Editing Mephistopheles (section)

=== Nature vs. Evil ===
The nature between God and evil is complex amongst the theological issues. In Abrahamic religions, God is inherently deemed as good and not capable of being evil, though those religions also have to acknowledge the existence of evil in the world. Through the ideals of the Society of Jesuits, the Roman Catholic religious order expressed that nature is undistorted by original sin.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Russell |first=Jeffery |title=Mephistopheles |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=1986 |isbn=9780801418082 |edition=4th |language=English}}</ref> Mephistopheles also appears as a nature spirit, a Naturgeist.,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Brown |first=Jane K. |date=1985 |title=Mephistopheles the Nature Spirit |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25600562 |journal=Studies in Romanticism |language=en |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=475–490 |doi=10.2307/25600562 |jstor=25600562}}</ref> though he is still deemed as evil or rather destructive amongst many scholars. However, Jane K. Brown suggests that Mephistopheles is Faust's "mediator to the world," that he is neither evil or destructive.<ref name="Brown 1985 475–490">{{Cite journal |last=Brown |first=Jane K. |date=1985 |title=Mephistopheles the Nature Spirit |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25600562 |journal=Studies in Romanticism |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=475–490 |doi=10.2307/25600562 |issn=0039-3762}}</ref> Brown suggests that nature is where God and the devil meet and this is where humans live. Mephistopheles, then, represents the one of the two souls that humans naturally possess, Faust's struggle between the "divine principle (mind or spirit) and the world (physical nature)."<ref name="Brown 1985 475–490"/>  Mephistopheles is a nature spirit representing the unsegmented world through the human experience.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Easlea |first=Brian |date=1989-02-01 |title=jeffrey burton russell . Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1986. Pp. 333. $24.95 |url=https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/94/1/105/147393 |journal=The American Historical Review |language=en |volume=94 |issue=1 |pages=105–106 |doi=10.1086/ahr/94.1.105 |issn=1937-5239}}</ref>