Lighthouse Trails Editors
LTRP Note: Nearly
two years ago, we issued this special report. With a newly elected
Jesuit Pope in the Vatican, we thought it would be timely to repost this
important article. It is also in booklet form as one of our new Print
Booklet Tracts.
An Understand the Times/Lighthouse Trails Special Report
(
Booklet Form)
According to Bible prophecy, a one-world religion that will offer the
promise of peace throughout the world is going to commence prior to
Christ’s return. To most, this global body will seem like a wonderful
thing and very possibly will be a pseudo-Christianity (coming in the
name of “Christ”); however, contrary to how the masses will view it, it
will actually help establish and set up the antichrist and his one-
world government.
In order for this to happen, all religions must come together in an
ecumenical plan. Today, as part of this Satanic scheme, the
evangelical/Protestant church is being drawn seductively into the Roman
Catholic church, largely through what we call “The Jesuit Agenda.”
Incredibly, while the evidence is obvious to some, the majority of
proclaiming Christians are not at all aware it is happening.
So, what should we expect if we are in the time when such a system
unfolds? First, many who once were Protestant and evangelical will
become ecumenical and eventually assimilate with the Roman Catholic
church. Second, all religions will unite in solidarity of purpose.
Understanding the Jesuit Agenda is essential if we are to understand how
this worldwide deception will come about.
Who are the Jesuits?
Since its foundation, the Catholic papacy has been zealous and often
brutal in its endeavor to establish the kingdom of the Pope (of whom it
is believed within the Catholic church is headed by Jesus Christ). In
fact, the Pope has been referred to as the “Vicar of Christ.” This
determination was witnessed during the Inquisition where countless
thousands, if not millions, died cruelly for resisting Rome.
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs describes many of these atrocities.
While many believers in Christ during the Reformation period
attempted to spread the truth that God’s Word was truly God’s Word and
could not be squandered and kept hostage by the papacy and the Catholic
Church, it was not long before the Counter Reformation was founded to
bring the “Separated Brethren” back to the “Mother of All Churches.”
This Counter Reformation was largely headed by Ignatius Loyola, the
man who founded the Jesuit Order in the mid 1500s and launched an
all-out attack against those who dared stand against the papacy and
Rome. This excerpt from
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs gives us an idea of the nature and determination of this Counter Reformation:
The emperor Ferdinand, whose hatred of the Bohemian
Protestants was without bounds, not thinking he had sufficiently
oppressed them, instituted a high court to prosecute the reformers upon
the plan of the Inquisition, with this difference, that the court was to
travel from place to place and always to be attended by a body of
troops. This court was conducted chiefly by Jesuits and from their
decision there was no appeal, by which it may be easily conjectured that
it was a dreadful tribunal indeed.
This bloody court, attended by a body of troops, made the tour of
Bohemia. They seldom examined or saw a prisoner, for the soldiers were
permitted to murder the Protestants as they pleased and then to make a
report of the matter to them afterward.1
You see, the Jesuits were commissioned by the Pope to do whatever it took to end the Protestant Reformation. The 1540
Constitution of the Jesuits states:
[L]et whoever desires to fight under the sacred banner of the Cross, and to serve only God
and the Roman pontiff, His vicar on earth, after a solemn vow of
perpetual chastity,- let him keep in mind that he is part of a society,
instituted for the purpose of perfecting souls in life and in Christian doctrine,
for the propagation of the faith . . . Let all members know, and let it
be not only at the beginning of their profession, but let them think
over it daily as long as they live, that the society as a whole, and
each of them, owes obedience to our most holy lord, the pope, and the other Roman pontiffs, his successors, and to fight with faithful obedience for God. (Emphasis added.)
While most Christians think that the Counter Reformation is a thing
of the past because we are not seeing Inquisitions today, this movement
continues until today and with renewed effort through various avenues of
the evangelical/Protestant church. In a way, it is more insidious than
the Inquisitions, because now it has infiltrated Christianity and is
being disguised as the “new” Christianity. (Rick Warren promotes it as
the
“new” or second reformation.)
