WEBVTT 00:01.400 --> 00:09.340 Hello and welcome to video number 62. Number two in a series of six videos where I'll be reading 00:09.340 --> 00:19.740 chapters five to eight of Rulers of Evil written by F. Tupper Saucy and published in 1999. 00:20.760 --> 00:25.620 Once again in this video I will try to keep the commentary to a minimum. 00:27.900 --> 00:40.160 Chapter five. Appointment at Cyprus. His name was Inigo de Loyola. He was born in 1491 to a rich 00:40.160 --> 00:48.480 family. Youngest of eight boys, one of 13 children. His older brother had sailed to the New World 00:48.480 --> 00:56.640 with Christopher Columbus. Inigo served as a page in the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella 00:56.640 --> 01:03.460 of Spain. He became friends with Ferdinand's Belgian grandson, Charles Habsburg, whose other 01:03.460 --> 01:10.060 grandfather was Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian. The Holy Roman Emperor was a kind of secular pope 01:10.060 --> 01:16.380 who presided over the Christian kingdoms of the Western world. And I wouldn't call them Christian. 01:16.380 --> 01:24.600 These are Catholic kingdoms. Charles was propelled to great authority before his 21st birthday by 01:24.600 --> 01:32.060 the deaths of his two grandfathers within a space of two years. From Ferdinand, Charles inherited 01:32.060 --> 01:40.060 Spain. From Maximilian, he inherited the Holy Roman Empire. Charles Habsburg was King Charles I 01:40.060 --> 01:46.920 of Spain, Emperor Charles V of Rome. He was the most powerful secular figure in Europe, 01:47.240 --> 01:57.680 and he was Inigo's friend. In 1518, Inigo was part of a legation negotiating for Charles 01:57.680 --> 02:05.500 with Spain's traditional rival, France, at the court of the Duke of Nigeria in Valadolid. While 02:05.500 --> 02:10.460 the summit was in session, Katerina, the Emperor's sister, was presented to the Nigeria court. 02:11.060 --> 02:21.580 Inigo fell in love with her. He was 27, and she was 11. The Emperor was 18. The match, however, 02:21.820 --> 02:28.660 was not to be. On Monday, May 20, 1521, while commanding a garrison at the Duke's fortress 02:28.660 --> 02:35.060 in Pamplona, Inigo was struck by a French cannonball. His right leg was shattered, and with 02:35.060 --> 02:41.380 it, since a well-shaped leg was among the courtier's most prized assets, the prospects for a romantic 02:41.380 --> 02:49.120 life with Katerina or any other woman. An honor guard of French soldiers bore the wounded champion 02:49.120 --> 02:56.800 on a stretcher to his family's castle in the Spanish Pyrenees. Surgeons butchered his leg 02:56.800 --> 03:03.080 and reset the bones. He lost appetite and was told he might die. He made confession and was given last 03:03.080 --> 03:10.420 rites. But a few days after the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, he was pronounced out of death's 03:10.420 --> 03:19.860 immediate grasp. He credited this recovery to his devotion to Saint Peter. Inigo remained bedridden 03:19.860 --> 03:26.040 for nearly a year. Under the concerned, if distant, eye of the youthful Emperor, he spent his time 03:26.040 --> 03:32.000 searching for substitutes for the shattered ideals, ambitions, and values that had been so central to 03:32.000 --> 03:39.120 his sense of himself. He gazed obsessively at a small icon of Saint Catherine, a gift from Queen 03:39.120 --> 03:45.360 Isabella to his sister-in-law. The icon sparked dreams of Katerina, which only throttled his heart 03:45.360 --> 03:53.740 with desolation. He turned to books, Ludolph of Saxony's Life of Christ and Voorhegen's Lives of 03:53.740 --> 03:59.680 the Saints, the only two volumes in the family library, despite the fact that a Spanish Bible 03:59.680 --> 04:08.160 had been available for 40 years. The icon and the books gave him visions. The visions, in turn, led 04:08.160 --> 04:14.720 him to develop a process for preparing and disposing the soul to rid itself of all inordinate 04:14.720 --> 04:21.700 attachments, and after their removal, of seeking and finding the will of God. Inigo called this process 04:22.240 --> 04:29.520 the spiritual exercises, and these are the exercises that the Jesuits use to empty themselves 04:29.520 --> 04:37.960 and become mind-controlled slaves. They are visualization practices which are incorporated 04:37.960 --> 04:47.520 now into many, many evangelical churches. They are dangerous. If practiced sufficiently, they will 04:47.900 --> 04:57.640 cause demonization of the person practicing, the recipient. So I strongly, right here, 04:58.300 --> 05:05.260 at the mention of the spiritual exercises, warn anybody who gets involved in visualization, 05:05.500 --> 05:16.580 meditation and visualization practices, to stop doing that. Desist. It will not end well for you. 05:19.490 --> 05:25.160 I continue reading. In the exercises, the director leads a retreat and through four weeks of intense 05:25.160 --> 05:33.060 prayer, meditation and dialogue with the Blessed Virgin Mary, Jesus and God the Father. Frequent 05:33.060 --> 05:41.780 repetition of Anima Christi, Loyola's own habitual prayer for disorientation and sensory deprivation. 05:42.580 --> 05:48.920 Blood of Christ inebriate me is advised. And this is why it's so dangerous. 05:49.960 --> 05:56.720 It's because it is a process of emptying your mind and this is, in any time, is dangerous. 05:58.620 --> 06:04.020 But this is how the Jesuits become mind-controlled slaves of the Superior General. They will do 06:04.020 --> 06:10.740 anything that they are told to do without question. The first week is spent considering 06:10.740 --> 06:16.820 and contemplating sins, creating vivid mental pictures of hell in all its depth and breadth, 06:17.220 --> 06:22.960 putting your five senses at the service of your imagination. The second week explores the life 06:22.960 --> 06:28.220 of Christ up to Palm Sunday inclusively. The third week undertakes the crucifixion in which 06:28.220 --> 06:34.080 the retreatant is directed to imagine Christ our Lord present before you on the cross and begin to 06:34.080 --> 06:40.020 speak with him and ask, what have I done for Christ? What am I doing for Christ? What ought I 06:40.020 --> 06:45.980 to do for Christ? The fourth week is occupied with the resurrection and ascension after which 06:45.980 --> 06:52.140 the retreatant prays for a knowledge of the deceits of the rebel chief and help to guard 06:52.140 --> 06:58.160 myself against them and also to ask for a knowledge of the true life exemplified in the 06:58.160 --> 07:05.960 sovereign and true commander and the grace to imitate him. Who is that true commander? Well, 07:05.960 --> 07:11.740 the Jesuit superior general, the black pope, that's who. Certainly not Jesus Christ. 07:13.980 --> 07:19.060 By the time the exercises have run their course, the retreatant's purified imagination 07:19.060 --> 07:33.540 is totally dominated by mental pictures of Jesus resurrected. Jesus, the king militant. 07:34.700 --> 07:40.940 One can now answer the king's call to conquer Protestantism and its rebel chief, 07:40.940 --> 07:46.840 the enemy of human nature. With the selfless fidelity of a chivalrous knight, 07:48.180 --> 07:53.500 one's consciousness has been altered. And this is what the spiritual exercises do, 07:53.600 --> 07:59.100 they alter your consciousness. This is very dangerous. One's soul and brain have been 07:59.100 --> 08:06.100 washed. One's liberty has been sacrificed to authority. One's individuality has been surrendered 08:06.100 --> 08:14.760 to the Christ of Rome. That is the pope. That is not Jesus Christ of the Bible. The Christ of Rome 08:14.760 --> 08:23.520 is the pope. One no longer has a will of one's own. One volunteers for any assigned task, 08:23.800 --> 08:32.200 no matter how adverse. And this is how the Jesuits, mind-controlled slaves, automatons, 08:33.300 --> 08:42.320 under assignment, have been able to conquer the world century on century for the last five 08:42.320 --> 08:51.460 centuries. Hordes of mind-controlled Jesuits under task, performing nefarious tasks all over the 08:51.460 --> 09:01.460 world under instruction. Many, many dying and suiciding for the cause of the Roman Catholic 09:01.460 --> 09:09.960 Empire. I continue reading. Martin Luther spent Loyola's year of recovery imprisoned at Wartburg 09:09.960 --> 09:17.660 Castle for insulting the papacy with his 95 theses. Remarkably, while one prisoner experienced mystical 09:17.660 --> 09:22.740 visions that urged him to defend the church's honor in the romantically chivalrous manner of 09:22.740 --> 09:28.280 the Knights Templar, the other was translating, with the miraculous permission of his keepers, 09:28.280 --> 09:34.520 the New Testament into German so that ordinary people might learn the will of God directly. 09:35.340 --> 09:43.080 These parallel simultaneous quests for holiness would define modern life's underlying conflict. 