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C harles C hiniquy and E dw in A. Sherm an w ere friends and both w ere F reem asons. H ow ever, both m en w ere B ible believers and very antiJesuit in their w ritin gs and p u blic speeches. B oth fearlessly exposed the Sons o f L oyola as the tru e assassins o f P resid en t A b rah am L incoln, w h ich indicates th at an elem en t o f F reem ason ry is not aw are th at its con trollin g high-level Shriners serve the Jesuit G eneral.

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history o f th is S ociety of. Thug, w ith th eir secret in stru c tio n s and code, w ith an introduction by C harles S au vestre, th e w hole translated from th e S p a n ish . C opy now in the

hands o f the translator, E dw in A . ShermaD, th e com piler of th is work. P A R T SE C O N D . CONTENTS. W hy Abraham Lincoln^ the Martyr P resid en t, was a ssa ssi nated; the initial point o f th e conspiracy against him by the J esu its in Illin o is in and the U n ion w hile he 14th o f April, 1805, P A R T T H IR D . T h e P apal S yllab u s of Errors, by P op e P iu s IX .; extracts from D en 's and Henrietta* T h eology; B ish o p D u p aiilou p 's tirada against Freem aaonry, and other m iscellan eou s m atters o f interest to Freem ason and other fraternal association s. the Papal consp iracy against him
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PREFACE.
n y TUt1 ; t k \ n r i . atou .

In p r e se n tin g to our re ad ora th is tran slation from the S p a n ish of th e M nita S e g u e t a ( S ecret M onitor ) of th e Jesu its, it is b u t d u e th a t a clear and tr u th fu l sta tem en t of how th e work cnm e ih to our h a n d s sh o u ld be g iv en . In the m on th of A u gu st of 1S70, the S ecretariat of all the b od ies o f th e A n cie n t and A ccepted S c o ttish R ite o f F reem a son ry in th e C ity o f San F ran cisco, C alifornia, had been placed in oar h an d s, an d w e th e n occu p ied an office, w h ich had b een assig n ed to u s, in the M ason ic T em p le o f th is c ity . S carcely had w e th en S t o r e d u p on our d u ties, w hen o u e m orn in g in th e m ou th of S ep tem b er, 1870, ft rap w as heard at our door, an d , o n o p e n in g it, a stranger, feeb le in body, w ith a pnllid face bewri a y be e v id en ce o f great suffering and of sic k n e ss, in q u ired if th at wuh th e ofiiee of the Secretary of the S co ttish K ite of F reem ason ry, w h ich we an sw ered in the affirm ative and Dvited h im in and gave him a seat. H e then took from h is pocket a package of papers, covered w ith leather and o il-silk , w hich lie ca refu lly unw rapped and p resen ted lor our in sp e ctio n . B ein g in S p a n ish and L atin, w found upon ex a m in a tio n ttint th ey were h is p aten ts or certificates of the variou d ecrees of the S co ttish H ite of F reem ason ry, d u ly sign ed and a ttested by the officer*, and bearing the seal o f the Su p rem e C ou ncil of th e T h irty-th ird D egree o f P e r u . U pon further e x a m in a tio n , wo found the stranger to be a Brother o f th e L ig h t, and, w ith other le t ters mid c red en tia ls w h ich he bore, that he was a gen tlen m u o f refinem ent and cu ltu re, and a menit>er o f and explorer fori various scien tific so c ie tie s in Kitrope, but m ore esp e cia lly tor the Archaeological S ocioty of F rance, w ith its principal seat at l*arin, and w ith its m em b ers and c o rresp o n d en ts scattered th rou gh ou t Kuropo and A m erica. He wan a F renchm an, and, tf we m istak e not, a H u g u en o t. He sp ok e F n g lish , but

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r a t h e r br oken ly , yet co rrectly in ir an d diction. Iff in q u i r e d whore o u r S c o tti s h Kite b od ies met, a n d d e s ir e d to mu* the hull w h e r e o u r b r e t h r e n o f t i n t Kit*- a s s e m b le d . We co n d u cte d h im u p t h e sf urs. w h ic h he slowly a s c e n d e d to th e a n te - ro o m of t h e C h a p t e r Ha)], where, p a u s i n g a few nioment^, we t h e n e n t e r e d th e m a i n hull, ;tnd w ith u n c o v e r e d h e a d he re v e re n t ly a p p r o a c h e d th e al tar, k n elt a n d e m b r a c e d it, a n d bow ed h is h e a d i n s ilent p r a y e r. Wp were p e c u l ia r ly s tr u c k with his n i a n n e r . a n d a t t i t u d e , a n d looked on in silencewon d er in g w h a t h e would do m-xt. H e t h e n r a i s e d h is h e a d , and, r eaching b e h in d , took out a h a n d k e r c h i e f from his p o ck et in th e skirt of his coat an d s p r e a d it nut u p o n t h e a lt a r . H e th e n reached his h a n d to th e b ack o f his n e c k i n s id e of h i s collar an d slowly pulled up a n d o u t a soiled M a s o n i c Kns e Croix a p r o n a n d s p r e a d it out u p o n t h e h a n d k e r c h i e f u p o n th e alt:ir, an d t h e n clusp in g his h a n d s t o g e t h e r a n d r a i s i n g his eyes to w a r d s h e a v e n , offered a p r a y e r in F r e n c h of g r a t i tude a n d thank*;**!Tiny_pw t.L h e s e s t r a n g e p r o c e e d i n g s , at s u c h a time an d to which A m er ic an s are not a c c u s t o m e d , greatly intensified o u r cur iosity, an d th*> tirst t h o u g h t t h a t p a s s e d th r o u g h o u r m i n d was, Is he a crank,' W h i l e w a iti n g for him to finish his d e votions, we obser ve d t h a t th e a p r o n was badly s ta in e d an d h ad several holes in it, a n d th er e was s o m e t h i n g a b o u t it w h i c h held o u r a t b m t i o n fixed u p o n it. At last he arose, an d we a s k e d o f h im th e m e a n i n g of till this, which was s tr a n g e to u s t n e v e r h a v i n g w i tn e s s e d Anything of this sort before, wo h a v i n g t h e n b een a M a so n nearly sev en teen y ear s. W e were a w a r e of th e diffe re nce in the rituals of foreign j u r i s d i c t i o n s , a n d t h e c u s t o m s of o u r foreign b r e t h re n , especially th o s e of t h e L a ti n races, a m i Could m ake an allow an ce for t h e i r e x u b e r a n c e a n d i n t e n s i t y of feeling in th e ir ath-ction a n d a r d o r for F r e e m a s o n r y . He replied: ,4 If you will r e t u r n to y o u r r o o m d o w n s t a i r s , w h e r e it ih w a r m e r t h a n it is in th is hall. I will e x p l a i n to y o u a l l . Wo th o u r e tu r n e d to th e office, a n d he, looking to Hre'ft t h e door was holted a n d secure, nuked us to a ^ i s t h i m in r e m o v ing bin coat an d vent, an d we did so. T h e n p u l l i n g u p his

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i outer and under shirts, ho showed us his hark, and what a sight was there presented to us! There were several bullet wounds and those made by stabs with a knife or poinard, bnt nearly healed, two or three of which were still slightly suppurating. W e said to him , You need a su rgeon. Oh, n o , he answered, I am pretty near well n o w . We then assisted him to adjust his clothing, w hich having done, we then asked o f him to explain to us the history and m ean ing of all thin, which he did in the follow ing manner, which is given as correctly as possible and as our recollection serves us. H e said: I am a member of various scientific societies in Europe, one of which is the Archfeological Society of France, whose seat is in Paris, and of which country I am a native. T his society has m any corresponding m embers iu other conntries, and is engaged in m aking archreological and antiquarian researches iu various parts of the globe. A s one of its scientific explorers, I was assigned to Spanish America, especially to the conntries of Chili, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, New Granada and Venezuel .-^Wtpt having laid out my plan of exploration, I directed my principal attention to the west ern slope of the Andean Range in South America, and to that portion in northeastern Chili, B olivia and southeastern Peru, as that presented the m ost interesting unexplored ter* ritory for my research and exam ination. Every facility had been accorded to me by the principal governm ent officials of those countries; the people of Chili being the most libera^ aod enlightened, while those Peru and B olivia were the most superstitious and priest-ridden of any uuder the sun. I was greatly indebted to my M asonic brethren at Callao and Lima for kind and fraternal courtesies aud hoHpitalities ex tended to me, and after bidding them adieu, I entered upon my tour of exploration and started for my destination to ex am ine the ruins of ancient T em ples of the Hun and ot towns and cities long since perished, which were once populated by the subjects of the Incas, and destroyed by the ravages of war with other nations, the invasion by the Spaniard" under P ittrvo, and the terrible temblors or earthquakes which bad

