The only previous reviewed by the large national and foreign press were of the kind mentioned: satanic sects or abstruse stupid flower in the jungle of excess brain (Remember, too, are the "Beasts of Satan" and "Children of Satan", with their ritual murder, which agitated the multi-media news for so long). O phenomenology of satanic rock, the chemistry between drugs and external iterations obsessive rhythms and sounds from dopants, for biochemical pathway sought "out of bounds." A Taste
Paul came to the rescue a previous more remote. And most important: the witches. They were not the "Bride of Satan"? Wives, lovers, concubines, seduced victims: as the difference between these distinctions laughable human conventionalism socializing? But yes, they were the first bride of Satan, those intense anthropological figures double face, and then tragically triumphant first defeat: the old women of Satanism by too many roots and masks.
In her "daily adventure" (used this formula, sometimes with a touch of irony that involves the use) of teacher (he avoided, in private, the pompous professor's name or, worse, a professor) of history, Paul seized the opportunity to read several times, even to read to students, under his leadership selective pages of the witch trials. Starting with its second class high schools, where we study the relevant historical periods of grim and murderous religious intolerance stragista. Experiment is not without teeth effects on the audience of women and men. In the first, more excited horror, perhaps from halo sigh of relief for the times changed, and raised in solidarity with those wafers fabricated by the ferocity of human flesh burning from superstition. In the other, less empathy and compassion with a little wary of the temptation of some stupid idiot laugh on the horrific details of that torture, impalement, pulling the breasts in fiery tongs, pierced with needles all over the naked body, looking for imagined Dot insensitive ", allegedly a sign of possession diabolical. And like filth of homo religiosus in a cassock with authority of life and death to helpless victims. And to think that if he had a sense of that expression, which could not adapt to the desires of those with sadistic torturing a license to kill. *
school was not without even reading personal reflections of the famous essay by historian Jules Michelet "The Witch", a masterpiece, for Paul, beautiful, vivid, colorful writing (and even slipped in some "syncopated") as well as a wealth of tidbits from the strong emotional impact. The criticisms of the book suffers from some academy causidica fussiness and poor literary taste (Often, then, ideological and biased) do not limit their merits, his eyes Loic well-fed of cultural anthropology. It was just a charming romantic-literary invention, his "Witch, not even in its excesses of witnesses? Paul did not think so, and considered valid, in principle, the reconstruction (shared by Franco Fortini) of that figure as a very dramatic response to the endless violence of the feudal system on the rural classes and the blasphemous Catholic Church's complicity with the Castle of the Lords, overbearing and cruel. Think of too many chores, in Droit de seigneur, then tacit and sometimes overt, "right understanding" that it was suspending a precarious un'indifesa extreme of all possessions of the peasant serf as semi-free. Including his wife and daughters. A better detail, just add the exhaustion of faith in the figures of the religion tax. Neither Christ nor God Almighty or Madonnas or saints, observed the victims of the "system" never gave readable signs of benevolent power presence there. They were, the victims, torch in the grip of daily distress and suffering, or are noted in the main target of the great scourges of disasters, plagues and / or famine, hurricanes or volcanic fury: the prayers offered sacrifices before the altars of humble field of huts, or marble, and jeweled splendor of cathedrals pandering, remained sterile gestures deluded and impotence in the face of coercive illusion applicant mute icons.
