My
son, heretofore you have been taught to act the dissembler: among Roman
Catholics to be a Roman Catholic, and to be a spy even among your own brethren;
to believe no man, to trust no man. Among the Reformers, to be a reformer;
among the Huguenots, to be a Huguenot; among the Calvinists, to be a Calvinist;
among other Protestants, generally to be a Protestant, and obtaining their
confidence, to seek even to preach from their pulpits, and to denounce with all
the vehemence in your nature our Holy Religion and the Pope; and even to
descend so low as to become a Jew among Jews, that you might be enabled to
gather together all information for the benefit of your Order as a faithful
soldier of the Pope.
You have been taught to insidiously plant the seeds of jealousy and
hatred between communities, provinces, states that were at peace, and incite
them to deeds of blood, involving them in war with each other, and to create
revolutions and civil wars in countries that were independent and prosperous,
cultivating the arts and the sciences and enjoying the blessings of peace. To
take sides with the combatants and to act secretly with your brother Jesuit,
who might be engaged on the other side, but openly opposed to that with which
you might be connected, only that the Church might be the gainer in the end, in
the conditions fixed in the treaties for peace and that the end justifies the
means.
You have been taught your duty as a spy, to gather all statistics, facts
and information in your power from every source; to ingratiate yourself into
the confidence of the family circle of Protestants and heretics of every class
and character, as well as that of the merchant, the banker, the lawyer, among
the schools and universities, in parliaments and legislatures, and the
judiciaries and councils of state, and to be all things to all men, for the
Pope’s sake, whose servants we are unto death.
You have received all your instructions heretofore as a novice, a
neophyte, and have served as co-adjurer, confessor and priest, but you have not
yet been invested with all that is necessary to command in the Army of Loyola
in the service of the Pope. You must serve the proper time as the instrument
and executioner as directed by your superiors; for none can command here who
has not consecrated his labors with the blood of the heretic; for “without the
shedding of blood no man can be saved.” Therefore, to fit yourself for your
work and make your own salvation sure, you will, in addition to your former
oath of obedience to your order and allegiance to the Pope, repeat after me—
The Extreme Oath of the Jesuits:
“1, _ 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 saints and sacred hosts of heaven, and to you, my ghostly father, the
Superior General of the Society of Jesus, founded by St. Ignatius Loyola in the
Pontificate of Paul the Third, and continued to the present, do by the womb of
the virgin, the matrix of God, and the rod of Jesus Christ, declare and swear,
that his holiness the Pope is Christ’s Vice-regent and is the true and only
head of the Catholic or Universal Church throughout the earth; and that by
virtue of the keys of binding and loosing, given to his Holiness by my Savior,
Jesus Christ, he hath power to depose heretical kings, princes, states,
commonwealths and governments, all being illegal without his sacred
confirmation and that they may safely be destroyed. Therefore, to the utmost of
my power I shall and will defend this doctrine of his Holiness’ right and
custom against all usurpers of the heretical or Protestant authority whatever,
especially the Lutheran of Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and the
now pretended authority and churches of England and Scotland, and branches of
the same now established in Ireland and on the Continent of America and
elsewhere; and all adherents in regard that they be usurped and heretical,
opposing the sacred Mother Church of Rome. I do now renounce and disown any
allegiance as due to any heretical king, prince or state named Protestants or
Liberals, or obedience to any of the laws, magistrates or officers.
I do further decl are that the
doctrine of the churches of England and Scotland, of the Calvinists, Huguenots
and others of the name Protestants or Liberals to be damnable and they
themselves damned who will not forsake the same.
I do further declare, that I will
help, assist, and advise all or any of his Holiness’ agents in any place
wherever I shall be, in Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway,
England, Ireland or America, or in any other Kingdom or territory I shall come
to, and do my uttermost to extirpate the heretical Protesta nts or Liberals’
doctrines and to destroy all their pretended powers, regal or otherwise.
I do further promise and declare,
that notwithstanding I am dispensed with, to assume my religion heretical, for
the propaganda of the Mother Church’s interest, to keep secret and private all
her agents’ counsels from time to time, as they may entrust me and not to
divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing or circumstance whatever; but
to execute all that shall be proposed, given in charge or discovered unto me,
by you, my ghostly father, or any of this sacred covenant.