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helped in the general destruction which had Inen wr.m^ht ftt the bands of the invaders, both of their native continent and from across the Atlantic from the Sierra Morena of Old Spain a people now remotely and sparsely settled, excep t ing in the few cities and towns, but nearly the wholo sunk in ignorance, and both soul and body fettered and bound to a licentious and m erciless priesthood, where every cathedral and church was a citadel and fortitication, aiftl every m onas tery a barracks garrisoned with lustful and armed monks, with innumerable nunneries as harems for the gratification of their passions and lustful desires. Morals were at a low ebb, and a compaction de iwche was furnished with the gen eral bill of fare to the guest of the hostelry, to be aceep'ted or not, according to the taste or wish o f the sojourning traveller. Having determined the point of my destination and com menced my explorations, the nearest habitation to the locality of the ruins which I had selected to exam ine was nearly six miles, and, at tim es when being excessively fatigued with my labor, I found that itj pauld be necessary to camp upon the spot, and then afterwards where I was dom iciled I could write up my reports from the sketches I had made and the notes taken down. T he house w hich I occupied while so e n gaged was built of m assive adobr walls (or uuburnt brick), nearly four feet thick, one story in height, and the windows without glass were barred with irou grating and shutter iuHide. It had originally been constructed during the Spanish occupation o f the country, and evidently been built as an outpost fortification fur military pnrposes, against the inroads of the mountain tribes of Indians, with whom a coustnut predatory warfare had been m aintained, som e of whom, no doubt, were the descendants of the original occupants of the country, the ruins o f who* labora l had undertaken to ex plore. The room which had been a lig n e d to ui" hy the family who occupied tin hotiHt' about thirty f*rt mnmre^with bare walln, and a stmt of th> aiue nmterinl extending nearly around the room, w h i t e w a l l , ,! witli patetiea of

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9 the furniture knocked oft in many places. The m- bed consisted of an < bedst ead laid up in masonry to about the same height and shape an an ordinary blacksm iths forge, but som ewhat larger and covered with a very large bullocks hide. O wing to the frequent changes of the bed lim n and to remove the m any lively occupants o f th is downy couch, repeated sw eepings of the bedstead had made an incline plane inwards, w ith a narrow gutter next the wall. In that country, aB it used to be in California, every traveller is e x pected to oarry h is blankets, take up his bed and walk when necessary. Som e cheap pictures of the Virgin and saints and a crucifix adorned the walls, and w ith a chair and table of rude m anufacture, nailed and screwed together with thongs of rawhide, my furnished apartm ents were com plete. Dur in g my absence at the ruins, m y room was not unfrequently occupied by other travelling gentry, passing through the country. It was on m y return upon one occasion that I learned that a distinguished 'Obispo fUJCf f/e Jesu s, or Jesuit Bishop Father, had also stopped one nigh t and had occupied my room and bed, and had left there only two days previous to my return. H aving thrown m y poncho and cloak upon the bed, I made m y ablutions, satisfied my tin k e r , and went to work transcribing from my notes and arranging my sketches in order. W hile so engaged, I had occasion to rise and go to my bed to get Bome thingH out of the pocket in my cloak, and iu doing so I disarranged the rawhide mattress, and my attention was directed to a sm all package in the gutter of the l>edatead next the wall, which had been covered up. I un rolled it, and to my great astoiushm eut I found t h a t I had made a great discovery of the Secret Manual of I n s tr u c tio n s , together with the cerem onies of induction o f members of the Society of the Jesuits,' printed in Latin, and bearing the h*1 and Mignaturt* and att*i-itation of the (leneral and S ecre tary of the Order at Home, e m b r a c in g also th e o o - lateral branch of tho Society of Hun Fodintas, or Fathers ol the Holy Faith. -A ccom panying the HUliie were m a n u s c r ip t additions

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nnd amendment?* made to the general work, Carefully con cealing the fact of my discovery. I im m ediately set to work aud in stenographic hand copied the entire w oik from the Latin into French, and, knowing that it would be exceed in g ly dangerous to be found with the original in m y possession , if not positively fatal, I wrapped tho who* up with iue same cure with which I had undone it, replaced it in the cor. ner of the gutter of my bedstead aud pushed the rawbide mattress over it iu the same m:umer as I had found it. *'I started the next morning, after having com pleted my copying, to renew my explorations and to p erm e the copy I had made. In a week I again returned to the house where I had beeu staying, when I was informed by the fam ily that th e OlAspo with his servant had returned in great trepidation and anxiety, asking if they or any one had found a small parcel done up, describing its outward appe^rance^ for he had lost it aud would be ruined if it was not to be found. H e had ridden on mulebnck over one hundred and fifty leftgues and had searched for it iu vitHK y ^m entering my apartm ent, which he had also occupied, and on approaching the bedBtead and lifting the rawhide, he had discovered the lost par cel and was greatly overjoyed on again getting possession of it. He rigidly questioned them concerning the extranjero who rented the apartments, but gaining no inform ation that would throw any additional light on the subject, went away satisfied with what ho hud recovered. Having when in 1arw h^ard of such a work that hud been printed aud used by Eugene Sue iu his great work of the Wandering Jew , which precipitated the R evolution of 18H and made France a republic, I sent for a copy of that work, if it could possibly bo obtained, whioh I was fortnale iti being ahUi to do through an officer of the Grand Orient of Franc*. O comparing the two, f found that they wore identically nlike, with the exception only of lute ndditiotis aud tmondatiomi, which, with somn other matters, were in manuscript form as already Htated. I tlm m f .r.< adopted the copy at,hi me with the introduction by Charles Hauvestrc and

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other addenda, and at my leisure translated the w hole print ed matter into Sp anish^ sen t the m anuscript to ray friends in the city of B oston, in the U nited States, and had it printed in Spanish for the benefit of ray M asonic brethren in S p an ish America, but the im print, the better to conceal the source and protect my friends, was made to appear as having been printed at a certain number and street in P aris. I succeeded in gettin g quite a large num ber o f cop ies sm uggled through the custom -house at Callao, Porn, and distributed som e of them am ong my M asonic brethren in that country. B ut, alaB! unfortunately for m yself and the fraternity, the Jesuits were to be found even am ong them , and, b eing duly warned by true brethren, it became necessary, in order to save m y life, to flee from the country, and I m ade m y arrangem ents to leave accordingly. B u t being detained longer than I ex pected, I had to take another route to reach another seaport than the one originally contem plated, and in doing so had to run the gauntlet, as it were, and jy a s shot and stabbed in the back, as you see by the wouncHrnearly healed. Fortunately none proved to be fatal. I succeeded in reaching the seacoast, and through kind ^brethren was put on board o f . an E n glish steam er bound for Panam a, from w hose surgeon and officers I received every courtesy and atten tion , and on ar riving at P an am a, I took the Pacific M ail C om panys steam er, receiving the sam e tender treatm ent, and arrived here only a few days ago, nearly well, and here I am ju st a<i you see m e. Through it all I have carried one copy of this work safely, and here it is. I f I could get it translated in to E nglish and have it printed, it would be a m ost valuable w eapon in the hands of the M asonic fratern ity. At that tim e we were the A ssociate Editor of the Masonic M irro r , published by A. W . B ishop & Co., afterwards B ishop k Sherm an. We offered to m ake the translation, and did a sm all portion o f it at that tim e and sent copies of the oath o f the S an Fedistas and C olloquy to our subscribers, and we wont with him to M essrs. H . II. Bancroft < fc Co., Roman & Co., and ottiei publishers o San Francisco at that tim e, to

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see if they wmild print the work, but all of them declined, either out of indifference, fear or policy, and the publication of it at that tim e had4 o be abandoned. T h is gentlem an then went with me to D t\\V a a h in g to n Ayer, with whom th e book was left. It had been lost, and for a period of about tw elve years could not be found, when, as good fortune w ould have it, the book was again reoovered in the fall of 1882, and, as translated, it is here given to our readers. T h e original owner is supposed to now be in M exico or Central A m erica, pursu ing h is scientific researches there. H is nam e is w ithheld for prudential reasons and for safety. H e is a gentlem an of h igh charaoter, and was warm ly and favorably indorsed by Seor Don Jos B aym undo M orales, 33, A ctive Member o f th e Supreme Council o f the A ncient and Accepted Scottish H ite of Freem asonry of Peru at the tim e o f b is visit to the Grand Consistory of the State o f California, at its organization in San Francisco, October 12th, 1870, at w hich tim e we were chosen as the Grand Registra* o f that Grand B od y. The difliojttjtg ^ w adhering to th e original text, being a translation from tlie Spanish in to E n glish , and the Spanish itself being a translation from the L atin and the Frenoh at the same tim e, we have endeavored to give the sam e true to the spirit and literally as possible and though there are some paragraphs and sentences som ew hat awkward in ex pression, dubious in their m eaning and hard to be understood, yet the reader w ill be ready, w hen h e com es to them , to un derstand the full force of the language of th e Jesuit T a lley rand, that words are on ly intended to conceal id e a s.* Asking the indulgence o f our readers for the im perfections contained in this our first edition, w hich w hen exhausted will be supplied by another, and thanking our M asonic and other brethren, who have encouraged u s in bringing forth this work, that we may see the devil as he is, we remain, Fraternally yours, E D W IN A. SH ERJ4AN, Translator and Compiler. F rancisco, Cal ., Augunt 24, 1883. *

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INTRODUCTION.
B r C h a b le s S a u v e s tr e .
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THE COMPANY OF JESUS,

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SOCIETY OF THE JESUITS.

