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How born the
Devil
1ª 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
Satan, Demo,
Beelzebub, Bad
Thing, Lucifer,
the Beast,
Split Foot,
Naughty,
Belfegor. Such
the
denominations
for which become
known the devil,
being this last
one, Belfegor,
embossed by Jean
Weier. This
denomination was
spread in the
Catholic
circles, thanks
to improvident
authorities of
the church, to
name the titular
antipodes of
good. Even
Goethe, in your
text Fausto,
adds more one
denomination,
for the great
list of names of
the lord of the
darkness, his
named
Mefistofiles,
lord of the
vandals and
perverse…
Fearsome being,
engendered by
gotten sick
minds and soaked
for the
subordinate
interest, life
legend and
really
anti-hero, whose
image remains
hitherto in the
Christian
imaginary, such
as wicked
creature it has
been an
excellent
assistant of the
medieval
religions and
contemporary
which need this
type of
terrorism so
that they are
quieted their
naïve sheep in
the narrow and
arid dogmatic
fold.
Silas1
explains that
the macabre
ideas of
degrading magic,
which are one of
the witchcraft
and the devilry
that the
Christian
churches spread
out, on the
pretext of
combat them,
maintain
credence and
superstitions,
to the price of
conjurations and
exorcism,
generate the
fiendish mental
stereotypes in
the
disincarnated
spirits of weak
brain and
thoughtless that
encouraging such
absurdities,
establishing
epidemics of
hallucinatory
fright. On the
other hand, the
disincarnated
intelligences,
give to the
perversion,
using these
pictures badly
outlined that
the fetishist
literature or
the unworried
preaching
distribute in
the earth, in
the great
amount, and they
fasten them
temporary
vitality, as
well as the
artist of a
pencil takes
advantage of
child’s
sketches, taking
them for base to
the most
developed and
secure drawing
with which he
starts to amaze
the infantile
morale.
More closed a
creature is of
God, larger his
intelligence
and
your free-will
It becomes.
Therefore,
evident and easy
on “to recognize
that each heart
built the hell
in which
imprisons, in
agreement with
your own
actions. This
way, we have
with us, the
devils that we
wish, either as
the chosen model
or modeled by
ourselves”,
concluded Silas.
Well, if God is
the infinite
kindness, (and
of that we can’t
doubt), how from
It, the Supreme
Good, could have
to arise from
one being, which
would be His
antithesis? Such
it was the
controversy
arose in the
Catholic Church
in the low
middle age. But,
st. Augustine
(today redeemed
by spirit
knowledge) gave,
that time, one
solution that
satisfied to the
“lucid” medieval
heads:
free-will.
According to
this Church
father, closer a
creature is of
God, larger his
intelligence and
your free-will.
And in the use
of their freedom
even the Avatars
of highest hank,
more perfect
creatures of
Almighty, can
freely choose
either the right
or the wrong.
Thereby, the
devil, other not
is else the
light angel
(Lucifer) which
did the wrong
choice. Such
Augustine’s
theory not
overrules in
nowadays when
the Spiritism
comes to explain
to us that the
Spirit not
backtracks.
The imagination
of
st. Augustine
(the man
incarnated in
the middle age,
yet not
illuminated by
the Spiritism
light), goes
further: with
your
philosophical
concept of
LIGHT, (by the
biblical “Fiat
Lux”), locate in
the day lights
the initial
moment of divine
action.
Otherwise, the
night and the
darkness
incorporate the
demoniac hours,
the temporal
period of large
force of evil,
originating the
expression:
“spirit of
darkness”.
This devilish
mythological
figure, pooted
in the bland
salt of tenets
which were
generated in the
barren womb of
the Church,
tried the heyday
of your fame and
glory with st.
Tomas Aquinas
that put it on a
pedestal of
importance such
striking that
your presence in
the religion
rival ends and,
commonly,
overcoming the
God presence,
thus creating a
climate of
terror.
In one preaching
with less than
twelve minutes,
certain
preachers (blind
leading the
blind) mention
the word “devil”
a lot of times,
getting pretty
either weakened
or totally null
the musings on
God and Jesus.
