“History has yet perhaps to learn that the octogenarian Pope, intoxicated with the fumes of his newly enforced infallibility, was but the faithful echo of the Jesuits. “An old man is raised trembling upon the pavois of the Vatican”; says Michelet, “every thing becomes absorbed and confined in him. …For fifteen centuries Christendom had submitted to the spiritual yoke of the Church. …But that yoke was not sufficient for them; they wanted the whole world to bend under the hand of one master. Here my own words are too weak; I shall borrow those of others. They (the Jesuits) wanted (this is the accusation flung in their faces by the Bishop of Paris in the full Council of Trent) faire de l’epouse de Jesus Christ une prostituee aux volontes d’un homme.” They have succeeded.
The Church Henceforth is an inert tool, and the Pope a poor weak instrument in the hands of this Order. But for how long? Until the end comes well may sincere Christians remember the prophetic lamentations of the thrice-great Trismegistus over his own country – “Alas, alas, my son, a day will come when the sacred hieroglyphics will become but idols. The world will mistake the emblems of science for gods and accuse grand Egypt of having worshipped hell-monsters. But those who will calumniate us thus, will themselves worship Death instead of Life, folly in place of wisdom; they will denounce love and fecundity, fill their temples with dead men’s bones, as relics, and waste their youth in solitude and tears. Their virgins will be widows (nuns) before being wives and consume themselves in grief; because men will have despised and profaned the sacred mysteries of Isis.”
How correct this prophecy has proved we find in the following Jesuit precept, which again we extract from the Report of the Commissioners to the Parliament of Paris: “The more true opinion is that all inanimate and irrational things may be legitimately worshipped”, says Father Gabriel Vasquez, treating of Idolatry. “If the doctrine which we have established be rightly understood, not only may a painted image and every holy thing, set forth by public authority for the worship of God, be properly adored with God as the image of Himself, but also any other thing of this world, whether it be inanimate and irrational, or in its nature rational.”
“Why may we not adore and worship with God, apart from danger, anything whatsoever of this world; for God is in it, according to His essence…[This is precisely what the Pantheist and Hindu philosophy maintains], and preserves it continually by His power; and when we bow down ourselves before it and impress it with a kiss, we present ourselves before God, the author of it, with the whole soul, as unto the prototype of the image [follow instances of relics, etc.]
To this we may add that since everything of this world is the work of God, and God is always abiding and working in it, we may more readily conceive Him to be in it than a saint in the vesture which belonged to him. And, therefore, without regarding in any way the dignity of the thing created to direct our thoughts to God, while we give to the creature the sign and mark of submission by a kiss or prostration, is neither vain nor superstitious, but an act of the purest religion.”
A precept to this, which, whether or not doing honor to the Christian Church, may at least be profitably quoted by any Hindu, Japanese, or other heathen, when rebuked for his worship of idols. We purposely quote it for the benefit of our respected “heathen” friends, who will see these lines.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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