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Spiritual Discernment
reveals hidden truths through profound meditation and divine guidance, exposing falsehood and guiding souls toward righteousness
Disciplined Devotion
unwavering commitment to spiritual perfection radiates steadfast conviction, inspiring unshakeable faith in those who follow
The Society of Jesus he founded became one of the most controversial orders in Catholic history -- dissolved by Pope Clement XIV in 1773 under political pressure, restored in 1814; see [Conspiracies #21](../Conspiracies.md#21-the-jesuits--black-pope) for the conspiracy lore around the "Black Pope"
“Go and set the world on fire.” — attributed to Ignatius, sending Francis Xavier to the Indies
A Basque nobleman, soldier, and womanizer who took a French cannonball to the leg at Pamplona and emerged from his sickbed a different man. The Spiritual Exercises are a piece of psychological-religious technology that has shaped the inner lives of millions: a structured retreat that takes the exercitant through sin, the life of Christ, the Passion, and the Resurrection, applying methodical “discernment of spirits” throughout. The Jesuits became the educators of Europe (and later the world), the missionaries to China, Japan, Paraguay, and Canada, and the personal confessors to half the Catholic monarchs of the seventeenth century — which is what made them politically explosive enough to be suppressed. Francis (the current pope) is the first Jesuit ever elected.
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his *Autobiography* (dictated 1553-1555); the *Spiritual Exercises*; the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus
