Ceremony Of Induction And Extreme Oath Of The Jesuits
December 27, 2013 at 9:51am
In 1981, one of our heroes, Alberto Rivera,disclosed the oath he took as a professed Jesuit. We read:
Ceremony Of Induction And Extreme Oath Of TheJesuits
(Given to a Jesuit of minor rank when he is to beelevated to a position of command.)
SuperiorSpeaks:
“My son, heretofore you have been taught to act thedissembler among the Roman Catholics to be a Roman Catholic, and to be a spyeven among your own brethren: to believe no man, to trust no man. Among thereformers, to be a reformer; among the Huguenots (French Protestants) to be aHuguenot: among the Calvinists, to be a Calvinist: among the Protestants (thosewho protest and disagree with the Roman Catholic institution), generally to bea Protestant: and obtaining their confidence to seek even to preach from theirpulpits, and to denounce with all the vehemence (violent emotion) in yournature our Holy Religion and the Pope; and even to descend so low as to becomea Jew among the Jews, that you might be enabled to gather together allinformation for the benefit of your order as a faithful soldier of the Pope.
“You have been taught to insidiously plant theseeds of jealously and hatred between states that were at peace, and incitethem to deeds of blood, involving them in war with each other, and to createrevolutions and civil wars in communities, provinces and countries that wereindependent and prosperous, cultivating the arts and the sciences and enjoyingthe blessings of peace;
“To take sides with the combatants and to actsecretly in concert with your brother Jesuit who might be engaged on the otherside, but openly opposed to that with which you might be connected;
“Only that the church might be the gainer in theend in the conditions fixed in the treaties for peace, and that the endsjustify the means.
“You have been taught your duty as a spy, to gatherall statistics, facts and information in your power from every source: toingratiate yourself into the confidence of the family circle of Protestants andheretics of every class and character, as well as that of the merchant, thebanker, the lawyer, among the schools and universities, in parliament andlegislatures, and in the judiciaries and councils of State, and to ‘be allthings to all men’, for the Pope’s sake, whose servants we are unto death.
“You have received all your instructions heretoforeas a novice (one who has no training), a neophyte (a newly ordained priest),and have served as a coadjutor (worked as a helper), confessor and priest, butyou have not yet been invested with all that is necessary to command in thearmy of Loyola and in the service of the Pope.
“You must serve the proper time as the instrumentand executioner as directed by your superiors; for none can command here whohas not consecrated (made secret or holy) his labors with the blood of theheretic; for ‘without the shedding of blood no man can be saved.’
“I, _____, now, in the presence of Almighty God,the blessed Virgin Mary, the blessed Michael the Archangel, the blessed St.John the Baptist, the Holy Apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul and all the saintsand sacred hosts of heaven….
“I, furthermore, promise and declare that I will,when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly and openly,against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do.
“That when the same cannot be done openly, I willsecretly use the poisoned cup, the strangulation cord, the steel of the poniard(a dagger) or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity, orauthority of the person or persons, whatever may be their condition in life,either public or private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by anyagent of the Pope or superior of the brotherhood of the holy faith, of theSociety of Jesus.” [Double-Cross: Alberto, Part 2, 1981]
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In addition to the Oath, the Jesuits have a guidebookentitled Secreta Monita. To the author’s knowledge it has only beendisclosed to the world twice: once in the 1600s and once in the 1800s. Becauseof the magnitude of its contents as it relates to our subject, The SecretInstructions Of The Jesuits (1857) is reprinted in its entirety[in Vatican Assassins].
[Due to the length of this material, we hereat The SPECTRUM will only present a few excerpts and chapterheadings, but this should be sufficient to give you a pretty good idea of whatis contained within them. For the full presentation, refer to VaticanAssassins. The portions your are about to read have not, to our knowledge, beenprinted in any modern-day newspaper.What you are about to read, The SecretInstructions Of The Jesuits, was first published in 1669 by the venerable andlearned Dr. Compton, Bishop London. In Vatican Assassins we read:]
His arguments on their authenticity, and hischaracter as a scholar and divine, are a sufficient guarantee that he wouldnever have given his name and influence to sustain a work of dubious authority,or calculated to mislead the public. We have only to add that the last American edition,published at Princeton, and this one which we publish, are taken from thetranslation which was published in London in 1723, and dedicated to Sir RobertWalpole, who was afterwards Lord Orford, and who had the high honor of beingprime minister of George I and George II.
