Hello and welcome to video number 62. Number two in a series of six videos where I'll be reading
chapters five to eight of Rulers of Evil written by F. Tupper Saucy and published in 1999.
Once again in this video I will try to keep the commentary to a minimum.
Chapter five. Appointment at Cyprus. His name was Inigo de Loyola. He was born in 1491 to a rich
family. Youngest of eight boys, one of 13 children. His older brother had sailed to the New World
with Christopher Columbus. Inigo served as a page in the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
of Spain. He became friends with Ferdinand's Belgian grandson, Charles Habsburg, whose other
grandfather was Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian. The Holy Roman Emperor was a kind of secular pope
who presided over the Christian kingdoms of the Western world. And I wouldn't call them Christian.
These are Catholic kingdoms. Charles was propelled to great authority before his 21st birthday by
the deaths of his two grandfathers within a space of two years. From Ferdinand, Charles inherited
Spain. From Maximilian, he inherited the Holy Roman Empire. Charles Habsburg was King Charles I
of Spain, Emperor Charles V of Rome. He was the most powerful secular figure in Europe,
and he was Inigo's friend. In 1518, Inigo was part of a legation negotiating for Charles
with Spain's traditional rival, France, at the court of the Duke of Nigeria in Valadolid. While
the summit was in session, Katerina, the Emperor's sister, was presented to the Nigeria court.
Inigo fell in love with her. He was 27, and she was 11. The Emperor was 18. The match, however,
was not to be. On Monday, May 20, 1521, while commanding a garrison at the Duke's fortress
in Pamplona, Inigo was struck by a French cannonball. His right leg was shattered, and with
it, since a well-shaped leg was among the courtier's most prized assets, the prospects for a romantic
life with Katerina or any other woman. An honor guard of French soldiers bore the wounded champion
on a stretcher to his family's castle in the Spanish Pyrenees. Surgeons butchered his leg
and reset the bones. He lost appetite and was told he might die. He made confession and was given last
rites. But a few days after the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, he was pronounced out of death's
immediate grasp. He credited this recovery to his devotion to Saint Peter. Inigo remained bedridden
for nearly a year. Under the concerned, if distant, eye of the youthful Emperor, he spent his time
searching for substitutes for the shattered ideals, ambitions, and values that had been so central to
his sense of himself. He gazed obsessively at a small icon of Saint Catherine, a gift from Queen
Isabella to his sister-in-law. The icon sparked dreams of Katerina, which only throttled his heart
with desolation. He turned to books, Ludolph of Saxony's Life of Christ and Voorhegen's Lives of
the Saints, the only two volumes in the family library, despite the fact that a Spanish Bible
had been available for 40 years. The icon and the books gave him visions. The visions, in turn, led
him to develop a process for preparing and disposing the soul to rid itself of all inordinate
attachments, and after their removal, of seeking and finding the will of God. Inigo called this process
the spiritual exercises, and these are the exercises that the Jesuits use to empty themselves
and become mind-controlled slaves. They are visualization practices which are incorporated
now into many, many evangelical churches. They are dangerous. If practiced sufficiently, they will
cause demonization of the person practicing, the recipient. So I strongly, right here,
at the mention of the spiritual exercises, warn anybody who gets involved in visualization,
meditation and visualization practices, to stop doing that. Desist. It will not end well for you.
I continue reading. In the exercises, the director leads a retreat and through four weeks of intense
prayer, meditation and dialogue with the Blessed Virgin Mary, Jesus and God the Father. Frequent
repetition of Anima Christi, Loyola's own habitual prayer for disorientation and sensory deprivation.
Blood of Christ inebriate me is advised. And this is why it's so dangerous.
It's because it is a process of emptying your mind and this is, in any time, is dangerous.
But this is how the Jesuits become mind-controlled slaves of the Superior General. They will do
anything that they are told to do without question. The first week is spent considering
and contemplating sins, creating vivid mental pictures of hell in all its depth and breadth,
putting your five senses at the service of your imagination. The second week explores the life
of Christ up to Palm Sunday inclusively. The third week undertakes the crucifixion in which
the retreatant is directed to imagine Christ our Lord present before you on the cross and begin to
speak with him and ask, what have I done for Christ? What am I doing for Christ? What ought I
to do for Christ? The fourth week is occupied with the resurrection and ascension after which
the retreatant prays for a knowledge of the deceits of the rebel chief and help to guard
myself against them and also to ask for a knowledge of the true life exemplified in the
sovereign and true commander and the grace to imitate him. Who is that true commander? Well,
the Jesuit superior general, the black pope, that's who. Certainly not Jesus Christ.
By the time the exercises have run their course, the retreatant's purified imagination
is totally dominated by mental pictures of Jesus resurrected. Jesus, the king militant.
One can now answer the king's call to conquer Protestantism and its rebel chief,
the enemy of human nature. With the selfless fidelity of a chivalrous knight,
one's consciousness has been altered. And this is what the spiritual exercises do,
they alter your consciousness. This is very dangerous. One's soul and brain have been
washed. One's liberty has been sacrificed to authority. One's individuality has been surrendered
to the Christ of Rome. That is the pope. That is not Jesus Christ of the Bible. The Christ of Rome
is the pope. One no longer has a will of one's own. One volunteers for any assigned task,
no matter how adverse. And this is how the Jesuits, mind-controlled slaves, automatons,
under assignment, have been able to conquer the world century on century for the last five
centuries. Hordes of mind-controlled Jesuits under task, performing nefarious tasks all over the
world under instruction. Many, many dying and suiciding for the cause of the Roman Catholic
Empire. I continue reading. Martin Luther spent Loyola's year of recovery imprisoned at Wartburg
Castle for insulting the papacy with his 95 theses. Remarkably, while one prisoner experienced mystical
visions that urged him to defend the church's honor in the romantically chivalrous manner of
the Knights Templar, the other was translating, with the miraculous permission of his keepers,
the New Testament into German so that ordinary people might learn the will of God directly.
These parallel simultaneous quests for holiness would define modern life's underlying conflict.