But disguised or not, it is the Jesuit Agenda, and it is bringing about
ecumenism and a one-world religion. And at the same time, it is
attempting to destroy the message that so many died for – the message
that Jesus Christ is not found in a wafer and a cup of juice to be
re-crucified day after day but has died once and for all for the sins of
man and offers a salvation that is an entirely free gift, unearned to
those who believe on Him (Hebrews 7:27; 10:11-14).
Who Was Ignatius Loyola?
After a serious injury in the military and during a lengthy
rehabilitation, Ignatius Loyola (b. 1491, d. 1556) turned his focus from
“military enthusiasm to ghostly fanaticism.”2 Ignatius assumed the
name and office of Knight of the Virgin Mary, seeing himself as Mary’s
favorite. Ignatius wanted to start a new order, The Society of Jesus (or
the Jesuits) and presented the idea to the Pope. He told the Pope that
the idea had been inspired by heavenly revelations. At first, the Pope
hesitated, but when Ignatius added a fourth vow (in addition to the
regular poverty, chastity, and obedience), “absolute subservience to the
pope,” promising to do whatever the Pope wanted and go wherever he
wanted, the Pope agreed and sent the new order out to “invade the
world.” While other monks of other orders sought to separate themselves
from the world, the Jesuits went out into the world and obeyed whatever
command the Pope gave. Often this was to win the world with the sword.
No violent act was withheld if the order came from their top “general.”3
In time, the Jesuits entered the education system, especially that of
the Protestants. The Jesuit maxim was: “Give us the education of the
children of this day – and the next generation will be ours.”4 The
Reverend W. C. Brownlee, D.D. stated: “They pretended to be converted
and to enter into Protestant churches.” One Jesuit even boasted that the
Jesuits were successfully able to imitate the Puritan preachers. They
used trickery and deception to become “all things to all men.” Within 48
years, there were eleven thousand Jesuits around the world, quite a
large number for back then. 5
By 1773, the order was abolished because of their horrible reputation
of bloodiness, deception, and immorality. However, they were reinstated
fully in 1814 by Pope Pius VII. Even by this time, the influence and
infiltration into the United States by the Jesuits was significant.
In 1857, the Reverend W.C. Brownlee, D.D. compiled a book of a translated document called
Secret Instructions of the Jesuits (found on the Boston College Libraries website, for one). While Catholic sources say that the
Secret Instructions of the Jesuits
is an untrue document, there is enough evidence to indicate that it is
true indeed. Naturally, it is so indicting against the papacy and the
Jesuit Order that one can understand from a human point of view why
Catholic sources would say the document isn’t true. But the facts are
that the Jesuit Order was performing brutal cruel acts to bring the
world to “Christ” and the Mother Church and that they were infiltrating
every area of society to do so. This cannot be denied. Brownlee’s book
would be a worthwhile read for those who wish to understand more of the
history of the Jesuits.
The Jesuit Oath
It is said that the ancient Jesuits took the Jesuit Oath. This has
been refuted by Catholic sources as a true oath taken by Jesuits of the
past; nevertheless, there is evidence enough that the oath did exist to
include excerpts of it in this report. We have taken these excerpts from
a book titled
Political and Economic Handbook by Thomas Edward Watson published in 1916, and found in the Harvard College library:
I do declare from my heart, without mental reservation,
that the Pope is Christ’s Vicar General and . . . He hath power to
depose Heretical Kings, Princes, States . . . that they may safely be
destroyed. Therefore, to the utmost of my power I will defend this
doctrine. . . . I do further declare the doctrine of the Church of
England, of the Calvanists [sic], the Huguenots, and other Protestants to be damnable and those to be damned who will not forsake the same.
I do further declare that I will help, assist, and advise
all or any of His Holiness agents in any place wherever I shall be; and
to do my utmost to extirpate [exterminate] the heretical Protestant
doctrine, and to destroy all their pretended power. (p. 437)
In another version of the Jesuit Oath, the Jesuit is asked to promise
that he will make “relentless war” against “all heretics, Protestants”
and to “hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle, and bury alive these
infamous heretics” (found in U.S. House Congressional Record, 1913, p.
3216).
