WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.640 MONITA SECRETA SOCIETATIS JESU. 00:02.940 --> 00:05.060 The Secret Instructions of the Jesuits. 00:05.600 --> 00:10.720 Also the Four Vows of the Jesuits the Oath of Secrecy of 1680, and Tetzel's 00:10.720 --> 00:11.340 Indulgence. 00:12.140 --> 00:14.660 Of the 15th of April 1517. 00:15.240 --> 00:19.540 To capture the will of the inhabitants of a country, it is very important to 00:19.540 --> 00:23.300 manifest the intent of the society, in the manner prescribed in the 00:23.300 --> 00:27.240 regulations in which it is said, that the society must labor with such 00:27.240 --> 00:30.620 ardor and force for the salvation of their neighbor as for themselves. 00:31.340 --> 00:35.940 For the better inducement of this idea, the most opportunely that we practice the 00:35.940 --> 00:39.920 most humble offices, visiting the poor, the afflicted, and the imprisoned. 00:40.680 --> 00:45.240 It is very convenient to confess with much promptness, and to hear the confessions, 00:45.500 --> 00:49.300 showing indifference, without teasing the penitents, for this, the most notable 00:49.300 --> 00:53.520 inhabitants will admire our fathers and esteem them, for the great charity they 00:53.520 --> 00:55.900 have for all, and the novelty of the subject. 00:56.700 --> 01:01.440 To have in mind that it is necessary to ask with religious modesty, the means for 01:01.440 --> 01:05.540 exercising the duties of the society, and that it is needful to procure and 01:05.540 --> 01:10.220 acquire benevolence, principally of the secular ecclesiastics, and of persons of 01:10.220 --> 01:12.560 authority, that may be conceived necessary. 01:13.520 --> 01:17.520 When called to go to the most distant places, where alms are to be received, 01:17.680 --> 01:21.800 they are to be accepted, no matter how small they may be, after having marked out 01:21.800 --> 01:23.360 the necessities of ourselves. 01:24.660 --> 01:28.100 Notwithstanding, it will be very convenient at the moment to give those 01:28.100 --> 01:31.940 alms to the poor, for the edification of those who do not have an exact 01:31.940 --> 01:36.080 understanding of the society, and, but we must in advance be more liberal 01:36.080 --> 01:36.900 with ourselves. 01:37.720 --> 01:42.640 All must labor as if we were inspired by the same spirit, and each one must study 01:42.640 --> 01:47.200 to acquire the same styles, with the object of uniformity among so great a 01:47.200 --> 01:51.740 number of persons, edifying the whole, those who do the contrary must be expelled 01:51.740 --> 01:52.460 as pernicious. 01:53.540 --> 01:57.960 In a beginning it is not convenient to purchase property, but in case they can be 01:57.960 --> 02:01.860 found, some good sites may be bought, saying that they are to belong to other 02:01.860 --> 02:06.000 persons, using the names of some faithful friends, who will guard the secret. 02:06.820 --> 02:11.220 The better to make our poverty apparent, the property nearest our college must 02:11.220 --> 02:14.980 belong to colleges the most distant, that we can prevent the princes and 02:14.980 --> 02:19.300 magistrates from ever knowing that the income of the society has a fixed point. 02:20.140 --> 02:24.840 We must not ourselves go out to reside to form colleges, except to the rich cities, 02:25.000 --> 02:29.000 for in this we must imitate Christ, who remained in Jerusalem, and as he 02:29.000 --> 02:31.880 alone, passed by the less considerable populations. 02:32.880 --> 02:37.120 We must obtain and acquire of the widows all the money that we can, presenting 02:37.120 --> 02:40.660 ourselves at repeated times to their sight our extreme necessity. 02:41.480 --> 02:45.980 The superior over each province is the one to whom we must account with certainty, 02:45.980 --> 02:50.500 the income of the same, but the amount to the treasurer at Rome, it is, and must 02:50.500 --> 02:52.740 always be, an impenetrable mystery. 02:53.680 --> 02:57.480 It is for us to preach and say in all parts and in all conversations, 02:57.860 --> 03:01.560 that we have come to teach the young and aid the people, and this without interest 03:01.560 --> 03:05.760 in any single species and without exception of persons, and that we are not 03:05.760 --> 03:08.400 so onerous to the people as other religious orders. 03:09.400 --> 03:10.240 Chapter 1. 03:10.480 --> 03:14.780 The manner of procedure with which the society must be conducted when considering 03:14.780 --> 03:16.480 the commencing of some foundation. 03:17.480 --> 03:17.760 1. 03:17.980 --> 03:22.340 To capture the will of the inhabitants of a country, it is very important to 03:22.340 --> 03:26.080 manifest the intent of the society, in the manner prescribed in the 03:26.080 --> 03:30.020 regulations in which it is said, that the society must labor with such 03:30.020 --> 03:33.360 ardor and force for the salvation of their neighbor as for themselves. 03:34.360 --> 03:38.740 For the better inducement of this idea, the most opportunely that we practice the 03:38.740 --> 03:42.720 most humble offices, visiting the poor, the afflicted, and the imprisoned. 03:43.580 --> 03:48.040 It is very convenient to confess with much promptness, and to hear the confessions, 03:48.300 --> 03:52.080 showing indifference, without teasing the penitents, for this, the most notable 03:52.080 --> 03:56.300 inhabitants will admire our fathers and esteem them, for the great charity they 03:56.300 --> 03:58.500 have for all, and the novelty of the subject. 03:59.460 --> 03:59.940 2. 04:00.120 --> 04:04.980 To have in mind that it is necessary to ask with religious modesty, the means for 04:04.980 --> 04:09.080 exercising the duties of the society, and that it is needful to procure and 04:09.080 --> 04:13.760 acquire benevolence, principally of the secular ecclesiastics, and of persons of 04:13.760 --> 04:16.080 authority, that may be conceived necessary. 04:17.060 --> 04:17.340 3. 04:17.760 --> 04:21.800 When called to go to the most distant places, where alms are to be received, 04:21.940 --> 04:26.060 they are to be accepted, no matter how small they may be, after having marked out 04:26.060 --> 04:27.580 the necessities of ourselves. 04:28.900 --> 04:32.340 Notwithstanding, it will be very convenient at the moment to give those 04:32.340 --> 04:36.200 alms to the poor, for the edification of those who do not have an exact 04:36.200 --> 04:40.340 understanding of the society, and, but we must in advance be more liberal 04:40.340 --> 04:41.120 with ourselves. 04:42.260 --> 04:42.420 4. 04:42.700 --> 04:47.580 All must labor as if we were inspired by the same spirit, and each one must study 04:47.580 --> 04:52.180 to acquire the same styles, with the object of uniformity among so great a 04:52.180 --> 04:56.700 number of persons, edifying the whole, those who do the contrary must be expelled 04:56.700 --> 04:57.360 as pernicious. 04:58.400 --> 04:58.760 5. 04:59.120 --> 05:03.640 In a beginning it is not convenient to purchase property, but in case they can be 05:03.640 --> 05:07.560 found, some good sites may be bought, saying that they are to belong to other 05:07.560 --> 05:11.700 persons, using the names of some faithful friends, who will guard the secret. 05:12.560 --> 05:16.900 The better to make our poverty apparent, the property nearest our college must 05:16.900 --> 05:20.700 belong to colleges the most distant, that we can prevent the princes and 05:20.700 --> 05:24.960 magistrates from ever knowing that the income of the society has a fixed point. 05:25.820 --> 05:26.280 6. 05:26.520 --> 05:31.360 We must not ourselves go out to reside to form colleges, except to the rich cities, 05:31.560 --> 05:35.560 for in this we must imitate Christ, who remained in Jerusalem, and as he 05:35.560 --> 05:38.580 alone, passed by the less considerable populations. 05:39.600 --> 05:39.840 7. 05:40.180 --> 05:44.460 We must obtain and acquire of the widows all the money that we can, presenting 05:44.460 --> 05:48.000 ourselves at repeated times to their sight our extreme necessity. 05:49.040 --> 05:49.360 8. 05:49.620 --> 05:53.960 The superior over each province is the one to whom we must account with certainty, 05:54.240 --> 05:58.500 the income of the same, but the amount to the treasurer at Rome, it is, and must 05:58.500 --> 06:00.640 always be, an impenetrable mystery. 06:01.680 --> 06:02.040 9. 06:02.360 --> 06:06.200 It is for us to preach and say in all parts and in all conversations, 06:06.580 --> 06:10.260 that we have come to teach the young and aid the people, and this without interest 06:10.260 --> 06:14.480 in any single species and without exception of persons, and that we are not 06:14.480 --> 06:17.160 so onerous to the people as other religious orders. 06:18.100 --> 06:18.480 10. 06:19.100 --> 06:21.980 Of the particular rigor of discipline in the society. 06:22.420 --> 06:27.140 If there shall be anyone dismissed under any protest, as an enemy of the society, 06:27.420 --> 06:31.060 whatever may be his condition, or age, all those who have been moved to 06:31.060 --> 06:35.240 become the devotees of our churches, or a visiting ourselves, or who having 06:35.240 --> 06:39.380 been made to take the alms on the way to other churches, or who having been found 06:39.380 --> 06:43.240 to give to other fathers, or who having dissuaded any rich man, and 06:43.240 --> 06:47.600 well-intentioned towards our society, or giving anything, or in the time in 06:47.600 --> 06:51.580 which he can dispose of his properties, having shown great affection for his 06:51.580 --> 06:56.060 relations with this society, because it is a great proof of a mortified disposition, 06:56.440 --> 07:00.740 and we conclude that the professions are entirely mortified, or also, that he 07:00.740 --> 07:04.240 having scattered all the alms of the penitents, or of the friends of the 07:04.240 --> 07:06.700 society, in favor of his poor relations. 07:07.640 --> 07:11.740 Furthermore, that he may not complain afterwards of the cause of his expulsion, 07:11.920 --> 07:16.160 it will be necessary to thrust him from us directly, but we can prohibit him from 07:16.160 --> 07:20.920 hearing confessions, which will mortify him, and vex him by imposing upon him most 07:20.920 --> 07:25.280 vile offices, obliging him each day to do things that are the most repugnant, 07:25.400 --> 07:28.980 he will be removed from the highest studies and honorable employments, 07:29.140 --> 07:33.660 he will be reprimanded in the chapters by public censures, he will be excluded from 07:33.660 --> 07:38.400 the recreations and prohibited from all conversation with strangers, he will be 07:38.400 --> 07:42.020 deprived of his vestments and the uses of other things when they are not 07:42.020 --> 07:46.480 indispensable, until he begins to murmur and becomes impatient, then he can be 07:46.480 --> 07:50.100 expelled as a shameful person, to give a bad example to others, 07:50.240 --> 07:54.400 and if it is necessary to give account to his relatives, or to the prelates of the 07:54.400 --> 07:58.580 church, of the reason for which he has been thrust out, it will be sufficient to 07:58.580 --> 08:02.920 say that he does not possess the spirit of the society, furthermore, having also 08:02.920 --> 08:07.300 expelled all those who may have scrupled to acquire properties for the society, 08:07.520 --> 08:10.880 we must direct, that they are too much addicted to their own judgment. 08:11.640 --> 08:15.500 If we desire to give reason of their conduct to the provincials, it is 08:15.500 --> 08:19.120 necessary not to give them a hearing, but call for the rule, that they are 08:19.120 --> 08:20.840 obligated to a blind obedience. 08:21.360 --> 08:25.340 It will be necessary to note, whence the beginning and whence their youth, 08:25.480 --> 08:29.080 those who have great affection for the society, and those which we recognize 08:29.080 --> 08:33.580 their affection until the furthest orders, or until their relatives, or until the 08:33.580 --> 08:37.960 poor shall be necessarily disposed, little by little, as carefully said, 08:38.080 --> 08:39.420 to go out then they are useless. 08:40.420 --> 08:41.360 Chapter 11. 08:41.700 --> 08:47.000 How we must conduct ourselves unitedly against those who have been expelled from 08:47.000 --> 08:47.700 the society. 