ROGER´S DECISION

After learning of Roger's decision to seclude himself in a cloister. Inanna decides to go look for him. She asked for special permission to speak with him, commenting on everything that had happened to the director of said center. She there she saw him... Submissive with a simple tunic and wet eyes. She hugged him and kissed him. He told her that the secret of her life is not in running away from it... But in living it with dignity. She told him that she loved him and she didn't want to be away from him another minute. I have come to take you with me! He became a flood of tears, kissed her feet and asked her forgiveness for all the bad things she had done to him. She forgave him from her heart and they would both go together to face life. The two of them chose a new home alone... Adonis had made a pact with Lucifer for years. He could break it ??? he had sold his soul? Almost without a doubt, one of the greatest attractions of seeking to make a pact with the Devil, with the Abrahamic demon –the Christian more specifically–, is the idea of satisfying the greatest pleasures of life. To be rich, to fall in love with whoever you want, to defeat the enemy, to be lavish and virtuous, and even, paradoxically, to be eternally young or any other whim that may come to mind. Finally, giving the soul in exchange does not seem so crazy, if one can become happy and is not so clear what the soul is. One might think that the most burdened spirits tend to be seduced by the benefits of the blood contract, since they find more relief in immediate pleasure and glory than in the idea of a sublime and intangible eternity in Paradise. However, the legends have given a good account of the enormous possibilities involved in invoking Satan or one of his minions, to such an extent that it is difficult not to think twice. Fifteenth-century Dominican inquisitors Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger endowed witches with the ability to fly during covens, among other enviable attributes, in their infamous The Witches' Hammer. In the 18th century, the Italian composer Giuseppe Tartini credited the inspiration for his work, Violin Sonata in G minor, to a pact with the Devil, hence christening it the Devil's Trill. Around the same time, Niccolo Paganini's violin virtuosity was said to be based on some kind of devilish bargain. And so, the Fallen Angel has allowed human beings to enjoy a “superhuman” earthly life, to put it that way. The examples are innumerable, some more probable than others. Theophilus the Penitent associates with the Devil to consecrate himself bishop; Mephistopheles offers Faust youth and wisdom; wealth in gold and silver coins was granted by the innocent devil to the cunning farmer from the well-known tale of the Grimm brothers; Urbain Grandier invoked the demon Asmodeo to seduce the nuns of an Ursuline convent in Loudun; and the Baron de Vaujour decided to exchange his soul "with the sole purpose of living his twelfth lustrum happily, so that he would never lack money and also preserve his prolific faculties in the highest degree of power until that age", as recounted by the Marquis de Sade. In the 1980s, and much of the 1990s, many similar scenes figured in popular culture, especially visible in the world of rock. Although such stories can be traced back to 1950, globalization and the impact of new communication technologies on cultural consumption during the last decades of the 20th century allowed the apparent hoax of pacts between members of bands with Lucifer to spread. The staging and imagery of groups like Black Sabbath, Kiss or Iron Maiden helped strengthen the rumors that, years before, Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Misfits, among many others, had cultivated. The impact on public opinion was nothing like collective hysteria, but it did serve as an argument for different groups in society to consider it appropriate to establish controls on the production of cultural content that managed to achieve a lot of influence. In 1985, for example, the Parents Music Resource Center was created in the United States, an entity that was so powerful that it managed to bring one of the members of Twisted Sister to the stage, considering that the group's content incited bullying. disobedience. It was the time of heavy music, of backwards staves, of adolescent euphoria with Damian and the Prophecy (really from 1976), of 666, of the children of the corn, of the Ouija board, of Vic Rattlehead, of Eddie the Head, from Alf, and from AD&D 2nd Edition. And at that time Satanism found itself unsteadily in public opinion in much of the Western world. It was not a witch hunt, but parents, or some adults in general, feared losing their youth in sinister orgies of evil, where newborns were sacrificed and Baphomet was worshipped. They were suspicious of their children. Lectures were given in schools and documentaries were projected on the subliminal messages on the covers of records and various products, no longer being the Nazis the protagonists, but the Angel of Darkness. It was even speculated that Xuxa, a famous Brazilian children's presenter, was hiding satanic messages on her records by means of backmasking, a technique that Alice Cooper was supposed to have used for the first time to worship Satan following the instructions of a witch. From a more conventional perspective, it could be said that it was a collective hysterical reaction (not hysteria) in the face of the bombardment of countercultural products that took advantage of the growth of the cultural industries to position themselves. It seems almost obvious to say that Satanism is a product of popular culture during the 1980s and 1990s. It is common to consider that its figure was (or even is) just a marketing strategy. A similar analysis can be used for other contexts in which the Devil played an important role. From this point of view, for example, the extirpation of idolatries in the New World is interpreted, where it is supposed that the cult of the Devil was an excuse for the Spaniards to plunder the gold of the continent; or also the case of the Inquisition in Cartagena de Indias, in which the accusations of witchcraft are interpreted as an excuse to abolish the rituals of blacks, mulattoes and Jews, in order to subdue them. Does it mean, then, that no one has ever believed in Satan? That those who condemn or support his cult are puppeteers who plot the fate of people for their convenience? Aline and Roger bonded and learned from each other... It wasn't easy, their great fortune declined as did their popularity. In a beautiful country house they both lived surrounded by animals and beautiful flowers. Good had won for the moment although a great karmic debt still weighed on Roger.