19-year-old Jacopo Leone was in a bind.
He was a newly entered novice in the House of First Probation,
seeing if he had the "right stuff" to be a Jesuit, at the Jesuit monastery
at Chieri, Turin, Italy.
He had been encouraged to ask the rector for permission to walk outside in the garden
in that beautiful September.
Having entered the rector's strangely open apartment,
he found books to his heart's delight, especially in a small side room
that he called a "closet."
But he was fascinated and later horrified to find out that the Jesuits
had kept close tabs on him, using symbolic language,
and kept it all in a book.
But that wasn't all.
Upon further investigation, he found another book
which showed that everyone in the community
was neatly summarized and even psychoanalyzed
-- before the days of Freud -- and listed alphabetically.
Any newly arrived Jesuits to the community could, within a few hours
of reading this book, know the private lives
of anyone he encountered, and especially those who came to him
for confessions or counsel.
Some would think they had the spirit of prophecy!
Here's what Jacopo said happened next:
"I was, meanwhile, disposed to make further and bolder researches.
The book which I next opened was a register of Revenues, Acquisitions,
and Expenses.
In my feverish impatience I soon quitted it for another, entitled,
Enemies of the Society.
At this moment I was interrupted by a noise which I heard,
and scarcely had I time to replace the volumes I had disturbed,
when I distinguished the sound of numerous approaching footsteps,
as if several persons were about to enter the apartment.
Then only I began to feel the danger of my presence in the closet.
Until then I had been wholly absorbed, and hurried along, as it were,
by a whirlwind.
But the discoveries I have related proved to be but the prologue
to a drama infinitely more serious, and which I am about to retrace."
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Jacopo was stuck in the closet. And at this point,
he wasn't about to come out. Would you?
At least 8-10 people then entered the rector's apartment.
Jacopo was in a tough spot. I'll let him explain:
"As to myself, my perplexity may be better conceived than described.
I was bewildered. What was I to do? Remain?
But every moment I might expect to be discovered,
and then!
Should I open the door, and break in upon their eager conversation?
But I was too much agitated, too much oppressed,
by what I had just read; besides, what I had already overheard
of their projects, their eager animation, and the freedom of their speech,
all terrified me.
I trembled at the bare idea of encountering their inquisitorial gaze.
A fearful reaction had instantaneously taken place within me.
The Society of Jesus was suddenly revealed to me
in darker and more repulsive colours than those under which
it had formerly been depicted to me. Confounded, paralyzed, and utterly unable
to come to any determination, I remained motionless. ...
Far from being fatal to me, this loss of time
was the circumstance which saved me."
Jacopo was ramping up his courage,
as they continued their "confused conversation,"
to walk out among the men, and to be interrogated, as he suspected,
by the rector.
But something worse interrupted his plan:
Silence.
Had he been discovered? Jacopo froze.
Then an authoritative voice broke the silence.
Instantly, the meeting proceeded in an orderly fashion.
I can only relate small parts, and only one main point,
of the long session that ensued. Let's examine the heart of the story.
The speaker continued: "You are aware
that we have no time to lose. To-day, as already resolved,
we will enter into a general view of the interests and the plan of action
by which our society is at present to be guided."
In other words, this was the current plan for the entire Jesuit Order!
Who was this person speaking? The speaker continued.
"Let our first care, therefore, be to change, altogether,
the nature of our tactics, and to give a new varnish to religion,
by appearing to make large concessions. This is the only means
to assure our influence over these moderns, half men, half children."
This sounds like Vatican II from 1962-1965!
And yet this referred to something in 1824 that required a major change
of Jesuit tactics.
We must remember that the 19th century (the 1800s) had many crosswinds:
the Enlightenment, industrialization, urbanization, the theory of evolution,
monarchies being replaced by republics, calls for new Bible texts and translations,
and the Reformation's continuing break from Rome.
This meeting marked the Jesuits' change of tactics.
The speaker reminded the group: "Bear ever in mind
that our great object, in the first place, is to study deeply and bring to perfection
the art of rendering ourselves both necessary and formidable
to the powers that be."
