Hello, and welcome to video number 63, number 3 in a series of videos where I'll be reading
chapters 9 to 11 of Rulers of Evil written by F. Tupper Saucy and published in 1999.
Once again, I will try to keep the commentary to a minimum while I'm reading the text.
Chapter 9, Securing Confidence.
Strengthened by Trent's unqualified endorsement, the Jesuits quickly became the Church's most
popular confessors. Ignatius directed that a Jesuit should not allow anyone to leave
the confessional entirely without comfort. If a confessant's opinion on any matter could
be found in the least bit defensible, Ignatius said he should be permitted to adhere to it,
even when the contrary opinion can be said to be more correct. People relished confessing
to Jesuits. Hard to imagine these days, but in this early period of time, people relished
confessing to Jesuits. Always go to the Jesuits for confession, it was said in Germany. For
they put cushions under your knees and under your elbows too. Merchants, aristocrats, courtiers,
and crowned heads insisted that Jesuit confessional direction was the best in all Christendom.
They considered the Jesuits to be the greatest converters of hard-earned sinners, of hardened
sinners, sorry, the surest moral guides through life's bewildering complexities. Indeed, for
two centuries, all the French kings from Henry III to Louis XIV would confess to Jesuits.
All German emperors after the early 17th century would confess to Jesuits too. Jesuits would
take the confessions of all Dukes of Bavaria after 1579, most rulers of Poland and Portugal,
the Spanish kings in the 18th century, and James II of England. The sacrament of confession
kept Jesuit information channels loaded with vital state secrets. It also furnished the
society an ideal vehicle for influencing political action. One of the most dramatic instances
is found in the famous memoir of Francois de Lachaise, Jesuit confessor to the painfully
diseased King of France from 1675 until 1709. He said,
Many a time since, wrote Lachaise, when I have had him, Louis XIV, at confession,
I have shook hell about his ears and made him sigh fear and tremble before I would give him
absolution. By this I saw that he still had an inclination to me and was willing to be under
my government. So I set the baseness of the action before him by telling the whole story,
and how wicked it was, and that it could not be forgiven till he had done some good action
to balance that and expiate the crime. Whereupon he at last asked me what he must do. I told him
that he must root out all heretics from his kingdom. Louis obeyed his confessor by revoking
the Edict of Nantes, or Nantes, in October 1685, which immediately resulted in the demolition of
all the remaining Protestant temples throughout France, and the entire prohibition of even private
worship under penalty of confiscation of body and property. The closing of all Protestant schools,
the prohibition of parents to instruct their children in the Protestant faith, the injunction
upon them under a penalty of 500 livres in each case to have their children baptized by the parish
priest and brought up in the Roman Catholic religion, the confiscation of the property and
goods of all Protestant refugees who failed to return to France within four months, the penalty
of the galleys for life to all men, and of imprisonment for life to all women detected in
the act of attempting to escape from France. This is how ruthless the Roman Catholic Church is in
dealing with anybody who dissents from Roman Catholic religion. They are ruthless, and once
they have gained the upper hand, they will kill and eliminate all opposition, all dissension to
the Roman Catholic religion. This is how serious it is, folks. It was inevitable that the Council of Trent
would establish the Jesuits as the schoolmasters of Europe. With money from royalty and commerce,
and not so much as a finnick from the church, the Society built an extensive system of schools and
colleges. No tuition was charged, but each prospective student was thoroughly examined to see if he had
aptitudes the Society could use. With the founding of the first Jesuit school at Coimbra, Portugal, by
the Emperor's youngest sister, Caterina, Inigo's romantic interest, who had since married the King
of Portugal, the principal Jesuit occupation became teaching. And I've spoken about the Jesuits and
their control of education since a very, very early stages in their formation. Worldwide, the Jesuits
had schools by 1700 on every continent. And it is through teaching that they propagate Jesuit
doctrine, Roman Catholic teaching, and ideology into the young generations. And that is why, again, once
again, we are where we are today, societies living in darkness. Continuing on, by 1556, three-fourths of the
Society's membership were dedicated in 46 Jesuit colleges to learning against learning, to
