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How born the
Devil
2ª part
Life legend and
really
anti-hero, the
Demon remains
hitherto in the
Christian
imaginary
“(…) Believe
that God had
created one
being eternally
gone back to the
evil, constant
spoiler of your
work, it is a
frank posture
which edges the
most sordid
blasphemy..” -
François C.
Liran
According
to
Carlos
Roberto
Nogueira,
the
concentration
of
the
evil
in
a
personage
is
only
visible
in
the
New
Testament.
Then satan
(substantive)
passes the being
Satan (proper
noun). From
opponent, he
changes to
Opponent. The
model of Jesus'
enemy's, that
puts His
kindness to the
proof, is
composed.
Greeks - With
the religious
unification
accomplished by
Rome in the
century 4 d.C.,
the Christianity,
of a pursued
sect (remember
that Paulo to
have his divine
vision in the
Syrian desert,
he was a Jewish
rabbi that
hunted
Christians),
starts to pursue:
it becomes the
official and
obligatory cult
of every Empire.
Full of
divergent
currents in his
beginning, wins
the closed and
general aspect
of the
Catholicism more
and more (Catholic
= universal).
It passes the
being Pagan all,
the past and the
present, strange
to the Roman
Empire.
With the
crescent
Christian Latin
might, we have a
case to the part:
the attempt of
extermination of
all the Greek
cultural
tradition. Some
manifestations
are easily
visible as the
destroyed
oracles and the
noses and broken
arms of the
greek sculptures,
just as they
made it in
recent past the
"religious"
leaders from
Afghanistan,
destroying the
enormous
representative
statues of the
Buddhism. Any
forms of linked
parallel cults
to the fecundity
and the nature,
as the sacred
rural parties of
the spring, they
start to be
forbidden
categorically.
Only that the
interdiction
many times it
was without
success. For not
getting to
restraint those
practices in the
way how it would
like, the
Christianity
uses the enemy's
weapons.
He maintains
only God up
there, but it
produces a
multiplicity in
a lower level:
the saints."
It is evident
that the saints
today are the
substitutes of
pagan idols,
once the Church
didn't get to
eradicate the
idolatry. It is
the old history:
If it is not
able to her with
the enemy, best
to join to him.
Not even the
old rural
parties stopped
happening: they
were substituted
by the urban
parties that
they survived
until today, It
is enough to see
what happens
around of the
Catholic
Churches the
months of May
and June.
Then, actually,
what has
nowadays doesn't
differ than the
pagans had at
his time. It was,
in fact, -
absolutely -
necessary the "promised
Consoler's"
coming to put
order in the
Planetary House
that welcomes
us.
Thus,
they
start to exist
very defined
rules for the
characters of
the evil
identification,
very defined
rules are
created for the
characters of
the evil
identification,
which could only
be defeated with
the
indispensable
help of the
Christian faith.
In that way
devil wins
outline more
necessary
physicists,
besides with the
great painters
help that they
worked to the
Church with
exclusiveness,
not saving the
resources to
color with the
strong colors of
the ignorance
the infernal
panels destined
to frighten.
"The hybridism
“man/animal" –
explains Laterce1
-
"forms of the
old oriental
people represent
the
supernatural, it
will be
essentially the
base to compose
an illustration
deformed. An
appealing
presence
is the male goat
paws, that was
the chosen
animal for many
pre-Christianic
cultures for
sacrifice
rituals and
praise to the
gods (then the
expression
scapegoat).
Besides, a
particularly
threatening
Greek god for
the dogmas of
the Christianity
was Dionysus,
patron of the
dance, of the
music, of the
theater and of
the binge; in
other words, the
own disorder of
the chaotic
effervescence of
the artistic
creation. And
which is the
most outstanding
characteristic
in the
appearance of
Dionysus?
Their male goat
paws. The
presence of
those inferior
members in the
imaginary
popular, would
help to put, of
only one time,
the greek
religious
tradition and
oriental in an
intimate
connection with
the evil forces.
