WEBVTT 00:01.310 --> 00:07.980 Hello, and welcome to video number 63, number 3 in a series of videos where I'll be reading 00:07.980 --> 00:17.080 chapters 9 to 11 of Rulers of Evil written by F. Tupper Saucy and published in 1999. 00:18.260 --> 00:24.440 Once again, I will try to keep the commentary to a minimum while I'm reading the text. 00:26.260 --> 00:30.200 Chapter 9, Securing Confidence. 00:31.120 --> 00:36.820 Strengthened by Trent's unqualified endorsement, the Jesuits quickly became the Church's most 00:36.820 --> 00:43.140 popular confessors. Ignatius directed that a Jesuit should not allow anyone to leave 00:43.140 --> 00:49.900 the confessional entirely without comfort. If a confessant's opinion on any matter could 00:49.900 --> 00:55.380 be found in the least bit defensible, Ignatius said he should be permitted to adhere to it, 00:55.740 --> 01:02.420 even when the contrary opinion can be said to be more correct. People relished confessing 01:02.420 --> 01:10.960 to Jesuits. Hard to imagine these days, but in this early period of time, people relished 01:10.960 --> 01:18.760 confessing to Jesuits. Always go to the Jesuits for confession, it was said in Germany. For 01:18.760 --> 01:25.940 they put cushions under your knees and under your elbows too. Merchants, aristocrats, courtiers, 01:26.280 --> 01:32.220 and crowned heads insisted that Jesuit confessional direction was the best in all Christendom. 01:33.220 --> 01:38.760 They considered the Jesuits to be the greatest converters of hard-earned sinners, of hardened 01:38.760 --> 01:45.320 sinners, sorry, the surest moral guides through life's bewildering complexities. Indeed, for 01:45.320 --> 01:53.540 two centuries, all the French kings from Henry III to Louis XIV would confess to Jesuits. 01:54.060 --> 02:01.300 All German emperors after the early 17th century would confess to Jesuits too. Jesuits would 02:01.300 --> 02:09.200 take the confessions of all Dukes of Bavaria after 1579, most rulers of Poland and Portugal, 02:09.380 --> 02:17.280 the Spanish kings in the 18th century, and James II of England. The sacrament of confession 02:17.280 --> 02:23.340 kept Jesuit information channels loaded with vital state secrets. It also furnished the 02:23.340 --> 02:30.120 society an ideal vehicle for influencing political action. One of the most dramatic instances 02:30.120 --> 02:36.500 is found in the famous memoir of Francois de Lachaise, Jesuit confessor to the painfully 02:36.500 --> 02:42.320 diseased King of France from 1675 until 1709. He said, 02:42.880 --> 02:48.660 Many a time since, wrote Lachaise, when I have had him, Louis XIV, at confession, 02:49.140 --> 02:54.760 I have shook hell about his ears and made him sigh fear and tremble before I would give him 02:55.500 --> 03:01.400 absolution. By this I saw that he still had an inclination to me and was willing to be under 03:01.400 --> 03:06.960 my government. So I set the baseness of the action before him by telling the whole story, 03:07.360 --> 03:11.880 and how wicked it was, and that it could not be forgiven till he had done some good action 03:11.880 --> 03:18.960 to balance that and expiate the crime. Whereupon he at last asked me what he must do. I told him 03:18.960 --> 03:27.560 that he must root out all heretics from his kingdom. Louis obeyed his confessor by revoking 03:27.560 --> 03:37.060 the Edict of Nantes, or Nantes, in October 1685, which immediately resulted in the demolition of 03:37.060 --> 03:43.100 all the remaining Protestant temples throughout France, and the entire prohibition of even private 03:43.100 --> 03:49.920 worship under penalty of confiscation of body and property. The closing of all Protestant schools, 03:50.340 --> 03:55.000 the prohibition of parents to instruct their children in the Protestant faith, the injunction 03:55.000 --> 04:01.740 upon them under a penalty of 500 livres in each case to have their children baptized by the parish 04:01.740 --> 04:07.240 priest and brought up in the Roman Catholic religion, the confiscation of the property and 04:07.240 --> 04:13.240 goods of all Protestant refugees who failed to return to France within four months, the penalty 04:13.240 --> 04:19.760 of the galleys for life to all men, and of imprisonment for life to all women detected in 04:19.760 --> 04:28.600 the act of attempting to escape from France. This is how ruthless the Roman Catholic Church is in 04:28.600 --> 04:36.760 dealing with anybody who dissents from Roman Catholic religion. They are ruthless, and once 04:36.760 --> 04:44.800 they have gained the upper hand, they will kill and eliminate all opposition, all dissension to 04:44.800 --> 04:53.820 the Roman Catholic religion. This is how serious it is, folks. It was inevitable that the Council of Trent 04:53.820 --> 04:59.280 would establish the Jesuits as the schoolmasters of Europe. With money from royalty and commerce, 05:00.240 --> 05:06.420 and not so much as a finnick from the church, the Society built an extensive system of schools and 05:06.420 --> 05:12.580 colleges. No tuition was charged, but each prospective student was thoroughly examined to see if he had 05:12.580 --> 05:21.500 aptitudes the Society could use. With the founding of the first Jesuit school at Coimbra, Portugal, by 05:21.500 --> 05:26.820 the Emperor's youngest sister, Caterina, Inigo's romantic interest, who had since married the King 05:26.820 --> 05:35.480 of Portugal, the principal Jesuit occupation became teaching. And I've spoken about the Jesuits and 05:35.480 --> 05:45.380 their control of education since a very, very early stages in their formation. Worldwide, the Jesuits 05:45.380 --> 05:57.320 had schools by 1700 on every continent. And it is through teaching that they propagate Jesuit 05:57.320 --> 06:06.340 doctrine, Roman Catholic teaching, and ideology into the young generations. And that is why, again, once 06:06.340 --> 06:17.340 again, we are where we are today, societies living in darkness. Continuing on, by 1556, three-fourths of the 06:17.340 --> 06:25.700 Society's membership were dedicated in 46 Jesuit colleges to learning against learning, to 06:25.700 --> 06:33.580 indoctrinating minds with the learning of illuminated humanism, as opposed to the learning of scripture. This 06:33.580 --> 06:46.460 network would expand by 1749 to 669 colleges, 176 seminaries, 61 houses of study, and 24 universities, partly or 06:46.460 --> 06:54.580 wholly under Jesuit direction. Many Protestant families sent their sons to Jesuit schools, despite Martin Luther's 06:54.580 --> 07:01.840 early warning in an appeal to the ruling class of 1520, that unless they diligently train and impress scripture upon young 07:01.840 --> 07:12.160 students, schools will prove to be widening gates of hell. The Jesuit curriculum, or ratio studiorum, method of study, gave 07:12.160 --> 07:21.320 scripture significant inattention. Part four, section 351 of Loyola's constitutions prescribes courses in the humane 07:21.320 --> 07:30.280 letters of different languages, logic, natural and moral philosophy, metaphysics, scholastic and positive theology, with 07:30.280 --> 07:43.820 sacred scripture bringing up the rear. This is how unimportant the Bible is in Roman Catholic education. It is last and 07:43.820 --> 07:54.680 least, and holds no importance at all. How rigorously any of these subjects was to be studied depended upon circumstances of 07:54.680 --> 08:02.100 times, places, persons, and other such factors according to what seems expedient in our Lord to him who holds the principal 08:02.100 --> 08:13.080 charge. Section 366 puts scripture at the mercy of these factors. The scholastics should acquire a good foundation in 08:13.080 --> 08:23.120 Latin before they attend lectures on the arts, and in the arts before they pass on to scholastic theology, and in it before they 08:23.120 --> 08:32.040 study positive theology. Scripture may be studied either concomitantly or later on. If scripture should be studied at all, the 08:32.040 --> 08:41.260 commentary and critical interpretation of Protestant scholastics were to be ignored. In the case of Christian authors, even though 08:41.260 --> 08:49.860 a work may be good, it should not be lectured on when the author is bad, lest attachment to him be acquired. The curriculum of the 08:49.860 --> 08:59.120 Jesuit colleges came to be adopted to a great extent as the basis of the curricula in the European colleges generally, wrote Dr. James J. 08:59.280 --> 09:08.140 Walsh, Dean of Fordham University Medical School. Moreover, according to Dr. Walsh, the founding fathers of our American Republic, that is 09:08.140 --> 09:14.860 to say the groups of men who drew up and signed the Declaration of Independence, who were the leaders in the American Revolution, and who 09:14.860 --> 09:23.480 formulated the Constitution of the United States, were, the majority of them, educated in the colonial colleges or in corresponding colleges 09:23.480 --> 09:35.980 abroad, which followed almost exactly the Jesuit Ratio Studiorum. The fact has been missed to a great extent in our histories of American 09:35.980 --> 09:49.480 education. Embedded in the Ratio Studiorum were the elements of entertainment, of dramatic production, composition, rhetoric, and eloquence. These 09:49.480 --> 10:00.480 courses interlinked with the spiritual exercises to intensify the experientiality of Catholic doctrine over scripture and Protestantism. They resulted in a 10:00.480 --> 10:16.360 genre of spectacular plays that won distinction as Jesuit theater. And people, this Jesuit theater has been amplified a million times, and is now what we 10:16.360 --> 10:32.450 call Hollywood. That's all it is. Jesuit theater is Hollywood, and Hollywood is the continuation, in high-tech form, of Jesuit theater. So anybody indulging in 10:32.450 --> 10:52.870 movies and TV, are engaging in Jesuit theater. Beware of what you feast your mind on. Beware. Because the illuminated humanism is being propagated and propagandized in all of these 10:52.870 --> 11:22.850 productions, into your mind, and into your life experience. Beware. If you want to know the truth, this is not where you'll find it. Continuing on, the first Jesuit theater was performed in Vienna in 1555, nearly 40 years before the emergence of Shakespeare. It was instantly popular and quickly spread to other parts of Europe. Between 1597 and 1773, more than 500 Jesuits performed in Vienna. 