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Author : Anonymous
Title : Secret Instructions of the Society of Jesus
Year : 1612

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The Jesuits are different. Every Catholic Priest knows this. The Jesuits have an uncanny manner financially. Operating behind the scenes, they seem very inconspicuous, but when the wills of rich Catholics, and very many non-Catholics, are filed for probate, strangely some Jesuit institution is there for a sizable amount. They are so different in their priestly deportment and social conduct too, that other priests feel ill at ease and uncomfortable in their presence. A priestly “blast” never really gets organized until after the Jesuits have gone home. The prevailing atmosphere, when they are present, is one of uneasy suspicion. Other priests feel as though the “Jebbies” will immediately take off for the Bishop’s mansion to stool on all of them. This of course is ridiculous because most bishops are just as leary of the Jesuits as are the working clergy. Lay people also think that Jesuits are different. They speak of the Society of Jesus as the “educated clergy,“-the “teaching arm of the church”. They have the “most schools”-which is true. The quality of those schools is another question. None of them, at least in the U.S. has ever won an award for the volume of scientists or philosophers it produced. Voltaire went to a Jesuit school. He said later that he learned Latin and nonsense. The Jesuits write the most books-which is also true. In fact it is said that any Jesuit who can pen one word after another seems forced “under obedience” to write a book. Judging by a perusal of them, the subject matter or the treatment seems of very little consequence. The laity are told that the Jesuits are smarter than other priests because they go to school longer. The laity do not realize that for some years those Jesuits are in their schools not as students, but as teachers--callow, young, inexperienced boys carrying on the “great tradition” of Jesuit education. The laity, Catholic and non-Catholic, are also told that the Jesuits are much more selective in their choice of candidates than other orders or diocesan seminaries. They pick only the smarter and more promising youngsters and thus insure a continuing crop of great scholars, teachers, philosophers, orators and, not mentioned, ecclesiastical politicians. The truth is, as clerical wags have put it, that the Jesuits have just as large a percentage of lesser I.Q.‘s as any other church order but they are smart enough to hide the numbskulls in their foreign missions to primitive countries. In fact, it has also been said, that this is the principal reason why the Jesuits have foreign missions. However, in spite of these disparaging introductory qualifications, there can be no gainsaying the fact that the Jesuits possess a hard core of extremely intelligent, intensely loyal, politically shrewd, carefully calculating individuals. This has been so since the days of their founder, Ignatius of Loyola. A catalog of their names would include a large percentage of the great minds of the Roman Catholic Church since the sixteenth century. Any honest student of church history must admit that behind the scenes, they have been the governing genius of the Vaticaneven though, more often than not, an evil genius. The Jesuit Order is an absolute monarchy. Their general, “the Black Pope” rules for life. The pattern of their own Order has molded their thinking about all other political structures, including, but not confined to, the Vatican. The Jesuits fought the democratic aspirations of the French when they helped engineer the “Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve”. They were the force behind Pope Pius IX and were his principal counsellors. The Italian people knew that the Jesuits were the strongest opponents of the Unification of Italy and hated them accordingly. The Jesuits promoted the dogma of the Immaculate Conception and of the Infallibility of the Pope. They were the experts behind the experts of the First Vatican Council in 1870 just as they are of the Second Vatican Council. It is obvious that an organization so vast (the largest in the Roman Church) covering the globe, and engaged in so many activities, some open and honorable, and others secret, delicate and “jesuitical” would have to have a set of rules and regulations for its own internal control much more detailed and stringent than the conventional “rules” or “constitutions” of St. Benedict, St. Francis or the other run-of-the-mill orders and congregations. Knowing also that the bulk of the Jesuits at the grass roots did not possess the sagacity, shrewdness and ruthlessness of the “boys” in the back room” in Rome it was necessary that many enterprises, such as “advising” rich widows, picking of rich men’s sons to be prospective Jesuits, or purging the Order of a hapless Jesuit who began to think for himself, should be spelled out in detail. But above all things it was necessary that such regulations should be kept secret. They were to be confided only to trusted superiors and if accidentally found they were to be denounced as base forgeries. ...