Monita Secreta

Secret Instructions of the Jesuits

alleged: Claudio Acquaviva (1543-1615)

1835 edition by Robert Breckenridge

Title Page
Preface
Chapter 1
How the Society ought to conduct itself when it commences a settlement in a new place.
Chapter 2
By what method the Principal Persons of the Society may acquire and preserve the familiarity of Princes, Noblemen, and persons of great distinction.
Chapter 3
In what manner the society must act with those who have great authority in the state: and how others.
Chapter 4
What things ought to be recommended to preachers, and confessors, to the great.
Chapter 5
How to act towards religious orders, which perform the same functions in the church, which we do.
Chapter 6
How to conciliate rich widows to the society.
Chapter 7
How widows are to be retained; and how to dispose of the goods which they may leave.
Chapter 8
What must be done that the sons and daughters of widows may embrace a religious or devoted life.
Chapter 9
Of increasing the revenues of our colleges.
Chapter 10
Of the secret strictness of this discipline in the society.
Chapter 11
What we should all do against those dismissed from the society.
Chapter 12
Who should be cherished and favored in the society.
Chapter 13
Of the selection of youths for admission into the society, and the way to retain them.
Chapter 14
Of reserved cases, and of cause of dismission from the society.
Chapter 15
Concerning the treatment of nuns and devotees.
Chapter 16
Of the outward exhibition of a contempt of riches.
Chapter 17
Of the method of advancing the interest of the society.
Discourse on the Authenticity of the Monita Secreta

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