I Im agine an association whose m em bers having destroyed all ties of fam ily and of country, to be singled out from am ong men, and w hose forces are to be concentrated at last to one united and formidable end, its plan devised and^it establishes its dom inion by all possible m eans over all the^ nations of the earth^j Im agine tb is im m ense conspiration having in place substi tuted its rules aud its policy, yet, to th e same principles o f religion, that, little b y little, th ey have arrived to dom inate over the princes o f the church, to m aintain a royal slavitude, although not confessed, and of such a manner, that those who officially have the titles and assum e the responsibility, are nothing but th e docile instrum ents o f a fm c e hidden and sUetti, ( S u c h abb t h e J e s u i t s . Always expelled, forever returning, and little by little clandestinely and in the dark n ess throwing out its vigorous roots. Its w ealth may be con fiscated, its losses cannot be detained for they are covered. / Practicing At a time the caption o f inheritances and the com -

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merce of great adventures. Confessors, negotiators, brokers, lenders, peddlers of pious gewgaws, inventors of new devo tions to make m erchandise. At tim es m ixing in p o li^ ties, agitating states and making princes to tremble upon their thrones, f o r they are terrible in their hate. Wo u n t o h im w h e n t h e y t r n u p o n h im a s h i s e n e m y ! By very especial grace from heaven, any who may raise obstacles against them , , although they may be fouud at the sum m it of the m ost lofty grandeur, yet will they be stricken down as with a thunderbolt.^ Henry IV, the o n e'k in g o f whom the people have treas ured his memory, found three assassins successively, and died under the knife of a fanatic, at the sam e tim e he was about to attack the favorite governm ent of the J esu its Austria. Clement XIV, a P o p e! suprem e above the Order of the Jesuits, dies of colic pains by poison. A t this m om ent the Jesuits have established them selves anew am ongst u s (in France), in spite of the edicts and the laws. A s of old, they have returned to open their colleges and to persist in moulding the youth own spirit. p t s society grows and increases in riches and influence by"^ all sorts of means; and no one can attack them, for every where we find men prompt to serve them , to obtain from j them some advantage o f position or pride^ T h is book which we present is the S k ch et M anual of this m ost celebrated company. Many tim es have we desired to make ourselves believe that it is an apocryphal work, and so absolve the en tire Order, whose code has been made known to us. The whole of this evil matter is deniable when it is said that " thse are good F a t h e r s But in all conscience, can one place confidence in the words of m en, when they teach that lying is law f ul to those who can m ake it useful." We can swear that we have not done n th in g, although in effect we may have done it, understanding by this that we did not do it on such a day or before being born; understanding over any other sim ilar circum stance, that we have so m ejra y by it, which can discover the words by which one can save him self; and this in very convenient in critical circumstances

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a n d ju s t when it is necessary or useful for th e h e a lth , for h o n o r or w e ll b e in g .* [ Opera M oralia , R . P . S a n c h e z , p a g e 2,

We w ell know that the J esu its are im m utable in their d oc trines as in all their m odes of being $n aut sunt aut non sin t. B u t to give som e w eight to th e negation, it w ill be found necessary to show that the conduct o f the Jesuits, nothing is had in com m on w ith th e precepts contained in the book of the M n it a S e c r e t a (Secret M on itor); well then, it is m ost evident tEnt th e contrary exists in truth, and thut their works are in perfect conform ity w ith it. I t is a great th in g to be noted, that the influence of this Society has been extended over th e secular clergy; we have seen its m ethods developed am ong them at the sam e tim e as its spirit. T h e proofs are so very num erous and public that we have the right to in sist u p on th is point, and the reader who desires to be onvinced can recur to the collection of the periodicals o f these last tim es. It is sufficient to read the '* S e c b e t I n s t r u c t i o n s understand the Jesuit spirit that dictated them . L et us give a glance am ong the chapters
* S y s te m t h a t m u st b e e m p lo y e d w i t h W id o w s a n d t h e MANNER TO DISPOSE OF THEIR PROPERTIES. METHODS BY w h ic h t h e S o n s o r R ic h W id o w s a b e t o b e m ade t o em b r a c e t h e R e l i g i o u s S t a t e o r t h a t o f D e v o t io n .* ' T h e M e t h o d by w h ic h w e m u st o h a b g e t h e C o n fe sso b b a n d P b e a c h e b s t o t h e G b e a t o f t h e E a r t h . M o d e o f m ak -^ ''in g P r o f e s s i o n o f D e s p is in g o f R i c h e s . R ead them all, om itting nothing, and Bay afterward if th ese precepts are a^

dead letter. H aving ceased io care f o r the w idow , to capture the inheritances, to rob the children from their fam ilies, o f intriguing near the great, o f influencing in the politics o f the f | nations, o f working to the last w ith but one object, that is not I th e trium ph of religion, but the eiigrandisem ent o f the ** Com pany of Jesus und the establishm ent o f its dom inion' / W ell, then, if the conduct of the JesuitH is the foithful ex ecution of the S e c b e t I n s t r u c t i o n s it is the whole indis*

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pensable point of adm itting the reality of th is book. For why, or are, the Jesu its those w hich are m odeled upon it, or has the book been copied on them ? In both cases, w e can not say that it is an invention or a calumny. T hat w hich is incontestable is, that the S e c r e t I n s t r u c t i o n s have been printed for the first tim e in P aris in 1661; and that of th ose there are existing m anuscript copies o f anterior date. We read in the edition of 1824, w hich we have before our sight, In the jelig io u s wars o f w hich G erm any w as th e theatre, many Jesu it colleges were assaulted and robbed by the Reformers. We encounter in their archives exem plary m anuscripts o f the S e c r e t M o n it o r ; and w e also find at one tim e in P aris two editions, one under the rubric of Praga and the other under that of P adua. T h is last is printed on parchment and in accordance with th e Constitutions o f the Company o f Jesus.* T h e three editions, although m ade from different m anuscripts, are perfect in conform ing w ith each other. In all the epochs in wfe*$h*,t>he J esu its have m enaced the State, a zealous hand h as always thrust anew th is book w hich has always been preserved from those that w ould destroy it, safely passed the trial, though the Company have ever sought to purchase it in secret, and cause all evidences of it to disappear entirely from view . T h e present edition of the S e c r e t M o n ito r " has been collected from the m anuscript of F a t h e r B r o t h ik b and from the French ed ition s of 1718, 1819, 1824 and 1845th is last m ade in B lo is by Mr. D u cou x, afterwards member of the C onstituent A ssem bly and Prefect of Police in 1848, which hasserved us in the edition o f last ,, June. In th is is included an excellent notice, but it has been mude to disappear as has the most o f ail other bpoJcs against the Jesuits. . We have given in the follow ing a brief historic sketch of the Order. Here we see that the J esu its have been su ccessively ex pelled from all parts, but that also they have returned to all* parts, and entered furtively w ithout b eing disturbed; in France, solem nly condem ned for their acts and doctrinos.