09:43.820 --> 09:51.580 Which master do I serve, Rome or the Word of God? And that is the ultimate question, 09:52.140 --> 10:01.680 listener. Which master do I serve, Rome or the Word of God? Because Rome rules the world today 10:02.020 --> 10:11.240 and the Pope is the king of the kingdom that rules the world. And soon it will be a question 10:11.240 --> 10:20.820 for every human being of whether they worship or serve the master at Rome or Jesus Christ. 10:22.220 --> 10:34.550 And the Word of God. That is the big question. I continue reading. Purified by the spiritual 10:34.550 --> 10:40.490 exercises, Inigo's sensual attachment to Princess Katerina was transformed through Saint Catherine 10:40.490 --> 10:47.690 into a higher spiritual attachment to a higher femininity to marry the Queen of Heaven. An 10:47.690 --> 10:52.910 apparition of the Virgin appeared to him one night and validated that he was free of fleshly lusts 10:52.910 --> 10:59.710 and was now worthy of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. In Martin Luther's opinion, as far as God is 10:59.710 --> 11:04.930 concerned, Jerusalem and all the Holy Land are not one whit more or less interesting than the cows 11:04.930 --> 11:10.950 in Switzerland. But to a spiritual warrior preparing to lead the church to war against 11:10.950 --> 11:17.430 scripture, a touchdown in Jerusalem was absolutely necessary. Jerusalem was the domain of King 11:17.430 --> 11:24.390 Solomon's Temple, the geospiritual center of the Knights Templar. If Inigo was to revive the 11:24.390 --> 11:32.390 Templars as the Emperor desired, it was liturgically imperative that his newly washed spirit present 11:32.390 --> 11:43.280 itself in the Sacred City for initiation into the mysteries of holy warfare. All pilgrims to the 11:43.280 --> 11:51.560 Holy Land were required by law to apply to the Pope at Easter for permission to proceed. Nobody could go there 11:51.560 --> 11:58.500 unless they obtained permission from the Pope. This is how extensive the rule of the Pope was 11:58.500 --> 12:07.120 over all of Europe and even in parts of the Middle East. In early March 1522, more than a year in 12:07.120 --> 12:13.520 advance, Inigo set out for Rome in all his aristocratic finery, riding on the back of a mule. 12:14.420 --> 12:22.180 The corrupt Leo X had died suddenly of malaria in December 1521, and on January 9, 1522, 12:22.360 --> 12:28.340 Charles Habsburg, King and Emperor, had engineered the nearly unanimous election of his former tutor, 12:28.980 --> 12:37.920 Adrian Dadao, to succeed Leo as Adrian VI. Inigo headed for Rome coincidentally with Adrian's 12:37.920 --> 12:45.780 journey across Spain to Barcelona, the point of embarkation for voyages to Italy. The new Pope 12:45.780 --> 12:52.060 stopped in Navarre, in northern Spain, for an official reception by the Duke of Nigeria's 12:52.060 --> 12:58.180 successor. Inigo too stopped at Navarre to do some undescribed business at the Duke's residence 12:58.180 --> 13:05.980 at Navarrette. Perhaps Adrian gave him a discreet audience. I have no doubt. 13:08.080 --> 13:14.560 Further on, the pilgrim kept an all-night vigil at a chapel of the Virgin of Aranzazu, 13:15.200 --> 13:23.020 protectress of the Basques, vowing his chastity to her small dark statue. He continued on to 13:23.020 --> 13:29.020 Montserrat, where he lodged in a Benedictine abbey. There he rededicated himself to God's service 13:29.020 --> 13:35.940 before another statue of the Virgin, the Black Madonna of Montserrat, protectress of Catalonia, 13:36.580 --> 13:44.060 patroness of Christian conquest. Christian conquest? There's no such thing in the Bible 13:44.060 --> 13:52.620 as Christian conquest. There's no such thing in the Bible as a Christian military. It's just not 13:52.620 --> 14:01.760 there. And yet this is the heart of the Roman Catholic Empire. It is political conquest through 14:02.380 --> 14:11.240 war. I continue reading. The spiritual exercise here must have been intense, for in the late 14:11.240 --> 14:16.740 afternoon of the third day, Inigo traded clothes with a beggar, hung his sword and dagger on the 14:16.740 --> 14:24.020 Madonna's shrine, and gave his mule to the abbey. While Adrian VI proceeded on to Barcelona, 14:24.500 --> 14:31.340 Inigo detoured on foot to the village of Manresa for 10 months of penances, spiritual preparation, 14:31.620 --> 14:37.540 and note-taking. Stripped of everything but sackcloth, a gourd for drinking, and a pilgrim 14:37.540 --> 14:43.880 staff, he adopted the lifestyle of the early Knights Templar, begging food and alms. He was 14:43.880 --> 14:50.520 initiated into the Illuminati, the Enlightened Ones, a secret society of Gnostic fundamentalists 14:50.520 --> 14:59.140 who preached that all matter is absolutely and eternally evil. And right there is the root, 14:59.700 --> 15:10.060 essentially, of the Jesuits Gnosticism. Oh yes, of course the Gnosticism comes through Augustine's 15:10.060 --> 15:14.660 writings from the 4th century, right through into the church, through Thomas Aquinas. 15:15.460 --> 15:21.980 But there is the root of the Jesuit military orders Gnosticism. It comes through 15:24.820 --> 15:26.100 Ignatius Loyola. 15:28.360 --> 15:35.280 The Gnostics taught that humanity itself is of satanic origin. Adam and Eve were the offspring 15:35.280 --> 15:40.800 of devils. Humanity can achieve salvation from death and eternal punishment, however, 15:41.400 --> 15:47.840 by freeing soul from body for absorption into the pure light of godliness. This is done by 15:47.840 --> 15:53.000 withdrawing from sensual pleasure and intuitively discovering hidden truths as conveyed by the 15:53.000 --> 15:58.820 Kabbalah. The Gnostics' contempt for anything having to do with the physical side of existence 15:58.820 --> 16:05.340 translated into wildly ironic behavior. Some practiced radical celibacy because they believed 16:05.340 --> 16:11.740 the result of sexual intercourse, conception, would only imprison more souls in physical bodies. 16:12.660 --> 16:19.000 Others practiced unbridled sexual libertinism in order to prove they were completely free 16:19.000 --> 16:26.060 from all physical inhibition. Still others combined the two pursuing hypocritical lives of celibate 16:26.060 --> 16:33.720 fornication of which safe sex is the modern institution. Loyola's particular cult apparently 16:33.720 --> 16:39.820 chose the asceticism of self-flagellation. For Inigo wandered many nights about the Manresa 16:39.820 --> 16:48.520 countryside whipping himself with a scourge studded with iron barbs. Later in life he would decide that 16:48.520 --> 16:55.540 the whips and barbs sapped one's strength, that the Godhead could as adequately be sought by the more 16:55.540 --> 17:04.960 humane self-mortification of the spiritual exercises. While Inigo was outlining the exercises in Manresa, 17:05.980 --> 17:12.000 Luther's translation of the New Testament was introducing readers and listeners in Germany, 17:12.000 --> 17:18.040 Switzerland, France, Bohemia, and England to a different form of spiritual exercise, 17:18.460 --> 17:24.260 one in which God's will, ancient and immutable, was expressed not within the private imagination, 17:24.880 --> 17:32.100 but publicly in the printed word for all to see. People devoured the New Testament even before it 17:32.100 --> 17:37.940 reached the bindery. In one contemporary's words, the sheet yet wet was brought from the press 17:37.940 --> 17:49.040 under someone's cloak and passed from shop to shop. The pilgrim sailed from Barcelona to the 17:49.040 --> 17:56.480 Italian port city of Gaeta and walked the remaining distance to Rome. We're talking here about 17:57.500 --> 18:05.240 Ignatius Loyola. Arriving there on Palm Sunday, March 29th, 1523. Two days later, according to 18:05.240 --> 18:11.580 Vatican archives, Inigo de Loyola, cleric of the Diocese of Pamplona, received permission from Pope 18:11.580 --> 18:18.960 Adrian VI to visit Jerusalem. From Rome, Inigo proceeded to Venice, where one of Charles 18:18.960 --> 18:26.400 Habsburg's agents received him graciously and introduced him to the Doge, Andrea Gritti, 18:26.860 --> 18:32.820 the highest official in Venetian civil government. A famed diplomat and linguist, Gritti arranged 18:32.820 --> 18:39.360 free passage for Inigo aboard a small ship whose name, the Negrona, was appropriate for an evangelist 18:39.360 --> 18:47.480 dedicated to the Black Virgin of Christian conquest. On July 14th, 1523, the Negrona left Venice, 18:47.880 --> 18:54.480 arriving a month later at the island of Cyprus. At Cyprus, one Diego Manez and his servant, along 18:54.480 --> 19:02.800 with several Cypriot officials, boarded ship for the rest of the voyage to Haifa. Diego Manez 19:02.800 --> 19:10.560 was the commander of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem. Since 1312, the Hospitallers 19:10.560 --> 19:16.460 had held title to the vast wealth of the Knights Templar. They had been drawing upon these assets 19:16.460 --> 19:23.420 to defend the Roman economy against Islamic marauders in the east. But when the Turks 19:23.420 --> 19:28.560 attacked the Hospitallers' headquarters on the island of Rhodes, the assets were frozen by the 19:28.560 --> 19:37.560 and his former pupil, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles. No assistance in any form was forthcoming 19:37.560 --> 19:43.620 from either party. Consequently, in December 1522, the Hospitallers had no choice but to surrender 19:43.620 --> 19:51.360 Rhodes and retreat to what would become their final domicile, Malta. The message was clear. 