This is why Jesuits surround all the rich
and powerful people of the world, as advisors and hopefully, confessors.
This is to keep watch over them and keep them
under their influence and control.
Remember, the 1540 charter of the Jesuit Order stated
they were to be "The confessors of the powerful
and the teachers of their children."
If you want more information about the organization of the Jesuits,
I wrote a detailed and concise summary in Jack Chick's Crusaders comic book
"Jesuits."
Jacopo was frozen with fear, while his mind raced
through possible outcomes. He wrote:
"To open the door now, and to present myself before them,
would have been the act of a madman. All that remained for me
was to decide what I should do if I were discovered;
and I thought my only possible resource, if I heard them approach the door,
would be to stretch myself on the ground as if I were in a fit.
I felt, in fact, as if I were on the point of being precipitated headlong
down a precipice."
In other words, he felt like he was being thrown down a cliff!
Soon all the men began to take their seats, much to his relief.
Under the sound of chairs and men moving around,
he was finally able to take a breath!
The speaker told everyone that they must speak "clearly and deliberately,"
so that "our friend the secretary may lose nothing of what is said."
One of them was a secretary? Instantly, Jacopo sensed his opportunity!
Glancing around his small side room he found "a small table
with writing materials."
His self-created shorthand suddenly became his most valuable asset.
He started writing, as quickly as he could.
I'll give away a bit in advance. That guy who just spoke?
That was Aloysius Fortis, the current Jesuit General (1820 to 1829).
This was no minor meeting.
In short, Jacopo was able to write everything every person said,
even noting who they were, by the unique characteristics of their voices
(he didn't dare look!).
A couple of them he already knew. But the trauma he was then under
enabled him to indelibly remember each of their voices,
even years later. As Jacopo noted, "each one had peculiarities
which I have not forgotten." One of them, with an Irish accent,
took the floor:
"In order to render Catholicism attractive, let us strive to enlist in her cause
the foremost statesmen and historical writers of our own times.
Let us employ them to deck the past in golden hues;
to sweeten, for us, the bitter waters of the middle ages;
and help us to captivate mankind by the most alluring promises."
What? Erase the darkness of the Dark Ages?
Exactly. This is called rewriting history.
Amazingly, this is exactly what happened in the 20th century.
While I was in Bible college, my friends had gotten out
different editions of encyclopedias while writing their papers.
They showed me how the newer articles were written by Roman Catholics,
which glossed over a lot of dirty Catholic history.
My friends told me they were going to have to use only the older encyclopedias,
since the new ones were tainted with Catholic propaganda.
And here was when it was first proposed, in 1824!
Later, the Irishman stated: "For, I would not have it lost sight of
that our chief concern must be to mould the people to our purposes.
Doubtless, the first generation will not be wholly ours;
but the second will nearly belong to us, and the third entirely."
Former Jesuit Alberto Rivera told us that the Jesuits always work their plans
in 50 or 100-year increments. Soon after, the Irishman said
"Yes, the people are the vast domain we have to conquer...."
"We shall know how, by marvellous stories and gorgeous shows,
to exorcise heresy from the heads and hearts of the multitude..."
"Then the Bible, that serpent which, with head erect and eyes flashing fire,
threatens us with its venom whilst it trails along the ground,
shall be changed again into a rod as soon as we are able to seize it;
and what wounds will we not inflict with it upon these hardened Pharaohs
and their cunning magicians!
what miracles will we not work by its means!
Oh, then, mysterious rod! we will not again suffer thee
to escape from our hands, and fall to the earth!
For you know but too well that, for three centuries past,
this cruel asp has left us no repose; you well know
with what folds it entwines us, and with what fangs it gnaws us!"
They felt really threatened by the Bible, didn't they?
An older man, "grave and sedate," then spoke:
"My brethren, as to the Bible, be advised by me.
For our greater good let us avoid -- let us carefully avoid this ground.
If I may tell you, openly, what I think of this book,
it is not at all for us; it is against us.
