his existence.
It was an arduous problem which Loyola undertook to solve,--to rob a man
which would make him the most efficient instrument of a great design.
directed. The enthusiasm of the novice is urged to its intensest pitch;
intellect and will in favor of the Superior, in whom he is commanded to
makes no slavish sacrifice of intellect and will; at least, so he is
is set.html">set.html">set to his submission: if the Superior pronounces black to be white,
will find it set forth in the famous Letter on Obedience of Loyola. ]
Loyola's book.html">book of Spiritual Exercises is well known. In these exercises
of Jesus. The book is, to all appearance, a dry and superstitious
it has proved of terrible efficacy. The novice, in solitude and darkness,
despair. He is taught to hear, in imagination, the howlings of the
without consuming, to smell the corruption of the tomb and the fumes of
one commanded by Satan on the plains of Babylon, one encamped under
long contemplation of its own vileness, is ordered to enroll itself under
serenity and celestial peace, and soothed with images of divine benignity
and, under an astute and experienced directorship, they have been found
saved souls more in number than the letters it contains.
To this succeed two years of discipline and preparation, directed,
obedience. The novice is obliged to perform the lowest menial offices,
is sent forth, for weeks together, to beg his bread like a common
but all those hidden tendencies, instincts, and impulses which form the
and his comrades are set to watch him. Each must report what he observes
.
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