And then he listened attentively to the residues of the old paganism, never completely off. They were devils and devils those of the glorious, magnificent temples of inhabitants (as he had downgraded the Church)? The poor peasant woman, alone in the house, not sure of being able to keep intact for the scorned husband who breaks his back over the greedy sod, a tickling feeling of curiosity to get those little tempting (children, elves, goblins ...). I like maybe they send out the flames of the hearth a persuasive voice: "You called me? Here I am, "or" Call me and I'll make you happy. " Resist now hold on tomorrow, exacerbated by growing deafness Olympians in office, the woman ends up to listen to the tempter eslege. It 's so beautiful, so compelling: it appeared in the most unexpected ways and times. The malnutrition of the brain lights up to show stereoscopic vision, and long lonely foster illusions and hallucinations. Incidentally, we now know that it is enough to cause an excess of dopamine visions, voices, flashes of compelling reality of mandatory relief. It slides into the "why not?" Groped of it is so bad to practice with Sonny appetizing? From this hypothetical source is far away will come to an expert in herbs and healing potions, the classic witch, the Sabbath, boundary potted s In short, the "pact with the Devil." But (to alert the expert) must not do so many different flowers and a sun deck of various root uniform and many differences between one type and another of the same figure are resistant to standard level of comfort or of lazy simplification operated by various scholars. And yet here will be allowed a rate of less scrupulous grim ethnological and historical. Dando, among others, assume that the phenomenon was not, in any era, massive, but still a minority: as they expand over time.
* In notes left by Paul Michelet stagnate many passages of the transcripts (the edition Bur, 1977) sometimes as epigraphs, in the pages of a diary. Here are a few.
"I do not believe, as the monks would have told us that witchcraft, the pact with Satan was a rash shot, a lover, a glutton. Common sense, nature makes us realize that it was a last resort, having lost all other hope, who landed under the tremendous pressure of the infamy and misery. "
When they were forbidden by the rulers (or not comforted by the complicity of church) The private wars among the great men (and only lay mica), these bloodthirsty sons of Mars transmigrated in Christ from abusive proud, he vented on the subject: lower-ranking vassals, peasants 'free' and serfs. Referring to France, Michelet writes: "Over eighty, a hundred years that separate this prohibition by the wars with the British (1240-1340), the lords, deprived of the usual pastime, no longer able to burn, pillage the land of the neighbor, vented on their vassals. This peace was a war for them. / / A reading of ecclesiastical lords, lords of the monks, etc. [...] shudder. And 'the nasty fresco of a raging wild, barbaric. The men threw themselves monks especially on nunneries. The austere Rigault, confessor of the holy king, archbishop of Rouen, in person leads an investigation into the condition of Normandy. Every evening comes at a monastery. Everywhere, these monks live the high life feudal armed, drunk, fight, rage hunting for all fields, whether to shake the religious in a chaotic mixture, put them everywhere pregnant. / / This is the Church. And then lay lords? As they were in those gloomy towers, look with such terror from the valley? "Michelet
Here we refer to two famous stories" that are without doubt two stories, "" Bluebeard "and" Griselda ". And the grim cruelty of the most tragic story of a pedophile, "Gilles de Retz, predator of children," the only one to have undergone a process, and how late in the fifteenth century. " The literature is often unequal to the reality, the damping, the author almost hard to believe him capable of some horrors. "The Knight of the most famous novel by Walter Scott," Ivanhoe "," becomes a creature weak and very artificial. The author has had the courage to face the nasty reality of the celibacy of the Temple, and of him who reigned in the castle. We admitted a few women were unproductive mouths. "The implication can be inferred from just said. About the surrogate for forbidden wars between equals "The Witch" evokes the climate of brutal anarchy
"no more raids of the war on neighboring lands, but hunting, and hunting the man, I mean endless harassment, slander to the families of servants. The Lord knew that such a mass of men without women would not remain quiet if not triggering a while. / The odious idea of \u200b\u200ba hell where God takes some wicked soul, the more guilty, to torture more innocent, that he's leaving because he svaghino, this beautiful medieval dogma is actually made to the letter. The man felt the absence of God Every race he felt the kingdom of Satan, the conviction that we must turn to him. "
* This progress of the" infernal power "over the centuries is not an ideological claim of the satanic cult is a finding of pundits of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. With the logic that flies super tall and impassive (for the wings, the most excessive fantasies), the least dubious denials of reality, those of famous doctors Scholae observed interpret and explain the signs of the dominance of the great Enemy. Neither bat an eye on the disaster implicit in such theological doctrine: if the supreme God is omnipotent, the excessive power of the Devil is his concession, license, whim. Inde, each potting, obsession, witchcraft is to be carried to such a First Cause. If you do not like the logical conclusion, it conflicts with swaying no less authoritative deduction: God is not omnipotent. It can be wrought by the resources of the Lord of Darkness. Nothing to do: the objection, if it is expressed, leading to the pillory, and also at the stake (depending on social status) had no defense that the unwary proferisse so shamelessly against the wisdom and the spirit of summae and cholae. The concessions are a Satan divine mystery that must be respected: God is not required to disclose. Of course, if God is supreme good, is obliged to think that concessions are expressions of his goodness: a deduction that is difficult to accept. Even minds "idiotic." It is easier to pretend, under torture or threat. Those who practiced with the king of the abyss was trying to hide.
