"We are lost"

I was reading a paragraph on p. 186 ["Yes, Monsignor Hinterpfortner....out of control"] and it struck me on two threads. First was the underlying foreshadowing/&comparison between Germany and Leverkuhn. The second was a passage with very Faustian imagery.

"We are lost. Which is to say: The war is lost, and that means more than a lost campaign, it means that we in fact are lost-lost, our cause and soul, our faith and our history. Germany is done for, or will be done for. An unutterable collapse- economic, political, moral, and spiritual- in short, an all-embracing collapse looms ahead. Not that I would have wished for what threatens us, for it is despair, it is madness."

"...liars and frauds then prepared a stupefying poisonous home-brew. That wild intoxication- for constantly yearning to be intoxicated, we drank freely, and under that illusory euphoria we have for years committed a plethora of disgraceful deeds-must not be paid for."