indoctrinating minds with the learning of illuminated humanism, as opposed to the learning of scripture. This
network would expand by 1749 to 669 colleges, 176 seminaries, 61 houses of study, and 24 universities, partly or
wholly under Jesuit direction. Many Protestant families sent their sons to Jesuit schools, despite Martin Luther's
early warning in an appeal to the ruling class of 1520, that unless they diligently train and impress scripture upon young
students, schools will prove to be widening gates of hell. The Jesuit curriculum, or ratio studiorum, method of study, gave
scripture significant inattention. Part four, section 351 of Loyola's constitutions prescribes courses in the humane
letters of different languages, logic, natural and moral philosophy, metaphysics, scholastic and positive theology, with
sacred scripture bringing up the rear. This is how unimportant the Bible is in Roman Catholic education. It is last and
least, and holds no importance at all. How rigorously any of these subjects was to be studied depended upon circumstances of
times, places, persons, and other such factors according to what seems expedient in our Lord to him who holds the principal
charge. Section 366 puts scripture at the mercy of these factors. The scholastics should acquire a good foundation in
Latin before they attend lectures on the arts, and in the arts before they pass on to scholastic theology, and in it before they
study positive theology. Scripture may be studied either concomitantly or later on. If scripture should be studied at all, the
commentary and critical interpretation of Protestant scholastics were to be ignored. In the case of Christian authors, even though
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
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.
Walsh, Dean of Fordham University Medical School. Moreover, according to Dr. Walsh, the founding fathers of our American Republic, that is
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
formulated the Constitution of the United States, were, the majority of them, educated in the colonial colleges or in corresponding colleges
abroad, which followed almost exactly the Jesuit Ratio Studiorum. The fact has been missed to a great extent in our histories of American
education. Embedded in the Ratio Studiorum were the elements of entertainment, of dramatic production, composition, rhetoric, and eloquence. These
courses interlinked with the spiritual exercises to intensify the experientiality of Catholic doctrine over scripture and Protestantism. They resulted in a
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The philosophical ideals promulgated throughout Shakespearean plays distinctly demonstrate their author to have been thoroughly familiar with certain doctrines and tenets peculiar to Rosicrucianism.
In fact, the profundity of the Shakespearean production stamps their creator as one of the Illuminati of the ages.
Who but a Platonist, a Kabbalist, or a Pythagorean could have written The Tempest, Macbeth, Hamlet, or The Tragedy of Cymbeline?
Who but one deeply versed in Paracelsian lore could have conceived A Midsummer Night's Dream?
Yet, as Gary Wills in his book Witches and Jesuits points out, Macbeth is an elaborate condemnation of the Jesuits as Satanists, murderers, witches.
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.
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.
How could a play defending Jesuits be of service to the Jesuit agenda?
As we shall see, warfare in defense of the papacy requires extravagant measures.
In fact, both the gunpowder plot, which failed, and the celebration of its detection, which lives on in Macbeth, served Rome abundantly.
King James I, who declared himself the plot's divinely illuminated discoverer, blamed the plot on Jesuits and papists.
But at the same time, James exonerated less fanatical Catholics.
According to Wills, the plot gave James his best opportunity to separate loyal and moderate Catholics from the mad extremists of the plot.
In short, the plot secured England for loyal and moderate Roman Catholicism.
In the reasoning of a superior general, particularly the general of the gunpowder plot and Shakespearean theatre, Claudio Acquaviva,
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.
Certainly, the most elaborate single Jesuit theatrical event was produced by Gregory XV, the first Jesuit pupil to be elected Pope.
This was the canonization of Ignatius de Loyola, the climax of Gregory's brief pontificate. He reigned only three years.
Canonization is authorized nowhere in the Bible. Rather, it is a process adapted from the pagan tradition of apotheosis,
whereby the priest's college declared a particularly effective mortal to be a god.
In Roman Catholicism, the sacred congregation of rites conducts a lengthy inquisition into the works of a deceased candidate.
The inquisition can take dozens, even hundreds of years.