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Not for this has it been left open w ith lees audacity in the lap of the country from which they have been thrice expelled. T he M inisters o f State pass away, governm ents fall, revolu tions tear up the countries, the laws are renewed, the Jesuits are always perm anent and weigh down the whole. They, only, never change. T h is im m utability, which is the sign of its strength, is also that of its condem nation. For that the movement is the law of its existence; all who live are subject^ to changethis same is, the essence of progress. The for midable Company o f J e s u s is a society o f dead men! perinde ac cadaver is also a work o f death that is realized. ' Founded in an epoch in which European society was lifted up at last from the long and bloody nigh t of the Middle Ages, it im posed the m ission of repelling the current which bore hum anity along to the light and to science. To the torch of reason, it opposed the dogma of passive obedience and to be as a corpse; to the pure brilliant ligh ts of the conscience, the corruptions o f doubt and of casuistry. The worship of the^& m ts replaces that of God; puerile practices are substituted for those that are moral; religion has given way to the grossest superstitions; and, as the human spirit cannot be detained in its road, the separation has to be made between faith and the reason; aUieism is disseminated _ everyw h ere; Jesuitism aim s to kill alPreligious sentiment; truth, which should be in its place, fs given to hypocrisy! y . ^ E s ta b lis h e d and directed with the proposition of universal^ domination, th is Society presents in the m eans of its organ ization such power o f invasion that we cannot think of it without being oppressed by a species of fea r ^ | W ell, can it be that the aim of its first founders was only to assist in the unity of its beliefs? Perhaps to*day many of its members are of good faith, and m ounting artifice upon artifice, hypoc risy upon hypocrisy, with the best of intentions im aginable. It is not the first example presented of hallucination. But not for this is to be left to be less pernicious its aotion in tin
I t is true th e sta tu tes o f th e C om pany
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its members all personal amb\iion$ but in this nothing is lowt to the devil. The good fathers do not labor with less earnest ness for the exaltation and enrichm ent of the Company, w hose power and splendor is reflected upon each member. T h e pride of the body with all the passions of the spirit of sect replaces the interest of person. In one word, each one is left to be one particular entitythat b, a Jesuit. For them the disinterested individual absolves the m ost reprehensible actions at the tim e they are inspired w ith the pride of perfection. It is alw ays, says the profound wis dom of Pascal, that if an angel desired to be converted, he would return an im becile. The excessive hum ility is that which is more assimilated to arrogance. It is, then, by this mode that the Jesuits have come to be believed to be superior to the most of the members of the clergv, whatever may be their dignity or how high they may be found. It is also by this method that they have im posed upou them selves the task of dom inating the whole Catholic w orld. For them selves, they ^ r e L aching, not having pom pous titles, no sum ptuous ornaments, no croziers, no. mitres, no capes of the prebendiaries, but pertain to 'that one Order ev erywhere governing and directing. O f command, others have the appearance; but these possess the reality. In whatever ' ] hce o f the Catholic world a Jesuit is insulted or resisted > no maiter how insignificant he m aybe, he is sure to be avenged a n d
THIS WE KNOW.

Note by the Translator.See in Part Second the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and Ub causes, in the trial of Rev. C, Chiniquy.

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PKEFACE
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FOURTH

FRENCH

EDITION.

The three first editions of this book were exhausted in so short a time that we could not carry out our intention of im portant changes; but we now present new proofs and aug m ent our citations, answering with them to our adversaries. The events of Switzerland stam ping out the Jesuits as agi tators of civil war; their black robes spattered with blood but, as on other occasions, the blood was not distinguished, because it was confounded with that o f the Protestants and inhabitants of the New World. And we offer the testim ony of the riches of the Jesuits, of their duplicity and of their bad faith. T his complete book is to-day the condemnation of.the Jesuits by them selves, being the one answer conceded by us to the Jesuit journals which so cowardly attacked us. A thousand laurels to fee^Jesuits! Awakening Europe out of its lethargy and running unitedly to the conquest of democratic ideas, for the reaction of tyranny always produces liberty. In 1833, the Jesuits made exclam ation to the Pope. I t would be an absurdity to concede io the people the liberty o f con science. ^ The C abdinal Akbani having framed* his plan of action that decimated Italy and dictated this impious oath: / swear 1 to erect the throne and the altar upon the bones o f the infamous Liberate, and to exterminate them one by one, without being moved by the clamors o f children, old men and women!'* In 1843, we take the events of Helvetia nd note that the Jesuits were the prime movers of the civil war; the H oly Fa ther having counseled them to abandon Switzerland, but did not satisfy the exit o f the reverend fathers, and they persisted in another struggle. Shall it be that the blood shall be poure?!!' upon their heads, drop by drop! Shall they not receive the m&lediotions of men and fall beneath the anathema of God!

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THE JESUITS,
FROM 1541 UNTIL OUR OWN DAYS

In vain we question the step; in vain we ask ourselves if the odium against the Jesuits has not been unjust, to see them constantly hated for three centuries, with t h e curses of peoples and the sentences even of popes and of kings. W ho can answer to human infallibility? Infam ous persecutions cannot pursue entire peoples. Have not t h e Hebrews been a thousand tim es condemned? And a t t h e end of eighteen centuries man has avoided the injury and maledictions. Where was the season of justice? W here that of equality? Who can assure me that the Jesuits, as in other tim es the Templars, have not been victim s? The truth is, popes and sovereigns excluded their doctrines; but was it not a P ope who condemne<73r8fTeo? Was it not another who sentenced Bossuet and Fenelon? Certainly posterity annulled many unjust sentences, but in turn maintained and sanctioned all the decisions which Btruck down the Jesuits, petitioning yet against the Order of the Jesuits the sentence pronounced against them by Pope Clement X IV., who was poisoned by them ! W ehuriidly trace the history of the Jesuits, descending beyond all comprehension of our tasks, to tbe sepulchre in f which Loyola interred the doctrines, 1 1 the bounden duty o f ? making o f man and o f intelligence a coipse A Spanish chieftain,called Ignatius Loyola, was the founder and lawgiver of the Jesuits. T his man was a fanatic, insen- ' Bible, and given an iron and om nipotent will, created a sect in ( the midst of Catholicism, frightened them with the clam or-/ ous apostacy of Luther; covering his haughty ideas with the habit of the monk and the cape of the mendicant, j^dic-ulous. / in the extreme but terrible in his results. Spain having inV augurated a tribunal (the Inquisition) with the intent of^fcil-

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21 ing the body, under the pretext of saving the b o u L Ign atiu s Loyola assassinated the soul, despising the bodyin thiB m anner, in tjie t'O extrem ities o f the world, in Spain and the Indies, and accounted the two societies w hich destroyed the body, <rthe inquisitors and stranglers, by other nam e thugs, and the C om pany of J e su s placed its tents between them b o th . Jesu s created the life and the th ou gh t; Ign atiu s Loyola created deaththe death of the soul and of intelligence, of love and charitjv of all that is grand, nob le and generous, Loyola was the creator and the on e light*giver of the Society of the Jesuits, an ardent and p assionate man, rancorous and persevering, oppressive towards h is d iscip les, in his in stitu . tions, poesy and enthusiasm , in genius aud human passions. In the Order of the J esu its there m ust be only one m an the Generalb is inferiors being nothing more than passive instru m ents; then L oyola in the bed of death prescribed blind obe dience obedieniia sceca. H is in stitu tion s w hich we present from then ce, form a m u u y w m t, are few and m inute; the at tention given by readers that they m ust spriug from casuists, deceivers and perverse, and also that they m ust betray the tim orous and honorable. T h is code has only one base mutual vigilance and d e sp isin g o f the human race. T h e S u perior, ^ys M ichelet, is alw ays surrounded by counsellors, professors, novices and graduates, and h is breth ren who can and m ust be denouncers; taking sham eful pre cautions, although against other m em bers who have given the greatest proof of their adhesion; prescribing friendship in the sem inaries and being prohibited to walk two by two, and it is necessary to be alone or three together, but not less, for it is w ell know n that the Jesu its never establish any in ti m acy before a third, f o r the third is a spy} for when there are three, w hich is indispensable, there cannot be found a traitor. In the celebrated Constitutions it is prescribed to have the sigh t m uch lower than that o f those to whom they speak dissim ulate the wrinkles w hich form in the n ose and the fore h ea d . T he Constitutions instruct the confessors in sophis-