The Malleus, as all the books that usually prolific, is a strange admission: the devil is gaining ground, and then God loses and the human race, saved by Jesus, is conquered by the Devil. That, in full sun, comes forward with legend legend. It has come a long way since the days of the Gospel, when they settle in well content ourselves, to those of Dante: theologian and jurist, Satan argues with the Saints bitter lawsuits, and, concluding a successful syllogism, takes the soul in question, laughing in triumph: "You do not think that I'd loic"
Yes, I have come a long way the largest Loic, if he can beat a logical St. Francis himself, discussed and eat up the soul of Guido da Montefeltro (Inferno, xxvii). Go well that is not the meek little tern of Scholae aristotelizzanti eagle, but it's still a saint. And he does think the logic here in question, but also to the mind of Dante, from that deep well and never fully does not pull out anything to chance! Whatever it takes. If there is a divine mysterium magnum is certainly a miserable human mystery. One of the many. Too many. We can linger a few more minutes to enjoy the lively prose of Michelet:
"In the early Middle Ages are still waiting for the agony to grab and take away the soul. St. Hildegard (1100) believes 'that can not enter the body of a man alive', otherwise they will spread their limbs, you enter only the shadow and the steam of the Devil. " This semblance of common sense dissolves in the twelfth century. In the thirteenth, we see a priori that insanely afraid of being caught alive, and then protect you day and night by two hundred armed men. "It starts an era of growing terror and man relies less and less to divine protection. The devil is no longer a spirit of furtive, nocturnal thief who slips in the darkness; avversrio is brave, bold monkey God who, in his own, in broad daylight, the creation forges. Who says so? Legend? No, the greatest doctors. The Devil transforms every being, says Albertus Magnus. St. Thomas goes even further. 'The Devil can imitate any change in nature, germ '. Granting extraordinary, from a source so serious, that gets to be a Creator before the Creator. "
Deduction flawless, before which the subtleties of the great distinctive magister (whose thought, remember, is still the official philosophy of the Catholic Church): philosophia perennis, the Summa theologiae of Saint tries to engulf even some philosophers of the twentieth century . Or they parcels available! See Phenomenology case, this prolific academic hallucination!) Are ridiculous chaff at the mercy of every breath. And imagine if not shrewd irony of Michelet, who before Thomistic distinction: "[...] But the Devil can do nothing as far as do not germinate, a metamorphosis into a beast of a man, the resurrection of the dead, "followed, beaten and happy Hook:
" Here is the small part of God since its just a miracle, the gesture is a rare and extraordinary. The daily miracle, however, life is not his alone: \u200b\u200bthe devil, his rival, he shares with nature. / / The man, in his view does not distinguish between weak nature created by God and nature created by the Devil, is the world divided. Tremendous uncertainty spreads over everything. Nature has lost its innocence. The one clear source, the white flower, that little bird, belonging to God or are wicked imitations, traps man? Vade back. Everything becomes suspect. Creating good, like the suspect, grow dim, invaded. The Devil's sailing day, spreads over all life. According to the appearance and the terrors of men, he divides the world, has usurped the whole. "
contradictory aspects and drastic upheavals in the career of witches. Satisfaction with the power conferred on him to work "miracles" for superb ladies of the castles inaccessible that fewer and fewer are rarely at their feet, demanding that help people and religious bodies that gave him no more. Joy of vitality in the sabbath free night or weekend of fantasy and unfastened from the body nevrotizzanti qualms. Even incest galore, as you wrote? It is not credible. More plausible, in specific contexts, libelous all'enfatizzazione believe the Sabbath. At least in the sense that we give to the modern concept of incest. But greater freedom of pairs, of course: there was an area of \u200b\u200bforest protection for these bacchanalian well-lit glades of the ritual and dances. E 'lawful read, this period total emancipation of the body, as far advance of twentieth century inventions? Why not! There are no difficulties with logical combinations between the medieval and the mediations, no less whimsical masquerade of spirituality, of the sexual revolution, so prodigal of inventions and solutions. Until the marvels described in "Elementary Particles". And at sbracamento of the "Night Before the Exams," with that bunch of machines swinging to the rhythm of the movements of the slices of fresh fluff employed in the peaceful exercise of satirical license.
