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Rh Secreta, or code of secret instructions, supposed to have been drawn up by Aquaviva, the fifth General, for the benefit of Superiors and others who are considered fit to be initiated in the full mystery of the schemes of the Society. It imputes to the Society the most crooked designs to achieve the aggrandizement of the Order. It has been reprinted again and again, in England as late as 1850 (London), in France 1870 and 1876, in Germany 1886 and 1901. The work has repeatedly been proved to be an infamous libel, written by one Zahorowski, who had been discharged from the Society in 1611 or 1612. Even such enemies of the Society as the Jansenist Arnauld, the "Old-Catholics" Döllinger, Huber, Reusch, and Friedrich, declare it "spurious and a lampoon on the Order." Dr. Littledale calls it "an ingenious forgery", it has been recently called a fraudulent squib by Protestants like Professor Harnack (1891), Tschackert (1891), and others. And still, in spite of all this adverse authority, recent Protestant publications have referred to this forgery as to an authentic document. No, not the Monita Secreta, but the Constitutions, available to any one, contain the spirit of the Society.

The Constitutions are divided into ten parts, the fourth of which treats of studies. This part is the longest of all, and its perfect arrangement met with especial admiration. After the promulgation of the Constitutions successive General Congregations issued