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Editorial Portuguese  Spanish    
Year 5 - N° 205 - April 17, 2011


 

Translation
Francine Prado / francine.cassia@hotmail.com

 

The Rio’s slaughter

 


It is difficult to understand by looking into the facts which could have provoked the attack unleashed by the young Wellington Menezes de Oliveira in the last 7 days left 12 children dead at the Municipal School Tasso da Silveira, in Realengo, Rio de Janeiro.


Did the killer have a psychotic break? Was he under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs? There may have been, in the case, any obsessive nature influence?


It would be difficult, as far as someone under normal circumstances commits an act of this magnitude. It is likely to have occurred, in this case, one or more of the hypotheses formulated.

Gerson Simões Monteiro says in an article published in this same issue, a case narrated by Allan Kardec in Spiritist Magazine in 1859, in which the victim himself reported that the offender acted under the direct influence of a spirit. This is therefore a possible hypothesis, a fact that led the writer to suggest, at the end of his article, that we must always watch the bad thoughts, since they are the property of attracting the evil.

It is according to Spiritism, truly undeniable the influence that disembodied exercise over human creatures.

The subject is handled in the question 459 of “The Spirits’ Book”, which Kardec asks: - Do spirits influence our thought and our actions? The immortal reply: “Much more than you imagine. They influence to the point that commonly, they are who direct you.” 

In Spiritist Magazine, 1858, in reporting the case which involving the young F…, who suffered a painful process of fascination, the encoder of Spiritism gathered the following explanations: 

1. The Spirits exert a salutary or pernicious influence on men; it is not necessary for this to be medium.

2. Since there is no option, they act in a thousand ways.  

3. The spirit’s influence on us is frequent, everyone is exposed to it; believing on it or not.

4. Three quarters of our evil deeds and our bad thoughts are the result of that hidden suggestion.

5. There is no other standard, but the good sense to discern the value of the Spirits. Any formula given for this purpose by the spirits themselves is absurd and cannot emanate from higher spirits.  

In many thoughts that we have, which come to us in certain situations different ideas about the same subject and sometimes ideas that contradict each other. Surely we are in such moments, the target of Spirits influence, a fact that not everyone notices, especially when it happens in a subtle and hidden way as it seen in the case known `Custódio Saquerema’, reported by the Spirit Humberto de Campos in his book “Letters and Chronicles”, psychographed by the medium Francisco Cândido Xavier.  

One way to distinguish our thoughts from the ones suggested is to understand that normally it is the first thought which belong to us that comes to our mind. But the most important thing is to know that indifferent with or without suggestions, it is our responsibility of the actions, leaving us the credit for the good or the demerit if the action is negative.

If it is not always possible the distinction regarding the thoughts origin, neutralize the spiritual influence is something feasible, as the higher spirits teach us answering to question 469 of “The Spirits’ Book”.

 

The immortals said:

 

“By doing only what is right, and putting all your trust in God, you repel the influence of inferior spirits, and prevent them from obtaining power over you.

 

Taking care not listen to the suggestions of spirits who inspire you with evil thoughts, stir up discord among you, and excite in you evil passions.

 

Distrust especially those who flatter your pride, for, in so doing, they attack you on your weakest side. This is why Jesus makes you say in the Lord’s Prayer, ‘Let us not succumb to temptation, but deliver us from evil.’” 

It is also interesting that the reader read carefully what it teaches in the question 122 “b” in the “The Spirits’ Book”, which assures us that the evil spirits give up obsessing people who can elevate their moral and conquer, thus self-control, balance, inner harmony that characterize the truly good man.

Certainly such care missed to the young Wellington, which committed suicide, escaping from the justice of the men but not from divine justice, which he has to answer it, whatever it was the motive it had led him to kill defenseless children from Realengo. 

 

 


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