The word deamon,
originating in
classical
Greece, did not
have the modern
connotation of
genius of
darkless
Are necessary
back centuries
in time so we
witnessed the
birth of the
devil, because
already at the
time of Jesus,
according to
appointment by
Mark, the mild
Rabbi was
accused of
partnership with
him when your
enemies said?
“He hath
Beelzebub, and
by the prince of
the devils caste
he out devils “.
The devil is the
anti-hero
engendered in
order to scare
the ignorant
people to have
it submissive to
the absurd
dogmas and
remains the
“status” of the
priestly breed
with his
ancestral
parasitism.
The word daemon,
originating in
classical
Greece, did not
have the modern
connotation of
genius of
darkness.
Reminds us
master Allan
Kardec4
that entry
was not taken
the bad part in
antique just as
we have it
acquaintance in
nowadays, once
it didn’t
designate
exclusively
wicked beings,
but all spirits
in general,
among the ones
which they stood
out the Superior
Spirits called
gods, and the
least high ones,
called demons,
that they
communicated
with the men.
Socrates said to
be intimate of a
“daimon” of who
learned high
philosophical
concepts, and he
claimed that
after the death,
the “daimon”
(protective
spirit) which
had been
designated us
during the life,
would take us to
a place where
they meet all
the ones that
should be driven
Hades, for
judgment.
Allan Kardec was
the careful of
studying this
theme to the
exhaustion in
the chapters IX
and X, 1ª part
of the basic
book: “Heaven
and Hell”, where
with his
habitual one,
slashing and
undeniable
logic, concluded
that the faith
in such a
being’s
existence would
result in the
tragic following
conclusion: God
makes a mistake.
Therefore, we
only can with
the Church,
absurdly gather
that: God is not
foolproof (!?).
“With the mark
of his lucid
reasoning, Allan
Kardec takes us
the root of the
devil’s nursery
when he lifts
the old question
of the Good and
of the Evil. He
says: “As, on
the other hand,
men perceived
the fact of an
incessant
struggle between
good and evil
and saw the
latter
frequently
triumphed over
the former, and
as, on the other
hand, they
couldn't
rationally admit
that evil was
the work of a
beneficent
power, they
naturally
concluded that
there were two
rival powers,
sharing between
them the
government of
the world. It
thence arose
from the
doctrine of the
two principles,
that of good and
that the evil; a
doctrine
reasonable for
the period in
which it took
its rise, for
the human mind
had not then
acquired the
capacity of
conceiving of
anything higher,
and of divining
the existence of
the Supreme
Being as beyond,
and above, the
strife of
opposing
principles.
The
reconignition of
the two
principles of
good and evil
constituted,
during many
ages, the basis
of all the
religious creeds
of the world
How it was
possible that
the men of the
primitive time
should
understand that
evil is only a
passing phase
from which a
greater good is
to be educed,
and that the
evils which
afflict the
human race must
necessarily lead
it on to
happiness, by
compelling it to
move forward on
the path of
progress? The
narrowness of a
man's mental
horizon
prevented him
seeing anything
beyond his
present life,
either before or
behind him; he
could neither
comprehend that
he had already
progressed nor
that he would
continue
progress; still
less could he
see that the
vicissitudes of
life are the
result of the
imperfections of
the spiritual
being which
animates the
body, which is
pre-existent to
and survives his
external form,
and that it is
the destiny of
this being to
refine itself by
passing through
a series of
successive
existences until
it has attained
to the state of
perfect purity.
In order to
comprehend that
good can be
brought out of
evil, it is
necessary to see
more than a
single existence
and to
contemplate the
career of the
soul in its
totality; for it
is only this
broad view of
the matter that
can enable us to
comprehend the
cause and the
effects of the
vicissitudes of
human existence.
The recognition
of the two
principles of
good and evil
constituted,
during many ages
and under
different names,
the basis of all
the religious
creeds of the
world. These two
principles were
personified
under various
names, as
Oromaze and
Ahriman among
the Persians,
Jehovah and
Satan among the
Hebrews, etc.