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tries, and these serve them to direct them before the ey es o f the penitents. In the power of L oyola in converting into a corpse, the faculty o f free w ill perinde ac cadaver . " H is successors (1) organized the grand scholastic moral or casuis try, that for all whom we m ay m eet either a d i s t i n g u i r n dividual or a nobody (n m ). T h i s a r t or d e c e i v i n g w i t h t h e
MORAIi WAS THE PRINCIPAL CONSISTENCY OF HIS IN ST IT U T IO N ;^ THE OMNIPOTENT ATTRACTION OF A CONFESSIONARY SEDUCED THE MULTITUDE; THE SERMON WAS SEVERE AND INDULGENT IN DI

concluding'at last with such foreign m erchandise introduced am ong the feeble conscien ces of the great o f th e ^ Wftrld and the political direction of society. The birth of the Com pany of J e s u s was at an appropri ate tim e, of the great revolution o f Luther, valiantly fight ing the Reform of the Sixteenth Century, serving th e P ope with these auxiliaries who did not see whom th ey were that were as succor sent from heaven. T he Jesuits augm ented their num bers very soon at the Bide of Ike tiara to wlraaytfaoy gave power in h is day, and in 1547, Bobadilla o f Germany was expelled for h is seditious doc- " trines. M eanwhile the accom plices of Charles IX and Cathererine de M edicis took counsel of the Jesu its and were assem bled ^in their den on the bloody night of St. Bartholom ew, A ugust 124th, 1572, when Gaspard de Coligny was assassinated with 30,000 other H uguenots, and over 70,000 in th e provinces were butuhered, being at the tim e when Francis Borgia was th e G en eral of the Order. In 1568 they intended to establish a sem i nary in Paris, but the U niversity, great and pow erfulthen, was opposed to the progress of the Sons of L oyola, w hose chief in France was Odon P ig e n a t, a furious colleague, to whom Arnaud gave the appellation o f the fan atic priest o f Gybele, and the historian gave the title o f Tite Tiger, In 1570, Elizabeth expelled the J esu its from England, being at the same tim e that they were banished from Portugal and ^ A m b e re B in 1578. During the reign of H enry I I I . t h e y :
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stirred up a rebellion and fam ished the country by becom ing m onopolista, the in fallib le m ethod o f sharpening the poniards o f Jacob C lem ent and Chatel. In 1593, the Jesu it Varade armed the hand of the assassin Barriere against H enry IV .; in 1594, Jean Chatel, w ith th e in ten t of assassinating H enry IV ., had for h is accom plice the Father G uinaud, who was h\m g for the crime on the 7th o f Ju n e, 1595. P ope Clem ent V H . charged the J esu its w ith the d issen sion s o f the church in 1598 the}Twere expelled from H olland for attem pting to ( assassinate M aurice of N assau, as they had by order of P op e , Gregory X III assassinated W illiam the S ilen t, Prince of Orange, on th e 10th of Ju ly, 1584, An edict of H enry IV ex-^ polled them from France, but, dragging along until the plant in g of the French m onarchy th ey were tacitly permitted to enter. T he Conqueror o f the L eague, the king who dreamed of a universal m onarchy, the threatening aspect of th ese m en whom it is said had secret treaties ayid correspondence everywhere and ability to cause others to treat with them by their agreeable manners ( Qui ditil ont des intelligences et correspondences p a r tout et grande dextiente cMJisposm les esprit ainsi qu'il levr p la it) . In 1604 Cardinal Borrom eo was dispatched from the Sem i nary o f Breda; being hung in L ondon in 1605, the Jesuits Q-arnet and Oldecorn as authors o f the G unpowder P lo t; and in 1606 th ey were driven from V enice. R availlac assassinated H enry IV . in the year 1610, and the( Jesu it M ariana, in h is work De Rege, made the apology of( * the regicide. ' F ollow ing so notorious a Society, its tracks are im perish-^ ablea trench filled w ith the corpses of k in gs. In 1618 th ey were expelled from B oh em ia; in 1619, from Moravia; and in 1621, from Poland. Inflam ed in 1641 with th e great contest of Jansenism, in 1843, they were thrust out o f M alta; and in Seville, wLere they com m enced m erchandising~and were broken up in 1646, after having been the adversaries of all th e illu striou s m en o f their e p o c h , after having been routed^, b y Arnaud and D e T hou, w ho fell under the lash of P ascal;

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the provincial decrees of justice and forced out of the R oyal Porte by repeated blows, the eloquent voice of B ossuet break ing forth in invectives against them , and by the declaration of 1682 all the French clergy treated them with indignation and co&tempt. But following their subterranean ways, they returned to their elevation again, ruling L ouis X IV ., by M aintenon and the Fatfr^r Lachaise, who was very influential over the mind of the widow of Scareon, who, dying, ceded his power to the Father Letellier. The E dict of N antes, which sheltered the Protestants, was sham efully revoked; the Jes uits profaned the cemetery of Porte Royal; the Bull nigm itus, provoked by them, produced 80,000 letters orders against the Jansenists ,* Jouvenez, historian o f the Jesuits, placed the assassins of our kings in the number of martyrs, (1) tmd in , 1723 Peter the Great drove them out o f h is terri tory. The Jesuits were reduced to poverty, and in 1753 the bankruptcy of the Father Lavallete m ade know n to Europe their common riches and bad faith. In 1757, Louis XV. per ished at the hantfSTof Dam iens, a new regicide, a native of Arras, and educated by the Jesuits in a city where they ex ercised full power; his confessors were Jesu its and designers against France as accom plices with a sim ilar purpose. In 1758, the King of Portugal was assassinated in conse quence of a mutual oath by the Father Malagrida, M atus and Alexander; the Parliam ent prooeeded judicially against them and they were expelled. In 1762, the Parliam ent of Paris suppressed them . > On the 9th of September, 1767, they were expelled from Pern by the Viceroy Amaty Junient, after one hundred and ninety>nine years establishm ent in that country, by order of the government of Spain, dated in Prado on the 5th of April, 1767. On the 21st of July, 1773, they were abolished forever by Clement XIV., after having carefully studied their history and doctrines for the space of four years. The ch&rch was
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united for their degradation and destructionthe whole world repelled and cursed th em ; i s it to be believed that they succum bed --------to all this? i No! T heir enem ies are those who ^ ---------------- have ceased to e x ist; they have preached regicide for so long a tim e, nothing to them is the cost o f so m onstrous a crime th is ciim e which no hum an law can foreseethis crime that must stain the world for that, which but none will d is own, com m itted upon the .person o f Pope Clem ent X IV ., the Vicar of Jesu s Christ and successor o f St. P eter (so-called), died poisoned! . ' Scarcely had the stranger put h is foot on the soil o f France when the Jesuits appeared by their same footsteps, (1) al though at that tim e wearing a m ask, and called then t h e i F a t h e r s o f t h e F a i t h ! (2) Presenting them selves am ong the people under the guise of m issionaries, but in a short tim e th ey threw off the mask* preaching the counter-revolution and ultramonianism. M ont Rouge and Saint Archeuil were quartered G enerals of the Order of J th b F a t h * ^ * t h e F a i t h , hum bled during the reign of L ouis X V II., who were nicknam ed Sectaries o f V o l t a i r e m anifesting to their death, dominated the throne of Charles X. and precipitated his fall. Obliged to renounce the light of day, the holy fathers returned to their subterra nean m ine. D enying their own existence, they annulled all that was possible, but did not desist from turning anew to power; annihilated by th e R evolution of 1830, re-establish-* ing them selves little by little, apd hopiug for victory, for they counted with more arms than Briareus to the side of calum ny, hypocrisy and falsehood. II. Two learned Professors gave the signal of contest against the Jesuits; thanks be given to them for the prompt notes of
(1) The Bull that re-estubllahed the Jesuits had the significant date of August 6th, 1814. (2) The San Fedlstas, see their oath and words of recognition at the end otthla work.

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alarm, that the snares of Jesuitism , of new dextrous covering which had covered the world. Who are the Jesuits? ex claimed everybody; let us fight them now! The Jesuits are a monstrous body, illegal, and also anti-canonical. T his body is fictitious in France, and does not dwell hero but by its cunning, being in continuous rebellion against the laws for which they have been banished and proscribed. For ev erywhere the clandestine place is, it is a post o f observation. At its own tim e it is ecclesiastical and secular, regular and secular, of all Masses and of all religions; then even in Protest antism it has its-affiliates. The lam ous G eneral Ricci m ani fested that its true name was the W h a t i s i t ? The Order of the Jesuit3 had devoted them selvos to pov- erty, but -accumulated continually. A ppointed confessors and physicians to the soul, they were its perverters; they valued its moral influence to augm ent its riches with gifts and cunning advantages approaching the pillow s of the d y ing to speak of holy things, and terrorizing w ith the infernal (1) to at last obfaBFfPtestamentary will that dispossessed the widow and orphans, claim ing t i e title o f Protector of K ings, they gave the exam ple to the regicide; they were*1 ^ armed with the m ost audacious privileges, ultram ontanes, against laws, kings, m agistrates and priests like them selves. I P assive instrum ents of the Pope or of the General, they were \ independent of all ecelesiastical authority; they depended on ] no other than Rom e; devoted buffoons and able directors; they knew how to move, terrorize and subjugate the ignorant, / but were weak and indulgent towards the powerful o f the 1 earth; converting their crim es into virtues, and alw ays hav- \ iwj a distinguished person at their set vice. . 11 esl avcc le del accotionodenteiUs There are omposures in h e a v e n they exclaim ed, and pretended that the gospel was the same with m orality. In their object to be(1) He al s succeeded with the Prcsident-D on Miguel SBfa Roman - t o apoatatize from Liu Masonic doctrinos was the Reverend Pedro Gual, iu extienda lie destroyed hib apostizatioii '

