According to an interview with Tesla late in his life, Tesla loved Faust, a story which happens to serve as the mirror to the Biblical story of Job.
Job is the story of a man so tested by calamity that he loses everything and yet remains faithful to God (and God's promise of a beautiful, brave new world), and so the Devil loses his bet with God that Job could be turned away from this faith to the Father.
Meanwhile, the story of Faust is essentially a theosophical treatise for the rejection of God's design.
Faust believes that Heaven, if it existed, would be worse than Hell. Faust is a man of Earthly pleasures and action. He desires to seek out knowledge, find something more to speculate on, and indulge in hedonistic pleasures. And so when tested, Faust ultimately relents and signs his soul away to Mephistopholes.
So, contrary to the wisdom relayed by Paul and others in the Bible, the theosophist can only imagine loving this world, despite its "cost", and will do anything to keep the earthly (material/physical) pleasures forever.
To Faust, God's Heaven is a nightmare beyond reckoning. How can Faust fulfill the pleasures of the body in a place where you don’t have a body? What more knowledge could Faust seek when he is with the source of all things, that were, are, and will be? This Heaven, not as a place but a state of mind, to Faust is as worse as any tortures that Hell could offer. In Hell, one will be in some kind of torture, feeling ever lasting pain, doing a meaningless task eternally as they curse God for their torment. Yet, Hell is still a place of action, of choices.
In Heaven, Faust would be reduced to a celestial body, in a tranquil state, forever moving on a set course around the divine. This lack of action and separation from all that Faust likes about the world is a torture.
We've been sold a Faustian (theosophical) argument by the human (and inhuman) princes of this world since we were born. We barely know which way is up. Used car salesmen everywhere.