11:22.870 --> 11:40.870 Jesuit theatricals were staged in the lower Rhine regions alone. Jacob Biderman's play, Synodoxes, or Newfangled Beliefs, a point-by-point rebuttal of Luther's teachings, proved the power of entertainment to achieve political reform. 11:40.870 --> 12:07.970 Such a wholesome impression was made, wrote Father Biderman, recalling the 1609 opening of Synodoxes in Munich, that a full 14 persons of the highest rank of the Bavarian court retired into solitude during the days that followed to perform the spiritual exercises and to reform their manner of living. Truly, a hundred sermons would not have done so much good. 12:10.870 --> 12:26.170 An exemplary Jesuit drama performed in 1625 at the College of Saint-Omer, in honor of Belgian royalty, allegorized the glorious end to civil war in Belgium brought by the advent of Princess Isabella and her husband, Albert. 12:26.170 --> 12:43.010 The play, as reviewed by a contemporary official, represented a country long heavily oppressed under the Iron Age, supplicating the help of Jupiter, who, after having summoned the counsel of the gods, sent down Saturn, lately married to Astraea. 12:43.750 --> 13:02.110 These visitors were received with much pomp by twelve Zodiacs or princes sent by Mercury. They then dispatched four most potent heroes, Hercules, Jason, Theseus, and Perseus, from the Elysian fields with commands to conquer Iron Age, war, error, and discord. 13:02.110 --> 13:16.470 The heroes expelled those terrible monsters from the country and substituted in their stead Golden Age, peace, truth, and concord. The princess, with the whole assembly, were highly delighted. 13:17.570 --> 13:35.430 The faculty of Munich College praised the way Jesuit theater captivated Protestants, especially the parents of school-aged youngsters. There is no better means of making friends out of the heretics and the enemies of the church and filling up the enrollment of the school than good high-spirited play acting. 13:37.030 --> 13:53.550 Molière's Jesuit theatricals in Paris were so popular that even the dress rehearsals were sold out. Mozart, at the age of eleven, was commissioned to write music for a play at the Jesuit College in Salzburg, where his father was musical director to the archbishop. 13:53.550 --> 14:16.290 Even from the West Indies, a Jesuit missionary reported that nothing has made a more forceful impression on the Indians than our play. This is the power of theater and drama, folks. Never underestimate the power of theater and drama to inculcate ideas, false ideas, and ideologies into the human mind and spirit. 14:18.630 --> 14:32.110 Shakespearean characters do preach, and they preach a religion, but it is not the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the Gnostic illumination of Medici learning that Shakespeare preaches, the stuff of Jesuit schools. 14:32.930 --> 14:42.590 Not surprisingly, the secret tradition of Templarism claims Shakespeare, at least the writer of his plays, to have been a Rosicrucian steeped in Medici learning. 14:43.450 --> 14:56.990 The philosophical ideals promulgated throughout Shakespearean plays distinctly demonstrate their author to have been thoroughly familiar with certain doctrines and tenets peculiar to Rosicrucianism. 14:56.990 --> 15:06.330 In fact, the profundity of the Shakespearean production stamps their creator as one of the Illuminati of the ages. 15:07.550 --> 15:17.650 Who but a Platonist, a Kabbalist, or a Pythagorean could have written The Tempest, Macbeth, Hamlet, or The Tragedy of Cymbeline? 15:18.370 --> 15:24.750 Who but one deeply versed in Paracelsian lore could have conceived A Midsummer Night's Dream? 15:25.790 --> 15:37.190 Yet, as Gary Wills in his book Witches and Jesuits points out, Macbeth is an elaborate condemnation of the Jesuits as Satanists, murderers, witches. 15:38.330 --> 15:54.810 Macbeth is one of many of its period's powder plays, a genre in which certain buzzwords, well understood by contemporaries, memorialized the guilt and execution of eight Jesuits for having schemed the gunpowder plot of November 5th, 1605. 15:55.610 --> 16:03.950 The plot aimed to blow up the entire government of Great Britain, including the royal family, in a single catastrophic explosion under the houses of Parliament. 16:05.510 --> 16:09.890 How could a play defending Jesuits be of service to the Jesuit agenda? 16:10.970 --> 16:16.310 As we shall see, warfare in defense of the papacy requires extravagant measures. 16:17.050 --> 16:26.250 In fact, both the gunpowder plot, which failed, and the celebration of its detection, which lives on in Macbeth, served Rome abundantly. 16:26.250 --> 16:33.890 King James I, who declared himself the plot's divinely illuminated discoverer, blamed the plot on Jesuits and papists. 16:34.490 --> 16:38.290 But at the same time, James exonerated less fanatical Catholics. 16:38.990 --> 16:47.350 According to Wills, the plot gave James his best opportunity to separate loyal and moderate Catholics from the mad extremists of the plot. 16:47.970 --> 16:52.490 In short, the plot secured England for loyal and moderate Roman Catholicism. 16:52.490 --> 17:00.740 In the reasoning of a superior general, particularly the general of the gunpowder plot and Shakespearean theatre, Claudio Acquaviva, 17:01.470 --> 17:13.750 the sacrifice of eight Jesuits was a small tactical price to pay for moving the King of England to express confidence in the Pope's British subjects, estimated at half the population of the realm. 17:16.130 --> 17:25.370 Certainly, the most elaborate single Jesuit theatrical event was produced by Gregory XV, the first Jesuit pupil to be elected Pope. 17:26.490 --> 17:35.270 This was the canonization of Ignatius de Loyola, the climax of Gregory's brief pontificate. He reigned only three years. 17:36.610 --> 17:44.550 Canonization is authorized nowhere in the Bible. Rather, it is a process adapted from the pagan tradition of apotheosis, 17:44.970 --> 17:50.070 whereby the priest's college declared a particularly effective mortal to be a god. 17:50.630 --> 17:57.430 In Roman Catholicism, the sacred congregation of rites conducts a lengthy inquisition into the works of a deceased candidate. 17:58.030 --> 18:01.370 The inquisition can take dozens, even hundreds of years. 18:01.370 --> 18:07.330 The candidate's works are defended before a tribunal of three judges against a devil's advocate. 18:08.230 --> 18:17.630 A final judgment is declared by the Pope, who orders the Church to believe that the candidate's soul is in heaven and to venerate the person with the title of saint. 18:18.730 --> 18:23.350 The Bible teaches that anyone who hears and does the commandments of Jesus is a saint. 18:24.110 --> 18:31.350 Without any hierarchical red tape, he or she avoids judgment and goes to heaven immediately upon physical death. 18:31.370 --> 18:44.710 Loyola's canonization was celebrated on March 12, 1622, in a ceremony that was an unprecedented display of ecclesiastical pomp, pageantry, and extravagance. 18:45.470 --> 18:56.030 One eyewitness described the event as an expression of the reborn spirit of the Catholic Church of the triumph of the Blessed Virgin over Luther and Calvin. 18:58.700 --> 19:16.740 Riding the crest of humanist exuberance following Loyola's canonization, Jesuit priest Athanasius Kircher, who lived between 1602 and 1680, contributed powerfully to Jesuit theater as sensory experience. 19:17.720 --> 19:24.540 With his megaphone, which enabled the voice of one to reach thousands, Kircher invented broadcasting. 19:24.540 --> 19:30.480 He also fathered modern camera theory with his perfection of the lanterna magica. 19:31.200 --> 19:38.540 The magic lantern projected sharp images through a lens upon a screen, giving audiences the illusion of burning cities and conflagrations. 19:39.540 --> 20:00.640 Kircher's work influenced the creation of the Phanakistoscope of 1832, the Zoetrope of 1860, the Kinematoscope of 1861, the Kineograph of 1868, the Praxinoscope of 1877, and finally, 20:00.640 --> 20:10.800 Thomas Alva Edison's Kinetograph, for filming action to be projected onto a screen through his Kinetoscope of 1894. 20:12.140 --> 20:19.960 Edison had a pet name for the tar-papered studio in West Orange, New Jersey, where all his prototypical films were made. 20:19.960 --> 20:34.980 He called it Black Maria, a term that aptly described the image to whom Inigo de Loyola dedicated his life in 1522, the Black Madonna of Montserrat. 