Good evening, and welcome to those watching on the internet.
Tonight is a... what do you call this kind of topic?
A hot topic or something like that?
But fortunately it's only part one.
There is still a part two.
Now the topic sounds ominous, it's the Jesuits and the counter-reformation.
And I'm not going to deal with the political intrigues and the oaths and all
of these issues, because I've dealt with that.
You will find it all in the first series.
We're going to look at the spiritual aspects.
And these are all the more serious, because they are all the more dangerous.
And I would like to venture so far as to say that the whole world has been
captivated by this intrigue.
And that what we are going to speak about in the next two lectures affects every
single one of us, whether we know it or whether we don't know it.
It is not my intention to hurt anyone's feelings.
It's my intentions to show where these things lead to and where they come from,
and why some of them are not biblical.
And that's not an easy thing to do, because some people are sincerely involved
in something and really honestly believe that what they are doing is right,
when in fact they have been deceived.
Doesn't the Bible say that the greatest problem or the first principle of the last
days will be deception?
So we need to know where this all comes from, where it's all leading, and how does
it affect me personally in the time that we are living in.
Protestantism is not solely the outcome of human progress.
It is no mere principle of perfectibility inherent in humanity, and ranking as one
of its native powers in virtue of which when society becomes corrupt it can purify
itself.
And when it is arrested in its course by some external force or stops from
exhaustion, it can recruit its energies and set forward anew on its path.
It is neither the product of the individual reason, nor the result of the
joint thought and energies of the species.
Protestantism is a principle which has its origins outside human society.
It is a divine graft on the intellectual and moral nature of man, whereby new
vitalities and forces are introduced into it.
And the human stem yields henceforth a nobler fruit.
It is the descent of heaven-born influence, which allies itself with all
the instincts and powers of the individual, with all the laws and cravings
of society, and which quickening both the individual and the social being into a new
life, and directing their efforts to nobler objects, permits the highest
development of which humanity is capable, and the fullest possible accomplishment of
all its grand ends.
In a word, Protestantism is revived Christianity.
Isn't that well put?
I like the way these writers wrote.
This comes from the history of Protestantism by Reverend Wiley.
And it says, this is not based on some reason, no fanciful thing that man has
developed and thought up, and based on his reasoning capacities and natural law.
This is a heavenly graft.
This is something from above, and not something from beneath.
Now if we want to know about the Jesuits, we have to go back into history.
And the Jesuits have probably caused more turmoil on the planet than any other
organization ever known to man.
They have been banned by virtually every single country where they have ever
operated, including the Catholic ones.
There are very few that didn't ban the Jesuits, and they would always come back
and pick up the pieces of a country that lay destroyed and writhing after they
dared to cross this organization.
The Jesuits, throughout Christendom, was menaced by formidable foes.
I'm going to read you quite a few quotes tonight.
The first triumphs of the Reformation passed.
Rome summoned new forces, hoping to accomplish its destruction.
At this time, the order of the Jesuits was created, the most cruel, unscrupulous,
and powerful of all the champions of potpourri.
Cut off from earthly ties and human interests, dead to the claims of natural
affection, reason, and conscience, wholly silenced, they knew no rule,
no tie, but that of their order, and no duty but to extend its power.
The gospel of Christ had enabled its adherents to meet danger and endure
suffering, undismayed by cold, hunger, toil, and poverty, to uphold the
banner of truth in the faith of the rack, the dungeon, the stake.
To combat these forces, Jesuitism inspired its followers with a fanaticism that
enabled them to endure like dangers and to oppose to the power of truth all the
weapons of deception.
There was no crime too great for them to commit, no deception too base for them to
practice, no disguise too difficult for them to assume.
Vowed to perpetual poverty and humility, it was their studied aim to secure wealth
and power to be devoted to the overthrow of Protestantism and to reestablishment of
the papal supremacy.
When appearing as members of their order, they wore the garb of sanctity,
visiting prisons, hospitals, ministering to the sick and the poor, professing to
have renounced the world and bearing the sacred name of Jesus who went about doing
good.
But under this blameless exterior, the most criminal and deadly purposes were
often concealed.
It was a fundamental principle of the order that the end justifies the means.
By this code, lying, theft, perjury, assassination were not only pardonable but
commendable.
When they served the interests of the church, under various disguises,
the Jesuits worked their way into offices of state, climbing up to be counselors of
kings and shaping the policies of nations.
This comes from that classic great controversy.
And history has borne it out.
Here is a quote from 1816 of John Adams writing to President Jefferson,
and he says, Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises
as only a king of the gypsies can assume, dressed as painters, publishers,
writers, and schoolmasters, if ever there was a body of men who merited eternal
damnation on earth and in hell, it is this society of Loyola's.
That's pretty straight, isn't it?
This is history.
This is history and you can check the line through history and see the blood that
flowed.
And who was always behind it?
The Jesuits.
Now one of their main aims is to replace this Protestant absolute, where the Bible
and the Bible alone is the authority and salvation is by Christ and Christ alone,
with this policy that salvation has to go through the system.
So how do you replace moral absolutes with the relativism?
This is one of their objects, this is their aim.
Hebrews 12, 25 to 28, See that you refuse not him that speaketh, for if they escape
not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape if we turn
away from him that speaketh from heaven.
We need to be grounded in Christ.
We dare not, we dare not be sidelined into assuming something else.
Whose voice then shook the earth, but now he has promised, saying,
Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
And this word yet once more signifies the removing of those things that are shaken
as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
I believe with all my heart that Christianity is in the shaking period.
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace whereby
we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear, for our God is a consuming
fire.
Choice.
Here's a choice to be made.
Bear in mind that it is none but God that can hold an argument with Satan.
There's too much presumption in the world.
Too many people marching around commanding Satan to do this, commanding Satan to do
that.
Not even Gabriel could stand against him without calling the one who is what God
is, Michael, to come to his aid.
How much less we.
What presumption we have in the world today.
It's unbelievable.
Martin Luther versus Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order.
They were contemporaries.
They lived at the same time.
And yet they were so totally different.
Luther's appeal was to submit the conscience directly to God through the
word.
And Loyola's drive was to submit the conscience to the papacy.
Here was the distinction.
Ignatian spirituality was to be achieved through spiritual exercises by
substituting imagination and encounter theology for the reality of faith.
He found another way of guaranteeing a spiritual experience, which was no longer
based on faith, but on the actual substance.
Here is a quote from Delbergine, the history of the Reformation of the 16th
century.
Probably one of the best exposés on the Reformation ever written.
It's huge.
Inigo, it's another name for, or short version, of Ignatius Loyola.
And the author writes, Inigo, instead of feeling that his remorse was sent to drive
him to the foot of the cross, persuaded himself that these inward reproaches
proceeded not from God, but from the devil, and resolved never more to think of
his sins, to erase them from his memory, and bury them in eternal oblivion.
Both Martin Luther and Inigo had this sense of guilt.
Both of them chastised themselves to get rid of it.
Martin Luther made the great discovery that just shall live by faith.
And Inigo did not.
Luther turned towards Christ.
Loyola fell upon himself.
Visions came e'er long to confirm Inigo in the convictions at which he had arrived.
Inigo did not seek truth in the Holy Scriptures, but imagined in their place
immediate communication with the spirits.
Luther, on taking his doctor's degree, had pledged his oath to the Holy
Scripture, Loyola at his time bound himself to dreams and visions,
and chimerical apparitions became the principle of his life and his faith.
Two directions.
The one, faith-based.
The Lord said it, therefore it is so.
So, if you repent, I will wash you whiter than snow, I will remove your sins as far
as the east is from the west, and see we are doing a new thing, that's what the
word says, the devil says.
You're guilty, you're guilty, you're guilty.
The Lord does not lie.
By faith, I accept forgiveness in Christ, whether I feel it or not.
Inigo said, I want to feel it.
I want to feel accepted.
I want to know that I can talk with him.
I will concentrate all my energy to communicate directly.
And before long, he was communicating directly.
But with whom?
With whom?
Luther declared, It is a light thing to die for the word, since the word that was
made flesh has himself died.
If we die with him, we shall live with him.
And passing through that which he has passed through before us, we shall be
where he is and dwell with him forever.
Faith.
Statement.
No need for any strange experience.
At the Diet of Worms, he said, Since your most serene majesty and the
princess require a simple, clear, and direct answer, I will give you one,
and it is this.
I cannot submit my faith either to the Pope or to the councils, because it is
clear as noonday that they have often fallen into error, and even into glaring
inconsistency with themselves.
If then I am not convinced by proof from the Holy Scriptures, or by cognate
reasons, if I am not satisfied by the very text that I have cited, and if my judgment
is not in this way brought into subjection to God's word, I neither can nor will
retract anything.
For it cannot be right for a Christian to speak against his conscience.
Here I take my stand.
I cannot do otherwise.
God be my help.
Amen.
That same historical source.
So here were two total opposites.
It's written, and therefore I believe it.
I accept it by faith.
