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Chapter 1“ ‘But the Jesuits alone, shroud themselves intentionally in a darkness,which the laity are completely forbidden to penetrate, and the veil is noteven uplifted to many of the members. There are among them a largenumber who have taken merely three vows, but not the fourth, and whoare in consequence, not at all, or at any rate, not properly instructedregarding the true principles, institutions and liberties of the order; thissecret, on the other hand, is entrusted, as is known to His Holiness, toonly a small number, and whatever is especially important is knownonly to the Superiors and the General.’ ” {14} [Emphasis added]But of the Fourth Vow, taken <strong>by</strong> no more than two-percent of the Jesuits, weread the words from M. F. Cusack’s masterpiece, The Black Pope, written in 1896:“The Jesuit is not permitted to take his full and final vows [ExtremeOath of the Fourth Vow] until he has attained the age of forty-five. As aconsequence there are few fully professed members of the Order . . .Thirty-one years shall have been passed in the Order before the finalvows are taken, so that a Jesuit who had not entered the novitiate at avery early age, might be far older than the years specified before hecould take the final vows. In the meantime he is simply the bond slaveof the General, who may dismiss him at will, or retain him at pleasure.He must become a corpse in the hands of his superior . . . ” {15}A portion of the Oath published in 1845 reads:I, __________ , now in the presence of Almighty God . . . and to youmy ghostly father do declare from my heart, without mental reservation,that Pope Gregory [XVI] is Christ’s Vicar General, and is the true andonly head of the universal church throughout the earth . . . he hathpower to depose heretical kings, princes, states, commonwealths, andgovernments, all being illegal, without his sacred confirmation, and thatthey may safely be destroyed;I do renounce and disown any allegiance as due to any heretical king,prince, or state, named Protestant, or obedience to any of their inferiormagistrates or officers. I do further declare the doctrine of the Church ofEngland, of the Calvinists, Huguenots, and other Protestants, to bedamnable, and those to be damned who will not forsake the same. I dofurther declare, that I will help, assist, and advise all or any of hisHoliness’s agents in any place wherever I shall be; and do my utmost toextirpate the heretical protestants’ doctrine, and to destroy all theirThe Jesuits – 1540

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