20:36.760 --> 20:44.420 The American cinema's earliest subject matter to capture the popular imagination, the cowboy, was a Jesuit contribution as well. 20:44.420 --> 20:55.100 Eusebio Kino, whose statue is one of two representing Arizona in the U.S. Capitol building, was a Jesuit professor from Ingolstadt College in Bavaria. 20:55.800 --> 21:07.340 Between 1687 and 1711, Kino introduced cattle and their management to southern Arizona. For this, he is gratefully remembered as father of the cattle business. 21:08.340 --> 21:17.680 Pondering the works of Kircher and Kino, we come to a rather astonishing awareness. Kino's Cowboys, as projected through Kircher's magic lantern, 21:17.880 --> 21:26.020 indoctrinated America's earliest movie audiences with the underlying message of Jesuit theater and Roman Catholic theology, 21:26.540 --> 21:36.320 that knowing and obeying scripture is not necessary in comprehending the ways of good and evil, or in doing justice under natural law. 21:37.640 --> 21:45.800 Using cinema and radio to unite Catholic laypersons with the Roman hierarchy was a main purpose of Catholic Action. 21:46.940 --> 21:59.600 Catholic Action was inaugurated in 1922 by Pius XI, whose two confessors, Father Alessiardi and Celebrano, were Jesuits. 21:59.600 --> 22:13.740 The first Pope to install a radio station at the Vatican, 1931, and to establish National Film Review offices, 1922, Pius XI ordered Catholics into politics. 22:14.400 --> 22:25.400 In the letter Peculiari Quodam, containing the flock, he warned that the men of Catholic Action would fail in their duty if, as opportunities allow it, 22:25.400 --> 22:31.000 they did not try to direct the politics of their province and of their country. 22:31.880 --> 22:46.540 The men of Catholic Action did try. Their first major effort was to employ Black Pope Vladimir Ledeckowski's strategy of bringing the Catholic nations of Central and Eastern Europe together into a pan-German federation. 22:47.460 --> 23:01.220 To head the federation, Ledeckowski required a charismatic leader charged with subduing the Communistic Soviet Union on the East, Protestant Prussia, Protestant Great Britain, and Republican France on the West. 23:01.220 --> 23:16.420 Ledeckowski chose the Catholic militarist Adolf Hitler, who told Bishop Bernhard of Osnabrück in 1936 that there was no fundamental difference between National Socialism and the Catholic Church. 23:17.340 --> 23:23.620 Had not the Church, he argued, looked on as Jews as parasites and shut them in ghettos? 23:24.280 --> 23:30.460 I am only doing, he boasted, what the Church has done for 1,500 years, only more effectively. 23:31.180 --> 23:37.420 Being a Catholic himself, he told Bernhard, he admired and wanted to promote Christianity. 23:39.720 --> 23:49.160 Remember, Christianity has nothing to do with Catholicism. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. 23:49.160 --> 24:03.620 Christianity is totally biblical-based. Catholicism is ancient, pagan, Babylonian religion dressed up in Christian symbology. 24:03.800 --> 24:12.560 This is really important to understand, as many people are confused about Roman Catholicism as being Christianity. It is not. 24:13.480 --> 24:24.680 To promote, I continue, to promote Christianity as taught, him by Roman Catholicism, Hitler appointed Leni Riefenstahl to create the greatest fascist films ever produced. 24:25.520 --> 24:36.920 Her deification of Hitler and romanticization of autocracy in spectacles like Triumph of the Will are in themselves the history of German cinema in the 30s and early 40s. 24:38.100 --> 24:46.440 In print, Ledekowski's pan-German manifesto took the form of Hitler's autobiographical Mein Kampf, or My Struggle. 24:47.100 --> 24:55.420 Ghost-written by the Jesuit father, Stempfel, and placed beside the Bible on the altars of German churches. 24:56.300 --> 25:00.980 This is how influential Mein Kampf was in Germany. 25:02.400 --> 25:18.960 After World War II, during September 1957, Pope John XXIII gave Jesuit theatre even broader horizons with his encyclical Miranda Process, or Looking Ahead, saying, 25:18.960 --> 25:24.740 Men must be brought into closer communion with one another. They must become socially minded. 25:25.460 --> 25:32.500 These technical arts, cinema, sound broadcasting, and television can achieve this aim far more easily than the printed word. 25:34.480 --> 25:44.660 The Catholic Church is keenly desirous that these means be converted to the spreading and advancement of everything that can be truly called good. 25:44.660 --> 25:55.360 Embracing as she does the whole of human society within the orbit of her divinely appointed mission, she is directly concerned with the fostering of civilization among all peoples. 25:56.400 --> 26:09.520 To Catholic film producers and directors, Miranda Process delivered a paternal injunction not to allow films to be made which are at variance with the faith and Christian moral standards. 26:09.520 --> 26:17.720 Should this happen, which God forbid, then it is for the bishops to rebuke them and, if necessary, to oppose upon them appropriate sanctions. 26:20.700 --> 26:36.300 John XXIII urged that Pius XI's National Film Reviewing Offices be entrusted to men who are experienced in cinema, sound broadcasting, and television under the guidance of a priest specially chosen by the bishops. 26:36.300 --> 26:54.720 At the same time, we urge that the faithful, and particularly those who are militant in the cause of Catholic action, Jesuits and their proteges, be suitably instructed so that they may appreciate the need for giving to these offices their willing, united, and effective support. 26:54.720 --> 27:17.040 And, of course, all of Hollywood is under this injunction. Catholic doctrine, illuminated humanist ideology, is inculcated into every Hollywood production under command of these encyclicals by the Pope. 27:17.900 --> 27:34.060 This is very important to understand, people. Hollywood movies are not benign productions. They are created specifically to propagate Catholic doctrine and humanistic doctrine. 27:35.900 --> 27:54.580 In 1964, Pope Paul VI amplified Miranda Porces with the degree Inter Mirifica, Among the Wonders, saying it is the Church's birthright to use and own the press, the cinema, radio, television, and others of a like nature. 27:55.260 --> 28:17.580 Paul cited a special responsibility for the proper use of the means of social communication, which rests on journalists, writers, actors, designers, producers, exhibitors, distributors, operators, sellers, critics, all those, in a word, who are involved in the making and transmission of communications in any way whatsoever. 28:17.580 --> 28:34.740 They have power to direct mankind along a good path or an evil path by the information they impart and the pressure they exert. It will be for them to regulate the economic, political, and artistic values in a way that will not conflict with the common good. 28:36.280 --> 29:02.620 And that right there, folks, is all you need to know about who controls all media. All media worldwide is controlled by the Roman Catholic Church. It's stated right there. That is proof and evidence. To argue with that is foolish. Don't argue with it. There's the proof right there in the Pope's encyclicals. 29:04.740 --> 29:28.060 The quality of entertainment's content was decreed in a section of Inter Mirifica, encouraging the chronicling, the description, or the representation of moral evil, which can, with the help of the means of social communication and with suitable dramatization, lead to a deeper knowledge and analysis of man and to a manifestation of the true and the good in all their splendor. 29:28.060 --> 29:56.780 Emboldened by this papal decree, social communicators since 1965 have pushed the constitutional guarantees of free speech to the limit by chronicling, describing, and representing moral evil with such progressively vivid, repulsive, prurient, yet often appealing detail that entertainment has become, in the opinion of many, a veritable technological how-to of moral evil. 29:56.780 --> 30:25.070 It clearly does not lead audiences to a deeper appreciation of Holy Scripture. This fact identifies entertainment today as a successful Jesuit theatrical mission. Let me read that again. This fact identifies entertainment today as a successful Jesuit theatrical mission. I continue. 30:25.850 --> 30:44.190 During its four centuries of existence, the Jesuit educational theatrical enterprise has produced a proud, poised, and imaginative graduate. He or she is entitled by the Medici Library's humanities, facile in worldly matters, moved by theatricality, and indifferent toward Holy Scripture. 30:45.050 --> 31:01.150 Producing Jesuitic graduates has become the aim of modern public education, despite the heavy price of ignoring Scripture, which, as Luther warned and the Columbine murders attest, has indeed turned the public schools into widening gates of hell. 31:01.150 --> 31:29.270 Jesuit theatre and the spiritual exercises, whose original purpose was to bring human understanding into papal subservience through esoteric emotional experiences, have evolved into the full panoply of contemporary social communication. The great objective of obscuring Scripture has operated to discourage the formal study of the basics of which the Bible is the cornerstone, literature, science, and history. 31:29.270 --> 31:44.090 Research by the National Association of Scholars, or NAS, of U.S. News and World Reports, annual listing of America's best colleges, including both private and public, disclosed startling figures. 