Christ said so.
It is so.
Done deal.
Isn't that nice?
Do I have to prove my relationship with someone else?
Do I have to prove every day that there's a relationship going in a marriage?
Do I have to prove, how do I prove that I love someone?
If I say it, it must be accepted by faith.
Here is Inigo kneeling before the Pope, receiving his letters, and all of these
things happened more than 400 years ago.
The Society of Jesus first constituted in the chapel of Notre Dame, Montreux,
1534.
Now in the chapel of the Sacred Heart in Paris.
And there it is.
It's quite a magnificent edifice.
You're not allowed to take any pictures inside, but says nothing about outside.
So let me take you there.
Let's have a look at what we can see on the outside.
Fascinating place.
They have all these magnificent statues and they have these two interesting little
engravings here on the building.
The first one is the mother hen.
Now it's interesting, you must understand their mindset.
Who is the mother, according to Catholicism?
The church, yes.
Matthew 23, 37 says, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets
and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy
children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings?
And you would not.
Rome says, the church is the mother and Christ is set aside.
Matthew 15, verse 9, on the other side here, they have this mythical bird,
this pelican feeding its young with its own flesh.
Matthew 15, 9 says, in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men.
This is the bloodless sacrifice, the offering of the flesh.
Titus 3, 5 says, not by works of righteousness which we have done,
but according to his mercy he saved us by washing of regeneration and renewing of
the Holy Ghost.
No, Catholicism says, we need works and faith for salvation.
Protestantism says, we need faith.
Works are a consequence, not a means to salvation.
So if you are a Christian, you will have good works, because you are impelled by
the love of Christ to do good works.
But you do not do the good works to get brownie points in order to get a higher
status or even to go to heaven.
So there is a subtle difference here between the two.
Catholicism has them both embodied.
Now that's the history.
And it is a bloody history.
When you go through all the mega wars, the 30 year wars, the massacres of Europe,
all the inquisitional activities, even amongst themselves they had so many
arguments when the inquisition was passed from one order to the other and taken away
from the Jesuits.
Who?
The poor Dominicans.
They were slaughtered!
And even after that, they will use it to their advantage and say, look,
even Catholic orders suffered so it couldn't have been us.
Are the Jesuits still relevant?
Do they still have a role to play today?
Well, in this year, we had this interesting election of a new general for
the first time in history.
A Jesuit general retired before he was forced to retire by his death.
And the new Jesuit general is Father Adolfo Nicolas from 2008.
And here are the Jesuit electors.
These are the inner core of the Jesuit order.
And it's interesting to read this extract of a letter that Pope Benedict sent to the
Jesuits just prior to this new election of this general.
So, here is the present Pope writing to them.
And he writes, I too gladly wish to take this opportunity of a general congregation
to bring such a contribution to light which might be of encouragement for you
and a stimulus to implement ever better the ideal of the society.
Jesuits, go and work to get society to the level where we want it.
In full fidelity with the magisterium of the church such as described in the
following formula which is well familiar to you, to serve as a soldier of God
beneath the banner of cross and to serve the Lord alone and the church his spouse
under the Roman pontiff the vicar of Christ on earth.
Jesuits, that's your job.
And then he quotes an apostolic letter from 1515.
He says, One treats here of a peculiar fidelity confirmed also by not a few
amongst you in vow of immediate obedience to the successor of Peter, perinde a
cadaver.
Good grief.
This is Pope Benedict writing.
Quoting and he says to them, Your obedience to me must be as the obedience
of a corpse.
Perinde a cadaver.
Like a corpse.
You will have no mind of your own.
Whatever is said, you will do.
Blind obedience.
The church has even more need today of this fidelity of yours which constitutes a
distinctive sign of your order.
In this era which warns of the urgency of transmitting in an integral manner to our
contemporaries distracted by many discordant voices.
Jesuits, I need you now more than ever.
And I need your blind obedience.
Is that what he's saying?
That's exactly what he's saying before the vote took place.
And here he is with the inner core, the electors of the Jesuit order sitting
in the front.
He the man in white and they the men in black.
Fascinating.
How does he feel about their institutions of learning?
This is the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, the most prestigious
Catholic Jesuit university in the world.
And what did Pope Benedict have to say about this institution?
He says, once again, the Pope entrusts this university to you.
A work so important for the universal church and for so many particular
churches.
It has always been a priority amongst the apostolic priorities of the society of
Jesus.
Here is your entering wedge.
This work is for the church and for all the others.
Well, let's have a look at how we shall proceed and how they have managed to turn
Protestantism into something which does not even resemble primitive Protestantism.
Here is Adolfo Nicolás, the new Jesuit general, shaking hands with Peter Hans
Kolvenbach, the previous general.
And it says, Father Adolfo Nicolás of Spain, the newly elected Superior General
of the Society of Jesus, celebrates his first Mass at the head of the Jesuits at
the Church of Jesus, January 20, 2008.
So this general, the previous general, Peter Hans Kolvenbach, is the first
general in history to be permitted to resign.
And here he has been sworn in, made available by the Jesuit Order Press
Office, Spanish Reverend Adolfo Nicolás swears in as the Superior General of the
Jesuits Roman Catholic Order during their 35th General Congregation in Rome's Holy
Spirit and Sassia Church.
January 19, 2008.
The general of the Jesuits is always known as the Black Pope because he wears black.
And the White Pope is the Pope who is the external...
how do I put this?
The external picture of the papacy.
This is the yin-yang.
The black and the white squares.
The knowledge of good and evil.
So the new general meets with the pontiff.
Rome, 28th January, 2008.
And this is Catholic World News.
Jesuit officials released a statement after the meeting saying that the
conversation between Father Nicholas and the Pope had been warm and friendly.
And they reaffirm his personal respect for the Vicarous Christ as well as the esteem
of the whole society of Jesus.
So this is all being made public.
So first you have this letter reminding them of their affiliation.
And now you have the confirmation.
According to the statement from the Jesuit superior, Pope Benedict said that he was
pleased to know that the general congregation of the order which continues
its meeting in Rome this week will reflect on the message that the pontiff sent to
the participants as the general congregation began.
So here they are together to reaffirm in the spirit of Saint Ignatius its own total
adhesion to Catholic doctrine in particular on those neuralgic points
concerning the mind which today are strongly attacked by secular culture.
So this order, is it dead?
Yes or no?
Definitely not dead.
This is the largest order in the Roman Catholic Church.
This is the most powerful order in the Roman Catholic Church.
It is a military order.
It has a general at its head.
And all other orders have to subscribe to it.
Even the great orders of the Malta.
Pope Ratzinger to the Jesuits.
21 February 2008.
Now I want you to listen carefully what this pope wrote.
And here's the Latin text for those who would like to dispute this.
Comes straight off their own webpage, this Latin text.
Here it is translated for you.
For this I have invited you today to also reflect in order to find again a sense of
fuller obedience to the successor of Peter.
So that it does not only involve the cases of sending you on missions to far lands
but also in the most genuine ignited spirit of feeling with the church and in
the church to love and to serve the vicar of Christ on earth with that effective and
affective devotion that must make of you the precious and irreplaceable
collaborators in the service of the universal church.
That's powerful.
So the duty is to love and to serve.
What does the Bible say what is our duty?
To love and to serve the Lord God with all our heart and with all our soul and with
all our mind.
Here we have a totally different order.
Here we have a human being taking the place of Christ.
Being served as though he were Christ.
Now the whole reformation separated on these issues from the Roman Catholic
Church.
And finally after much bloodshed the council of Trent came together and that
was championed by the Jesuits.
This is the council of Trent conclave and unfortunately Martin Luther was already
dead when the council of Trent took place.
And my question is this the Vatican II council which we read about which started
in 1965 and which suddenly opened the doors to all Christian communities to be
acceptable again because before that date it was said that there is no salvation
outside of the Roman Catholic Church.
You can only be saved as a Roman Catholic.
That's why I became an atheist.
It's true.
Because my mother was a Protestant.
She was Lutheran.
And she died when I was 12 years old.
And she took 4 years in dying.
And in those 4 years in my religious instruction I was told repeatedly that my
mother not being Catholic had no hope of salvation and would go to hell.
And I hated God.
And I rejected Him.
But after 1965 suddenly she was okay.
All she had to do was acknowledge the supremacy of the papacy and even the
separated brethren could be incorporated.
So my question is did the Vatican II Council change the Roman Catholic position
established at the Council of Trent that there is no salvation outside of the Roman
Catholic Church?
Well, let's ask the Roman Catholic Church.
That's the best way to do it.
My quotes as you will see come direct from the Vatican.
Directly.
This is the address of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the participants in the
plenary session of the Congregation for Doctrine and Faith.
In the old days that was called the Inquisition and Ratzinger used to be the
head thereof.
He says, Your Eminences, venerable brothers in the Episcopate and in the
priesthood, dear and faithful collaborators, it gives me great joy.
He starts all his addresses like that.
It gives me great joy to meet you on the occasion of your plenary assemble.