08:48.420 --> 08:52.160 As those whom we have expelled, when knowing little or something of the 08:52.160 --> 08:56.480 secrets, the most times are noxious to the society for the same, it shall be 08:56.480 --> 09:00.700 necessary to obviate their efforts by the following method, before thrusting them 09:00.700 --> 09:05.180 out, it will be necessary to obligate them to promise, by writing, and under oath, 09:05.320 --> 09:08.880 that they will never by writing or speaking, do anything which may be 09:08.880 --> 09:13.340 prejudicial to the society, and it will be good that the superiors guard a point of 09:13.340 --> 09:17.320 their evil inclinations, of their defects and of their vices, that they are the 09:17.320 --> 09:21.720 same, having to manifest in the discharge of their duties, following the custom of 09:21.720 --> 09:26.020 the society, for that, if it should be necessary, this point can serve near the 09:26.020 --> 09:28.340 great, and the prelates to hinder their advancement. 09:29.360 --> 09:33.600 Constant notice must be given to all the colleges of their having been expelled, 09:33.760 --> 09:37.800 and we must exaggerate the general motives of their expulsion, as the little 09:37.800 --> 09:41.680 mortification of their spirit, their disobedience, their little love for 09:41.680 --> 09:46.780 spiritual exercises, their self-love, and see, and see, afterwards, we must 09:46.780 --> 09:50.720 admonish them, that they must not have any correspondence with them, and they must 09:50.720 --> 09:54.300 speak of them as strangers, that the language of all shall be uniform, 09:54.660 --> 09:58.580 and that it may be told everywhere, that the society never expels anyone 09:58.580 --> 10:03.360 without very grave causes, and that as the sea casts up dead bodies, and see, 10:03.560 --> 10:04.040 and see. 10:04.600 --> 10:09.120 We must insinuate with caution, similar reasons to these, causing them to 10:09.120 --> 10:12.840 be abhorred by the people, that for their expulsion it may appear plausible. 10:13.800 --> 10:18.360 In the domestic exhortations, it will be necessary to persuade people that they 10:18.360 --> 10:22.620 have been turned out as unquiet persons, that they continue to beg each moment to 10:22.620 --> 10:26.960 enter anew into the society, and it will be good to exaggerate the misfortunes of 10:26.960 --> 10:30.820 those who have perished miserably, after having separated from the society. 10:31.700 --> 10:36.120 It will also be opportune to send forth the accusations, that they have gone out 10:36.120 --> 10:40.540 from the society, which we can formulate by means of grave persons, who will 10:40.540 --> 10:45.240 everywhere repeat that the society never expels anyone but for grave causes, 10:45.560 --> 10:48.560 and that they never part with their healthy members, the which they can 10:48.560 --> 10:52.860 confirm by their zeal, and show in general for the salvation of the souls of them 10:52.860 --> 10:56.720 that do not pertain to them, and how much greater will it not be for the salvation 10:56.720 --> 10:57.360 of their own. 10:58.240 --> 11:02.940 Afterwards, the society must prepare and attract by all classes of benefits, 11:02.940 --> 11:07.540 the magnates, or prelates, with whom those who have been expelled begin to enjoy some 11:07.540 --> 11:08.640 authority and credit. 11:09.320 --> 11:13.860 It will be necessary to show that the common good of an order so celebrated is 11:13.860 --> 11:18.180 useful in the church, must be of more consideration, than that if a particular 11:18.180 --> 11:19.740 one who has been cast out. 11:20.300 --> 11:24.680 If all this affliction preserves some affection for those expelled, it will be 11:24.680 --> 11:29.000 good to indicate the reasons which have caused their expulsion, and yet exaggerate 11:29.000 --> 11:32.800 the causes the more that they were not very true, with such they can draw their 11:32.800 --> 11:35.200 conclusions as to the probable consequences. 11:36.260 --> 11:40.400 Of all modes, it will be necessary that they particularly have abandoned the 11:40.400 --> 11:44.500 society by their own free will, not being promoted to a single employment 11:44.500 --> 11:48.440 or dignity in the church, that they would not submit themselves and much that 11:48.440 --> 11:52.180 pertains to the society, and that all the world should withdraw from them that 11:52.180 --> 11:53.580 desire to depend on them. 11:54.440 --> 11:58.720 Procuring soon, that they are removed from the exercise of the functions celebrated 11:58.720 --> 12:03.080 in the church, such as the sermons, confessions, publication of books, 12:03.260 --> 12:07.260 and see, and see, so that they do not win the love and applause of the people. 12:08.120 --> 12:11.940 For this, we must come to inquire diligently upon their life and their 12:11.940 --> 12:16.380 habits, upon their occupations, and see, and see, penetrate into their 12:16.380 --> 12:20.580 intentions, for the which, we must have particular correspondence with some of the 12:20.580 --> 12:23.580 family in whose house they live, of those who have been expelled. 12:24.440 --> 12:29.300 In surprising something reprehensible in them or worthy of censure, which is to be 12:29.300 --> 12:34.100 divulged by people of medium quality, giving in following the steps conducive to 12:34.100 --> 12:37.220 reach the hearing of the great, and the prelates, who favor then, 12:37.340 --> 12:40.880 that they may be caused to fear that the infamy will relapse upon themselves. 12:41.620 --> 12:45.840 If they do nothing that merits reprehension, and conduct themselves well, 12:46.020 --> 12:49.580 we must curtail them by subtle propositions and captious phrases, 12:49.860 --> 12:54.280 their virtues and meritorious actions, causing that the idea that has been formed 12:54.280 --> 12:57.920 of them, and the faith that is had in them, may little by little be made to 12:57.920 --> 13:02.380 disappear, this is of great interest for the society, that those whom we repel, 13:02.520 --> 13:06.460 and more principally those who by their own will abandon us, shall be sunk in 13:06.460 --> 13:07.820 obscurity and oblivion. 13:08.580 --> 13:12.780 We must divulge without ceasing the disgraces and sinister accidents that they 13:12.780 --> 13:16.500 bring upon them, notwithstanding the faithful, who entreat for them in their 13:16.500 --> 13:20.060 prayers, that they may not believe that we work from impulses of passion. 13:20.900 --> 13:25.340 In our houses we must exaggerate by every method these calamities, that they may 13:25.340 --> 13:26.620 serve to hinder others. 13:27.500 --> 13:28.400 Chapter 12. 13:28.760 --> 13:29.640 W.H.O. 13:29.660 --> 13:33.100 may come that they may be sustained and preserved in the society. 13:33.720 --> 13:38.640 The first place in the society pertains to the good operators, that is to say, 13:38.820 --> 13:42.740 those who cannot procure less for the temporal than for the spiritual good of 13:42.740 --> 13:47.420 the society, such as the confessors of princes, of the powerful, of the widows, 13:47.580 --> 13:51.860 of the rich pious women, the preachers and the professors who know all these secrets. 13:52.740 --> 13:57.220 Those who have already failed in strength or advanced in years, conforming to the 13:57.220 --> 14:00.960 use they have made of their talents in and for the temporal good of the society, 14:01.240 --> 14:04.940 of the manner which has attended them in days that are past, and further, 14:05.140 --> 14:09.200 are yet convenient instruments to give part to the superiors of the ordinary 14:09.200 --> 14:13.000 defects which are to be noted in ourselves, for they are always in the 14:13.000 --> 14:13.360 house. 14:14.080 --> 14:19.000 We must never expel but in case of extreme necessity, for fear of the society 14:19.000 --> 14:20.800 acquiring a bad reputation. 14:21.640 --> 14:25.780 Furthermore, it will be necessary to favor those who excel by their talent, 14:25.980 --> 14:30.020 their nobleness and their fortune, particularly if they have powerful friends 14:30.020 --> 14:33.620 attached to the society, and if they themselves have for it a sincere 14:33.620 --> 14:36.380 appreciation, as we have already said before. 14:37.220 --> 14:41.460 They must be sent to Rome, or to the universities of greater reputation to 14:41.460 --> 14:45.560 study there, or in case of having studied in some province, it will be very 14:45.560 --> 14:49.460 convenient that the professors attend to them with special care and affection. 14:50.380 --> 14:54.460 Meanwhile, not having conveyed their property to the society, we must not 14:54.460 --> 14:58.780 refuse them anything, for after confirming the session, they will be disappointed as 14:58.780 --> 15:02.440 the others, notwithstanding guarding some consideration for the past. 15:03.160 --> 15:08.040 Having also a special consideration on the part of the superiors, for those that have 15:08.040 --> 15:12.200 brought to the society, a young notable, placed so that they are given to know the 15:12.200 --> 15:16.800 affection made to it, but if they have not professed, it is necessary to take care of 15:16.800 --> 15:20.860 not having too much indulgence with them, for fear that they may return at another 15:20.860 --> 15:23.880 time, to carry away those whom they have brought to the society. 15:24.840 --> 15:25.920 Chapter 13. 15:26.240 --> 15:31.320 Of the youth who may be elected to be admitted into the society, and of the mode 15:31.320 --> 15:32.200 of retaining them. 15:32.880 --> 15:37.720 It is necessary that much prudence shall be exercised, respecting the election of 15:37.720 --> 15:41.540 the youth, having to be sprightly, noble, well-liked, or at the least 15:41.540 --> 15:43.400 excellent in some of these qualities. 15:44.160 --> 15:48.780 To attract them with greater facility to our institute, it is necessary in the 15:48.780 --> 15:53.140 meanwhile, to study that the rectors and professors of colleges shall exhibit an 15:53.140 --> 15:57.440 especial affection, and outside the time of the classes, to make them comprehend 15:57.440 --> 16:01.880 how great is God, and that some one should consecrate to his service all that he 16:01.880 --> 16:05.500 possesses, and particularly if he is in the society of his son. 16:06.300 --> 16:10.220 Whenever the opportunity may arrive conducive in the college and in the 16:10.220 --> 16:14.420 garden, and yet at times to the country houses, that in the company of ourselves, 16:14.660 --> 16:18.420 during the recreations, that we may familiarize with them, little by little, 16:18.620 --> 16:22.480 being careful, notwithstanding, that the familiarity does not engender 16:22.480 --> 16:23.160 disgust. 16:23.700 --> 16:28.220 We cannot consent that we shall punish them, nor oblige them to assemble at their 16:28.220 --> 16:30.560 tasks among those who are the most educated. 16:31.360 --> 16:35.760 We must congratulate them with gifts and privileges conforming to their age and 16:35.760 --> 16:38.620 encouraging above all others with moral discourses. 16:39.060 --> 16:43.280 We must inculcate them, that it is for one divine disposition, that they are 16:43.280 --> 16:46.260 favorites among so many who frequent the same college. 16:47.160 --> 16:51.820 On other occasions, especially in the exhortations, we must aim to terrify them 16:51.820 --> 16:56.100 with menaces of the eternal condemnation, if they refuse the divine vocation. 16:56.960 --> 17:01.440 Meanwhile frequently expressing the anxiety to enter the society, we must 17:01.440 --> 17:05.440 always defer their admission, that they may remain constant, but if for these, 17:05.440 --> 17:09.600 they are undecided, then we must encourage them incessantly by other methods. 