The candidate's works are defended before a tribunal of three judges against a devil's advocate.
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.
The Bible teaches that anyone who hears and does the commandments of Jesus is a saint.
Without any hierarchical red tape, he or she avoids judgment and goes to heaven immediately upon physical death.
Loyola's canonization was celebrated on March 12, 1622, in a ceremony that was an unprecedented display of ecclesiastical pomp, pageantry, and extravagance.
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.
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.
With his megaphone, which enabled the voice of one to reach thousands, Kircher invented broadcasting.
He also fathered modern camera theory with his perfection of the lanterna magica.
The magic lantern projected sharp images through a lens upon a screen, giving audiences the illusion of burning cities and conflagrations.
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,
Thomas Alva Edison's Kinetograph, for filming action to be projected onto a screen through his Kinetoscope of 1894.
Edison had a pet name for the tar-papered studio in West Orange, New Jersey, where all his prototypical films were made.
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.
The American cinema's earliest subject matter to capture the popular imagination, the cowboy, was a Jesuit contribution as well.
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.
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.
Pondering the works of Kircher and Kino, we come to a rather astonishing awareness. Kino's Cowboys, as projected through Kircher's magic lantern,
indoctrinated America's earliest movie audiences with the underlying message of Jesuit theater and Roman Catholic theology,
that knowing and obeying scripture is not necessary in comprehending the ways of good and evil, or in doing justice under natural law.
Using cinema and radio to unite Catholic laypersons with the Roman hierarchy was a main purpose of Catholic Action.
Catholic Action was inaugurated in 1922 by Pius XI, whose two confessors, Father Alessiardi and Celebrano, were Jesuits.
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.
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,
they did not try to direct the politics of their province and of their country.
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.
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.
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.
Had not the Church, he argued, looked on as Jews as parasites and shut them in ghettos?
I am only doing, he boasted, what the Church has done for 1,500 years, only more effectively.
Being a Catholic himself, he told Bernhard, he admired and wanted to promote Christianity.
Remember, Christianity has nothing to do with Catholicism. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Christianity is totally biblical-based. Catholicism is ancient, pagan, Babylonian religion dressed up in Christian symbology.
This is really important to understand, as many people are confused about Roman Catholicism as being Christianity. It is not.
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.
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.
In print, Ledekowski's pan-German manifesto took the form of Hitler's autobiographical Mein Kampf, or My Struggle.
Ghost-written by the Jesuit father, Stempfel, and placed beside the Bible on the altars of German churches.
This is how influential Mein Kampf was in Germany.
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,
Men must be brought into closer communion with one another. They must become socially minded.
These technical arts, cinema, sound broadcasting, and television can achieve this aim far more easily than the printed word.
The Catholic Church is keenly desirous that these means be converted to the spreading and advancement of everything that can be truly called good.
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.
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.
Should this happen, which God forbid, then it is for the bishops to rebuke them and, if necessary, to oppose upon them appropriate sanctions.
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.
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.
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.
This is very important to understand, people. Hollywood movies are not benign productions. They are created specifically to propagate Catholic doctrine and humanistic doctrine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I continue on.
This is so true. Please take note of that last portion of the writing.
I continue.
Definition, psychological technique.
Chapter 10. Definitions.
The term Jesuit was first used to describe a member of the Society of Jesus in 1559.
It did not originate from within the Society, but from outsiders.
Whether intended derisively or respectfully, Jesuit does appear to have been inspired.
We find in the Bible, in Numbers chapter 26 and verse 44, the mention of Jesuits or Jesuits.
These Jesuits were the progeny of Jesui, whose name in Hebrew, Yishvi, means level.
The Jesuits certainly leveled the Protestant menace.
Jesui was a great-grandson of Abraham.
His father was the Israelite tribal chieftain, Asher.
And Asher means happy.
At Genesis 49, verse 20, Asher's posterity is divinely prophesied to yield royal dainties,
ma'adanim, or delights.
Their uniquely privileged access to the minds and wills of kings
has certainly enabled the Jesuits to yield copious harvests of royal delights.
