The following is the
Jesuit Extreme Oath of Induction given to high ranking Jesuits only. This
oath is taken from the book Subterranean Rome by Carlos Didier,
translated from the French, and published in New York in 1843.
"When
a Jesuit of the minor rank is to be elevated to command, he is conducted
into the Chapel of the Convent of the Order, where there are only three
others present, the principal or Superior standing in front of the altar.
On either side stands a monk, one of whom holds a banner of yellow and
white, which are the Papal colors, and the other a black banner with a
dagger and red cross above a skull and crossbones, with the word INRI,
and below them the words IUSTUM, NECAR, REGES, IMPIOUS.
The meaning of which is: It is just to exterminate
or annihilate impious or heretical Kings, Governments, or Rulers.
Upon the floor is a red cross at which the postulant or candidate kneels.
The Superior hands him a small black crucifix, which he takes in his left
hand and presses to his heart, and the Superior at the same time presents
to him a dagger, which he grasps by the blade and holds the point against
his heart, the Superior still holding it by the hilt, and thus addresses
the postulant:"
Superior:
My son, heretofore
you have been taught to act the dissembler: among Roman Catholics to be
a Roman Catholic, and to be a spy even among your own brethren; to believe
no man, to trust no man. Among the Reformers, to be a reformer; among
the Huguenots, to be a Huguenot; among the Calvinists, to be a Calvinist;
among other Protestants, generally to be a Protestant, and obtaining their
confidence, to seek even to preach from their pulpits, and to denounce
with all the vehemence in your nature our Holy Religion and the Pope;
and even to descend so low as to become a Jew among Jews, that you might
be enabled to gather together all information for the benefit of your
Order as a faithful soldier of the Pope.
You have been taught
to insidiously plant the seeds of jealousy and hatred between communities,
provinces, states that were at peace, and incite them to deeds of blood,
involving them in war with each other, and to create revolutions and civil
wars in countries that were independent and prosperous, cultivating the
arts and the sciences and enjoying the blessings of peace. To take sides
with the combatants and to act secretly with your brother Jesuit, who
might be engaged on the other side, but openly opposed to that with which
you might 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
justifies the means.
You have been taught
your duty as a spy, to gather all statistics, facts and information in
your power from every source; to ingratiate yourself into the confidence
of the family circle of Protestants and heretics of every class and character,
as well as that of the merchant, the banker, the lawyer, among the schools
and universities, in parliaments and legislatures, and the judiciaries
and councils of state, and to be all things to all men, for the Pope's
sake, whose servants we are unto death.
You have received
all your instructions heretofore as a novice, a neophyte, and have served
as co-adjurer, confessor and priest, but you have not yet been invested
with all that is necessary to command in the Army of Loyola in the service
of the Pope. You must serve the proper time as the instrument and executioner
as directed by your superiors; for none can command here who has not consecrated
his labors with the blood of the heretic; for "without the shedding
of blood no man can be saved." Therefore, to fit yourself for your
work and make your own salvation sure, you will, in addition to your former
oath of obedience to your order and allegiance to the Pope, repeat after
me---
The Extreme Oath of
the Jesuits:
"1, _ now, in
the presence of Almighty God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the blessed Michael
the Archangel, the blessed St. John the Baptist, the holy Apostles St.
Peter and St. Paul and all the saints and sacred hosts of heaven, and
to you, my ghostly father, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus,
founded by St. Ignatius Loyola in the Pontificate of Paul the Third, and
continued to the present, do by the womb of the virgin, the matrix of
God, and the rod of Jesus Christ, declare and swear, that his holiness
the Pope is Christ's Vice-regent and is the true and only head of the
Catholic or Universal Church throughout the earth; and that by virtue
of the keys of binding and loosing, given to his Holiness by my Savior,
Jesus Christ, he hath power to depose heretical kings, princes, states,
commonwealths and governments, all being illegal without his sacred confirmation
and that they may safely be destroyed. Therefore, to the utmost of my
power I shall and will defend this doctrine of his Holiness' right and
custom against all usurpers of the heretical or Protestant authority whatever,
especially the Lutheran of Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway,
and the now pretended authority and churches of England and Scotland,
and branches of the same now established in Ireland and on the Continent
of America and elsewhere; and all adherents in regard that they be usurped
and heretical, opposing the sacred Mother Church of Rome. I do now renounce
and disown any allegiance as due to any heretical king, prince or state
named Protestants or Liberals, or obedience to any of the laws, magistrates
or officers.
I do further declare
that the doctrine of the churches of England and Scotland, of the Calvinists,
Huguenots and others of the name Protestants or Liberals to be damnable
and they themselves damned who will not forsake the same.
I do further declare,
that I will help, assist, and advise all or any of his Holiness' agents
in any place wherever I shall be, in Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Denmark,
Sweden, Norway, England, Ireland or America, or in any other Kingdom or
territory I shall come to, and do my uttermost to extirpate the heretical
Protestants or Liberals' doctrines and to destroy all their pretended
powers, regal or otherwise.