19:51.980 --> 19:58.040 Now that Luther's German-language New Testament was in print, Protestantism loomed a greater 19:58.040 --> 20:04.720 menace to Rome than Islam ever did. It is possible that in a Jerusalem-bound ship 20:04.720 --> 20:12.180 named Negrona, Commander Diego Manez turned over the litany's lists, secret codes, formulae, 20:12.260 --> 20:20.460 kabbalah, and other portable assets comprising the Knights Templar resources to Inigo, to Loyola. 20:21.040 --> 20:26.040 If this indeed happened, the western world's secret infrastructure was now Loyola's 20:26.040 --> 20:32.600 to populate and manipulate in the cause of learning against learning. 20:33.880 --> 20:39.080 This is a very important point. This learning against learning is what the Jesuits use, 20:39.440 --> 20:49.660 and are using today, to critique and fundamentally destroy absolutes. Any idea that there are 20:49.660 --> 20:57.260 absolutes. Learning against learning takes the student into a circular mode of questioning 20:57.260 --> 21:04.740 everything. There is never, never an arrival at any absolutes. And of course this is incredibly 21:04.740 --> 21:11.380 destructive to understanding about the world, because the whole universe and world is founded 21:11.380 --> 21:13.440 on absolute principles. 21:16.520 --> 21:25.420 That is my hypothesis. This is Tapersase's hypothesis that certain materials were given to 21:25.420 --> 21:33.200 Loyola on this ship. What is not hypothesis is that as soon as the pilgrim returned from 21:33.200 --> 21:40.900 Jerusalem, he began vesting himself with Medici learning. The idea of uniting the Templars 21:40.900 --> 21:47.140 with the Hospitallers was first argued publicly in a book published in 1305 by Raymond Lowe, 21:47.600 --> 21:56.100 a renowned Illuminatis from Majorca. Lowe's book, Libro de Fin, free at last, appeared in the midst 21:56.100 --> 22:01.380 of a raging controversy between the French monarchy and the Roman papacy over who held 22:01.380 --> 22:06.620 jurisdiction over the Templars. That is the subject of our next chapter. 22:09.100 --> 22:16.540 Chapter number six, the epitome of Christian values. Since their founding on French soil in 22:18.600 --> 22:26.540 1118, the Knights Templar had grown from a pair of self-impoverished knights hoping to keep Muslim 22:26.540 --> 22:31.760 terrorists from molesting pilgrims in the Holy Land, to a mammoth organization controlling 22:31.760 --> 22:36.540 international finance and politics. This is a very important point to note. 22:37.280 --> 22:43.720 The Knights Templar were very powerful, even at the point when they were extinguished. 22:45.180 --> 22:52.540 And a few centuries later, the Jesuits simply took over from where the Knights Templar left off. 22:54.020 --> 23:01.420 The founders, Hugh de Payens and Godfrey de Saint-Omer, organized a group of excommunicated 23:01.420 --> 23:06.800 knight crusaders and secured their absolution by a bishop. After placing the restored knights 23:06.800 --> 23:12.020 under oaths of poverty, chastity, secrecy and obedience, they pledged the organization to 23:12.020 --> 23:18.720 rebuilding Solomon's Temple. Given space adjacent to an Islamic mosque situated upon the Temple's 23:18.720 --> 23:24.180 supposed ruins, they took the corporate name Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon. 23:25.520 --> 23:31.080 Bernard Abbott of Clairvaux, the leading propagandist of the day, extolled the Templars 23:31.080 --> 23:37.580 as the epitome and apotheosis of Christian values. Bolstered by such unprecedented promotion, 23:37.760 --> 23:42.940 the Poor Knights attracted the best and the brightest young men of Europe to become crusaders, 23:43.320 --> 23:48.440 to vow celibacy and leave their families in defense of Christ's tomb against Muslim 23:48.440 --> 23:55.100 terrorists. The mission failed within nine years. Even so, Bernard's propaganda caused the Templars 23:55.100 --> 24:00.600 to be received as conquering heroes when they returned to France. They set up their permanent 24:00.600 --> 24:07.480 lodge at Troyes under the patronage of the Court of Champagne. For nearly a century, Troyes 24:07.480 --> 24:13.580 had been Europe's leading school for the study of the Kabbalah, which may explain why the city 24:13.580 --> 24:19.720 is laid out in the shape of a champagne cork. For making the Templars a world power, Bernard 24:19.720 --> 24:27.180 shares credit with Cardinal Aymeric of Santa Maria Nuova. Aymeric was the Church's highest 24:27.180 --> 24:35.540 judicial officer. It was his unlawful connivance that created Honorius II, the Pope who ordained 24:35.540 --> 24:42.420 the Templars as the Church's most highly esteemed religious order. It was Aymeric, too, who devised 24:42.420 --> 24:47.580 a radical inner renewal of the Church, which inspired noblemen throughout England, Scotland, 24:47.800 --> 24:53.440 Flanders, Spain, and Portugal to shower the Templars with donations of land and money. 24:54.100 --> 24:58.600 Over and above the properties required of all initiates upon joining the order. 25:01.720 --> 25:10.920 When Honorius died in 1130, Aymeric led a minority of Cardinals in another connivance resulting in 25:10.920 --> 25:17.900 the election of Innocent II, who was consecrated Pope in Aymeric's titular Church of Santa Maria 25:17.900 --> 25:25.400 Nuova. In 1139, Innocent issued a bull placing the Templars under an exclusive vow of papal 25:25.400 --> 25:32.000 obedience, a measure by which Aymeric effectively put all Templar resources at the disposal of the 25:32.000 --> 25:37.580 papacy. Within another decade, the Knights were given exclusive rights by Pope Eugenius III 25:37.580 --> 25:46.540 to wear the rose croix, the rosy cross, on their white tunics. As their list of properties lengthened 25:46.540 --> 25:52.300 with donations from Italy, Austria, Germany, Hungary, and the Holy Land, the Templars built 25:52.300 --> 25:58.180 hundreds of great stone castles. Wealthy travelers lodged in these castles because of their unmatched 25:58.180 --> 26:03.320 security. Convinced they were building a new world, the Templars called each other 26:03.320 --> 26:11.300 Frere Macron, or Brother Mason. Later this term would be anglicized into Free Mason. 26:14.760 --> 26:21.500 The Templars invented modern banking by applying an oriental invention to their commerce. Agents 26:21.500 --> 26:28.860 of the Chinese emperor, Cao Zong, inventor of paper currency called fei qian, flying money, 26:29.580 --> 26:36.620 sought trade with the Middle East during the period of Templar occupation. Cao Zong was the 26:36.620 --> 26:42.940 first government on earth to enforce circulation of drafts as legal tender for debts. Evidently, 26:42.940 --> 26:47.840 Cao Zong's agents introduced the knights to this new medium of exchange created out 26:47.840 --> 26:54.940 of merchant drafts. The Templars enhanced their already booming business of accepting current 26:54.940 --> 27:03.380 accounts, deposit accounts, deposit of jewels, valuables, and title deeds, making loans and 27:03.380 --> 27:10.400 advances charging fees because the church forbade interest, and acting as agents for the secure 27:10.400 --> 27:19.200 transmission of such things by, number four, adding circulating letters of credit or flying money to 27:19.200 --> 27:26.060 serve as paper currency. To supply the Templars currency, needs may explain why paper in France 27:26.060 --> 27:29.960 was first manufactured in the poor knight's hometown of Troyes. 27:32.560 --> 27:38.380 By 1300, presiding over the world economy from their Paris office, the Templars had become an 27:38.380 --> 27:44.320 international power unto themselves. Engaged in diplomacy at the highest levels of state from the 27:44.320 --> 27:50.280 Holy Land westward, they set the taste, the goals, the morality, the rules of the civilized world. 27:50.940 --> 27:57.360 Kings did their bidding. When Henry III of England threatened to confiscate certain of 27:57.360 --> 28:01.800 the order's properties, he was upbraided by the master Templar in the city of London. 28:01.800 --> 28:02.940 And I quote, 28:15.020 --> 28:20.740 But suddenly, at their very zenith, the poor knights suffered a strange reversal of fortunes. 28:21.360 --> 28:27.400 In 1302, King Philip IV of France dared to challenge their sovereignty on his own soil. 28:27.940 --> 28:32.360 He asserted that in France, everyone, knights Templar included, was subject to the king. 28:33.520 --> 28:38.720 Pope Boniface VIII jumped in and declared that France, the king, the Templars, all of them, 28:38.960 --> 28:44.660 and everybody as well, belonged to Pontifex Maximus. It is absolutely necessary for the 28:44.660 --> 28:51.760 salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff. This is a statement by 28:52.280 --> 28:54.120 Pope Boniface VIII. 28:55.480 --> 29:00.780 Philip then accused the pope of illegitimacy, sexual misconduct, and heresy. 