Which master do I serve, Rome or the Word of God? And that is the ultimate question,
listener. Which master do I serve, Rome or the Word of God? Because Rome rules the world today
and the Pope is the king of the kingdom that rules the world. And soon it will be a question
for every human being of whether they worship or serve the master at Rome or Jesus Christ.
And the Word of God. That is the big question. I continue reading. Purified by the spiritual
exercises, Inigo's sensual attachment to Princess Katerina was transformed through Saint Catherine
into a higher spiritual attachment to a higher femininity to marry the Queen of Heaven. An
apparition of the Virgin appeared to him one night and validated that he was free of fleshly lusts
and was now worthy of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. In Martin Luther's opinion, as far as God is
concerned, Jerusalem and all the Holy Land are not one whit more or less interesting than the cows
in Switzerland. But to a spiritual warrior preparing to lead the church to war against
scripture, a touchdown in Jerusalem was absolutely necessary. Jerusalem was the domain of King
Solomon's Temple, the geospiritual center of the Knights Templar. If Inigo was to revive the
Templars as the Emperor desired, it was liturgically imperative that his newly washed spirit present
itself in the Sacred City for initiation into the mysteries of holy warfare. All pilgrims to the
Holy Land were required by law to apply to the Pope at Easter for permission to proceed. Nobody could go there
unless they obtained permission from the Pope. This is how extensive the rule of the Pope was
over all of Europe and even in parts of the Middle East. In early March 1522, more than a year in
advance, Inigo set out for Rome in all his aristocratic finery, riding on the back of a mule.
The corrupt Leo X had died suddenly of malaria in December 1521, and on January 9, 1522,
Charles Habsburg, King and Emperor, had engineered the nearly unanimous election of his former tutor,
Adrian Dadao, to succeed Leo as Adrian VI. Inigo headed for Rome coincidentally with Adrian's
journey across Spain to Barcelona, the point of embarkation for voyages to Italy. The new Pope
stopped in Navarre, in northern Spain, for an official reception by the Duke of Nigeria's
successor. Inigo too stopped at Navarre to do some undescribed business at the Duke's residence
at Navarrette. Perhaps Adrian gave him a discreet audience. I have no doubt.
Further on, the pilgrim kept an all-night vigil at a chapel of the Virgin of Aranzazu,
protectress of the Basques, vowing his chastity to her small dark statue. He continued on to
Montserrat, where he lodged in a Benedictine abbey. There he rededicated himself to God's service
before another statue of the Virgin, the Black Madonna of Montserrat, protectress of Catalonia,
patroness of Christian conquest. Christian conquest? There's no such thing in the Bible
as Christian conquest. There's no such thing in the Bible as a Christian military. It's just not
there. And yet this is the heart of the Roman Catholic Empire. It is political conquest through
war. I continue reading. The spiritual exercise here must have been intense, for in the late
afternoon of the third day, Inigo traded clothes with a beggar, hung his sword and dagger on the
Madonna's shrine, and gave his mule to the abbey. While Adrian VI proceeded on to Barcelona,
Inigo detoured on foot to the village of Manresa for 10 months of penances, spiritual preparation,
and note-taking. Stripped of everything but sackcloth, a gourd for drinking, and a pilgrim
staff, he adopted the lifestyle of the early Knights Templar, begging food and alms. He was
initiated into the Illuminati, the Enlightened Ones, a secret society of Gnostic fundamentalists
who preached that all matter is absolutely and eternally evil. And right there is the root,
essentially, of the Jesuits Gnosticism. Oh yes, of course the Gnosticism comes through Augustine's
writings from the 4th century, right through into the church, through Thomas Aquinas.
But there is the root of the Jesuit military orders Gnosticism. It comes through
Ignatius Loyola.
The Gnostics taught that humanity itself is of satanic origin. Adam and Eve were the offspring
of devils. Humanity can achieve salvation from death and eternal punishment, however,
by freeing soul from body for absorption into the pure light of godliness. This is done by
withdrawing from sensual pleasure and intuitively discovering hidden truths as conveyed by the
Kabbalah. The Gnostics' contempt for anything having to do with the physical side of existence
translated into wildly ironic behavior. Some practiced radical celibacy because they believed
the result of sexual intercourse, conception, would only imprison more souls in physical bodies.
Others practiced unbridled sexual libertinism in order to prove they were completely free
from all physical inhibition. Still others combined the two pursuing hypocritical lives of celibate
fornication of which safe sex is the modern institution. Loyola's particular cult apparently
chose the asceticism of self-flagellation. For Inigo wandered many nights about the Manresa
countryside whipping himself with a scourge studded with iron barbs. Later in life he would decide that
the whips and barbs sapped one's strength, that the Godhead could as adequately be sought by the more
humane self-mortification of the spiritual exercises. While Inigo was outlining the exercises in Manresa,
Luther's translation of the New Testament was introducing readers and listeners in Germany,
Switzerland, France, Bohemia, and England to a different form of spiritual exercise,
one in which God's will, ancient and immutable, was expressed not within the private imagination,
but publicly in the printed word for all to see. People devoured the New Testament even before it
reached the bindery. In one contemporary's words, the sheet yet wet was brought from the press
under someone's cloak and passed from shop to shop. The pilgrim sailed from Barcelona to the
Italian port city of Gaeta and walked the remaining distance to Rome. We're talking here about
Ignatius Loyola. Arriving there on Palm Sunday, March 29th, 1523. Two days later, according to
Vatican archives, Inigo de Loyola, cleric of the Diocese of Pamplona, received permission from Pope
Adrian VI to visit Jerusalem. From Rome, Inigo proceeded to Venice, where one of Charles
Habsburg's agents received him graciously and introduced him to the Doge, Andrea Gritti,
the highest official in Venetian civil government. A famed diplomat and linguist, Gritti arranged
free passage for Inigo aboard a small ship whose name, the Negrona, was appropriate for an evangelist
dedicated to the Black Virgin of Christian conquest. On July 14th, 1523, the Negrona left Venice,
arriving a month later at the island of Cyprus. At Cyprus, one Diego Manez and his servant, along
with several Cypriot officials, boarded ship for the rest of the voyage to Haifa. Diego Manez
was the commander of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem. Since 1312, the Hospitallers
had held title to the vast wealth of the Knights Templar. They had been drawing upon these assets
to defend the Roman economy against Islamic marauders in the east. But when the Turks
attacked the Hospitallers' headquarters on the island of Rhodes, the assets were frozen by the
and his former pupil, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles. No assistance in any form was forthcoming
from either party. Consequently, in December 1522, the Hospitallers had no choice but to surrender
Rhodes and retreat to what would become their final domicile, Malta. The message was clear.