I do not at all wonder at the invincible obstinacy it engenders
in all those who regard its verses as inspired."
He related how as a youth, he had read through the Bible six times,
only to find nothing in it about "the Virgin," the mass, purgatory or relics.
As a young budding Jesuit, he admitted that the Bible:
"...actually sets forth a system of religion altogether different
from that taught in the schools, and thus all my ideas
were thrown into confusion."
After his confessor separated him, calling him "a young man set apart,"
able to know the higher things of Catholicism,
he confided this to his compatriots:
"Consequently, let us lay down this principle:
in public to act as if we had nothing to fear from such a book,
but rather as if it were favourable for us;
in private, to describe it as dangerous and hurtful, or,
where this would not be prudent, to declare that it is the germ,
of which Catholicism is the complete and majestic development.
We shall thus provide ourselves with an arsenal
a thousand times better stored than the biblical arsenal of Protestantism."
A French Jesuit in the group later described
how to overthrow Protestantism:
"The first thing, therefore, to be done is to bring them [Protestants]
back from the Bible to Catholic authority..."
Today you cannot find many modern Bibles without a Jesuit somewhere connected.
In the United Bible Societies Greek text is the name of Catholic Cardinal
Carlo Maria Martini, SJ.
In Advanced Greek is Maximilian Zerwick, SJ.
In fact, a Jesuit, Daniel J. Harrington, SJ, along with nine Fuller professors
contributed to the Common English Study Bible with Apocrypha.
And of course, my old Fuller Seminary approves of this study Bible.
The Dean of Fuller's School of Theology was the General Editor!
And if you don't find Jesuits, you find the work of Jesuits.
And where you don't find works written by Jesuits,
you find people taught by Jesuits.
And where you don't find people taught by Jesuits,
you find people parroting the things taught by Jesuits!
You simply cannot avoid it.
That is, unless you trust the words of that rod become a serpent
the King James Bible.
They don't like how it threatens and gnaws at them.
Jesuits are almost proverbially "under every rock"!
Or at least, their influence is.
After hours of this discussion, they finally adjourned for dinner,
about 15 minutes before darkness overtook the small book room.
Jacopo quickly rolled up all that he had written and stuck it in his sock!
Then God let our 19 year old sneak out of that room
and take refuge in a church pew he was used to sitting in
with his Jesuit "guardian angel."
Jacopo was totally exhausted and replayed again and again
the words of these Jesuit leaders, who started to take the form of devils
in his mind.
Everything he had believed had been shattered in one afternoon!
He fell into a deep sleep. About 9 or 10 at night,
he was suddenly awakened by someone shouting his name!
He got up and was soon surrounded by Jesuits and questions.
By this time he was visibly ill --but even that was a gift from God.
They were not satisfied with his answers, and he was visibly embarrassed.
But suddenly, he took advantage of their opinion of his delicate nature.
He wrote: "There would have been no end to all this,
if, wearied with so many questions, and making a bold effort,
I had not begun to complain bitterly, groaning out that they tortured me,
that I was exhausted with suffering, that I was dying.
An aged father, whom I recognised by his voice
as one of those who had spoken during the meeting,
suddenly cut short these puzzling interrogatories.
'Let me see,' said he, taking hold of my hand
and feeling my pulse, whilst the rest stood keenly watching me in silence;
then after a few moments of serious thought.
'Poor lad!' said he, 'he is in a burning fever. To bed with him immediately!
let the physician see him at once; I never in my life saw anyone
in such violent agitation; he is in a tremendous fever.'
This was sufficient to put an end to their suspicions."
I don't have time to tell you how he was able to escape the Jesuits.
But you can read it for yourself,
in The Jesuit Conspiracy: The Secret Plan of the Order
by Jacopo Leone, prefaced by M. Victor Considérant.
It's available on Amazon and Google, at least for now.
So now you know how one person discovered and later exposed
the plans of the Jesuits. But what would happen
if a Jesuit were so confident that he openly admitted the Jesuits' plan
to a local priest?
That's in the next video. Until then,
God bless you, and have a wonderful day.