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Chapter 1Protestants, generally to be a Protestant; and obtaining their confidenceto seek even to preach from their pulpits, and to denounce with all thevehemence in your nature our Holy Religion and the Pope; and even todescend so low as to become a Jew among the Jews, that you might beenabled to gather together all information for the benefit of your Orderas a faithful soldier of the Pope.You have been taught to insidiously plant the seeds of jealousyand hatred between communities, provinces and states that were atpeace, and incite them to deeds of blood, involving them in war witheach other, and to create revolutions and civil wars in countries thatwere independent and prosperous, cultivating the arts and the sciencesand enjoying the blessings of peace. To take sides with the combatantsand to act secretly in concert with your brother Jesuit, who might beengaged on the other side, but openly opposed to that with which youmight be connected; only that the Church might be the gainer in the end,in the conditions fixed in the treaties for peace and that the end justifiesthe means.You have been taught your duty as a spy, to gather all statistics,facts and information in your power from every source; to ingratiateyourself into the confidence of the family circle of Protestants andheretics of every class and character, as well as that of the merchant, thebanker, the lawyer, among the schools and universities, in parliamentsand legislatures, and in the judiciaries and councils of state, and to “beall things to all men,” for the Pope's sake, whose servants we are untodeath.You have received all your instructions heretofore as a novice, aneophyte, and have served as a coadjutor, confessor and priest, but youhave not yet been invested with all that is necessary to command in theArmy of Loyola in the service of the Pope. You must serve the propertime as the instrument and executioner as directed by your superiors[such as the murder of Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638), Bishop of Ypres,Holland, and father of Jansenism who was a most determined RomanCatholic enemy of the Jesuits and died of a sudden illness – the poisoncup – on the 6 th of May, 1638 at the young age of fifty-three] for nonecan command here who has not consecrated his labors with the blood ofthe heretic; for “without the shedding of blood no man can be saved.”Therefore, to fit yourself for your work and make your own salvationsure, you will, in addition to your former oath of obedience to yourOrder and allegiance to the Pope, repeat after me:The Jesuits – 1540