certain historical period were more conducive to these riots and revenge of the prey of the secular lords and the period of exile in Avignon, with the subsequent Great Schism, was one of these: the church discredited, the scandal of two three popes scomunicantisi each other, the 'immense corruption of priests and monks bishops company had created high social-psychological conditions for the great adventure. But that turned to tragedy when, in time and intensity different, the Church reforms and the nobility had to fear continuous revolts of peasants in various parts of Europe. He returned to the sacred covenant between the castle and palaces, including estate and papal rule: you had cut this direct threat to their party leadership. And so with the processes and burning, torture and trumped-up charges, false testimony, the witness bought or blackmailed and threatened.
is another step on the exemplary ruthlessness fanatic sadism inquisitorial system seen in the dominant especially in Spain:
"Spain, under the pious Isabella (1506), Cardinal Ximenez, starts to burn witches. Geneva then ruled by Bishop (1515) it burned five hundred in three months. The Emperor Charles V, in the German constitution, in vain attempts to establish that 'witchcraft, which causes damage to the goods and people, is a civil matter, not ecclesiastical'. In vain suppresses the seizure (except in cases of treason). The little prince-bishops, for whom witchcraft is a great deal of fat intake, continue to burn furiously. The imperceptible bishopric of Bamberg, in one breath will burn six hundred, nine hundred to Würzburg. The process is simple. First of all, torture witnesses, charged with creating the pain and terror. It extorts the accused, to suffering, a confession, and believe this confession against the evidence the facts. Example. A witch confessed to stealing the cemetery the body of a child who died recently, to consume it in its magical mixture. The husband says, "Go to the cemetery. The children there. " You dig, they find it in the coffin. But the court decides, against his eyes, which is an appearance, a mirage of the Devil. In fact rather the confession of the woman. At stake. "
AND 'logic fanaticism: the facts? "But she still believes the facts?" - Told me long ago, at a philosophical conference, a professor of education semi-idealistic - So I answered, piqued, "Sure, maybe she is not a fact? And rather than greedy, because Stealing time to others. " Facts, evidence of perception, logical proofs, perhaps mingling with mathematical experimental results: nothing can diminish the stubborn blindness of passion inevoluta or convoluted. The evidence for mental digestion is delicate stuff. The inquisitor Sprenger, the author of the infamous Malleus Maleficarum is one of the most eloquent examples of this deadly logic. Michelet presents it in its proper light of hell, by injecting the sketch his resentful irony
"'I am too good' says' to give heed to these people. Can not argue with the devil '. All the people are with him [...] It does not belong, he, the category School of callous men arid abstraction. He has a heart. For this very easy kills. He has mercy, so much love. He has mercy on this woman in tears, yesterday pregnant, a look of the witch has suffocated the child. Pity the poor man hailed in this field. The husband, not at all sorcerer, he sees that his wife is a witch, and pulls a rope around his neck, by Sprenger, that the burn. / / With a cruel, you could save, but, nothing to do with good Sprenger. Too Human, you go to the stake with no escape, unless to be very capable, extraordinarily alert. "
And here's an episode of rare eloquence, confirming the logic celebrated on one day are Sprenger to complain to the "three brave ladies of Strasbourg" say they are beaten by invisible hands, and all three the same day, same time. " Suspicions and accusations "a man of shady characters, who must have done the evil eye"
"Facing the inquisitor that protest, swear by all the saints who do not know these ladies, no one has ever seen. The judge did not believe him. Tears, vows, all in vain. The great pity for the gentleman was merciless, and deny that offended him. Already got up. To be tortured, he confessed, as even the most innocent. But he managed to speak. 'I remember that yesterday, at this time ... I've beaten' 'Who? creatures not baptized, but three cats, three furies biting my legs' The judge, smart man, including all: the poor man was innocent ladies, some days are transformed into a cat, and enjoyed the Devil to throw between Christians to lose their legs and make them believe sorcerers. "
is doubtful that even today, in these times of very advanced high-tech electronics, there are people (too many) willing to defend the judge?
* The evolution of the phenomenon experienced great plays and stories in finite-fiction film: think about the story of Grandier of Gauffridi. A tragic farce in which only drives uterine fierce rivalry jealousy become too human to human evil events. Devils that fight inside the bodies of two rivals in love beautiful creatures of the same fascinating monaco available: Louise and Madeleine, two girls around Gauffridi in Beagle of exquisite pleasures, to lose it with deadly accusations. Between the tough fight to the neuron, Amazon, genial cheater Louise, and the delicate, naive, weak Madeleine, a little more than a child. The first able to subdue her fascination with the word hot and passionate an entire community, and some balls of your faith, the Inquisition, and the second, fragile, prone to getting lost, unable to stand against the wiles obsessed that he wants dead tortured. *
But there have been only the brides of Satan in hilarious tragicomedy of humankind. The ever-repeated assertions of the body so amazing how ingenious inventions belong. Emanating from the fertile minds of pundits and seek to "heal" the nuns from their melancholy agitation hysteria. Always got to do the Devil? Not only. It may even be an excess of love for Jesus and to trigger paroxysms of nervousness. In the monotony property (except plagues and earthquakes and famine) of the convents, nothing could be easier. But we are not at all the learned confessors and spiritual director for nuns and superiors? And here free theory, doctrines of drug success. Among cases and mystical, you can scialare. The survey had spread in the era of the Counter is especially pleasing to sinners and sinners of high lineage (or blackmail), is good especially for the mystique sgavezzare in the convents of nuns. Indoctrination sisters suffering from ennui wants mediation guaranteed: and maybe better than a man-angel, a priest assigned to the monastery that monaco or pay "beautiful person" in a winged spirit, an angel docens. The mystique of the Illuminati is a case of gross misrepresentation useful. We read: "The death of the person and nothing will, is the great mystical principle. Desmarets clearly shows us the true moral significance. The devotees, he says, sacrificed them and made nothing, exist only in God 'From that time can not hurt'. The top is so divine, that no longer knows what the other is doing. "Fattening A noticina text, more explicit and clear teaching" very ancient doctrine that often arises in the Middle Ages. In the seventeenth century convent is common in French and English, never more clear and innocent as an angel of lessons in Norman with a sister [...]. The angel to the monk teaches above all 'the contempt and indifference to the meat of the body'. It introduces a lot of evidence in support of a previous proof: "Jesus has so much despised, which has exposed naked to the scourging, which all to see." What more could you want the angel nun willing to listen? He continues, develops, makes clear: the liberation from bondage corporal wants a few things, a simple gesture, "the abandonment of the soul and will, sound, docile, completely passive obedience." It blooms a second "example" of evidence showed "the holy Virgin, who did not hesitate to Gabriel, but he obeyed, he conceived. Take risks? No. Since a spirit can not contain impurities. Indeed purifies. " In the drama of Boccaccio Louvriers "This great doctrine" was preached and practiced by a certain David, a prominent elder and spiritual director of convents with a theoretical development and applications as vast as charming casual to more sinister cynicism. 'Development' is an example of subtlety and dialectical really satanic "killing sin by sin, for better return innocence." Neither lacks the usual exemplary succor: "So did our first parents." Variant: "The body can not sully the soul. We must, with sin that is humble and pride heals, kill the sin. " The witness of so much wisdom operation is the cappuccino Esprit de Bosroger duly quoted by Michelet. Imagine the deductions practices such theorising is not difficult: the boss of "directors" as David's successor and Picart, as the monstrous Girard and his accomplices (Sabatier, Grignet ...) in the convents; with delight of the sympathetic favorite (nuns and not), but also with refractory and resistant to torture of creatures, like young Madeleine, terrified, brainwashed, tortured, finally (the pins stuck all over your body for the "callous point," mark of Satan), and finally closed in a in peace. That is one of the most terrifying heights of horror "ontogeny" religious is the unfortunate side in a minimum vertical space, a slot for the passage of the rough opening and food and no other outlet for catabolic products.