31:44.090 --> 32:10.630 In 1914, nearly all of these institutions had required courses in English composition. By 1964, the figure was 86%. In 1996, 36%. In 1914, 82% of the best colleges and universities had traditional mathematics requirements. By 1964, only 36% did. 32:10.630 --> 32:27.610 By 1996, 12%. In 1914, 1939, and 1964, more than 70% of the institutions required at least one course in the natural sciences. That figure fell to 34% in 1996. 32:28.470 --> 32:51.350 Literature courses were required at 75% of the institutions in 1914, and at 50% in 1939 and 1964. Today, not one of the best institutions has a literature requirement. Most colleges today are turning out graduates who have studied little or no history. 32:51.350 --> 33:08.010 In 1914, 90% of America's elite colleges required history. In 1939 and 1964, more than 50% did. By 1996, only one of the 50 best schools offered a required history course. 33:08.730 --> 33:25.890 The day is approaching, perhaps, when the only historians will be amateurs, who study history as self-help, who examine the past in order to make sense of the present and not be caught unprepared by the future. And that has already happened, people. 33:27.130 --> 33:42.190 The real historians are amateurs, who are digging through the archives in order to resurrect the real history of mankind. And this has 100% occurred. 33:42.190 --> 34:04.570 I am a historian. I am a scientist. I am a writer. I am an artist. And I am resurrecting real history, real science, the truth that has been buried under Jesuit historical revisionism. 34:06.050 --> 34:21.910 So what Tappersassi says here about the day is approaching when the only historians will be amateurs is absolutely correct. There are no true histories being produced in the mainstream because they are anathema. 34:22.210 --> 34:34.550 True history is anathema to the Roman Catholic agenda of world control and the stupefication, the dumbing down of all people everywhere through the education system. 34:34.570 --> 34:44.770 Today, it's a sad story, but it is a fact. Most people do not know anything about history. I did not until seven years ago. 34:46.130 --> 35:01.070 And I am attempting to rectify that situation and at the same time to help all those who will listen to learn the truth about real history, real science, and the truth of God's Word. 35:01.070 --> 35:04.330 I continue on. 35:58.250 --> 36:01.050 I continue on. 36:02.890 --> 36:10.890 This is so true. Please take note of that last portion of the writing. 36:12.530 --> 36:13.870 I continue. 36:31.130 --> 36:33.870 Definition, psychological technique. 36:37.650 --> 36:40.350 Chapter 10. Definitions. 36:41.610 --> 36:46.890 The term Jesuit was first used to describe a member of the Society of Jesus in 1559. 36:47.710 --> 36:51.130 It did not originate from within the Society, but from outsiders. 36:51.950 --> 36:56.750 Whether intended derisively or respectfully, Jesuit does appear to have been inspired. 36:57.510 --> 37:05.910 We find in the Bible, in Numbers chapter 26 and verse 44, the mention of Jesuits or Jesuits. 37:07.130 --> 37:15.130 These Jesuits were the progeny of Jesui, whose name in Hebrew, Yishvi, means level. 37:16.050 --> 37:19.730 The Jesuits certainly leveled the Protestant menace. 37:20.350 --> 37:22.510 Jesui was a great-grandson of Abraham. 37:23.090 --> 37:25.990 His father was the Israelite tribal chieftain, Asher. 37:26.750 --> 37:28.170 And Asher means happy. 37:28.710 --> 37:36.610 At Genesis 49, verse 20, Asher's posterity is divinely prophesied to yield royal dainties, 37:37.230 --> 37:39.150 ma'adanim, or delights. 37:39.830 --> 37:43.550 Their uniquely privileged access to the minds and wills of kings 37:43.550 --> 37:48.790 has certainly enabled the Jesuits to yield copious harvests of royal delights. 37:49.370 --> 37:53.490 But in fulfilling their scriptural prophecy, the Jesuits seem to have 37:53.490 --> 37:57.550 inalienated themselves from people who use the English language. 37:58.170 --> 38:00.490 This does not disappoint Saint Ignatius. 38:01.090 --> 38:05.170 Let us hope, he once wrote, that the society may never be left untroubled 38:05.170 --> 38:08.210 by the hostility of the world for very long. 38:09.050 --> 38:13.230 Now this last little section is a little bit troubling, 38:13.510 --> 38:19.650 where Tappersauce tries to link the Jesuits to the descendants of Abraham. 38:20.650 --> 38:25.990 I do believe that this is untrue, this is false. 38:27.170 --> 38:30.850 Whatever his intention was here, I do not agree with it. 38:32.550 --> 38:38.530 The Jesuits have no link whatsoever to scriptural prophecy, 38:38.690 --> 38:43.950 only in that they are identified as the synagogue of Satan. 38:48.820 --> 38:52.320 America's first indigenous dictionary was compiled by Noah Webster 38:52.560 --> 38:53.840 and published in 1828. 38:54.860 --> 38:57.900 His American dictionary by the English language reflects the place 38:57.900 --> 39:01.720 held by Jesuits in the opinion of a public whose senior citizens 39:01.720 --> 39:05.840 had brought forth the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. 39:06.780 --> 39:10.500 Webster himself was 41 when the Constitution was ratified. 39:11.640 --> 39:14.180 So here is a list of terms. 39:14.740 --> 39:18.500 Jesuit was designated in the Webster's dictionary 39:18.500 --> 39:23.180 as one of the Society of Jesus, so-called, founded by Ignatius Loyola, 39:23.620 --> 39:28.360 a society remarkable for their cunning in propagating their principles. 39:30.080 --> 39:33.980 Jesuited means conforming to the principles of the Jesuits. 39:35.100 --> 39:38.260 Jesuitess is a female Jesuit in principle. 39:39.060 --> 39:44.440 Jesuitic or Jesuitical is pertaining to the Jesuits or their principles and arts. 39:44.440 --> 39:50.500 Or number two, designing, cunning, deceitful, prevaricating. 39:52.120 --> 39:55.340 Jesuitically is termed as craftily. 39:56.260 --> 40:01.200 Jesuitism, the arts, principles and practices of the Jesuits. 40:01.560 --> 40:10.060 Or number two, cunning, deceit, hypocrisy, prevarication, deceptive practices to affect a purpose. 40:12.200 --> 40:21.160 178 years later, Webster's third new international dictionary of 1986 informs us that the language has not repented. 40:22.120 --> 40:28.400 Jesuit number one, a member of a religious society for men founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola in 1534. 40:29.520 --> 40:36.060 Or number two, one given to intrigue or equivocation, a crafty person or casuist. 40:37.520 --> 40:39.060 Jesuited means Jesuitic. 40:40.880 --> 40:47.940 Jesuitic or Jesuitical, number one, of or relating to the Jesuits, Jesuitism or Jesuitry. 40:48.720 --> 40:56.060 Number two, having qualities thought to resemble those of a Jesuit and usually used disparagingly. 40:58.100 --> 41:07.420 Jesuitized means to act or teach in the actual or ascribed manner of a Jesuit, to indoctrinate with actual or ascribed Jesuit principles. 41:08.980 --> 41:18.400 And Jesuitry, principles or practices ascribed to the Jesuits as the practice of mental reservation, casuistry and equivocation. 41:19.400 --> 41:25.440 Please take note of all these terms because this is what the Jesuits were known for. 41:25.760 --> 41:37.220 Casuistry, sophistry, cunningness, ruthlessness, craftiness and deceptive, deception. 41:40.220 --> 41:48.180 Webster's online dictionary at www.webster1999 is particularly revealing. 41:48.400 --> 41:58.740 Here we read that Jesuit means a member of the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus founded by St. Ignatius Loyola in 1534 and devoted to missionary and educational work. 41:59.160 --> 42:03.640 And that a Jesuit is one given to intrigue or equivocation. 42:04.860 --> 42:18.960 www.webster defines to intrigue as meaning to cheat, trick, plot and scheme and to equivocate as to use equivocal language, especially with intent to deceive, to avoid committing oneself in what one says. 42:19.780 --> 42:32.960 Equivocal language, according to the same source, is language subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse of uncertain nature or disposition toward a person or thing. 42:33.640 --> 42:38.100 Of doubtful advantage, genuineness or moral rectitude. 42:39.440 --> 42:46.000 The Jesuit discipline has elevated mental reservation, casuistry and equivocation to high arts. 42:46.520 --> 42:56.960 You will not find a more hilarious defense of these arts than Blaise Pascal's classic Pastoral Letters of 1657, freely available on the internet. 42:57.700 --> 43:05.280 Purportedly written to a friend, the letters report kinds of conversations Pascal is having with a Jesuit casuist. 43:05.720 --> 43:08.040 The Jesuit defends his arts thusly. 43:08.460 --> 43:15.220 Men have arrived at such a pitch of corruption nowadays that unable to make them come to us, we must e'en go to them. 43:15.680 --> 43:21.240 Otherwise they would cast us off altogether, and what is worse, they would become perfect castaways. 43:21.240 --> 43:30.470 It is to retain such characters as these that our casuists have taken under consideration the vices to which people of various conditions are most addicted. 43:31.420 --> 43:45.300 With the view of laying down maxims which, while they can not be said to violate the truth, are so gentle that he must be a very impracticable subject indeed who is not pleased with them. 43:45.300 --> 43:56.640 The grand project of our society, for the good of religion, is never to repulse anyone. Let him be what he may, and so avoid driving people to despair. 