17:10.400 --> 17:14.660 If we admonish effectively, that none of their friends, nor yet the fathers, 17:14.940 --> 17:18.880 nor the mothers discover their vocation before being admitted, because then, 17:19.000 --> 17:23.100 if then, they come to the temptation of withdrawing, so many as the society 17:23.100 --> 17:27.200 desires to give full liberty of doing that which may be the most convenient, 17:27.440 --> 17:31.760 and in case of succeeding to conquer the temptation, we must never lose occasions 17:31.760 --> 17:36.180 to make them recover spirit, remembering that which we have said, always that this 17:36.180 --> 17:39.840 will succeed during the time of the novitiate, or after having made their 17:39.840 --> 17:40.660 simple vows. 17:41.240 --> 17:46.120 With respect to the sons of the great, nobles, and senators, as it is supremely 17:46.120 --> 17:49.900 difficult to attract them, meanwhile living with their fathers, who are having 17:49.900 --> 17:53.760 them educated to the end, that they may succeed in their destinies, we must 17:53.760 --> 17:58.120 persuade, vigorously, of the better influences of friends that are persons of 17:58.120 --> 18:02.040 the same society, that they are ordered to other provinces, or to distant 18:02.040 --> 18:05.700 universities in which there are our teachers, careful to remit to the 18:05.700 --> 18:10.140 respective professors the necessary instructions, appropriate to their quality 18:10.140 --> 18:13.920 and condition, that they may gain their friendship for the society with greater 18:13.920 --> 18:15.260 facility and certainty. 18:16.240 --> 18:20.420 When having arrived at a more advanced age, they will be induced to practice some 18:20.420 --> 18:24.820 spiritual exercises, that they may have so good an exit in Germany and Poland. 18:25.360 --> 18:30.000 We must console them in their sadness and afflictions, according to the quality and 18:30.000 --> 18:34.580 dispositions of each one, making use of private reprimands and exhortations 18:34.580 --> 18:38.700 appropriate to the bad use of riches, inculcating upon them that they should 18:38.700 --> 18:43.060 depreciate the felicity of a vocation, menacing them with the pains of hell for 18:43.060 --> 18:44.000 the things they do. 18:44.840 --> 18:48.860 It will be necessary to make patent to the fathers and the mothers, that they may 18:48.860 --> 18:52.900 condescend more easily to the desire of their sons of entering the society, 18:53.240 --> 18:57.060 the excellence of its institute in comparison with those of other orders, 18:57.280 --> 19:01.440 the sanctity and the science of our fathers, its reputation in all the world, 19:01.620 --> 19:04.480 the honor and distinctions of the different great and small. 19:05.060 --> 19:09.340 We must make enumeration of the princes and the magnates, that, with great 19:09.340 --> 19:12.660 content, have lived until their death, and yet living in the society. 19:13.320 --> 19:18.080 We must show how agreeable it is to God, that the youth consecrate themselves to 19:18.080 --> 19:22.700 him, particularly in the society of his son, and what thing is there so sublime as 19:22.700 --> 19:25.480 that of a man carrying the yoke of the Lord from his youth? 19:26.240 --> 19:30.280 That if they oppose any objections because of their extreme youth, then we must 19:30.280 --> 19:34.560 present the facility of our institute, the which not having anything to molest, 19:34.700 --> 19:38.120 with the exception of the three vows, and that which is most notable, 19:38.360 --> 19:42.840 that we do not have any obligatory rule, nor yet under penalty of venial sin. 19:43.640 --> 19:44.680 Chapter 14. 19:45.080 --> 19:49.500 Upon reserved cases and motives that necessitate expulsion from society. 19:49.860 --> 19:54.440 To most of the cases expressed in the constitutions, and of which only the 19:54.440 --> 19:58.860 superior or the ordinary confessor, with permission of this, can absolve them, 19:59.000 --> 20:03.840 where there is sodomy, unceits crime, fornication, adultery, of the unchaste 20:03.840 --> 20:07.900 touch of a man, or of a woman, also if under the pretext of zeal, 20:08.040 --> 20:11.580 or whatever motive, they have done some grave thing against the society, 20:11.580 --> 20:15.780 against its honors and its gains, these will be just causes for reason of 20:15.780 --> 20:17.100 the expulsion of the guilty. 20:18.020 --> 20:22.280 If anyone confesses in the confessional of having committed some similar act, 20:22.440 --> 20:26.500 he will not be promised absolution, until he has promised to reveal to the 20:26.500 --> 20:30.480 superior, outside of the confessional, the same or by his confessor. 20:31.040 --> 20:35.320 The superior will operate the better for it, in the general interests of the 20:35.320 --> 20:39.580 society, further, if there is founded hope of the careful hiding of the crime, 20:39.580 --> 20:43.560 it will be necessary to impose upon the guilty a convenient punishment, 20:43.820 --> 20:46.180 if otherwise be can be expelled much before. 20:47.140 --> 20:50.860 With all the care that is possible, the confessor will give the penitent to 20:50.860 --> 20:53.700 understand that he runs the danger of being expelled. 20:54.300 --> 20:58.880 If any one of our confessors, having heard a strange person say, that he had 20:58.880 --> 21:03.120 committed a shameful thing with one of the society, he will not absolve such a 21:03.120 --> 21:07.140 person, without his having said, outside of his confession, the name of the 21:07.140 --> 21:11.200 one with whom he has sinned, and if he so says, he will be made to swear that he 21:11.200 --> 21:14.160 will not divulge the same, without the consent of the society. 21:14.900 --> 21:19.680 If two of ourselves have sinned carnally, he who first avows it will be retained in 21:19.680 --> 21:23.460 the society, and the other will be expelled, but he who remains permanent, 21:23.660 --> 21:27.920 will be after such mortification and bad treatment, of sorrow, and by his 21:27.920 --> 21:32.380 impatience, and if we have occasion for his expulsion, it will be necessary for 21:32.380 --> 21:34.380 the future of it that it be done directly. 21:35.280 --> 21:40.180 The society being a noble corporation and preeminent in the church, it can dismiss 21:40.180 --> 21:44.200 those that will not be apt for the execution of our object, although giving 21:44.200 --> 21:48.160 satisfaction in the beginning, and the opportunity does not delay in 21:48.160 --> 21:52.220 presenting itself, if it procures continuous maltreatment, and if he is 21:52.220 --> 21:56.680 obliged to do contrary to his inclination, if they are gathered under the orders of 21:56.680 --> 22:00.800 gloomy superiors, if he is separated from his studies and from the honorable 22:00.800 --> 22:04.340 functions, and see, and see, until he gets to murmuring. 22:04.860 --> 22:09.600 In no manner must we retain in the society, those that openly reveal against 22:09.600 --> 22:13.820 their superiors, or that will complain publicly, or reservedly, of their 22:13.820 --> 22:18.280 companions, or particularly if they make them to strangers, nor to those who are 22:18.280 --> 22:23.100 among ourselves, or among persons who are on the outside, censure the conduct of the 22:23.100 --> 22:27.740 society in regard to the acquisition or administration of temporal properties, 22:28.040 --> 22:32.640 or whatever acts of the same, for example, of crushing or oppressing many of those 22:32.640 --> 22:36.700 whom we do not wish well, or that they the same having been expelled, and see, 22:36.880 --> 22:37.420 and see. 22:38.280 --> 22:42.680 Nor yet those, that in conversation, who tolerate, or defend the Venetians, 22:42.840 --> 22:46.720 the French and others, that have driven the society away from the territories, 22:47.020 --> 22:49.040 or that have occasioned great prejudices. 22:49.880 --> 22:53.780 Before the expulsion of any we must vex and harass them in the extreme, 22:54.060 --> 22:57.440 depriving them of the functions that they have been accustomed to discharge, 22:57.440 --> 22:59.100 dedicating them to others. 22:59.940 --> 23:03.880 Although they may do well, it will be necessary to censure them, and with this 23:03.880 --> 23:06.040 pretext, apply them to another thing. 23:06.880 --> 23:11.040 Imposing by a trifling fault that they have committed the most severe penalties, 23:11.340 --> 23:15.600 that they blush in public, until they have lost all patience, and at last will be 23:15.600 --> 23:19.180 expelled as pernicious to all, for which a future opportunity will 23:19.180 --> 23:21.240 present itself when they will think less. 23:21.880 --> 23:26.300 When someone of the society has a certain hope of obtaining a bishopric, 23:26.480 --> 23:30.980 or whatever other ecclesiastical dignity, to most of the ordinary vows of the 23:30.980 --> 23:34.960 society he will be obliged to take another, and that is, that he will always 23:34.960 --> 23:38.940 preserve good sentiments towards the society, that he will always speak 23:38.940 --> 23:42.960 favorably of it, that he will not have a confessor that will not be to its bosom, 23:43.080 --> 23:46.720 that he will do nothing of entity without having heard the justice of the same. 23:47.420 --> 23:51.720 Because in consequence of not having observed this, the cardinal told it the 23:51.720 --> 23:56.400 society had obtained of the Holy See, that no swinish descendants of Jews or 23:56.400 --> 24:00.800 Mohammedans were admitted, that he did not desire to take such vows, and that for 24:00.800 --> 24:04.560 celebrity that is out, he was expelled as a firm enemy of the society. 24:05.380 --> 24:06.580 Chapter 15. 24:06.900 --> 24:10.060 How the society must be conducted with the monks and nuns. 24:10.460 --> 24:14.480 The confessors and preachers must guard well against offending the nuns and 24:14.480 --> 24:18.500 occasioning temptations contrary to their vocation, but on the contrary, 24:18.760 --> 24:22.800 having conciliated the love of the lady superiors, that we obtain to hear, 24:22.960 --> 24:26.720 when less, their extraordinary confessions, and that it is predicted that 24:26.720 --> 24:30.380 we may hope soon to receive some gratitude from them, because the abbesses, 24:30.600 --> 24:34.440 principally the rich and noble, can be of much utility to the society, 24:34.740 --> 24:38.960 by themselves, and by their relatives and friends, of the manner with which we treat 24:38.960 --> 24:43.240 with them and influence of the principal monasteries, the society will little by 24:43.240 --> 24:47.140 little arrive to obtain the knowledge of and the corporation and increase its 24:47.140 --> 24:47.520 friendship. 24:48.200 --> 24:53.040 It will be necessary, notwithstanding, to prohibit our nuns from frequenting the 24:53.040 --> 24:57.140 monasteries of women, for fear that their mode of life may be more agreeable, 24:57.300 --> 25:01.300 and that the society will see itself frustrated in the hopes of possessing all 25:01.300 --> 25:01.960 their properties. 25:02.940 --> 25:07.200 We must induce them to take the vow of chastity and obedience, at the hands of 25:07.200 --> 25:11.020 their confessors, and to show them that this mode of life will conform with the 25:11.020 --> 25:15.260 uses of the primitive church, placed as a light to shine in the house, and that it 25:15.260 --> 25:18.880 cannot be hidden under a measure, without the edification of their neighbor, 25:19.120 --> 25:22.800 and without fruit for the souls, furthermore, that in imitation of the 25:22.800 --> 25:27.100 widows of the gospel, doing well by giving themselves to Jesus Christ and to his 25:27.100 --> 25:27.620 society. 25:28.280 --> 25:32.700 If they were to know how evil it can possibly be, of the life of the cloisters, 25:32.920 --> 25:37.440 but these instructions must be given under the seal of inviolable secrecy that they 25:37.440 --> 25:39.220 do not come to the ears of the monks. 25:40.120 --> 25:41.140 Chapter 16. 25:41.580 --> 25:44.080 How we must make profession of despising riches. 25:44.580 --> 25:48.680 With the end of preventing the seculars from directing attention to our itching 25:48.680 --> 25:53.460 for riches, it will be useful to repel at times alms of little amount, by which we 25:53.460 --> 25:57.340 can allow them to do services for our society, though we must accept the 25:57.340 --> 26:01.600 smallest amounts from people attached to us, for fear that we may be accused of 26:01.600 --> 26:04.520 avarice, if we only receive those that are most numerous. 26:05.180 --> 26:10.140 We must refuse sepulture to persons of the lowest class in our churches, though they 26:10.140 --> 26:14.120 may have been very attached to our society, for we do not believe that we 26:14.120 --> 26:18.000 must seek riches by the number of interments, and we must hold firmly the 26:18.000 --> 26:19.720 gains that we have made with the dead. 26:20.220 --> 26:24.700 In regard to the widows and other persons who have left their properties to the 26:24.700 --> 26:29.020 society, we must labor with resolution and greater vigor than with the others, 26:29.200 --> 26:33.060 things being equal, and not to be made apparent, that we favor some more than 26:33.060 --> 26:35.960 others, in consideration of their temporal properties. 