Jesuit : a soldier of Christ, member of the Society of Jesus founded in 1533 by Saint Ignatius Loyola who saved the souls of Indian pagans through every means provided to him by the masters of the Indian subcontinent.
... 12, 1951, by which time several Biblical exegetes have with the Church's blessing expounded St. Paul's cosmic Christianity and, as de Lubac" notes, Pere Emile Mersch, belonging to Teilhard's own Jesuit Order, has written "his books on the mystical body bringing out, in accordance with tradition, its physical and not simply its moral reality", and Pope Pius XII has himself issued an Encyclical on... Company of Jesus and through it the Church because of common religious sentiments. The World, as an all-encompassing, all-governing presence, is what primarily commands his loyalty. He feels he is a Jesuit by the will of this presence and his whole religious service lies in carrying out the Church-transformative mission given him by a cosmic divinity. That divinity is the true Christ to him and what... of the general drive of evolution and would itself be converted to the fundamentally transposed and modernised Christianity a la Teilhard -Teilhard the scientific "Neo-Humanist" no less than the Jesuit "Hyper-Catholic". Again to de Solages he 2 writes on 2 January 1955, the last year of his life: "...I am considering to take up again (in a way more concentrated and more centred?...) my ...
... not even the most fervent among his co-religionist admirers who wish to prove him fundamentally traditional and orthodox can avoid undermining their own thesis by admitting this attitude. The fellow Jesuit Henri de Lubac 17 well voices them all, half neutrally half ironically: "Teilhard could not escape the conviction - in some cases, possibly, one might say the 'illusion' - that in what was most personal... Lubac's Note). Page 106 A Teilhard-quotation in Rideau's own book bears pointed testimony to the great gap between Teilhard's Christianity and that of his Church and of the Jesuit Order to which he belonged. In addition, it shows him active in what he considers the most strategic as well as the most loving way to make them mend the errors of their present religious stand and... "total Christ" comes out pretty definitively in the course of a comparison of Teilhard's "spirituality" with the details of St. Ignatius Loyola's Spiritual Exercises which is the handbook of the Jesuit Order. Rideau 13 writes: "...In spite of what Teilhard asserts in principle his thought is so centred on the glorious mysteries that consummate the Incarnation, that it seems by contrast ...
... at Pondicherry, and Dupleix assumed charge as the governor of French India. Jeanne had bewitched Dupleix, and could turn him round her little finger. She herself was under a strong influence of the Jesuit clergy. That was the opportunity those Christian priests were waiting for. Now, it so happens that the Dubash, 1 Ananda Ranga Pillai, the commercial agent of Dupleix, was in the habit of writing... Chetti on the cheek" and ordering the people to go away. The people, however, defied the order and protested, 'You better kill us all." The background to this act can be traced to the fact that the Jesuit missionaries had built in 1728 the Ghurch of St. Paul adjoining the Vedapuriswar temple. Those Jesuits were, so to say, all-powerful. During the reign of Louis XIV who had ascended the throne of... wanted to clip their wings by issuing a declaration proclaiming the citizens' freedom to live according to their ancestral customs. The Jesuits were furious. The King's confessor belonged to the Jesuit confraternity. He had the King's ear, hadn't he? So what was to happen, happened. But Hebert had learned his lesson. When he returned next as governor of Pondicherry he became as brutal as the Christian ...
... The World in which he is borne along as an inseparable element is to him the physical presence of an all-wise guiding Power that has his unquestioning love. He believes this Power to have made him a Jesuit Churchman and that is the reason, above all others, why he remains one. Faith in the World is at the back of even his career as a member of the Catholic clergy. When he says of the Church and the Society... November [1934] at the suggestion of Mgr. Bruno de Solages." And de Lubac never attends to the fact that at least four times Teilhard uses the pronoun "you" unmistakably to denote de Solages, a fellow-Jesuit who was the rector of the Institut Catholique of Toulouse. In one place, Teilhard uses it after affirming about the "cosmic sense": "In fact, nothing in the vast and polymorphous domain of mysticism... how by degrees my initial faith in the world was irresistibly transformed into a faith in the increasing and indestructible spiritualization of the world." 17 Evidently Teilhard is impressing on his Jesuit friend the mode in which the modern Christian should envisage religion. At another place, after being told that in the supreme universal personality we shall inevitably find ourselves personally i ...