43:59.480 --> 44:04.580 Jesuit moral theology hardly needs a satirist. Its humor is self-contained. 44:05.260 --> 44:10.600 Consider Hermann Busenbaum, one of the society's most venerated moral theologians. 44:10.600 --> 44:29.740 Busenbaum literally wrote the book on self-serving logic. He celebrated medulla theologiae moralis, the marrow of moral theology, of 1645, enjoyed more than 200 printings, and was required ethics reading in all the Jesuit colleges. 44:30.380 --> 44:37.640 A man of stout appetites, Busenbaum constructed an equivocation to relieve himself of the obligation to eat fish on Fridays. 44:37.640 --> 44:46.520 On Fridays, he said, every good Catholic must eat only creatures that live in the water, which justifies ordering a nice roast duck. 44:48.100 --> 44:54.520 Busenbaum demonstrated how mental reservation could enable a criminal to escape a charge of breaking and entering. 44:54.520 --> 45:00.320 Did you force the window to gain felonious entry into these premises, asked the judge. 45:00.820 --> 45:07.860 Certainly not, replies the accused, qualifying his denial with the mental reservation, I entered through the skylight. 45:09.060 --> 45:25.980 Father Gury, who taught moral theology at the Roman College from his book Casus Conscientia of 1875, approved of the way an adulterous wife, having just received absolution for her sin from a priest, used mental reservation to mislead her husband. 45:26.600 --> 45:29.820 To the entreaties of her husband, she absolutely denied the fault. 45:29.820 --> 45:34.860 I have not committed it, she said, meaning adultery such as I am obliged to reveal. 45:35.400 --> 45:37.840 In other words, I have not committed an adultery. 45:38.300 --> 45:43.940 She could deny her sin, as a culprit may say to a judge who does not question him legitimately. 45:44.680 --> 45:49.520 I have not committed any crime, adding mentally, in such a manner that I should reveal it. 45:49.520 --> 45:54.460 This is the opinion of St. Liguari and of many others. 45:55.060 --> 46:06.380 The St. Liguari, to whom Gury refers as Alphonse Liguari, declared patron saint of confessors and moralists by Pope Pius XII. 46:07.080 --> 46:11.080 St. Liguari was not a Jesuit himself, but he was devoted to them. 46:11.620 --> 46:14.520 He facilitated adultery by means of an equivocation. 46:14.520 --> 46:20.400 An adulteress questioned by her husband may deny her guilt by declaring that she has not committed adultery, 46:20.520 --> 46:26.360 meaning idolatry, for which the term adultery is often employed in the Old Testament. 46:27.360 --> 46:34.920 Casuistry is the process of applying moral principles falsely in deciding the rights or wrongs of a case. 46:35.420 --> 46:39.740 The word casuistry comes from cases. 46:40.760 --> 46:44.970 W. W. Webster equates casuistry with rationalization, 46:46.240 --> 46:51.300 to cause something to seem reasonable, to provide plausible but untrue reasons for conduct. 46:51.920 --> 46:58.580 In early 1999, President Clinton's biographer, David Maraniss, could be seen remarking on talk shows 46:58.580 --> 47:06.200 that the president owed his formidable skills as a criminal defendant to his training in casuistry at Georgetown University. 47:06.200 --> 47:14.760 The great Jesuit casuist, Antonio Escobar, pardoned evildoing as long as it was committed in pursuit of a lofty goal. 47:15.540 --> 47:23.700 Purity of intention, he declared in 1627, may justify actions which are contrary to the moral code and to human laws. 47:24.340 --> 47:27.940 Hermann Busenbaum ratified Escobar with his own famous maxim, 47:29.020 --> 47:34.220 Confinis est licitas, etiam media sunt licita. 47:35.080 --> 47:38.360 If the end is legal, the means are legal. 47:39.340 --> 47:43.120 Escobar and Busenbaum boil down to the essential doctrine of terrorism. 47:43.720 --> 47:46.440 The end justifies the means. 47:47.300 --> 47:51.360 And this is the prime maxim of the Jesuits. 47:51.360 --> 47:54.220 Whatever it takes, they will do it. 47:54.660 --> 47:58.180 To bring about total control and power over the whole world. 47:59.400 --> 48:01.300 Temporal and spiritual for the Pope. 48:03.180 --> 48:05.660 Casuistry solved the problem of usury. 48:06.380 --> 48:13.720 Although the voice of Jesus commanded, Lend, hoping for nothing again and your reward will be great, in Luke chapter 6 and verse 35, 48:14.120 --> 48:16.740 Jesuit lenders often charged exorbitant interest. 48:16.740 --> 48:18.880 Father Guri explained the principle. 48:19.500 --> 48:24.940 If lending 100 francs, you are losing 10 francs by it, you lend really 110 francs. 48:25.240 --> 48:27.680 Then you shall receive 110 francs. 48:28.200 --> 48:32.000 Indeed, casuistry has set the moral tone of world economics. 48:32.000 --> 48:42.480 In his Universae Theologiae Moralis, or Catholic Moral Theology, of 1652 to 1666, 48:42.820 --> 48:47.640 Antonio Escobar rendered the opinion that the giving a short way is not to be reckoned as a sin, 48:47.960 --> 48:53.160 when the official price for certain goods is so low that the merchant would be ruined thereby. 48:53.900 --> 48:58.640 By this reasoning, the international network of central banks, beginning with the Knights Templars, 48:58.640 --> 49:04.020 and sustained by the Society of Jesus, has been absolved of manipulating monetary values, 49:04.480 --> 49:08.180 if doing so helps individual sovereign states manage their subjects. 49:08.920 --> 49:14.880 Subjects are cyclically required to part with true value, that is, hard-earned gold and silver coinage, 49:15.120 --> 49:18.780 in exchange for intangible credit denominated in paper notes, 49:19.100 --> 49:23.880 whose official promises to repay in precious coinage are cyclically broken. 49:23.880 --> 49:28.860 As the most powerful office in Roman Catholicism, the Black Papacy, 49:29.220 --> 49:35.840 might have promoted stable national economies by means of the divinely fair monetary system commanded in the Bible, 49:36.220 --> 49:40.300 at Leviticus chapter 9, which states, 49:40.500 --> 49:46.740 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in measure, just balances, just weights shall ye have. 49:47.120 --> 49:50.300 I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. 49:51.440 --> 50:00.780 Instead, it has promoted Escobar's casuistry, which directs merchants to survive official value manipulations by cheating one another. 50:01.400 --> 50:04.380 There are significant sociological consequences. 50:05.040 --> 50:08.600 When giving short weight becomes policy, a moral paradigm is set. 50:09.120 --> 50:12.200 That paradigm governs more than just commercial transactions. 50:12.840 --> 50:15.120 It affects human relationships as well. 50:15.120 --> 50:22.580 Partners in friendships, marriages, and families begin giving short weight, giving less than represented. 50:23.380 --> 50:32.320 This results in one-sided, frustrating, dysfunctional emotional transactions, and ultimately, an aberrant society. 50:32.900 --> 50:42.520 The ultimate beneficiary of aberrant societies, of course, is Pontifex Maximus, the Pope, whose profession is their regulation. 50:42.520 --> 50:51.520 If we depend solely on dictionary definitions, we learn that Jesuits are churchmen and teachers of a doubtful moral rectitude, 50:51.840 --> 50:59.800 who are likely to cheat, trick, plot, scheme, deceive, and confuse us, while avoiding to commit themselves verbally. 51:00.900 --> 51:06.780 When we study their published moralists, we sense a rather vibrant presence of the trickster, or Mercury. 51:06.780 --> 51:15.440 But in the society's defense, it must be said, these are legitimate character traits for a militia empowered by a declaration of war. 51:15.720 --> 51:26.720 And we must remember that Paul III's bull ordaining the Society of Jesus, Regimini Militantes Ecclesiae, is just such a declaration. 51:27.680 --> 51:33.980 Human life in a declared war becomes subject to the first great rule of war, Belli Legum Dormant. 51:33.980 --> 51:55.240 In war, the law sleeps. When the law sleeps, the unarmed priests' only weapons are the intrigue, deceit, equivocation, casuistry, and mental reservation with which the Jesuits have made themselves so notorious, and so often despised. 51:55.240 --> 52:08.880 In forthcoming chapters, we shall be examining how the Society of Jesus made war against Great Britain and the British colonies during the second half of the 18th century, and then again the sovereign American states a century later. 52:09.520 --> 52:22.780 In each instance, the warfare was of the highest sophistication. It was so subtly conceived, and so masterfully executed, that neither of the major combatants could discern the presence of Jesuits in the equation. 52:22.780 --> 52:29.420 The amazing technology of Jesuit warfare, that is the subject of our next chapter. 52:32.870 --> 52:37.800 Chapter 11. The Thirteen Articles Concerning Military Art. 52:39.310 --> 52:46.030 Before the American Revolution, Roman Catholics were barred from voting or holding public office throughout the British colonies. 52:46.030 --> 53:04.210 They were a persecuted minority everywhere, but in the proprietary domain of William Penn, or Pennsylvania and Delaware, some of their most energetic persecutors, in fact, were the very Huguenots whom the Catholics had chased out of France in the wake of Louis XIV's revocation of the Edict of Nantes. 