Now that Luther's German-language New Testament was in print, Protestantism loomed a greater
menace to Rome than Islam ever did. It is possible that in a Jerusalem-bound ship
named Negrona, Commander Diego Manez turned over the litany's lists, secret codes, formulae,
kabbalah, and other portable assets comprising the Knights Templar resources to Inigo, to Loyola.
If this indeed happened, the western world's secret infrastructure was now Loyola's
to populate and manipulate in the cause of learning against learning.
This is a very important point. This learning against learning is what the Jesuits use,
and are using today, to critique and fundamentally destroy absolutes. Any idea that there are
absolutes. Learning against learning takes the student into a circular mode of questioning
everything. There is never, never an arrival at any absolutes. And of course this is incredibly
destructive to understanding about the world, because the whole universe and world is founded
on absolute principles.
That is my hypothesis. This is Tapersase's hypothesis that certain materials were given to
Loyola on this ship. What is not hypothesis is that as soon as the pilgrim returned from
Jerusalem, he began vesting himself with Medici learning. The idea of uniting the Templars
with the Hospitallers was first argued publicly in a book published in 1305 by Raymond Lowe,
a renowned Illuminatis from Majorca. Lowe's book, Libro de Fin, free at last, appeared in the midst
of a raging controversy between the French monarchy and the Roman papacy over who held
jurisdiction over the Templars. That is the subject of our next chapter.
Chapter number six, the epitome of Christian values. Since their founding on French soil in
1118, the Knights Templar had grown from a pair of self-impoverished knights hoping to keep Muslim
terrorists from molesting pilgrims in the Holy Land, to a mammoth organization controlling
international finance and politics. This is a very important point to note.
The Knights Templar were very powerful, even at the point when they were extinguished.
And a few centuries later, the Jesuits simply took over from where the Knights Templar left off.
The founders, Hugh de Payens and Godfrey de Saint-Omer, organized a group of excommunicated
knight crusaders and secured their absolution by a bishop. After placing the restored knights
under oaths of poverty, chastity, secrecy and obedience, they pledged the organization to
rebuilding Solomon's Temple. Given space adjacent to an Islamic mosque situated upon the Temple's
supposed ruins, they took the corporate name Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon.
Bernard Abbott of Clairvaux, the leading propagandist of the day, extolled the Templars
as the epitome and apotheosis of Christian values. Bolstered by such unprecedented promotion,
the Poor Knights attracted the best and the brightest young men of Europe to become crusaders,
to vow celibacy and leave their families in defense of Christ's tomb against Muslim
terrorists. The mission failed within nine years. Even so, Bernard's propaganda caused the Templars
to be received as conquering heroes when they returned to France. They set up their permanent
lodge at Troyes under the patronage of the Court of Champagne. For nearly a century, Troyes
had been Europe's leading school for the study of the Kabbalah, which may explain why the city
is laid out in the shape of a champagne cork. For making the Templars a world power, Bernard
shares credit with Cardinal Aymeric of Santa Maria Nuova. Aymeric was the Church's highest
judicial officer. It was his unlawful connivance that created Honorius II, the Pope who ordained
the Templars as the Church's most highly esteemed religious order. It was Aymeric, too, who devised
a radical inner renewal of the Church, which inspired noblemen throughout England, Scotland,
Flanders, Spain, and Portugal to shower the Templars with donations of land and money.
Over and above the properties required of all initiates upon joining the order.
When Honorius died in 1130, Aymeric led a minority of Cardinals in another connivance resulting in
the election of Innocent II, who was consecrated Pope in Aymeric's titular Church of Santa Maria
Nuova. In 1139, Innocent issued a bull placing the Templars under an exclusive vow of papal
obedience, a measure by which Aymeric effectively put all Templar resources at the disposal of the
papacy. Within another decade, the Knights were given exclusive rights by Pope Eugenius III
to wear the rose croix, the rosy cross, on their white tunics. As their list of properties lengthened
with donations from Italy, Austria, Germany, Hungary, and the Holy Land, the Templars built
hundreds of great stone castles. Wealthy travelers lodged in these castles because of their unmatched
security. Convinced they were building a new world, the Templars called each other
Frere Macron, or Brother Mason. Later this term would be anglicized into Free Mason.
The Templars invented modern banking by applying an oriental invention to their commerce. Agents
of the Chinese emperor, Cao Zong, inventor of paper currency called fei qian, flying money,
sought trade with the Middle East during the period of Templar occupation. Cao Zong was the
first government on earth to enforce circulation of drafts as legal tender for debts. Evidently,
Cao Zong's agents introduced the knights to this new medium of exchange created out
of merchant drafts. The Templars enhanced their already booming business of accepting current
accounts, deposit accounts, deposit of jewels, valuables, and title deeds, making loans and
advances charging fees because the church forbade interest, and acting as agents for the secure
transmission of such things by, number four, adding circulating letters of credit or flying money to
serve as paper currency. To supply the Templars currency, needs may explain why paper in France
was first manufactured in the poor knight's hometown of Troyes.
By 1300, presiding over the world economy from their Paris office, the Templars had become an
international power unto themselves. Engaged in diplomacy at the highest levels of state from the
Holy Land westward, they set the taste, the goals, the morality, the rules of the civilized world.
Kings did their bidding. When Henry III of England threatened to confiscate certain of
the order's properties, he was upbraided by the master Templar in the city of London.
And I quote,
But suddenly, at their very zenith, the poor knights suffered a strange reversal of fortunes.
In 1302, King Philip IV of France dared to challenge their sovereignty on his own soil.