29:01.520 --> 29:08.460 Boniface prepared a bull excommunicating Philip, but before it could be published, a band of the 29:08.460 --> 29:13.560 Philip's mercenaries stormed the Vatican and demanded the pope's resignation. Although the 29:13.560 --> 29:19.500 intruders were driven off, the shock to body and soul was too much for Boniface, and he died a month later. 29:20.500 --> 29:28.300 Two successor popes held firm against Philip until Bertrand de Gaute, Archbishop of Bordeaux, 29:28.420 --> 29:36.840 was elected in 1305. Crowned in Lyon with the papal name Clement V, de Gaute moved the papacy 29:36.980 --> 29:44.820 to Avignon and began a long train of concessions to Philip's royal prerogative. Finally, on Friday, 29:44.820 --> 29:51.800 October 13, 1307, Philip arrested all but 13 of the Templars in France, tried them, and upon 29:51.800 --> 29:58.320 evidence of their practice of the Kabbalah, found them guilty of blasphemy and magic. At least 50 29:58.320 --> 30:04.760 knights were burned at the stake. From captured documents, it was learned that the Templars, from 30:04.760 --> 30:09.660 the very beginning, had renounced what Roman theologians called the religion of Saint Peter. 30:10.390 --> 30:15.560 They had been initiated into a secret Gnostic branch of the Eastern Church known as the Primitive 30:15.560 --> 30:21.500 Christian Church. Because the Primitive Christian's apostolic succession claimed to flow from John 30:21.500 --> 30:28.920 the Baptist and the Apostle John, they were called Johannites. The Johannites believed that although 30:29.500 --> 30:34.900 Jesus was imbued with a spirit wholly divine and endowed with the most astounding qualities, 30:34.900 --> 30:41.780 he was not the true God. Consistent with Gnostic logic, the true Johannite God 30:41.780 --> 30:48.860 would never lower himself to become vile human matter. Jesus was in fact a false messiah, 30:49.180 --> 30:54.680 sent by the powers of darkness. He was justly crucified, although when his side was pierced, 30:54.760 --> 31:00.960 he did repent of his pretensions and received divine forgiveness. Thanks to his repentance, 31:00.960 --> 31:06.320 Jesus now enjoys everlasting life in the celestial company of the saints. 31:07.500 --> 31:12.660 Regarding miracles, the Johannites believed that Jesus did or may have done extraordinary or 31:12.660 --> 31:17.860 miraculous things, and that since God can do things incomprehensible to human intelligence, 31:18.460 --> 31:23.620 all the acts of Christ as they are described in the gospel, whether acts of human science or 31:23.620 --> 31:29.940 whether acts of divine power can be accepted as true, except for the resurrection which is omitted 31:29.940 --> 31:36.060 from the Templar's copy of the gospel of Saint John. Therefore, for all his wonderful attributes, 31:36.240 --> 31:42.120 Christ was nothing, a false prophet and of no value. Only the higher God of heaven had power 31:42.120 --> 31:49.000 to save mankind. But the higher God avoided human matter, and so lordship over the material world 31:49.000 --> 31:56.440 belonged to Satanel, the evil brother of Jesus. Satanel alone could enrich mankind. 31:57.080 --> 32:04.260 Templar Kabbalah represented Satanel as the head of a goat, emblazoned with sometimes 32:04.260 --> 32:10.000 or contained within a pentagram. This symbol is deeply rooted in Old Testament Kabbalah, 32:10.120 --> 32:16.040 in which the goat is identified with power in the world and separation from God. On the greatest 32:16.040 --> 32:22.260 Israelite feast day, Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, one goat was spared the sacrificial knife 32:22.260 --> 32:25.940 and was sprinkled with the blood of another goat killed for the sins of Israel. 32:26.480 --> 32:32.040 The spared goat, the scapegoat, was then banished from the congregation to bear Israel's sins 32:32.040 --> 32:38.820 into the wilderness, which typified the world. The scapegoat escaped with his life, his freedom. 32:40.200 --> 32:45.840 King Solomon conferred with evil spirits, but scripture describes the spirits only generally. 32:46.420 --> 32:50.920 However, the Zohar, or book of splendor, one of the main works of ancient Kabbalistic literature, 32:50.920 --> 32:57.140 tells us evil spirits appeared to the Israelites under the form of he goats and made known to them 32:57.140 --> 33:06.960 all that they wished to learn. The Templars called this goat idol Baphomet, from Baphe and Metis, 33:07.560 --> 33:15.100 Greek word for Baphomet encapsulates the career of Solomon, 33:15.740 --> 33:22.300 who scripture says was absorbed into the wisdom of God more than any other human being, 33:22.900 --> 33:29.020 yet finished out his life in communion with he goatish evil spirits. By the Templars 33:29.020 --> 33:34.820 Joanite standard, communion with the evil spirits was the secret to controlling the world. 33:35.640 --> 33:40.440 By the Biblical standard, however, Solomon represents the impossibility of human 33:40.440 --> 33:46.220 perfectibility. Perfectibility is indeed attainable according to scripture, but only 33:46.220 --> 33:52.440 through the redemptive process shown in the New Testament, which Rome kept the Templars from 33:52.440 --> 34:01.990 reading. On March 22, 1312 Clement V dissolved the Knights Templar with his decree Vox 34:01.990 --> 34:08.830 Clementis, or war cry. But the dissolution proved a mere formality to further appease Philip. 34:09.380 --> 34:14.730 More importantly, it permitted the Templars in other manifestations to continue enriching 34:14.730 --> 34:20.590 the Papacy. For Grand Master Jacques de Molay, just prior to his execution in 1313, 34:20.950 --> 34:26.170 sent the surviving 13 French Templars to establish four new metropolitan lodges, 34:26.670 --> 34:31.750 one at Stockholm for the north, one at Naples for the east, one at Paris for the south, 34:32.110 --> 34:38.570 and one at Edinburgh for the west. Thus the Knights remained the militant arm of the Papacy. 34:38.830 --> 34:43.810 Except that their wealth, their secrecy, their Gnostic cabalism, and their oath of 34:43.810 --> 34:49.930 papal obedience were obscurely dispersed under a variety of corporate names. 34:51.890 --> 34:56.990 A subtle provision in Vox Clementis transferred most Templar estates to the Knights of Saint 34:56.990 --> 35:02.570 John of Jerusalem, who took possession after King Philip's death. In Germany and Austria, 35:02.570 --> 35:09.790 the Templars became Rosicrucians and Teutonic Knights. The Teutonic Knights grew strong in 35:09.790 --> 35:17.390 Mainz, birthplace of Gutenberg's press. Six centuries later, as the Teutonic Order, 35:17.570 --> 35:24.670 the Knights would provide the nucleus of Adolf Hitler's political support in Munich and Vienna. 35:25.830 --> 35:30.530 The Edinburgh Lodge would become the headquarters of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, 35:30.530 --> 35:35.570 which Masonic historians call American Freemasonry, because all but five of the 35:35.570 --> 35:41.670 signers of the Declaration of Independence are said to have practiced its craft. In Spain and 35:41.670 --> 35:48.030 Portugal, the Templars became the Illuminati, in whom Inigo had taken membership at Manresa, 35:48.390 --> 35:54.250 and Knights of Christ. It was under the red pate cross of the Knights of Christ 35:54.250 --> 36:01.690 that Columbus had taken possession of what he called Las Indias, for King Ferdinand V of Spain, 36:02.130 --> 36:08.990 grandfather of Inigo's discreet patron, Charles I and V, the Holy Roman Emperor. 36:09.630 --> 36:17.450 As early as August of 1523, as I hypothesized in the previous chapter, this vast yet fragmented 36:17.450 --> 36:23.630 subterranean empire, Roman Catholicism's unseen root system, binding together the world, 36:23.630 --> 36:30.770 belonged to Inigo de Loyola. His spiritual dynasty, which continues to this day, 36:31.150 --> 36:37.850 would use this system to cause God-fearing men who hated the papacy to perform without realizing it 36:37.850 --> 36:45.990 exactly how the papacy wanted them to. But what of Inigo's education? His rise in academe, 36:45.990 --> 36:57.130 or academia, is the subject of the next chapter. Chapter 7, The Finger Stroke of God. 36:58.590 --> 37:06.710 Determined on a priestly life, Inigo de Loyola returned to Barcelona from Jerusalem in the spring 37:06.710 --> 37:14.070 of 1524. He spent the next three years in Spain getting the requisite Latin. Since direct contact 37:14.070 --> 37:22.970 with the Bible was prohibited by law, prohibited by law, his reading coursed the humanities. With 37:22.970 --> 37:29.610 the esoteric experience of his spiritual exercises, he charmed the wives of important men. He received 37:29.610 --> 37:35.250 frequent invitations to dine at elegant tables, but preferred to bake food door to door and 37:35.250 --> 37:41.290 distribute the choice pickings to the poor and sick. He lived in an attic and slept on the floorboards, 37:41.290 --> 37:47.130 trying desperately to persuade God of his worthiness. He prayed for six hours a day, 37:47.270 --> 37:53.190 attended mass three times a week, confessed every Sunday, and continued whipping himself. He devised 37:53.190 --> 38:00.450 secret penances, such as boring holes in his shoes and going barefoot in winter. Sometimes the 38:00.450 --> 38:08.170 exercises aroused in his followers instances of bizarre conduct, swooning, long spells of fainting, 38:08.170 --> 38:14.510 or melancholia, rolling about the ground, being gripped with corpse-like rigidity. 