SUSANNA, Fragment 70 
was a time of great and disastrous events that fall short of years, in the privacy of Paul. A couple of years after the death of Mark (who had resisted the overt lung cancer about a year) died in-law: he had passed a dozen different kinds of crisis in its long existence, and each time giving the feeling of having arrived. This time it did not make it. He died of cardiac arrest during a complex surgical operation for the inevitable bad fracture of the left femur. He was ninety and two months. The disappearance of the old
revolutionized domestic life of Paul and Rina. It is not "fighting" with more carers, more or less disappointing (one for day and night, in recent times), the worry was gone to the health of mind and possible accidents that the weak but resourceful assistance could get out sneak in the short interval between the end of care during the day and the beginning of the night (when some of Rina commitment prevented her cover). The latter was entrusted to a young Bulgarian immigrant, the wife of an industrious fellow, and mother of two boys, a male and a female adolescents modern spirits, forced to live at home with an old grandmother. A tireless worker, he, but undocumented, because of "engagement" which required the "black" without scruple or mercy. Then, in a precarious situation of the family, the fear of being hunted. Situation that involves the majority of immigrants in the Balkan Sicania. Even if, in fact, local authorities let it pass. But who can rule out a burst of zeal in the Roman palaces, and thus the related revival of forced idleness local?
Another consequence of the death was not Rina longer control the supply of money to the father's generous hand, the temptation to add too rhapsodic extra compensation to the routine of those greedy miser commitment to women welfare. And above all, the strong bond that had disappeared nailed both spouses to the country and its exhausting liturgies of the everyday mundane. Rina, the two, was the most "liberated" (but woe to tell him) he found himself suddenly free to take a trip which was very important. A journey from the high-sounding name: Lourdes. Why not with you "was" her husband?
Paul is not persuaded: he would not be accompanied. As interested as an amateur cultural anthropology and religious history, that mega-tonitruante demonstration of human misery to glory, he did not think to make it: its too responsive neurons. How to hold the huge spectacle dell'irrimediabilià bankruptcy of the species? Or, even, the weight of hard to move from one corner of the immense physical space of the pandemic superstitious, and above the carnage? The curious thing was that an old aunt of Paul, soaked in very sincere fervor and superstition of miracles has long besieged the reprobate nephew because he convert. Visas useless his tales of wondrous sacrament, had focused on the effect Lourdes, and insisted that his nephew "good" and generous, though stubborn, that would make a trip to Mecca. Whose history, in fact, tells of many conversions. More in 92 years that good woman returned certainties armored battleship of the siege: seriously feared that hell could swallow that "kind heart". Paul resisted denied, but encouraged Rina went without him, there was nothing wrong with that. At the next opportunity would be attended by two cousins \u200b\u200bof his mother (a long association with Rina's family) could not be lacking, therefore, good company. Rina And, after hesitation in assorted colors, had been convinced.
few months after the death of his father, the now-old woman was leaving, and tending to the peaceful enjoyment of some kind of miracle would have been to Lourdes, the holy place on the coveted decades, the expectation of an experience "sublime" a desire delayed in its performance, but very much alive. Perhaps more than when he was thirty years younger and a few years you desire. Travel quiet, hard sweet seduction of places and landscapes. The phone calls received from this adventure were Paul trills of joy: Rina lived in full rapture. The only regret, he said, it was not beside her, disbelieving husband that: who knows, maybe the magic of the place, its ecstatic crowds of beggars have shaken his heart wounded by the world's ills. " But no, it was not possible Rina believe this nonsense: he knew too well to pretend that he could sell to a sirenuccia so helpless. Those delirious masses, if anything, would strengthened his religious idiosyncrasy, if a sigh could still be added to its non-religion evidence infinite, the sublime spectacle of the "crowds" in vain imploring trance would have loved. She herself ran the shot: it meant that the masses of suffering and resistance of the petitioners would still have moved humanely. And this was a real possibility: seeing is not exactly as imagined, the perception has a greater impact from any reconstructive imagination. As well as direct vision, carnal and physical, has moved even more evidence of the images and colors and sounds of film, television, the new hi-tech magic, Internet dopant and wide range of values. See, and near the bodies and the faces of the enchantment of the Great Lie that humanity would have dealt a different hand in the stomach, on a "value added" of angry pity for the fate of the vast "meat Lost: lost to truth, hydro evidence multipolar The empathic compassion, intellectual honesty and morality itself much heralded. Lost in exchange for a raving drug addict that enhances comfort and is excited to pay the bill salty that many times in vain was denounced by a few "visionaries" pitiful. Among them Paul put in a position of eminence multiple Tilman Moser, the psychoanalyst in a slim pamphlet which told the adventure of his left squassante theoretical dependence, announced guessed from the title, "Poisoned by God" (Feltrinelli). Many passages of the indictment against the relentless sadism pathogen precocious mystical plagiarism, careful to the extreme religious minutiae of intoxication, are transcribed in the pages of his latest diaries diary. This misty breeze of semipensieri is derived from the notes of Paul.