26:36.900 --> 26:41.220 The same must be observed with those that pertain to the society, after that they 26:41.220 --> 26:45.340 have made cession of their property, and if it be necessary to expel them from 26:45.340 --> 26:49.300 the society, it must be done with discretion, to the end that they leave to 26:49.300 --> 26:53.340 the society a part for the less of that which they have given, or that which they 26:53.340 --> 26:55.120 have bequeathed at the time of their death. 26:55.800 --> 26:58.120 HOW WE MUST PRETEND TO DESPISE WEALTH. 26:58.500 --> 26:59.440 CHAPTER 17. 26:59.900 --> 27:01.720 METHODS TO EXALT THE COMPANY. 27:02.100 --> 27:06.360 Treating principally all, though in things of little consequence, we must have the 27:06.360 --> 27:10.780 same opinion, or at least exterior dignity, for by this manner we may augment 27:10.780 --> 27:15.420 and strengthen the society more and more, to overthrow the barrier we have overcome 27:15.420 --> 27:16.800 in the business of the world. 27:17.600 --> 27:22.020 Thus strengthening all, it will shine by its wisdom and good example, that we shall 27:22.020 --> 27:26.160 excel all the other fathers, and particularly the pastors, and see, 27:26.320 --> 27:28.980 and see, until the people desire us to all. 27:29.880 --> 27:34.080 Publicly divulging that the pastors do not need to possess so much knowledge, 27:34.260 --> 27:38.100 with such they can discharge well their duties, stating that they can assist them 27:38.100 --> 27:41.540 with the counsels of the society, that for this motive they can dedicate 27:41.540 --> 27:43.760 themselves to all classes of studies. 27:44.600 --> 27:50.050 We must inculcate this doctrine with kings and princes, that the faith cannot subsist 27:50.050 --> 27:54.410 in the present state, without politics, but that in this, it is necessary to 27:54.410 --> 27:55.750 proceed with much certainty. 27:56.690 --> 28:00.830 Of this mode, we must share the affection of the great, and be admitted to the most 28:00.830 --> 28:01.990 secret counsels. 28:02.390 --> 28:06.450 We must entertain their goodwill, by writing from all parts interesting 28:06.450 --> 28:07.530 facts and notices. 28:08.470 --> 28:13.170 It will be no little advantage that will result by secretly and prudently fomenting 28:13.170 --> 28:16.710 dissensions between the great, ruining or augmenting their power. 28:17.290 --> 28:21.630 But if we perceive some appearance of reconciliation between them, then we of 28:21.630 --> 28:25.650 the society will treat and act as pacificators, that it shall not be that 28:25.650 --> 28:27.930 any others shall anticipate to obtain it. 28:28.430 --> 28:33.030 As much to the magnates as to the people, we must persuade them by all possible 28:33.030 --> 28:37.450 means, that the society has not been, but by a special divine providence, 28:37.690 --> 28:42.070 conforming to the prophecies of the abbot Joachim, for to return and raise up the 28:42.070 --> 28:43.690 church, humbled by the heretics. 28:44.370 --> 28:48.670 Having acquired the favor of the great and of the bishops, it will be an entire 28:48.670 --> 28:53.510 necessity, of empowering the curates and prebendaries to more exactly reform the 28:53.510 --> 28:57.330 clergy, that in other times lived under certain rule with the bishops, 28:57.590 --> 28:58.750 and tending to perfection. 28:59.070 --> 29:03.610 Also it will be necessary to inspire the abbeys and prelacies, the which it will 29:03.610 --> 29:08.010 not be difficult to obtain, calling attention to the indolence and stupidity 29:08.010 --> 29:11.870 of the monks as if they were cattle, because it will be very advantageous for 29:11.870 --> 29:15.930 the church, if all the bishoprics were occupied by members of the society, 29:16.210 --> 29:20.770 and yet, as if it was the same apostolic chair, particularly if the pope should 29:20.770 --> 29:24.910 return as temporal prince of all the properties, for as much as it is very 29:24.910 --> 29:29.510 necessary to extend little by little, with much secrecy and skill, the 29:29.510 --> 29:33.470 temporalities of the society, and not having any doubt, that the world will 29:33.470 --> 29:38.030 enter the golden age, one to enjoy a perfect universal peace, for following the 29:38.030 --> 29:40.710 divine benediction that will descend upon the church. 29:41.370 --> 29:46.050 But if we do not hope that we can obtain this, supposing that it is necessary that 29:46.050 --> 29:50.350 scandals shall come in the world, we must be careful to change our politics, 29:50.590 --> 29:55.310 conforming to the times, and excite the princes, friends of ours to mutually make 29:55.310 --> 29:59.610 terrible wars that everywhere the mediation of the society will be implored, 29:59.750 --> 30:03.850 that we may be employed in the public reconciliation, for it will be the cause 30:03.850 --> 30:07.190 of the common good and we shall be recompensed by the principal 30:07.190 --> 30:10.170 ecclesiastical dignities, and the better beneficiaries. 30:11.290 --> 30:16.170 In fine, that the society afterwards can yet count upon the favor and authority of 30:16.170 --> 30:21.150 the princes, procuring that those who do not love us shall fear us. 30:21.950 --> 30:26.290 Editors note the ultimate goal of the Jesuits is to bring in a golden age or 30:26.290 --> 30:28.790 millennium with the entire world under the pope. 30:29.590 --> 30:34.250 They are behind all those utopian schemes, whether it is Hitler's Third Reich or the 30:34.250 --> 30:35.890 Communists' workers' paradise. 30:36.890 --> 30:41.190 The Bible says that the golden age began with the first coming of Christ and will 30:41.190 --> 30:42.450 end with his second coming. 30:43.110 --> 30:47.950 This is the only age that men and women can become children of God by faith alone 30:47.950 --> 30:49.090 in Jesus Christ. 30:49.970 --> 30:54.110 When Christ returns it will be the end of time and the end of this present universe. 30:55.210 --> 30:58.630 Thank God this Jesuit golden age will be very short-lived. 30:59.210 --> 30:59.950 Chapter 2. 31:00.270 --> 31:04.370 The manner with which the fathers of the order must conduct themselves to acquire 31:04.370 --> 31:09.210 and preserve the familiarity of princes, magnates and powerful and rich persons. 31:09.970 --> 31:14.630 It is necessary to do all that is possible to gain completely the attentions and 31:14.630 --> 31:18.870 affections of princes and persons of the most consideration, for that, who, 31:19.010 --> 31:22.950 being on the outside, but in advance, all of them will be constituted our 31:22.950 --> 31:23.430 defenders. 31:24.430 --> 31:28.690 As we have learned by experience that princes and potentates are generally 31:28.690 --> 31:32.530 inclined to the favor of the ecclesiastics, when these disseminate 31:32.530 --> 31:36.230 their odious actions, and when they give an interpretation that they favor, 31:36.450 --> 31:40.670 as is to be noted among the married, contract with their relations or allies, 31:40.830 --> 31:45.010 or in other similar things, assembling much with them, to animate those who may 31:45.010 --> 31:48.970 be found in this case, saying to them that we confide in the assurance of the 31:48.970 --> 31:53.210 exemptions, that by intervention of us fathers, which the Pope will concede, 31:53.390 --> 31:57.490 if he is made to see the causes, and will present other examples of similar 31:57.490 --> 32:01.690 things, exhibiting at the same time the sentiments that we favor, under the 32:01.690 --> 32:06.110 pretext of the common good and the greater glory of God, that is the object of the 32:06.110 --> 32:10.070 society, if at this same assembly the prince treats of doing something, 32:10.330 --> 32:14.370 that will not be agreeable to all the great men, for which we are to stir up and 32:14.370 --> 32:18.810 investigate, meanwhile, counseling others to conform with the prince, without ever 32:18.810 --> 32:22.770 descending to treat of particulars, for fear there may not be a successful 32:22.770 --> 32:27.190 issue of the matter, for which the society will be imputed blame, and for this, 32:27.370 --> 32:31.530 if this action shall be disapproved, there will be advertences presented to the 32:31.530 --> 32:36.630 contrary that may be absolutely prohibited and put in jeopardy, the authority of some 32:36.630 --> 32:40.370 of the fathers, of whom it can be said with certainty, that they have not had 32:40.370 --> 32:44.290 notice of the secret instructions, for that, it can be affirmed with an oath, 32:44.410 --> 32:48.310 that the calumny to the society, is not true in respect to that which is 32:48.310 --> 32:49.110 imputed to it. 32:49.890 --> 32:53.850 To gain the goodwill of princes, it will be very convenient to insinuate 32:53.850 --> 32:58.110 with skill, and for third persons, that we fathers, are a means to discharge 32:58.110 --> 33:02.090 honorable and favorable duties in the courts of other kings and princes, 33:02.390 --> 33:04.510 and more than anyone else in that of the pope. 33:05.370 --> 33:09.250 By this means we can recommend ourselves and the society, for the same, 33:09.410 --> 33:13.150 no one must be charged with this commission but the most zealous persons 33:13.150 --> 33:14.810 and well versed in our institute. 33:15.750 --> 33:19.810 Aiming especially to bring over the will of the favorites of princes and of their 33:19.810 --> 33:23.850 servants, by means of presence and pious offices, that they may give faithful 33:23.850 --> 33:28.510 notice to us fathers of the character and inclinations of the princes and great men. 33:29.210 --> 33:33.690 Of this manner the society can gain with facility as much to one as to others. 33:34.570 --> 33:38.990 The experience we have had, has made us acquainted with the many advantages that 33:38.990 --> 33:43.030 have been taken by the society of its intervention in the marriages of the house 33:43.030 --> 33:47.070 of Austria, and of those which have been effected in other kingdoms, France, 33:47.250 --> 33:49.130 Poland, and in various duchies. 33:49.950 --> 33:54.730 For as much assembling, proposing with prudence, selecting choice persons who may 33:54.730 --> 33:58.550 be friends and families of the relatives, and of the friends of the society, 33:58.850 --> 34:02.850 it will be easy to gain the princesses, making use of their valets, by that, 34:02.990 --> 34:07.210 coming to feed and nourish with relations of friendship, by being located at the 34:07.210 --> 34:11.210 entrance in all parts, and thus become acquainted with the most intimate secrets 34:11.210 --> 34:12.210 of the familiars. 34:12.730 --> 34:17.190 In regard to the direction of the consciences of great men, we confessors 34:17.190 --> 34:20.750 must follow the writers who concede the greater liberty of conscience. 34:21.650 --> 34:25.650 The contrary of this is to appear too religious, for that they will decide to 34:25.650 --> 34:29.250 leave others and submit entirely to our direction and counsels. 34:29.930 --> 34:34.570 It is necessary to make reference to all the merits of the society, to the princes 34:34.570 --> 34:39.070 and prelates, and to as many as can lend much aid to the society, after having 34:39.070 --> 34:41.550 shown the transcendency of its great privileges. 34:42.590 --> 34:47.570 Also, it will be useful to demonstrate, with prudence and skill, such ample power 34:47.570 --> 34:52.090 which the society has, to absolve, even in the reserved cases, compared with 34:52.090 --> 34:56.490 that of other pastors and priests, also, that of dispensing with the fasts, 34:56.570 --> 35:00.430 and of the rights which they must ask and pay, in the impediments of marriage, 35:00.610 --> 35:04.770 by which means many persons will recur to us, whom it will be our duty to make 35:04.770 --> 35:05.350 agreeable. 35:06.170 --> 35:10.690 It is not the less useful to invite them to our sermons, assemblies, parades, 35:10.990 --> 35:16.170 declamations, etc., composing odes in their honor, dedicating literary works or 35:16.170 --> 35:20.230 conclusions, and if we can for the future, give dinners and greetings of divers 35:20.230 --> 35:20.690 modes. 