THE SECRETINSTRUCTIONS OF THE JESUITS
Chapter 1:How the Society must behave themselves when they begin any new foundation.
V. At their first settlement, let our members becautious of purchasing lands; but if they happen to buy such as are wellsituated, let this be done in the name of some faithful and trusty friend. Andthat our poverty may be the more colorable gloss of reality, let the purchases,adjacent to the places wherein our colleges are founded, be assigned by theprovincial to colleges at a distance; by which means it will be impossible thatprinces and magistrates can ever attain to a certain knowledge what therevenues of the Society amount to.
VI. Let no places be pitched upon by any of ourmembers for founding a college but opulent cities; the end of the Society beingthe imitation of our blessed Saviour, who made his principal residence in themetropolis of Judea, and only transiently visited the less remarkable places.
VII. Let the greatest sums be always extorted fromwidows, by frequent remonstrations of our extreme necessities.
VIII. In every province, let none but the principalbe fully apprised of the real value of our revenues; and let what is containedin the treasury of Rome be always kept as an inviolable secret.
Chapter II:In what manner the Society must deport, that they may work themselves into, andafter that preserve a familiarity with princes, noblemen, and persons ofgreatest distinction.
I. Princes, and persons of distinction every where,must by all means be so managed that we may have their ear, and that willeasily secure their hearts; by which way of proceeding, all persons will becomeour creatures, and no one will dare to give the Society the least disquiet oropposition.
II. That ecclesiastical persons gain a greatfooting in the favor of princes and noblemen, by winking at their vices, andputting a favorable construction on whatever they do amiss, experienceconvinces; and this we may observe in their contracting of marriages with theirnear relations and kindred, or the like. It must be our business to encouragesuch, whose inclination lies this way, by leading them up in hopes, thatthrough our assistance they may easily obtain a dispensation from the Pope; andno doubt he will readily grant it, if proper reason be urged, paralleled casesproduced, and opinions quoted which countenance such actions, when the commongood of mankind, and the greater advancement of God’s glory, which are the onlyend and design of the society, are pretended to be the sole motives to them.
V. Above all, due care must be taken to curry favorwith the minions and domestics of princes and noblemen; whom by small presents,and many offices of piety, we may so far byass, (bias) as by means of them toget a faithful intelligence of the bent of their master’s humors andinclinations; thus will the Society be better qualified to chime in with theirtempers.
VII. Princesses and ladies of quality are easily tobe gained by the influence of the woman of their bed-chamber; for which reasonwe must by all means pay particular address to these, for thereby there will beno secrets in the family but what we shall have fully disclosed to us.
XV. Finally,—Let all with such artfulness gain theascendant over princes, noblemen, and magistrates of every place, that they maybe ready at our beck, even to sacrifice their nearest relations and mostintimate friends, when we say it is for our interest and advantage.
Chapter III:How the Society must behave themselves towards those who are at the helm ofaffairs, and others who, although they be not rich, are nothwithstanding in acapacity of being otherwise serviceable.
I. All that has been before mentioned, may, in agreat measure, be applied to these; and we must also be industrious to procuretheir favor against every one that oppose us.
II. Their authority and wisdom must be courted forobtaining several offices to be discharged by us; we must also make a handle oftheir advice with respect to the contempt of riches; though at the same time,if their secrecy and faith may be depended on, we may privately make use oftheir names in amassing temporal goods for the benefit of the Society.
Chapter IV:The chief things to be recommended to preachers and confessors of noblemen.
