The following is the Jesuit
Extreme Oath of Induction given to high ranking Jesuits only. This oath is taken
from the book Subterranean Rome by Carlos Didier, translated from the
French, and published in New York in 1843.
"When a Jesuit
of the minor rank is to be elevated to command, he is conducted into the Chapel
of the Convent of the Order, where there are only three others present, the
principal or Superior standing in front of the altar. On either side stands a
monk, one of whom holds a banner of yellow and white, which are the Papal
colors, and the other a black banner with a dagger and red cross above a skull
and crossbones, with the word INRI, and below them the words IUSTUM, NECAR, REGES, IMPIOUS. The meaning of which is:
It is just to exterminate or annihilate impious or heretical
Kings, Governments, or Rulers. Upon the floor is a red cross at which the
postulant or candidate kneels. The Superior hands him a small black crucifix,
which he takes in his left hand and presses to his heart, and the Superior at
the same time presents to him a dagger, which he grasps by the blade and holds
the point against his heart, the Superior still holding it by the hilt, and thus
addresses the postulant:"
Superior:
My son, heretofore you have
been taught to act the dissembler: among Roman Catholics to be a Roman Catholic,
and to be a spy even among your own brethren; to believe no man, to trust no
man. Among the Reformers, to be a reformer; among the Huguenots, to be a
Huguenot; among the Calvinists, to be a Calvinist; among other Protestants,
generally to be a Protestant, and obtaining their confidence, to seek even to
preach from their pulpits, and to denounce with all the vehemence in your nature
our Holy Religion and the Pope; and even to descend so low as to become a Jew
among Jews, that you might be enabled to gather together all information for the
benefit of your Order as a faithful soldier of the Pope.
You have been taught to
insidiously plant the seeds of jealousy and hatred between communities,
provinces, states that were at peace, and incite them to deeds of blood,
involving them in war with each other, and to create revolutions and civil wars
in countries that were independent and prosperous, cultivating the arts and the
sciences and enjoying the blessings of peace. To take sides with the combatants
and to act secretly with your brother Jesuit, who might be engaged on the other
side, but openly opposed to that with which you might be connected, only that
the Church might be the gainer in the end, in the conditions fixed in the
treaties for peace and that the end justifies the means.
You have been taught your
duty as a spy, to gather all statistics, facts and information in your power
from every source; to ingratiate yourself into the confidence of the family
circle of Protestants and heretics of every class and character, as well as that
of the merchant, the banker, the lawyer, among the schools and universities, in
parliaments and legislatures, and the judiciaries and councils of state, and to
be all things to all men, for the Pope's sake, whose servants we are unto
death.
You have received all your
instructions heretofore as a novice, a neophyte, and have served as co-adjurer,
confessor and priest, but you have not yet been invested with all that is
necessary to command in the Army of Loyola in the service of the Pope. You must
serve the proper time as the instrument and executioner as directed by your
superiors; for none can command here who has not consecrated his labors with the
blood of the heretic; for "without the shedding of blood no man can be saved."
Therefore, to fit yourself for your work and make your own salvation sure, you
will, in addition to your former oath of obedience to your order and allegiance
to the Pope, repeat after me---
The Extreme Oath of the
Jesuits:
"1, _ now, in the presence
of Almighty God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the blessed Michael the Archangel, the
blessed St. John the Baptist, the holy Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul and all
the saints and sacred hosts of heaven, and to you, my ghostly father, the
Superior General of the Society of Jesus, founded by St. Ignatius Loyola in the
Pontificate of Paul the Third, and continued to the present, do by the womb of
the virgin, the matrix of God, and the rod of Jesus Christ, declare and swear,
that his holiness the Pope is Christ's Vice-regent and is the true and only head
of the Catholic or Universal Church throughout the earth; and that by virtue of
the keys of binding and loosing, given to his Holiness by my Savior, Jesus
Christ, he hath power to depose heretical kings, princes, states, commonwealths
and governments, all being illegal without his sacred confirmation and that they
may safely be destroyed. Therefore, to the utmost of my power I shall and will
defend this doctrine of his Holiness' right and custom against all usurpers of
the heretical or Protestant authority whatever, especially the Lutheran of
Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and the now pretended authority and
churches of England and Scotland, and branches of the same now established in
Ireland and on the Continent of America and elsewhere; and all adherents in
regard that they be usurped and heretical, opposing the sacred Mother Church of
Rome. I do now renounce and disown any allegiance as due to any heretical king,
prince or state named Protestants or Liberals, or obedience to any of the laws,
magistrates or officers.
I do further declare that
the doctrine of the churches of England and Scotland, of the Calvinists,
Huguenots and others of the name Protestants or Liberals to be damnable and they
themselves damned who will not forsake the same.
I do further declare, that I
will help, assist, and advise all or any of his Holiness' agents in any place
wherever I shall be, in Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway,
England, Ireland or America, or in any other Kingdom or territory I shall come
to, and do my uttermost to extirpate the heretical Protestants or Liberals'
doctrines and to destroy all their pretended powers, regal or
otherwise.