One family was
condemned to the
bonfire by the
“Saint”
Inquisition
because they
changed the
bed
linen on one
friday
Then, the devil
sees an
omnipresent
obsession and it
is going
stopping being
an individual to
characterize as
a group of
combatants (demons'
legion) and,
therefore,
anyone anywhere
can "be
possessed", and
consequently
needy of the
help exorcist of
the Church.
The "Saint"
Inquisition's
persecutions
everyone those
that diverge of
the pre-certain
pattern of
Christian, and
that in the
opinion of the
attentive
ecclesiastical
authorities had
part with the
demo. Any bursts
philosophical
that began to
bloom and to
blunt above the
rigid context
dogmatic tax was
fast and
mercilessly
harvested. The
accusations that
invariably took
the convict to
the death, they
were constituted
in the more
absurdities,
banal and
arbitrary
booklets: A
family was
condemned to the
bonfire by
changing the bed
linen on one
Friday; auburn
persons have in
the color of the
hair a sign of
the relationship
with the fire of
the hells and
deficient
physicists
constitute, for
analogy,
deformed
spiritual and
forgotten of God,
therefore,
bonfire in them!
In the century
XIV, a movement
"incensed" by
the Church to
increase her
might towards
the East, the
Crusades (the
drawing of the
Nazi swastika is
constituted by
two crosses
superimposed,
that is:
"crusades".
Coincidence?!...),
had as a slogan
the concept of
Saint War
against the
paganism and as
object the
expulsion of the
Arabs of the
area, where was
born and Jesus
lived. The
devil's
composition wins
new items:
little beard and
tone of skin
darkness,
characteristic
of the Moors. It
is like this,
nurtured by the
placenta of the
ignorance and of
the
unconfessable
subordinate
interests, the
devil goes being
decorated until
reaching his/her
current
"status."
The model
monarchic
absolutist of
the Middle Ages
helps to compose
the leader's of
the whole
demoniac army
idea: Satan is
now the Prince
of the Darkness,
Christ's
reverse, the
Antichrist, that
one day would
reign on the
Earth.
However, there
was still one
more too
important reason
– economical -
that navigated
in the
underground
currents of that
emphasis of the
demoniac forces:
the lucrative
sale of the
indulgences.
Let us explain:
The biblical
Apocalypse
seemed to be if
rendering
because of the
installation of
the wars and of
the appearance
of the plague.
And with the
infernal panels
being painted of
the high of the
pulpits with the
strong paints of
the terror, was
there created
the necessary
dependence of
the which the
Church was used
richly to obtain
profit:
guaranteed
passages for the
Sky could be
bought starting
from the sale of
the indulgences
to weigh of gold
for the
noblemen. There
we have the
devil nominated
minister of the
economy of the
Church. Without
him, there would
not be terrorism
and nobody would
be interested in
the precious
"passport."
To gravitate for
God, here is the
Humanity's
objective
and
three things are
it necessary:
the justice,
the
love and the
science
However, as
there isn’t
situation that
lasts forever,
starting from
the century XVI,
with the
progress of the
modern science
and the new
concepts
philosophical
humanists, we
have a decrease
of the
importance of
the religion in
the daily life.
With that, the
devil also lost
space...
Laterce
concludes1
with
philosophical
wisdom: The
Devil's Reading
in the imaginary
Christian takes
to think that
our will always
go to transport
the evil for a
distant world of
us,
transcendent,
only that more
and more have
evidence that he
is really of the
human order."
In the
conclusion of
"THE Book of the
Spirits", St.
Paul of Tarsus
left the
following
message for all
of us,
Christians of
the present
time:
"Union with the
Divine Being is
the aim of human
existence.