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come rich, they were either hypocrites or incautious, but either one or another they were the m ost hum ble of ageuts. In its code there was only one unpardonable crime; not being that ot the parricide, th e assassin, the sacrilegious, robber, incestor or violator. That of scandal , only! Cor rupter of the faith and dogma, of the ecclesiastical custom s and discipline; bold to present in the pulpit its casuistries with the assured guarantees o f being the true doctrine. M anufacturers in Asia and America of idolatrous rites, we have seen in its dark m issions its pretended sym bol with the savages, and in the sam e m om ent o f sin gin g victory at the arrival o f Protestantism : and all the courage, all the self denial of its m issionaries w as but to open a road to the Cnlvinists or the E nglish. One only country where they re m ained was Paraguay, where on e o f them was proclaimed king; Paraguay, which offered the im age of nothing and the tomb. L et u s write w ith the eloquence o f Quinet: How tran quilly to m y country haT e^sinvited an alliance, that such a price to pay to them the m ost, and none can notice that we are guarded, for others having the experience with preference, that the m ost infam ous people of Europe, those of the lenst credit and authority are of the habitation of the Society of L oyola, * * * and that we shall not be wonn out until suspended by that poisoned slee^ w h ich for two centuries has prevailed in Spain and South Am erica. 1 H ow m any have been taken by Jesuitism ? how many others have perished? There is no rest beneath its shade, for the shade of the m anzanillo is death.2 We have said that the
(I f Jesuits. N o w t h e y bave domineered over Ecuador, where they rale despotically, by the dictator Garcia Moreno, who has submerged the Boll of his country In blood, In floods and seas of the blood of the Liberals conforming to the oath of Cardinal Albani, which we publishat the end of this book ; and how rapidly grew the power of Peru un der the shadow of the Coronel Don Joae Balta, Its actual President. m (S.) Manzanillo : tree o f the Anti lie, whose fruit 1b poisonous and whose shade is noxious.

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Jesu its are th e destroyers of dogm as, and the^citations we make in this book prove it; we read the hundred easy devo t i o n s a book created for the superstitious w ithout religion; for the m en who desire to have one foot in paradise and the other in h ell; for they at one in stan t can n ot reform w ithin and consecrate th em selves to prayer; but th at they w ho desire to be saved w ithout an y labor and w ithou t abandoning a life of orgies and of pleasure. W ho are th ese who create proselytes, and for all find excuses, m akiug religion a victim of their doctrines, guilty in d u lgen cies and alliances carnal or political, so notorious and deplorable, saying to the rich libertine '*A p ply to me and I will save you at little cost ; and to the Virgin, saluting her in this m anner: to th ose who rise up Good Morning, M ary! and Good .Night! to those who retire , or without lifting a scaputary or a sacred heart. All th is is said w ithout our perceiving how ridiculous are our beliefs and how ultra is C hristianity! W ho are they? T he agents of espionage, intrigue, and ac cusations; the prim e mo M i s t y the leagues, civil wars and dragon nades1 schisms, murderers; that is what they are! Incarnate en emies o f legitimate liberty , partners o f despotism ; that is what they are! Disturbers o f the peace o f all states and o f all fa m lies, seducers and conspirators; instructors o f the assassins o f kings; authors o f slavery and the stolidity o f peoples; vassals and oppressors in the name o f God to popes, kings, peoples and to the most holy and illustrious men; t h a t i s y o u b h i s t o r y ! In vain we seek for a crime that thf>y huve not com m itted or excused. W h > a re your works? Perhaps you can cite the noble ef forts ot som e m issionaries. Y ou caused the Stuarts to perish and the Bourbons m ust disappear forever. T h is is your fu ture, your d estin y .2 For a long tim e they hum bled them selves before m aking
(1) Persecution that was mado In France during the siege of Louis XIV. of the Proteetanta for which they employed dragoons.(N. del X.) (2) This treatise, written in France, f n 1845 foretold the last of Doa Isabel de Bourbon, Queen o f Spain. (N, del T.)

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their appearance in public, and now they have invaded the soil of our country. W e aro the tyrants of forty thousand priests, your friends say with pride. France p ossesses to day i)60 J e su its.1 Are we not threatened by the presence o f the Jesuits? W ho has not advised us of iheir existence? A nti-revolution ary tendencies, ultram ontane system s, an evil that is unde fin able, and over all the division that is so pow erful of the paternal household; tyrants of 40,000 priests the J esu its have disposed of 40,000 p u lpits, bejng its m oral and proxy of th e souls o f w om en, and whom they p ossess, has said M ichelet, reckoning debit w ith the rem ainder. P roxies also o f the m others to obtain their dhildren, for w hich they demand in high voice the liberty o f their teaching, w ith the object of monopolizing to their own profit , the actual generation they re pel, for they are confident o f form ing the heart of the com ing p o sterity ; illusory confidence; for on givin g the cry of liberty, alt th e world has diviDed that slavery was the primordial object of its efforts and deny^ngr arbitrary liberty because ar bitrariness or actual liberty was not desired .2 But if the J esu its are to be the directors of learning, m ust we despair of the future generation which issu es from their hands? No; because the J s u i t s educated Voltaire and D id erot their greatest enem ies; and further th disciples of the Jesu its w ith their w ritings precipitated the R evolution o f 1789, T h e education by the J esu its created philosophers, casuists, and certainly is it Bhown atheists, over a ll! W ho can predict w ith certainty, \vhat shall be the resulis o f the education by the Jesuits? T h e habits are relaxed in the extrem e; egotism and rivalry dry up the hearts; what w ill the world be if the perverse doctrines have access to modern society? ,
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'D eath kills only the body1 but they kill the soul. W hat care? To the deadly murderers living on are to be left our children; here will be lost our children in the future. J e su it ism is the soul of policy and of im peachm ent; the m ost ugly habits of the tattling scholar, surrendering all society for the college convent; what a deformed spectacle! A w hole people living as an establishm ent of Jesuits, is to say, that they have arrived at the lowest occupation of denunciation; treason in the same hom e; then the wife is a spy upon her husband, the brothers Bpy upon one another, but without any bustle, we perceive only a sad- murmur, a confused noise of people who confess strange sins, which torm ent them m utually and at w hicffthey blush in sile n c e . 2 The Jesuits destroy the moral and never reach to purify their habits, carrying forward religious quarrels to centuries without any object of lesson. T h e Pom bal may be reborn an d a new Clement V I. perhaps may not delay to avenge the universe. T o re-establish the Jesu its solidly, it w ill be neceBsary to destroy man; the J ww iUh are im possible in the m eanw hile when we can consult our soul and our reason; in the mean* while we notice the palpitation of our heart. * III. T he actual position of the French clergy to-day is the o b ject of many grave fears. W hen the immortal declaration of 1682, the clergy having expelled the Jesu its, they m easured an abyss between them and the others. W ho is blind to tills aby^p? T he French clergy remember the eloq uent words of Boss net: * * The Shepfard w ill unite with the W olf to guard the J t c k A sim ilar alliance is more than a scandal, it is a sacrilege.
r. (1) Michelet of the Jesuits.(N. del T.)