He asserted that in France, everyone, knights Templar included, was subject to the king.
Pope Boniface VIII jumped in and declared that France, the king, the Templars, all of them,
and everybody as well, belonged to Pontifex Maximus. It is absolutely necessary for the
salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff. This is a statement by
Pope Boniface VIII.
Philip then accused the pope of illegitimacy, sexual misconduct, and heresy.
Boniface prepared a bull excommunicating Philip, but before it could be published, a band of the
Philip's mercenaries stormed the Vatican and demanded the pope's resignation. Although the
intruders were driven off, the shock to body and soul was too much for Boniface, and he died a month later.
Two successor popes held firm against Philip until Bertrand de Gaute, Archbishop of Bordeaux,
was elected in 1305. Crowned in Lyon with the papal name Clement V, de Gaute moved the papacy
to Avignon and began a long train of concessions to Philip's royal prerogative. Finally, on Friday,
October 13, 1307, Philip arrested all but 13 of the Templars in France, tried them, and upon
evidence of their practice of the Kabbalah, found them guilty of blasphemy and magic. At least 50
knights were burned at the stake. From captured documents, it was learned that the Templars, from
the very beginning, had renounced what Roman theologians called the religion of Saint Peter.
They had been initiated into a secret Gnostic branch of the Eastern Church known as the Primitive
Christian Church. Because the Primitive Christian's apostolic succession claimed to flow from John
the Baptist and the Apostle John, they were called Johannites. The Johannites believed that although
Jesus was imbued with a spirit wholly divine and endowed with the most astounding qualities,
he was not the true God. Consistent with Gnostic logic, the true Johannite God
would never lower himself to become vile human matter. Jesus was in fact a false messiah,
sent by the powers of darkness. He was justly crucified, although when his side was pierced,
he did repent of his pretensions and received divine forgiveness. Thanks to his repentance,
Jesus now enjoys everlasting life in the celestial company of the saints.
Regarding miracles, the Johannites believed that Jesus did or may have done extraordinary or
miraculous things, and that since God can do things incomprehensible to human intelligence,
all the acts of Christ as they are described in the gospel, whether acts of human science or
whether acts of divine power can be accepted as true, except for the resurrection which is omitted
from the Templar's copy of the gospel of Saint John. Therefore, for all his wonderful attributes,
Christ was nothing, a false prophet and of no value. Only the higher God of heaven had power
to save mankind. But the higher God avoided human matter, and so lordship over the material world
belonged to Satanel, the evil brother of Jesus. Satanel alone could enrich mankind.
Templar Kabbalah represented Satanel as the head of a goat, emblazoned with sometimes
or contained within a pentagram. This symbol is deeply rooted in Old Testament Kabbalah,
in which the goat is identified with power in the world and separation from God. On the greatest
Israelite feast day, Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, one goat was spared the sacrificial knife
and was sprinkled with the blood of another goat killed for the sins of Israel.
The spared goat, the scapegoat, was then banished from the congregation to bear Israel's sins
into the wilderness, which typified the world. The scapegoat escaped with his life, his freedom.
King Solomon conferred with evil spirits, but scripture describes the spirits only generally.
However, the Zohar, or book of splendor, one of the main works of ancient Kabbalistic literature,
tells us evil spirits appeared to the Israelites under the form of he goats and made known to them
all that they wished to learn. The Templars called this goat idol Baphomet, from Baphe and Metis,
Greek word for Baphomet encapsulates the career of Solomon,
who scripture says was absorbed into the wisdom of God more than any other human being,
yet finished out his life in communion with he goatish evil spirits. By the Templars
Joanite standard, communion with the evil spirits was the secret to controlling the world.
By the Biblical standard, however, Solomon represents the impossibility of human
perfectibility. Perfectibility is indeed attainable according to scripture, but only
through the redemptive process shown in the New Testament, which Rome kept the Templars from
reading. On March 22, 1312 Clement V dissolved the Knights Templar with his decree Vox
Clementis, or war cry. But the dissolution proved a mere formality to further appease Philip.
More importantly, it permitted the Templars in other manifestations to continue enriching
the Papacy. For Grand Master Jacques de Molay, just prior to his execution in 1313,
sent the surviving 13 French Templars to establish four new metropolitan lodges,
one at Stockholm for the north, one at Naples for the east, one at Paris for the south,
and one at Edinburgh for the west. Thus the Knights remained the militant arm of the Papacy.
Except that their wealth, their secrecy, their Gnostic cabalism, and their oath of
papal obedience were obscurely dispersed under a variety of corporate names.
A subtle provision in Vox Clementis transferred most Templar estates to the Knights of Saint
John of Jerusalem, who took possession after King Philip's death. In Germany and Austria,
the Templars became Rosicrucians and Teutonic Knights. The Teutonic Knights grew strong in
Mainz, birthplace of Gutenberg's press. Six centuries later, as the Teutonic Order,
the Knights would provide the nucleus of Adolf Hitler's political support in Munich and Vienna.
The Edinburgh Lodge would become the headquarters of Scottish Rite Freemasonry,
which Masonic historians call American Freemasonry, because all but five of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence are said to have practiced its craft. In Spain and
Portugal, the Templars became the Illuminati, in whom Inigo had taken membership at Manresa,
and Knights of Christ. It was under the red pate cross of the Knights of Christ
that Columbus had taken possession of what he called Las Indias, for King Ferdinand V of Spain,
grandfather of Inigo's discreet patron, Charles I and V, the Holy Roman Emperor.
As early as August of 1523, as I hypothesized in the previous chapter, this vast yet fragmented
subterranean empire, Roman Catholicism's unseen root system, binding together the world,
belonged to Inigo de Loyola. His spiritual dynasty, which continues to this day,
would use this system to cause God-fearing men who hated the papacy to perform without realizing it
exactly how the papacy wanted them to. But what of Inigo's education? His rise in academe,
or academia, is the subject of the next chapter. Chapter 7, The Finger Stroke of God.
