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Chapter 1 85<br />

“The nobility and populace must, by all methods, be persuaded into a<br />

belief that the Society was instituted by the particular direction of divine<br />

providence, according to the prophecies of the abbot Jachim, that by this<br />

means the church, though depressed by the attempts of heretics, may be<br />

raised again to its primitive luster.” {1}<br />

Ignatius Loyola, 1540<br />

Founder, 1 st Jesuit General, 1540-1556<br />

Secret Instructions of the Jesuits<br />

“ . . . for liberal institutions and civil and religious freedom have no<br />

greater enemies than that cunning fraternity; while it is equally true, that<br />

although the Jesuits are dreaded and detested knaves, there are few who<br />

are thoroughly acquainted with their eventful history, and with all those<br />

arts by which the fathers have earned for themselves a disgraceful<br />

celebrity . . . Their country is Rome; their sovereign the Pope; their laws<br />

the commands of their General . . . the Jesuits, by their very calling, by<br />

the very essence of their institution, are bound to seek, by every means,<br />

right or wrong, the destruction of Protestantism. This is the condition of<br />

their existence, the duty they must fulfill, or cease to be Jesuits.” {2}<br />

G. B. Nicolini of Rome, 1854<br />

Protestant Italian Patriot<br />

Exiled to England<br />

History of the Jesuits<br />

“I swear to erect the throne and the altar upon the bones of the infamous<br />

Liberals, and to exterminate them one by one, without being moved by<br />

the clamors of children, old men and women!” {3}<br />

Gian Cardinal Albani, 1590<br />

Jesuit Coadjutor<br />

“Martin Luther . . . was a lost apostate, a thief, a robber, a filthy sow,<br />

and a senseless beast, the Devil’s boon companion.” {4}<br />

Jesuit Conrad Better, 1610<br />

German Jesuit<br />

The Jesuits – 1540

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