But in fulfilling their scriptural prophecy, the Jesuits seem to have
inalienated themselves from people who use the English language.
This does not disappoint Saint Ignatius.
Let us hope, he once wrote, that the society may never be left untroubled
by the hostility of the world for very long.
Now this last little section is a little bit troubling,
where Tappersauce tries to link the Jesuits to the descendants of Abraham.
I do believe that this is untrue, this is false.
Whatever his intention was here, I do not agree with it.
The Jesuits have no link whatsoever to scriptural prophecy,
only in that they are identified as the synagogue of Satan.
America's first indigenous dictionary was compiled by Noah Webster
and published in 1828.
His American dictionary by the English language reflects the place
held by Jesuits in the opinion of a public whose senior citizens
had brought forth the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Webster himself was 41 when the Constitution was ratified.
So here is a list of terms.
Jesuit was designated in the Webster's dictionary
as one of the Society of Jesus, so-called, founded by Ignatius Loyola,
a society remarkable for their cunning in propagating their principles.
Jesuited means conforming to the principles of the Jesuits.
Jesuitess is a female Jesuit in principle.
Jesuitic or Jesuitical is pertaining to the Jesuits or their principles and arts.
Or number two, designing, cunning, deceitful, prevaricating.
Jesuitically is termed as craftily.
Jesuitism, the arts, principles and practices of the Jesuits.
Or number two, cunning, deceit, hypocrisy, prevarication, deceptive practices to affect a purpose.
178 years later, Webster's third new international dictionary of 1986 informs us that the language has not repented.
Jesuit number one, a member of a religious society for men founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola in 1534.
Or number two, one given to intrigue or equivocation, a crafty person or casuist.
Jesuited means Jesuitic.
Jesuitic or Jesuitical, number one, of or relating to the Jesuits, Jesuitism or Jesuitry.
Number two, having qualities thought to resemble those of a Jesuit and usually used disparagingly.
Jesuitized means to act or teach in the actual or ascribed manner of a Jesuit, to indoctrinate with actual or ascribed Jesuit principles.
And Jesuitry, principles or practices ascribed to the Jesuits as the practice of mental reservation, casuistry and equivocation.
Please take note of all these terms because this is what the Jesuits were known for.
Casuistry, sophistry, cunningness, ruthlessness, craftiness and deceptive, deception.
Webster's online dictionary at www.webster1999 is particularly revealing.
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.
And that a Jesuit is one given to intrigue or equivocation.
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.
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.
Of doubtful advantage, genuineness or moral rectitude.
The Jesuit discipline has elevated mental reservation, casuistry and equivocation to high arts.
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.
Purportedly written to a friend, the letters report kinds of conversations Pascal is having with a Jesuit casuist.
The Jesuit defends his arts thusly.
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.
Otherwise they would cast us off altogether, and what is worse, they would become perfect castaways.
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.
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.
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.
Jesuit moral theology hardly needs a satirist. Its humor is self-contained.
Consider Hermann Busenbaum, one of the society's most venerated moral theologians.
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.
A man of stout appetites, Busenbaum constructed an equivocation to relieve himself of the obligation to eat fish on Fridays.
On Fridays, he said, every good Catholic must eat only creatures that live in the water, which justifies ordering a nice roast duck.
Busenbaum demonstrated how mental reservation could enable a criminal to escape a charge of breaking and entering.
Did you force the window to gain felonious entry into these premises, asked the judge.
Certainly not, replies the accused, qualifying his denial with the mental reservation, I entered through the skylight.
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.
To the entreaties of her husband, she absolutely denied the fault.
I have not committed it, she said, meaning adultery such as I am obliged to reveal.
In other words, I have not committed an adultery.
She could deny her sin, as a culprit may say to a judge who does not question him legitimately.
I have not committed any crime, adding mentally, in such a manner that I should reveal it.
This is the opinion of St. Liguari and of many others.
The St. Liguari, to whom Gury refers as Alphonse Liguari, declared patron saint of confessors and moralists by Pope Pius XII.
St. Liguari was not a Jesuit himself, but he was devoted to them.
He facilitated adultery by means of an equivocation.