Determined on a priestly life, Inigo de Loyola returned to Barcelona from Jerusalem in the spring
of 1524. He spent the next three years in Spain getting the requisite Latin. Since direct contact
with the Bible was prohibited by law, prohibited by law, his reading coursed the humanities. With
the esoteric experience of his spiritual exercises, he charmed the wives of important men. He received
frequent invitations to dine at elegant tables, but preferred to bake food door to door and
distribute the choice pickings to the poor and sick. He lived in an attic and slept on the floorboards,
trying desperately to persuade God of his worthiness. He prayed for six hours a day,
attended mass three times a week, confessed every Sunday, and continued whipping himself. He devised
secret penances, such as boring holes in his shoes and going barefoot in winter. Sometimes the
exercises aroused in his followers instances of bizarre conduct, swooning, long spells of fainting,
or melancholia, rolling about the ground, being gripped with corpse-like rigidity.
This is demonic. This is totally satanic. These things are not from God. I just want to make that
note right here. I continue reading. The Spanish Inquisition investigated him on suspicion of
preaching Gnostic Illuminism. When Inigo insisted that he was not preaching at all, but was merely
talking about the things of God in a familiar way, the Inquisitor released him. In successive
phrase, the Inquisition ordered Inigo, one, to get rid of his eccentric clothing and dress like
other students, two, to refrain from holding meetings until he had completed four years of
study, and three, to refrain from defining what constituted a grave sin. Weary of the harassment,
he decided to seek his four years of education beyond the Inquisition's reach.
He set out for the University of Paris with a pack mule carrying his belongings. He arrived at
the University on February the 2nd, 1528, and soon afterward registered in the run-down old
college of Montague. John Calvin, who had become Protestant's great theological systems
systems designer, was leaving Montague just as Loyola arrived. Erasmus, the college's most
famous alumnus, remembered graduating from Montague with nothing except an infected body
and a vast array of lice. The student body consisted mostly of wayward Parisian boys
kept under harsh discipline. Inigo was 37 years old.
Paris was expensive, even for students. Much of the funds Inigo had raised in Barcelona had been
stolen by one of his disciples. In early 1529, he went into Belgium, where it is believed he
received money from people close to the Holy Roman Emperor. One of these was Juan de Cuellar, or
Cuellar, treasurer of the Kingdom of Spain. Another was Louis Vivre, personal secretary
to the Emperor's aunt, Queen Catherine of England, and private tutor to her daughter,
Princess Mary, afterward the Bloody Queen. Inigo returned to Paris much better off.
He upgraded his lodgings. In October, he left Montague and enrolled at the College of Saint
Barbe across the street. He pursued a course in arts and philosophy that would last three and a
half years. His name appears on the Saint Barbe registry as Ignatius de Loyola. Some Jesuit
historians have guessed he adopted the name in veneration of Ignatius of Antioch, an early
Christian martyr. It was at Saint Barbe that Inigo began earnestly organizing his army,
but not before traveling again to Belgium to ask Juan de Cuellar, or Cuellar, and Louis Vivre,
for yet more money. Armed with his command of the Templar secrets, and with introductions
provided by the Emperor and Vivre, Ignatius crossed to England. This significant voyage
is mentioned only once in his autobiography. He admits that he returned with more alms
than he usually did in other years. Perhaps Queen Catherine, the Emperor's aunt,
introduced him to the Howards and the Petres, known to be among the first families to receive
and nourish Jesuits, sent to England. Starting with his two Saint Barbe roommates, Ignatius soon
gathered a circle of six close friends ranging in age from teens to early twenties. Somewhat
like himself, they were adventurous, impressionable, intelligent, and unpersuaded of the Bible's
supreme authority. Their fondest dream was to save the Holy Land from the Muslims by performing
heroic Templar-esque exploits. One by one, Ignatius gave them the spiritual exercises,
and one by one, they became disciples. Within a few years, they were calling themselves
La Compagnia de Jesus, or De Jesus, the Company of Jesus.
On August 15th, 1534, feast day of the Assumption of the Virgin into Heaven, the Companions swore
oaths of service to the Blessed Virgin in St. Mary's Church at Montmartre, and to St. Dennis,
patron saint of France, in his chapel. The experience of the Montmartre oaths must have
been intense, for France's savior, who would become St. Francis, Apostle to the East, made
the spiritual exercises with a penitential fervor, says Broderick, in origin of the Jesuits.
That nearly cost him the use of his limbs. They vowed poverty, chastity, and to rescue
Jerusalem from the Muslims. However, should the rescue prove infeasible within a year,
they vowed to undertake without question whatever other tasks the Pope might require of them.
Well before a year had passed, Clement VII died, and the Jerusalem dream was overwhelmed by more
present dangers. Luther's Bible in German was creating defection in record numbers throughout
Germany, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. In France, the response to Lefebvre's Bible was so decisive
that King Francis I exclaimed that he would behead his own children if he found them harboring
the blasphemous heresies acquirable through direct contact with scripture. England was lost in its
entirety, due not to Bible reading, which Henry VIII prosecuted as avidly as any Pope, but to the
royal love life. Henry had demanded that Clement VII grant him a divorce from the Emperor's Aunt
Catherine, and then recognize the Protestant-oriented Anne Boleyn as his new Queen.
When Clement stood mute, Henry took all of England away from Rome and made himself complete owner of
the lands and tenements of England, as well at law as in equity. Clement VII was succeeded by
the oldest cardinal, an erudite humanist with formidable diplomatic skills, 66-year-old Alessandro
Farnese. Cardinal Farnese had been privately educated in the household of Lorenzo de Medici
and had been appointed treasurer of the Vatican in 1492. He was crowned Pope Paul III. Vatican
wags called Farnese Cardinal Petticoat because his strikingly beautiful sister Giulia had been
mistress to the licentious Pope Alexander VI, for which the same wags nicknamed her bride of Christ.
