The Unholy Subversion of the Catholic Papacy
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INSTRUCTION OF THE ALTA VENDITA.
“Ever
since we have established ourselves as a body of action, and that order has
commenced to reign in the bosom of the most distant lodge, as in that one
nearest the centre of action, there is one thought which has profoundly occupied
the men who aspire to universal regeneration. That is the thought of the
enfranchisement of Italy, from which must one day come the enfranchisement of
the entire world, the fraternal republic, and the harmony of humanity. That
thought has not yet been seized upon by our brethren beyond the Alps. They
believe that revolutionary Italy can only conspire in the shade, deal some
strokes of the poinard to sbirri and traitors, and tranquilly undergo the yoke
of events which take place beyond the Alps for Italy, but without Italy. This
error has been fatal to us on many occasions. It is not necessary to combat it
with phrases which would be only to propagate it. It is necessary to kill it by
facts. Thus, amidst the cares which have the privilege of agitating the minds of
the most vigorous of our lodges, there is one which we ought never to forget.
“The
Papacy has at all times exercised a decisive action upon the affairs of Italy.
By the hands, by the voices, by the pens, by the hearts of its innumerable
bishops, priests, monks, nuns and people in all latitudes, the Papacy finds
devotedness without end ready for martyrdom, and that to enthusiasm. Everywhere,
whenever it pleases to call upon them, it has friends ready to die or lose all
for its cause. This is an immense leverage which the Popes alone have been able
to appreciate to its full power, and as yet they have used it only to a certain
extent. Today there is no question of reconstituting for our-selves that power,
the prestige of which is for the moment weakened. Our final end is that of
Voltaire and of the French Revolution, the destruction for ever of
Catholicism and even of the Christian idea which, if left standing on the
ruins of Rome, would be the resuscitation of Christianity later on. But to
attain more certainly that result, and not prepare ourselves with gaiety of
heart for reverses which adjourn indefinitely, or compromise for ages, the
success of a good cause, we must not pay attention to those braggarts of
Frenchmen, those cloudy Germans, those melancholy Englishmen, all of whom
imagine they can kill Catholicism, now with an impure song, then with an
illogical deduction; at another time, with a sarcasm smuggled in like the
cottons of Great Britain. Catholicism has a life much more tenacious than that.
It has seen the most implacable, the most terrible adversaries; and it has often
had the malignant pleasure of throwing holy water on the tombs of the most
enraged. Let us permit, then, our brethren of these countries to give themselves
up to the sterile intemperance of their anti-Catholic zeal. Let them even mock
at our Madonnas and our apparent devotion. With this passport we can conspire at
our ease, and arrive little by little at the end we have in view.
“Now
the Papacy has been for seventeen centuries inherent to the history of Italy.
Italy cannot breathe or move without the permission of the Supreme Pastor. With
him she has the hundred arms of Briareus, without him she is condemned to a
pitiable impotence. She has nothing but divisions to foment, hatreds to break
out, and hostilities to manifest themselves from the highest chain of the Alps
to the lowest of the Appenines. We cannot desire such a state of things. It is
necessary, then, to seek a remedy for that situation. The remedy is found. The
Pope, whoever he may be, will never come to the secret societies. It is for
the secret societies to come first to the Church, in the resolve to conquer the
two.
“The
work. which we have undertaken is not the work of a day, nor of a month, nor of
a year. It may last many years, a century perhaps, but in our ranks the soldier
dies and the fight continues.
“We
do not mean to win the Popes to our cause, to make them neophytes of our
principles, and propagators of our ideas. That would be a ridiculous dream, no
matter in what manner events may turn. Should cardinals or prelates, for
example, enter, willingly or by surprise, in some manner, into a part of our
secrets, it would be by no means a motive to desire their elevation to the See
of Peter. That elevation would destroy us. Ambition alone would bring them to
apostasy from us. The needs of power would force them to immolate us. That
which we ought to demand, that which we should seek and expect, as the Jews
expected the Messiah, is a Pope according to our wants. Alexander VI., with
all his private crimes, would not suit us, for he never erred in religious
matters. Clement XIV., on the contrary, would suit us from head to foot. Borgia
was a libertine, a true sensualist of the eighteenth century strayed into the
fifteenth. He has been anathematized, notwithstanding his vices, by all the
voices of philosophy and incredulity, and he owes that anathema to the vigour
with which he defended the Church. Ganganelli gave himself over, bound hand and
foot, to the ministers of the Bourbons, who made him afraid, and to the
incredulous who celebrated his tolerance, and Ganganelli is become a very great
Pope. He is almost in the same condition that it is necessary for us to find
another, if that be yet possible. With that we should march more surely to the
attack upon the Church than with the pamphlets of our brethren in France, or
even with the gold of England. Do you wish to know the reason? It is because by
that we should have no more need of the vinegar of Hannibal, no more need the
powder of cannon, no more need even of our arms. We have the little finger of
the successor of St. Peter engaged in the plot, and that little finger is of
more value for our crusade than all the Innocents, the Urbans, and the St.