35:21.270 --> 35:25.830 It will be very convenient to take to our care the reconciliation of the great, 35:26.010 --> 35:29.970 in the quarrels and enmities that divide them, then by this method we can enter, 35:30.170 --> 35:34.110 little by little, into the acquaintance of their most intimate friends and secrets, 35:34.110 --> 35:38.450 and we can serve ourselves to that party which will be most in favor of that which 35:38.450 --> 35:39.190 we present. 35:40.050 --> 35:43.950 If there should be someone at the service of a monarch or prince, and he were an 35:43.950 --> 35:48.830 enemy of our society, it is necessary to procure well for ourselves better than for 35:48.830 --> 35:53.170 others, making him a friend, employing promises, favors, and advances, 35:53.510 --> 35:56.550 which shall be in proportion to the same monarch or prince. 35:57.270 --> 36:01.950 No one shall recommend to a prince any one, nor make advances to any who have 36:01.950 --> 36:06.290 gone out from us, being outside of our society, and in particular to those who 36:06.290 --> 36:10.730 voluntarily verified, for yet when they dissimulate they will always maintain an 36:10.730 --> 36:15.690 inextinguishable hatred to the society, in fine, each one must procure and search 36:15.690 --> 36:19.910 for methods to increase the affection and favor of princes, of the powerful, 36:20.170 --> 36:24.410 and of the magistrates of each population, that whenever occasion is offered to 36:24.410 --> 36:28.770 support, we can do much with efficacy and good faith, in benefiting ourselves, 36:29.010 --> 36:32.110 though contrary to their relations, allies and friends. 36:32.890 --> 36:33.890 Chapter three. 36:34.230 --> 36:38.090 How the society must be conducted with the great authorities in the state, 36:38.230 --> 36:41.510 and in case they are not rich we must lend ourselves to others. 36:42.290 --> 36:46.690 The care consigned to us, that we must do all that is possible, for to conquer the 36:46.690 --> 36:50.590 great, but it is also necessary to gain their favor to combat our enemies. 36:51.430 --> 36:55.550 It is very conducive to value their authority, prudence and counsels, 36:55.610 --> 36:59.750 and induce them to despise wealth, at the same time that we procure gain and 36:59.750 --> 37:04.090 employ those that can redeem the society, tacitly valuing their names, for 37:04.090 --> 37:08.550 acquisition of temporal goods if they inspire sufficient confidence it is also 37:08.550 --> 37:13.090 necessary, to employ the ascendant of the powerful, to temper the malevolence of the 37:13.090 --> 37:16.530 persons of a lower sphere and of the rabble against our society. 37:17.330 --> 37:21.970 It is necessary to utilize, whenever we can, the bishops, prelates and other 37:21.970 --> 37:26.770 superior ecclesiastics, according to the diversity of reason, and the inclination 37:26.770 --> 37:27.510 we manifest. 37:28.310 --> 37:32.470 In some points it will be sufficient to obtain of the prelates and curates, 37:32.650 --> 37:36.510 that which it is possible to do, that their subjects respect the society, 37:36.790 --> 37:40.390 and that obstructing the exercise of its functions among those who have the 37:40.390 --> 37:43.270 greatest power, as in Germany, Poland, etc. 37:44.210 --> 37:48.270 It will be necessary to exhibit the most distinguished attentions for that, 37:48.430 --> 37:52.490 mediating its authority and that of the princes, monasteries, parishes, 37:52.790 --> 37:57.150 priorates, patronates, the foundations of the churches and the pious places, 37:57.370 --> 37:58.450 can come to our power. 37:59.270 --> 38:03.210 Because we can with more facility where the Catholics will be found mixed with 38:03.210 --> 38:03.750 heretics. 38:04.670 --> 38:09.390 It is necessary to make such prelates see the utility and merit that we have in all 38:09.390 --> 38:13.050 this, and that never will they have so much valuation from the priests, 38:13.270 --> 38:15.430 friars, and for the future from the faithful. 38:16.350 --> 38:20.650 If making these changes, it is necessary to publicly praise their zeal, 38:20.790 --> 38:23.830 although written, and to perpetuate the memory of their actions. 38:24.730 --> 38:28.890 For this it is necessary to labor, to the end, that the prelates will place 38:28.890 --> 38:33.670 in the hands of us fathers, as confessors and counselors, and if they aspire to more 38:33.670 --> 38:38.030 elevated positions in the court of Rome, we must unite in their favor and aid their 38:38.030 --> 38:41.390 pretensions with all our forces, and by means of our influence. 38:42.130 --> 38:46.990 We must be watchful that when the bishops are instituting principal colleges arid 38:46.990 --> 38:51.810 parochial churches, that the faculties are taken from the society, and placed in both 38:51.810 --> 38:56.290 vicarious establishments, with the charge of cures, and that the superior of the 38:56.290 --> 39:00.390 society to be, that all the government of these churches shall pertain to us, 39:00.490 --> 39:04.230 and that the parishioners shall be our subjects, of the method that all can be 39:04.230 --> 39:04.910 placed in them. 39:05.610 --> 39:09.390 Where there are those of the academies who have been driven out from us, and are 39:09.390 --> 39:13.310 contrary, where the Catholics or the heretics obstruct our installation, 39:13.610 --> 39:17.390 we will compound with the prelates, and make ourselves the owners of the first 39:17.390 --> 39:21.250 cathedrals, for thus shall we make them to know the necessities of the society. 39:22.190 --> 39:26.490 Overall, we must be very certain to procure the protection and affection of 39:26.490 --> 39:30.930 the prelates of the church, for the cases of beatification or canonization of 39:30.930 --> 39:35.010 ourselves, in whose subjects convene further, to obtain letters from the 39:35.010 --> 39:39.150 powerful and of the princes, that the decisions may be promptly attained in the 39:39.150 --> 39:39.890 Catholic court. 39:40.650 --> 39:44.550 If it shall be accounted that the prelates or magnates should send commissioned 39:44.550 --> 39:49.210 representatives, we must put forth all ardor, that no other priests, who are in 39:49.210 --> 39:52.550 dispute with us, shall be sent, for the reason, that they shall not 39:52.550 --> 39:56.110 communicate their animad version, discrediting us in the cities and 39:56.110 --> 40:00.210 provinces we inhabit, and that if they pass by other provinces and cities, 40:00.410 --> 40:03.890 where there are colleges, they will be received with affection and kindness, 40:04.190 --> 40:07.690 and be so splendidly treated as a religious modesty will permit. 40:08.530 --> 40:09.470 Chapter 4. 40:09.810 --> 40:13.770 Of that which we must charge the preachers and confessors of the great of the earth. 40:14.310 --> 40:18.850 Those of us who may be directed to the princes and illustrious men, of the manner 40:18.850 --> 40:22.970 in which we must appear before them, with inclination unitedly to the greater 40:22.970 --> 40:27.150 glory of God, obtaining, with its austerity of conscience, that the same 40:27.150 --> 40:31.110 princes are persuaded of it, for this direction we must not travel in a 40:31.110 --> 40:34.970 principle to the exterior or political government, but gradually and 40:34.970 --> 40:35.850 imperceptibly. 40:36.670 --> 40:41.330 For as much there will be opportunity and conducive notices at repeated times, 40:41.530 --> 40:45.510 that the distribution of honors and dignities in the republic is an act of 40:45.510 --> 40:49.850 justice, and that in a great manner it will be offending God, if the princes do 40:49.850 --> 40:54.370 not examine themselves and cease carrying their passions, protesting to the same 40:54.370 --> 40:59.070 with frequency and severity, that we do not desire to mix in the administration of 40:59.070 --> 41:03.210 the state, but when it shall become necessary to so express ourselves thus, 41:03.350 --> 41:05.570 to have your weight to fill the mission that is recommended. 41:06.630 --> 41:10.150 Directly that the sovereigns are well convinced of this, it will be very 41:10.150 --> 41:14.630 convenient to give an idea of the virtues that may be found to adorn those that are 41:14.630 --> 41:19.030 selected for the dignities and principal public changes, procuring then and 41:19.030 --> 41:23.470 recommending the true friends of the society, notwithstanding, we must not make 41:23.470 --> 41:27.630 it openly for ourselves, but by means of our friends who have intimacy with the 41:27.630 --> 41:31.410 prince that it is not for us to talk him into the disposition of making them. 41:32.250 --> 41:36.510 For this watchfulness our friends must instruct the confessors and preachers of 41:36.510 --> 41:41.050 the society near the persons capable of discharging any duty, that overall, 41:41.330 --> 41:45.050 they must be generous to the society, they must also keep their names, 41:45.230 --> 41:49.310 that they may insinuate with skill, and upon opportune occasions to princes, 41:49.570 --> 41:51.670 well for themselves or by means of others. 41:52.170 --> 41:56.550 The preachers and confessors will always present themselves so that they must 41:56.550 --> 42:00.470 comport with the princes, lovable and affectionate, without ever shocking them 42:00.470 --> 42:04.390 in sermons, nor in particular conversations, presenting that which 42:04.390 --> 42:08.890 rejects all fear, and exhorting them in particular to faith, hope and justice. 42:09.790 --> 42:14.090 Never receive gifts made to anyone in particular, but that for the contrary, 42:14.370 --> 42:18.290 but picture the distress in which the society or college may be found, 42:18.450 --> 42:22.630 as all are alike, having to be satisfied with assigning each one a room in the 42:22.630 --> 42:26.810 house, modestly furnished, and noticing that your garb is not over nice, 42:27.010 --> 42:31.310 and assist with promptness to the aid and counsel of the most miserable persons of 42:31.310 --> 42:35.110 the palace, but that you do not say it of them, but only those who have agreed to 42:35.110 --> 42:35.930 serve the powerful. 42:36.850 --> 42:41.070 Whenever the death occurs of anyone employed in the palace, we must take care 42:41.070 --> 42:44.770 of speaking with anticipation, that they fail in the nomination of a 42:44.770 --> 42:49.190 successor, in their affection for the society, but giving no appearance to cause 42:49.190 --> 42:52.870 suspicion that it was the intent of usurping the government of the prince, 42:53.050 --> 42:57.250 for which, it must not be from us that it is said, take a part direct, but 42:57.250 --> 43:01.730 assembling of faithful or influential friends who may be found in a position of 43:01.730 --> 43:04.810 rousing the hate of one and another until they become inflamed. 43:07.270 --> 43:07.790 CHAPIERV. 43:08.310 --> 43:15.810 Of the mode of conducting the society with respect to other ECCLESIASTICSWHO have the 43:15.810 --> 43:18.050 same duties as ourselves in the church. 43:18.530 --> 43:23.770 It is necessary to help with valor these persons, and manifest in their due time to 43:23.770 --> 43:28.030 the princes and lords that are always ours, and being constituted in power, 43:28.270 --> 43:32.270 that our society contains essentially the perfection of all the other orders, 43:32.490 --> 43:36.590 with the exception of singing and manifesting an exterior of austerity in 43:36.590 --> 43:40.290 the mode of life and in dress, and that if in some points they excel the 43:40.290 --> 43:44.310 communities of the society, this shines with greater splendor in the church of 43:44.310 --> 43:44.670 God. 43:45.350 --> 43:50.410 We must inquire into and note the defects of the other fathers, non-jesuit priests, 43:50.630 --> 43:54.150 and when we find them, we must divulge them among our faithful friends, 43:54.310 --> 43:58.570 as condoling over them, we must show that such fathers do not discharge with 43:58.570 --> 44:02.410 certainty, that we do ourselves the functions, that some and others recommend. 44:03.030 --> 44:08.010 It is necessary that the fathers of our society oppose with all their power the 44:08.010 --> 44:12.650 other fathers who intend to found houses of education to instruct the youths among 44:12.650 --> 44:16.890 the populations where ours are found teaching with acceptation and approval, 44:17.170 --> 44:21.710 and it will be very convenient to indicate our projects to princes and magistrates, 44:21.890 --> 44:26.210 that such people will excite disturbances and commotions if they are not prohibited 44:26.210 --> 44:30.130 from teaching, and that in the last result, the damage will fall upon the 44:30.130 --> 44:34.130 educated, by being instructed by a bad method, without any necessity, 44:34.470 --> 44:37.490 posting them that the society is sufficient to teach the youth. 