The Jesuit Agenda Today
While we are not saying that Jesuits today are murdering Protestants
if they don’t convert to Catholicism, we are saying that the
determination and efforts to convert Protestants back to the Mother
Church still exist. Basically, while the methods may have changed, the
plan and objectives have not. The following quote from an article titled
“Essay on Popery” by Rev. Ingram Cobbin M.A. (taken from one edition of
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs) is insightful:
The Jesuits, though at times expelled or pretendedly so
from Rome, have been its awful emissaries to augment its power. The
intrigues and deceptions of these men would fill volumes, and the
conveniency of their creed to deny or affirm anything, or assume any
profession as it may serve their purpose, is too well known to need
recapitulating here.
These men have at times assumed so much that every
papal state has alternately ejected them; and large numbers are now in
this country—doubtless many under false colours —waiting the most
favourable opportunities to corrupt the rising generation, and, as much
as possible, restore the dark days of former ages. The Jesuits are
unchangeable.
The Jesuits were driven in the past to bring back the lost brethren,
and they are driven today with the same vision. Today, that vision is
part of the pope’s Eucharistic Evangelization, drawing people to the
Eucharistic Christ. The Eucharistic Evangelization is discussed at
length in
Another Jesus: The Evangelization of the Eucharistic Christ and in several articles on the Understand the Times website.
Jesuit (Mystical) Spirituality and the Protestant/Evangelical Church
So if the methods of converting lost or prodigal souls back to Rome
have changed, what is the method to accomplish these goals today? It is
largely through what is called Jesuit Spirituality. A 2002 book titled
Contemplatives in Action: The Jesuit Way
reveals how the Jesuit order has had and continues to have a “great
influence” in people around the world. It attributes this “vitality” to
“its spirituality” which has also “evoked fierce loyalty and fierce
opposition.”6
What is the spirituality of the Jesuits that was so controversial? By
their very roots, Jesuits are proponents of mystical prayer practices.
The founder of the Jesuits, Ignatius Loyola, created “spiritual
exercises” that incorporated mysticism, including
lectio divina. Today, millions of people worldwide practice the “Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola.”
One Jesuit priest who resonates with the mystical spiritual outlook is
Anthony De Mello (d. 1987), author
of Sadhana: A Way to God. De Mello is often quoted today by contemplative and emerging authors and embraced the mysticism of Hinduism. He stated:
To silence the mind is an extremely difficult task. How
hard it is to keep the mind from thinking, thinking, thinking, forever
thinking, forever producing thoughts in a never ending stream. Our Hindu
masters in India have a saying: one thorn is removed by another. By
this they mean that you will be wise to use one thought to rid yourself
of all the other thoughts that crowd into your mind. One thought, one
image, one phrase or sentence or word that your mind can be made to
fasten on. – Anthony de Mello, Sadhana: A Way to God (St. Louis, the Institute of Jesuit Resources, 1978), p. 28 (cited from A Time of Departing, by Ray Yungen, p. 75).
Ray Yungen
explains that Sadhana “is very open in its acknowledgment of Eastern mysticism as an enrichment to Christian spirituality.”
It doesn’t take a long search to find De Mello within the
evangelical/Protestant camp. In fact, Richard Foster, one of the
pioneers of the evangelical spiritual formation (contemplative) movement
wrote the introduction to one of De Mello’s books
, The Sacrament of the Present Moment. In
A Glimpse of Jesus, popular contemplative author Brennan Manning quotes De Mello. Amazon shows that De Mello’s book,
The Sacrament of the Present Moment is
cited in 82 books, some of which are written by some of
evangelicalism’s most popular authors: John Ortberg, Richard Foster, Jan
Johnson, Philip Yancey, and Calvin Miller – incidentally all these are
contemplative advocates.
Another example of Jesuit influence in the evangelical/Protestant church is the
Be Still DVD, where Richard Foster quotes 18
th
century Jesuit priest, Jean Nicholas Grou as saying: “O Divine Master,
teach me this mute language which says so much.” This “mute language”
Grou speaks of is the mystical “silence” practiced by contemplatives and
mystics throughout all religions.
One of the key figures in the “new” progressive Christianity today is
Leonard Sweet. Sweet has partnered on a number of occasions with Rick Warren and speaks at evangelical events frequently. In Sweet’s book,
Quantum Spirituality, he states:
Mysticism, once cast to the sidelines of the Christian
tradition, is now situated in postmodernist culture near the center. . .
