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Erdgeist

 

Erdgeist, the spirit which appears at Faust's behest in the first scene of Faust I. The Earth Spirit, before which Faust quails, represents the multiplicity and power of Nature. It is the same Erdgeist which Faust addresses in the scene Wald und Höhle as ‘Erhabner Geist’.

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