And he did not know, he never imagined, that déraciné ongoing, he had feared even in the most remote wandering thought, that on this very holy place, that the full faith and filial trust in the maternal Madonna powerless, that fortress of divine protection for thousands of years rejected the reality of illusion and self-propelled dell'imbroglio resurgent, has offered evidence to the disciple, the maximum (although, for him, unnecessary) proof of the absence of any Olympus, the endless void of metaphysical all those starry skies, overflowing with nuclear infernos. Did not need it, the person baptized in the name of the great converts on the road to Damascus as he does not need any true cleric of the naked truth: but quell'ennesima test was special, was one of those rather than mathematical proofs, which should put an end forever any illusion about the "regiment of the divine world." Or, as has been preaching in his endless wanderings in vain for the cruel earth soaked in religion, the pope superstar in recent years, about what he calls "the design of a merciful God."
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from the various stages of the long journey by bus (overnight stays in Rome and Turin) had come to Paul calls reassuring: everything was going as anticipated and in line with the pious (and tourist) expectations. Finally, from the kind of Mecca Catholic came the first call, and then the other, which you mentioned: Rina radiated ecstatic joy of his life's dream was reality, the "miracle", returned every year for decades, s' was done. Paul said, happy for her. And while thinking of how these massive doses of amphetamines religious mystical euphoria drowned all his objections to that time, little or propter nihil, which they could enter the heart resistant of his wife.
And here, at a given step of the precise time, a date set by unpredictable alien minds, the unprecedented explosion. The unimaginable. The impossible. A suicide bomber blows himself up in a crowd of pilgrims in the great temple. A massacre. News confused paced, fragmented, then gradually less vague, more condensed on the facts. Televisions crazy behind the sensational event. All interrupted their programs to the schedule, to make way for a series of television news in a special edition focused sull'inedito horror. The growing anxiety of Paul, in the hours of lens absurd summer evening, with the sum of the parts in the subsequent Tg. It was impossible that we could know the names of victims that night, but you already gave the amounts likely to be of immediate deaths and nationality of the injured: the victims were in the hundreds, but the amount was destined to grow. Among them were many Italians. It seemed that the bomber is close to the Italian groups from various parts of Italy.
In such cases, you know, the tendency autodifensiva urges the parties concerned, and in fact the relatives of possible victims, to seek refuge with hope in probability, heard in its most raw and naive: my wife just "had" to happen be close to the crowds? Just my daughter, my son, my grandchildren should have found near the crime? And so away, in the run of hope, and maybe the miracle exclusive. Paul was not a naive, but even he evaded the general fever. And when he learned that Rina was among the victims, he collapsed. The presence of children, the first news of the disaster would not let him alone, he avoided the conventional worse.