44:38.310 --> 44:42.750 In case the fathers bear letters of the pontificate, or recommendations from the 44:42.750 --> 44:47.310 cardinals, we must work in opposition to them, making the princes and great men to 44:47.310 --> 44:51.330 point out to the Pope the merits of the society and its intelligence for the 44:51.330 --> 44:55.190 pacific instruction of the youths, to which end, we must have and obtain 44:55.190 --> 44:59.170 certifications of the authorities upon our good conduct and sufficiency. 45:00.250 --> 45:05.070 Having notwithstanding to form duties, our fathers in displaying singular proofs 45:05.070 --> 45:09.350 of our virtue and erudition, making them to exercise the alumni, graduates, 45:09.650 --> 45:14.130 in their studies in methods of functions, scholars of diversion, capable of drawing 45:14.130 --> 45:18.530 applause, making for supposition, these representations in the presence of 45:18.530 --> 45:21.430 the great magistrates and concurrence of other classes. 45:22.330 --> 45:23.310 Chapter 6. 45:23.590 --> 45:25.750 Of the Mode of Attracting Rich Widows. 45:26.190 --> 45:31.010 We must elect effective fathers already advanced in years, of lively complexion 45:31.010 --> 45:35.550 and conversation, agreeable to visit these ladies, and whence they can promptly note 45:35.550 --> 45:40.490 in them appreciation or affection for our society, making offerings of good works 45:40.490 --> 45:44.330 and the merits of the same, that, if they accept them, and succeed in having 45:44.330 --> 45:48.810 them frequent our temples, we must assign to them a confessor, who will be able of 45:48.810 --> 45:52.790 guiding them in the ways that are proper, in the state of widowhood, making the 45:52.790 --> 45:57.110 enumeration and praises of satisfaction that should accompany such a state, 45:57.250 --> 46:01.510 making them believe and yet with certainty that they who serve as such, is a merit 46:01.510 --> 46:05.770 for eternal life, being efficacious to relieve them from the pains of purgatory. 46:06.650 --> 46:11.330 The same confessor will propose to them to make and adorn a little chapel or oratory 46:11.330 --> 46:15.570 in their own house, to confirm their religious exercises, because by this 46:15.570 --> 46:19.670 method we can shorten the communication, more easily hindering those who visit 46:19.670 --> 46:24.030 others, although if they have a particular chaplain, and will content to go to him to 46:24.030 --> 46:28.090 celebrate the mass, making opportune advertences to her who confesses, 46:28.210 --> 46:32.330 to the effect and treating her as being left to be overpowered by said chaplain. 46:32.830 --> 46:37.690 We must endeavor skillfully but gently to cause them to change respectively to the 46:37.690 --> 46:41.910 order and to the method of the house, and to conform as the circumstances of the 46:41.910 --> 46:45.830 person will permit, to whom they are directed, their propensities, their piety, 46:46.110 --> 46:48.570 and yet to the place and situation of the edifice. 46:49.310 --> 46:53.090 We must not omit to have removed, little by little, the servants of the 46:53.090 --> 46:57.330 house that are not of the same mind with ourselves, proposing that they be replaced 46:57.330 --> 47:01.590 by those persons who are dependent on us, or who desire to be of the society, 47:01.870 --> 47:05.790 for by this method we can be placed in the channel of communication of whatever 47:05.790 --> 47:07.010 passes in the family. 47:07.850 --> 47:11.790 The constant watch of the confessor will have to be, that the widow shall be 47:11.790 --> 47:16.130 disposed to depend on him totally, representing that her advances in grace 47:16.130 --> 47:18.230 are necessarily bound to this submission. 47:18.770 --> 47:23.350 We are to induce her to the frequency of the sacraments, and especially that of 47:23.350 --> 47:27.170 penitency, making her to give account of her deeper thoughts and intentions, 47:27.530 --> 47:31.910 inviting her to listen to her confessor, when he is to preach particular promising 47:31.910 --> 47:36.170 orations, recommending equally the recitation each day of the litanies and 47:36.170 --> 47:37.790 the examination of conscience. 47:38.310 --> 47:43.490 It will be very necessary in the case of a general confession, to enter extensively 47:43.490 --> 47:47.730 into all of her inclinations, for that it will be to determine her, although she may 47:47.730 --> 47:49.330 be found in the hands of others. 47:50.270 --> 47:54.430 Insist upon the advantages of widowhood, and the inconvenience of marriage, 47:54.610 --> 47:58.490 in particular that of a repeated one, and the dangers to which she will be 47:58.490 --> 48:03.170 exposed, relatively to her particular businesses into which we are desirous of 48:03.170 --> 48:03.770 penetrating. 48:04.570 --> 48:09.050 We must cause her to talk of men whom she dislikes, and to see if she takes notice 48:09.050 --> 48:13.570 of anyone who is agreeable, and represent to her that he is a man of bad life, 48:13.690 --> 48:17.950 procuring by these means disgust of one and another, and repugnant to unite with 48:17.950 --> 48:18.310 anyone. 48:19.250 --> 48:23.670 When the confessor has become convinced that she has decided to follow the life of 48:23.670 --> 48:28.110 widowhood, he must then proceed to counsel her to dedicate herself to a spiritual 48:28.110 --> 48:32.670 life, but not to a monastic one, whose lack of accommodations will show how 48:32.670 --> 48:37.290 they live, in a word, we must proceed to speak of the spiritual life of Pauline and 48:37.290 --> 48:38.530 of Eustace, and co. 48:39.330 --> 48:43.810 The confessor will conduct her at last, that having devoted the widow to chastity, 48:43.810 --> 48:48.350 to not less than for two or three years, she will then be made to renounce a second 48:48.350 --> 48:49.130 nuptial forever. 48:50.090 --> 48:54.690 In this case, she will be found to have discarded all sorts of relations with men, 48:54.830 --> 48:58.510 and even the diversions between her relatives and acquaintances, we must 48:58.510 --> 49:01.410 protest that she must unite more closely to God. 49:02.210 --> 49:06.790 With regard to the ecclesiastics who visit her, or to whom she goes out to visit, 49:06.990 --> 49:11.310 when we cannot keep her separate and apart from all others, we must labor that those 49:11.310 --> 49:15.470 with whom she treats shall be recommended by ourselves or by those who are devoted 49:15.470 --> 49:16.030 to us. 49:16.850 --> 49:17.250 11. 49:17.630 --> 49:22.150 In this state, we must inspire her to give alms, under the direction, as she will 49:22.150 --> 49:26.530 suppose, or her spiritual father, then it is of great importance that they 49:26.530 --> 49:30.230 shall be employed with utility, more, being careful that there shall be 49:30.230 --> 49:34.730 discretion in counsel, causing her to see that inconsiderate alms are the frequent 49:34.730 --> 49:39.190 causes of many sins, or serve to foment at last, that they are not the fruit, 49:39.370 --> 49:40.970 nor the merit which produced them. 49:41.810 --> 49:42.630 Chapter 7. 49:43.010 --> 49:46.950 System which must be employed with widows and methods of disposing of their 49:46.950 --> 49:47.430 property. 49:48.370 --> 49:53.030 It will be necessary to inspire her to continue to persevere in her devotion and 49:53.030 --> 49:57.170 the exercise of good works and of disposition, in not permitting a week to 49:57.170 --> 50:01.310 pass, to give away some part of her over plus, in honor of Jesus Christ, 50:01.490 --> 50:05.710 of the Holy Virgin and of the saint she has chosen for her patron, giving this to 50:05.710 --> 50:09.830 the poor of the society or for the ornamenting of its churches, until she has 50:09.830 --> 50:14.310 absolutely disposed of the first fruits of her property as in other times did the 50:14.310 --> 50:14.750 Egyptians. 50:15.810 --> 50:19.970 When the widows, the more generally to practice their alms, must be given to know 50:19.970 --> 50:24.210 with perseverance, their liberality in favor of the society, and they are to be 50:24.210 --> 50:27.990 assured that they are participants in all the merits of the same, and of the 50:27.990 --> 50:31.770 particular indulgences of the provincial, and if they are persons of much 50:31.770 --> 50:34.130 consideration, of the general of the order. 50:34.970 --> 50:39.290 The widows who having made vows of chastity, it will be necessary for them to 50:39.290 --> 50:43.150 renew them twice per annum, conforming to the custom that we have established, 50:43.530 --> 50:46.990 but permitting them notwithstanding, that day some honest freedom from 50:46.990 --> 50:48.330 restraint by our fathers. 50:49.030 --> 50:53.250 They must be frequently visited, treating them agreeably, referring them to 50:53.250 --> 50:56.970 spiritual and diverting histories, conformable to the character and 50:56.970 --> 50:58.310 inclination of each one. 50:58.790 --> 51:02.910 But that they may not abate, we must not use too much rigor with them in the 51:02.910 --> 51:06.610 confessional, that it may not be, that they by having empowered others of 51:06.610 --> 51:10.510 their benevolence, that we do not lose confidence of recovering their adhesion, 51:10.790 --> 51:15.210 having to proceed in all cases with great skill and caution, being aware of the 51:15.210 --> 51:17.030 inconstancy natural to woman. 51:17.870 --> 51:22.110 It is necessary to have them do away with the habit of frequenting other churches, 51:22.390 --> 51:26.570 in particular those of convents, for which it is necessary to often remind 51:26.570 --> 51:30.290 them, that in our order there are possessed many indulgences that are to be 51:30.290 --> 51:33.690 obtained only partially by all the other religious corporations. 51:34.710 --> 51:38.370 To those who may be found in the case of the garb of mourning, they will be 51:38.370 --> 51:42.110 counseled to dress a little more agreeable, that they may at the same time, 51:42.270 --> 51:46.530 unite the aspect of mourning with that of adornment, to draw them away from the idea 51:46.530 --> 51:50.470 of being found directed by a man who has become a stranger to the world. 51:51.330 --> 51:56.310 Also with such, that they may not be very much endangered, or particularly exposed 51:56.310 --> 52:00.430 to volubility, we can concede to them, as if they maintained their consequence 52:00.430 --> 52:05.110 and liberality, for and with the society, that which drives sensuality away from 52:05.110 --> 52:07.590 them, being with moderation and without scandal. 52:08.490 --> 52:12.490 We must manage that in the houses of the widows there shall be honorable young 52:12.490 --> 52:16.490 ladies, of rich and noble families, that little by little they become 52:16.490 --> 52:20.430 accustomed to our direction and mode of life, and that they are given a director 52:20.430 --> 52:24.890 elected and established by the confessor of the family, to be permanently and 52:24.890 --> 52:29.530 always subject to all the reprehensions and habits of the society, and if any do 52:29.530 --> 52:33.350 not wish to submit to all they must be sent to the houses of their fathers, 52:33.590 --> 52:37.750 or to those from which they were brought, accusing them directly of extravagance and 52:37.750 --> 52:39.450 of glaring and stained character. 52:40.330 --> 52:43.630 The care of the health of the widows, and to proportion some amusement, 52:43.930 --> 52:47.150 it is not the least important that we should care for their salvation, 52:47.430 --> 52:51.630 and so, if they complain of some indisposition, we must prohibit the fast, 52:51.830 --> 52:55.670 the hair cloth girdle, and the discipline, without permitting them to go to church, 52:55.850 --> 52:59.610 further continue the direction, cautiously and secretly with such, 52:59.750 --> 53:03.570 that they may be examined in their houses, if they are given admission into the 53:03.570 --> 53:07.450 garden, an edifice of the college, with secrecy, and if they consent to 53:07.450 --> 53:10.570 converse and secretly entertain with those that they prefer. 