Bernards of Christianity.
“We
do not doubt that we shall arrive at that supreme term of all our efforts; but
when? but how? The unknown does not yet manifest itself. Nevertheless, as
nothing should separate us from the plan traced out; as, on the contrary, all
things should tend to it—as if success were to crown the work scarcely sketched
out to-morrow—we wish in this instruction which must rest a secret for the
simple initiated, to give to those of the Supreme—Lodge, councils with which
they should enlighten the universality of the brethren, under the form of an
instruction or memorandum. It is of special importance, and because of a
discretion, the motives of which are transparent, never to permit it to be felt
that these counsels are orders emanating from the Alta Vendita. The clergy is
put too much in peril by it, that one can at the present hour permit oneself to
play with it, as with one of these small affairs or of these little princes upon
which one need but blow to cause them to disappear.
“Little can be done with those old cardinals or with those prelates, whose
character is very decided. It is necessary to leave them as we find them,
incorrigible, in the school of C onsalvi, and draw from our magazines of
popularity or unpopularity the arms which will render useful or ridiculous the
power in their hands. A word which one can ably invent and which one has the art
to spread amongst certain honourable chosen families by whose means it descends
into the cafés and from the cafés into the streets; a word can
sometimes kill a man. If a prelate comes to Rome to exercise some public
function from the depths of the provinces, know presently his character, his
antecedents, his qualities, his defects above all things. If he is in advance, a
declared enemy, an Albani, a Pallotta, a Bernetti, a Della Genga, a Riverola?
Envelope him in all the snares which you can place beneath his feet; create for
him one of those reputations which will frighten little children and old women;
paint, him cruel and sanguinary; recount, regarding him, some traits of cruelty
which can be easily engraved in the minds of the people. When foreign journals
shall gather for us these recitals, which they will embellish in their turn
(inevitably because of their respect for truth) show, or rather cause to be
shown, by some respectable fool those papers where the names and the excesses of
the personages implicated are related. As France and England, so Italy will
never be wanting in facile pens which know how to employ themselves in these
lies so useful to the good cause. With a newspaper, the language of which they
do not understand, but in which they will see the name of their delegate or
judge, the people have no need of other proofs. They are in the infancy of
liberalism; they believe in liberals, as, later on, they will believe in us, not
knowing very well why.
“Crush the enemy whoever he may be; crush the powerful by means of lies and
calumnies but especially crush him in the egg. It is to the youth we must
go. It is that which we must seduce; it is that which we must bring under
the banner of the secret societies. In order to advance by steps, calculated but
sure, in that perilous way, two things are of the first necessity. You ought
have the air of being simple as doves, but you must be prudent as the serpent.
Your fathers, your children, your wives themselves, ought always be ignorant of
the secret which you carry in your bosoms. It pleases you, in order the better
to deceive the inquisitorial eye, to go often to confession, you are, as by
right authorised, to preserve the most absolute silence regarding these things.
You know that the least revelation, that the slightest indication escaped from
you in the tribunal of penance, or elsewhere, can bring on great calamities and
that the sentence of death is already pronounced upon the revealer, whether
voluntary or involuntary.
“Now
then, in order to secure to us a Pope in the manner required, it is necessary
to fashion for that Pope a generation worthy of the reign of which we dream.
Leave on one side old age and middle life, go to the youth, and, if possible,
even to infancy. Never speak in their presence a word of impiety or impurity.