* In the days of slow recovery, after a short hospital stay in the Presidio of Realpolia, Paul followed with his sons and daughter-in-law, the phases of the long ordeal, the recognition of the public body at the funeral, from the messages of state authorities and wear religious rhetoric but still sprightly and revitalized cars, not for nothing catalyzed on TV. Suffered the usual tivvù indiscreet interview on local and national. Interviewer, strangely aware of his identity as a writer, publicist and so retired professor, asked him why he, a non-believer, has tried to prevent that fateful trip. Human stupidity really is no limit. The "strangeness" of information about their condition atheist was canceled by another unknown interviewer, who notifies the respondent to be found in various websites and have their books bought and read the volume on the French Enlightenment materialism: clear Thus, the reason for his absence from Lourdes.
* When they returned
less frantic days, Paul wrote some reflection, taking up the habit almost given up "diary on the agenda." Here are extracts from, paraphrased or "whole." Facts and figures. Ninety-five dead, two hundred and thirteen injured. Mode of death: fifty "inside" the explosion, the rest of the panic caused in the terrible, the mad rush to the salvation that is turned upside down in the tunnel of death, dozens of men and women, more or less old, died crushed by the maddened mass . And even choked him into crowd: it was not difficult, many of the elders had already locked in the clutches of miserable flesh some illness, especially of the heart. And the wounded, too, for the most part, products of amalgam hell. A phenomenon regularly repeated occasions of collective panic: how many times the news it had recorded the horror from one year to another, from one occasion: the football stadium, pilgrimages to Mecca (often bloody squander by panic murderess), fire in theaters and movies ... "A rough summation of all these accidents also would give a total comparable to the carnage of World War II with an average conventional weapons. But to go around saying that the greater part of this carnage lies with the religious suggestions ... Who knows where it stands, the long poem (a 'song Leopardi': mix of seven-and eleven-syllable) who wrote the most tragic Accident targati Mecca, one of the tunnel (over a thousand deaths, if I remember correctly) "
* In one of those days reflux normalizing with Paul happened to look in a TV service on Lourdes, richly detailed, self-interested nonsense . More than the hallucination of the girl Bernadette Soubirou and easy credit bivalent (natural-white, hairy-project), I was struck by the enormous success of the mercantile speculation planted on fertile ground that fateful suggestion: astonishing figures fluttered together vessili 's absurd and all too realistic calculations: 230 hotels of various levels (for all heights mama's boy of the good and fervent believers), 700 million visitors a century and a half, a huge market, fragmented in various positions and locations, 67 miracles (appena!) recognized by the Church Marple prominent conservative and figuring in lavish cunning, over thousands or millions of miraculous claims. And so on going up. Countless cases of conversion units (if not 'miraculous'). For example, that John the Baptist Tomasi (1903) goes to Lourdes and back turned desperate, full of faith, hope and charity. And he founded the institution of humanitarian assistance to patients still in vogue in florida productivity. But they are, above all, their people, the sick, the crippled, the semi-moribund material anthropic more astounding: Nearly everyone returns to their homes with the same illness, but most refreshed by the faith, hope of heavenly reward, active resignation. That comes to push some to bless the suffering personal and universal. No, no wonder: is the usual inversion of reality, removing the usual comforting, the usual, secular, eternal "funny mystery" of the human soul. So clear, however, to do just impotent rage: the average man, with a grain of illusion dopant is able to deny all the evidence, to mask any brutality and horror, to say, even proclaim, even (as that scoundrel of populating present at the massacre of schoolchildren earthquake in San Giuliano Molise) that "the Lord has wanted to bring to heaven, "those innocents slain by human bastardy, which had built the school out of any anti-seismic regulations. That tender meat had become, according to the infamous exalted, a flock of sweet angels.