Giulia posed undraped for the statue of the Goddess Justice that still reclines voluptuously
on Paul III's tomb in St. Peter's Basilica. Two centuries later, at the command, in the interest
of decency, of Pius IX, the first Pope to be officially declared infallible, Giulia's exposed
breasts were fitted with a metal blouse. Paul III is a major figure in the history of the Society
of Jesus, and consequently of the United States of America, since it was he who approved, in the
summer of 1539, Ignatius de Loyola's business plan. Ignatius proposed a minimal society that
would do battle in the Lord God's service under the banner of the cross. The militia would be
very small, no more than 60 members, and each would have to take four vows of poverty, chastity,
obedience to the church, and a vow of special obedience to the Pope. They would not be confined
to any specific parish, but would be dispersed throughout the world according to the papacy's
needs. They would wear no particular habit, but would dress according to the environment in which
they found themselves. And the Jesuits became the first undercover priestly order. They do not
have to wear priestly vestments, so they are like undercover spies or undercover police for the
Roman Catholic Church. They can take any guise. The other priestly orders wear a particular uniform.
So this is what makes the Jesuits particularly dangerous, is that you cannot recognize a
Jesuit when you first meet one. They would infiltrate the world in an unpredictable variety
of pursuits as doctors, lawyers, authors, reforming theologians, this is how they infiltrated
the Protestant Reformation, financiers, statesmen, courtiers, diplomats, explorers, tradesmen,
merchants, poets, scholars, scientists, architects, engineers, artists, printers,
philosophers, and whatever else the world might demand and the church require.
Their head would be a superior general. In the constitutions which Ignatius was writing,
the superior general would be obeyed and reverenced at all times as the one who holds the place of
Christ our Lord. The phrase holds the place of Christ means that the superior general would
share with the Pope, at a level unperceived by the general public, the divine title of Vicar of
Christ, first claimed by Gelasius I on May 13, 495 A.D. Loyola's completed constitutions would
repeat 500 times that one is to see Christ in the person of the superior general. This is very
important to understand how important and how powerful the Black Pope is, the Jesuit superior
general. The general's equal status with the Pope, advantaged by an obscurity that renders
him virtually invisible, is why the commander-in-chief of the Society of Jesus has always been called
Papa Nero, the Black Pope. The superior general's small army would be trained by the spiritual
exercises to practice a brand of obedience Loyola termed Contemplativus in Actione,
active contemplation, instantaneous obedience, with all critical thought suppressed.
As stated in section 353.1 of the exercises, we must put aside all judgment of our own
and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things the hierarchical church.
But Jesuit obedience would be more than mere obedience of the will,
and obedient will suppresses what it would do in order to obey what a superior wants done.
Ignatius demanded obedience of the understanding, and obedient understanding
alters its perception of reality according to the superior's dictates. Section 365.13 declares,
we must hold fast to the following principle, what seems to me white, I will believe black,
if the hierarchical church so defines. Francis Xavier would later describe this
quality of submission in a vow that unintentionally summarized the Jesuit mission.
I quote, I would not even believe in the Gospels were the Holy Church to forbid it.
Unquote. The society does not open its extreme oath of obedience to public inspection.
However, a script alleged to be a true facsimile was translated by Edwin A. Sherman and deposited
in the Library of Congress with the number BX3705.S56. According to this document, when a
Jesuit of the minor rank is to be elevated to command, he is conducted into the chapel of the
convent of the order, where there are only three others present, the principal or superior,
standing in front of the altar. On either side stands a monk, one of whom holds a banner of
yellow and white, which are the papal's colors, and the other a black banner with a dagger and
red cross above a skull and crossbones, with the initials INRI or INRI, and below them the words
IXTUM NECAR REGES IMIOS, the meaning of which it is just to annihilate impious rulers.
Biblically, these initials represent the Roman inscription above Christ's head on the cross,
Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews. On the floor is a red cross, upon which the postulant or
candidate kneels. The superior hands him a small black crucifix, which he takes in his left hand
and presses to his heart, and the superior at the same time presents to him a dagger, which he
grasps by the blade and holds the point against his heart, the superior still holding it by the hilt.
The superior gives a preamble and then administers the oath, the first section which reads, and I'll
only read the first section, I, and then the postulant name, now in the presence of Almighty God,
the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Blessed Michael the Archangel, the Blessed Saint Paul,
and all the saints and sacred hosts of heaven, and to you my ghostly father, the Superior General
of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola, in the pontificate of Paul III, and
continued to the present, do, by the womb of the Virgin, the matrix of God, and the rod of Jesus
Christ, declare and swear that His Holiness the Pope is Christ's Vice-Regent, and is the true and
only Head of the Catholic and Universal Church throughout the earth, and that by virtue of the
keys of binding and loosing given to His Holiness by my Savior Jesus Christ, He hath power to depose
heretical kings, princes, states, commonwealths, and governments, all being illegal, without His
sacred confirmation, and that they may safely be destroyed. The rest of the fourth diabolical oath
can be read at my website, darknessisfalling.com, under the Jesuits in the menu bar.
After taking the oath, the recipient receives the wafer from the Superior,
and writes his name with the point of his dagger, dipped in his own blood, taken from over the heart.
When Ignatius concluded his presentation, the Pope reportedly cried out,
Hoc est digitus Dei, this is the finger stroke of God. On September the 27th, 1540, Paul III
sealed his approval with the highest and most solemn form of papal pronouncement,
a document known as a bull, from the Latin bulla, meaning bubble, denoting the attached ovoid or
circular seal bearing the Pope's name. Paul's bull, ordaining it to Jesuits, is entitled Regimini
militantis ecclesiae, on the supremacy of the Church militant. The Jesuits are a military order,
not a pious priestly order. The title forms a capitalistic device common to pagan Roman divining,
known as notaricon. This device is an acronym that enhances the meaning of its initialized words in
the way MADD, or M-A-D-D, tells us that mothers against drunk drivers are more than against
drunken drivers, they are very angry. Regimini militantis ecclesiae produces the notaricon
R-O-M-E, or R-O-M-E, Rome, the empire whose salvation, the society of Jesus, was ordained
by this bull to secure through the arts of war. The arts of war is a very important point to note.
The Jesuits are military, they're soldiers, and their purpose is to restore all worldly power
back to the Pope, so that the Pope is totally king over all temporal and spiritual power.
