The Jesuit sect operated as a sort of early proto-intelligence agency for the Catholic Church. How did they set the template by which other secular intelligence agencies evolve?

Forbes is reporting on the latest winners of the Arts at CERN program where selected artists get to reside at CERN to create their next art project. While such a program seems like an innocent way to create a vibrant community of creatives to collaborate in unique ways, there might be a deeper spiritual agenda at play. In my humble opinion, “art” is being used a bridge to connect modern science to the occult mysteries. This is a fascinating development as materialism continues to fail both philosophy and science.

A code of instructions alleged to be addressed by Acquaviva, the fifth general of the Society, to its various superiors, and laying down the methods to be adopted for the increase of its power and influence. According to them, every means is to be employed of acquiring wealth for the order, by enticing promising young men to enter it and endow it with their estates; rich widows are to be cajoled and dissuaded from remarriage; every means is to be used for the advancement of Jesuits to bishoprics or other ecclesiastical dignities and to discredit the members of other orders, while the world is to be persuaded that the Societies animated by the purest and least interested motives: the reputation of those who quit it is to be assailed and traduced in every way.