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again Paul notes: a 'most recent agenda, which justifies a long transcript segmented as an example and proof of what can be the inability to homo medius to accept the inevitability of biological death. This is a piece of the most successful, congested, uneven, but at times romaziere intriguing novel of Italian-American Don DeLillo, White Noise, and exactly the verbiage of his central character while running around the corridors of a seductive supermarkt:
"This place us under the spiritual charge, prepares us, is a step or transition. look how bright. It 'full of supernatural figures. / / My wife smiled at him . / / ─ Everything is concealed in symbolism, hidden by veils of mystification and layers of cultural material. But it is undoubtedly data supernatural. Large sliding doors open and close spontaneously. Energy waves, incident radiation. And then there are letters and numbers, all the colors of the spectrum, all the voices and noises, all the code words and phrases conventional. It 'only a matter of deciphering, recombine, removing layers of impronunciabilità. Not that this is the case, not that it might lead to any useful purpose. This is not Tibet. Nor, Tibet has more than once. / / I went to examine the profile of Babette, who put the yogurt in the cart. / / ─ Tibetans try to see death for what it is. That is the end of attachment to things. A simple truth, but hard to understand. However, once it has ceased to deny death, you can proceed calmly to die and then face the experience of the rebirth of the uterus, or the afterlife giudaicocristiano, or OBE, or a trip on a UFO, or as we like to call. And we can do with clarity of vision, without awe or fear. We should not cling to life artificially, or even death. Do not do anything but move towards the sliding doors. Waves and radiation. Looks like everything is well lit. This place is sealed, enclosed in itself. E 'timeless. Another reason why I think of Tibet. Dying in Tibet is an art. There comes a priest, sits down, tells the weeping relatives to leave and the room is sealed. Doors and windows, all sealed. He has serious things to do. Chants, numerology, horoscopes, recitations. Here we die, we shop, but the difference is less marked than you think.
* Who was the bomber, and what the meaning of the attack? He discussed long, and even now, years later, different interpretations contend the field. The suicide bomber was a surprise to the square, mounted on a logistical improbability almost impossible in practice. It was not a man, a young man, a mother's maiden martyrs of chicken incubators poisoned by a God of convenience, not a bloody robot was assembled by ideological leaders-decided to pack everything against the Great Enemy. She was a woman, a French-Algerian, that is, a young Algerian family "naturalized" by a couple of generations. Some academics and media ponzatori wanted to connect the "crazy act" with the previous year, and especially later, Islamic terrorism, which in the mid-nineties or so, was neither well nor widely expanded so well characterized and fiercely determined against the West rich and arrogant bully in a word Satan. Indeed, crusader. Others have used evidence gathered from investigations of various agencies (police intelligence, etc..) Countries affected by the attack: France, in the first place, then Italy, Spain, Algeria. The clues lead, according to their interpretation, a satanic cult (as adjective and obsessively lucky applicant in the illustrious history murderous human imbecility!) Somehow brings me to what in the Sixties, and more in the seventies and eighties with regurgitation and code in these nineties, made noise with their murder-suicide mass murders and horribly spectacular. Among them, the grim murder-mockery dell'incantevole actress Sharon Tate by Charles Manson Satanist, with the simultaneous slaughter consumed in the home of director Roman Polansky, a former husband of Sharon (I remember with a shudder the "semi-insane" horror film "Please do not bite on the neck", 1967, which had a leading role "the angelic Sharon"). It
rant a lot, in the first days by the attack: the connection to the Manson blurred fueled speculation and other influences: it came to stir the dismal history of "Manson" contagious, pulling the ball (only suspected?) Links between the rock ' n 'roll and Satanism, and even some Beatles music and his (yes, completely nonsense alleged) evil encrypted messages. Manson was the same in his testimony in court, to mount this dance: the music of the Beatles, particularly Paul McCartney and John Lennon, contained hidden messages of death, and a special, unique, these had led him, with irresistible force compelling, horrific crime. The piece was directly charged with the famous "Helter Skelter", composed by McCartney, and included (so I read a story in the Internet) "in the beautiful White Album of the Fab Four" (published in November of '68). Other high-risk nonsense claimed that "reading" in the sense of rotation inverted discs of the old rock will flow the famous demonic messages. Same phenomenon would occur for certain compilations of the Beatles. Nor is it resisted the temptation to repeat the gruesome history of atrociously premature deaths of so many rockers of widely known (so-called "Curse of J-27): Brian Jones, the" precursor ", indeed the initiator of the macabre series, died on July 3, 1969, drowned in his swimming pool (someone pointed out, with malice esoteric, the coincidence with the first human landing on the moon: the same year, the same month), Jimi Hendrix, overdose, "suffocated by his own vomit" (1970); Janis Joplin, the "lady of rock, regarded as the greatest interpreter of the historical rock-blues (1970); to finish with the great Jim Morrison, crushed of a heart attack in his bathtub (July 3, 1971). Unless you want to recall Jeff Buckley drowned in 1994, to recall the importance of water as an esoteric element of interpretation fatal and common denominator of these "anomalous deaths".