... quite. The exceptions were the Jesuits. These Jesuit Fathers were determined to have his skin. When Hebert returned as Governor with the promise to do every single bidding by the Jesuits, he brought all sorts of trumped up charges against Nanyappa. As prosecutor and judge the Governor easily imprisoned him and confiscated his considerable properties. If Jesuit priests were there, could torture be far away... unsuspecting dyers disclosed to him their secret of the art of dying textiles. Now, the European manufacturers had been trying for long to copy the beauty of Indian textiles, but had never succeeded. This Jesuit priest, a 'Reverend Father,' treacherously revealed the Indian dyers' secret to the Europeans. Why only dyeing. All sorts of Indian technology were objects of curiosity to the Europeans. How Indians ...
... died of ill-health a year after his birth. Her delicate disposition was inherited by him and he had to be carefully brought up by a nurse during his childhood. At the age often, he entered the Jesuit College of La Fleche, where he received a better grounding in Mathematics than he could have got at other universities of the time: "The subject being specially dear to me for it alone could lead... we seem to be outgrowing the past ones. Maybe, we shall be the innovators of those to come. A few dates 1596 Birth of Descartes. 1604-1614 Studies in the Jesuit College of La Fleche. 1619(Noveber10) Night of great inspiration 1618-1628 Various travels through Europe. 1628 Descartes settles in Holland. ...
... priest. He was therefore working under the influence of the priests here. Baron being in connection with us, the priests had turned against him. SRI AUROBINDO: Schomberg is a Jesuit. There is a general opinion that a Jesuit can tell any lie if it serves the glory of God. Today's news announced Trotsky's death at an assassin's hand. Somebody said, "Stalin's last enemy is gone!" He was in dread of ...
... of any direct influence in either direction. Of other European thinkers, Martin Heidegger the Existentialist, G. I. Gurdjieff the prophet of the new gnosticism, and Teilhard de Chardin the Jesuit evolutionist come closer to Sri Aurobindo than the others already mentioned. Here, again, any similarities that we may perceive do not necessarily indicate - much less prove - any derivative "influence"... objection to the Gurdjieff-Ouspensky system - namely, its lack of religious affiliation or of a grounding on some seminal spiritual experience - cannot, however, be raised in respect of the French Jesuit, Teilhard de Chardin's, as outlined principally in the posthumously published work. The Phenomenon of Man (1960). Born to orthodoxy in a Catholic family, Teilhard entered the Society of Jesus. During ...
... my very chromosomes (I don't know where it was, but...) To feel imprisoned was unbearable. I couldn't stand that religious influence in my father, in my Page 12 family (they sent me to a Jesuit school), and I hated religion. I hated anything that confines you. A church meant a building. And, for me, to go and sit in a building was the first lie. I felt life when there were no walls, you... myself... I saw that little fellow in the center of the web, with all the threads – which were primarily all the books I read, because I read tons of books, and then friends, relatives, family, the Jesuit boarding school, math, chemistry, and everything I was being taught. I really saw myself as if... caught in a web. And I thought, "What would happen if I cut all those threads?" It was my recurring ...
... much from his set works, penetrative and brilliant though they are, as from his uninhibited private correspondence: Letters to Léontine Zanta, Letters to Two Friends and Lettres Intimes (to his Jesuit colleagues). You have a tantalising remark in your penultimate para. You refer to your lecturing in the USA on the Trinity and of the great interest taken in the matter everywhere. Then you ...
... Jesus being a concentrated manifestation of the cosmic Christ. As might be expected of so complex and tension-fraught a thinker, Teilhard himself comes to our help here. Piet Smul-ders, 4 a fellow-Jesuit, notes a "typical exaggeration" on Teilhard's part: "the primacy of Christ over the whole of Page 27 creation, hitherto thought of in an exclusively juridical and extrinsic fashion ...
