopher Marlowe's Play //The Tragical History of The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus.// This play toured Europe and was the first significant cultural work related to the figure who has lived on in countless retellings and homages since; from Geothe's magnum opus, to the twentieth century legend of blues musician Robert Johnson. It has long been assumed that the story of a world-weary academic who turns to necromancy and a deal with Lucifer to exchange his soul for 24 years of pleasure and hidden knowledge; was nothing more than a fantasy. Any connection to a historical figure named Faust was believed tenuous at best, and the result of a smear campaign by rival academics at worst. [[RETURN TO MENU|HOME]] <audio src="https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/idle.mp3" autoplay loop>

</style> <img src=https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/logo1.png> ''FAUST.US'' A NEW HYPOTHESIS Though scholars have long been aware that there is evidence of itinerant magicians in the 15th and 16th centuries who took on the name of Faustus, even reading astrology for Bishops and Popes. It has always been accepted that these figures assumed the monica to exploit Faust's growing legend. However it was in 2011 that, Dr. █████████ and her team first proposed that Faustus had become a mantle or title for people following a philosophy of thought inspired by some as yet unidentified original source: A true historical Faust. [[GO DEEPER|hypothesis2]] [[RETURN TO MENU|HOME]] <audio src="https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/idle.mp3" autoplay loop>

</style> <img src=https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/logo1.png> ''FAUST.US'' A NEW HYPOTHESIS : 2 Dr. █████████'s theory, though perhaps outwardly compelling appeared to have no prescident, antescedant, and crucially no meaningful evidence outside of conjecture. Even so, she was aided by a small team of PHD students to begin searching for evidence to validate the proposal. Initially the major works related to the Faust legend were ignored; Marlowe was too far by geography, and Geothe too far by time to be imagined to have any true connection to historical fact. And yet, it was by way of Marlowe that █████████ first made a breakthrough. [[RETURN TO MENU|HOME]] (set: $home to 2) <audio src="https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/idle.mp3" autoplay loop>

</style> <img src=https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/glitcheditwitt-1.png> ''FAUST.US'' MARLOWE Christopher Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564) was a playwright who acheived remarkable success in his short career. In addition to popularity and fame, Marlowe is credited as the originator of the blank verse style for which the Elizabethan era became known. Despite his unprescidented success as a dramatist Marlowe's life was as shrowded in mystery as it was short. The broad strokes of Marlowe's biography echoed that of Faust's. A brilliant intellect, blessed with unnatural talent and success, openly sceptical of the majority religion (or at least its structures), and dying suddenly: Marlowe's life echoes Faust's to an uncanny degree. Is this an example of life imitating art, or is it an artful and deliberate imitation of a life? Dr. █████████ supposed that perhaps Marlowe was following in Faustus' footsteps. At the age of 29 Christopher Marlowe was killed in a bar-brawl. Scholarly conscensus has traditionally stated that this killing was likely an assassination, motivated by accusations of heresy, and enemies Marlowe made in his second career as a spy for the Queen against Catholic plots. [[GO DEEPER|the other marlowe]] <audio src="https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/idle.mp3" autoplay loop>

</style> <img src=https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/glitcheditwitt-1.png> ''FAUST.US'' THE OTHER MARLOWE Christopher Marlowe (deceased May 30, 1593) gained infamy in his early career when he attended Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. It was suspected that Marlowe secretly intended to be ordained as a Catholic priest after graduation, which would have placed him in direct violation of royal edict. He was consequently to be denied his degree, were it not for the intervention of the [[Privy Council]] who commended Marlowe's "faithful dealing" and "good service" to the Queen. It has long been assumed that the intervention of the crown to counter accusations of heresy indicated that Marlowe was involved in acts espionage for the queens council. Recent evidence now indicates that the crown's benevolence toward Marlowe may have been earned by way of necromantic influence, and that perhaps there was more substance to the claims of heresy that plagued the man. [[RETURN TO MENU|HOME]] (set: $home to 3) <audio src="https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/idle.mp3" autoplay loop>