Maxima debetur puero reverentia. Never forget these words of the poet for
they will preserve you from licences which it is absolutely essential to guard
against for the good of the cause. In order to reap profit at the home of each
family, in order to give yourself the right of asylum at the domestic hearth,
you ought to present yourself with all the appearance of a man grave and moral.
Once your reputation is established in the colleges, in the gymnasiums, in the
universities, and in the seminaries—once that you shall have captivated the
confidence of professors and students, so act that those who are principally
engaged in the ecclesiastical state should love to seek your conversation.
Nourish their souls with the splendours of ancient Papal Rome. There is always
at the bottom of the Italian heart a regret for Republican Rome. Excite,
enkindle those natures so full of warmth and of patriotic fire. Offer them at
first, but always in secret, inoffensive books, poetry resplendent with national
emphasis; then little by little you will bring your disciples to the degree of
cooking desired. When upon all the points of the ecclesiastical state at once,
this daily work shall have spread our ideas as the light, then you will be able
to appreciate the wisdom of the counsel in which we take the initiative.
“Events, which in our opinion, precipitate themselves too rapidly, go
necessarily in a few months’ time to bring on an intervention of Austria. There
are fools who in the lightness of their hearts please themselves in casting
others into the midst of perils, and, meanwhile, there are fools who at a given
hour drag on even wise men. The revolution which they meditate in Italy will
only end in misfortunes and persecutions. Nothing is ripe, neither the men nor
the things, and nothing shall be for a long time yet; but from these evils you
can easily draw one new chord, and cause it to vibrate in the hearts of the
young clergy. That is the hatred of the stranger. Cause the German to become
ridiculous and odious even before his foreseen entry. With the idea of the
Pontifical supremacy, mix always the old memories of the wars of the priesthood
and the Empire. Awaken the smouldering passions of the Guelphs and the
Ghibellines, and thus you will obtain for yourselves the reputation of good
Catholics and pure patriots.
“That
reputation will open the way for our doctrines to pass to the bosoms of the
young clergy, and go even to the depths of convents. In a few years the young
clergy will have, by the force of events, invaded all the functions. They will
govern, administer, and judge. They will form the council of the Sovereign. They
will be called upon to choose the Pontiff who will reign; and that Pontiff, like
the greater part of his contemporaries, will be necessarily imbued with the
Italian and humanitarian principles which we are about to put in
circulation. It is a little grain of mustard which we place in the earth, but
the sun of justice will develop it even to be a great power; and you will see
one day what a rich harvest that little seed will produce.
“In
the way which we trace for our brethren there are found great obstacles to
conquer, difficulties of more than one kind to surmount. They will be overcome
by experience and by perspicacity; but the end is beautiful. What does it matter
to put all the sails to the wind in order, to attain it. You wish to
revolutionize Italy? Seek out the Pope of whom we give, the portrait. You wish
to establish the reign of the elect upon the throne of the prostitute of
Babylon? Let the clergy march under your banner in the belief always that
they march under the banner of the Apostolic Keys. You wish to cause the
last vestige of tyranny and of oppression to disappear? Lay your nets like Simon
Barjona. Lay them in the depths of sacristies, seminaries, and convents,
rather than in the depths of the sea, and if you will precipitate nothing you
will give yourself a draught of fishes more miraculous than his. The fisher of
fishes will become a fisher of men. You will bring yourselves as friends around
the Apostolic Chair. You will have fished up a Revolution in Tiara and Cope,
marching with Cross and banner—a Revolution which it will need but to be spurred
on a little to put the four quarters of the world on fire.
“Let
each act of your life tend then to discover the. Philosopher’s Stone. The
alchemists of the middle ages lost their time and the gold of their dupes in the
quest of this dream. That of the secret societies will be accomplished for the
most simple of reasons, because it is based on the passions of man. Let us not
be discouraged then by a check, a reverse, or a defeat. Let us prepare our arms
in the silence of the lodges, dress our batteries, flatter all passions the most
evil and the most generous, and all lead us to think that our plans will succeed
one day above even our most improbable calculations.”
“Truly
indeed we can say that this is the hour granted to the power of darkness to
grind the elect as wheat.” “EVIL comes out of Secret Societies, bottomless abyss
of misery, which those conspiring societies have dug and in which heresies and
sects as may be said, vomited as in a privy all they hold of licentiousness,
sacrilege and blasphemy.
Pope
Gregory XVI- Mirari Vos (1832)
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