The Faust tale has undergone numerous revisions the one where Faust asscends to heaven is Goethes which reflects a philosophy where mans desire to ascend ie increase his power and knowledge through reason is rewarded in the case of Goethes Faust with heaven Goethe wrote in the th century and thus his Faust has little to do with the development of witchcraft as the entire furor surrounding witches for over  years Ive changed the ending referenced in this article to the original which appeared in the text translated from German in  by P F Gent As it is much more illustrative of the fact that witchcraft had developed into the serious offence that it was considered during the various witch trials between the th and th century The P F Gent edition for example ends with the warning that the readers of Fausts tale ought to be careful of their vocation and to be at defiance with all devilish workes as God hath most precisely forbidden to the end we should not invite the devil as a guest nor giue him place as that wicked Faustus hath done Revealing the original role of the tale as an instruction against sorcery in addition to entertainment