But as every
sovereign must
have his
Ministers, all
those creeds
admitted the
existence of
secondary
powers, or
genii, of which
some were
supposed to be
good and others
to be evil. The
Pagans
personified
these genii in
an innumerable
multitude of
individualities,
each of who had
his special
attributes of
vice or of
virtue, and all
of who were
classed under
the generic name
of "gods". The
Hebrews
personified
these secondary
powers under the
designations of
"angels" and
"devils", which
have been
subsequently
borrowed from
them by the
Christians and
Muslims.”
It is ended.
Therefore,
easily that the
demons' doctrine
has the origin
in the old faith
of the two
beginnings: The
Good and the
Badly.
On other hands,
the fact that
allowed the
genesis of such
absurd doctrine
it was to total
ignorance that
existed on the
true attributes
of God: Good is
one, unique,
eternal,
unchangeable,
non-material,
almighty,
sovereignty just
and good,
infinite in His
perfections.
Such the axis
around which –
necessarily –
needs to rotate
all and any
concept
philosophical or
doctrinaire that
it wants to
align with the
truth and with
the logic.
Hades acted like
the greek
Divinity that
protected the
thieves and also
kept the flocks
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In one tour in
the history of
the ancient
civilizations
with the
historian
Carlos
Roberto F.
Nogueira, based
in your book
“The Devil in
the Imaginary
Christian” (“O
Diabo no
Imaginário
Cristão”, in the
original), EDUSC,
and in the
company of Sávio
Laterce,
master’s degree
student in
Philosophy by
IFCS-UFRJ, in
one report
published in the
newspaper
“Jornal do
Brasil”, edition
of 30.06.2001,
we can observe
the eternal and
endless fight of
the Evil against
the Good, with
their respective
armies
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and
combat
weapons,
as well
as the
god’s
double
sense
characteristic,
once
between
the
ancient
oriental
people,
a few
gods
already
embodying
destructives
potencies,
negatives,
and –
invariably
– they
carried
the
typical
specificity
of the
logic of
the myth
that
marked
them:
the
ambiguity. |
Baal was, at the
same time, the
Mesopotamian god
of the hurricane
and of the
fecundity. Hades
acted like the
greek divinity
that protected
the thieves and
also kept the
flocks. Apollo,
the greek
divinity of the
beauty, of the
music and of
balance, he dad
his linked
obscure facet to
divination
ritual, to the
clarity lack in
the words and
summary
punishments.
Even the Hebraic
God of the Old
Testament
follows that
same line: It is
good, but only
with that that
is Him good or
nice, owning a
strong side
jealous and
revengeful. The
reason for such
as dichotomy is
not difficult to
foresee: the
reports of
origin of the
Universe in
different
cultures reveal
that is
necessary to
unite
constructive
forces,
organizers, with
diffuse jets in
several
directions for
the
accomplishment
of the task.
The Hebraic
culture that
delegated
inheritance to
the Christian
religion, bathe
in the cultural
broth gushed of
the rich
fountain of the
primitive and
ancestral cults.
“The Jewish
people”, -
explain Laterce6
– “linked for
roots to
Mesopotamia and
to the
polytheism,
defined, around
the century VI
B.C., Yahweh as
only God and the
more perfect
that the gods of
other cultures.
It
pursued
permanently for
Persian,
babylons and
Mesopotamians,
the exterior and
the unknown have
for the hebrew
the threat
character. The
foreigner sees
the place of the
divinities of
second order and
also the
opponent's
territory, that
in hebrew means
satan. But, with
the promise of
the go beyond
and the dualist
concept of two
worlds -
influences of
Persians and
Chaldean - the
notions of
Heaven and Hell
appear, the
marked division
of well and
badly and also
some myths that
narrate the trip
for a world
superior,
celestial...
God is only, but
the badly is
dispersed in an
aggregation of
entities.
(End of the
first part, this
article will be
concluded in the
next edition of
this magazine.)
4. KARDEC,
Allan. The
Gospel According
to Spiritism.
125.ed. Rio [de
Janeiro]: FEB,
2006,
Introdução.
5. KARDEC,
Allan. Heaven
and Hell. 51.ed.
Rio [de
Janeiro]: FEB,
2003, IX, itens
4 a 6.
6. Sávio Laterce
is master degree
in Philosofy by
IFCS-UFRJ.
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