The following April, the original six and a few other members elected Ignatius de Loyola,
their first Superior General. What had been approved as a minimal society upon,
as soon multiplied to a thousand strong. Ignatius did this by administering to only 60,
the extreme oath of obedience to the Pope, while admitting hundreds more under lesser oaths.
Ever since, the exact size of the society has been known only to the Superior General.
As the world gained increasing numbers of doctors, lawyers, authors, reforming theologians,
financiers, statesmen, courtiers, diplomats, explorers, tradesmen, merchants, poets,
scholars, scientists, architects, engineers, artists, printers, and philosophers,
it was extremely difficult for an ordinary citizen to tell which were Jesuits and which were not.
Not even Jesuits could say for sure, because of a provision in the constitutions,
sections 81 to 86 of part 1, which authorizes the Superior General to receive agents, both
priestly agents to help in spiritual matters, and lay agents to give aid in temporal and domestic
functions. Called co-adjutors, these lay agents could be of any religious denomination, race,
nationality, or sex. They took an oath which bound them for whatever time the Superior General
of the society should see fit to employ them in spiritual or temporal services.
Very important point to note. Anyone can be held under oath, any Catholic can be held under oath
to serve the Jesuits for any task for any length or period of time, and then released.
This provision was availed by so many Black Popes that the French had a name for people
suspected of being Jesuit agents, Les Robes Petites, or the Short Robes. The English called
them Short Coats or Ignatians. And this is what makes the Jesuits so dangerous, is that they will
put under oath people from every walk of life to work for them, and of course in many, many nefarious
ways, to bring Catholic control over all the nations of the earth. It's what they've been
working at tirelessly for 500 years. I continue reading. Within two years of Regimini Militantes
Ecclesiae, Paul III appointed a society to administer the Roman Inquisition, not to be
confused with the Spanish Inquisition, which reported only to the Spanish Crown. When the
Jesuits were comfortable with the Inquisition, Paul made his move to reconcile with the Protestants.
Chapter number eight, moving in. The term Protestant was coined in 1529 to describe
the large number of princes and delegates of 14 cities, largely German, who protested Emperor
Charles Habsburg's attempt to enforce the Edict of Worms. This edict bound the empire's 300 princely
states and free states to Roman Catholicism. The Protestants proposed a compromise formula,
basically a statement of the Lutheran faith known as the Augsburg Confession. For 15 years the Edict
of Worms and the Augsburg Confession kept Catholic and Protestant rulers in a Mexican standoff.
Then, on December 13, 1545, Paul III called both factions to the small German-speaking Italian
Cathedral City of Trent. The promise was to resolve differences peacefully in an Ecumenical Council.
The Council of Trent had not been seated four months before it decreed that the books and
translations of Luther, Lefebvre, Zwingli, Calvin, and other unapproved persons were altogether
forbidden and allowed to no one since little advantage, but much danger generally arises
from reading them. Then the Jesuits moved in. Diego Lainez, Alfonso Salmoron, two of the original
companions, and Claude Leger, all three in their early 30s, distinguished themselves at Trent
early on by spurning the grand style of the other delegates. They set up housekeeping in a narrow
smoke-blackened baker's oven and wore clothing so heavily patched and greasy that other priests
were embarrassed to associate with them. They carried with them intricate advisories from
Ignatius himself, written from the delegate's point of view, as for example,
When the matter that is being debated seems so manifestly just and right that I can no longer
keep silent, then I should speak my mind with the greatest composure and conclude what I have said
with the words subject, of course, to the judgment of a wiser head than mine. If the leaders of the
opposing party should try to befriend me, I must cultivate these men, who have influence over the
heretics and lukewarm Catholics, and try to win them away from their errors with holy wisdom and love.
Most of the 18-year lifetime of the Council of Trent consisted of two intermissions spanning
four and ten years each. At the beginning of the second intermission, Ignatius founded a
special college in Rome for German-speaking Jesuits called the Germanicum. Three years later,
the Peace of Augsburg established the principle quies regio eius religio, who's the region,
he's the religion. The Peace of Augsburg was Jesuit pay dirt. They could now bring whole
populations to Rome simply by winning over a few princes. And so they did. By 1560, the society
had returned virtually all of South Germany and Austria to the Church. The fruits of the Germanicum
were so successful that when the Council of Trent finally adjourned on December the 4th, 1563,
its decrees and canons conceded nothing to the Protestant reformers. Indeed, under the spiritual
directions of Superior General Diego Llenes, Ignatius had died in 1556. The Council denied
every Protestant doctrine point by point. Anathematized, eternally damned, was anyone
who believed that salvation is God's free gift to his faithful and does not depend upon partaking
of Church sacraments. Anathematized was anyone who looked to the Bible for the ultimate authority
on doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness, rather than to the teaching
church. Anathematized was anyone who regarded as unworthy of belief such unscriptural doctrines as
number one, the efficacy of papal indulgences, two, of confession alone to a priest as necessary to
salvation, three, of the mass as a real and true sacrifice of the body of Christ necessary to
salvation, and number four, the legitimacy of teachings on purgatory, number five, the celibate priesthood,
number six, invoking saints by prayer to intercede with God, number seven, the veneration of relics,
and number eight, the use of images and symbols. The Council of Trent hurled 125 anathemas,
eternal damnations, against Protestantism. Then, as an addendum to its closing statements,
the Council recommended that the Jesuits should be given pride of place over members of other
orders as preachers and professors. It was at Trent that the Roman Catholic Church began marching
to the beat of the Black Papacy. A generation later, the guidelines of the Roman Inquisition
under Jesuit direction were published at the command of the Cardinal's Inquisitor General,
the Directorium Inquisitorium of 1584, was dedicated to Gregory XIII, the Pope who bestowed
upon Jesuits the right to deal in commerce and banking, and who also decreed that every papal
legate should have a Jesuit advisor on his personal staff. Here follows a summary of the
Directorium Inquisitorium, translated by J.P. Callender of 1838.