. In the words of one of the greatest theologians of the twentieth
century, Jesuit philosopher of religion/dogmatist Karl Rahner, “The
Christian of tomorrow will be a mystic, one who has experienced
something, or he will be nothing.” [Mysticism] is metaphysics arrived at
through mindbody experiences. (p. 76)
How fitting that Sweet would quote a Jesuit priest’s prediction about the “Christian” of the future.
Tony Campolo, another popular figure in the evangelical church, reveals something quite interesting in his book
, Letters to a Young Evangelical. In the book, he explains the role mysticism had in him becoming a Christian. He explains:
I learned about this way of having a born-again experience from reading Catholic mystics, especially The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola. (p. 30, see “Coming to Christ Through Mysticism,” Oakland )
For skeptics who may need further evidence that Jesuit Spirituality
has come into the evangelical/Protestant church, consider this. In 2006,
Baker Books, one of evangelicalism’s top book publishers, released a
book titled
Sacred Listening: Discovering the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola written by James Wakefield. A publisher description of the book states:
Central to the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), the Spiritual
Exercises is a manual used to direct a month-long spiritual retreat. Now
adapting these time-honored Exercises specifically for Protestant
Christians, James L. Wakefield encourages readers to integrate their
secular goals with their religious beliefs and helps them reflect on the
life of Jesus as a model for their own discipleship.7
Wakefield’s book, devoted to the Jesuits and Ignatian Exercises,
should be proof enough that the Jesuit Agenda has entered the Christian
church and that mysticism is the tool by which the Jesuit Agenda is
largely being brought into the lives of countless evangelicals and
Protestants. Is it any wonder Wakefield’s book found praise within the
Jesuit community? Armand M. Nigro, professor emeritus at the Jesuit
school, Gonzaga University, said:
As a Jesuit for 62 years, I have been formed by the
Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, our principal founder. I rejoice, then,
at the long-awaited publication of Sacred Listening. It will be for its readers, I hope, a classic manual for spiritual growth in genuine mystical prayer. (on back cover of book)
Incidentally, Eugene Peterson, author of
The Message wrote an endorsement of Wakefield’s book on the front cover.
These are just a few of a great many examples where the “Jesuit
Spirituality” has come into the Protestant church; thus this new modern
(post-modern) mystical method to accomplish the goals of the papacy is
working.
If Protestants and evangelicals can be convinced to practice mysticism (i.e., contemplative), this
conditions them
to begin embracing Rome and even all religions. It’s important to
understand that mysticism is the bridge that unites all the religions of
the world. In order to unite them, there would need to be a uniting,
common denominator, so to speak. That common uniting medium is
mysticism.
Thomas Merton recognized this. In a conversation he was
having with a Sufi master, the topic of Christian atonement arose. The
Sufi master said this was an area they could never agree on, to which
Merton replied:
Personally, in matters where dogmatic beliefs differ, I
think that controversy [atonement] is of little value because it takes
us away from the spiritual realities into the realm of words
and ideas . . . in words there are apt to be infinite complexities and
subtleties which are beyond resolution. . . . But much more important is
the sharing of the experience of divine light, . . . It is here that the area of fruitful dialogue exists between Christianity and Islam.8 (Emphasis added.)
Tilden Edwards, co-founder of the Shalem Institute (where
Ruth Haley Barton
was educated), would agree with Merton. He said, “This mystical stream
[contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern
spirituality” (
Spiritual Friend, p. 18). And in a New Age book titled,
As Above, So Below,
the author states (quoting Aldous Huxley) that “the metaphysical
[mystical] that recognizes a divine reality” is the “highest common
factor” that “links the world’s religious traditions.” And even
evangelical-turned-emerging author Tony Campolo recognizes this
commonality in mysticism when he states: “Beyond these models of
reconciliation, a theology of mysticism provides some hope for common
ground between Christianity and Islam” (pp 149-150).
Incidentally, when we say all the religions of the world uniting, we
include the New Age movement (perhaps one of the largest “religions” in
the world today). New Agers believe that in order to enter into an age
of enlightenment (or Age of Aquarius), the world needs to become
“vibrationally sympathetic,” meaning that a sufficient mass (critical
mass) of people will need to engage in mystical prayer.9
The Counter Reformation Continues
Jesuit influence in the world today is everywhere: in the business
world, in education, in government, and yes, in the
evangelical/Protestant church.