I do further promise and declare, that I will have no opinion or will of
my own, or any mental reservation whatever, even as a corpse or cadaver
(perinde ac cadaver), but will unhesitatingly obey each and every command that
I may receive from my superiors in the Militia of the Pope and of Jesus Christ.
That I may go to any part of the world withersoever
I may be sent, to the frozen regions of the North, the burning sands of the
desert of Africa, or the jungles of India, to the centers of civilization of
Europe, or to the wild haunts of the barbarous savages of America, without
murmuring or repining, and will be submissive in all things whatsoever
communicated to me.
I furthermore promise and declare
that I will, when opportunity present, make and wage relentless war, secretly
or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to
do, to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth; and
that I will spare neither age, sex or condition; and that I will hang, waste,
boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the
stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants’ heads against the
walls, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race. That when the same
cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poisoned cup, the strangulating
cord, the steel of the poniard or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor,
rank, dignity, or authority 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 any agent of the Pope or Superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy
Faith, of the Society of Jesus.
In confirmation of which, I hereby dedicate my
life, my soul and all my corporal powers, and with this dagger which I now receive,
I will subscribe my name written in my own blood, in testimony thereof; and
should I prove false or weaken in my determination, may my brethren and fellow
soldiers of the Militia of the Pope cut off my hands and my feet, and my throat
from ear to ear, my belly opened and sulphur burned therein, with all the
punishment that can be inflicted upon me on earth and my soul be tortured by
demons in an eternal hell forever!
All of which, I, _, do swear by the Blessed Trinity
and blessed Sacraments, which I am now to receive, to perform and on my part to
keep inviolable; and do call all the heavenly and glorious host of heaven to
witness the blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist, and witness the same further
with my name written and with the point of this dagger dipped in my own blood
and sealed in the face of this holy covenant.”
(He receives the wafer from the Superior and writes
his name with the point of his dagger dipped in his own blood taken from over
his heart.)
Superior speaks:
“You will now rise to your feet and I will instruct you in the Catechism
necessary to make yourself known to any member of the Society of Jesus
belonging to this rank.
In the first place, you, as a Brother Jesuit, will with another mutually
make the ordinary sign of the cross as any ordinary Roman Catholic would; then
one cross his wrists, the palms of his hands open, and the other in answer
crosses his feet, one above the other; the first points with forefinger of the
right hand to the center of the palm of the left, the other with the forefinger
of the left hand points to the center of the palm of the right; the first then
with his right hand makes a circle around his head, touching it; the other then
with the forefinger of his left hand touches the left side of his body just
below his heart; the first then with his right hand draws it across the throat
of the other, and the latter then with a dagger down the stomach and abdomen of
the first. The first then says Iustum; and the other answers Necar; the first
Reges. The other answers Impious.” (The meaning of which has already been
explained.) “The first will then present a small piece of paper folded in a
peculiar manner, four times, which the other will cut longitudinally and on
opening the name Jesu will be found written upon the head and arms of a cross
three times. You will then give and receive with him the following questions
and answers:
From
whither do you come? Answer: The Holy faith.
Whom
do you serve? Answer: The Holy Father at Rome, the Pope, and the Roman Catholic
Church Universal throughout the world.
Who
commands you? Answer: The Successor of St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the
Society of Jesus or the Soldiers of Jesus Christ.
Who
received you? Answer: A venerable man in white hair.
How?
Answer: With a naked dagger, I kneeling upon the cross beneath the banners of
the Pope and of our sacred order.
Did
you take an oath? Answer: I did, to destroy heretics and their governments and
rulers, and to spare neither age, nor sex, nor condition; to be as a corpse
without any opinion or will of my own, but to implicitly obey my Superiors in
all things without hesitation or murmuring.
Will
you do that? Answer: I will.
How
do you travel? Answer: In the bark of Peter the fisherman.
Whither
do you travel? Answer: To the four quarters of the globe.
For
what purpose? Answer: To obey the orders of my General and Superiors and
execute the will of the Pope and faithfully fulfil the conditions of my oaths.
Go
ye, then, into all the world and take possession of all lands in the name of
the Pope. He who will not accept him as the Vicar of Jesus and his Vice-Regent
on earth, let him be accursed and exterminated.
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