... present what I say is still truer. 542) I believe with you, my friends, that God, if He exists, is a demon and an ogre. But after all what are you going to do about it? 543) God is the supreme Jesuit Father. He is ever doing evil that good may come of it; ever misleads for a greater leading; ever oppresses our will that it may arrive at last at an infinite freedom. 544) Our Evil is to God not ...
... of his leisure in his personal library, Sethna has the privilege of having his early education at St. Xavier's School and College, a Roman Catholic institution managed at that time by European Jesuit priests. As a Collegian, he won in his Intermediate Arts examination of Bombay University the Hughling Prize in English and the Selby Scholarship in Logic. He passed his B.A. (Hons) in Philosophy ...
... academically achieving the highest marks as she had an innate and natural ability to concentrate. She studied English literature at Saint Xavier’s College in Bombay and was taught there by many of the Jesuit fathers. She obtained degrees at Bombay University. After graduation she taught literature at Sophia College in Bombay. The Parsis I have met are all highly refined people and very developed in ...
... Himmler assiduously tried to copy. Absolute obedience was the supreme rule; each and every order had to be accepted without question.” 826 This explains why Himmler was sometimes called “the black Jesuit” or “the Grand Inquisitor”, for safety’s sake behind his back. Equivalent to the rule of unconditional obedience was the purity of the blood. “The discovery of any drop of non-Aryan blood in SS ...
... to members of Thule that Hitler first came, and Thule members were the first who allied themselves with Hitler.” 233 Another grave mistake by Sebottendorff was that he called on the anti-Semitic ex-Jesuit Bernhard Stempfle to help resuscitate the Thule Society, for Stempfle, one of the readers and correctors of the Mein Kampf manuscript, had hurt Hitler, probably in the murky Geli Raubal affair, and ...
... Robinson has written may be repeated. This Biblical scholar, who has attempted to reconcile othonia with sindon, has yet honestly raised a serious obstacle in the way of Matthew, Mark and Luke. The Jesuit scholar Raymond E. Brown 3 presents the situation very well: "... the othonia ('cloth wrappings') of John are sometimes assumed to be a collective which could possibly be the same as the sindon; ...
... sweetness, forming, deep in the heart, that obscure range from which, as waters from a spring, are born our dreams." Antoine de Saint-Exupery was born with the century, in 1900. At school, first a Jesuit institution in France, then another religious school in Switzerland, he did not prove particularly successful except in French composition. He was subject to some mockery due to his peculiar round ...
... Again, the recently (and posthumously) published book, The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin provokes comparison with The Life Divine at many points. Father de Chardin, a Jesuit was also a hard-headed biologist and palaeontologist, and he saw in man the spearhead of the evolutionary adventure. But his thesis, although sought to be scientifically sustained, is also basically ...
... banana grove could not have wrought more havoc. No, all that wasn't enough. The Portuguese let loose a reign of terror. Francis Xavier arrived in India in 1542. He was one of the founders of the Jesuit order. And began the terror of Inquisition. Francis Xavier had come with the firm resolve to uproot paganism from the native soil and plant Christianity instead. So it was sauve-qui-peut with ...
... but I have a strange recollection of your bearded face as something familiar. Trying to trace surface-causes I see it as a very attractive blending of my father in his early days and of my favourite Jesuit teacher at school: Father Kaufmann, a Swiss German. Kaufmann so influenced me that I even used to go about at times with a facial characteristic of his - knit eye-brows - as if I were angry! My desire ...
... evil, justice, charity and equanimity". While earlier he had "a reckless and wayward disposition", there was now a gentleness, which was the outcome of philosophical deveopments. The influence of a Jesuit teacher with a scientific bent of mind, and the exposure he received to the world of Bernard Shaw ("a laughing colossus") made him disdain "cheap religionism, as well as cheap materialism, puritanical ...
... physician, who spent much of his leisure in his personal library, Sethna had the privilege of having his early educa-tion at St. Xavier's School and College, a Roman Catholic Institution managed by foreign Jesuit priests. As a Collegian, he won in his Intermediate Arts examination of Bombay University the Hughlings Prize in English and the Selby Scholarship in Logic. He passed his B.A. (Hons) in Philoso-phy ...
