Memoirs Of Jacobinism

(Conspiracy Nation, 06/23/07) – Memoirs Of Jacobinism, by Abbé Barruel, ranks with Proofs Of A Conspiracy, by John Robison, as a classic of conspiracy theory. Barruel's book, unfortunately, is almost impossible to get. Nesta Webster, in her book on the “glorious” French Revolution, relies a great deal upon Barruel.

But controversial author Helena P. Blavatsky adds a new twist to the French Revolution and Barruel when she claims Barruel missed seeing the deeper, Jesuit conspiracy involved. In Isis Unveiled (Vol. II, ch. viii), Blavatsky writes, in part, “The Memoirs of Jacobinism by this Abbé, an eye-witness to the horrors of the first [French] Revolution, is devoted in great measure to the Rosicrucians and other Masonic fraternities. The fact alone that he traces the modern Masons to the [Knights] Templars, and points them out as secret assassins, trained to political murder, shows how little he knew of them, but how ardently he desired, at the same time, to find in these societies convenient scape-goats for the crimes and sins of another secret society which, since its existence, has harbored more than one dangerous political assassin – the Society of Jesus [Jesuits].”

The Society of Jesus, derisively known as the Jesuits, a secret society? Such is the case, at least according to Blavatsky. She cites several sources to back her claim. “This noble fraternity,” she writes, “which many preachers have of late so vehemently denied to have ever been a secret one, has been sufficiently proved as such. Their constitutions were translated into Latin by the Jesuit Polancus, and printed in the college of the Society at Rome, in 1558. 'They were jealously kept secret, the greater part of the Jesuits themselves knowing only extracts from them. They were never produced to the light until 1761, when they were published by order of the French Parliament in 1761, 1762, in the famous process of Father Lavalette.' The degrees of the Order are: I. Novices; II. Lay Brothers, or temporal Coadjutors; III. Scholastics; IV. Spiritual Coadjutors; V. Professed of Three Vows; VI. Professed of Five Vows. 'There is also a secret class, known only to the General and a few faithful Jesuits, which, perhaps more than any other, contributed to the dreaded and mysterious power of the Order,' says Niccolini [in “History of the Jesuits”].”

Note especially the last claim, that there is a secret degree of initiation in the Society of Jesus. This is relevant in the case of the late Father Malachi Martin, supposed to have left the Order. Martin's book, The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church, is excellent. But was Father Martin truly a “former” Jesuit? That question is merely asked, as a caveat before delving into his claim that the Jesuits underwent a momentous change, erupting in the 1960s.

One of the crucial figures in Martin's analysis is Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. He invented an unorthodox theology featuring Christ as the “Omega Point.” A “new humanity” is in the process of emerging. A Teilhardian biological evolution is enlaced with religion. Humanity is only now at a “middle point.” At the Omega Point, “man” will be more than man: Ultra-Human. “Evolution” in the Teilhardian sense “implied evolution also in the distribution of goods, an equalization of property that capitalism made impossible.” (Martin, op. cit.)

Superficially, these ideas got Teilhard de Chardin into trouble. They were interpreted by some as a heresy of “Humanity as Christ,” i.e. “The Church is the People.” But Teilhard de Chardin was nonetheless somehow allowed to operate, on the fringe.

In Nicaragua, in the 1970s and 1980s, Jesuits found common cause with Marxists. “The people are the church,” was their belief. Jesuits began implementing “Base Communities.” (See “Jesuit Base Communities Invade USA?” http://www.shout.net/~bigred/BaseCommunities.html)

The immigration bill had died in the Senate. Then George W. Bush visited, in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI. “Dubya” Bush immediately thereafter hurried back to America carrying the imperative, “The immigration bill must be passed.” One of the bill's co-sponsors is Senator Ted Kennedy, a Catholic with likely leanings toward the Jesuit point of view. (This is not “Anti-Catholic.” The Vatican, like Israel, is a sovereign state. Rome, wading in the mire of politics, cannot at convenience hike up its cassock and protest, “We are just a religion.”) As for George W. Bush, he has recently purchased a huge parcel of land in Paraguay, said by some to be a “Jesuit State.” (“For years their enemies had said the Jesuits were endeavouring to set up in the missions a State [Paraguay] quite independent of the Spanish crown. By their own conduct the Jesuits to some extent had given colour to the report, for by excluding (in the interest of the Indians) all Spaniards from the mission territories, it looked as if they were at work at something which they wished to keep a secret...” http://www.fullbooks.com/A-Vanished-Arcadia-Being-Some-Account-of-the5.html)

What is called the Ultra-Montane versus Cis-Montane split in Catholicism, traditional hierarchical Catholicism versus Jesuit “Humanity is Christ,” sheds a whole new light upon political polarization in the United States. “The nation is polarized,” is the frequent op-ed centerpiece. To which faction, Ultra-Montane or Cis-Montane, does “She who would be president” belong? Speaking to the “Take Back America” conference, Hillary Clinton complained in favor of “the people” regarding stem cell laws. (Acknowledgement to George Will for coining the term, “She who would be president.”) It is commendable to be “for the people,” unless it truly means “for the Jesuits.”

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