We all must know that the Catholic Church has used fear of
demons and so-called sin to make a great deal of their power. I
hope to illustrate the inner workings of the separation of
church and state that is not a reality and that the state uses
the same techniques. In the words of the deservedly respected
historians Will and Ariel Durant we visit with the technocrats
of the Jesuit Order who John Ralston Saul holds up as the
forerunners of the lobbyists and other courtesans of this
present enlightened age. The quotation from Rousseau and
Revolution does not elucidate the agreement Charles of Spain
made before giving the Jesuits he expelled from Spain a small
stipend. That agreement called for silence on the matters
relating to their attempts to inform the people of his true
nature. But during this silent period I suggest there were some
Jesuits like Adam Weishaupt who decided enough was enough. It is
this moment in history that we find a significant change in the
world took place. America was created in the same year the
Illuminati were re-organized and Russia celebrated the founding
day of these Illuminati in their May Day celebration.
Various accounts say they intended to have him killed and the
truth may never be known because the rest of the Catholic world
allowed these hundreds of good Catholics to nearly die on a boat
going from port to port seeking refuge. This was (as you will
see) a time when muggers and crooks were given 'sanctuary' in
the churches. Gregory of Tours in an earlier time notes how this
'sanctuary' often led to the priests making money from charging
the supposed crook or the parties wishing to kill them through
secret agreements. The Jesuits so expelled lived a miserable
existence on a meager pension but kept their mouths shut because
if even one talked all would lose their pension. In short there
really is no mystery here at all - but it does dovetail with the
possibilities of why we are seldom allowed to hear what really
went on in the annals of what we improperly call history.
"II. POPES, KINGS, AND JESUITS
The power of the Catholic Church rested on the natural
super-naturalism of mankind, the recognition and sublimation of
sensual impulses and pagan survivals, the encouragement of
Catholic fertility {Read baby-factories and 'barefoot in the
kitchen' .}, and the inculcation of a theology rich in poetry
and hope, and useful to moral discipline and social order. In
Italy the Church was also the main source of national income,
and a valued check upon a people especially superstitious,
pagan, and passionate. Superstitions abounded; as late as 1787
witches were burned at Palermo--and refreshments were served to
fashionable ladies witnessing the scene. (2) Pagan beliefs,
customs, and ceremonies survived with the genial sanction of the
Church. 'I have arrived at a vivid conviction,' wrote Goethe,
'that all traces of original Christianity are extinct here' in
Rome. (3) There were, however, many real Christians left in
Christendom, even in Italy. Conte Caissotti di Chiusano, bishop
of Asti, gave up his rich inheritance, lived in voluntary
poverty, and traveled only on foot. Bishop Testa of Monreale
slept on straw, ate only enough to subsist, kept only 3,000 lire
of his revenues for his personal needs, and devoted the
remainder to public works and the poor. (4) {But the majority of
prelates were not so inclined as they engaged in concubinage and
fathering children of the parishioners wives as the church owned
the majority of farms and land throughout Italy while collecting
alms for the poor. The bulk of church wealth comes from guilt
and estates where upon death promises of salvation are tied to a
good deed by giving the wealth to the church rather than the
justly deserving heirs.}
The Church responded in some measure to the Enlightenment. The
works of Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Helv?tius, d'Holbach, La
Mettrie, and other freethinkers were of course placed on the
Index Expurgatorius, but permission to read them might be
obtained from the pope. {This is a perfect example of what we
said about practicing one thing while excluding others access to
what works. The pope also became promoted as a source of the
right to learn. Is this like the situation we have in public
education before reaching university?} Monsignor Ventimiglio,
bishop (1757-73) of Catania, had in his library full editions of
Voltaire, Helvetius, and Rousseau. The Inquisition was abolished
in Tuscany and Parma in 1769, in Sicily in 1782, in Rome in
1809. {Witches were still outlawed no doubt. It took until 1951
to rescind the laws against being a witch in England. There are
movements afoot to re-institute blasphemy laws.} In 1783 a
Catholic priest, Tamburini, under the name of his friend
Trauttmansdorff, published an essay On Ecclesiastical and Civil
Toleration, in which he condemned the Inquisition, declared all
coercion of conscience to be un-Christian, and advocated
toleration of all theologies except atheism. (5)
It was the misfortune of the popes, in this second half of the
eighteenth century, that they had to face the demand of Catholic
monarchs for the total dissolution of the Society of Jesus. The
movement against the Jesuits was part of a contest of power
between the triumphant nationalism of the modern state and the
internationalism of a papacy weakened by the Reformation, the
Enlightenment, and the rise of the business class. {Cardinal
Biffi of Bologna thinks there is an anti-Christ among us today
who is a philanthropist of great wealth. This ?anti-Christ?