... he admits at the end of the three stories he wrote during the First World War: "I had always been by temperament a 'pantheist' " 6 - he hurries to append a footnote in the persona propria of a Jesuit priest who has to set himself right with his Church for so dubious an admission: "Taking 'pantheism' in a very real sense, indeed in the etymological sense of the word (En passi panta Theos ...
... Roman Catholicism and Pantheism The Roman Catholic Church has shown deep concern over the real religion behind the scientific-spiritual philosophy of the Jesuit priest and palaeontologist Teilhard de Chardin. Apropos of some declarations of his, a very disturbing question has arisen for it: "Was Teilhard a pantheist?" According to pantheism, the universe ...
... The Spirituality of the Future. Here, he explicates with sustained thoroughness the thought and vision of Teilhard de Chardin and contrasts them with those of Sri Aurobindo. Familiar with the Jesuit set of mind, since his education at St. Xavier's School and College in Bombay, Amal disentagles Teilhard's real beliefs from Page 181 the gloss put on them by his ...
... half of the twentieth century. In the second half the most significant event so far for Europe's thought has been the publication of Le Phenomène humain (The Phenomenon of Man) by the Jesuit palaeontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin who too was once influenced by Bergson. The book is physics and biology argued out along lines prompted by poetic and religious intuition in a language ...
... Wilhelm a withered arm. Lord Halifax has a withered hand. The closest analogy to Roosevelt in some respects, my friend Jay Alien suggests, is of all people St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order. Loyola was a brilliant and worldly youth, a page at court, an armed warrior in the service of the Duke of Najera, and a lively and successful lady's man. His birth was noble, and he was rich ...
... what is meant by a conscious collaboration with the evolutionary process. The western countries, especially France, are now under the sway of the scientific works - posthumously published of the Jesuit Father and palaeontologist Teilhard de Chardin, who has argued very aptly that modern biology, supports the theory of an evolutionary future for man. It would be, after a more or less prolonged period ...
... of God ... to give light to those who were in darkness, and also to acquire riches." Consumed by greed and a religious zeal, Columbus and his successors, enthusiastically aided by the ruthless Jesuits, destroyed the Aztec and Inca civilizations and what was left of the Maya. "The last vestige of Mesoamerica's cultural splendour," Page 130 wrote James Shreeve, "was abruptly extinguished... by demons and devils. "How loathsome is God-defying bestiality under the cloak of religion, becomes quite visible if we open our eyes a little," said Rabindranath Tagore. The aim of the Jesuits, the Dominicans, and other Christian sects, was the 'soul count.' They never batted an eyelid in taking the name of the 'Apostle of Peace and Love' to indulge Page 133 in their brutal ...
... back... 53 The practical part of the scheme envisaged the organisation of a band of political sannyasis, dedicated to brahmacharya (single-blessedness or celibacy), who would (like the Jesuits of old), be ready to "do or die" (in Gandhi's famous phrase of 1942) for the country An inaccessible hill-temple dedicated to Bhawani, the Mother as the supreme Shakti, would be the refuge and the ...
... degraded world. His Christian elite troops, living under the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, would follow the example of the Sufi order of the Assassins, of the Knights Templar and of the Jesuits, and wage a holy war against the mob, the democratic ways of the modern world, the nation state, the market economy, and a Christian Church which had torn itself from its roots. Conquest of Europe ...
... personalities of the 18th century in the time of Catherine II Denis Diderot (1713-1784) He was the most prominent of the French Encyclopedists. He was educated by the Jesuits, and, refusing to enter one of the learned professions, was turned adrift by his father and came to Paris, where he lived from hand to mouth for a time. Gradually, however, he became recognized... soul." {Essay on Epic Poetry, 1727) François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire was born in Paris into a middle-class family. His father was a minor treasury official. Voltaire was educated by the Jesuits at the Collège Louis-le-Grand (1704-11). From 1711 to 1713 he studied law, and then worked as a secretary to the French ambassador in Holland before devoting himself entirely to writing. Voltaire's ...
