"Secret Instructions

of the

Society of Jesus"



or the



JESUIT PRIESTS



Originally circulated in Manuscript until 1612

when it was published in Cracow, Poland.



Taken From the Edition

Published in 1882 in San Francisco, California.



Reprinted from the copy in the

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Washington, D.C.



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PREFACE



By PERITUS

The Jesuits are different. Every Catholic Priest knows this. The Jesuits have an uncanny manner financially.
Operating behind the scenes, they seem very inconspicuous, but when the wills of rich Catholics, and very many
non-Catholics, are filed for probate. strangely some Jesuit institution is there for a sizable amount.

They are so different in their priestly deportment and social conduct too, that other priests feel ill at ease and
uncomfortable in their presence. A priestly "blast" never really gets organized until after the Jesuits have gone home.
The prevailing atmosphere, when they are present, is one of uneasy suspicion. Other priests feel as though the
"Jebbies" will immediately take off for the Bishop's mansion to stool on all of them. This of course is ridiculous because
most bishops are just as leery of the Jesuits as are the working clergy.

Lay people also think that Jesuits are different. They speak of the Society of Jesus as the "educated clergy,"-the
"teaching arm of the church". They have the "most schools"-which is true. The quality of those schools is another
question. None of them, at least in the U.S. has ever won an award for the volume of scientists or philosophers it
produced. Voltaire went to a Jesuit school. He said later that he learned Latin and nonsense.

The Jesuits write the most books-which is also true. In fact it is said that any Jesuit who can pen one word after
another seems forced "under obedience" to write a book. Judging by a perusal of them, the subject matter or the
treatment seems of very little consequence.

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The laity are told that the Jesuits are smarter than other priests because they go to school longer. The laity do not
realize that for some years those Jesuits are in their schools not as students, but as teachers-callow, young,
inexperienced boys carrying on the "great tradition" of Jesuit education.

The laity, Catholic and non-Catholic, are also told that the Jesuits are much more selective in their choice of
candidates than other orders or diocesan seminaries. They pick only the smarter and more promising youngsters and
thus insure a continuing crop of great scholars, teachers, philosophers, orators and, not mentioned, ecclesiastical
politicians.

The truth is, as clerical wags have put it, that the Jesuits have just as large a percentage of lesser Esq.'s as any other
church order but they are smart enough to hide the numbskulls in their foreign missions to primitive countries. In fact, it
has also been said, that this is the principal reason why the Jesuits have foreign missions.

However, in spite of these disparaging introductory qualifications, there can be no gainsaying the fact that the Jesuits
possess a hard core of extremely intelligent, intensely loyal, politically shrewd, carefully calculating individuals. This has
been so since the days of their founder, Ignatius of Loyola. A catalog of their names would include a large percentage
of the great minds of the Roman Catholic Church since the sixteenth century.

Any honest student of church history must admit that behind the scenes, they have been the governing genius of the
Vatican- even though, more often than not, an evil genius.

The Jesuit Order is an absolute monarchy. Their general, "the Black Pope" rules for life. The pattern of their own
Order has molded their thinking about all other political structures, including, but not confined to, the Vatican.

The Jesuits fought the democratic aspirations of the French when they helped engineer the "Massacre of St.
Bartholomew's Eve". They were the force behind Pope Pius IX and were his principal counselors. The Italian people
knew that the Jesuits were the strongest opponents of the Unification of Italy and hated them accordingly. The Jesuits
promoted the dogma of the Immaculate Conception and of the Infallibility of the Pope. They wart, the experts behind the
experts of the First Vatican Council in 1870 just as they are of the Second Vatican Council.

It is obvious that an organization so vast (the largest in the Roman Church) covering the globe, and engaged in so
many activities, some open and honorable, and others secret, delicate and "Jesuitical" would have to have a set of rules
and regulations for its own internal control much more detailed and stringent than the conventional "rules" or
"constitutions" of St. Benedict, St. Francis or the other run-of-the-mill orders and congregations.





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Knowing also that the bulk of the Jesuits at the grass roots did not possess the sagacity, shrewdness and
ruthlessness of the "boys" in the "back room" in Rome it was necessary that many enterprises, such as "advising" rich
widows, picking of rich men's sons to be prospective Jesuits, or purging the Order of a hapless Jesuit who began to
think for himself, should be speeded out in detail.

But above all things it was necessary that such regulations should be kept secret. They were to be confided only to
trusted superiors and if accidentally found. they were to be denounced as base forgeries.

They are called the "MONIKA SECRETA SOCIETATIS JESU"-"The Secret Instructions of the Society of Jesus."

The average "lower-case" Jesuit, not being in on the know, will sincerely tell indignant devout inquirers that these
regulations are fictitious. The smart "upper-case" Jesuit knows that he had better deny their existence. He might not live
to regret his indiscretion.

The existence of the "Secret Regulations of the Jesuits" has been proven beyond all possibility of successful legal
refutation.

Most unbiased historians of the Roman Catholic Church and of the Jesuits acknowledge the existence of the "Monita".

The British historian, Andrew Steinmetz, in his monumental, precisely documented, "History of the Jesuits", published
in London in 1848, devotes several pages to an analysis of the genuineness and history of the "Monita". He outlines the
book with the same succession of chapters and content as reproduced in this present volume. He concludes that
"secret regulations" did exist, considering 1) overt statements of Jesuit Generals, 2) missing chapters in early editions of
the official "Constitutions", and 3) the actual conduct of the Jesuits, in so many countries and for so long. As proof of
the latter he cites the catering to the rich, the rapid acquisition of tremendous power and wealth and the infiltration of
the royal powers by the Jesuits as court confessors, with their tolerance of licentiousness in order to gain power. (Vol.
III, p. 363, 364, 365, 366). Of the allegations themselves he cites thousands of documented instances in the 1660
pages of his volumes.

The following paragraphs are from the autobiography of a very precise and erudite ex-Jesuit. His death places him
and his words beyond the customary effective reprisals of the Order.

"The MONITA SECRETA SOCIETATIS JESU ('Secret Instruction of the Society of Jesus') first appeared in print in
Cracow in 1612, after they had already been circulated in manuscript form. The editor seems to have been the
ex-Jesuit Zahorowski. Almost innumerable editions and reprints in all civilized tongues followed one another. The latest
edition was published at Bamberg in 1904."