I can thus express to you my sentiments of deep gratitude and cordial appreciation
for the work that your carries out at the service of the Ministry of Unity.
So, dear Inquisition, you have a Ministry of Unity to get them all back under the
wing of the Mother.
Entrusted in a special way to the Roman Pontiff, it is a ministry expressed
primarily in the terms of unity of faith resting on the sacred deposit whose
principal custodian and defender is the successor of Peter.
He is the principal custodian of unity.
Last year, in particular, the Congregation for Doctrine and Faith published two
important documents which offered doctrinal clarification on essential
aspects of the Church's teaching on evangelization.
Let's see where we go.
The first document is entitled, Responses to Some Questions Regarding
Certain Aspects of the Doctrine of the Church.
In its formulation and language, it re-proposes the teaching of the Second
Vatican Council in full continuity with the doctrine of the Catholic tradition.
Thus, it confirms that the one and only Church of Christ which we confess in the
creed has its subsistence and permanence and stability in the Catholic Church and
that therefore the unity, indivisibility, and indestructibility of Christ's Church
is in no way annulled by the separation and division of Christians.
Has anything changed since the Council of Trent?
No.
It's exactly the same.
It's just couched in fancy terminology.
This comes from, where does it come from?
Vatican.va That's their own webpage.
I'd like to read what this present Pope has to say.
And if we would read it, we would not be so confused.
It's mind-boggling what he says, but nobody bothers to read what he says.
The Second Vatican Council assertion that the true Church of Christ subsists in the
Catholic Church dogmatic constitution lumen gentium does not exclusively concern
the relationship with the churches and Christian ecclesiastical communities,
but also extended to the definition of relations with the religions and cultures
of the world.
And the declaration, digitalis humanae, on religious liberty, the Second Vatican
Council affirmed that this one true religion continues to exist in the
Catholic and Apostolic Church to which the Lord Jesus entrusted the task of spreading
it amongst all men.
Nothing has changed.
The only thing that has changed is Protestants believe that it has changed.
Far from preventing authentic ecumenical commitment, this difference will encourage
a realistic and fully informed discussion of the issues that still separate the
Christian denominations.
So the papacy is not hiding it.
They're saying we're the boss, we're the only ones, and salvation is only
in us, so when you are joined to us, you better realize it, because you don't
accept me as boss, you're out, you're dead, you're lost.
They're pretty plain on this issue.
Wow.
No problem.
So let's go towards full Christian unity.
There is no doubt about the issue, and when the ecumenical councils say,
but you know, Rome has changed.
Read what they're saying.
They haven't changed.
Here's another one.
Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith responds to some questions regarding
certain aspects of the doctrine of the church.
Here is the official mouthpiece of which Ratzinger was the head.
Levada is now the head.
Bishop of San Francisco first question, did the second Vatican council change the
Catholic doctrine on the church?
It's asked them straight, they're doing it themselves here, comes from their own
webpage.
Response, the second Vatican council neither changed, nor intended to change
this doctrine, rather it developed, deepened, and more fully explained it.
Clever.
This was exactly what John the 23rd said at the beginning of the council.
Paul the 6th affirmed it, and he commented on the act of promulgating the
Constitution, Lumen Gentium.
There is no better comment to make than to say that this promulgation really changes
nothing of the traditional doctrine.
Isn't that plain?
Absolutely crystal clear.
Thank you, we know where we stand.
What Christ willed, we also willed.
What was still is.
What the church has taught down through the centuries, we also teach.
We haven't changed.
I hear so much, but they've changed, they've changed.
Here they say they haven't changed.
In simple terms, that which was assumed is now explicit, that which was uncertain is
now clarified, that which was meditated upon, discussed, and sometimes argued over
is now put together in one clear formulation.
This is how it is, accept it or else.
Now, how did they get this doctrine into all the Protestant churches?
And how did they get their Protestant churches to change from what they believed
to what they practice now?
Protestantism used to say, here is the Antichrist and therefore we will separate.
Now they have another Antichrist, who hasn't even come, probably will come
when they're not even there, so why should they bother about it?
Or he's already dead.
You know, it's just total chaos.
And what have they got in the place thereof?
Well, the Jesuits entrusted with the spreading of this new dogma, of course it
would be the Jesuits, the most important one was Karl Rahner.
1904 to 1984, and Vatican II.
Now we must study their doctrines.
And who was his special co-worker?
None other than the present Pope.
They were both architects of Vatican II.
Karl Rahner is undoubtedly the most important Roman Catholic theologian in the
20th century.
His seminal position amongst his contemporaries results to some extent from
his ability to put theology and philosophy into dialogue.
This is very dangerous, because once we start turning truth into philosophy,
we can go anywhere.
We can go anywhere, and philosophy is the thing that trips up the intellectuals.
Wonderful.
Karl Rahner originated a new religious category.
Anonymous Christianity.
Isn't that clever?
Saying it embraces Buddhists, various other non-Christians, and even atheists,
who are conscientious, upright, and caring.
They're alright, they're Christians.
Some kind of faith in God is basically there, whether they know it or not,
says Rahner.
They are part of the Christianity that does not call itself Christianity.
Pagans who have received grace, but who are not aware of it.
That's beautiful.
Everybody is incorporated.
Everybody is embraced.
All you have to do is say Papa, and you'll be okay.
Do you recognize these two gentlemen in this picture?
Karl Rahner and Paparazzi.
We shouldn't call him Paparazzi.
We shouldn't really do that.
Two progressivist shirt-and-tie priests at the Vatican too.
Father Joseph Ratzinger was a co-worker with Father Karl Rahner at the Council.
The two of them are together.
Please note what Rahner said.
Rahner's motto was effectively, Our Lord must conform to the world,
not it to him.
Hmm...
His influence was enormous.
He satisfied a modern world, a modern churchman whose ears were itching for
doctrinal compromises under the precepts of enlightenment.
Here was a new philosophy.
I thought I'd throw Our Redeemer Lutheran Church webpage in here which sort of
defines where we're standing.
I'm not going to read the whole thing, just which doctrines are necessary for
unity?
Dr. Richard Bucher both in the 16th century and ours, it has been assumed that
agreement in every church teaching is not necessary for unity.
Separate Christians, separated Christians need only agree on the essentials or
necessary or fundamental doctrines.
We just have to have a few points of contact.
Do you believe in Jesus?
Yes, I believe in Jesus.
Is He the only way to salvation?
That's not relevant.
We at least believe in Jesus.
Muslim, do you believe in Jesus?
Yes, He was wonderful, He was a good prophet.
And so we have points of contact.
Well how far do you go until you have absolutely nothing left?
Right.
Now what is the aim of Protestantism?
And what is the aim of the Jesuit order?
The aim of Protestantism is to spread the gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ.
To spread the good news.
The Messiah has come.
Come all ye who are weary and heavy laden and He will give you rest.
Not Jesuitism.
I cannot too much impress, says Nicolai in the history of the Jesuits, upon the minds
of my readers that the Jesuits, by their very calling, by the very essence
of their institution, are bound to seek by every means, right or wrong, the
destruction of Protestantism.
This is the condition of their existence, the duty they must fulfill or cease to be
Jesuits.
That's why they were called into existence.
Accordingly, we find them in this evil dilemma.
Either the Jesuits fulfill the duty of their calling or not.
In the first instance they must be considered as the biggest enemies of the
Protestant faith and in the second as bad and unworthy priests and in both cases to
therefore to be equally regarded with aversion and distrust.
Straightforward talk.
Now let's have a look how the world has changed since Vatican II.
What have they done with this new theology of embracing everyone?
The Second Vatican Council and the Charismatic Renewal.
Did you know that the Charismatic Renewal really only started taking off after the
Second Vatican Council?
Here is Pope John XXIII who called that Council.
On the 25th of January 1959, only two months after his election as Pope,
John XXIII surprised the world by announcing the Council to give the Church
the possibility to contribute more efficaciously to the solution of the
problems of the modern age.
The joyful echo brought about by its announcement as well as the lively
interest on the part of non-Catholics and even non-Christians.
Wow, here we have a total ecumenism proved in the most eloquent manner that the
historical importance of the event has not escaped anyone.
Vatican II and the Charismatic Movement, the Cardinal appointed to oversee this
issue and who served on most of the committees was Cardinal Sunnis.
Cardinal Joseph Sunnis, he's a Templeton Prize recipient.
Well, there's an interesting connection.
We'll have to look at the previous one.
He was also a Mason.
He was initiated on June 15, 1967.
He was chosen by Pope John XXIII to be one of the chief architects of Vatican II.
He sat on all four major commissions.
He stated, since I've had this Charismatic experience, my allegiance to the Holy
Father as the Vicar of Christ in the world has been heightened and strengthened,
my appreciation for Mary as the co-redemptress and mediatoress of my
salvation has been assured, and my appreciation of the Mass as the sacrifice
of Christ has now been heightened.
All of those points Protestantism rejects.