supports ecological, animal - and women's right while destroying
the tenets of Catholicism. Biffi was a leading contender to take
John Paul II's place from the conservative faction of this
supranational elite. Apparently this anti-Christ is well versed
in the Bible and maybe even a better Christian than Biffi, as I
see it.} The Catholic enemies of the Society did not openly
press their chief objection, that it had persistently upheld the
authority of the popes as superior to that of kings, but they
were keenly resentful that an organization acknowledging no
superior except its general and the pope should in effect
constitute, within each state, an agent of foreign power. They
acknowledged the learning and piety of the Jesuits, {Were they
jealous of their 'brothers' who actually knew more?} their
contributions to science, literature, philosophy, and art, their
sedulous and efficient education of Catholic youth, their
heroism on foreign missions, their recapture of so much
territory once lost to Protestantism. But they charged that the
Society had repeatedly interfered in secular affairs, that it
had engaged in commerce to reap material gains, that it had
inculcated casuistic principles excusing immorality and crime,
condoning even the murder of kings, that it had allowed heathen
customs and beliefs to survive among its supposed converts in
Asia, and that it had offended other religious orders, and many
of the secular clergy, by its sharpness in controversy and its
contemptuous tone. The ambassadors of the Kings of Portugal,
Spain, Naples, and France insisted that the papal charter of the
Society be revoked, and that the organization be officially and
universally dissolved.
The expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal in 1759, from France
in 1764-67, from Spain and Naples in 1767, had left the Society
still operative in Central and North Italy, in the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, in Catholic Germany, Silesia, and
Poland. On February 7, 1768, they were expelled from the Bourbon
duchy of Parma, and were added to the congestion of Jesuit
refugees in the states of the Church. Pope Clement XIII
protested that Parma was a papal fief; he threatened Duke
Ferdinand VI and his ministers with excommunication of the edict
of expulsion should be enforced {But Hitler, or should I say
Schicklgruber/Rothschild, was never excommunicated and probably
not even threatened. Why?!}; when they persisted he launched a
bull declaring the rank and title of the Duke forfeited and
annulled. The Catholic governments of Spain, Naples, and France
opened war upon the papacy: {One of my ancestors was Miles Keogh
who fought with the Vatican Army before his horse was the only
survivor of Custer's Last Stand at the Little Big Horn. Many
people have a hard time thinking of a supranational theological
armed superpower in so recent a time. I suspect he became a
Martinist when he was engaged to a Martin of political
importance.} Tanucci seized the papal cities of Benevento and
Pontecorvo, and France occupied Avignon. On December 10 1768,
the French ambassador at Rome, in the name of France, Naples,
and Spain, presented to the Pope a demand for the retraction of
the bull against Parma, and for the abolition of the Society of
Jesus. The seventy-six-year-old pontiff collapsed under the
strain of this ultimatum. He summoned for February 3, 1769, a
consistory of prelates and envoys to consider the matter. On
February 2 he fell dead through the bursting of a blood vessel
in his brain.
The cardinals who were called to choose his successor were
divided into two factions: 'zelanti' who proposed to defy the
kings, and 'regalisti' who favored some pacific accommodations.
As the Italian cardinals were almost all 'zelanti', and soon
gathered in Rome, they tried to open the conclave before the
regalist cardinals from France, Spain, and Portugal could
arrive. {Does any of this seem the least bit divinely inspired?}
The French ambassador protested, and the conclave was deferred.