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The French clergy we do not doubt very prom ptly detest the Jesu its; they observe w ith honor its moral and its history; expelling the sellers of the tem ple and m arching at the head o f progress, prove that the G ospel is not the precursor of the sepulchre. C hristianity m ust not be only the religion of the dead; the G ospel is the charter o f man and the proclam ation o f his liberty. M inister of God, exp lain until th e last, the G ospel of Christ. E ighteen centuries have we hoped. The people, Christ anew has been nailed to the cross; and for a lon g tim e have we seen the blood flow from his wounds; the generous blood w hich has flowed for our redem ption, running yet all the days; but the proclam ation o f the gospel will cica trize the bloody gashes. T he French R evolution has com m enced the work of equal ity and liberty. T he apostles o f Christ m ust explain to all the law of God!] T h e tablets of Mt. Sinai was the code o f the Hebrews; but we are not am bitious for any other law s than those of the G ospel. B u t the soul of the G ospel that is in the sepulchre and the Church is the door w hich covers its entrance; anrt^'Sve trust that only the stone m ay be broken and be scattered in every part. T he moral of Christ is eigh teen centuries o ld and h as lost nothing of its e lo q u en ce or force. Alrearty is the tim e that the people see in the G ospel som ething else than a theory of what is beyond the tom b. K est is the only thin g that can be given to the ashes of the dead; but to the living must be given liberty ! Tfce French clergy w ill know very soon where are their true friends. B ut the priests of false G ods may incense to em perors and preach'inequality and slavery; but the priests of Christ w ill find the footsteps of their Master in the paths of love and liberty, A n d now, young m en, be careful that ye do not have to repent of livin g sepulchres w hen the catastrophe shall be inevitable. Great things are for you to do. P ersist wherever it th e com bat of the sonl, the danger of life m d the rew ard.^ D o n o t be lost; or then yourselves will become the sepulchre

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of the catacombs: 1as I, know ye, that God is not the Clod of the dead, he is the God of the livin g.
N ot by the T banblatok.I f such are the opinions of a liberal Catholic so beautifully, ardently and eloquently expressed, w hat ought not Protestants, Hebrews and liberals to do in America and around the globe, to throw off the yoke of Rome entirely whi rever it is attempted to be fastened to fetter the people. R epudiate th e whole thing entirely, Jesuits, Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians, Car thusians, P aullst Fathers, F athers of the Holy F aith , Pope, Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, PriestB, Curates, Convents, Monasteries filled w ith lazy, licentious Friars, and clean out the whole business of th is caravanBar; of prostitution and lust, under th e name of the Roman Catholic religion.

SU DDEN

DEATHS OF SOME OF TH E O PPO SED TO T H E JE S U IT S . I.

POPES

Sextus V was stricken down by premature death (imw.ature morte precepti) U n t e time of attaining the subjection o f the Jesuits to h is established law. " II. The Bame fate attended Clement V III, but his death did not immediately happen; it was predicted with certainty by the Father Bellarmin until the very mom ent of going to con demn the doctrine of Moline favored by the Jesuits. III. Innocent XIV died immediately when he meditated upon the measures for abolishing the Society. ' IV . Clement XIV died im m ediately after having dissolved the Jesuits. It is to be noted that these different corpses and many others of bishops and cardinals who were as little disposed

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toward the Jesu its aud always died by them, and have con tributed evidence for us to regard them with sinister su s picions. T he Jesuit P e d r o J a n i g e having written against the Society a work called The Jesuit upon the Scaffold," was surprised by the Holy Fathers, who com pelled him to sign a retraction. Their action w as continued until the removal of F a t h k r J a n i g e , iu consequence of a crime tha they took care to exem pt. J e m j h o i r I n c h j f f e i , a Jes lit suspected to be the author of the Monarchy o f fylipsos,*' was violently carried away clandestinely from Home, whither he had returned to petition the P ope. T he F a t h e r S c o t t i , the true author o f the Solipsos,* escaped with difficulty the poniard and the poison. H ISTO R IC D O C U M EN TS A G A IN ST TH E SOCIETY OF TH E JE S U IT S .
THE AUTHORS ARE

Pope Clem ent V III, Francwft^sd* Borgia, third General of the Jesuits. Geromo Lazuua, San Carlos, The Blessed Palnfoz, Cardinal Turon, P arliam ent of Paris, Id., Charles III, The last m om ents o f Clem ent XIV , Palufoz to Innocent X, M ondas, B u ll of B enedict IV, T he Father Lachaise, Iunocent X III, The Charlotaise, etc. The J esu it is a sword whose h ilt is in Rom e and its point every w here, says G e n e r a l F o y ; H IS T O R IC T E S T IM O N IE S . I. Vede il signor, d i questa camero io governo non dico Pirxgi, mala China, non guia la China, ma tutto il mondo, senzache messuno sappio come si f a . (Tam bdrini, the General of the Jesuits.) See, sir, from this cham ber I govern not only to Paris, but to China; not only to China, but to all the world, without any one to know how I do it,*

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Effectively, not being the Jesuits, but its institutes, subjects o f no king, its general is the first in th e world. In 1773 th e Jesuits were 22,0Q0, to-day (1846) they num ber 46,000, and who does not fail to ask, Where are the Jesuits? (G od and the D evil can only answer correctly. Translator.) O cctrn HABENT SED NON VIOENT.

II. O p in io n of P op e C lem en t V I I I , . ' (159 2.)

The cctbiosity drawn to the J esu its is gathered from ev erywhere; over all, in the confessionals , to know from the p en itent, whatever passes in her hou se, between her children, ser vants, or other persons who are domiciled with them, or to whom they come, and every incident which m ay happen. If they con fess a P rince they have the power to govern all his States, desir in g to govern for him , and m aking him to b elieve that n oth in g w ill go well without their care and in d u stry. It is not a jifcTosopher who looks out for the J e su its, it ia the C hief of the Church; let us see the judgm ents by its third G eneral, Francisco B orgia. III. .

T he tim e w ill arrive very soon, in w hich the Com pany of Jesus* w ill becom e very solicitou s in the human scien ces, but without a single application to virtue, the am bition w ill be ' to dom inate, the overbearing and pride penetrating its soul, Jto rule alone and no one can refrain them . T he spirit of our brethren is trampled upon by an unlim ited passion foi tem po ral goods, an eagerness to accum ulate w ith the utm ost ardor o f the w orld ly. - Here is a prediction that does not pertain to Voltaire nor to M iehelet but to Gerome Lanuza, B ish op of Albarraoin. IV. R obbing the alm s given to the poor, to the beggars and

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the sick, drawing to them the rabble. * * * Contracting fam iliarities with women and teaching them to wrong their hus bands and to gioe them their goods to hide. V. A long time have we seen the Society o the Jesuits in im m inent d&Dger of a sudden decadence, for many bad heads and evil m axim s predominate among th em .' ' (L etters of Sau Carlos of the 15th of April, 1759, to M. Sp eciau p .) ' Y I. We have no religious order more prejudicial to the un i versal Church, or who have mnde them selves more revolting to Christian provinces, e tc . (B ish op Palafoz to P op e Innocent X. Letter II, Chapter III, P ages 115, 116.) V II. We read in the sentence given by the parliament of France of 1662: The institute* of the Jesuits is inadm issible, for its nature in its whole estate is contrary to natural right, opposed to all authority, spiritual and'temporal, and on the road to intro* duce under the cloak of a religious institution, a body politic, whose essence consists in a continual activity, to reach by whatever way their desire, direct or indirect, secret or public, until first an absolute independence, and successively the usurpation of all auth ority. V III. T he sentence o f 1762 contained the following paragraph relating to the moral of the Jesu its; The moral practice of the Society of-th e Jesuits is per verse, destructive of all religious principle and of probity ; in jurious to the Christian m orality; pernicious to civil society ; seditious and oontrary to the rights and nature of the royal power, and to the sacred persons of the sovereigns, and to

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the obedience of the subjects; they are adapted to excite the greater revolts in the States, and to re-form and sustain the most profound corruption in the hearts o f m en. IX. In reply to a brief ot Pope Clement X-III., Charles II I. be ing King of Spain, he expressed the following, relating to the Jesuits: I can assure Y o u r H o l i n e s s , that I have the proofs( the most efficacious, of the necessity of expelling the whole Company, and not any one in particular. I repeat to Yor H o l i n e s s with a new assurance, and for your consolation I pray God that he will inspire what I b elieve. X.

When Clement XIV. had signed the extinction o f the Jesuits he was found seated in his office, and said in the presence of a person distinguished for his merit and his class, I have made this suppression, and I do not repent it; but I was not determined until I had examined to the end, and fully reflect ed, and having beTe^cTit useful and necessary for the Church, making it anew if I had not already done so; ma q u e s ta sop e e s s i o n e m i d a b a l a m o r t k 1'alth ough this suppression Bhall occasion my d eath .* * XI. No one knew how to interpret a pasquinade at the entrance of the palace of the Holy Father, which contained these five letters: I. S. S. S. V. Clement XIV, expluined them in this manner, In Setiembre Sara Sede V a c a n t e In September the Holy See will be vacant, Clement XIV. died with a devouring heat in the throat, stomach and intestines, ceasing to exist after terrible colics. At the time of M b death, his body was clean, became black and decomposed in great pieces. - Twiee had the life of the Holy Father been attem pted by poionin the month of April, and at last in June, 17*4. " The-Jesuits had devotsd themselves to poverty!!! We have fo u n d tttf Jesuits in power and perhaps with all the riches o f

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S o u th A m e ric a ; not ceasing to aiujm ent their wealth by the in d u s try f tr<!ffic w hich has been extended u n til they have opened not o nly m a rk tis o f cattle, m eat a n d f i s h , but the stores f o r the sm allest o f trade!