... very different from the Ariosophist New Templars of Lanz von Liebenfels.” 645 Himmler’s organization of his “Black Order” is often said to have been inspired by the Order of the Templars or of the Jesuits, who, after all, were the Catholic Church’s warriors to fight the Reformation. And Hitler himself confided to Rauschning: “I shall tell you a secret: I am founding an order.” The top elite schools ...
... law: the abolition of torture and the establishment of religious toleration. This was widely extended: it allowed the Roman Catholic Church to compete with the Greek Orthodox; it protected the Jesuits Page 58 even after the dissolution of their order by Pope Clement XIV (1773); it permitted the Volga Tatars to rebuild their mosques. Catherine admitted the Jews into Russia, but she ...
... engraved on a copper plate marking those boundaries. The plate is in Holland, at the Museum of Leyde University. Jouveau-Dubreuil called the Chinese temple 'Chinese Pagoda.' It was destroyed by the Jesuits in the nineteenth century. Could Pondicherry be outdone? No, no. It had its own Far-Eastern temple: 'Burmese Pagoda.' When the eighteenth-century astronomer Le Gentil stayed in Pondicherry from ...
... excluded from the Party. A few months later he wrote: “Only the blind, uncritical admirers of Hitler or people who do not want to see the truth can doubt as yet that the Hitler Party is a party of Jesuits who, under the völkisch banner, are doing the business of Rome.” Dinter certainly knew that he was putting his life at risk, for so many had disappeared for far less, but he was not to be intimidated ...
... intertwined, united, unified with each other in him. Here is an echo of the Manichean position which also involves an abyss. But even then God's grace is not a free Page 111 agent, as Jesuits declare; there is a predestination that guides and controls it. This was one of the main subjects he treated in his famous open letters (Les Provinciales) that brought him renown almost overnight ...
... the less would I be out of tune with a western creed like Christianity. I have been enormously westernised and my whole education took place in a Roman Catholic school and college run by European Jesuits. More and more people are being "Indianised" in the higher sense of the word - I say the higher sense because everything in the outer India is not desirable, nor has it been desirable at all periods ...
... When such is the whole trend of your being, why bother about what your past religious condition has been? I was educated at a Roman Catholic school and college and knew several fine European Jesuits, particularly Swiss German Fathers, one of whom influenced me greatly. I am a Parsi by birth, belonging to a community which follows the religion called Zoroastrianism. Zoroaster ranks with the greatest ...
... own, with neither the means nor the end justifiable. Page 227 In passing, you have alluded to the Jesuits as having "said (or were said to have said) that 'the end justifies the means'." Poor Jesuits! all kinds of iniquities are charged to them. Maybe some Jesuits in the pastdid employ foul means to secure religious ends which they considered most worthy, but what is generally attributed ...
... have been that the Greeks, despite their Mysteries, lacked the spiritual experience of the East. Descartes’ basic and very influential worldview was essentially that of his Catholic educators, the Jesuits. Their official teaching was a dualism of body and soul, the burdensome body being the container of the soul in a world corrupted because of Adam’s Original Sin, and the immortal soul destined for ...
... Johann Kepler, the great astronomer and mathematician so often ignored, was a mystic pure and simple, and spoke out as such, for instance in his De Harmonia Mundi . Descartes had been educated by the Jesuits, spent much of his life in hiding for fear of suffering the same treatment by the Inquisition as Galileo, and did his best to find room for God in his worldview. Newton, as is now well known, dedicated ...
... of some substance. He had purchased an office at court and in 1637 secured the reversion to his son. Meanwhile young Poquelin (the name Moliere was assumed later) was receiving, as a pupil of the Jesuits, the best education the age afforded. Afterwards he appears to have studied law at a university, but where is not known for certain. At the age of 21, on the threshold of the career that was planned ...
... Drona's son Aswatthama) at what point does he forfeit the right to be called King Dharma? I think of the last world-war when Churchill ordered the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima. Of course the Jesuits said (or were said to have said) that 'the end justifies the means' but once war is engaged foul play is certain, and vengeful atrocities. Prof. P. Lal gave me his translation of the Bhagavad Geeta ...
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