Le mythe jésuite

Conspiracism: Archaeology and morphology of a political myth

“…The universal mission of the Jesuits consequently became the object of widespread suspicion; accused of harbouring anti-national attitudes, their oath of allegiance to the Pope intuitu personae nourished the fantasy that these agents of a foreign will would engage in all manner of subversions. ‘As a cosmopolitan order, functioning beyond the guiding ethos of the nations and more precisely that of France, which brought to the world the message of liberty during the great Revolution, the Company of Jesus was a forerunner Internationale embarked upon the conquest of the world’ (Leroy, 1992: 121). Undeniably, we are here dealing, as later with the Jewish conspiracy myth, with a populist rhetoric, which in contrast exalted the notion of a homogeneous national identity (Hermet, 2001: 15) which was particular to one people, to an ethnos confronted with agents from without, a cosmopolitan power-hungry minority without any attachments and loyalty other than to itself.…”

“…The Jesuits, the Templars or the Freemasons are certainly a minority in society, but conspiracism asserts that their hold over society in all fields is measureless; they are believed to have infiltrated every trade guild, every social class or category, occupying all positions of dominance and exercising a malign influence over the highest spheres of the state. ‘The Jesuit is uncountable and indiscernible because his nature is one of dissimulation, because hypocrisy is a tenet of his morality, an obligatory state of his strategy of conquest’ (Leroy, 1992: 194). Perfidy and duplicity are held to be consubstantial with his diabolical character.…”

“…Characterized this way, the Jesuits no longer form a human society or religious order, but are cast as a soulless machine, incapable of any emotion or compassion whatever towards others. They constitute a machine through their capacity to initiate on the planetary scale a gigantic plan for universal dominance extending seamlessly over several centuries if not millennia (Leroy, 1992: 229). Similarly, in Icke’s (2007: 1–18) writing, the reptilian conspiracy is the work of a genuine machine in which cold-blooded individuals incapable of any emotion act like computers connected to a Wi-Fi network.…”

“…This process of dehumanization also passes via the application of animal metaphors, or zoomorphism. The Jesuits (Leroy, 1992: 210–224) or the Jews (Afoumado, 2008) are caricatured in the form of hydras, chameleons, spiders, snakes or foxes, all animals conveying the notion of craftiness and duplicity or a rampant hold over the world. Moreover, even when the scapegoats are represented in human form, they reflect a well-defined morphological type.…”

Antijesuitismo em Montevidéu no início do século XX: os folhetos da Associação de Propaganda Liberal (1900-1905)

“…Ver: PhilippeBoutry (2010),Kreis (2009),Cubbit (1993), MichelLeroy (1992). 4 Fernández Techera se refiere especialmente a Las Provinciales de Blas Pascal y a El judío errante de Eugenio Sue (2007, p. 176-184).…”