38:15.330 --> 38:23.490 This is demonic. This is totally satanic. These things are not from God. I just want to make that 38:23.490 --> 38:29.830 note right here. I continue reading. The Spanish Inquisition investigated him on suspicion of 38:29.830 --> 38:35.930 preaching Gnostic Illuminism. When Inigo insisted that he was not preaching at all, but was merely 38:35.930 --> 38:42.050 talking about the things of God in a familiar way, the Inquisitor released him. In successive 38:42.050 --> 38:47.910 phrase, the Inquisition ordered Inigo, one, to get rid of his eccentric clothing and dress like 38:47.910 --> 38:53.810 other students, two, to refrain from holding meetings until he had completed four years of 38:53.810 --> 39:01.770 study, and three, to refrain from defining what constituted a grave sin. Weary of the harassment, 39:01.770 --> 39:07.190 he decided to seek his four years of education beyond the Inquisition's reach. 39:08.510 --> 39:14.430 He set out for the University of Paris with a pack mule carrying his belongings. He arrived at 39:14.430 --> 39:20.050 the University on February the 2nd, 1528, and soon afterward registered in the run-down old 39:20.050 --> 39:25.650 college of Montague. John Calvin, who had become Protestant's great theological systems 39:25.650 --> 39:34.130 systems designer, was leaving Montague just as Loyola arrived. Erasmus, the college's most 39:34.130 --> 39:40.250 famous alumnus, remembered graduating from Montague with nothing except an infected body 39:40.250 --> 39:46.650 and a vast array of lice. The student body consisted mostly of wayward Parisian boys 39:46.650 --> 39:52.610 kept under harsh discipline. Inigo was 37 years old. 39:54.890 --> 40:01.510 Paris was expensive, even for students. Much of the funds Inigo had raised in Barcelona had been 40:01.510 --> 40:07.570 stolen by one of his disciples. In early 1529, he went into Belgium, where it is believed he 40:07.570 --> 40:14.430 received money from people close to the Holy Roman Emperor. One of these was Juan de Cuellar, or 40:15.310 --> 40:23.030 Cuellar, treasurer of the Kingdom of Spain. Another was Louis Vivre, personal secretary 40:23.030 --> 40:28.390 to the Emperor's aunt, Queen Catherine of England, and private tutor to her daughter, 40:28.870 --> 40:36.210 Princess Mary, afterward the Bloody Queen. Inigo returned to Paris much better off. 40:36.630 --> 40:41.850 He upgraded his lodgings. In October, he left Montague and enrolled at the College of Saint 40:41.850 --> 40:48.150 Barbe across the street. He pursued a course in arts and philosophy that would last three and a 40:48.150 --> 40:55.670 half years. His name appears on the Saint Barbe registry as Ignatius de Loyola. Some Jesuit 40:55.670 --> 41:02.690 historians have guessed he adopted the name in veneration of Ignatius of Antioch, an early 41:02.690 --> 41:08.510 Christian martyr. It was at Saint Barbe that Inigo began earnestly organizing his army, 41:08.510 --> 41:16.650 but not before traveling again to Belgium to ask Juan de Cuellar, or Cuellar, and Louis Vivre, 41:16.730 --> 41:24.990 for yet more money. Armed with his command of the Templar secrets, and with introductions 41:24.990 --> 41:31.370 provided by the Emperor and Vivre, Ignatius crossed to England. This significant voyage 41:31.370 --> 41:36.170 is mentioned only once in his autobiography. He admits that he returned with more alms 41:36.170 --> 41:41.510 than he usually did in other years. Perhaps Queen Catherine, the Emperor's aunt, 41:41.630 --> 41:47.670 introduced him to the Howards and the Petres, known to be among the first families to receive 41:47.670 --> 41:55.190 and nourish Jesuits, sent to England. Starting with his two Saint Barbe roommates, Ignatius soon 41:55.190 --> 42:02.050 gathered a circle of six close friends ranging in age from teens to early twenties. Somewhat 42:02.050 --> 42:07.850 like himself, they were adventurous, impressionable, intelligent, and unpersuaded of the Bible's 42:07.850 --> 42:14.790 supreme authority. Their fondest dream was to save the Holy Land from the Muslims by performing 42:14.790 --> 42:21.470 heroic Templar-esque exploits. One by one, Ignatius gave them the spiritual exercises, 42:21.870 --> 42:27.650 and one by one, they became disciples. Within a few years, they were calling themselves 42:27.650 --> 42:34.150 La Compagnia de Jesus, or De Jesus, the Company of Jesus. 42:36.090 --> 42:43.410 On August 15th, 1534, feast day of the Assumption of the Virgin into Heaven, the Companions swore 42:43.410 --> 42:50.750 oaths of service to the Blessed Virgin in St. Mary's Church at Montmartre, and to St. Dennis, 42:51.090 --> 42:57.570 patron saint of France, in his chapel. The experience of the Montmartre oaths must have 42:57.570 --> 43:03.330 been intense, for France's savior, who would become St. Francis, Apostle to the East, made 43:03.330 --> 43:11.270 the spiritual exercises with a penitential fervor, says Broderick, in origin of the Jesuits. 43:12.150 --> 43:19.230 That nearly cost him the use of his limbs. They vowed poverty, chastity, and to rescue 43:19.230 --> 43:24.090 Jerusalem from the Muslims. However, should the rescue prove infeasible within a year, 43:24.090 --> 43:30.390 they vowed to undertake without question whatever other tasks the Pope might require of them. 43:31.030 --> 43:37.990 Well before a year had passed, Clement VII died, and the Jerusalem dream was overwhelmed by more 43:37.990 --> 43:44.270 present dangers. Luther's Bible in German was creating defection in record numbers throughout 43:44.270 --> 43:51.410 Germany, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. In France, the response to Lefebvre's Bible was so decisive 43:51.410 --> 43:57.250 that King Francis I exclaimed that he would behead his own children if he found them harboring 43:57.250 --> 44:04.130 the blasphemous heresies acquirable through direct contact with scripture. England was lost in its 44:04.130 --> 44:10.810 entirety, due not to Bible reading, which Henry VIII prosecuted as avidly as any Pope, but to the 44:10.810 --> 44:17.430 royal love life. Henry had demanded that Clement VII grant him a divorce from the Emperor's Aunt 44:17.430 --> 44:23.830 Catherine, and then recognize the Protestant-oriented Anne Boleyn as his new Queen. 44:24.470 --> 44:30.170 When Clement stood mute, Henry took all of England away from Rome and made himself complete owner of 44:30.170 --> 44:38.510 the lands and tenements of England, as well at law as in equity. Clement VII was succeeded by 44:38.510 --> 44:46.890 the oldest cardinal, an erudite humanist with formidable diplomatic skills, 66-year-old Alessandro 44:46.890 --> 44:53.150 Farnese. Cardinal Farnese had been privately educated in the household of Lorenzo de Medici 44:53.150 --> 45:02.090 and had been appointed treasurer of the Vatican in 1492. He was crowned Pope Paul III. Vatican 45:02.090 --> 45:07.990 wags called Farnese Cardinal Petticoat because his strikingly beautiful sister Giulia had been 45:07.990 --> 45:15.130 mistress to the licentious Pope Alexander VI, for which the same wags nicknamed her bride of Christ. 45:15.870 --> 45:21.990 Giulia posed undraped for the statue of the Goddess Justice that still reclines voluptuously 45:21.990 --> 45:29.870 on Paul III's tomb in St. Peter's Basilica. Two centuries later, at the command, in the interest 45:29.870 --> 45:36.870 of decency, of Pius IX, the first Pope to be officially declared infallible, Giulia's exposed 45:36.870 --> 45:43.850 breasts were fitted with a metal blouse. Paul III is a major figure in the history of the Society 45:43.850 --> 45:49.490 of Jesus, and consequently of the United States of America, since it was he who approved, in the 45:49.490 --> 45:57.810 summer of 1539, Ignatius de Loyola's business plan. Ignatius proposed a minimal society that 45:57.810 --> 46:03.030 would do battle in the Lord God's service under the banner of the cross. The militia would be 46:03.030 --> 46:09.710 very small, no more than 60 members, and each would have to take four vows of poverty, chastity, 46:09.710 --> 46:17.270 obedience to the church, and a vow of special obedience to the Pope. They would not be confined 46:17.270 --> 46:21.730 to any specific parish, but would be dispersed throughout the world according to the papacy's 46:21.730 --> 46:27.530 needs. They would wear no particular habit, but would dress according to the environment in which 46:27.530 --> 46:37.950 they found themselves. And the Jesuits became the first undercover priestly order. They do not 46:37.950 --> 46:45.590 have to wear priestly vestments, so they are like undercover spies or undercover police for the 46:45.590 --> 46:55.230 Roman Catholic Church. They can take any guise. The other priestly orders wear a particular uniform. 