To the
attainment of
this aim three
things are
necessary-knowledge,
love justice:
three things are
contrary to this
aim-ignorance,
hatred,
injustice. You
are
false
to these
fundamental
principles when
you falsify the
idea of God by
exaggerating His
severity; thus
suggesting to
the mind of the
creature that
there is in it
more clemency,
long-suffering,
love, and true
justice, than
you attribute to
the Creator. You
destroy the very
idea of
retribution by
rendering it as
inadmissible, by
your minds, as
is, by your
hearts, the
policy of the
Middle Ages,
with its hideous
array of
torturers,
executioners,
and the stake.
When the
principle of
indiscriminating
retaliation has
been banished
for ever from
human
legislation, can
you hope to make
men believe that
principle to be
the rule of the
Divine
Government ?
Believe me,
brothers in God
and in Jesus
Christ, you must
either resign
yourselves to
let all your
dogmas perish in
your hands
rather than
modify them, or
you must
revivify them by
opening them to
the beneficent
action that good
spirits are now
bringing to bear
on them. The
idea of a hell
full of glowing
furnaces and
boiling
cauldrons might
be credible in
an age of iron;
in the
nineteenth
century it can
be nothing more
than an empty
phantom,
capable, at the
utmost, of
frightening
little children,
and by which the
children
themselves will
no longer be
frightened when
they are a
little bigger.”
The sole aim of
hastisement is
rehabilitation;
and therefore,
to assume the
eternity of
chastisement is
to deprive it of
all reason for
existing.
“By
your persistence
in upholding
mythic terrors,
you engender
incredulity,
source of every
sort of social
disorganisation;
and I tremble at
beholding the
very foundations
of social order
shaken, and
crumbling into
dust, for want
of an
authoritative
code of penality.
Let all those
who are animated
by a living and
ardent faith,
heralds of the
coming day,
unite their
efforts, not to
keep up
antiquated
fables now
fallen into
disrepute, but
to resuscitate
and revivify the
true idea of
penality, under
forms in harmony
with the usages,
sentiments, and
enlightenment of
your epoch.
"What, in fact,
is 'a sinner' ?
One who, by a
deviation from
the right road,
by a false
movement of the
soul. has
swerved from the
true aim of his
creation, which
consists in the
harmonious
worship of the
Beautiful, the
Good, as
embodied in the
archetype of
humanity, the
Divine Exemplar,
Jesus Christ.
"What is 'chastisement'
? The natural,
derivative
consequence of
that false
movement; the
amount of pain
necessary to
disgust the
sinner with his
departure from
rectitude, by
his experience
of the suffering
caused by that
departure.
Chastisement is
the goad which,
by the smarting
it occasions,
decides the soul
to cut short its
wanderings, and
to return into
the right road.
The sole aim of
hastisement is
rehabilitation;
and therefore,
to assume the
eternity of
chastisement is
to deprive it of
all reason for
existing.
"Cease, I
beseech you, the
attempt to
establish a
parallelism of
duration between
good, essence of
the Creator, and
evil, essence of
the creature;
for, in so doing,
you establish a
standard of
penality that is
utterly without
justification.
Affirm, on the
contrary, the
gradual
diminution of
imperfections
and of
chastisements
through
successive
existences, and
you consecrate
the doctrine of
the union of the
creature with
the Creator by
the
reconciliation
of justice with
mercy." (PAUL,
APOSTLE)
Servant with
lucrative ends
and to assist to
the anguish of
dominance of a
breed it sponges,
the devil was
died and buried
by the
spiritualistic
knowledge that
informs us in a
limpid and
crystalline way
not to be
believable that
our Celestial
Father, God of
Love and
Kindness, it can
create a being
to be voted for
eternally to the
evil, affirming,
on the other
hand, that all
the Spirits are
created simple
and ignorant,
being the bad
simply evolution
Spirits still
incipient,
however
susceptible to
raising the
highest
positions of the
spiritual
hierarchy in
elapsing of the
infinite of the
times.
(The first part
of this article
was published in
the edition 123
of this
magazine.)
- Sávio Laterce
is master degree
in Philosophy by
IFCS-UFRJ.
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