FAUST AND GNOSIS OF THE REFORMATION EPOCH

Abstract

The article is devoted to the question of the gnostic nature of the image of Faust, which is defined as the clue to revealing the Gnostic motifs in the German culture of modern times. In the article the author analyzes how the image of Faust accumulated the Germanic gnosis of Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and united all seekers of revelation knowledge of the Renaissance and Reformation that went beyond the Beyond the permitted bounders of the permitted, including Martin Luther, as well as Odin and Christ. Contrary to the traditional view that Faust is represented as an antagonist of Martin Luther, Luther is regarded in the article as one of the prototypes of Faust.