The Extreme Oath of the Jesuits:

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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