“The Jesuits have done more moral harm in this world than all the fiendish armies of the mythical Satan. Whatever extravagance may seem to be involved in this remark, will disappear when our readers in America, who know little about them, are made acquainted with their principles (principia) and rules as they appear in various works written by the Jesuits themselves.
We beg leave to remind the public that every one of the statements which follow in quotation marks are extracted from authenticated manuscripts, or folios printed by this distinguished body. Many are copied from the large Quarto published by the authority of, and verified and collated by the Commissioners of the French Parliament. The statements therein were collected and presented to the King, in order that, as the “Arrest du Parlement du 5 Mars, 1762”, expresses it, “the elder son of the Church might be made aware of the perversity of this doctrine. …A doctrine authorizing Theft, Lying, Perjury, Impurity, every passion and Crime, teaching Homicide, Parricide, and Regicide, overthrowing religion in order to substitute for it superstition, by favoring Sorcery, Blasphemy, Irreligion, and Idolatry…etc.”
Let us then examine the ideas on magic of the Jesuits. Writing on this subject in his secret instructions, Anthony Escobart says:
“It is lawful…to make use of the science acquired through the assistance of the Devil, provided the preservation and use of that knowledge do not depend upon the Devil, for the knowledge is good in itself, and the sin by which it was acquired has gone by.” Hence, why should not a Jesuit cheat the Devil as well as he cheats every layman?
“Astrologers and soothsayers are bound, or are not bound, to restore the reward of their divination, if the event does not come to pass. I own”, remarks the good Father Escobar, “that the former opinion does not at all please me, because, when the astrologer or diviner has exerted all the diligence in the diabolic art which is essential to his purpose, he has fulfilled his duty, whatever may be the result. As the physician…is not bound to restore his fee…if his patient should die; so neither is the astrologer bound to restore his charge…except where he has used no effort, or was ignorant of his diabolic art; because, when he has used his endeavors he has not deceived.”
Further, we find the following on astrology: “If anyone affirms, through conjecture founded upon the influence of the stars and the character, disposition of a man, that he will be a soldier, an ecclesiastic, or a bishop, this divination may be devoid of all sin; because the stars and the disposition of the man may have the power of inclining the human will to a certain lot or rank, but not of constraining it.” Busenbaum and Lacroix, in Theologia Moralis, say, “Palmistry may be considered lawful, if from the lines and divisions of the hands it can ascertain the disposition of the body, and conjecture, with probability, the propensities and affections of the soul.”
This noble fraternity, which many preachers have of late so vehemently denied to have ever been a secret one, has been sufficiently proved as such. Their constitutions were translated into Latin by the Jesuit Polancus, and printed in the college of the Society at Rome, in 1558. “They were jealously kept secret, the greater part of the Jesuits themselves knowing only extracts from them. They were never produced to the light until 1761, when they were published by order of the French Parliament in 1761, 1762, in the famous process of Father Lavalette.”
The degrees of the Order are: I. Novices; II. Lay Brothers, or temporal Coadjustors; III. Scholastics; IV. Spiritual Coadjustors; V. Professed of Three Vows; VI. Professed of Five Vows. “There is also a secret class, known only to the General and a few faithful Jesuits, which, perhaps more than any other, contributed to the dreaded and mysterious power of the Order”, says Niccolini.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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