53:11.450 --> 53:14.870 To the end that we may obtain, that the widows employ their utmost 53:14.870 --> 53:18.910 obsequiousness to the society, it is the duty to represent to them the 53:18.910 --> 53:22.770 perfection of the life of the holy, who have renounced the world, estranged 53:22.770 --> 53:26.810 themselves from their relations, and despising their fortunes, consecrating 53:26.810 --> 53:31.270 themselves to the service of the supreme being with entire resignation and content. 53:32.130 --> 53:36.450 It will be necessary to produce the same effect, that those who turn away to the 53:36.450 --> 53:41.010 constitutions of the society, and their relative examination to the abandonment of 53:41.010 --> 53:41.670 all things. 53:42.450 --> 53:46.790 We must cite examples of the widows who have reached holiness in a very short 53:46.790 --> 53:50.830 time, giving hopes of their being canonized, if their perseverance does not 53:50.830 --> 53:54.810 decay, and promising for their cases our influence with the holy father. 53:55.710 --> 53:59.850 We must impress in their souls the persuasion that, if they desire to enjoy 53:59.850 --> 54:03.970 complete tranquility of conscience, it will be necessary for them to follow 54:03.970 --> 54:07.810 without repugnance, without murmuring, nor tiring, the direction of the 54:07.810 --> 54:11.930 confessor, so in the spiritual, as in the eternal, that she may be found 54:11.930 --> 54:14.210 destined to the same God, by their guidance. 54:15.090 --> 54:19.530 Also we must direct with opportunity, that the Lord does not desire that they 54:19.530 --> 54:23.890 should give alms, nor yet to fathers of an exemplary life, known and approved, 54:24.070 --> 54:28.350 without consulting beforehand with their confessor, and regulating the dictation of 54:28.350 --> 54:28.770 the same. 54:29.590 --> 54:33.470 The confessors must take the greatest care, that the widows and their daughters 54:33.470 --> 54:36.830 of the confessional, do not go to see other fathers, i.e. 54:36.850 --> 54:40.270 non-jesuit priests, under any pretext, nor with them. 54:40.770 --> 54:45.550 For this, we must praise our society as the order most illustrious of them all, 54:45.710 --> 54:49.750 of greater utility in the church, and of greater authority with the pope and 54:49.750 --> 54:53.590 with the princes, perfection in itself, then dismiss the dream of them, 54:53.730 --> 54:57.230 and menace them, that we can, and that we are no correspondence to them, 54:57.330 --> 55:01.530 we can say, that we do not consent to froth and do as among other monks who 55:01.530 --> 55:05.870 count in their convents many ignorant, stupid loungers who are indolent in regard 55:05.870 --> 55:09.350 to the other life, and intriguers in that to disorder, and see. 55:09.870 --> 55:15.230 The confessors must propose and persuade the widows to assign ordinary pensions and 55:15.230 --> 55:19.750 other annual quotas to the colleges and houses of profession for their sustenance 55:19.750 --> 55:24.150 with especially to the professed house at Rome, and not forgetting to remind them of 55:24.150 --> 55:28.070 the restoration of the ornaments of the temples and replenishing of the wax, 55:28.070 --> 55:31.670 the wine, and other necessaries for the celebration of the mass. 55:32.490 --> 55:35.990 If they do not make relinquishment of their property to the society, 55:36.250 --> 55:39.810 it will be made manifest to them, on apparent occasion in particular, 55:40.110 --> 55:43.610 when they are found to be sick, or in danger of death, that there are many 55:43.610 --> 55:47.350 colleges to be founded, and that they may be excited with sweetness and 55:47.910 --> 55:50.810 disinterestedness, to make some disbursements as merit for God, 55:50.910 --> 55:52.970 and in that they can found his eternal glory. 55:53.870 --> 55:58.430 In the same manner, we must proceed with regard to princes and other well-doers, 55:58.630 --> 56:02.930 making them to see that such foundations will be made to perpetuate their memory in 56:02.930 --> 56:07.390 this world, and gain eternal happiness, and if some malevolent persons adduce the 56:07.390 --> 56:11.810 example of Jesus Christ, saying, that then he had no place to recline his 56:11.810 --> 56:16.130 head, the society bearing his name should be poor in imitation of himself, 56:16.350 --> 56:20.530 we must make it known and imprint it in the imagination of those, and of all the 56:20.530 --> 56:24.170 world, that the church has varied, and that in this day we have become a 56:24.170 --> 56:28.310 state, and we must show authority and grand measures against its enemies that 56:28.310 --> 56:32.650 are very powerful, or like that little stone prognosticated by the prophet, 56:32.870 --> 56:35.090 that, divided, came to be a great mountain. 56:36.250 --> 56:40.290 Inculcate constantly to the widows who dedicate their alms and ornaments to the 56:40.290 --> 56:44.510 temples, that the greater perfection is in disposing of the affection and earthly 56:44.510 --> 56:48.210 things, ceding their possession to Jesus Christ and his companions. 56:49.070 --> 56:53.470 Being very little, that which we must promise to the widows, who dedicate and 56:53.470 --> 56:57.150 educate their children for the world, we must apply some remedy to it. 56:58.010 --> 56:58.790 Chapter 8. 56:59.110 --> 57:03.250 Methods by which the children of rich widows may be caused to embrace the 57:03.250 --> 57:05.310 religious state, or of devotion. 57:06.130 --> 57:10.290 To secure our object, we must create the custom, that the mothers treat them 57:10.290 --> 57:13.050 severely, and show to them, that we are in love with them. 57:13.830 --> 57:17.830 Coming to induce the mothers to do away with their tastes, from the most tender 57:17.830 --> 57:22.450 age, and regarding, restraining, and see, and see, the children especially, 57:22.730 --> 57:26.930 prohibiting decorations and adornments when they enter upon competent age, 57:27.010 --> 57:31.170 that they are inspired in the vocation for the cloister, promising them an endowment 57:31.170 --> 57:35.410 of consideration, if they embrace a similar state, representing to them the 57:35.410 --> 57:39.870 insipidity that is brought with matrimony, and the disgust that has been experienced 57:39.870 --> 57:43.910 in it, signifying to them the weight they would sit under, for not having maintained 57:43.910 --> 57:44.730 in the celibate. 57:45.530 --> 57:49.670 Lastly, coming to direct in the conclusions arrived at by the daughters of 57:49.670 --> 57:53.610 the widows, so fastidious of living with their mothers, that their feet will be 57:53.610 --> 57:55.430 directed to enter into a convent. 57:55.970 --> 58:00.210 We must make ourselves intimate with the sons of the widows, and if for them an 58:00.210 --> 58:04.490 object or the society, and cause them to penetrate the intent of our colleges, 58:04.750 --> 58:08.230 making them to see things that can call their attention by whatever mode, 58:08.410 --> 58:12.670 such as gardens, vineyards, country houses, and the farm houses where the 58:12.670 --> 58:16.890 masters go to recreate, talk to them of the voyages the Jesuits have made to 58:16.890 --> 58:20.890 different countries, of their treating with princes, and of much that can capture 58:20.890 --> 58:24.410 me young, cause them to note the cleanliness of the refectory, the 58:24.410 --> 58:28.290 commodiousness of the lodges, the agreeable conversation we have among 58:28.290 --> 58:32.570 ourselves, the suavity of our rule, and that we have all for the object of the 58:32.570 --> 58:36.750 greater glory of God, show to them the preeminence of our order over all the 58:36.750 --> 58:41.150 others, taking care that the conversations we have shall be diverting to pass to that 58:41.150 --> 58:41.690 of piety. 58:42.410 --> 58:46.890 At proposing to then the religious state, have care of doing so, as if by 58:46.890 --> 58:51.970 revelation, and in general, insinuating directly with sagacity, the advantage and 58:51.970 --> 58:56.430 sweetness of our institute above all others, and in conversation cause them to 58:56.430 --> 59:00.550 understand the great sin that will be committed against the vocation of the Most 59:00.550 --> 59:05.030 High, in fine, induce them to make some spiritual exercises that they may be 59:05.030 --> 59:06.810 enlightened to the choice of this state. 59:07.650 --> 59:11.710 We must do all that is possible that the masters and professors of the youth 59:11.710 --> 59:16.090 indicated shall be of the society, to the end, of being always vigilant over 59:16.090 --> 59:20.250 these, and counsel them, but if they cannot be reduced, we must cause them to 59:20.250 --> 59:24.410 be deprived of some things, causing that their mothers shall manifest their censure 59:24.410 --> 59:28.050 and authority of the house, that they may be tired of that sort of life, 59:28.150 --> 59:32.490 and if, finally, we cannot obtain their will to enter the society, we must labor, 59:32.690 --> 59:36.390 because we can remand them to other colleges of ours that are at a distance, 59:36.590 --> 59:40.510 that they may study, procuring impediment, that their mothers show endearment and 59:40.510 --> 59:44.910 affection, at the same time, continuing for our part, in drawing them to us by 59:44.910 --> 59:46.070 suavity of methods. 59:46.930 --> 59:47.850 Chapter 9. 59:48.170 --> 59:50.610 Upon the augmenting of revenue in the colleges. 59:51.130 --> 59:55.190 We must do all that is possible, because we do not know if bound with the 59:55.190 --> 59:59.790 last vow of him, who is the claimant of an inheritance, meanwhile we do not know if 59:59.790 --> 01:00:04.030 it is confirmed, to not be had in the society a younger brother, or of some 01:00:04.030 --> 01:00:05.490 other reason of much entity. 01:00:06.430 --> 01:00:11.070 Before all, that which we must procure, are the augmentations of the society with 01:00:11.070 --> 01:00:15.590 rules to the ends agreed upon by the superiors, which must be conformable, 01:00:15.770 --> 01:00:19.410 for that the church returns to its primitive splendor for the greater glory 01:00:19.410 --> 01:00:24.130 of God, of faith that all the clergy shall be found animated by a united spirit. 01:00:25.010 --> 01:00:29.650 To this end, we must publish by all methods, that the society is composed in 01:00:29.650 --> 01:00:33.310 part of professors so poor, that are wanting of the most indispensable, 01:00:33.690 --> 01:00:37.370 to not be for the beneficence of the faithful, and that another part is of 01:00:37.370 --> 01:00:41.870 fathers also poor, although living upon the product of some household property, 01:00:42.110 --> 01:00:45.350 but not to be grievous to the public, in the midst of their studies, 01:00:45.550 --> 01:00:48.130 their ministry, as are other ordinary mendicants. 01:00:48.970 --> 01:00:53.250 The spiritual directors of princes, great men, accommodating widows, 01:00:53.430 --> 01:00:57.210 and of whom we have abundant hope, that they will be disposed at last to make 01:00:57.210 --> 01:01:02.030 gifts to the society in exchange for spiritual and eternal things, that will be 01:01:02.030 --> 01:01:06.110 proportioned, the lands and temporalities which they possess, for the same, 01:01:06.290 --> 01:01:10.670 carrying always the idea, that we are not to lose the occasion of receiving always 01:01:10.670 --> 01:01:12.030 as much as may be offered. 01:01:12.870 --> 01:01:17.070 If promises and the fulfillment of them is retarded, they are to be remembered with 01:01:17.070 --> 01:01:20.710 precaution, dissimulating as much as we can the coveting of riches. 01:01:21.630 --> 01:01:26.170 When some confessor of personages or other people, will not be apt, or wants 01:01:26.170 --> 01:01:30.510 subtility, that in these subjects is indispensable, he will be retired with 01:01:30.510 --> 01:01:35.150 opportunity, although others may be placed anticipatedly, and if it be entirely 01:01:35.150 --> 01:01:39.670 necessary to the penitents, it will be made necessary to take out the destitute 01:01:39.670 --> 01:01:43.910 to distant colleges, representing that the society has need for them there, 01:01:44.070 --> 01:01:47.950 because it being known that some young widows, having unexpectedly failed, 01:01:48.150 --> 01:01:52.950 the society not having the legacy of very precious movables, having been careless by 01:01:52.950 --> 01:01:54.470 not accepting in due time. 01:01:55.230 --> 01:01:59.210 But to receive these things, we could not attend at the time, and only at the 01:01:59.210 --> 01:02:00.310 goodwill of the penitent. 