An adulteress questioned by her husband may deny her guilt by declaring that she has not committed adultery,
meaning idolatry, for which the term adultery is often employed in the Old Testament.
Casuistry is the process of applying moral principles falsely in deciding the rights or wrongs of a case.
The word casuistry comes from cases.
W. W. Webster equates casuistry with rationalization,
to cause something to seem reasonable, to provide plausible but untrue reasons for conduct.
In early 1999, President Clinton's biographer, David Maraniss, could be seen remarking on talk shows
that the president owed his formidable skills as a criminal defendant to his training in casuistry at Georgetown University.
The great Jesuit casuist, Antonio Escobar, pardoned evildoing as long as it was committed in pursuit of a lofty goal.
Purity of intention, he declared in 1627, may justify actions which are contrary to the moral code and to human laws.
Hermann Busenbaum ratified Escobar with his own famous maxim,
Confinis est licitas, etiam media sunt licita.
If the end is legal, the means are legal.
Escobar and Busenbaum boil down to the essential doctrine of terrorism.
The end justifies the means.
And this is the prime maxim of the Jesuits.
Whatever it takes, they will do it.
To bring about total control and power over the whole world.
Temporal and spiritual for the Pope.
Casuistry solved the problem of usury.
Although the voice of Jesus commanded, Lend, hoping for nothing again and your reward will be great, in Luke chapter 6 and verse 35,
Jesuit lenders often charged exorbitant interest.
Father Guri explained the principle.
If lending 100 francs, you are losing 10 francs by it, you lend really 110 francs.
Then you shall receive 110 francs.
Indeed, casuistry has set the moral tone of world economics.
In his Universae Theologiae Moralis, or Catholic Moral Theology, of 1652 to 1666,
Antonio Escobar rendered the opinion that the giving a short way is not to be reckoned as a sin,
when the official price for certain goods is so low that the merchant would be ruined thereby.
By this reasoning, the international network of central banks, beginning with the Knights Templars,
and sustained by the Society of Jesus, has been absolved of manipulating monetary values,
if doing so helps individual sovereign states manage their subjects.
Subjects are cyclically required to part with true value, that is, hard-earned gold and silver coinage,
in exchange for intangible credit denominated in paper notes,
whose official promises to repay in precious coinage are cyclically broken.
As the most powerful office in Roman Catholicism, the Black Papacy,
might have promoted stable national economies by means of the divinely fair monetary system commanded in the Bible,
at Leviticus chapter 9, which states,
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in measure, just balances, just weights shall ye have.
I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Instead, it has promoted Escobar's casuistry, which directs merchants to survive official value manipulations by cheating one another.
There are significant sociological consequences.
When giving short weight becomes policy, a moral paradigm is set.
That paradigm governs more than just commercial transactions.
It affects human relationships as well.
Partners in friendships, marriages, and families begin giving short weight, giving less than represented.
This results in one-sided, frustrating, dysfunctional emotional transactions, and ultimately, an aberrant society.
The ultimate beneficiary of aberrant societies, of course, is Pontifex Maximus, the Pope, whose profession is their regulation.
If we depend solely on dictionary definitions, we learn that Jesuits are churchmen and teachers of a doubtful moral rectitude,
who are likely to cheat, trick, plot, scheme, deceive, and confuse us, while avoiding to commit themselves verbally.
When we study their published moralists, we sense a rather vibrant presence of the trickster, or Mercury.
But in the society's defense, it must be said, these are legitimate character traits for a militia empowered by a declaration of war.
And we must remember that Paul III's bull ordaining the Society of Jesus, Regimini Militantes Ecclesiae, is just such a declaration.
Human life in a declared war becomes subject to the first great rule of war, Belli Legum Dormant.
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.
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.
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.
The amazing technology of Jesuit warfare, that is the subject of our next chapter.
Chapter 11. The Thirteen Articles Concerning Military Art.
Before the American Revolution, Roman Catholics were barred from voting or holding public office throughout the British colonies.
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.
The basis of Roman Catholic persecution was political. Catholics owed allegiance to Pontifex Maximus, the Bishop of Rome.