Meanwhile Lorenzo Ricci, general of the Jesuits, compromised
their case by issuing a pamphlet questioning the authority of
any pope to abolish the Society. (6) In March Cardinal de Bernis
arrived from France, and began to canvass the cardinals with a
view to ensure the election of a pope willing to satisfy their
Catholic Majesties. Later rumors (7) that he or others bribed,
or otherwise induced, Cardinal Giovanni Ganganelli to promise
such action if chosen have been rejected by Catholic (8) and
anti-Catholic historians (9) alike. {Many apparently 'anti'
positions are actually managed or double agents.} Ganganelli, by
common consent, was a man of great learning, devotion, and
integrity; however, he belonged to the Franciscan order, which
had often been at odds with the Jesuits, {Such as the treatment
of North Americas who Franciscans brutalized in ways no devil
would imagine.} both in missions and in theology. (10) On May
19, 1769, he was elected by the unanimous vote of the forty
cardinals, and took the name of Clement XIV. He was sixty-three
years old.
He found himself at the mercy of the Catholic powers. France
and Naples held on to the papal territory they had seized; Spain
and Parma were defiant; Portugal threatened to establish a
patriarchate independent of Rome, even Maria Theresa, hitherto
fervently loyal to the papacy and the Jesuits, but now losing
authority to her freethinker son Joseph II, answered the Pope's
appeal that she could not resist the united will of so many
potentates. Choiseul, dominating the government of France,
instructed Bernis to tell the Pope that 'if he does not come to
terms he can consider all relations with France at an end.? (11)
Charles III of Spain had sent a similar ultimatum on April 22.
Clement, playing for time, promised Charles soon to 'submit to
the wisdom and intelligence of your Majesty a plan for the total
extinction of the Society.' (12) He ordered his aides to consult
the archives and summarize the history, achievements, and
alleged offenses of the Society of Jesus. He refused to
surrender to Choiseul's demand that he decide the issue within
two months. He took three years, but finally yielded.
On July 21, 1773, he signed the historic brief 'Dominus ac
Redemptor Noster'. It began with a long list of religious
congregations that had, in the course of time, been suppressed
by the Holy See. It noted the many complaints made against the
Jesuits, and the many efforts of divers popes to remedy the
abuses so alleged. 'We have observed with the bitterest grief
that these remedies, and others applied afterward, had neither
efficacy or strength to put an end to the troubles, the charges,
and the complaints.' (13)
The brief concluded:
?Having recognized that the Society of Jesus could no longer
produce the abundant fruit and the great good for which it was
instituted and approved by so many popes, our predecessors, who
adorned it with so many most admirable privileges, and seeing
that it was almost--and indeed absolutely--impossible for the
Church to enjoy a true and solid peace while this order
existed,... we do hereby, after a mature examination, and of our
certain knowledge, and by the plenitude of our Apostolic power,
suppress and abolish the Society of Jesus. We nullify and
abrogate all and each of its offices, functions,
administrations, houses, schools, colleges, retreats, refuges,
and other establishments which belong to it in any manner
whatever, and in every province, kingdom, or state in which it
may be found.? (14)
The brief went on to offer pensions to those Jesuits who had
not yet taken holy orders, and who wished to return to lay life;
it permitted Jesuit priests to join the secular clergy or some
religious congregation approved by the Holy See; it allowed
professed Jesuits, who had taken final and absolute vows, to
remain in their former houses provided they dressed like secular
priests and submitted to the authority of the local bishop...
This is not generally the fashion here. A murderer killing
himself, in Naples; the murderer usually makes for the nearest
church; once there is quite safe. Every church gave the criminal
'sanctuary'-immunity from arrest so long as he remained under
its roof.
The law attempted to deter crime rather by severity of
punishment than by efficiency of police. Under the laws of the
gentle Benedict XIV blasphemy was punished by flogging, and, for
a third offence, five years in the galleys. Unlawful entry of a
convent at night was a capital crime. The solicitation or public
embrace of an honorable woman brought condemnation to the
galleys for life. Defamation of character, even if it spoke
nothing but the truth, was punishable with death and
confiscation of goods." (15)
One can easily imagine these people were well behaved and
civilized... right?! Is my sense of disgust at the deprecation
of the 'savages' and 'pagans' unwarranted?
About the author:
Author of Diverse Druids, Columnist for The ES Press Magazine,
Guest writer at World-Mysteries.com
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