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4recommend to us confidence in the-morrow, without ever trying to stimulateour energy; recommend obedience and submission; prefer the poor in spirit,without any word of love for the men who dedicate themselves to cultivatethe intelligence in order to be useful to their brothers—here are certainlacunae in the religion of the Nazarene": EJR, VII, 227. These phrases ofRizal perhaps explain the absence of Jesus in almost all of his writings. Notstrange, therefore, that on more than one occasion, Rizal logically describedSaint Francis as ignorant and naive, and bore down on the Franciscans in thePhilippines with cutting words like the following, directed to the youngwomen of Malolos in 1889: " . . . the habit or cassock by itself does notcreate wisdom; even if clothes are piled upon the captured wild man, he willalways be wild, and will fool only the ignorant and weak-willed. To make iteven more convincing, buy a Franciscan long habit, dress a caraballa with it.You will be lucky if it does not become lazy because of the habit": EJR, 11-32, 314.133. EJR 11-2, 2, 372.134. Lorenzo Perez, 0. F. M., "Sublevaci6n de los chinos en Manila en elaft° de 1603," <strong>Arc</strong>hivo lbero-Americano 25 (1926) 149-150.135. Antolin Abad, 0. F. M., "Los franciscanos en Filipinas," Revista deIndias 24 (1964) 439.136. Gabriel Casanova, O. F. M., "Carta abierta al Excmo. Sr. D. SegismundoMoret sobre las causas de la rebelidn tagala," Politica de Espana enFilipinas (15 de enero de 1897) 4.137. Juan de Dios Villajos, 0. F. M., Cuaderno de apuntes, V, 277-279:AFIO, 5a6/6.138. In his story of the origin and the organization of the masonic lodgesin the Philippines, Antonio Ma. Regidor, using the pseudonym of FranciscoEngracio Vergara, says that the Spanish masons "founded the lodges in Cebuand Iloilo under the Spanish Grand Orient, by telling the natives, 'No, Spainis not the friars. Hate them, but love Spain and the Spanish liberals andmasons who also detest the monastic institutions, as shown in the year 1836during the general massacre of the friars in the peninsula.' This served as aformula of the oath of admission of every neophyte." Francisco EngracioVergara, La masoneria en Filipinas. Estudio de actualidad: apuntes para lahistoria de la civilizacian espafiola en el siglo XIX (Paris, 1896), 20. It is notstrange, therefore, that on witnessing the infamy of the religious orders in the301

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