According to
Contemplatives in Action: The Jesuit Way,
there are over one million people living in the United States alone who
have graduated from Jesuit high schools, colleges, and universities
(Introduction, p. 1).
While there have often been tensions between the Pope and the Jesuit
Order over various issues, the current Superior General of the Jesuit
Order, Adolfo Nicolas Pachon, reassured the Jesuit commitment to Rome
when he stated:
The Society of Jesus was born within the Church, we live
in the Church, we were approved by the Church and we serve the Church.
This is our vocation…[Unity with the pope] is the symbol of our union
with Christ. It also is the guarantee that our mission will not be a
‘small mission,’ a project just of the Jesuits, but that our mission is
the mission of the Church.”10
Where Else in Evangelicalism is the Jesuit Evangelism Showing Up?
Earlier this year, Understand the Times released an article titled
Jerry Boykin and the Calvary Chapel Connection.
It was a difficult article for many to read. People do not want to
think that Christian leaders and pastors they have trusted for years
would be so foolish as to associate with and promote someone who is part
of a group that wants to bring the “lost brethren” back to the Mother
Church.
But the fact is
that a high officer in the Vatican’s Jesuitical, “Knights of Malta” was a featured speaker at a Calvary Chapel sponsored
Preach the Word prophecy conference.
Another example, and I believe an important one, has to do with one
of the most well-known and influential evangelical organizations in
America. Robert Siciro is a Protestant turned Catholic Paulist priest,
and he is one of the featured speakers in the very popular
Truth Project by Focus on the Family.
While the Paulist Order is not a Jesuit Order, it has basically the
same objective as the Jesuit order with regard to winning souls for the
Catholic church. According to
one Catholic source , the Paulist order is “A community of
priests for giving
missions and doing other Apostolic works, especially for making converts to the
Catholic faith.” Robert Siciro is President of the
Acton Institute,
an ecumenical think tank where, incidentally, there are scores of
articles by or about those in the Catholic faith, including a number of
Jesuits. Now, through the Truth Project, thousands and thousands of
evangelical/Protestant Christians have been introduced, by way of proxy,
to the Eucharistic Evangelization.
The Fatima Plan
For those who are not convinced that we are headed toward a one-world
religion for “peace,” take a trip some time to Fatima, Portugal where
annual pilgrimages bring people from the religions of the world to pray
to “the queen of heaven,” also called “our lady of Peace.”
Pope John Paul II was dedicated to Mary and especially “Our Lady of
Fatima.” He believed this entity saved him from an assassin’s bullet on
May 13, 1981, on the anniversary of the so-called apparition’s
appearance (to have first occurred in 1917).
People from all around the world have been coming to Fatima to pray
to “Our Lady.” At a gathering for “world peace” in Fatima, Jesuit priest
Jacques Dupuis stated:
The religion of the future will be a general converging
of religions in a universal Christ that will satisfy all. The other
religious traditions in the world are part of God’s plan for humanity
and the Holy Spirit is operating and present in Buddhist, Hindu and
other sacred writings of Christian and non-Christian faiths as well. The
universality of God’s kingdom permits this, and this is nothing more
than a diversified form of sharing in the same mystery of salvation.11
Fatima is just another avenue through which the Jesuit Agenda is being accomplished.
In Summary
Perhaps the best way to understand the Jesuit Agenda that undermines
biblical Christianity is to recognize the move toward a so-called
“social gospel” that unites the religions of the world for the cause of
peace. Like mysticism, this social gospel is a vehicle through which all
religions will be united. Who would have believed this could have
happened to the Protestant evangelical church? But we have already been
warned in Scripture that Satan’s ministers are “transformed as the
ministers of righteousness” (2 Corinthians 11:15).
Rick Warren has been one of the many pied pipers of this move to
unite through “good works.”
Called “America’s pastor,” Warren has become
the evangelical/Protestant spokesperson for a one-world religion. His
Purpose Driven model has become the battle cry for
let just all get along and do good. We can work together as one for one common purpose – peace in the world.
