“We must abstain at present from proceeding further. So disgustingly licentious, hypocritical, and demoralizing are nearly all these precepts, that it was found impossible to put many of them in print, except in the Latin Language. We will return to some of the more decent as we proceed, for the sake of comparison. But what are we to think of the future of the Catholic world, if it is to be controlled in word and deed by this villainous society? And that it is to be so, we can hardly doubt, as we find the Cardinal Archbishop of Cambrai loudly proclaiming the same to all the faithful? His pastoral has made a certain noise in France; and yet, as two centuries have rolled away since the exposé of these infamous principles, the Jesuits have had ample time to lie so successfully in denying the just charges, that most Catholics will never believe such a thing.
The infallible Pope, Clement XIV., (Ganganelli), suppressed them on the 23rd of July 1773, and yet they came to life again; and another equally infallible Pope, Pius VII., reestablished them on the 7th of August 1814. But we will hear what Monseigneur of Cambrai is swift to proclaim in 1876. We quote from a secular paper:
“Among other things, he maintains that Clericalism, Ultramontanism, and Jesuitism are one and the same thing – that is to say, Catholicism – and that the distinctions between them have been created by the enemies of religion. There was a time, he says, when a certain theological opinion was commonly professed in France concerning the authority of the Pope. It was restricted to our nation and was of recent origin. The civil power during a century and a half, imposed official instruction. Those who profess these opinions were called Gallicans, and those who protested were called Ultramontanes, because they had their doctrinal centre beyond the Alps, at Rome. Today the distinction between the two schools is no longer admissible. Theological Gallicanism can no longer exist, since this opinion has ceased to be tolerated by the Church. It has been solemnly condemned, past all return, by the Ecumenical Council of the Vatican. One cannot now be Catholic without being Ultramontane – and Jesuit.”
This settles the question. We leave inferences for the present and proceed to compare some of the practices and precepts of the Jesuits, with those of individual mystics and organized castes and societies of ancient times. Thus, the fair-minded reader may be placed in a position to judge between them as to the tendency of their doctrines to benefit or degrade humanity.”
H. P. Blavatsky