53:05.130 --> 53:12.790 The basis of Roman Catholic persecution was political. Catholics owed allegiance to Pontifex Maximus, the Bishop of Rome. 53:12.790 --> 53:21.430 The Bishop of Rome was a foreign ruler who, as a matter of public policy, regarded the British King and his Protestant Church as heretics to be destroyed. 53:22.090 --> 53:31.090 From the American colonist standpoint, to allow Catholics to vote or hold office was tantamount to surrendering their colonies to a foreign conqueror. 53:32.050 --> 53:39.970 A crucial part of maintaining personal liberty in Protestant colonial America was keeping Roman Catholics out of government. 53:39.970 --> 53:46.510 But then came the Revolution. The colonial citizenry fought for and won their independence from Great Britain. 53:47.170 --> 53:52.210 They established a constitution that amounted to surrendering their country to a foreign conqueror. 53:53.390 --> 53:59.250 Consider the legalities. Before the constitution was ratified, American Catholics had few civil rights. 53:59.250 --> 54:02.590 After ratification, they had them all. 54:03.450 --> 54:13.890 Article VI, Section 3, provides that no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the authority of the United States, 54:14.290 --> 54:22.590 while the First Amendment denies Congress the power to make any law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. 54:22.590 --> 54:36.010 With Article IV, Section 3, and the First Amendment, the Constitution welcomed agents of Pontifex Maximus, the world's chief enemy of Protestantism, into the ranks of government. 54:37.270 --> 54:49.130 Of the two and a half million enumerated inhabitants in 1787 America, the Roman Catholic population consisted of no more than 16,000 in Maryland, 54:49.130 --> 54:54.810 7,000 in Pennsylvania, 1,500 in New York, and 200 in Virginia. 54:55.550 --> 55:05.990 Once the Constitution was in place, a steady influx of European immigrants transformed Roman Catholicism from America's smallest to largest religious denomination. 55:06.650 --> 55:15.230 By 1850, the higher powers at Rome could view the United States as a viable tributary, if not another papal state. 55:15.230 --> 55:28.330 This awesome result did not just happen. I submit that it was brilliantly designed and commanded by a man I am pleased to honor as the American Republic's least known founding father, Lorenzo Ricci. 55:29.090 --> 55:36.410 Ricci was a Tuscan aristocrat by birth, a Stoical philosopher by reputation, and a Jesuit father by profession. 55:37.200 --> 55:46.370 He was Superior General of the Society of Jesus during the formative years of the American Revolution, from 1758 until 1775. 55:46.970 --> 55:56.490 He also may be credited with having written the most celebrated treatise on war ever published, a work entitled The Thirteen Articles Concerning Military Art. 55:56.490 --> 56:05.190 The reputed author of this work is a quasi-historical Chinese general believed to have lived in the 6th century BC named Sun Tzu. 56:05.770 --> 56:18.890 Sun Tzu was unknown to Western languages until Joseph-Marie Amiot, astronomer to the Emperor of China, brought forth a French edition of The Thirteen Articles in 1772. 56:19.610 --> 56:23.630 Amiot was a Jesuit priest under obedience to General Ricci. 56:23.630 --> 56:36.490 I base my inference that Ricci is the author of Amiot's Sun Tzu on a remark from today's premier Jesuit spokesman Malachi Martin, retired professor at the Pontifical Institute in Rome, 56:36.830 --> 56:45.050 to the effect that a book written by a Jesuit due to the obedience factor can be presumed in essence to be the work of his Superior General. 56:46.090 --> 56:52.650 Amiot's Sun Tzu then can be presumed to have been written by Lorenzo Ricci. 56:53.910 --> 57:05.290 The Black Pope's decision to publish Sun Tzu prior to the outbreak of the revolution he had engineered demonstrates, I believe, his confidence that divine authority had already delivered victory to him. 57:06.150 --> 57:15.350 Ricci knew that circumstances had reached the point at which there was nothing which his enemy, the forces of Protestantism on both sides of the Atlantic, could do to alter the outcome. 57:15.350 --> 57:24.330 He was like a chess master who sees the inevitability of checkmate four moves ahead and reveals his winning method out of courtesy to the imminent loser. 57:25.090 --> 57:32.270 His method was so sublimely Sun Tzu-an that his opponents never even perceived his army to be an opponent, 57:32.790 --> 57:40.210 just as Protestants today are unaware that extirpating their credo is still the unrelenting Jesuit mission. 57:40.210 --> 57:52.310 The 13 articles were ignored by Americans until the 1970s when our corporate executives discovered that their original counterparts were doing business according to Sun Tzu-an strategies. 57:52.950 --> 57:59.030 As U.S. corporations increased their presence in the Pacific Rim, Sun Tzu became a major survival tool. 57:59.670 --> 58:06.990 Since the middle 80s, more than 50 editions of the articles have been published in this country, mostly under the Art of War title. 58:06.990 --> 58:15.310 These editions represent Sun Tzu well enough, but none of them are derived from the 1772 Emiot translation into French, 58:15.710 --> 58:21.190 which itself was based on a Tartar Manchurian version of the older Chinese manuscripts. 58:22.350 --> 58:35.390 Emiot's Sun Tzu appears never to have been published in English, although a 1996 commission by Labelle Eglise produced a very fine manuscript, English translation by Hermine F. Garcia. 58:35.390 --> 58:38.770 That manuscript is the source of my citations here. 58:39.470 --> 58:51.250 Only the Emiot edition reflects in virtually the Jesuit general's own words how he formed the United States of America by dividing the British Empire against itself, 58:51.390 --> 58:57.750 while at the same time dividing the rest of Europe against Britain, against even the general's own army. 58:57.750 --> 59:05.830 The Emiot is all the more remarkable for appearing in the very midst of the unfolding of this extraordinary process. 59:06.830 --> 59:14.470 Emiot begins the 13 articles by noting how odd it is that the benign Chinese morality should spawn a warrior of Sun Tzu's magnitude. 59:15.350 --> 59:21.730 If we are to judge the Chinese by their morals, and in general by everything one can currently observe of them, 59:21.910 --> 59:25.730 we would instantly conclude that this must be the most pacifist nation in the world. 59:25.730 --> 59:29.470 Far from having the brilliant qualities necessary for warriors. 59:30.150 --> 59:37.530 Yet surprisingly, this very nation, which has subsisted for nearly 4,000 years in approximately the same state we see it in today, 59:37.630 --> 59:41.050 has always, or almost always, triumphed over its enemies. 59:41.590 --> 59:47.030 And when it had the misfortune of being conquered, it gave its laws to the conquerors themselves. 59:47.710 --> 59:58.510 We know this, Emiot says, from the annals, which contain admirable accounts of prodigious bravery and lists of actions and military conduct of various founders of dynasties. 59:58.950 --> 01:00:05.230 He exclaims, what heroes, what politicians, what warriors? No Alexander or Caesar could surpass them. 01:00:05.970 --> 01:00:14.050 Why shouldn't these great men, these powerful geniuses, who made such fine political and civil laws, have made military laws which were just as fine? 01:00:15.170 --> 01:00:18.110 The reference to Caesar is significant. 01:00:18.830 --> 01:00:29.410 Declaring China's dynastic heroes to be Caesar's equals, Emiot equates Lorenzo Ricci, the reigning bearer of Caesarian authority, with the greatest Oriental warriors. 01:00:30.070 --> 01:00:33.630 Were the Oriental military laws just as fine as Caesar's? 01:00:34.190 --> 01:00:40.690 It is not up to me to judge this, Emiot answers. Our warriors must pronounce themselves in this regard. 01:00:40.690 --> 01:00:58.750 If the term our warriors means our Jesuit brethren, as I believe it does, then we have before us Ricci's clandestine order that the book be received by the scattered members of the society as the latest statement of the General's military law. 01:00:59.810 --> 01:01:01.690 Clandestine generals order clandestinely. 01:01:03.730 --> 01:01:09.730 Emiot admits that translating a war manual was contrary to my taste and so far from the object of my profession. 01:01:09.730 --> 01:01:20.910 He says that he only undertook the work in hopes that the reader might have some pleasure conversing with these foreign heroes and receiving some of their instructions and finding something useful. 01:01:21.770 --> 01:01:37.530 What cannot be denied is that Rome was served by critical events in America and England during the years of Ricci's reign in ways that flow quite discernibly from the strategies, laws, and maxims set forth in the Thirteen Articles. 01:01:37.530 --> 01:02:04.450 I believe that anyone reading Emiot's Sun Tzu in 1772, knowing that its translator was a Jesuit, knowing the Jesuit mission, and knowing the nature of Jesuitic obedience could observe world events with this knowledge and predict that the dispute between the American colonists and the British Empire would end, as it actually did, in Roman dominance over a new independent republic. 01:02:05.410 --> 01:02:20.510 Before presenting the works of Sun Tzu, Emiot recounts an important legend demonstrating the severity of Sun Tzuan authority. It is a severity that empowers the general to overrule even his sovereign in order to secure the army's perfect obedience. 