I do further promise and
declare, that notwithstanding I am dispensed with, to assume my religion
heretical, for the propaganda of the Mother Church's interest, to keep secret
and private all her agents' counsels from time to time, as they may entrust me
and not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing or circumstance
whatever; but to execute all that shall be proposed, given in charge or
discovered unto me, by you, my ghostly father, or any of this sacred
covenant.
I do further promise and
declare, that I will have no opinion or will of my own, or any mental
reservation whatever, even as a corpse or cadaver (perinde ac cadaver), but will
unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may receive from my superiors
in the Militia of the Pope and of Jesus Christ.
That I may go to any part of
the world withersoever I may be sent, to the frozen regions of the North, the
burning sands of the desert of Africa, or the jungles of India, to the centers
of civilization of Europe, or to the wild haunts of the barbarous savages of
America, without murmuring or repining, and will be submissive in all things
whatsoever communicated to me.
I furthermore
promise and declare that I will, when opportunity present, make and wage
relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and
Liberals, as I am directed to do, to extirpate and exterminate them from the
face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex or condition;
and that I will hang, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous
heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants'
heads against the walls, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race.
That when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poisoned cup,
the strangulating cord, the steel of the poniard or the leaden bullet,
regardless of the honor, rank, dignity, or authority of the person or persons,
whatever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any
time may be directed so to do by any agent of the Pope or Superior of the
Brotherhood of the Holy Faith, of the Society of Jesus.
In confirmation of which, I
hereby dedicate my life, my soul and all my corporal powers, and with this
dagger which I now receive, I will subscribe my name written in my own blood, in
testimony thereof; and should I prove false or weaken in my determination, may
my brethren and fellow soldiers of the Militia of the Pope cut off my hands and
my feet, and my throat from ear to ear, my belly opened and sulphur burned
therein, with all the punishment that can be inflicted upon me on earth and my
soul be tortured by demons in an eternal hell forever!
All of which, I, _, do swear
by the Blessed Trinity and blessed Sacraments, which I am now to receive, to
perform and on my part to keep inviolable; and do call all the heavenly and
glorious host of heaven to witness the blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist, and
witness the same further with my name written and with the point of this dagger
dipped in my own blood and sealed in the face of this holy covenant."
(He receives the wafer from
the Superior and writes his name with the point of his dagger dipped in his own
blood taken from over his heart.)
Superior:
"You will now rise to your
feet and I will instruct you in the Catechism necessary to make yourself known
to any member of the Society of Jesus belonging to this rank.
In the first place, you, as
a Brother Jesuit, will with another mutually make the ordinary sign of the cross
as any ordinary Roman Catholic would; then one cross his wrists, the palms of
his hands open, and the other in answer crosses his feet, one above the other;
the first points with forefinger of the right hand to the center of the palm of
the left, the other with the forefinger of the left hand points to the center of
the palm of the right; the first then with his right hand makes a circle around
his head, touching it; the other then with the forefinger of his left hand
touches the left side of his body just below his heart; the first then with his
right hand draws it across the throat of the other, and the latter then with a
dagger down the stomach and abdomen of the first. The first then says Iustum;
and the other answers Necar; the first Reges. The other answers Impious." (The
meaning of which has already been explained.) "The first will then present a
small piece of paper folded in a peculiar manner, four times, which the other
will cut longitudinally and on opening the name Jesu will be found written upon
the head and arms of a cross three times. You will then give and receive with
him the following questions and answers:
Question —From whither do you come? Answer
— The Holy faith.
Q. —Whom do you serve?
A. —The Holy Father at Rome, the Pope, and the
Roman Catholic Church Universal throughout the world.
Q. —Who commands you?
A. —The Successor of St. Ignatius Loyola, the
founder of the Society of Jesus or the Soldiers of Jesus Christ.
Q. —Who received you? A. —A venerable man in white hair.
Q. —How?
A. —With a naked dagger, I kneeling upon the
cross beneath the banners of the Pope and of our sacred order.
Q. —Did you take an oath?
A. —I did, to destroy heretics and their
governments and rulers, and to spare neither age, sex nor condition. To be as a
corpse without any opinion or will of my own, but to implicitly obey my
Superiors in all things without hesitation of murmuring.
Q. —Will you do that? A. —I will.
Q. —How do you travel? A. —In the bark of Peter the
fisherman.
Q. —Whither do you travel? A. —To the four quarters of the globe. Q.
—For what purpose?
A. —To obey the orders of my general and
Superiors and execute the will of the Pope and faithfully fulfill the conditions
of my oaths.
Q. —Go ye, then, into all the world and take
possession of all lands in the name of the Pope. He who will not accept him as
the Vicar of Jesus and his Vice-regent on earth, let him be accursed and
exterminated."
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