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</style> <img src=https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/glitched2ani.gif> ''FAUST.US'' LINES, CIRCLES, SCENES, LETTERS, AND CHARACTERS The answer was in his works, in the text of Marlowe's play, //The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus//. He had left us clues hidden in plain sight, behind the guise of a morality tale. This is what Dr. █████████ discovered and from what the department has been able to recover, it was this which provided her team the starting point to begin digging. The original Faust's writing may have been lost but it could be reconstructed from the clues left by Marlowe. //These metaphysics of magicians, And necromantic books are heavenly; Lines, circles, scenes, letters, and characters; Ay, these are those that Faustus most desires.// The basis of Faustian magic is in mathmatics, in arcane geometry, in the relationships of the giant celestial bodies as they move on their poles. These philosophies are unchanging and can therefore be re-excavated. This must be what Dr. █████████ and her team did, before their strange disappearance, and the corruption of their research. [[RETURN TO MENU|HOME]] (set: $choice to 1) <audio src="https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/idle.mp3" autoplay loop>

</style> <img src=https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/logo2.png> ''FAUST.US'' A CHOICE It is after this point that you must decide: Do you carry on, or do you walk away? The path ahead is uncharted. This is the point at which all evidence of what Dr. █████████'s team found is lost. I have done my best to follow them, to reconstruct their research and guess at where they were headed. And I will present it as best I can in the documents ahead... But this is the path that lead to their disappearance. Who can say where it will take you if you choose to follow them? I am compelled to continue, I am driven by the open question - what did they find? It cannot be ignored that whatever truth lies at the end of this journey, it is a dark one. We know better than our medieval forebears, and no longer believe in the demons that they once did. But, something is here: As a scientist I say this cautiously, there is some secret will at work here. An //evil// one. We know that Dr. █████████ and her team were driven to obsession by this, and now they are gone and we only have fragments of their research. It is as if the information here on the FAUST.US drive wants to be lost. Marlowe knew the secret, and yet for all his brilliance his life was cut short by it. Faustus was real, the secret of his philosophy must hold true power. Maybe the magic is real, and hell? Who can say? But if there is a moment to turn back this must be it. Will you continue? [[REPENT]] [[KEEP GOING|HOME2]] <audio src="https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/idle.mp3" autoplay loop>

(text-colour:black)+(background:white)[You Have Escaped . The knowledge locked deeper within the FAUST.US drive remains unseen by your eyes. IGNORANCE IS BLISS] <audio src="https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/escape.mp3" autoplay>

</style> <img src=https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/glitche3.png> ''ƒ4U$†.US'' Abandon Hope | Infernal Use Only HERE IS HELL. NOR AM I OUT OF IT [[1. ß4¢<9яøvnđ|1. Backgroundb]] [[2. α Nεw Hyp0†hε$1$|2. A New Hypothesisb]] [[3. Mαr|0wε|3. Marloweb]] [[4. ƒ0яwaяđ$, ß4¢Kw4rÐ$, 4Nα9raMa†1$εđ |4. Lines, Circles, Scenes, Letters, And Charactersa]] ~~5. A Choice~~ (if: $finale is 1 )[ [[666. DRAW THE CIRCLE, CALL ON THE SPIRITS NOW]] ] [[relics|relics2]] [[APOCRYPHA|ENTER2]] <audio src="https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/creepsound1-2.mp3" autoplay>

</style> <img src=https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/logo1.png> ''FAUST.US'' <-GROUND Why do you try to return. Think not of from where you have come, think only of going deeper, further, into the dirt. You will find strength there. Are you not (background:red)[GREEDY] for it? Consume all you find like a (background:red)[GLUTTON]. Be (background:red)[JEALOUS] for power, you deserve it. Are you not (background:red)[ANGRY]? You deserve this, you deserve to know. Its too difficult to go back, you will tire, (background:red)[SLOTH] will hold you back from repentance. Anyhow, think of what you can acheive if you press on, what richess and knowledge will be yours. It will all be given to you, whatever your body (background:red)[LUST]S for. Go deeper conjure up a title for yourself, take (background:red)[PRIDE] in what you will become. Talk not of returning! You wound us. Press on [[PUSH ON AND SPEAK NOT OF VIRTUE|HOME2]] <audio src="https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/creepsound2.mp3" autoplay loop>

</style> <img src=https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/glitche3.png> ''FAUST.US'' @ |\|€VV Hyp0†hε$1$ If Marlowe followed Faust then perhaps did he leave clues in the text itself? allusions to a methodology for accessing hidden knowledge and weilding power? Could we imagine even that the method described in Act 1, scene 3 (in which Faustus draws a circle on the ground adorned with numbers symbols and the names of saints) is an accurate road map for conjuration. It hardly seems plausable. What scientific basis could there be for the power of a few words spoken in Latin and symbols drawn in chalk, however portentious or dramatic we imagine that [[image]] to be? [[RETURN TO MENU|HOME2]] <audio src="https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/creepsound5voice2.mp3" autoplay loop>