01:02:21.810 --> 01:02:33.350 Hearing that the king of Wu was preparing for war and not wishing to remain idle, Sun Tzu offered his services to the king. The king had read Sun Tzu's book and liked it, but doubted its practicability. 01:02:34.250 --> 01:02:52.890 Prince replied Sun Tzu, I said nothing in my writings that I had not already practiced in the army. What I have not yet said, but of which I presume to assure your majesty today, is that I am capable of transmitting these practices to anyone whomsoever and training them in military exercises when I am authorized to do so. 01:02:57.880 --> 01:03:23.720 I understand, replied the king, you wish to say that you will easily teach your maxims to intelligent men who are already both prudent and valorous, that you will have no difficulty giving training in military exercises to men accustomed to hard work who are docile and full of goodwill, but the majority is not of that nature. 01:03:25.080 --> 01:03:36.640 It matters not, replied Sun Tzu, I said anyone whomsoever and I exclude no one from my offer, including the most mutinous, the most cowardly and the weakest of men. 01:03:37.900 --> 01:03:44.660 To hear you speak, said the king, you would even inspire women to have the feelings of warriors you would train them to bear arms. 01:03:46.020 --> 01:03:50.920 Yes, prince, replied Sun Tzu in a firm voice, and I beg your majesty to be assured of it. 01:03:51.980 --> 01:04:01.620 The king, who in the circumstances in which he found himself was no longer entertained by the customary amusements of court, took advantage of this opportunity to find a new sort of amusement. 01:04:02.440 --> 01:04:16.700 He said, bring me 180 of my wives. He was obeyed and the princesses appeared. Among them were two in particular whom the king loved dearly. They were placed ahead of the others. 01:04:17.560 --> 01:04:22.300 We will see, said the king, smiling. We will see, Sun Tzu, if you will be true to your word. 01:04:22.300 --> 01:04:32.640 I make you general of these new troops. All throughout my palace you need only choose the place which seems the most comfortable to give them military training. 01:04:33.260 --> 01:04:40.800 When they are sufficiently instructed, you will let me know, and I will come myself to render justice to them and to your talent. 01:04:41.960 --> 01:04:50.580 The general sensed the ridicule of the role he was asked to play, but he did not back down and instead appeared quite satisfied by the honor bestowed on him by the king. 01:04:51.140 --> 01:04:56.240 Not only by allowing him to see his wives, but also by putting them under his direction. 01:04:57.200 --> 01:05:06.720 I will do well with them, sire, he said in an assured tone, and I hope that soon your majesty will have cause to be satisfied with my services. 01:05:07.940 --> 01:05:13.120 At the very least, your majesty will be convinced that Sun Tzu is not a man who takes risks. 01:05:14.300 --> 01:05:19.600 Once the king had retired to his apartments, the warrior thought only of executing his commission. 01:05:20.580 --> 01:05:25.220 He asked for weapons and all the military equipment needed for his newly created soldiers. 01:05:27.060 --> 01:05:35.440 While waiting for everything to be ready, he led his troop into one of the courtyards of the palace which seemed the best suited for his work. 01:05:36.360 --> 01:05:39.420 Soon, the items he had requested were brought to him. 01:05:41.620 --> 01:05:45.060 Sun Tzu then spoke to the princesses. 01:05:45.100 --> 01:05:54.180 Here you are, he said. Under my direction and my orders, you must listen to me attentively and obey me in whatever I command you to do. 01:05:55.020 --> 01:06:00.120 That is the first and most essential military law. Make sure you don't break it. 01:06:00.600 --> 01:06:06.840 By tomorrow, I want you to perform exercises before the king and I intend for them to be done perfectly. 01:06:07.580 --> 01:06:17.460 After those words, he strapped on their swords, put spears in their hands, divided them into two groups and put one of the favorite princesses at the head of each. 01:06:18.360 --> 01:06:22.320 Once that arrangement was made, he began his instructions in these terms. 01:06:23.020 --> 01:06:29.060 Can you tell the difference between your chest and your back and your right hand from your left hand? Answer me. 01:06:30.140 --> 01:06:35.980 At first, the only response he received was some bursts of laughter, but he remained silent and very serious. 01:06:36.840 --> 01:06:39.220 Of course, the ladies then replied in one voice. 01:06:40.160 --> 01:06:45.260 If that is so, resumed Sun Tzu, then listen carefully to what I am going to say. 01:06:45.800 --> 01:06:51.960 When the drum strikes only one beat, you will remain as you are now, only paying attention to what is before your chest. 01:06:52.720 --> 01:06:58.340 When the drum strikes two beats, you must turn so that your chest is in the place where your right hand was before. 01:06:59.080 --> 01:07:05.440 If instead of two beats you hear three, you must turn so that your chest is precisely where your left hand was before. 01:07:05.440 --> 01:07:13.240 But when the drum strikes four beats, you must turn so that your chest is where your back was and your back will be where your chest was. 01:07:14.200 --> 01:07:17.780 What I just said may not be clear enough. Let me explain. 01:07:18.920 --> 01:07:23.660 A single drum beat means that you must not change your position and you must be on guard. 01:07:24.500 --> 01:07:26.880 Two beats mean you must turn right. 01:07:27.620 --> 01:07:30.060 Three beats mean you must turn left. 01:07:30.680 --> 01:07:33.500 And four beats means you make a half turn. 01:07:33.500 --> 01:07:35.400 I will explain even more. 01:07:36.180 --> 01:07:37.700 This is the order I shall follow. 01:07:38.220 --> 01:07:42.580 First I will strike one beat. At that signal you will be ready to receive my orders. 01:07:43.440 --> 01:07:45.460 A few moments later I will strike two beats. 01:07:46.080 --> 01:07:53.300 Then altogether you will turn to the right with gravity after which I will not strike three beats but four and you will make a half turn. 01:07:54.080 --> 01:07:58.980 I will then have you return to your first position and as before I will strike one beat. 01:07:59.880 --> 01:08:01.800 At the first signal be ready. 01:08:01.800 --> 01:08:05.980 Then I will strike not two beats but three and you will turn left. 01:08:06.360 --> 01:08:10.800 At four beats you will complete the half turn. Have you well understood what I am saying? 01:08:12.260 --> 01:08:17.500 If you have any difficulties you have but to speak to me of them and I shall attempt to explain the matter. 01:08:18.780 --> 01:08:21.380 We have understood replied the ladies. 01:08:22.380 --> 01:08:25.240 If that is so responded Sun Tzu, I will begin. 01:08:25.240 --> 01:08:30.060 Do not forget that the sound of the drum takes the place of the General's voice. 01:08:30.720 --> 01:08:32.900 But he is the one who is giving you these orders. 01:08:34.460 --> 01:08:41.560 After repeating his instructions three times Sun Tzu again aligned his small army after which he had the drum strike one beat. 01:08:42.340 --> 01:08:44.620 At that sound all the ladies began to laugh. 01:08:45.340 --> 01:08:47.420 At two drum beats they laughed even louder. 01:08:48.380 --> 01:08:50.540 Ever serious the General spoke to them thus. 01:08:50.540 --> 01:08:55.800 It is possible that I did not explain clearly enough the instructions I gave you. 01:08:56.420 --> 01:08:58.080 If that is so it is my fault. 01:08:59.000 --> 01:09:03.580 I will attempt to remedy it by speaking to you in a way that is more accessible to you. 01:09:04.220 --> 01:09:09.120 And at once he repeated the lesson three times in other terms. 01:09:10.400 --> 01:09:14.080 And then we will see he added if you obey me any better. 01:09:14.840 --> 01:09:17.280 He had the drum strike one beat and then two. 01:09:17.940 --> 01:09:24.940 Seeing him look so serious and given the strange situation they found themselves in the ladies forgot to obey him. 01:09:25.860 --> 01:09:31.300 After attempting in vain to stop the laughter that was choking them they finally let it burst forth loudly. 01:09:33.080 --> 01:09:36.020 Sun Tzu was in no way disconcerted. 01:09:36.020 --> 01:09:41.600 But in the same tone he had used when speaking to them before he said if I had not explained myself clearly 01:09:42.280 --> 01:09:45.740 or if you had not assured me in unison that you understood what I said 01:09:45.740 --> 01:09:48.000 you would in no way be guilty. 01:09:48.860 --> 01:09:51.160 But I spoke to you clearly as you admitted yourselves. 01:09:51.820 --> 01:09:53.060 Why did you not obey? 01:09:54.000 --> 01:09:57.180 You deserve punishment and military punishment. 01:09:58.220 --> 01:10:02.840 Among the makers of war whoever does not obey the orders of the general deserves death. 01:10:04.040 --> 01:10:05.580 Therefore you will die. 01:10:06.500 --> 01:10:12.720 After that short preamble Sun Tzu ordered the women who formed the two lines to kill the two who were leading them. 01:10:13.280 --> 01:10:18.660 Just then one of the men whose job it was to guard the women seeing that the warrior was not joking 01:10:18.660 --> 01:10:20.980 ran to warn the king of what was happening. 