I do further promise
and declare, that notwithstanding I am dispensed with, to assume my religion
heretical, for the propaganda of the Mother Church's interest, to keep
secret and private all her agents' counsels from time to time, as they
may entrust me and not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing
or circumstance whatever; but to execute all that shall be proposed, given
in charge or discovered unto me, by you, my ghostly father, or any of
this sacred covenant.
I do further promise
and declare, that I will have no opinion or will of my own, or any mental
reservation whatever, even as a corpse or cadaver (perinde ac cadaver),
but will unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may receive
from my superiors in the Militia of the Pope and of Jesus Christ.
That I may go to any
part of the world withersoever I may be sent, to the frozen regions of
the North, the burning sands of the desert of Africa, or the jungles of
India, to the centers of civilization of Europe, or to the wild haunts
of the barbarous savages of America, without murmuring or repining, and
will be submissive in all things whatsoever communicated to me.
I
furthermore promise and declare that I will, when opportunity present,
make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics,
Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do, to extirpate and exterminate
them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age,
sex or condition; and that I will hang, waste, boil, flay, strangle and
bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs of their
women and crush their infants' heads against the walls, in order to annihilate
forever their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly,
I will secretly use the poisoned cup, the strangulating cord, the steel
of the poniard or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity,
or authority of the person or persons, whatever may be their condition
in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed so
to do by any agent of the Pope or Superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy
Faith, of the Society of Jesus.
In confirmation of
which, I hereby dedicate my life, my soul and all my corporal powers,
and with this dagger which I now receive, I will subscribe my name written
in my own blood, in testimony thereof; and should I prove false or weaken
in my determination, may my brethren and fellow soldiers of the Militia
of the Pope cut off my hands and my feet, and my throat from ear to ear,
my belly opened and sulphur burned therein, with all the punishment that
can be inflicted upon me on earth and my soul be tortured by demons in
an eternal hell forever!
All of which, I, _,
do swear by the Blessed Trinity and blessed Sacraments, which I am now
to receive, to perform and on my part to keep inviolable; and do call
all the heavenly and glorious host of heaven to witness the blessed Sacrament
of the Eucharist, and witness the same further with my name written and
with the point of this dagger dipped in my own blood and sealed in the
face of this holy covenant."
(He receives the wafer
from the Superior and writes his name with the point of his dagger dipped
in his own blood taken from over his heart.)
Superior:
"You will now
rise to your feet and I will instruct you in the Catechism necessary to
make yourself known to any member of the Society of Jesus belonging to
this rank.
In the first place,
you, as a Brother Jesuit, will with another mutually make the ordinary
sign of the cross as any ordinary Roman Catholic would; then one cross
his wrists, the palms of his hands open, and the other in answer crosses
his feet, one above the other; the first points with forefinger of the
right hand to the center of the palm of the left, the other with the forefinger
of the left hand points to the center of the palm of the right; the first
then with his right hand makes a circle around his head, touching it;
the other then with the forefinger of his left hand touches the left side
of his body just below his heart; the first then with his right hand draws
it across the throat of the other, and the latter then with a dagger down
the stomach and abdomen of the first. The first then says Iustum; and
the other answers Necar; the first Reges. The other answers Impious."
(The meaning of which has already been explained.) "The first will
then present a small piece of paper folded in a peculiar manner, four
times, which the other will cut longitudinally and on opening the name
Jesu will be found written upon the head and arms of a cross three times.
You will then give and receive with him the following questions and answers:
Question —From whither do you come? Answer
—
The Holy faith.
Q. —Whom do you serve?
A. —The Holy Father at Rome, the Pope,
and the Roman Catholic Church Universal throughout the world.
Q. —Who commands you?
A. —The Successor of St. Ignatius Loyola,
the founder of the Society of Jesus or the Soldiers of Jesus Christ.
Q. —Who received you? A. —A venerable man in white hair.
Q. —How?
A. —With a naked dagger, I kneeling upon
the cross beneath the banners of the Pope and of our sacred order.
Q. —Did you take an oath?
A. —I did, to destroy heretics and their
governments and rulers, and to spare neither age, sex nor condition. To
be as a corpse without any opinion or will of my own, but to implicitly
obey my Superiors in all things without hesitation of murmuring.
Q. —Will you do that? A. —I will.
Q. —How do you travel? A. —In the bark of Peter the fisherman.
Q. —Whither do you travel? A. —To the four quarters of the globe.
Q. —For what purpose?
A. —To obey the orders of my general
and Superiors and execute the will of the Pope and faithfully fulfill
the conditions of my oaths.
Q. —Go ye, then, into all the world and
take possession of all lands in the name of the Pope. He who will not
accept him as the Vicar of Jesus and his Vice-regent on earth, let him
be accursed and exterminated."
Editor's Notes
Alberto
Ribera taking the Jesuit oath.
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This oath is
taken from the book Subterranean Rome by Carlos Didier,
translated from the French and published in New York in 1843.
Dr. Alberto Rivera escaped from the Jesuit Order in 1967, and
he describes his Jesuit oath in exactly the same way as it appears
in this book. Semper idem: always the same.
The
Jesuit Oath of Induction is also recorded in the Congressional Record
of the U.S. (House Bill 1523, Contested election case of Eugene
C. Bonniwell, against Thos. S. Butler, Feb. 15, 1913, pp. 3215-3216).
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