(Second letter of Bishop Piilafoz to Iunocent X .) XII. P olitical corrupters of all governm ents; flatterers of the great and of their passions; prime movers of despotism ; to smother the reason and power of authority; enem ies of kings who oppose them and their crooked deSires; calumniators of the many who love with sincerity the prince and the Btate; placing a sceptre of iron in the hands of k i n g s a n d a dagger in those of their subjects; counseling tyranny and preaching tyrannicide; binding to its interests the most cruel intoler ance with tb ^ m ost scandalous indifference and respect to re ligion aud morality; permitting all classes of crimes, and not pardoning disputes over words in subjects little intelligible; serving idolatry which they regw n^Bid persecuting Catholic ism which refuses its confidence. A theological quarrel is in Europe a business of state, as much ar-s the superstitious and worship of Confucius which they permit in A sia .
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Benedict XIV., by a Bull of December, 1 7 4 1 , prohibited the Jesuits. T hey dare, before us, to ensjave the Indians of Paraguay, to sell them, or buy t ;em, etc., * * * sepa rating mothers from their children, and to despoil them of their goods and property. (Page 2 7 . ) XV. A few days before his death, F a t h k j i L a c i i a i s # said to L ou is XIV, Sir, I counsel you to elect a confensor in our company well disposed to your majesty, for at this time they are very (puch scattered, numerous anti composed of charac ters very diverse and impassioned for the glory o the body. N o on& can answer for a. 7n is fortune, and o n e e v i l i i l u w m a y

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T he king took c a r e to throw down the proposition, and it was referred to M areclml, his chief physician, the which in his first terror he revealed to B louin, first chamberlain, and to Bolduc, the first apothecary, his particular friends, and from whom we have this and m any other anecdotes. ( J/emoirs o f Duelos, vol. i, page 134.) X V I. Pope Innocent X III. reproached the Jesu its for having been, in P ek in , the prime m overs and solicitors o the incar ceration of the m issionaries, declaring that for that unheard of scandal, re-presenting the paper o f the constables for their im prisonm ent and jailers for keepers, over all for the respect to P edini, A ppiani and G uiagues, Italian and French m is sionaries. . (V ol V of the Anecdotes upon China , jrage 260.) X V II.

Is it h on orsW f'to form a duty o f espionage betw een re ligious people, and accustom them to assim ulate and lie to tender hearts, and for as much with propensity or inclination to all? The corruption of the soul and the degradation of the spirit, to tear away from m en nil sentim ents o f honor, and all the causes of em ulation; this is to debase hum anity under the pretext o f perfecting th em . A nd that use cannot make of sim ila r instrum ents a superior ambitious man and a criminal continually occupied in observing and consequ en tly for sale. Im posing the yoke of belief, that they are sold for ieir good ; this is the culm ination of fan aticism . (La. C h a lo ta is , Manual o f the Constitutions o f the Jesuits , page 171, edition in 12.) X V III.

It is for th is that the Society of the Jesuits has the power J to hide the sun, and make m en blind and deaf to its &price. '
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X IX . T he General is the true Pope o f the Company o f Jesus, and the plan of this in stitu te is to destroy all authority, and all governm ent, having concentrated all in its so ciety . T h is am bitious Com pany is a nation, a power apart germ inating in the loin s of all others, changing their sub stance and surm ounting their r u in s. ( R i q d e t , member of the Parliam ent o f T ou lou se.) {V erily, a tape-worm . Translator .] XX, W hat other religion possesses secret constitutions, priv ileges which they do not declare, and regulations which are forever hidden? * * * ChriVch does not lim it that which illu m in es the reason of man, and by the contrary it abhors totally the darkness, * * * and for th is w ill come, as m uch as any desire, th e privileges, the instructions, statutes and regulations o f the o w d u g t of the m ost religious. Religious men there are in the abodes of the Jesuits, and re ligious professors who ignore the constitutions arPprivileges, proper rules of the com pany; bu t they are the more obliged to subm it to them , and made to follow them ; for whose m o tives the superiors conduct them by secret regulations known only to th em selves. (D . P a l a f o z , B ish op of Osmu to Innocent X .) To conclude such num erous citations we abandon the pen with pleasure; being effectively pained o f having to trans cribe such maximB, although they may be trampled upon and scoffed at. For the general public who believe that we are deceived and a com piler o f dreams better than the thoughts of an individual o f a religious society, are the ideas of a ban dit. We cannot believe that there are men so miserable, who excuse the parricide, the robber, the assassin, and all the vicious, adulating despotism and pointing the daggers against kings. * * A vertigo has for three centuries made the ' Company o f

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Jesus; if these abom inable doctrines have not been sufficient to horrify the world, w ithout having been thrust forth from the Confessional, who can foretell w hat we sh all be to-day, and who knows if the power not pertaining to the Order that the N ineteenth Century may not have the glory of destroying it forever?
( G eoroe D a b n e y e l l .)

C O N FESSIO N S OF TH E J E S U IT S . I. ^

If we are accused o f pride and of intention that all shall pass through oar hands, and depend on us; when they do not have that upon which to found sim ilar accusations, we must conduct ourselves in such a m anner that the world can not vituperate 11s . {Epistle of M ucio W i t e l l e s c h i , G eneral of the Jesu its.) II.
M a ria n a conclnd&1[hat the Society of Jesu s was .gangrened.

He believed that it was lost by its crim es, if God did not shortly establish it upon a more solid foundation. III. said; / confess it with pain that much contained in the book o f M a r ia n a is very true , and that the Society o f Jesus has perem ptory necessity of total reform ."
G esom o F io r a v k n ti

POW ER OF TH E P O P E S AND OF TH E J E S U IT S . I. The P ope must adm onish kings and punish them w ith death. (P . S a n t a b e l, del P a p a 1626, C h a p . XXX, p a g e 296.)
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where; for th e Pope has one jurisdiction, indirect to the least, over the globe, even to the tem poral . 1
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III. It is a strange thin g to see m en who have made a profes sion of religion, (th e J esu its) and to whom no evil or good has been done by any one, to daily attempt against m y existence! (M emoirs of Sully VI. Letter of H enry IV. ) V . I do not judge it to be convenien t to surrender to the Jesuits. Can they perhaps guarantee m y life? I t is w ell if they are eager for it; then it may be attem pted more than once against it; I have the p ro o f by experience and can show som e cicatrices of its w ounds. There is no n ecessity of more invitations, nor excitem ents to reach to the extrem es, con senting in his pardon but greatly to m y g rief an d f o r necessity ( H enby IV. )

Whatevey-man of the people, not to have other remedy, we can k ill him w ho tyranically usurps power; for he is a public en em y . (E m m a n u e l S a, J esu it.) VI. " E v id e n tly , exclaim s Andrew D elrio, it is ta&ful for any man to assassinate a tyrant, if-h a v in g becom e powerful at the sum m it of power and n ot having other m eans by which w e can cease th e tyrrany.
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SECRET IN STR U C TIO N S

OF TH E

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These particular instructions m ust be guarded and kept with careful attention by the superiors, com m unicated with prudent caution to a few of the professors; in the m eantim e there does not exist any other thin g so good for the S o c iety ; but we are charged w ith the m ost profound silence, and to make a false sho*tfe9hwnld they be written by any one though founded in the experience we have had. As there are various professors who are in these secrets, the S ociety has fixed the rule, that those who know these reserved instructions that they cannot pass in any one religious Order, whether it be of the Carthusians, to cause them to retire from that in which they live, and the inviolable silence with which th ey are to be guarded, all of w hich has been confirmed by the IXoly See. Much care m ust be taken that they do n ot g e t out; for these counsels in the hands o f strange persons to the Society, because they will give a sinister interpretation invid ious to our situation. t I f (un less God does not perm it) we reach success, we m ust openly deny that tbe Society shelters such thoughts, and to take care that it is so affirmed by those of the Company, that they are ignorant by n o t having been communicated, w hich they oan p o t e s t with truth, that they know noth ing e* such instructions; and that there does not exist other than the

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general printed or m anuscripts, w hich they can present, to cause any doubt to vanish. T he superiors m ust with pru dence and discretion, inquire if any of the Company have shown these instructions to strangers; for neither for him self, or for another, they m ust be copied by no one,*without per m ission of the General or of the P rovincial; and when it is feared that anyone has given notice of these instructions, we shall not be able to guard so rigorous a secret; and we m ust assert to the contrary, all that is said in them , it will be so given to be understood, that they only show to all, to be proved, and afterwards they w ill be dism issed.

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(This introduction from Sh erm ans E n g in eer C orps o f H e ll now ended, serves as a foun dation for B ro w n lees S ecret In stru ctions o f the Jesuits, w h ich begins w ith the follow ing page and is reproduced in its entirety.)