July 1969: the associative law for conjunction temporal event draws up to that month and year. the "conquest of the moon." The pot pourri Evénementiel makes undisturbed. Neither at that July 29 of euphoria and science fiction, the imperial slaughter Vietnamese restless: trifles before the realized dream of John Kennedy, six years after his assassination, with the passing of the USSR in the space race, after the shock of Sputnik in the chain years '57-59. Robert Kennedy, he, like his brother the President in Dallas, impallinato to death the year before? Vagaries of history: rest in peace with the other martyrs of good ideas. The "landing" on the old satellite, and star in this millennia of poetry (and religions), spread balm on the wounds of history and America rode again a leader in science-technology coupled seductive. The "American dream" come back to gallop. And one also thinks Ecclesiastes: Vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas (auctore Thanatos). *
As the investigation of news and information accumulates, the purely religious confirmation. The sect to which they seem associated with the two female suicide bombers would have planned a series of attacks shows that making clear the power of the 'only true Lord of the world, "Satan, in fact. Attacks on Christian places of worship, above the prevailing and powerful Catholic version, is extremely rich in holy places and sacred sites of massive gathering. Are likely to emerge, and indeed expects, as an inevitable natural event of the forthcoming review, an attack on Medjugorje. And perhaps others to St. James of Compostela, San Giovanni Rotondo. And so on forecasting, including chills of fear and excitement, sado-masochistic. Others commented on a cryptic proclamation of the sect, and threatened action against all three "major monotheistic religions."
Medjugorje, San Giovanni Rotondo, as a bit 'all the great sites of the massive gathering of the "faithful souls" is still, as we write, at the peak of the interest the Vatican and the media. But the Balkan site is the most controversial. That miracles do not stop talking of yet another lady that has created a billion-dollar business by raising worries many in the mother of all authentication of the most colossal lies (idest, religious truth). In the Vatican is still hesitates to legitimize quell'imbroglio that sparked a conflict between not cured the Bishop of Mostar and the degenerate children of a San Francisco betrayed, inventors and operators of casual-caca megatruffa money. Insignificant has run a remote village in congested downtown Sacramento inflated tourist trade with fifty hotels and amenities for every budget. A replica, even smaller (but give it time!) Of hydro Lourdes. The Holy See's niche is with the bishop, and not wait states. The conflict lie-in, but the blessed and Boeotian mass believer if he gives thought to those still brancheggiare fights, hopes and delusions, chewing, feeding the only effectual worship (she said Sciascia) practiced: that of Mammon. Resolved, however, the question of the site and context Padre Pio. Beatified, the brother of Petralcina swarms in statues of any size and material similarity (up to unintentional caricatures) for each corner of Sicania and perhaps with less emphasis just alive, all of Italy. Here again, a roaring trade. And prayer groups, pilgrimages, medical and apotropaic paths of hope, and this and that and everything else. Paul Rina thought that it would like a trip to Medjugorje, nodding from time to time, vague factual possibilities and difficulties. *
The bomber had fake paralytic and moved sitting in his wheelchair, pushed by an accomplice. Which had departed with an excuse just minutes before the explosion, and was remote controlled from a safe distance, the explosion of the belt of fake paralytic. Perhaps they expected a climax of the rite. It was saved, the bomber of the remote control, taking refuge in a sheltered corner the great temple.
few months after the massacre the configuration of the event is "logically" defined. To make a significant contribution to the completeness of the picture was the woman from the remote control in a video sent to the famous Arab television Al Jazeera. The cult of the aggressor is called "The Brides of Satan." A kind of prophet-priestess of nationality is not clear when he created his theology upside down with an anti-annexed theodicy, assisted by the ever holy man, the only male tolerated within the sect. An old guru who calls himself, and says the "throat of the holy Satan," is sitting alone in a shelter is accessible to the privileged few, who use it and (they say) there are coupled alternately in small sacred orgies used to periodically recharge the very active "battery" operation. The source of this news? O sources? Vague, nebulous, remote from any possibility of verification of type "western". At least for now. The "network" there wallowing in gluttonous.