VI. Immediately upon the death of any person ofpost, let them take timely care to get some friend of our Society preferred inhis room; but this must be cloaked with such cunning and management as to avoidgiving the least suspicion of our intending to usurp the prince’s authority;for this reason (as has been already said) we ourselves must not appear in it,but make a handle of the artifice of some faithful friends for effecting ourdesigns, whose power may screen them from the envy which might otherwise fallheavier upon the Society.
Chapter V:What kind of conduct must be observed towards such religious persons as are employedin the same ecclesiastical functions with us.
Chapter VI:Of proper methods for inducing rich widows to be liberal to our Society.
I. For the managing of this affair, let suchmembers only be chosen as are advanced in age, of a lively complexion andagreeable conversation; let these frequently visit such widows, and the minutethey begin to show any affection towards our order, then is the time to laybefore them the good works and merits of the society. If they seem kindly togive ear to this, and begin to visit our churches, we must by all means takecare to provide them confessors by whom they may be well admonished, especiallyto a constant perseverance in their state of widowhood, and this, byenumerating and praising the advantages and felicity of a single life: and letthem pawn their faiths, and themselves too, as a security that a firmcontinuance in such a pious resolution will infallibly purchase an eternalmerit, and prove a most effectual means of escaping the otherwise certain painsof purgatory.
IV. Care must be taken to remove such servantsparticularly as do not keep a good understanding with the Society; but let thisbe done by little and little; and when we have managed to work them out, letsuch be recommended as already are, or willingly would become our creatures;thus shall we dive into every secret, and have a finger in every affairtransacted in the family.
Chapter VII:How such widows are to be secured, and in what manner their effects are to bedisposed of.
I. They are perpetually to be pressed to aperseverance in their devotion and good works, in such manner, that no weekpass in which they do not, of their own accord, lay somewhat apart out of theirabundance for the honor of Christ, the blessed Virgin, or their patron saint;and let them dispose of it in relief of the poor, or in beautifying ofchurches, till they are entirely stripped of their superfluous stores andunnecessary riches.
XIII. Let the confessors take diligent care toprevent such widows as are their penitents, from visiting ecclesiastics ofother orders, or entering into familiarity with them, under any pretencewhatsoever; for which end, let them, at proper opportunities, cry up theSociety as infinitely superior to all other orders; of the greatest service inthe church of God, and of greater authority with the Pope, and all princes; andthat it is the most perfect in itself, in that it discards all personsoffensive or unqualified, from its community, and therefore is purified fromthat scum and dregs with which these monks are infected, who, generallyspeaking, are a set of men unlearned, stupid, and slothful, negligent of theirduty, and slaves to their bellies.
XIV. Let the confessors propose to them, andendeavor to persuade them to pay small pensions and contributions towards theyearly support of colleges and professed houses, but especially of theprofessed house at Rome; not let them forget the ornaments of churches, tapers,wine, and things necessary in the celebration of the sacrifice of mass.
XV. If any widow does in her life-time make overher whole estate to the Society; whenever opportunity offers, but especiallywhen she is seized with sickness, or in danger of life, let some take care torepresent to her the poverty of the greatest number of our colleges, whereofmany just erected have hardly as yet any foundation; engage her, by a winningbehavior and inducing arguments, to such a liberality as (you must persuadeher) will lay a certain foundation for her eternal happiness.
XVI. The same art must be used with princes andother benefactors; for they must be wrought up to a belief, that these are theonly acts which will perpetuate their memories in this world, and secure themeternal glory in the next.
ChapterVIII: How widows are to be treated, that they may embrace religion, or adevoted life.
Chapter IX:Of increasing the revenues of our Colleges.
XV. Let the confessors be constant in visiting thesick, but especially such as are thought to be in danger; and that theecclesiastics and members of other orders may be discarded with a goodpretence, let the superiors take care that when the confessor is obliged towithdraw, others may immediately succeed, and keep up the sick person in hisgood resolutions. At this time it may be advisable to move him by apprehensionsof hell, and at least of purgatory; and tell him, that as fire is quenched bywater, so sin is extinguished by acts of charity; and that alms can never bebetter bestowed than for the nourishment and support of such who by theircalling profess a desire to promote the salvation of their neighbor.