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.
From the American colonist standpoint, to allow Catholics to vote or hold office was tantamount to surrendering their colonies to a foreign conqueror.
A crucial part of maintaining personal liberty in Protestant colonial America was keeping Roman Catholics out of government.
But then came the Revolution. The colonial citizenry fought for and won their independence from Great Britain.
They established a constitution that amounted to surrendering their country to a foreign conqueror.
Consider the legalities. Before the constitution was ratified, American Catholics had few civil rights.
After ratification, they had them all.
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,
while the First Amendment denies Congress the power to make any law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
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.
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,
7,000 in Pennsylvania, 1,500 in New York, and 200 in Virginia.
Once the Constitution was in place, a steady influx of European immigrants transformed Roman Catholicism from America's smallest to largest religious denomination.
By 1850, the higher powers at Rome could view the United States as a viable tributary, if not another papal state.
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.
Ricci was a Tuscan aristocrat by birth, a Stoical philosopher by reputation, and a Jesuit father by profession.
He was Superior General of the Society of Jesus during the formative years of the American Revolution, from 1758 until 1775.
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.
The reputed author of this work is a quasi-historical Chinese general believed to have lived in the 6th century BC named Sun Tzu.
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.
Amiot was a Jesuit priest under obedience to General Ricci.
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,
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.
Amiot's Sun Tzu then can be presumed to have been written by Lorenzo Ricci.
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.
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.
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.
His method was so sublimely Sun Tzu-an that his opponents never even perceived his army to be an opponent,
just as Protestants today are unaware that extirpating their credo is still the unrelenting Jesuit mission.
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.
As U.S. corporations increased their presence in the Pacific Rim, Sun Tzu became a major survival tool.
Since the middle 80s, more than 50 editions of the articles have been published in this country, mostly under the Art of War title.
These editions represent Sun Tzu well enough, but none of them are derived from the 1772 Emiot translation into French,
which itself was based on a Tartar Manchurian version of the older Chinese manuscripts.
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.
That manuscript is the source of my citations here.
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,
while at the same time dividing the rest of Europe against Britain, against even the general's own army.
The Emiot is all the more remarkable for appearing in the very midst of the unfolding of this extraordinary process.
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.
If we are to judge the Chinese by their morals, and in general by everything one can currently observe of them,
we would instantly conclude that this must be the most pacifist nation in the world.
Far from having the brilliant qualities necessary for warriors.
Yet surprisingly, this very nation, which has subsisted for nearly 4,000 years in approximately the same state we see it in today,
has always, or almost always, triumphed over its enemies.
And when it had the misfortune of being conquered, it gave its laws to the conquerors themselves.
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.
He exclaims, what heroes, what politicians, what warriors? No Alexander or Caesar could surpass them.
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?
The reference to Caesar is significant.
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.
Were the Oriental military laws just as fine as Caesar's?
It is not up to me to judge this, Emiot answers. Our warriors must pronounce themselves in this regard.
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.
Clandestine generals order clandestinely.
Emiot admits that translating a war manual was contrary to my taste and so far from the object of my profession.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, prince, replied Sun Tzu in a firm voice, and I beg your majesty to be assured of it.
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.
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.
We will see, said the king, smiling. We will see, Sun Tzu, if you will be true to your word.
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.
When they are sufficiently instructed, you will let me know, and I will come myself to render justice to them and to your talent.
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.
Not only by allowing him to see his wives, but also by putting them under his direction.
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.
At the very least, your majesty will be convinced that Sun Tzu is not a man who takes risks.
Once the king had retired to his apartments, the warrior thought only of executing his commission.
He asked for weapons and all the military equipment needed for his newly created soldiers.
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.
Soon, the items he had requested were brought to him.
Sun Tzu then spoke to the princesses.
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.
That is the first and most essential military law. Make sure you don't break it.
By tomorrow, I want you to perform exercises before the king and I intend for them to be done perfectly.
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.
Once that arrangement was made, he began his instructions in these terms.
Can you tell the difference between your chest and your back and your right hand from your left hand? Answer me.