46:56.410 --> 47:00.770 So this is what makes the Jesuits particularly dangerous, is that you cannot recognize a 47:00.770 --> 47:08.180 Jesuit when you first meet one. They would infiltrate the world in an unpredictable variety 47:08.180 --> 47:16.440 of pursuits as doctors, lawyers, authors, reforming theologians, this is how they infiltrated 47:16.440 --> 47:24.260 the Protestant Reformation, financiers, statesmen, courtiers, diplomats, explorers, tradesmen, 47:24.680 --> 47:31.400 merchants, poets, scholars, scientists, architects, engineers, artists, printers, 47:31.400 --> 47:37.520 philosophers, and whatever else the world might demand and the church require. 47:38.740 --> 47:43.800 Their head would be a superior general. In the constitutions which Ignatius was writing, 47:44.240 --> 47:49.740 the superior general would be obeyed and reverenced at all times as the one who holds the place of 47:49.740 --> 47:55.520 Christ our Lord. The phrase holds the place of Christ means that the superior general would 47:55.520 --> 48:01.440 share with the Pope, at a level unperceived by the general public, the divine title of Vicar of 48:01.440 --> 48:10.580 Christ, first claimed by Gelasius I on May 13, 495 A.D. Loyola's completed constitutions would 48:10.580 --> 48:16.780 repeat 500 times that one is to see Christ in the person of the superior general. This is very 48:16.780 --> 48:23.040 important to understand how important and how powerful the Black Pope is, the Jesuit superior 48:23.040 --> 48:28.480 general. The general's equal status with the Pope, advantaged by an obscurity that renders 48:28.480 --> 48:33.560 him virtually invisible, is why the commander-in-chief of the Society of Jesus has always been called 48:34.080 --> 48:41.460 Papa Nero, the Black Pope. The superior general's small army would be trained by the spiritual 48:41.460 --> 48:49.640 exercises to practice a brand of obedience Loyola termed Contemplativus in Actione, 48:50.620 --> 48:55.820 active contemplation, instantaneous obedience, with all critical thought suppressed. 48:56.680 --> 49:03.520 As stated in section 353.1 of the exercises, we must put aside all judgment of our own 49:03.520 --> 49:08.980 and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things the hierarchical church. 49:09.980 --> 49:12.960 But Jesuit obedience would be more than mere obedience of the will, 49:13.440 --> 49:19.380 and obedient will suppresses what it would do in order to obey what a superior wants done. 49:19.640 --> 49:24.540 Ignatius demanded obedience of the understanding, and obedient understanding 49:24.540 --> 49:33.360 alters its perception of reality according to the superior's dictates. Section 365.13 declares, 49:33.820 --> 49:39.580 we must hold fast to the following principle, what seems to me white, I will believe black, 49:40.160 --> 49:47.080 if the hierarchical church so defines. Francis Xavier would later describe this 49:47.080 --> 49:51.460 quality of submission in a vow that unintentionally summarized the Jesuit mission. 49:52.380 --> 49:58.280 I quote, I would not even believe in the Gospels were the Holy Church to forbid it. 49:59.080 --> 50:05.000 Unquote. The society does not open its extreme oath of obedience to public inspection. 50:05.380 --> 50:10.520 However, a script alleged to be a true facsimile was translated by Edwin A. Sherman and deposited 50:10.520 --> 50:21.300 in the Library of Congress with the number BX3705.S56. According to this document, when a 50:21.300 --> 50:26.080 Jesuit of the minor rank is to be elevated to command, he is conducted into the chapel of the 50:26.080 --> 50:30.840 convent of the order, where there are only three others present, the principal or superior, 50:31.480 --> 50:37.180 standing in front of the altar. On either side stands a monk, one of whom holds a banner of 50:37.180 --> 50:45.340 yellow and white, which are the papal's colors, and the other a black banner with a dagger and 50:45.340 --> 50:53.440 red cross above a skull and crossbones, with the initials INRI or INRI, and below them the words 50:53.440 --> 51:04.000 IXTUM NECAR REGES IMIOS, the meaning of which it is just to annihilate impious rulers. 51:05.000 --> 51:09.940 Biblically, these initials represent the Roman inscription above Christ's head on the cross, 51:10.140 --> 51:18.020 Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews. On the floor is a red cross, upon which the postulant or 51:18.020 --> 51:23.300 candidate kneels. The superior hands him a small black crucifix, which he takes in his left hand 51:23.300 --> 51:27.760 and presses to his heart, and the superior at the same time presents to him a dagger, which he 51:27.760 --> 51:33.680 grasps by the blade and holds the point against his heart, the superior still holding it by the hilt. 51:34.000 --> 51:40.260 The superior gives a preamble and then administers the oath, the first section which reads, and I'll 51:40.260 --> 51:47.640 only read the first section, I, and then the postulant name, now in the presence of Almighty God, 51:48.120 --> 51:51.980 the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Blessed Michael the Archangel, the Blessed Saint Paul, 51:52.260 --> 51:58.060 and all the saints and sacred hosts of heaven, and to you my ghostly father, the Superior General 51:58.060 --> 52:03.780 of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola, in the pontificate of Paul III, and 52:03.780 --> 52:09.360 continued to the present, do, by the womb of the Virgin, the matrix of God, and the rod of Jesus 52:09.360 --> 52:15.680 Christ, declare and swear that His Holiness the Pope is Christ's Vice-Regent, and is the true and 52:15.680 --> 52:20.760 only Head of the Catholic and Universal Church throughout the earth, and that by virtue of the 52:20.760 --> 52:27.420 keys of binding and loosing given to His Holiness by my Savior Jesus Christ, He hath power to depose 52:27.420 --> 52:34.600 heretical kings, princes, states, commonwealths, and governments, all being illegal, without His 52:34.600 --> 52:43.620 sacred confirmation, and that they may safely be destroyed. The rest of the fourth diabolical oath 52:43.620 --> 52:49.540 can be read at my website, darknessisfalling.com, under the Jesuits in the menu bar. 52:52.980 --> 52:57.420 After taking the oath, the recipient receives the wafer from the Superior, 52:57.420 --> 53:03.580 and writes his name with the point of his dagger, dipped in his own blood, taken from over the heart. 53:04.820 --> 53:09.220 When Ignatius concluded his presentation, the Pope reportedly cried out, 53:09.580 --> 53:18.660 Hoc est digitus Dei, this is the finger stroke of God. On September the 27th, 1540, Paul III 53:18.660 --> 53:22.840 sealed his approval with the highest and most solemn form of papal pronouncement, 53:23.310 --> 53:30.940 a document known as a bull, from the Latin bulla, meaning bubble, denoting the attached ovoid or 53:30.940 --> 53:38.100 circular seal bearing the Pope's name. Paul's bull, ordaining it to Jesuits, is entitled Regimini 53:38.100 --> 53:48.440 militantis ecclesiae, on the supremacy of the Church militant. The Jesuits are a military order, 53:48.440 --> 53:56.700 not a pious priestly order. The title forms a capitalistic device common to pagan Roman divining, 53:57.100 --> 54:03.520 known as notaricon. This device is an acronym that enhances the meaning of its initialized words in 54:03.520 --> 54:11.940 the way MADD, or M-A-D-D, tells us that mothers against drunk drivers are more than against 54:11.940 --> 54:19.900 drunken drivers, they are very angry. Regimini militantis ecclesiae produces the notaricon 54:20.740 --> 54:30.440 R-O-M-E, or R-O-M-E, Rome, the empire whose salvation, the society of Jesus, was ordained 54:30.440 --> 54:39.420 by this bull to secure through the arts of war. The arts of war is a very important point to note. 54:40.660 --> 54:51.360 The Jesuits are military, they're soldiers, and their purpose is to restore all worldly power 54:51.360 --> 55:01.160 back to the Pope, so that the Pope is totally king over all temporal and spiritual power. 55:04.080 --> 55:08.980 The following April, the original six and a few other members elected Ignatius de Loyola, 55:08.980 --> 55:13.280 their first Superior General. What had been approved as a minimal society upon, 55:13.780 --> 55:19.160 as soon multiplied to a thousand strong. Ignatius did this by administering to only 60, 55:19.380 --> 55:24.620 the extreme oath of obedience to the Pope, while admitting hundreds more under lesser oaths. 55:25.140 --> 55:30.240 Ever since, the exact size of the society has been known only to the Superior General. 