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15. But against the apostolic see and the
Roman Pontiff the contention of these enemies has been for a long time
directed. The Pontiff was first, for specious reasons, thrust out from the
bulwark of his liberty and of his right, the civil princedom; soon, he was
unjustly driven into a condition which was unbearable because of the
difficulties raised on all sides; and now the time has come when the
partisans of the sects openly declare, what in secret among themselves they
have for a long time plotted, that the sacred power of the Pontiffs must be
abolished, and that the papacy itself, founded by divine right, must be
utterly destroyed. If other proofs were wanting, this fact would be
sufficiently disclosed by the testimony of men well informed, of whom some
at other times, and others again recently, have declared it to be true of
the Freemasons that they especially desire to assail the Church with
irreconcilable hostility, and that they will never rest until they have
destroyed whatever the supreme Pontiffs have established for the sake of
religion.
The documents written between 1820 and
1846, had been circulated to members of the Alta Vendita, which was the
supreme lodge of a condemned Italian secret society, the Carbonari.
Father E. Cahill, S.J., wrote that the Alta Vendita was "commonly
supposed to have been at the time the governing center of European Freemasonry."
Pope Pius IX asked Cretineau-Joly to publish the papers, which he did
in THE CHURCH AND REVOLUTION. Pope Pius IX guaranteed their authenticity
in a letter of approbation sent to the author on February 25, 1861.
Below is an important part of THE PERMANENT INSTRUCTION OF THE ALTA VENDITA: 
"Our ultimate end is that of Voltaire and of the French Revolution----the final destruction of Catholicism, and even of the Christian idea.
The Pope, whoever he is, will never come to the secret societies; it is
up to the secret societies to take the first step toward the Church,
with the aim of conquering both of them.
The task that we are going to undertake is not the work of a day, or of
a month, or of a year; it may last several years, perhaps a century;
but in our ranks the soldier dies and the struggle goes on.
We do not intend to win the Popes to our cause, to make them neophytes
of our principles, propagators of our ideas. That would be a ridiculous
dream; and if events turn out in some way, if Cardinals or prelates, for
example, of their own free will or by surprise, should enter into a
part of our secrets this is not at all an incentive for desiring their
elevation to the See of Peter. That elevation would ruin us. Ambition
alone would have led them to apostasy, the requirements of power would
force them to sacrifice us. What we must ask for, what we should look
for and wait for, as the Jews wait for the Messiah, is a Pope according to our needs.
With that we shall march more securely towards the assault on the Church
than with the pamphlets of our brethren in France and even the gold of
England. Do you want to know the reason for this? It is that with this,
in order to shatter the high rock on which God has built His Church, we
no longer need Hannibalian vinegar, or need gunpowder, or even need our
arms. We have the little finger of the successor of Peter engaged in the
ploy, and this little finger is as good, for this crusade, as all the
Urban II's and all the Saint Bernards in Christendom.
We have no doubt
that we will arrive at the supreme end of our efforts. But when? But
how? The unknown is not yet revealed. Nevertheless, as nothing should
turn us aside from the plan drawn up, and on the contrary everything
should tend to this, as if as early as tomorrow success were going to
crown the work that is barely sketched, we wish, in this instruction,
which will remain secret for the mere initiates, to give the officials
in charge of the supreme lodge some advice that they should instill in
all the brethren, in the form of instruction or of a memorandum.
Now, then to assure
ourselves a Pope of the required dimensions, it is a question first of
shaping for this Pope a generation worthy of the reign we are dreaming
of. Leave old
people and those of a mature age aside; go to the youth, and if it is
possible, even to the children. You will contrive for yourselves, at
little cost, a reputation as good Catholics and pure patriots.
This reputation will put access to our doctrines into the midst of the young clergy,
as well as deeply into the monasteries. In a few years, by the force of
things, this young clergy will have overrun all the functions; they
will form the sovereign's council they will be called to choose a Pontiff who should reign.
And this Pontiff, like most of his contemporaries, will be necessarily
more or less imbued with the (revolutionary) Italian and humanitarian
principles that we are going to begin to put into circulation. It is a
small grain of black mustard that we are entrusting to the ground; but
the sunshine of justice will develop it up to the highest power, and you
will see one day what a rich harvest this small seed will produce.
In the path that we are laying out for our brethren there are found
great obstacles to conquer, difficulties of more than one kind to
master. They will triumph over them by experience and by
clearsightedness; but the goal is so splendid that it is important to
put all the sails to the wind in order to reach it. Your want to
revolutionize Italy;
look for the Pope whose portrait we have just drawn. You wish to
establish the reign of the chosen ones on the throne of the prostitute
of Babylon; let the
clergy march under your standard, always believing that they are
marching under the banner of the Apostolic keys. You intend to make the
last vestige of tyrants and oppressors disappear; lay your snares (nets)
like Simon Bar-Jona; lay them in the sacristies, the seminaries and the
monasteries rather than at the bottom of the sea; and if you do not
hurry, we promise you a catch more miraculous than his. The fisher of
fish became the fisher of men; your will bring friends around the
Apostolic Chair. You will have preached a revolution in tiara and cope,
marching with the cross and the banner, a revolution that will need to
be only a little bit urged on to set fire to the four corners of the
world" (end of the quote from the PERMANENT INSTRUCTION OF THE ALTA
VENDITA)
The following is an excerpt of Hope of the Wicked, The Master Plan to Rule The World 2, by Mr. Ted Flynn:
