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>What follows is not the entire Instruction, but the >sections that >are most pertinent to our discussion. The document >reads (with >emphasis added): > >Our ultimate aim 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 >IIs and all >the Saint Bernards of Christendom.

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