“The popular feeling in Venice, 1606, when the Jesuits were driven out from that city, expressed itself most forcibly. Great crowds had accompanied the exiles to the seashore, and the farewell cry which resounded after them over the waves, was, “Ande in malora!” (Get away! And woe be to you.) “That cry was echoed throughout the two following centuries”; says Michelet, who gives this statement, “in Bohemia in 1618…in India in 1623…and throughout all Christendom in 1773.”
In what particular was then Simon Magus a blasphemer, if he only did that which his conscience invincibly told him was true? And in what particular were ever the “Heretics”, or even infidels of the worst kind more reprehensible than the Jesuits – those of Caen, for instance – who say the following: “The Christian religion is…evidently credible, but not evidently true. It is evidently credible; for it is evident that whoever embraces it is prudent. It is not evidently true; for it either teaches obscurely, or the things which it teaches are obscure. And they who affirm that the Christian religion is evidently true, are obliged to confess that it is evidently false.” Infer from hence:
“1. That it is not evident that there is now any true religion in the world.
“2. That it is not evident that of all religions existing upon the earth, the Christian religion is the most true; for have you traveled over all countries of the world, or do you know that others have?
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“4. That it is not evident that the predictions of the prophets were given by inspiration of God; for what refutation will you bring against me, if I deny that they were true prophecies, or assert that they were only conjectures?
“5. That it is not evident that the miracles were real, which are recorded to have been wrought by Christ; although no one can prudently deny them (Position 6).
“Neither is an avowed belief in Jesus Christ, in the Trinity, in all the articles of Faith, and in the Decalogue, necessary to Christians. The only explicit belief which was necessary to the former (Jews) and is necessary to the latter (Christians) is 1, of God; 2, of a rewarding God” (Position 8.)”
Hence, it is also more than “evident” that there are moments in the life of the greatest liar when he may utter some truths. It is in this case so perfectly exemplified by the “good Fathers”, that we can see more clearly than ever whence proceeded, the solemn condemnations at the Ecumenical Council of 1870, of certain “heresies”, and the enforcement of other articles of faith in which none believed less than those who inspired the Pope to issue them.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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