And yet, this Charismatic experience led him into embracing these doctrinal eras,
even in a greater fashion.
This is what Vatican II has to say about the charisms.
It is not only through the sacraments and church ministries that the Holy Spirit
sanctifies and leads the people of God.
Please note that statement in the first place.
So if you partake in a sacrament, you get sanctified.
So an action sanctifies?
There's no salvation by these works, according to the Bible.
He distributes special graces amongst the faithful of every rank, and the
manifestation of the Spirit is given to everyone for profit.
These charismatic gifts, whether they be the most outstanding or the more simple
and widely diffused, are to be received with thanksgiving and consolation.
For they are exceedingly suitable and useful for the needs of the Church.
Isn't that fascinating?
So this is what II Vatican Council had to say.
Let's embrace this because this is going to help our Church.
But Paul VI, speaking at the International Conference in 1975, he says 1975 marks the
year of the renewal coming of age in the Catholic Church.
And he told them, nothing is more necessary to this more and more
secularized world than the witness of the spiritual renewal.
That we see the Holy Spirit evoking in the most diverse regions and milieu.
How then could the spiritual renewal not be a chance for the Church and for the
world?
And how in this case could one not take all the means to ensure that it remains
so?
Who's behind the charismatic renewal after you've read these?
And the Pope himself spoke in tongues.
1975, Pope Paul VI is giving his address and Christianity Today reports,
bishops, archbishops, cardinals struggling to keep their hats in place sang and
danced in ecstasy embracing one another, raising their arms to heaven.
And Pope Paul VI's address was punctuated with ecstatics.
He spoke in tongues and here is this mega-movement.
Alberto, one doesn't always know how perfect these quotes are, but this is
historically at least accurate.
He says, Catherine Kuhlman was one of Rome's greatest undercover agents.
Assigned to penetrate the Pentecostal and Protestants through the charismatic
movement.
She was a master of hypnosis and had tremendous psychic powers.
As a reward for her outstanding work, she was granted a private audience with
the Pope.
As a result of her work, most now teach unity, but seldom preach separation and
holiness which Rome dreaded.
And that's a fact.
Here is a picture of Catherine Kuhlman as she spoke to the people and healed them,
much like the televangelists heal people today.
And here is a picture of 1907-1976 20th century American faith healer.
She believed in miracles, deliverance by the power of the Holy Spirit, and was part
of the Pentecostal arm of the Protestant Christianity.
Here is Protestantism receiving this infusion.
She was known for her healing crusades.
In fact, Time Magazine once called her a veritable one-woman shrine of lords.
If you want to be healed, go to Catherine Kuhlman.
She was given an honorary doctorate by Oral Roberts University.
Well, I don't want to go there.
You can look at my previous DVDs to see what all that is about.
And it's fascinating that in 1973 Benny Hinn attended one of her healing crusades.
And this was the catalyst for his ministry.
It is thanks to Kuhlman that we have slain-in-the-spirit experiences in the
world today that she made popular in evangelical circles.
Homer Duncan, the ecumenical movement, gives this description of the 1975 full
gospel convention.
Now notice here what Catherine Kuhlman had to say about the papacy and how... this is
Protestantism speaking, supposedly.
At the full gospel businessmen's fellowship world convention held in
Anaheim, California.
This was 1975.
This is the same year that the Pope spoke in ecstatics.
Various speakers from different denominations used such expressions as
charismatic ecumenism.
The Lord's ecumenism.
Charismatic Eucharist.
The emphasis on reconciliation with all churches was a major theme.
And charismatic Catholics were prominent on the program.
Catherine Kuhlman said, quote, I want you to know that Pope Paul VI would
have fit in very well with this great worldwide convention.
He would have understood everything that was happening.
He would have understood this is part of God's great plan.
I believe the charismatic movement has been duped and used as a mega drive for
unity.
After all, if the outpouring of the Spirit is the same, then it must all be good.
Roman Catholic priest John Battaluzzi spoke at the same one.
He spoke about Holy Spirit baptism.
He said, during the week we have charismatic mass, just a gorgeous
experience of worshipping the Lord in the midst of the Holy Eucharist.
He continued, but you know the Lord is doing a whole new thing.
He's pouring out His Spirit on all flesh, all denominations, on everybody,
and this is the Lord's ecumenism.
Fascinating.
All roads lead to Rome.
And this is what they used.
The Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and I want you to note what this man has
to say.
Here is the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland's clerk to the synod.
And he wrote when these things were happening, and this was in 1975,
that's not so long ago, this is what he had to say on behalf of his Protestant
church.
He was the clerk of the synod.
He said, the ecumenical movement which you praise, and he wrote this to the Times,
and they published it, the ecumenical movement which you praise is the greatest
disaster to affect the Christian church this century.
It has reduced the professing churches of this country to a collection of bloodless,
spineless, and boneless organizations which can hardly raise a whimper on the
side of Christ and his truth.
Small wonder that the evil progresses as it does, and spiritual darkness becomes
more intense as the years go by.
You appear to regard a body of professing Christians of sober conduct and deep
spirituality of mind as fanatical and bigoted.
See?
Gets turned around.
If you believe in the Bible, you're a bigot, you're a fanatic.
But if you believe in the experience, you're a Christian.
If this be so, then the eminent men of God, such as John Knox in Scotland,
John Colvin, Martin Luther on the continent, Archbishop Cranmer in England,
were bigots, and their contests with the era of potpourri.
We are glad to be in such company, he said.
I'm afraid those voices are gone.
We don't find voices like that anymore.
No, the hype gets bigger and bigger.
Pope John Paul II and the Charismatic Renewal.
What they are saying just boggles the mind.
Here he's meeting with some half a million representatives of various churches in
1998, and he boldly proclaimed, Open yourselves docilely to the gifts of
the Spirit.
Accept gratefully and obediently the charisms which the Spirit never ceases to
bestow on us.
Whatever comes take it.
What does the Bible say?
Mustn't we test the spirits?
Is this thing from God or is this thing not from God?
No, the Pope says whatever comes, just take it.
This is what we need.
And how many are there in the Catholic Church?
If you don't believe the Catholic Church is behind them, look at their charismatic
bishops.
Good grief.
Well, these are their priests.
Charismatic priests from different movements met at the Vatican in 1990.
This comes from inside the Vatican.
There they are.
This is the drive.
The bigger, the better.
Catholic Charismatic Movement, Pope John Paul II addressed to the
Pontifical Council for the Laity, 1999.
We have experienced the grace of a new Pentecost.
There are many signs of hope which have flourished for the mission of the Church,
among which are the discovery and the appraisal of charisms, the renewed zeal
for evangelization, and the advancement of lay people.
This is a movement.
Let's walk amongst the people.
Walk amongst the people.
In 1998 he said, this is Pope John Paul speaking, come Holy Spirit, come and renew
the face of the earth.
Come with your seven gifts.
Come spirit of life, spirit of communion and love.
The Church and the world need you.
Come Holy Spirit and make every more fruitful the charisms you have bestowed on
us.
Give new strength and missionary zeal to these sons and daughters of yours who have
gathered here.
Open their hearts.
Renew their Christian commitment to the world.
Make them courageous messengers of the Gospel.
Witnesses to the risen Jesus Christ, the Redeemer and Savior of man.
Strengthen their love and their fidelity to the Church.
Sounds nice.
Then he stated boldly, the movements are the hope of the Church.
And Cardinal Ratzinger said exactly the same thing.
He said it is Pentecostal hour.
Now what's basically wrong with this?
The Bible says that the Lord Jesus Christ would go to heaven and that the disciples
were to wait for the outpouring of the Spirit which would come from Him.
Whatever you ask in whose name?
My name you shall receive.
For our Heavenly Father and then he tells the story of will He give you a whatever
in the place of and then he talks about stones and fish and bread and he says our
Heavenly Father will give you the gift of the what?
The Spirit.
If we ask in the name of Jesus, God will bestow the gift of the Spirit to
minister unto others in spreading the Gospel.
That was the aim.
Here we have a direct access to the Holy Spirit.
Christ is set aside and this is not Biblical.
Meeting with the ecclesiastical movements, Pope John Paul II said, with the Second
Vatican Council, the Comforter recently gave the church which according to the
Fathers is the place where the Spirit flourishes.
A renewed Pentecost instilling a new and unforeseen dynamism.
Whenever the Spirit intervenes, He leaves people astonished.
He brings about events of amazing newness.
And so he goes on and on and on.
We need the guidance, the charisma.
It is not only through the sacraments and the ministrations of the church but
through this outpouring.
And the present Pope adds his voice before answering questions from an assembly of
more than 100 bishops.
He says, I have had the joy and the grace to see young Christians touched by the
power of the Holy Spirit.
At a time of exhaustion when there was talk of a winter of the church,
the Holy Spirit was creating a new spring.
The challenge today is not to allow the faith to withdraw into closed groups,
but to have it enlighten everyone and speak to everyone.
How did they get this right?
How did they manage to open the doors for the Spirit?