the theologia Satanist, claiming the unity and oneness of the Almighty Sovereign ipercosmica intergalactic, and criticizing other religions as counterfeit wisdom of the one lying and contradictory, denies (obviously, we would say) that ours is the Leibnizian and Panglossian " best of all possible worlds. " The followers, the followers rather (if you want to exclude dall'aritmetica massive quell'extra absolute count that out is the super-guru), reject any ethical judgments on the carnage junkie terrestrial biology (inclusive of the entire biogamma, the minimum bacteria to man), swear an unsuspecting Nietzsche's "yes" to his many "nonsense" sadistic and mock religions "boniste. Indeed, they say, imitation-boniste, hypocritical and cowardly really just ready to turn in the facts and the sweet gentleness in the works of acclaimed values. And also to ignore the secret spring of their "good works" means selfishness of the hyperbolic claim a prize of eternal life salvation from death ridiculous acts of renunciation and easy charity. In the controversy stands the survey stressed the contradictions which surround other religion and theology: from the ancient and polytheistic to monotheistic successvi, which are the 'last man pervert shame. " That God Almighty and infinitely good and merciful that produces (as the First Cause), the endless cruelty of the world (and in particular of human history, this endless series of inventions and sadistic practices stragista no distinction between adults and infants guilty innocent) is a masterpiece of absurdity as ridiculous as deadly. The theologian says that Satan is the same only to play with the mind of man, to shoot him enormity illogical and commit atrocities without measure. The evidence of the stored millennia, the life of the plant required to produce death and suffering to feed and consist of the titanic destructive power of natural scourges (from pestilence to seismic upheaval, famine and flood disasters volcanic) and everything reveals the power of the "King of Kings" astral teaches the only truth in the world . Who recognizes and accepts it has a good chance of escape. Who has the best fights for the Absolute Truth, and still more who sacrifices his life to demonstrate the power of the one God superinfero. The faithful Word of the new prophets have learned from their serial and the Great Satan redo them whole and better immediately after the explosion that shatters them spreading death, a sublime witness to the power supreme and unique. Not only reconstructs them improved, but rewarding them in distant worlds of every delight. On these sites there will be no astral silly trumpets playing the vain glory of false worship and irreparable harm from six billion faithful variously distributed among the various "churches", but will enjoy all the pleasures that human beings, male and female , craves in his relentless carnality holistic decided immense act of creation. Which, we understand from what has been said so far, only a complex toy approntatosi by the artist ever to his mysterious reasons that will, perhaps, as clarified in the second life, if those who will be earned. The Creator is not the Demiurge, and graduated from the bad image philosopher Cioran, (or from the ultra-pessimistic Caraco) and, we have said, the banal oxymoron of the monotheistic religions (the massacres that makes infinitely good and hell to scare the faint of head): it is - they say the evidence terrestrial and celestial - a Super Body absolute, beyond of our good and evil, kindness and cruelty, generosity and denial. But it can be good and very bad, generous or stingy pleased, everything, in short, and its opposite. In the most absolute freedom or necessity (the two conditions in him and him alone, are identical). Enabling him to take any form and embodied in every avatar and playfully multiplied by its unique and secret "fun." It 'obvious to think that not disdain to burrow into the brains of great historical murderers, perhaps leaving the common murderers and torturers of their "freedom" of robots cytology. Organized criminals, pedophiles on any condition, sex and social status, and sadistic serial killers do, together, the thick category, widely spread around the planet. It still thrives. Less populated sub-category of casual killers: mothers and fathers who kill their children to improvise outbursts of aggression motivated, and vice versa, thieves and kidnappers, and so celebrating the triumph of evil whimsical. But then, the Divine Satan, strictly speaking, is in all things, animate or not.