</style> <img src=https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/glitched2ani.gif> ''FAUST.US'' FORWARDS, BACKWARDS, ANAGRAMATISED That there is some connection between the correspondences of circles, numbers, deep mathematics and the power of conjuration; need not surprise a scientist. It is a manipulation and exploitation of the rules that underpin all matter and time. But Marlowe also evoked religious customs and taboos in his depiction of Faustus reaching for that hidden power. How can that be? And how can it be that the power seemed to have its own will, and its own mind: A will presented in theatrical form as Mephistopholes; A demon? It cannot be so? Can it. Perhaps, yes of course, Mephistopholes was a dimension of Faustus' own psyche? Yes? His nihilism, his baser desires. So then if our intentions for power remain pure, and we explore what lays beyond for the betterment of humankind - perhaps then we would fall like Faustus. We would not fall like Marlowe We would not fall like Dr. █████████ [[Is this wise?|relic3]] [[RETURN TO MENU|HOME2]] (set: $finale to 1) <audio src="https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/creepsound6voice3.mp3" autoplay loop>

</style> <img src=https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/glitche3.png> ''ƒ4U$†.US'' THINK'ST THOU THAT I, WHO SAW THE FACE OF GOD AND TASTED THE ETERNAL JOYS OF HEAVEN, AM NOT TORMENTED WITH TEN THOUSAND HELLS? (text-colour:red)[Here! I am flown to thee. Do you feel me already on you like a stone. Bid me to explain the universe when I come, for one day soon I shall come for your demise. Soon rack will come to you. I am on my way through the marks you have made on the paper. A deed of gift promising yourself to my dark lord Lucifer. You have three days. ''-M.''] //... are you still there. I am lost now. If there be any way out of this perhaps it lies in the apocrypha, I hope you have found all three relic and can decifer them.// [[relics|relics3]] [[APOCRYPHA|ENTER3]]

(text-colour:black)+(background:white)[YOUR SOUL IS LOST Mephistopheles will visit you in three days. Thank you for visiting FAUST.US] [[//change your mind and repent?//|ESCAPE YOUR FATE?]]

</style> <img src=https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/logo1.png> ''FAUST.US'' PENETANT ONE, THERE IS ONE OPTION OPEN TO YOU. This is untested, because I do not want to go back to the drudge of ordinary existence. But having spent some time researching apotropaic markings, I understand the following about apotropaic markings: 1. Known as //Devil Traps// patterns of interconnecting lines were intented to confuse devils by depicting lines with no start or end, the devil becomes locked tracing lines looking for a way out. 2. Other apotropaic markings borrowed from other sources, just like as in the case of the interconnecting circles taken from conjuration magic. For instance, the board game nine-mens-morris had a distinctive board design that came to be used as magical glyph I also understand the following about the dark will at play in the hidden parts of the universe, that will which we interact with through the lines - that which Faustus called a devil: 1. It loves to deceive. 2. It loves to play. - This is the significance of the board games used as apotropaic magic. They will not resist it. So, to escape a devil making its way through the marks one must distract it with a game. played on the interconnecting circles. I have found such a game, challenge Mephistopheles to play and he will not resist. Win that game and he will be trapped. Lose the game? I cannot say what your fate will be in that case. [[PLAY THE GAME?]] <audio src="https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/escape2.mp3" autoplay loop>

(text-colour:black)+(background:white)[BELOW IS A DOWNLOADABLE PDF WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOW TO PLAY //THE DEVIL TRAP// Find a friend, and secretly cast them as Mephistopheles; clergyman of hell currently on his way to you. Unseen devils will control your friend, though your friend will be unaware of their influence. play the game and hope to win, because if you do, you will be freed from your fate. (link: "DOWNLOAD PDF")[(goto-url: 'https://jimlockeycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/deviltrapprintable-1.pdf')] (text-colour:red)[ //If you are reading this on March 26 or 27, 2021 you will be have the opportunity to play online via zoom with artist Jim Lockey. Send an email to ''faustDOTus@gmail.com'' requesting to play. You will receive a reply with a zoom code and time slot for March 28, 2021//]]

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