And here comes a clue.
Rome May the 7th, 2006.
This is a Catholic source.
More than 10,000 members of communities of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal will
observe the vigil of Pentecost with Benedict XVI.
And this is what they said.
The unknown God.
The Holy Spirit considered until a few years ago as the unknown God.
He's the one who with His grace tirelessly changes the lives of thousands of people
in all corners of the world, who with renewed joy through the experience of
baptism in the Spirit begin a new life precisely in the Holy Spirit, they said.
So here we have a move and a way from Jesus Christ and His centrality from whom
are all things to a direct worship of the Holy Spirit.
And we sing interesting songs and we invoke the Holy Spirit and we talk to Him
and we pray to Him and we say, come and do this for me.
And this is not following the biblical avenue.
The biblical avenue is no one comes to the Father except by Christ.
So the centrality of Christ has been shifted.
He's the one we wish to honor.
Talking about the Holy Spirit.
He's the one we wish to honor and glorify publicly.
Responding to the appeal that both John Paul II as well as Benedict made.
The CCR and the whole church to spread the culture of Pentecost and the actions of
the Holy Spirit in the life of the church and in each of the faithful, the director
added, this celebration which will include moments of prayer.
Now I want you to listen carefully because it gets sneaky.
Moments of prayer, listening, witnessing invocation of the Spirit will end with a
celebration of prayer.
A music concert, a dance which will be presented as prayer by artists of
different countries.
What have we got?
We have a liturgy.
We have a mode of action in the place of faith.
Fascinating.
Now where's all this come from?
Father Reneiro said, pontifical household preacher and Father so-and-so,
one of the initiators of the charismatic experience, will speak on grace and the
power of the Holy Spirit during the celebration.
Fascinating.
So here is a movement which has changed the face of Christianity.
Which has refocused Christianity in a totally new direction.
And it's highly experiential.
Now the Jesuits prepared the way in this world by first working away and chipping
away at the moral absolutes of Christianity.
And one of the ways they did it was through the hippie movement.
So here you have the hippie movement of the 60s, where everything went,
when drugs came into this world, free love, all of those nice things.
The Jesuit people, the hippie movement was led by the Jesuits, such as Max Auley.
When you saw those little cars where the drugs were being handed out, the Jesuits
were never far away.
Max Auley from Georgetown University, a Jesuit university, this led to the
anti-establishment Jesus, with the long hair, the let your hair down philosophy,
the love gospel, the liberation gospel, the prosperity gospel, the coffee house
Jesus, the rock and roll Jesus, the existential Jesus who meets the needs
of all cultures and creeds.
So here we go.
Let's get with it.
And you thought the hippie movement is dead.
It's not dead.
Today, the hippie movement is incorporated into organizations, and these sprang out
of it, like the Green Peace movement.
Isn't that fascinating?
And you have all of these friends of the Earth movements, and the Action Coalition,
and the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Green Peace International,
and the Global Recycling Network, and the US Fish and Wildlife Services,
and the Socialist Party, and mega organizations have come out of that
movement.
And here was Max Auley, he used to stand on the street corners, he was arrested,
he was the forefront leader.
Here he says, should we then take life, or should we?
You know, death, hate, whatever.
Here is Jesuit priest, professor at the University of Georgetown University,
he was a Marxist priest, and who were his students?
Bill Clinton was his student.
Fascinating, and these Georgetown professors who advocated that Clinton go
for a Rhodes Scholarship, and what else was he?
He was the mentor of the whole Kennedy family.
So here he was, an activist for all of these things.
This is Georgetown University's own webpage talking about Max Auley,
and it says that he had Bill Clinton in his class, and that he was the mentor,
and friend, and confidant of the Kennedy family.
He was also associated with Martin Luther King.
And please note what he said.
He says about Martin Luther King, I saw him as a great Christ figure.
So I followed him and marched with him.
King explained the meaning of the gospel to me.
He taught us that Jesus was serious about non-violent love, racial justice,
peacemaking.
King showed us how to live the gospel as well.
Isn't that interesting?
So all of these activist movements, the Jesuits, were behind them.
And then the music industry and the rock industry, which had its simple beginnings
with groups like the Beatles and all of those.
And here you have the Beatles and their songs about Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
You remember that?
And what does that stand for?
I'm sure you all know.
It stands for LSD and the drug world.
And all of these movements, the Jesuits were behind it.
Nietzsche's nihilism.
Nihilism is the notion that ethical norms are nationally unjustifiable and a
consequent mood of despair over life's emptiness is resolved.
Who creates the emptiness?
Who brings the drugs and says there's no purpose to life?
If you take away absolute morality and you take away the Bible, well then there's
nothing left.
So you have free love, existentialism, here you go, and anything goes.
And then you come to the point where you realize, well, I'm blowing my life away,
what's the point in all of this?
And then you supply the lack.
And here's the danger.
Nietzsche defined the concept of the situation which exists when everything is
permitted.
And this drug world was important.
In the Rick Martin interview with Eric John Phelps, Phelps claims that the
Beatles were Jesuit-controlled and that the drug world is controlled by Rome via
the Mafia, which is Jesuit-controlled.
Here are the Beatles with their drug songs.
The Beatles were the first rock band to use the Devil's Triad on a record album.
And there you can see it.
There he is using it, and there even animated, so there's no chance here.
Von Helsing states that the Beatles used backtracks, and this is what he says,
song revolution number nine, message, start smoking marijuana, turn me on,
dead man, referring to Jesus.
John Lennon in 1962 said to Tony Sheridan at a star club in Hamburg, I know that the
Beatles will be successful such as no other group has been, I know it for sure,
because this success I have sold, for this success I have sold my soul to
Satan.
This comes from Jan von Helsing, Geheimgesellschaften und ihre Macht,
and it's a quote from him.
And then you have this philosophy shift, bringing in a new philosophy, and
Heidegger's caring brought into this nonsensical world.
God is dead, therefore life's answer lies within the self.
Have you heard that on television these days?
Self esteem, Christian psychology supplies the lack, Heidegger taught that the soul
would then authenticate itself by showing concern for others, or caring.
So now you have a caring Christianity.
Heidegger's existential caring, Sorge, to take care of others is based on
Dasein, to be there.
So here I am, I'm in a mess, how do I get myself right?
How do I get a form of spirituality?
I take care of others.
This is the religion of self, the religion of Antichrist, God being removed,
the church sets the standard and educates coaches, the masses through Christian
psychology, spiritual directors, neuro-linguistic programming, caring labs,
until we have a new spiritual formation.
There's a summary of where we are headed.
Now let's see how they did it.
Step two, create a new morality, change the direction.
We have to get now from this nonsense, this nonsensical existence into a sensible
existence.
And who's behind that again?
The Jesuits.
And you can look them up, here is Father Gustavo Gutierrez, and let's learn from
Catholicism via this man how we must take a clear stand against social injustice in
favor of the revolutionary process.
Aha!
So we change our religion from worshiping Jesus, from having a God-centered
religion, to having a social religion.
Leonardo Boff, the church must be defined in terms of energy, charisma, and progress
of the world.
So says Richard P. McBride.
I always like to know, who are these people?
McBride, who are you?
And why do you quote all these Jesuit people?
Well, here he is.
Let's see.
Richard P. McBride is Crowley O'Brien, professor of theology at the University of
Notre Dame.
Very interesting.
Past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America.
Interesting.
Distinguished achievements.
Received the Murray Award.
And he served as past on-air commentator on Catholic events on CBS.
So he's a big man.
Where was he trained?
Ooh, the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
The Jesuit University.
Didn't the Pope say, you gentlemen, you better change the world through these
institutions?
Let's see what the man has to say.
He says, the mission of the church is one of service to the people, especially the
poor, the oppressed, and the marginalized.
Although the structures of authority are necessary for this mission, those
structures are always subordinate to it and are to be judged by their capacity to
enable the church to fulfill the mission.
Here we go.
We've changed our religion.
We need soup kitchens.
We need this.
Is there anything wrong with a soup kitchen?
Absolutely not.
Is there anything wrong in uplifting someone?
Absolutely not.
But if that is your religion, then you have changed faith for works.
It must be a consequence.
And we will see what the difference is.
He writes, from the feminists comes the view of the church as an exodus community.
So here we have feminism.
That's fine.
Called to abandon the established social order and its religious agents of
sacralization and to witness an alternative social order.
Let's change the world.
He says we must be change agents.
Servant model for the church.
Gospel by application of the gospel to the struggle for social justice, peace,
human rights.
Excuse me, is this the gospel of Jesus Christ, yes or no?
Definitely not.
We have a new gospel.
The church's activities on behalf of social justice of human rights are not
merely preparatory to the real mission of the church as the notion of
pre-evangelization had it before Vatican II.
The church's commitment to and involvement in the struggle for social justice,
peace, and human rights is an essential or constitutive part of its mission.
This is our job.
We have to preach social order.
No.
We have to preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
We have to preach salvation by Him and Him alone.