does not seem to work miracles, as they are defined as non-believers (ie, all the believers of other religions), but certain singularity by physicists reported border seem to have the air. Probably this aspect of the mystery will be cleared "over there" in Elsewhere neglecting reserved saved (ie a minority of elected officials). "Elsewhere" is not out of this world (as mentioned above) but in some of its secret corners of all materials. Questions such as "the world is uni-or multi-verse?" , Means, or no, the infamous ID, intelligent design, and the like, are dismissed as meaningless futility: given the infinite power of the Great Satan, those distinctions and concerns do not make sense. Since there is no Who or what might limit the inventive genius of the Supreme, is absolutely prohibited (because it's ridiculous) give it a unique anthropomorphic face (much less physical and morphological). The reason is that the Mighty may take, and in fact assumes (though not always recognizable sites), an endless variety of "faces". Who, then, are those concerning: that is, in our miserable relationship with the seductive horror of 'absolute Olon.
We talked about new believers and the faithful, but must be added and noted that males and females are clearly separated as religious. Their meetings were always mono-sexual, their rituals idem. Not only that, but the faithful males with "priests" have a female superguru: with which mate rirualmente, as the priestesses do with the old guru and inaccessible to outsiders. *
Paul, in some of his notes, note the similarity of these new and extravagant visions teocosmiche with certain ancient mythologies, particularly the Middle East remotely. Similarities of inputs and essence, not of forms and details, where the enormous diversity of scientific knowledge the new mark. I read this passage from the great ethnologist Joseph Campbell: "Let's go back to the ancient Sumerians of 3500 BC seals [...] and remember their symbolism of a deity that is generated by itself and that is immanent in all things. We observe that This idea is essentially the same as theology of Memphis, Ptah for which is 'in every body and every mouth of all gods, of all people, of all animals, all the beasts that creep and of any living being'. "(" The Masks Eastern Mythology of God, "Oscar Mondadori, 1991, p.133)
Campbell is also the author of the 'Hero of a Thousand Faces," where it is shown, with the usual wealth of detail documented the convergence of these faces in the frame a monomyth. "And in parallel across cultural anthropology from Frazer to Levi-Strauss, he discovers another constant of the religious feel-think: the human sacrifice. Paul wrote repeatedly in his essays in anthropology (the seventies, with "straschichi" the early eighties) that human sacrifices have not stopped for even one day in any of the religions. Not excluding the "great monotheistic religions." You are only masked and coated differently. But this is not the place to dwell on such thorny issue. We add only that the student assimilates (partially, but significantly) the "great religions" to the strong ideologies and all forms of fanaticism, passion of belief and practice that is addictive, more or less absolute and suffocating.
Among the notes of Paul I of this transcript from the mythical-historical novel by Paul Coelho, "The Fifth Mountain" (translation by Rita Desti, RCS Libri:
"Prologo.All 'beginning of the year 870 BC, a nation known as Phoenicia, which Israel called Lebanon, celebrating almost three centuries of peace. Its inhabitants could well be proud of their businesses: they were not politically strong, had been forced to develop an enviable ability to trade, the only way to ensure its survival in a world ravaged by constant war. Entered into an alliance around 1000 BC with King Solomon of Israel had allowed them to modernize the merchant fleet and expanding trade. Since then, the Phoenicians had never stopped growing. [...] Earlier in the year 870 BC, in a faraway place called Nineveh, was renumbered a council of war. A group of Assyrian general had decided to send their armies to conquer nations along the coast on the Mediterranean Sea. Phoenicia was chosen as the first country to invade. / Early in the year 870 BC, two men hiding in a stall Gi Gilead, Israel, waiting to die within hours. / / "First Part. 'I serve a Lord who now abandons me in the hands of my enemies,' said Elias. / 'God is God,' said the Levite. 'He said to Moses, it was good or bad. He said only: I am. He is therefore all that exists under the sun, the lightning that destroys the house, and the hand of man that rebuilds' "*
Needless to insist on clear consonance with what has been written above, also on theology Satanist. In short, diverse and distant sources, including measurement of centuries and millennia, religious nationalism converge in combining a grim and ruthless with a latent pantheism, in a way that respects the harsh reality. As if the two aspects of religiosity were aimed at different times and occasions, as if to avoid the emergence of their risky inherent contradiction. The coherence of national and ethnic exclusivism theological matters, the necessity of understanding the divine comforter should expand to the whole cosmos-chaos, where even despair can tip into hope and confidence. "Can," but not "must" necessarily means the tribal exclusivism, in fact, tends to prevail: colonizes the same latent pantheism and transforms it into drugs that mediates the uptake of the absurd more horror.
