The hero in this version is Faust, who has undertaken actions which shock The Lord to His core.  The Lord demands Mephistopheles do whatever he needs to stop Faust from doing the unthinkable – Faust is in the midst of creating the drug of the gods: Soma.  For centuries Soma had been known by a select few alchemists, including Faust and Faust’s father, to be the true Philosopher’s Stone and Elixir.  In his German Renaissance laboratory, Faust combines the essential ingredients until he finds the perfect mixture.  The side effects cause no pain, nor discomfort to Faust.  In fact, he feels, as expected and hoped, like a god.  Mephistopheles’ mission is to not only stop Faust from fulfilling the purpose of Soma, but also to destroy Faust’s soul completely.  Faust is able to communicate with Lucifer in a ritual, asking for Godhead, but is told by The Light Bringer there are further steps he needs to take.  Faust’s path will be difficult, with both the help of others and the damnation of others, sometimes at the same time, and it will be up to Faust to navigate his way to the discovery of The Eye. 

The meaning behind the titles of the books in the trilogy relate to Alchemy.  Similar to how the three stories are modern, surrealist, Agnostic-Gnostic-Luciferian takes on Christian European philosophies, so too are the references to the alchemical colors of Black, White, and Red transformed.  Thematically, Black in this trilogy represents Birth, Creation, as opposed to the older alchemical definition of Black representing Putrefaction, Decay, Death.  White in this trilogy represents Corruption, as opposed to the older meaning of Purification.  Red represents here Evolution, Continual Growth, as opposed to the older meaning of Perfection.  These themes are expressed through the narrative of all three tales in a literary rather than dogmatic approach.​