We have to preach repentance.
We have to preach justification.
We have to preach sanctification.
This is not the gospel.
This is a new gospel.
Matthew says, take heed that you do not your righteousness before men to be seen
of them.
If you want to do good, do it quietly.
If you want to help someone, then do it without boasting.
While they claimed to be very jealous for the honor of the law, self-glory was the
real object which they sought and Christ would make it manifest to them that the
lover of self is a transgressor of the law, says this Protestant writer.
So let's prepare the mind for this new spirituality.
And now we're going to get to the dangerous part.
I'm giving you the history slowly.
And when we get to the next lecture we'll see where we are.
It's scary where we are.
Do you know about the spiritual exercises of Loyola?
How you achieve spirituality?
Now remember this was written 400 years ago.
And I'm not going to read the whole thing to you, but I will show you the essence of
it.
I've downloaded the whole thing.
I could talk a whole lecture just on this issue.
This is Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order.
And remember what Protestants said.
He fell back upon himself and he found the means to develop a spirituality,
not based on faith, but based on self.
And he writes, the first thing that you have to do is composition.
So you go to a little room and you have composition.
Seeing the place.
So if you want to have an experience with Jesus Christ, then in your mind,
contemplate the scene, see the place.
Here it is to be noted, in a visible contemplation, or meditation, as for
instance when one contemplates Christ, the Lord, who is visible, the composition
will be to see with the sight of the imagination the corporeal place where the
thing is found, which I want to contemplate.
So this is spirituality.
I need a quiet little room, I need to contemplate this issue, I need to see it,
and eventually it becomes such a reality I can actually talk to Christ or whoever I
have visualized, and I can have a one-to-one conversation.
Here, we can contemplate in our meditations, for example, on the sins,
and the composition we will see with the sight of the imagination, and consider
that my soul is imprisoned in this incorruptible body, and so I have this
experience.
Then he says you start everyone with a particular prayer, it's like a mantra,
you repeat it over and over and over again.
He says the call of the temporal king to help to contemplate the life of the king
eternal.
So now, we have idolatry.
He says when you want to contemplate Jesus, that's too difficult.
Let's take an earthly king, a marvelous earthly king who is the epitome of Jesus.
Well, who was he referring to?
To the Pope!
He says first you start with the composition, you see the place again,
see it with the imagination, and then you put before me a human king chosen by God.
Our Lord, whom all Christians, princes, and men reverence and obey.
Who's that?
So I start imagining the Pope.
Second point, the second is to look how this king speaks to all the people saying
it is my will to conquer all the land for unbelievers therefore whoever would like
to come with me is to be content to eat as I, and to drink and to dress as I,
so I have to become poor.
Excuse me, I would have to become mega rich!
I would have to get myself a mobile and drive around in it.
Third point, is to consider what the good subjects ought to answer such a king.
Then he talks about penance.
He says penance must be interior and exterior.
It's not enough to go to Jesus and say, Lord I have sinned, forgive me.
No, it's got to be exterior.
I have to chastise myself.
I have to punish myself.
How do I punish myself?
One way is I curtail my eating.
That is to say when we leave off the superfluous it's not penance, but
temperance.
It is penance when we leave off from the suitable and the more and more the better.
So I start eating only what I absolutely need to stay alive.
The breadcrumbs and the this.
And when it comes to sleeping it's not enough to take off the superfluous.
No, no, no.
I don't need the soft things.
You sleep on the hard floor.
Preferably put nails under you.
Now you can see why many of these orders, the nuns look so emaciated and cold and
they sleep on hard floors and they're told what they may eat and nothing may taste
good because you have to penance yourself.
It goes further.
He says you must chastise the flesh.
That is giving sensible pain which is given by wearing hair cloth or cords of
iron chains next to the flesh by scourging or wounding oneself.
This is his writing.
I'm not making this up.
So you have to beat yourself with whips.
You have to wear chains.
So that is why Opus Dei and all these groups wear pain anklets so that when they
move they feel stabbing pain to be reminded of their commitments.
This is horrendous.
This is the modern Christianity.
That's why in the Philippines they enact this and they beat themselves and they
crucify themselves.
This is spiritual exercises of Loyola.
You have to pay for your sins.
Faith says my lord died for me on the cross and paid for my sins for me.
All I have to do is come in repentance to him.
And then you progress.
Once you've broken yourself down to this point then you start progressing.
And then you must praise much the religious orders.
So your example is all the religious orders around.
Virginity?
That's marvelous.
And continence.
Praise vows of religions.
Praise relics of the saints.
So go to the relics and start feeling the bones and all of these issues.
And praise constitutions about fasts and abstinences of Lent, of Ember Days.
So now we need lots of feast days to fill our lives.
Can you see what he's contemplating here?
Now you think this is 400 years old?
I have shocking news for you.
We must understand the exercises of Loyola if we want to understand the Jesuits.
To have the true sentiments which we ought to have in the church militant.
The first of all judgment laid aside.
This is Loyola speaking and here is his picture or his statue as a saint in the
Vatican.
First of all, judgment laid aside.
What did Pope Benedict say?
You have to be perindee, a cadaver like a corpse.
And we ought to have our mind ready and prompt to obey in all the true spouse of
Christ our Lord, which our Holy Mother the Church hierarchial.
And hold that the white which I see is black, if the hierarchical church so
decides it.
This is the spiritual exercises of Loyola.
Blind obedience is absolutely essential.
And this is the famous statement that they had to obey perindee, a cadaver like a
corpse.
You must have no mind of your own.
Now is this dead?
Or is this alive and well and destroying Protestantism today?
That is the question we must ask ourselves.
The spiritual exercises in today's world has expounded in national Jesuit news.
Let's go to today.
The spiritual exercises of Ignatius belong to the church.
On their own they involve lay and Jesuit colleagues in a fruitful way.
They create spiritual conversation and community which Americans yearn for.
They help religious women offer women's gifts to the church and the world and help
the laity find their own gifts confirmed by prayer.
They offer an assured way to find God working in all things and a feasible
project of living contemplative in action.
Ooh, if you knew what these terms meant.
Just Christians in the marketplace.
We have a contemplative Christianity.
They write Ignatius of Loyola created and conducted this apostolate for 15 years
before he was ordained.
And he says the history that spiritual exercises are proving an astonishingly
effective instrument of lay spirituality even in the post-modern era today.
They are, please note, this is a Jesuit organization writing.
They are being used for and by and with lay people in many formats all around the
world.
And then supply the basis of sophisticated spiritualities for the marketplace.
Well, they've got something to sell.
And it is the road to hell that they have to sail.
This is not biblical religion.
It is safe to say that more people are going through the one on one directed
exercises today than at any time in history.
It is safe to say something more.
Spiritual exercises are being used as an apostolic instrument by better educated
laity.
So don't only think that the Jesuits are in control.
They have trained an army of hundreds of thousands of lay people in their
exercises.
And how is it going to affect you?
Here you can find it on their own webpages.
Ignatian retreat and spiritual exercises in our day.
Here is an eight day Ignatian retreat.
What more can I say?
Eight day Ignatian retreat for priests, religious deacons, lay ministers,
by so and so.
Come and discuss here and study the spiritual exercises and other meditations.
This book says what more can I do?
An Ignatian retreat for people somewhere on the way.
Helps you explore and pray about what it means to serve.
Serve who?
If you want to download the spiritual exercises to see if I am making it up,
go to the Jesuit Review.
This is their own webpage.
You can go and check it out.
And you can download the spiritual exercises.
And they quote here, The first instrument of Jesuit Review offers an introduction to
the spiritual exercises.
You think they're dead?
I'll show you where they are today.
Tetloff, who is another Jesuit, writes, Philosophy continues at the heart
of the Jesuit liberal arts curriculum.
Because more than any other discipline, it can provoke the intellectual conversion
of the conventional thinker to principled reflection.
Right.
With that as background, let's go to our times.
You've all heard of the Alpha Course?
It is touted as probably the greatest ministerial tool in the history of
Christianity.
And we will progress from this humble beginning to where we will see we are
today.
It is scary.
It is mind boggling.
The Alpha Course and cell group philosophy.
Now let me first, right off the bat, say there is nothing wrong with small
group gatherings.
It is God-given to have small group gatherings, where people come together to
study the Word of God and to find meaning in the Word of God.
Beautiful.
The more, the better.
But this is not Alpha Course.
This is small group gatherings, but on a totally different basis.
And having gone through the spiritual exercises, let's see if we can find it.
The founder of the course, as it is written today, was Nicky Gumbel.
And here he is.
Where does it lead us?
Let's read what the great Alpha webpages say.
This is Alpha USA.
What is Alpha?
The Alpha Course is a 10-week practical introduction to Christian faith.
It gives people an opportunity to explore big life questions.
Questions like, is there any point to life?
What happens when I die?
Alpha guests learn how Christianity answers these questions.
Alpha Course is for everyone.
It sparks faith in people outside the church.