On another page, calendar, diary-Paul Elias returns to the conversation with the Levite and transcribes the lament
"Talking was the only way to dispel fear. At any moment the soldiers would open the the barn door where they were, they would be discovered and offered them the only choice possible: worship Baal, the Phoenician god, or be sentenced to death. They were searching house by house, converting or candannando to death the prophets. / Perhaps the Levite would become and that she escaped death. But Elijah had no choice: everything was happening because of him, and Jezebel wanted anyway his death. / / 'It was an angel of the Lord to make me talk to King Ahab and tell him that it would not rain until Baal was worshiped in Israel', he said, almost begging forgiveness for having listened to the words of the angel. 'But God acts slowly, and when the drought will begin to take effect, the Princess Jezebel will already have destroyed those who are faithful to the Lord' / The Levite said nothing. Baal was considering whether to convert or die in the name of the Lord. / / 'Who is God?' Elijah went. 'It is not He who holds the sword of the soldier who kills those who do not betray the faith of our patriarchs? E 'was he who put a foreign princess on the throne of our country so that all these misfortunes could happen to our generation? God kills the faithful, the innocent, those who follow the law of Moses? ' / / The Levite made his decision: he would rather die. At that point he began to laugh, because the idea of \u200b\u200bdeath frightened him more. He turned to the young prophet to his side and tried to reassure him: 'ask it to him, because I doubt its decisions'. 'I accepted my destiny now' / 'The Lord can not wish that we all are mercilessly slaughtered,' said Elijah. / / 'God can do anything. If it were limited to do only what we call Well, we could not call it omnipotent. He would dominate only part of the universe, and there is someone more powerful than him, supervising and judging his actions. In that case, I'd love someone more powerful trick that '/ /' If he can do anything, why not save from suffering those who love him? Why not save us, instead of giving power and glory to His enemies? ' / / 'I do not know,' said the Levite. 'But there is a reason, and I hope to meet you soon'. / / 'You do not have any answers for this question.' / / No, I do not have. "
* And so, for thousands of years, and made at the discretion of sophistry, paradoxes and violations of decency and empirical logic, the 'homo credens accepted any horror to the Holocaust. And if you did not answer for certain grim inconsistencies, patience, waiting, confident that, maybe in another life, God gives it to him. Neither the crowd evidence that such a powerful, half or whole pantheistic, becoming, in this hump logic, the direct author of Hitler and his executioners, Genghis Kahn and his warriors, who cooked live prisoners of war. And were able to exterminate the entire population of any of Beijing's happened to win. And so on, in the immensity of the alleged cruel creation.
"God can do anything," "God is everything": how to distinguish, then, the alleged metaphysical enemy, Satan, ruler defeated, according to the vulgate foolish, sovereign worthy of admiration of the ink decadent artists and poets. According to a mythical logic, of course, but less stupid than the Bible. Where the contradiction more obscene triumphs with wings spread, including indiscriminate killings and atrocities pressing, and the sorrow of devotees kneeling covers the bloody sadism of all religions. The worst is that Coelho is careful not to denounce the scandal of the ethical and Aletha ontological confusion between God and the individual national prespinoziano pantheistic god, we find that since the earliest religious ideas. Our Elia could have objected to the Levite in that God Almighty could not see an opponent of Baal, the Lord and Baal would be the same and the same thing, very same monstrous caprice. A conclusion that, in different ways and under different conditions, but with mythical monolithic logic has been taken from various Satanic cults and similar experiences as extravagant.
