Many think this story is about a german scholar named Faust, yet no one at the time was known as a single name. Most used 3 names, followed by their place of birth, unless they concealed their names as "Simon the Magus" (adding the "trait" as a last name, as was the common practice).

I won't waste your time with pre-history, I will leave links below for anyone, who is willing to dig deeper into this. For now, we will check the information from the play by Goete in comparison to the wiki page of Agrippa. Yes, it is that simple.

1. The play Faust was written almost 300 years later than Agrippa. Meaning, in the magical circles, he would be a known practitioner.

2. Like Faust, Agrippa is a powerful magician. He writes "Three books of occult philosophy" - https://www.pdfdrive.com/three-books-of-occult-philosophy-completely-annotated-with-modern-commentary-the-foundation-book-of-western-occultism-e165032876.html . If you never read them, it is a combined knowledge on the elements, the sigils, the names of demons, and how to find them using mathematics. These books were never topped by any other magician. The importance of Agrippa is even mentioned in Harry Potter books - the tool for young magicians - https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/cornelius-agrippa/ . It is mentioned in the first book. Bottom line, his work on the occult is the bread and butter for a new magician. How to write sigils, how to write names, how to understand signs - all present in 3 very big books that are free nowadays.

3. Agrippa renounces his occult works closely before his death by saying - "But of magic I wrote whilst I was very young three large books, which I called Of Occult Philosophy, in which what was then through the curiosity of my youth erroneous, I now being more advised, am willing to have retracted, by this recantation"..." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Cornelius_Agrippa Just like Faust is in the hand of Satan, yet his actions lead him away from the devil's grasp.

4. Their love is called Margaret. Agrippa is actually in love in Margaret, duchess of Savoy. And writes a book in order to seduce her (that was the way back in the day). The book is called "Preeminence of the Female Sex, 1529". Preeminence means the natural superiority, in this case, the female sex. Goete's Faust is in love in Margaret, who dies before he can be with her, as the words from above state "she is redeemed on high".

5. Faust has his first interaction with the devil after a dog is transfigured to one of the forms of the devil. As it is written, "a dog with the trace of sparks".

Agrippa's death is also marked by his black dog jumping off a bridge to his death, similar to the demons that recognized Jesus and wanted to flee from him in pigs, that later jumped off of a cliff to their deaths. - https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/familiars https://www.faust.com/cornelius-agrippa-his-dog/

Now, a black dog is also mentioned in Harry Potter, as Sirius Black. As it turns out, Sirius is the brightest star in the constellation of Canis Majoris a.k.a. Big Dog. Sirius is also called "the dog star". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius

!!A familiar is a demon that is a helper to the magician. In order to force the demon out of the abyss, a ritual is performed usually with an animal that is easy to handle. I will spare you the details of the tortures that the animal has to endure in order to give up the ghost and something else to inhabit their physical body. Familiars are very popular in magic as:

• Harry Potter books - owls, frogs, rats, etc. Doby is another example.
• The parrot of a pirate.
• The black cat of a magician.
• The talking animals in Disney movies.
• The little demons on magicians' posters even now.
• And many more...

Bottom line,

If you want to understand Faust, understand Agrippa. If you want to understand magic, understand Agrippa's books on magic. If you want to understand God's power, read the Bible, not some twisted play by a degenerate, and Goete was for sure a degenerate.

Useful links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ulWiK6g-hk - Goete's Faust in a nutshell - best short version of the play that I know. You are free to read or listen to the whole play, but it is exhausting... This version is 37 minutes and includes details before the play, that describe the life of Goete. Very useful starter kit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Cornelius_Agrippa - Agrippa's wiki page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe's_Faust - Faust's wiki page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius - "Dog star" Sirius' wiki page. https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/familiars - More on "familiars".

I hope this was useful for you.