It kindles the faith of new Christians, and it fuels the commitment of long-time
Christians.
This is the greatest thing ever.
Alpha guests explore Christianity by participating in 15 sessions that take
place in a relaxed, welcoming, engaging atmosphere.
Each session explores a particular question, and then they have all the
questions.
They sound nice and innocuous, no problem.
Is there more to life than this?
Who is Jesus?
Why did he die?
Who is the Holy Spirit?
What does the Holy Spirit do?
How can I be filled with the Spirit?
How can I make the most of the rest of my life?
Sounds nice.
No problem.
Nobody should be concerned.
The Power of Alpha by Rebecca Barnes, reprinted with permission.
Since coming to the United States in 1996, the same year the Bishop of London
appointed Gumbel Alpha Chaplain, Alpha has grown exponentially.
The number of U.S.
churches hosting the courses has increased from 200 the first year to more than 7,500
in 2005, and then they talk about how magnificent it is.
And in May 2004, former Vineyard USA National Director, Todd Hunter,
joined Alpha as its president, excited about the marriage of spiritual
formation and evangelism that Alpha brings.
Two terms we will have to come to grips with.
He says in his blog, he calls the Alpha course the most holistic approach to
evangelization available in local churches.
Now let's see what Mickey Gumbel says.
He says, the differences between Protestants and Catholics are totally
insignificant compared to the things that unite us.
We need to unite around the death of Jesus, the resurrection of Jesus,
the absolute essential things at the core of the Christian faith.
Who said that before?
Vatican II said that.
This is a Vatican II philosophy.
We need to give people liberty to disagree on the things which are secondary.
We make it a rule, he writes, Alpha, never to criticize another denomination,
another Christian church, or a Christian leader.
No criticism allowed.
Catholic Bishop says, Ambrose says, Alpha is a powerful evangelistic tool.
It doesn't contain anything that is contrary to Catholic doctrine.
Fascinating.
Did he meet the Pope?
Yes, there he is with the Pope.
It was a great honor to be presented to Pope John Paul, who has done so much to
promote evangelization around the world.
What unites us is infinitely greater than what divides us.
And he has admitted that certain sections were particularly written so as to
incorporate Catholicism.
So this is an ecumenical tool to unite with Christianity.
Now Alpha News, which is their great news magazine, tells us some interesting
things.
The Holy Spirit is mediated through the hands of the leaders.
So in Alpha, one of the aims is to be led to this spirit experience.
It makes the reception of the Holy Spirit and outward manifestations the mark of the
faith.
The published testimonies come out of Alpha nearly always concentrate on the
Holy Spirit experience.
So it leads us to this marvelous experiential religion.
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of Truth, is come, says John 16, 13-14, he will
guide us into all truth, and he shall not speak of himself, but whatever ye shall
hear, that ye shall speak, and he will show you things to come.
He shall glorify me, says Jesus, for he shall receive of mine and shall
show it unto you.
So what is the aim of the Holy Spirit?
To glorify Christ.
To enable us to spread the gospel.
Not to have an experience, it's not biblical.
Now let me tell you about cell groups.
Cell groups like the Alpha Course, cell group, also fall under a coach,
or a spiritual director, just like Ignatius Loyola's story.
They are designed to bring people to consensus theology, no argument is
allowed, celebration liturgy, and to sacrificing of individual norms to group
norms and dynamics using peer pressure.
Let's have a look.
I'm taking these quotes from the manual to the Protestant churches.
These are mainline Protestant churches teaching the Alpha Course.
And I'm going to quote from them, directly from their manual.
Here we go.
A cell group has a host, a leader, a Timothy, and a participant.
A cell group caters for pastoral care, individual need, and has a specific
structure and duration.
It's very controlled.
It's not a group of people coming together to discuss the Bible, or to talk about
prophecy and see what the Bible has to say.
It forms the bridge between the people and the church.
Every group member is evangelized, consolidated, built up as a disciple,
and sent.
Duration of a session is one hour, starts with an introduction, praise,
prayer, subject, application, final activities.
Deviation from the format is not permitted.
I'm quoting directly from the handbook to the Protestant churches.
Please note.
Also members are not permitted to change cell groups.
You will remain in this one.
And murmuring and criticism is not permitted.
Unity of thought, feelings, and commitment are sought.
The disciples in the cell vision cannot operate independently of their leader.
Unity is the symbol of maturity.
So you will stay in your group, you will have consensus theology,
you may not murmur, you may not find fault, seek error, and you will be
submissive.
We will have consensus theology at the end.
Anything that is shaky, we will discard.
You may not talk about it.
This is about unity.
Models for success.
Declare that success is yours.
This is nothing else than the power of positive thinking.
Persevere, dream, and visualize.
Oh!
Let's see how they work.
Obedience and respect for leadership is essential.
How is an Ignatian retreat?
Per indere cadaver.
Even if your leader turns out to be a dog, you will obey him without question,
said Loyola.
The leader will seek counsel of his or her trained superiors in the church,
and the trust of his or her disciples.
Moreover, the disciples must be encouraged to confide in the leader regarding their
problems.
Excuse me.
What do we have here?
This is Roman Catholicism at its best.
The leader takes the place of a priest.
He becomes the father confessor.
He's absolute.
You may not question him.
And he gets his counsel where he is trained.
And you are trained in specific schools of training.
Fascinating.
Let's continue.
We have a twelve around one model.
Please, what am I quoting for?
I just want to remind you, I'm not making this up.
Where am I quoting this from?
From the handbook to the Protestant churches.
Jesus took three and a half years to train the twelve, and so cell groups used the
twelve around one concept.
Jesus did not choose thirteen, but twelve.
With teams of twelve, we commence to restore the altar of God in the world.
Excuse me.
The secret is in the twelve.
The model of twelve has always been in God's heart, and the number symbolizes
government and authority.
So now we have numerism.
So, it becomes a cult, because if you don't have this twelve, well then you must
try and improve.
Always try to get to the twelve.
You can work without the twelve, but that's the model and the aim.
So the number becomes important.
By the way, if you have twelve around one, then the spiritual guide takes the place
of whom?
Takes the place of Christ.
He becomes an altar Christ.
And did Christ send only out twelve, or did he send out seventy, or any number?
Here's the government of twelve definition.
Comes from there.
I put down the page even, so that people can see it.
A revolutionary leadership model that consists of the leader who chooses twelve
people.
Now please note what is being said here.
This is incredible.
Who chooses twelve people so that his or her character and authority can be
reproduced in them so that the vision of the church can be developed?
Ah!
So if you are a cell group member, the highest you can rise is to the level
of your spiritual leader.
God forbid that we should aim that low.
Why not make Christ your model and have infinity to strive for?
Sorry, let me rephrase that.
To be uplifted to.
Now let me show you something else.
Here is the webpage of the Rosicrucian Order.
Probably one of the most occult orders in the world.
The Rosicrucian Fellowship.
Like all the other mystery orders, the order of Rosicrucians is formed on
cosmic lines.
If we take balls of even size and try to, how many it will take to cover one and
hide it from you, we shall find that it will require twelve.
We don't have to read it all.
It says, there were twelve apostles that clustered around Christ.
There are other examples of this grouping of twelve and one.
The Rosicrucian Order therefore also composed of twelve brothers and a
thirteenth.
Satan wants to be like the most high.
And Jesus had twelve tribes of Israel and he had twelve apostles and he was the
centrality, the old passing over to the new.
Satan wants to be like the most high, but he makes it knuckle too.
We don't need a specific structure in order to worship Christ.
The Bible says where how many come together?
Two or three come together.
In my name I will be there.
I don't have to have an occult number in order to conjure the spirit.
This is nonsense.
In the section on intercession we read intercession is necessary to confirm the
team of twelve, to satisfy the need of the group of twelve, to enjoy protection from
evil, to attain sanctification, to build and maintain like-mindedness,
to raise up the disciples to the same level of servitude as their mentors.
Good grief.
Who's left out of this equation here?
Jesus Christ is left out.
A mentor is described as someone with a priestly commission who is merciful and
sympathetic and approved and holy.
So now you must look upon him as holy and approved.
Texts quoted include passages from the Gospel of John, etc., etc.
This is Ignatian spirituality.
It's based on Jesuit principles and it's in virtually every Protestant church in
the world.
1 Corinthians 14, I thank my God I speak with tongues more than all of you.
They say what we need.
It's positive ethics.
They lay a lot of claim on healing, prophecy, power, miracles, tongues.
This is the manifestation that they seek.
What did Martin Luther say about this?
The true way to Christianity is this.
I like this man.
You know that?
I like this man.
The true way to Christianity is this, that a man do first acknowledge himself by
the Lord to be a sinner.
There's no mentioning of sin in all those writings.
This is a totally new Gospel that they have.
Martin Luther says the first thing is you have to acknowledge you're a sinner.
And that it is impossible for him to do any good work.
For the law says thou art an evil tree and therefore all that thou thinkest,
speakest, or doest is against God.
And he quotes Matthew.