At first, the only response he received was some bursts of laughter, but he remained silent and very serious.
Of course, the ladies then replied in one voice.
If that is so, resumed Sun Tzu, then listen carefully to what I am going to say.
When the drum strikes only one beat, you will remain as you are now, only paying attention to what is before your chest.
When the drum strikes two beats, you must turn so that your chest is in the place where your right hand was before.
If instead of two beats you hear three, you must turn so that your chest is precisely where your left hand was before.
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.
What I just said may not be clear enough. Let me explain.
A single drum beat means that you must not change your position and you must be on guard.
Two beats mean you must turn right.
Three beats mean you must turn left.
And four beats means you make a half turn.
I will explain even more.
This is the order I shall follow.
First I will strike one beat. At that signal you will be ready to receive my orders.
A few moments later I will strike two beats.
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.
I will then have you return to your first position and as before I will strike one beat.
At the first signal be ready.
Then I will strike not two beats but three and you will turn left.
At four beats you will complete the half turn. Have you well understood what I am saying?
If you have any difficulties you have but to speak to me of them and I shall attempt to explain the matter.
We have understood replied the ladies.
If that is so responded Sun Tzu, I will begin.
Do not forget that the sound of the drum takes the place of the General's voice.
But he is the one who is giving you these orders.
After repeating his instructions three times Sun Tzu again aligned his small army after which he had the drum strike one beat.
At that sound all the ladies began to laugh.
At two drum beats they laughed even louder.
Ever serious the General spoke to them thus.
It is possible that I did not explain clearly enough the instructions I gave you.
If that is so it is my fault.
I will attempt to remedy it by speaking to you in a way that is more accessible to you.
And at once he repeated the lesson three times in other terms.
And then we will see he added if you obey me any better.
He had the drum strike one beat and then two.
Seeing him look so serious and given the strange situation they found themselves in the ladies forgot to obey him.
After attempting in vain to stop the laughter that was choking them they finally let it burst forth loudly.
Sun Tzu was in no way disconcerted.
But in the same tone he had used when speaking to them before he said if I had not explained myself clearly
or if you had not assured me in unison that you understood what I said
you would in no way be guilty.
But I spoke to you clearly as you admitted yourselves.
Why did you not obey?
You deserve punishment and military punishment.
Among the makers of war whoever does not obey the orders of the general deserves death.
Therefore you will die.
After that short preamble Sun Tzu ordered the women who formed the two lines to kill the two who were leading them.
Just then one of the men whose job it was to guard the women seeing that the warrior was not joking
ran to warn the king of what was happening.
The king sent someone to Sun Tzu to forbid him going any further
and in particular from mistreating the two women he loved the best and without whom he could not live.
The general listened with respect to the words that were spoken on behalf of the king
but he refused to bow to his wishes.
Go tell the king he replied that Sun Tzu believes him to be too reasonable
and too just to think he might have changed his mind so soon
and that he truly wishes to be obeyed in what you have just told me on his behalf.
The prince is the lawmaker.
He would not give orders which would sully the dignity he vested in me.
He asked me to train 180 of his wives as soldiers.
He made me their general.
The rest is up to me.
They disobeyed me.
They will die.
So saying he pulled out his sword and with the same calmness he had displayed until then
he cut off the heads of the two who were leading the others.
He immediately put two others in their place
and had the drum strike the various beats he had explained to his troops.
And it was as if those women had been professional soldiers all their lives.
They made their turns silently and impeccably.
Sun Tzu spoke thus to the envoy.
Go tell the king, he said, that his wives know how to drill.
Now I can lead them to war, make them affront all sorts of perils
and even make them pass through water and fire.
When the king learned what had happened he was penetrated by the deepest sorrow.
With a great sigh he said, thus have I lost what was dearest to me in this world.
Have that foreigner return to his country.
I do not want him nor his services.
What have you done, barbarian? How can I go on living? And so on.
As unconsolable as the king was, time and the circumstances soon made him forget his loss.
His enemies were ready to descend upon him.