55:30.900 --> 55:35.640 As the world gained increasing numbers of doctors, lawyers, authors, reforming theologians, 55:36.300 --> 55:42.100 financiers, statesmen, courtiers, diplomats, explorers, tradesmen, merchants, poets, 55:42.480 --> 55:47.220 scholars, scientists, architects, engineers, artists, printers, and philosophers, 55:47.700 --> 55:53.980 it was extremely difficult for an ordinary citizen to tell which were Jesuits and which were not. 55:54.680 --> 55:59.000 Not even Jesuits could say for sure, because of a provision in the constitutions, 55:59.000 --> 56:06.260 sections 81 to 86 of part 1, which authorizes the Superior General to receive agents, both 56:06.260 --> 56:11.400 priestly agents to help in spiritual matters, and lay agents to give aid in temporal and domestic 56:11.400 --> 56:19.840 functions. Called co-adjutors, these lay agents could be of any religious denomination, race, 56:20.780 --> 56:25.920 nationality, or sex. They took an oath which bound them for whatever time the Superior General 56:25.920 --> 56:32.040 of the society should see fit to employ them in spiritual or temporal services. 56:32.660 --> 56:42.220 Very important point to note. Anyone can be held under oath, any Catholic can be held under oath 56:42.220 --> 56:49.960 to serve the Jesuits for any task for any length or period of time, and then released. 56:52.560 --> 56:57.200 This provision was availed by so many Black Popes that the French had a name for people 56:57.200 --> 57:04.460 suspected of being Jesuit agents, Les Robes Petites, or the Short Robes. The English called 57:04.460 --> 57:11.580 them Short Coats or Ignatians. And this is what makes the Jesuits so dangerous, is that they will 57:11.580 --> 57:23.580 put under oath people from every walk of life to work for them, and of course in many, many nefarious 57:23.580 --> 57:31.040 ways, to bring Catholic control over all the nations of the earth. It's what they've been 57:31.040 --> 57:38.740 working at tirelessly for 500 years. I continue reading. Within two years of Regimini Militantes 57:38.740 --> 57:44.860 Ecclesiae, Paul III appointed a society to administer the Roman Inquisition, not to be 57:44.860 --> 57:49.500 confused with the Spanish Inquisition, which reported only to the Spanish Crown. When the 57:49.500 --> 57:55.580 Jesuits were comfortable with the Inquisition, Paul made his move to reconcile with the Protestants. 57:57.860 --> 58:04.400 Chapter number eight, moving in. The term Protestant was coined in 1529 to describe 58:04.400 --> 58:09.980 the large number of princes and delegates of 14 cities, largely German, who protested Emperor 58:09.980 --> 58:16.800 Charles Habsburg's attempt to enforce the Edict of Worms. This edict bound the empire's 300 princely 58:16.800 --> 58:22.700 states and free states to Roman Catholicism. The Protestants proposed a compromise formula, 58:23.040 --> 58:29.940 basically a statement of the Lutheran faith known as the Augsburg Confession. For 15 years the Edict 58:29.940 --> 58:35.760 of Worms and the Augsburg Confession kept Catholic and Protestant rulers in a Mexican standoff. 58:36.440 --> 58:43.920 Then, on December 13, 1545, Paul III called both factions to the small German-speaking Italian 58:43.920 --> 58:51.600 Cathedral City of Trent. The promise was to resolve differences peacefully in an Ecumenical Council. 58:52.140 --> 58:57.520 The Council of Trent had not been seated four months before it decreed that the books and 58:57.520 --> 59:04.680 translations of Luther, Lefebvre, Zwingli, Calvin, and other unapproved persons were altogether 59:04.680 --> 59:10.580 forbidden and allowed to no one since little advantage, but much danger generally arises 59:10.580 --> 59:19.740 from reading them. Then the Jesuits moved in. Diego Lainez, Alfonso Salmoron, two of the original 59:19.740 --> 59:24.980 companions, and Claude Leger, all three in their early 30s, distinguished themselves at Trent 59:24.980 --> 59:30.500 early on by spurning the grand style of the other delegates. They set up housekeeping in a narrow 59:30.500 --> 59:36.100 smoke-blackened baker's oven and wore clothing so heavily patched and greasy that other priests 59:36.100 --> 59:41.180 were embarrassed to associate with them. They carried with them intricate advisories from 59:41.180 --> 59:45.400 Ignatius himself, written from the delegate's point of view, as for example, 59:47.320 --> 59:52.240 When the matter that is being debated seems so manifestly just and right that I can no longer 59:52.240 --> 59:57.380 keep silent, then I should speak my mind with the greatest composure and conclude what I have said 59:57.380 --> 01:00:04.060 with the words subject, of course, to the judgment of a wiser head than mine. If the leaders of the 01:00:04.060 --> 01:00:10.000 opposing party should try to befriend me, I must cultivate these men, who have influence over the 01:00:10.000 --> 01:00:15.620 heretics and lukewarm Catholics, and try to win them away from their errors with holy wisdom and love. 01:00:18.180 --> 01:00:22.880 Most of the 18-year lifetime of the Council of Trent consisted of two intermissions spanning 01:00:22.880 --> 01:00:28.240 four and ten years each. At the beginning of the second intermission, Ignatius founded a 01:00:28.240 --> 01:00:34.640 special college in Rome for German-speaking Jesuits called the Germanicum. Three years later, 01:00:34.940 --> 01:00:42.040 the Peace of Augsburg established the principle quies regio eius religio, who's the region, 01:00:42.040 --> 01:00:48.740 he's the religion. The Peace of Augsburg was Jesuit pay dirt. They could now bring whole 01:00:48.740 --> 01:00:55.920 populations to Rome simply by winning over a few princes. And so they did. By 1560, the society 01:00:55.920 --> 01:01:02.260 had returned virtually all of South Germany and Austria to the Church. The fruits of the Germanicum 01:01:02.260 --> 01:01:07.580 were so successful that when the Council of Trent finally adjourned on December the 4th, 1563, 01:01:07.580 --> 01:01:14.440 its decrees and canons conceded nothing to the Protestant reformers. Indeed, under the spiritual 01:01:14.440 --> 01:01:21.320 directions of Superior General Diego Llenes, Ignatius had died in 1556. The Council denied 01:01:21.320 --> 01:01:28.980 every Protestant doctrine point by point. Anathematized, eternally damned, was anyone 01:01:28.980 --> 01:01:34.180 who believed that salvation is God's free gift to his faithful and does not depend upon partaking 01:01:34.180 --> 01:01:39.540 of Church sacraments. Anathematized was anyone who looked to the Bible for the ultimate authority 01:01:39.540 --> 01:01:45.380 on doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness, rather than to the teaching 01:01:45.380 --> 01:01:51.820 church. Anathematized was anyone who regarded as unworthy of belief such unscriptural doctrines as 01:01:51.820 --> 01:01:58.780 number one, the efficacy of papal indulgences, two, of confession alone to a priest as necessary to 01:01:58.780 --> 01:02:06.200 salvation, three, of the mass as a real and true sacrifice of the body of Christ necessary to 01:02:06.200 --> 01:02:13.160 salvation, and number four, the legitimacy of teachings on purgatory, number five, the celibate priesthood, 01:02:13.640 --> 01:02:19.480 number six, invoking saints by prayer to intercede with God, number seven, the veneration of relics, 01:02:19.960 --> 01:02:26.740 and number eight, the use of images and symbols. The Council of Trent hurled 125 anathemas, 01:02:26.740 --> 01:02:33.480 eternal damnations, against Protestantism. Then, as an addendum to its closing statements, 01:02:33.920 --> 01:02:38.340 the Council recommended that the Jesuits should be given pride of place over members of other 01:02:38.340 --> 01:02:43.920 orders as preachers and professors. It was at Trent that the Roman Catholic Church began marching 01:02:43.920 --> 01:02:50.600 to the beat of the Black Papacy. A generation later, the guidelines of the Roman Inquisition 01:02:50.600 --> 01:02:55.820 under Jesuit direction were published at the command of the Cardinal's Inquisitor General, 01:02:55.820 --> 01:03:05.220 the Directorium Inquisitorium of 1584, was dedicated to Gregory XIII, the Pope who bestowed 01:03:05.220 --> 01:03:12.000 upon Jesuits the right to deal in commerce and banking, and who also decreed that every papal 01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:18.120 legate should have a Jesuit advisor on his personal staff. Here follows a summary of the 01:03:18.120 --> 01:03:23.600 Directorium Inquisitorium, translated by J.P. Callender of 1838. 01:03:25.060 --> 01:03:30.900 He is a heretic who does not believe what the Roman hierarchy teaches. A heretic merits the 01:03:30.900 --> 01:03:38.720 pains of fire by the gospel, the canons, civil law, and custom. Heretics must be burned. For 01:03:38.720 --> 01:03:44.800 the suspicion alone of heresy, purgation is demanded. Magistrates who refuse to take the 01:03:44.800 --> 01:03:50.160 oath for defense of the faith shall be suspected of heresy. Wars may be commenced by the authority 01:03:50.160 --> 01:03:55.400 of the church. Indulgences for the remission of all sin belong to those who signed with the 01:03:55.400 --> 01:04:02.120 cross for the persecution of heretics. Every individual may kill a heretic. Persons who 01:04:02.120 --> 01:04:07.360 betray heretics shall be rewarded. Heretics may be forced to profess the Roman faith. 