01:02:01.110 --> 01:02:06.050 To attract the prelates, canonicals and other rich ecclesiastics, it is necessary 01:02:06.050 --> 01:02:10.470 to employ certain arts, and in place procuring them to practice in our houses 01:02:10.470 --> 01:02:15.190 spiritual exercises, and gradually and energetically of the affection that we 01:02:15.190 --> 01:02:19.490 profess to divine things, so that they will be affection towards the society and 01:02:19.490 --> 01:02:21.770 that they will soon offer pledges of their adhesion. 01:02:22.630 --> 01:02:26.970 The confessors must not forget to ask with the greatest caution and on adequate 01:02:26.970 --> 01:02:30.310 occasions of those who confess, what are their names, families, 01:02:30.670 --> 01:02:34.870 relatives, friends, and properties, informing their successors who follow 01:02:34.870 --> 01:02:39.190 them, the state, intention in which they will be found, and the resolution which 01:02:39.190 --> 01:02:43.310 they have taken, that which they have not yet determined obtaining, having to form a 01:02:43.310 --> 01:02:45.050 plan for the future to the society. 01:02:45.970 --> 01:02:50.410 When it is founded, whence directly there are hopes of utility, for it will not be 01:02:50.410 --> 01:02:53.810 convenient to ask all at once, they will be counseled to make their 01:02:53.810 --> 01:02:58.450 confession each week, to disembarrass the conscience much before, or to the title of 01:02:58.450 --> 01:02:59.030 penitence. 01:02:59.790 --> 01:03:03.690 They will be caused to inform the confessor with repetition, of that which 01:03:03.690 --> 01:03:07.990 at one time they have not given sufficient light, and if they have been successful by 01:03:07.990 --> 01:03:12.070 this means, she will come, being a woman, to make confession with frequency, 01:03:12.410 --> 01:03:16.570 and visit our church, and being a man, he will be invited to our houses and we 01:03:16.570 --> 01:03:18.390 are to make him familiar with ourselves. 01:03:19.230 --> 01:03:23.550 That which is said in regard to widows, must have equal application to the 01:03:23.550 --> 01:03:27.690 merchants and neighbors of all classes, as being rich and married, but without 01:03:27.690 --> 01:03:31.750 children, of that plan by which the society can arrive to be their heirs, 01:03:31.970 --> 01:03:36.390 if we put in play the measures that we may indicate, but overall, it will be well to 01:03:36.390 --> 01:03:40.490 have present, as said, near the rich devotees that treat with us, and of whom 01:03:40.490 --> 01:03:44.550 the vulgar can murmur, when more, if they are of a class not very elevated. 01:03:45.570 --> 01:03:49.590 Procuring for the rectors of the colleges entrance for all the ways of the houses, 01:03:49.870 --> 01:03:55.310 parks, groves, forests, lawns, arable lands, vineyards, olive orchards, 01:03:55.510 --> 01:03:59.890 hunting grounds, and whatever species of inheritances which they meet within the 01:03:59.890 --> 01:04:03.810 end of their rectory, if their owners pertain to the nobility, to the clergy, 01:04:04.090 --> 01:04:08.710 or are negotiators, particulars, or religious communities, inquiring the 01:04:08.710 --> 01:04:11.610 revenues of each one, their loads and what they pay for them. 01:04:12.330 --> 01:04:16.710 All these dates are notices they are to seek for with great skill and to a fixed 01:04:16.710 --> 01:04:20.590 pout, energetically yet from the confessional, then of the relations of 01:04:20.590 --> 01:04:24.610 friendship, or of the accidental conversations, and the confessor meets 01:04:24.610 --> 01:04:28.430 with a penitent of possibles, he will be placed in knowledge of the rector, 01:04:28.650 --> 01:04:30.970 obtaining by all methods the one conserved. 01:04:31.730 --> 01:04:35.970 The essential point to build upon, is the following, that we must so manage, 01:04:36.170 --> 01:04:39.870 that in the ends we gain the will and affections of our penitents, and other 01:04:39.870 --> 01:04:44.150 persons with whom we treat, accommodating ourselves to their inclinations if they 01:04:44.150 --> 01:04:44.890 are conducive. 01:04:45.590 --> 01:04:50.030 The provincials will take care to direct some of us to points, in which reside the 01:04:50.030 --> 01:04:54.210 nobility and the powerful, and if the provincials do not act with opportunity, 01:04:54.510 --> 01:04:58.930 the rectors must notice with anticipation, the crops, the field of operations, 01:04:59.210 --> 01:05:01.070 that are there, which we go to examine. 01:05:01.750 --> 01:05:06.350 When we receive the sons of strong houses in the society, they must show whether 01:05:06.350 --> 01:05:10.850 they will be easy to acquire the contracts and titles of possession, and if so they 01:05:10.850 --> 01:05:14.530 were to enter of themselves, of which they may be caused to cede some of their 01:05:14.530 --> 01:05:19.350 property to the college, or the usufruct profit, or for rent, or in other form, 01:05:19.510 --> 01:05:23.730 or if they can come for a time into the society, the gain of which may be very 01:05:23.730 --> 01:05:27.890 much of an object, to give a special understanding to the great and powerful, 01:05:28.130 --> 01:05:31.790 the narrowness in which we live, and the debts that are pressing us.8. 01:05:32.410 --> 01:05:36.690 When the widows, or our married devoted women, do not have more than daughters, 01:05:36.910 --> 01:05:40.930 we must persuade them to the same life of devotion, or to that of the cloister, 01:05:41.230 --> 01:05:44.910 but that except the endowment that they may give, they can enter their property in 01:05:44.910 --> 01:05:48.950 the society gently, but when they have husbands, those that would object to the 01:05:48.950 --> 01:05:52.790 society, they will be catechized, and others who desire to enter as 01:05:52.790 --> 01:05:56.430 religiouses in other orders, with the promise of some reduced amount. 01:05:57.030 --> 01:06:01.010 When there may be an only son, he must be attracted at all cost, 01:06:01.230 --> 01:06:05.730 inculcating the vocation as made by Jesus Christ, causing him to be entirely 01:06:05.730 --> 01:06:09.590 disembarrassed from the fear of its fathers, and persuading him to make a 01:06:09.590 --> 01:06:14.130 sacrifice very acceptable to the Almighty, that he must withdraw to his authority, 01:06:14.450 --> 01:06:19.090 abandon the paternal house and enter in the society, the which, if he so succeeds, 01:06:19.290 --> 01:06:23.530 after having given part to the general, he will be sent to a distant novitiate, 01:06:23.670 --> 01:06:27.410 but if they have daughters, they will primarily dispose the daughters for a 01:06:27.410 --> 01:06:31.590 religious life, and they will be caused to enter into some monastery, and afterwards 01:06:31.590 --> 01:06:35.830 be received as daughters in the society, with the succession of its properties. 01:06:36.770 --> 01:06:41.530 The superiors will place in the channel of the circumstances, the confessors of these 01:06:41.530 --> 01:06:45.850 widows and married people, that they on all future occasions may act for the 01:06:45.850 --> 01:06:50.450 benefit of the society, and when by means of one, they cannot take our part he will 01:06:50.450 --> 01:06:54.750 be replaced with another, and if it is made necessary, he will be sent to great 01:06:54.750 --> 01:06:58.510 distances, of a manner that he cannot follow understandingly with these 01:06:58.510 --> 01:06:59.010 families. 01:06:59.890 --> 01:07:05.070 If we succeed in convincing the widows and devoted persons, who aspire with fervor to 01:07:05.070 --> 01:07:09.110 a perfect life, and that the better means to obtain it is by ceding add their 01:07:09.110 --> 01:07:12.970 properties to the society, supporting by their revenues, that they will be 01:07:12.970 --> 01:07:16.610 religiously administered until their death, conforming to the degree of 01:07:16.610 --> 01:07:20.770 necessity in which they may be found, and the just reason that may be employed 01:07:20.770 --> 01:07:25.130 for their persuasion is, that by this mode, they can be exclusively dedicated to 01:07:25.130 --> 01:07:29.510 God, without attentions and molestations, which would perplex them, and that it is 01:07:29.510 --> 01:07:32.270 the only road to reach the highest degree of perfection. 01:07:33.090 --> 01:07:37.530 The superiors craving the confidence of the rich, who are attached to the society, 01:07:37.830 --> 01:07:41.770 delivering receipts of its proper handwriting whose payment afterwards will 01:07:41.770 --> 01:07:46.150 differ, not forgetting to often visit those who loan, to exhort them above all 01:07:46.150 --> 01:07:50.430 in their infinities of consideration, as to whom will devolve the papers of the 01:07:50.430 --> 01:07:54.490 debt, because it is not so to be found mention of the society in their testament, 01:07:54.730 --> 01:07:58.810 and by this course we must acquire properties, without giving cause for us to 01:07:58.810 --> 01:07:59.930 be hated by the heirs. 01:08:00.790 --> 01:08:05.570 We must also in a grand manner ask for a loan, with payment of annual interest, 01:08:05.730 --> 01:08:10.310 and employ the same capital in other speculation to produce greater revenues to 01:08:10.310 --> 01:08:14.450 the society, for at such a time, succeeding to move them with compassion to 01:08:14.450 --> 01:08:17.650 that which they will lend to us, we will not lose the interest in the 01:08:17.650 --> 01:08:21.470 testament of donation, when they see that they found colleges and churches. 01:08:22.130 --> 01:08:26.750 The society can report the utilities of commerce, and value the name of the 01:08:26.750 --> 01:08:29.210 merchant of credit, whose friendship we may possess. 01:08:29.970 --> 01:08:34.430 Among the peoples where our fathers reside, we must have physicians faithful 01:08:34.430 --> 01:08:38.770 to the society, whom we can especially recommend to the sick, and to paint under 01:08:38.770 --> 01:08:43.590 an aspect very superior to that of other religious orders, and secure direction 01:08:43.590 --> 01:08:47.670 that we shall be called to assist the powerful, particularly in the hour of 01:08:47.670 --> 01:08:47.990 death. 01:08:48.490 --> 01:08:53.090 That the confessors shall visit with assiduity the sick, particularly those who 01:08:53.090 --> 01:08:57.550 are in danger, and to honestly eliminate the other fathers, which the superiors 01:08:57.550 --> 01:09:02.050 will procure, when the confessor sees that he is obliged to remove the other from the 01:09:02.050 --> 01:09:05.590 suffering, to replace and maintain the sick in his good intentions. 01:09:06.510 --> 01:09:10.730 Meanwhile we must inculcate as much as we can with prudence, the fear of hell, 01:09:10.910 --> 01:09:16.170 and see, and see, or when, the lesser ones of purgatory, demonstrating that as water 01:09:16.170 --> 01:09:20.370 will put out fire, so will the same alms blot out the sin, and that we cannot 01:09:20.370 --> 01:09:24.470 employ the alms better, than in the maintaining and subsiding of the persons, 01:09:24.710 --> 01:09:28.690 who, by their vocation, have made profession of caring for the salvation of 01:09:28.690 --> 01:09:32.470 their neighbor, that in this manner the sick can be made to participate in their 01:09:32.470 --> 01:09:37.210 merits, and find satisfaction for their own sins, placing before them that charity 01:09:37.210 --> 01:09:41.450 covereth a multitude of sins, and that also, we can describe that charity, 01:09:41.690 --> 01:09:45.630 is as a nuptial vestment, without which, no one can be admitted to the heavenly 01:09:45.630 --> 01:09:46.090 table. 01:09:46.970 --> 01:09:51.130 In fine it will be necessary to move them to the citations of the scriptures, 01:09:51.450 --> 01:09:55.650 and of the holy fathers, that according to the capacity of the sick, we can judge 01:09:55.650 --> 01:09:57.590 what is most efficacious to move them. 01:09:58.330 --> 01:10:02.170 We must teach the women, that they must complain of the vices of their husbands, 01:10:02.430 --> 01:10:06.510 and the disturbances which they occasion, that they can rob them in secret of some 01:10:06.510 --> 01:10:10.370 amounts of money, to offer to God, in expiation of the sins of their 01:10:10.370 --> 01:10:12.190 husbands, and to obtain their pardon.