"The sisters are full of these doctrines, practices quiet between them, scaring Madeleine with their depravity." Among the many thousands of stories of abuse crerature naive and sensitive nature of religious, more or less authoritative (and always protected by their companies orders and fraternities) stands out the splendor of sulfur Cadière affair. Brainwashed impregnated raped, tortured in various ways and a thousand times deceived by her confessor Girard, that "sanctified" by procuring stigmata during fainting induced by dopants concoctions. In these fine companies Girard had convinced the complicity and pleasure-seeking of cruel nuns, obedient to the command of superiors as the Ursulines, no less corrupt and depraved in command of the holy fathers. And figures morally devastated, as Guiol and daughter. To add, the sacred drink, the protection of the Company at the time of the risk of the case: that is closing ranks around quell'untore the worst plague in defense of alleged honor and the world the real power of the Holy Creature of Loyola. For scandalum vitandum, of course. So, basically, of faith, of simple serenity, of Religion in person. The ringleaders of the Society variously terrorized and blackmailed bishops honest, but weak, ready to witness true sisters, two brothers and the desolate mother of the martyr, and others willing to defend the victim unaware of the process and push the monster Girard. An amazing concert of moves and counter moves, actions, yes, truly evil: subtraction and destruction of letters occurred between Girard and credulous girl; statements obtained through drug use, retractions of the accused in the shooting of conscience buried under retractions of a second degree, false testimony and evidence as inverted; mutilation of court documents, shameless slander in vain contradicted by evidence from the personal story of the innocent and the facts here is the means used by the Jesuits to save the devil Mephistopheles Girard and scuttle the angel Cadière. In the story of
Michelet, always on time, supported by documentary evidence, use phrases and words like the following. The Cadière entrusted to a Carmelite honest, "he told Life and pains, devotion, visions. Not even the night stopped. [...] [...] She returned the next day to speak rapturously of God, the highest mysteries. The Carmelite was amazed, he wondered if the devil was so good to praise God [...] His innocence was obvious. Seemed a good girl, obedient and gentle as a lamb, like a joyful puppy [...] Sabatier, old man, blood, anger, went straight to the bishop. "To blackmail the bishop honest. "He put it back to the wall, made him understand that a process against the Jesuits, for him, it meant losing forever, bishop of Toulon would remain forever, never would have made archbishop. What is more, with the freedom of an apostle strong in Versailles, he said that if this matter had thrown in the street behavior of a Jesuit, would not fail to make the day a bishop. A letter, clearly combined to Girard, would believe that the Jesuits had secretly prepared to revolt against the prelate with terrible accusations, saying his life 'is not only unworthy of the episcopate, but abominable. The treacherous and underhand Girard, Sabatier apoplectic, full of bile and venom, they pushed hard slander, it was all ready to say to a girl, and if Girard had ill treated, the bishop had had good health. "
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