He asked Sun Tzu to return, made him general of his armies
and with his help he destroyed the Chu kingdom.
Those of his neighbors who had formerly been the most worrisome
were now penetrated by fear at the mere mention of the glorious acts of Sun Tzu
and thought only of living peacefully under the protection of a prince
who had such a man at his service.
This introduction confirms that Paul III's war declaration
Regimini militantis ecclesiae is about protecting the life of the nation
which is the Roman Church.
Protecting the Church may require the superior general to sacrifice his soldiers,
his citizens, and if need be, his sovereign, the Pope.
In a very real sense, the great general is so inscrutably alone,
so omnipotent that he is at war with everyone.
Sacrificing his own, just as Saturn, the grandfather god of Rome,
devoured his own children in order to defeat an enemy short of coming to blows,
this is a great general's legitimate obligation.
Sun Tzu writes,
Without giving battle, without spilling a drop of the enemy's blood,
without even drawing a sword, the clever general succeeds in capturing cities.
Without setting foot in a foreign kingdom, he finds the means to conquer them.
He acts in such a way that those who are inferior to him can never guess his intentions.
He has them change location, even taking them to rather difficult places where they must work and suffer.
When a clever general goes into action, the enemy is already defeated.
When he fights, he alone must do more than his entire army,
not through the strength of his arm, but through his prudence, his manner of commanding,
and above all, his ruses.
Lorenzo Ricci's most compelling ruse was disestablishing the Society of Jesus,
a campaign that mimicked the collapse of the Knights Templar four centuries earlier.
With astonishing precision, the disestablishment ran concurrently with the escalation of hostilities between the American colonies and the British crown.
It was an amazing juggle that spanned 17 years.
It saw Ricci's secret liaisons in and around the British Parliament
by legislation that inflamed his secret liaisons in and around the American colonial governments
to formulate a culture of rebellion.
It saw his own visible army, mute and defenseless, systematically assaulted by the European powers
and eventually suppressed for all eternity by a 1773 papal brief.
Once the stage was set and the action scripted, it saw the general slip into deeper cover
to let the Protestant powers exhaust themselves in wars that within a single generation
resulted in a glorious Roman presence where once England had reigned.
Clandestine military operations inspired by the ingenuity of Sun Tzu are virtually impossible to document.
If strategic notes were taken, if written commands were given, they were carefully destroyed.
Such that survive may have been spared in order to misinform.
The mouths of covert operatives are kept shut out of a simple desire to stay alive.
Sensational disclosures too we can presume to be misinformational.
To determine that Lorenzo Ricci did in fact mount any clandestine operation at all
requires a careful evaluation of circumstantial evidence.
Was there an outcome that benefited him and his sovereign?
Did he have the authority, the motive, the resources, the ability and the opportunity to do what created the outcome?
As to outcome, English-speaking Protestantism did in fact violently divide.
And the victorious party, moreover, invited Roman Catholic religionists to participate in its political government.
As to authority for waging war against Protestantism, Regimini Militatis Ecclesiae authorized the general to prosecute enemies of the Roman faith.
As to motive, the Jesuit oath spiritually obligated the extirpation of Protestantism in both America and Great Britain.
As to resources, the Black Papacy, even at its martial strategy, brought its own organization to apparent oblivion.
Had instant call on the vast reserve of Roman Catholic wealth.
As the old Spanish proverb goes, Don Dinero es muy catolico.
Ricci's ability to direct an international covert operation was stated and defined by the momentous publication of the 13 articles
in what was then the language of international diplomacy.
Finally, a man commanding unlimited financial resources and unlimited obedience of an unlimited supply of well-trained personnel
enjoys unlimited opportunity to do anything possible and some things deemed impossible.
To deny that Lorenzo Ricci orchestrated American independence may be to ignore his talent and demean his office.
Let us move now to the next chapter and begin our examination of how the general did it.
Thanks for listening and I'll see you in the next video where I'll be reading chapters 12 and 13.
Once again, I'm thinking about making an additional video as an addendum to this series with some commentary on this remarkable book
as I feel some things may need clarification or augmentation.
Thank you and God bless you.