01:10:22.040 --> 01:10:26.180 The king sent someone to Sun Tzu to forbid him going any further 01:10:26.180 --> 01:10:32.120 and in particular from mistreating the two women he loved the best and without whom he could not live. 01:10:33.020 --> 01:10:36.620 The general listened with respect to the words that were spoken on behalf of the king 01:10:36.620 --> 01:10:38.840 but he refused to bow to his wishes. 01:10:39.840 --> 01:10:44.100 Go tell the king he replied that Sun Tzu believes him to be too reasonable 01:10:44.100 --> 01:10:48.200 and too just to think he might have changed his mind so soon 01:10:49.200 --> 01:10:53.560 and that he truly wishes to be obeyed in what you have just told me on his behalf. 01:10:54.600 --> 01:10:56.340 The prince is the lawmaker. 01:10:56.840 --> 01:11:00.600 He would not give orders which would sully the dignity he vested in me. 01:11:01.340 --> 01:11:04.940 He asked me to train 180 of his wives as soldiers. 01:11:05.380 --> 01:11:06.680 He made me their general. 01:11:06.680 --> 01:11:08.520 The rest is up to me. 01:11:09.300 --> 01:11:10.480 They disobeyed me. 01:11:10.980 --> 01:11:11.820 They will die. 01:11:12.880 --> 01:11:17.060 So saying he pulled out his sword and with the same calmness he had displayed until then 01:11:17.060 --> 01:11:20.240 he cut off the heads of the two who were leading the others. 01:11:21.100 --> 01:11:23.280 He immediately put two others in their place 01:11:23.280 --> 01:11:27.120 and had the drum strike the various beats he had explained to his troops. 01:11:28.120 --> 01:11:33.060 And it was as if those women had been professional soldiers all their lives. 01:11:33.540 --> 01:11:37.160 They made their turns silently and impeccably. 01:11:39.600 --> 01:11:41.260 Sun Tzu spoke thus to the envoy. 01:11:41.740 --> 01:11:44.380 Go tell the king, he said, that his wives know how to drill. 01:11:45.140 --> 01:11:48.740 Now I can lead them to war, make them affront all sorts of perils 01:11:48.740 --> 01:11:51.980 and even make them pass through water and fire. 01:11:53.060 --> 01:11:57.340 When the king learned what had happened he was penetrated by the deepest sorrow. 01:11:57.820 --> 01:12:01.640 With a great sigh he said, thus have I lost what was dearest to me in this world. 01:12:01.640 --> 01:12:04.340 Have that foreigner return to his country. 01:12:04.780 --> 01:12:06.720 I do not want him nor his services. 01:12:07.400 --> 01:12:11.480 What have you done, barbarian? How can I go on living? And so on. 01:12:13.000 --> 01:12:18.340 As unconsolable as the king was, time and the circumstances soon made him forget his loss. 01:12:18.880 --> 01:12:21.000 His enemies were ready to descend upon him. 01:12:22.260 --> 01:12:25.660 He asked Sun Tzu to return, made him general of his armies 01:12:25.660 --> 01:12:28.200 and with his help he destroyed the Chu kingdom. 01:12:28.200 --> 01:12:31.820 Those of his neighbors who had formerly been the most worrisome 01:12:31.820 --> 01:12:36.920 were now penetrated by fear at the mere mention of the glorious acts of Sun Tzu 01:12:36.920 --> 01:12:40.760 and thought only of living peacefully under the protection of a prince 01:12:40.760 --> 01:12:43.700 who had such a man at his service. 01:12:44.800 --> 01:12:49.060 This introduction confirms that Paul III's war declaration 01:12:49.060 --> 01:12:54.500 Regimini militantis ecclesiae is about protecting the life of the nation 01:12:55.060 --> 01:12:57.660 which is the Roman Church. 01:12:58.320 --> 01:13:02.420 Protecting the Church may require the superior general to sacrifice his soldiers, 01:13:02.900 --> 01:13:06.940 his citizens, and if need be, his sovereign, the Pope. 01:13:08.180 --> 01:13:11.780 In a very real sense, the great general is so inscrutably alone, 01:13:12.140 --> 01:13:16.460 so omnipotent that he is at war with everyone. 01:13:17.680 --> 01:13:22.480 Sacrificing his own, just as Saturn, the grandfather god of Rome, 01:13:22.600 --> 01:13:27.420 devoured his own children in order to defeat an enemy short of coming to blows, 01:13:28.200 --> 01:13:31.200 this is a great general's legitimate obligation. 01:13:32.940 --> 01:13:33.960 Sun Tzu writes, 01:13:35.040 --> 01:13:39.020 Without giving battle, without spilling a drop of the enemy's blood, 01:13:39.300 --> 01:13:43.560 without even drawing a sword, the clever general succeeds in capturing cities. 01:13:44.040 --> 01:13:48.200 Without setting foot in a foreign kingdom, he finds the means to conquer them. 01:13:48.700 --> 01:13:53.340 He acts in such a way that those who are inferior to him can never guess his intentions. 01:13:53.340 --> 01:14:00.100 He has them change location, even taking them to rather difficult places where they must work and suffer. 01:14:01.140 --> 01:14:05.340 When a clever general goes into action, the enemy is already defeated. 01:14:06.700 --> 01:14:09.840 When he fights, he alone must do more than his entire army, 01:14:10.120 --> 01:14:14.920 not through the strength of his arm, but through his prudence, his manner of commanding, 01:14:15.340 --> 01:14:17.660 and above all, his ruses. 01:14:18.900 --> 01:14:25.640 Lorenzo Ricci's most compelling ruse was disestablishing the Society of Jesus, 01:14:26.060 --> 01:14:31.120 a campaign that mimicked the collapse of the Knights Templar four centuries earlier. 01:14:31.960 --> 01:14:40.560 With astonishing precision, the disestablishment ran concurrently with the escalation of hostilities between the American colonies and the British crown. 01:14:41.720 --> 01:14:45.620 It was an amazing juggle that spanned 17 years. 01:14:45.620 --> 01:14:50.020 It saw Ricci's secret liaisons in and around the British Parliament 01:14:50.220 --> 01:14:56.500 by legislation that inflamed his secret liaisons in and around the American colonial governments 01:14:56.500 --> 01:15:00.120 to formulate a culture of rebellion. 01:15:01.100 --> 01:15:07.740 It saw his own visible army, mute and defenseless, systematically assaulted by the European powers 01:15:07.740 --> 01:15:13.800 and eventually suppressed for all eternity by a 1773 papal brief. 01:15:13.800 --> 01:15:19.440 Once the stage was set and the action scripted, it saw the general slip into deeper cover 01:15:19.440 --> 01:15:25.200 to let the Protestant powers exhaust themselves in wars that within a single generation 01:15:25.800 --> 01:15:31.340 resulted in a glorious Roman presence where once England had reigned. 01:15:32.580 --> 01:15:39.560 Clandestine military operations inspired by the ingenuity of Sun Tzu are virtually impossible to document. 01:15:39.560 --> 01:15:45.680 If strategic notes were taken, if written commands were given, they were carefully destroyed. 01:15:46.720 --> 01:15:51.280 Such that survive may have been spared in order to misinform. 01:15:52.360 --> 01:15:57.700 The mouths of covert operatives are kept shut out of a simple desire to stay alive. 01:15:58.900 --> 01:16:03.660 Sensational disclosures too we can presume to be misinformational. 01:16:04.660 --> 01:16:10.740 To determine that Lorenzo Ricci did in fact mount any clandestine operation at all 01:16:10.740 --> 01:16:15.020 requires a careful evaluation of circumstantial evidence. 01:16:16.100 --> 01:16:19.300 Was there an outcome that benefited him and his sovereign? 01:16:19.880 --> 01:16:26.280 Did he have the authority, the motive, the resources, the ability and the opportunity to do what created the outcome? 01:16:27.020 --> 01:16:33.080 As to outcome, English-speaking Protestantism did in fact violently divide. 01:16:33.660 --> 01:16:40.360 And the victorious party, moreover, invited Roman Catholic religionists to participate in its political government. 01:16:41.160 --> 01:16:51.980 As to authority for waging war against Protestantism, Regimini Militatis Ecclesiae authorized the general to prosecute enemies of the Roman faith. 01:16:52.780 --> 01:17:02.700 As to motive, the Jesuit oath spiritually obligated the extirpation of Protestantism in both America and Great Britain. 01:17:03.660 --> 01:17:11.660 As to resources, the Black Papacy, even at its martial strategy, brought its own organization to apparent oblivion. 01:17:12.620 --> 01:17:16.260 Had instant call on the vast reserve of Roman Catholic wealth. 01:17:16.800 --> 01:17:22.240 As the old Spanish proverb goes, Don Dinero es muy catolico. 01:17:23.260 --> 01:17:31.740 Ricci's ability to direct an international covert operation was stated and defined by the momentous publication of the 13 articles 01:17:31.740 --> 01:17:35.900 in what was then the language of international diplomacy. 01:17:37.580 --> 01:17:46.460 Finally, a man commanding unlimited financial resources and unlimited obedience of an unlimited supply of well-trained personnel 01:17:46.460 --> 01:17:53.680 enjoys unlimited opportunity to do anything possible and some things deemed impossible. 01:17:53.680 --> 01:18:02.400 To deny that Lorenzo Ricci orchestrated American independence may be to ignore his talent and demean his office. 01:18:03.380 --> 01:18:09.380 Let us move now to the next chapter and begin our examination of how the general did it. 01:18:10.340 --> 01:18:15.560 Thanks for listening and I'll see you in the next video where I'll be reading chapters 12 and 13. 01:18:16.380 --> 01:18:24.380 Once again, I'm thinking about making an additional video as an addendum to this series with some commentary on this remarkable book 01:18:24.380 --> 01:18:28.560 as I feel some things may need clarification or augmentation. 01:18:29.940 --> 01:18:31.620 Thank you and God bless you.