Willow Creek has helped to escalate this global religious body
through their Global Leadership Summits, where they are “bringing people
together from all nationalities to complete our shared Kingdom
assignment in the Church
and beyond”12 (emphasis added). Warren and Hybel’s global agenda is moving full force throughout the earth today.
Rick Warren and Bill Hybels – protégés of Peter Drucker, by the way –
have advanced the Jesuit Agenda by leaps and bounds. Many of these
“new” Christianity, new reformation leaders have ignored the prophetic
warnings of Jesus Christ’s soon return based on the signs we see from
Bible prophecy. Instead, they promote the establishment of the kingdom
of God with all the world’s religions.
The emerging church movement, which has been widely propagated by
Warren, Hybels, and a host of other Christian figures, has been used by
Satan to quickly bring about this worldwide deception by introducing
mystical experiences and the social gospel to an entire generation of
young people.
Sensual experiences that tickle the flesh of the
postmodern generation are often the same ones that Rome has used in the
past to convince the faithful that they have encountered the God of the
Bible. History reveals that history is repeating, and the same tools of
delusion are being used over and over.
Those who shine the light on the Jesuit Agenda are considered to be
conspiratorial crackpots. The prophets of the past when they exposed the
Babylonian worship by the leaders of Israel were also deemed to be
crazy, as have been Bible-believing Christians since Christianity began.
One of those was John Huss (1372-1415). John Foxe describes what
happened:
[Huss] compiled a treatise in which he maintained that
reading the books of Protestants could not be absolutely forbidden. He
wrote in defense of Wickliffe’s book on the Trinity; and boldly declared
against the vices of the pope, the cardinals, and clergy of those
corrupt times. He wrote also many other books, all of which were penned
with a strength of argument that greatly facilitated the spreading of
his doctrines. . . . 13
Eventually Huss was arrested, and when he was brought before the
council (of the papacy), he was mocked and called “A ringleader of
heretics,” to which he replied:
My Lord Jesus Christ, for my sake, did wear a crown of
thorns; why should not I then, for His sake, wear this light crown, be
it ever so shameful? Truly I will do it and willingly.14
At 43 years of age, John Huss was burned at the stake, singing hymns
during the brutal execution. Why was he called a “ringleader of
heretics”? For standing up for biblical truth against the Pope and Rome.
Discerning Christians should be asking many questions. But one
question that stands out foremost is: why are so few saying anything
about the Jesuit Agenda? Do they see it but are afraid to speak? Or do
they see it and are part of it?
Speaking of questions, Jesus asked one: “[W]hen the Son of man
cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8). Will He find it
in the pastors and theological professors? Will He find it in your own
church? Or will He only find those who have remained silent?
Just as God raised up others to carry the torch of truth after Huss
was eliminated from this earth, God will and is raising up others today
who are willing to risk all to stand for the truth and speak against the
lies.
To believers who are standing fast, look up, for “your redemption draweth nigh” (Luke 21:28).
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of
these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Be not ye therefore partakers with them. For ye were sometimes darkness,
but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the
fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with
the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. . . . See
then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming
the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but
understanding what the will of the Lord is. (Ephesians 5:6-11, 15-17)
Notes:
- John Foxe, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (Eureka, MT: Lighthouse Trails Publishing edition), p. 169.
- Rev. W.C. Brownlee, D.D., Secret Instructions of the Jesuits, http://www.archive.org/details/secretinstructio00brow at Boston College Libraries archives
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- https://lists.ateneo.edu/pipermail/blueboard/2004-May/003422.html
- From the Publisher’s description at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Listening-Discovering-Spiritual-Exercises/dp/080106614X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309703869&sr=8-1#_
- Rob Baker and Gray Henry, Editors, Merton and Sufism (Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 1999), p. 109, as cited in A Time of Departing, p. 60.)
- Ken Carey, The Starseed Transmissions (A Uni-Sun Book, 1985 4th printing), p. 33.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Nicol%C3%A1s and see http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0801316.htm
- Jesuit theologian Father Jacques Dupuis, at the 2003 interfaith congress “The Future of God; http://www.understandthetimes.org/commentary/c19.shtml
- http://www.growingleadership.com/summit/speaker_brenda_salter_mcneil.asp
- John Foxe, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (Eureka, MT, Lighthouse Trails Publishing edition), pp.160-164.
- Ibid.
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