For whosoever is not of faith, whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
When a man is thus taught and instructed by the law, then is he terrified and
humbled.
Then he sees indeed the greatness of his sin, cannot find in himself one spark of
the love of God.
Therefore he justifies God in his word and confesses that he is guilty of death and
eternal damnation.
The first part then of Christianity is the preaching of repentance and the knowledge
of ourselves.
Boom!
Exact opposite of the Alpha Course.
What they want when they study the Bible together is ISOGESIS and not EXOGESIS.
EXOGESIS is determining what is the Bible trying to tell me, what is God trying to
tell me.
ISOGESIS is what do I think God is saying.
There's a big difference.
That's why today we have modern translations which are dynamic equivalent
translations.
That means that some theologian has predigested for me what he thinks God is
saying.
Excuse me, don't I have a mind of my own to find out what God is saying?
Ignatius, this is a professor of the University of Bonn talking about the
Jesuits.
Ignatius understood more than any other leader of men who preceded him that the
best way to raise a man to a certain ideal is to become master of his imagination.
We imbue into him spiritual forces which he would find very difficult to eliminate
later.
Forces more lasting than all the best principles and doctrines.
These forces can come up again to the surface sometimes after years of not even
mentioning them.
It's a form of hypnosis and becomes so imperative that the will finds itself
unable to oppose any obstacle and has to follow their irresistible impulse.
This is hypnosis.
This is not Christianity.
Ignatius was influenced by what is called the golden legend.
It was especially attracted by the extraordinary feats of penance performed
by the Egyptian monks who beat themselves and chastised themselves until eventually
they had these experiences.
The basis of spiritual exercises is pictorial imagining in which one brings
every sense under the impact of the imagination.
An exercise called composition seeing the place.
The imagination is closed with visible form, the object is fixed and the
imagination becomes reality.
Today we call this exercise visualization.
It's practiced at school level.
The little children in schools are taught it.
It's part of the new curriculums.
The Jesuits have it all under control.
It's practiced from primary to tertiary education.
It's a disaster.
Moral judgment becomes suspended and you live in this euphoria.
Now a Jesuit retreat lasts four weeks.
They are run by a retreat master or a guide or a coach.
What do they call these people when we are educated by them in Protestant churches?
We call them guides.
We call them coach.
We call them retreat masters.
They don't even hide it.
Only the director who has grasped the mind and the heart of the Ignatian spirituality
which is distinguished service to Christ can fulfill his task of adapting the
exercises to the precise needs of the individual or group to whom he is
speaking.
Fascinating!
An experienced retreat martyr who knows the exercises well will make numerous
little adjustments in his approaches to the meditation to fit the education,
temperament, role, age bracket and interest of the audience.
So they are not all the same.
Listen to what this ex priest, new age priest has to say, Will Barron.
He says, this ritual was very deceptive.
The average Christian would probably find nothing seriously objectionable about the
phrases used.
Yet this meditation procedure was a product of Satan.
Designed to lead people into accepting the voice of masquerading demons as being the
voice of the Holy Spirit.
Some of these people, we've read it in the newspapers, suddenly heard voices and
these voices started telling them, those are the enemies of Christ.
Go and kill them.
And then they go and do these things.
You will get what you are trying to experience.
Now listen to what the protestant magazine Christianity today has to say.
This was Billy Graham's magazine.
It says, spiritual direction is one of the classical Christian disciplines that
people from a wide variety of protestant catholic and orthodox backgrounds are
examining and recommending a new spiritual direction as practiced today, especially
in the Roman Catholic Church, owes its greatest debt to the founder of the
Society of Jesus.
They know it.
They know it and they introduce it.
There is no doubt that this is a counter reformation led by the Jesuit order.
The article continues that Loyola's retreats focused on sin and its
consequences in the lives of participants, the life of Christ, the guidelines to deal
with temptation of the devil, the passion, the resurrection, all of these nice
themes.
Now what does the Bible say about spiritual directors?
Micah 7 says, trust ye not in a friend, put not confidence in a guide,
keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
Not even the one you love is allowed to dictate to you in your spirituality.
No one.
This is a relationship that you have with Jesus Christ and him alone.
Martin Luther says, the spirit is nowhere more present and alive than in his own
sacred writings.
We must let the scriptures have the chief place and be its own truest, simplest and
clearest interpreter.
I want scripture alone to rule and not to be interpreted according to my spirit or
that of any other man, but to be understood in its own light, per sepsum
and according to its own spirit.
I don't need a spiritual guide to tell me what to believe.
I need the word of God.
That's what he said.
But not today.
We need spiritual directors.
We need coaches.
We need to experience exercises This writer says, let all be educated to search
the scriptures, to be constantly looking unto Jesus and not to human agents to be
their guide.
The word of God is to be the man of our counsel.
The word is infinite.
Obeyed, it will guide us into safe and sure paths.
But the word diluted with human devices and imaginings is not a safe guide.
Exactly the same as Martin Luther said.
God wants to do something for each one of us.
This work is an individual work.
Please note.
A personal work.
Students, do not depend on your teachers to form your character.
For Christ's sake, make your characters individually.
Take hold of God and do not think that you have to be always with your teacher in
order to be solid workers.
We are to represent God to the world, to show what the truth has done for us
right on this ground.
We want to see the moving of the Holy Spirit.
You will remember that the Holy Spirit so worked in the schools of the prophets that
when Saul hunting for David came in connection with one of these schools,
the Spirit came upon him and he prophesied.
But we need something more lasting than Saul had.
Take hold of God.
You have little enough time in which to form characters fit for the future.
Exodus says you shall not follow a multitude to do evil, neither shall you
speak in a cause to decline of the many to rest judgment.
Luther said, according to the great controversy, the influence of this one man
who dared to think and act for himself in religious matter was to affect the church
and the world not only in his own time, but in all future generations.
Here's one man.
He decided I'm going to stick to the word, I don't care what the Pope says,
I don't care what the Archbishop says, I want to know what does the word say.
Please don't misunderstand me.
Am I saying don't seek the counsel of religious learned men?
Am I saying that?
I'm not saying that.
In the counsel of many there is wisdom.
But don't let anyone dictate to you what you must believe.
That's what I'm saying.
And let alone try to reach the level of your spiritual guide and confess to him
all that you have done.
Confess your sins to Jesus, and if you have hurt someone, go and say sorry to him
irrespective of if there's a coach or a spiritual guide hiding in the woodwork.
Matthew 23, 8-10 But be not called rabbi, for one is your master, even Christ,
and all ye are brethren, and call no man your father upon this earth, for one is
your father which is in heaven, neither ye be called masters, for one is
your master, even Christ.
Is what I'm saying biblical?
Master?
Catechist?
A guide?
That is a teacher, a master.
I don't need one of them to tell me what to believe.
That doesn't mean I cannot study what they have said and compare it with the word of
God.
By these words Christ meant that no man is to place his spiritual interests under
another's.
A child is guided and directed by an earthly father.
This has encouraged a spirit of desire for ecclesiastical superiority, which has
always resulted in the injury of men who have trusted and addressed as father.
It confuses the sense of the sacredness of the prerogatives of God.
Spot on!
As an earlier age, the special truths for this time are found not with the
ecclesiastical authorities but with men and women who are not too learned or too
wise to believe the word of God.
If you want confusion in the world then believe every theologian out there.
They differ as far as the east is from the west.
Take any aspect.
Take baptism.
You have churches that baptize adults.
Some of them sprinkle them, some of them pour little water over them.
You have people that baptize them seven times.
You have people that dump them three times.
You have people that say only infants must be baptized.
The list is endless.
And it's thought up by the theologians.
I have nothing against godly theologians.
And I enjoy reading their writings and studying it and comparing it with the word
of God.
We can be led by godly men, but that doesn't mean that these people are to be
your guide and certainly not your pope.
Our great weakness is in placing men where god should be to be looked up and confided
in.
I don't believe we need any of these fixed structures.
I believe in small groups.
I believe in coming together and studying the bible and praying together and seeking
counsel from the lord.
And I believe in asking counsel of learned men who have studied these things more
than I have.
Yes, but I believe in the paramount superiority of the word of god.
And every single thing must be tested by that word.
Psalms 32 verse 8, I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt
go.
I will guide thee with mine eye.
God wants a personal relationship with you and me.
The gospel is not about things.
The gospel is not about rituals.
The gospel is not about magic formulas and magic numbers.
The gospel is not about chastisement to see greater light.
The gospel is a relationship.
And god has put men and women on this earth and marriage as an example of that
relationship.
God forbid if I would have to whip myself daily to get the attention of my wife.
Wouldn't that be pathetic?
Isaiah 48 17, thus says the lord thy redeemer, the holy one of Israel,
I am the lord thy god which teaches thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way
that thou shouldst go.
Trust in the lord your god, trust in his word, and no one needs to be lost.
May god help us as we further study the inroads of spiritual exercises to take the
place of faith.
It's going to become very serious.
Thank you.