XVI. Lastly, let the women who complain of thevices of ill-humor of their husbands, be instructed secretly to withdraw a sumof money, that by making an offering thereof to God, they may expiate thecrimes of their sinful help-mates, and secure a pardon for them.
Chapter X.Of the private rigor of discipline in the Society.
Chapter XI.How our members are unanimously to behave towards those who are expelled fromthe Society.
I. Since those that are dismissed, do frequentlyvery much prejudice the Society by divulging such secrets as they have beenprivy to; their attempts must therefore be obviated in the following manner.Let them be prevailed upon, before they are dismissed, to give it under theirhands, and swear that they never will, directly or indirectly, either write orspeak any thing to the disadvantage of the Order; and let the superiors keepupon record the evil inclinations, failings and vices, which they, according tothe custom of the Society, for discharge of their consciences, formerlyconfessed: this, if ever they give us occasion, may be produced by the Society,to the nobility and prelates, as a very good handle to prevent their promotion.VIII. Let the misfortunes, and unlucky accidentswhich happen to them, be immediately published; but with entreaties for theprayers of good Christians, that the world may not think we are hurried away bypassion: but, among our members, let these things, by all means, be representedin the blackest colors, that the rest may be the better secured.
Chapter XII.Who should be kept, and favored in the Society.
ChapterXIII. How to pick out young men to be admitted into the Society, and in whatmanner to retain them.
V. Let them be allured, by little presents, andindulgence of liberties agreeable to their age; and, above all, let theiraffections be warmed with spiritual discourses.
VI. Let it be inculcated, that their being chosenout of such a number, rather than any of their fellow-collegiates, is a mostpregnant instance of divine appointment.
VII. On other occasions, but especially inexhortations, let them be terrified with denunciations of eternal punishment,unless they accept of the heavenly invitation.
VIII. The more earnestly they desire admission intoour Society, the longer let the grant of such favor be deferred, provided atthe same time they seem steadfast in their resolution; but if their mindsappear to be wavering, let all proper methods be used for the immediate firingof them.
Chapter XIV.Of reserved cases, and causes of dismission from the Society.
Chapter XV.Of our conduct towards nuns and female devotees.
[It is noted in the pre-publication copyof Vatican Assassins from which these excerpts are being extractedthat one of the pages is missing from this section of the instructions.]
ChapterXVII. Of the methods of advancing the Society.
I. Let our members chiefly endeavor at this, alwaysto act with humanity, even in things of trifling moment; or at least to havethe outward appearance of doing so; for by this means, whatever confusions mayarise in the world, the Society of necessity will always increase and maintainits ground.
VII. The favor of the nobility and superior clergy,once got, our next aim must be to draw all cures and canonships into ourpossession, for the more complete reformation of the clergy, who wheretoforelived under certain regulation of their bishops, and made considerable advancestowards perfection. And lastly, let us aspire to abbacies and bishoprics, theobtaining which, when vacancies happen, will very easily be effected,considering the supineness and stupidity of the monks; for it would entirelytend to the benefit of the church, that all bishoprics, and even theapostolical see, should be hooked into our hands, especially should hisholiness ever become a temporal prince over all. Wherefore, let no methods beuntried, with cunning and privacy, by degrees, to increase the worldlyinterests of the Society, and then, no doubt, a golden age will go hand in handwith an universal and lasting peace, and the divine blessing of consequenceattend the catholic church.
VIII. But if our hopes in this should be blasted,and since offences of necessity will come, our political schemes must becunningly varied, according to the different posture of the times; and princes,our intimates, whom we can influence to follow our councils, must be pushed onto embroil themselves in vigorous wars one with another, to the end, ourSociety (as promoters of the universal good of the world,) may on all hands besolicited to contribute its assistance, and always employed in being mediatorsof public dissensions; by this means the chief benefices and preferments in thechurch will, of course be given to us by way of compensation for our services.
IX. Finally, the Society must endeavor to effectthis at least, that having got the favor and authority of princes, those who donot love them at least fear them.
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