01:04:08.000 --> 01:04:14.260 A heretic, as he sins in all places, may everywhere be judged. Heretics must be sought after and be 01:04:14.260 --> 01:04:21.280 corrected or exterminated. Heretics enjoy no privileges in law or equity. The goods of heretics 01:04:21.280 --> 01:04:27.400 are to be considered as confiscated from the perpetration of the crime. The pope can enact 01:04:27.400 --> 01:04:32.740 new articles of faith. Definitions of popes and councils are to be received as infallible. 01:04:33.380 --> 01:04:38.800 Inquisitors may torture witnesses to obtain the truth. It is laudable to torture those of every 01:04:38.800 --> 01:04:45.260 class who are guilty of heresy. The pope has power over infidels. The church may make war 01:04:45.260 --> 01:04:52.500 with infidels. Those who are strongly suspected are to be reputed as heretics. He who does not 01:04:52.500 --> 01:04:58.560 inform against heretics shall be deemed as suspected. Inquisitors may allow heretics to 01:04:58.560 --> 01:05:04.540 witness against heretics, but not for them. Inquisitors must not publish the names of 01:05:04.540 --> 01:05:11.160 informers, witnesses, and accusers. Penitent heretics may be condemned to perpetual imprisonment. 01:05:11.860 --> 01:05:18.300 Inquisitors may provide for their own expenditures and the salaries of their officers from the 01:05:18.300 --> 01:05:25.320 property of heretics. Inquisitors enjoy the benefits of a plenary indulgence, a full papal 01:05:25.320 --> 01:05:32.080 forgiveness of sin, at all times in life and in death. The inquisition's effect, of course, 01:05:32.080 --> 01:05:37.100 was to send the more resourceful of the heretics, Protestants and liberals who escaped torture 01:05:37.100 --> 01:05:43.720 or execution, scurrying underground or into the burgeoning world of commerce, or into regions 01:05:43.720 --> 01:05:50.280 where Protestant civil authorities held inquisitors at bay. Yearning for a less intrusive 01:05:50.280 --> 01:05:55.420 religious experience, they joined attractive philosophical fraternities where they could 01:05:55.420 --> 01:06:01.740 speak freely against Roman Catholicism. For this ostensible reason, these fraternities, or cults, 01:06:01.740 --> 01:06:07.840 or lodges, operated in secrecy. In fact, they were the remnants of the Templar network, 01:06:08.560 --> 01:06:15.260 Rosicrucians, Teutonic Knights, the numerous and various rites of Freemasonry. Like the Templars 01:06:15.260 --> 01:06:21.240 and the Jesuits, they were religious hierarchies of strict obedience. They differed from the Jesuits, 01:06:21.320 --> 01:06:27.080 however, in that their pyramid culminated in an ultimate authority no brother could identify 01:06:27.080 --> 01:06:33.880 with certainty. The highest master of a lodge received commandments from an unknown superior, 01:06:34.740 --> 01:06:40.080 a superior whose will the master's whole struggle up to degrees had trained him to obey 01:06:40.600 --> 01:06:46.840 without question. What the masters never realized was that this mysterious personage, 01:06:47.160 --> 01:06:54.240 as we shall examine in more detail later, was in fact none other than the Black Pope, 01:06:54.240 --> 01:07:02.580 the Jesuit superior general. A century after Trent, a descendant of Paul III, Ranuccio Farnese, 01:07:02.980 --> 01:07:08.700 commissioned the great Venetian painter Sebastiano Ricci to commemorate the genesis of this 01:07:08.700 --> 01:07:14.920 definitive council. Sebastiano produced his famous Paul III and the Cardinals en route to Trent. 01:07:15.520 --> 01:07:20.460 The work is breathtakingly candid. In the air above the Pope's head hovers a deity 01:07:20.460 --> 01:07:27.800 directing the entourage onward. The deity is not Jesus or Mary or Yahweh, God of the Bible, 01:07:28.040 --> 01:07:35.200 it is Mercury of the Sibylline and Vergillian Gospels, the holy scripture of Caesarean Rome. 01:07:36.080 --> 01:07:41.560 Mercury is the celebrated god of commerce. The metal most essential to commercial fluidity is 01:07:41.560 --> 01:07:47.900 named for him. Metallic mercury is known to scientists as the element Hg, derived from the 01:07:47.900 --> 01:07:58.660 Latin hydra argirum, liquid silver. It is Hg's unique chemical nature that produces refined gold, 01:07:59.020 --> 01:08:02.840 the fundamental substance in which commercial value is denominated. 01:08:03.700 --> 01:08:10.840 Liquid at room temperature, Hg draws impurities out of gold ore and binds them into an amalgam. 01:08:11.300 --> 01:08:17.500 When the amalgam is heated, the heat drives away both Hg and the impurities. What is left 01:08:17.500 --> 01:08:24.420 is pure gold, suitable for further amalgamation into coin. Mercury's theological life began in 01:08:24.420 --> 01:08:32.320 ancient Babylon, where he was known as Marduk. The Bible calls him Merodach, the Hebrews called him 01:08:32.320 --> 01:08:39.060 Enoch, the Egyptians called him Thoth, the Scandinavians worshipped him as Odin, the Teutons 01:08:39.060 --> 01:08:46.600 as Wotan, and the Orientals as Buddha. Livy says he was introduced to the Romans in 495 BC 01:08:46.600 --> 01:08:53.620 as a Latinate version of the Greek god Hermes. By whatever name, in whatever culture, Mercury 01:08:53.620 --> 01:09:00.140 is considered the god of the universal mind of writing, number, and thought. Just as Mercury 01:09:00.140 --> 01:09:05.760 the metal draws out impurities and binds them into a mass that is burned and discarded, Mercury 01:09:05.760 --> 01:09:14.380 the deity uses his intellectual brilliance to play Pied Piper to impure humanity. He attracts 01:09:14.380 --> 01:09:19.980 followers and leads their souls to Hades, for which the Greeks gave him the title Psychopompus, 01:09:20.240 --> 01:09:27.060 from psycho soul and pompous director. Because Hades is not the most desirable of destinations, 01:09:27.560 --> 01:09:34.740 the psychopomp had to construct elegant missionary adaptations. He had to charm souls, deceive them 01:09:34.740 --> 01:09:41.900 into following him any way he could, whether by words, sights, or sounds. Like HG, his metallic 01:09:41.900 --> 01:09:48.740 form, Mercury could change his shape instantaneously. Did you see the villain in the movie Terminator 2? 01:09:49.500 --> 01:09:56.680 With his ever-changing voices, physiognomies, and identities, he is a state-of-the-art psychopomp. 01:09:57.220 --> 01:10:04.220 In many cultures, Mercury's ingenious deceptions earned him the title of the trickster. He was 01:10:04.220 --> 01:10:10.160 patron deity of deceivers and of thieves. Even as a baby, Mercury couldn't resist stealing 01:10:10.160 --> 01:10:16.260 Apollo's cattle. Was Sebastiano Ricci telling us that Mercury was the dominating spirit of the 01:10:16.260 --> 01:10:22.400 Council of Trent? Certainly, the Council required, and still requires, Roman Catholics to honor many 01:10:22.400 --> 01:10:28.840 traditions which the Bible either condemns or does not authorize. Yet the Council also required, 01:10:28.980 --> 01:10:34.660 and still requires, that the Bible be honored as divinely inspired. Is that weird or what? 01:10:35.300 --> 01:10:42.720 Honoring the Bible by advocating unbiblical norms? This calls for a skill worthy of the psychopomp, 01:10:43.160 --> 01:10:48.980 a skill that makes one believe that black is white. As we've seen, this is the Jesuit skill, 01:10:49.840 --> 01:10:55.360 securing obedience of the subject's understanding. If indeed the Society of Jesus performs the 01:10:55.360 --> 01:11:00.620 function of Mercury, it is participating in a natural process known to pagan and biblical 01:11:00.620 --> 01:11:08.160 scriptures alike, a process by which impure humanity is attracted to oblivion, leaving behind 01:11:08.700 --> 01:11:14.620 only the pure. The theological implications of this process we shall discuss toward the end of 01:11:14.620 --> 01:11:20.980 this book. With the Inquisition and the Council of Trent to pave their way, the Society of Jesus 01:11:20.980 --> 01:11:27.840 quickly became what Loyola had dreamed it would become, the resurrected Knights Templar. In the 01:11:27.840 --> 01:11:34.940 next chapter, we shall examine the continuation of their meteoric rise as developers of the modern 01:11:34.940 --> 01:11:40.980 world. Thanks for listening, and I'll see you in the next video where I'll be reading chapters 9 01:11:40.980 --> 01:11:48.040 through to 12. Just a note here, I'm thinking about making an additional video as an addendum 01:11:48.040 --> 01:11:54.060 to these readings with some commentary on this remarkable book as I feel some things may need 01:11:54.060 --> 01:11:58.620 clarification or expansion. Thank you, and God bless you.