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The unbelievable has kept Austria and the world chocked for days now. In Amstetten a werewolf strayed around for decades in a gentle men's shape under the eyes of the public. According to the neighbours nobody was aware of the occurrences close under the earth's surface in the mid of the neat village: An electrician held his own daughter captive in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her. Austrian's officials hasten to confirm that this just was the horrible and unfortunate deed of a single psychopathic criminal.

The spontaneous reaction of the people is to look at the evil like at a captured beast in the zoo. If it breaks away it has to be put  behind the bars as soon as possible by the authorities. Not at all, the beast is inside. Remember Leonardo da Vinci's  wall fresco, > The Last Supper, showing Christ surrounded by his followers the day before his crucifixion. It's the scene when he announced that one of the attendees would betray him to the enemy. And what was the reaction? Each of the followers started to ask the master: Is it me? - Half anxious half disbelieving those closest to the holy consider themselves for being able to betray the master.

And then the relief: It's Judas - not me. The beast - it's him. I am still the good follower. Now Petrus became courageous and said: Though all men shall be offended because of you, yet I will never be offended. But Christ just replied: That this night, before the cock crow, you shall deny me trice. And so it happened. While Judas went death by hanging himself on a tree Petrus became one of the pillars of early Christianity.

There is no good without the ability to do evil. It belongs together like light and shadow. What disturbs is that good and evil are not separated from each other so that good is allocated to the one and evil to the other. No, it's very close together like the Latin meaning of sacer, which indicates both, sacred and accursed.

Luckily, the beast of Amstetten has been put behind the bars. Luckily, it was not us. But are we really sure that there is no beast lurking inside of us, waiting for its time to come?

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