He is a heretic who does not believe what the Roman hierarchy teaches. A heretic merits the
pains of fire by the gospel, the canons, civil law, and custom. Heretics must be burned. For
the suspicion alone of heresy, purgation is demanded. Magistrates who refuse to take the
oath for defense of the faith shall be suspected of heresy. Wars may be commenced by the authority
of the church. Indulgences for the remission of all sin belong to those who signed with the
cross for the persecution of heretics. Every individual may kill a heretic. Persons who
betray heretics shall be rewarded. Heretics may be forced to profess the Roman faith.
A heretic, as he sins in all places, may everywhere be judged. Heretics must be sought after and be
corrected or exterminated. Heretics enjoy no privileges in law or equity. The goods of heretics
are to be considered as confiscated from the perpetration of the crime. The pope can enact
new articles of faith. Definitions of popes and councils are to be received as infallible.
Inquisitors may torture witnesses to obtain the truth. It is laudable to torture those of every
class who are guilty of heresy. The pope has power over infidels. The church may make war
with infidels. Those who are strongly suspected are to be reputed as heretics. He who does not
inform against heretics shall be deemed as suspected. Inquisitors may allow heretics to
witness against heretics, but not for them. Inquisitors must not publish the names of
informers, witnesses, and accusers. Penitent heretics may be condemned to perpetual imprisonment.
Inquisitors may provide for their own expenditures and the salaries of their officers from the
property of heretics. Inquisitors enjoy the benefits of a plenary indulgence, a full papal
forgiveness of sin, at all times in life and in death. The inquisition's effect, of course,
was to send the more resourceful of the heretics, Protestants and liberals who escaped torture
or execution, scurrying underground or into the burgeoning world of commerce, or into regions
where Protestant civil authorities held inquisitors at bay. Yearning for a less intrusive
religious experience, they joined attractive philosophical fraternities where they could
speak freely against Roman Catholicism. For this ostensible reason, these fraternities, or cults,
or lodges, operated in secrecy. In fact, they were the remnants of the Templar network,
Rosicrucians, Teutonic Knights, the numerous and various rites of Freemasonry. Like the Templars
and the Jesuits, they were religious hierarchies of strict obedience. They differed from the Jesuits,
however, in that their pyramid culminated in an ultimate authority no brother could identify
with certainty. The highest master of a lodge received commandments from an unknown superior,
a superior whose will the master's whole struggle up to degrees had trained him to obey
without question. What the masters never realized was that this mysterious personage,
as we shall examine in more detail later, was in fact none other than the Black Pope,
the Jesuit superior general. A century after Trent, a descendant of Paul III, Ranuccio Farnese,
commissioned the great Venetian painter Sebastiano Ricci to commemorate the genesis of this
definitive council. Sebastiano produced his famous Paul III and the Cardinals en route to Trent.
The work is breathtakingly candid. In the air above the Pope's head hovers a deity
directing the entourage onward. The deity is not Jesus or Mary or Yahweh, God of the Bible,
it is Mercury of the Sibylline and Vergillian Gospels, the holy scripture of Caesarean Rome.
Mercury is the celebrated god of commerce. The metal most essential to commercial fluidity is
named for him. Metallic mercury is known to scientists as the element Hg, derived from the
Latin hydra argirum, liquid silver. It is Hg's unique chemical nature that produces refined gold,
the fundamental substance in which commercial value is denominated.
Liquid at room temperature, Hg draws impurities out of gold ore and binds them into an amalgam.
When the amalgam is heated, the heat drives away both Hg and the impurities. What is left
is pure gold, suitable for further amalgamation into coin. Mercury's theological life began in
ancient Babylon, where he was known as Marduk. The Bible calls him Merodach, the Hebrews called him
Enoch, the Egyptians called him Thoth, the Scandinavians worshipped him as Odin, the Teutons
as Wotan, and the Orientals as Buddha. Livy says he was introduced to the Romans in 495 BC
as a Latinate version of the Greek god Hermes. By whatever name, in whatever culture, Mercury
is considered the god of the universal mind of writing, number, and thought. Just as Mercury
the metal draws out impurities and binds them into a mass that is burned and discarded, Mercury
the deity uses his intellectual brilliance to play Pied Piper to impure humanity. He attracts
followers and leads their souls to Hades, for which the Greeks gave him the title Psychopompus,
from psycho soul and pompous director. Because Hades is not the most desirable of destinations,
the psychopomp had to construct elegant missionary adaptations. He had to charm souls, deceive them
into following him any way he could, whether by words, sights, or sounds. Like HG, his metallic
form, Mercury could change his shape instantaneously. Did you see the villain in the movie Terminator 2?
With his ever-changing voices, physiognomies, and identities, he is a state-of-the-art psychopomp.
In many cultures, Mercury's ingenious deceptions earned him the title of the trickster. He was
patron deity of deceivers and of thieves. Even as a baby, Mercury couldn't resist stealing
Apollo's cattle. Was Sebastiano Ricci telling us that Mercury was the dominating spirit of the
Council of Trent? Certainly, the Council required, and still requires, Roman Catholics to honor many
traditions which the Bible either condemns or does not authorize. Yet the Council also required,
and still requires, that the Bible be honored as divinely inspired. Is that weird or what?
Honoring the Bible by advocating unbiblical norms? This calls for a skill worthy of the psychopomp,
a skill that makes one believe that black is white. As we've seen, this is the Jesuit skill,
securing obedience of the subject's understanding. If indeed the Society of Jesus performs the
function of Mercury, it is participating in a natural process known to pagan and biblical
scriptures alike, a process by which impure humanity is attracted to oblivion, leaving behind
only the pure. The theological implications of this process we shall discuss toward the end of
this book. With the Inquisition and the Council of Trent to pave their way, the Society of Jesus
quickly became what Loyola had dreamed it would become, the resurrected Knights Templar. In the
next chapter, we shall examine the continuation of their meteoric rise as developers of the modern
world. Thanks for listening, and I'll see you in the next video where I'll be reading chapters 9
through to 12. Just a note here, I'm thinking about making an additional video as an addendum
to these readings with some commentary on this remarkable book as I feel some things may need
clarification or expansion. Thank you, and God bless you.