The Inquisition papal office was founded by Pope Gregory IX to identify heretics. Franciscans and Dominicans staffed it. Torture became an approved aid to interrogation in 1252.

Early in the thirteen century a frightening madness and paranoia set on Christendom. Legions of imps, goblins, gremlins, witches, and wizards suddenly launched a mass attack on the Catholic Church from all directions. Entire towns and villages were overrun and came under the spell of evil — even churches and monasteries. That required drastic action and the hapless clergy sought help from the most powerful priest on the face of the Earth, His Holiness the Vicar of Christ. Since the situation was critical he declared a state of emergency to contain these nocturnal powers threatening the very existence of the mighty Church, and ordered the state to set up an organization to scare the shit out of these demonic forces.

Emperor Frederick, an unbeliever, approved ruthless legislation to please Pope Gregory IX. In 1232 he published a Bull establishing the Inquisition, to be run by Franciscans and Dominican monks. July 27, 1233 was a red-letter day for the Vicar of Christ. Peter Selia and William Arnald were appointed full-time inquisitors "the first in a long line of serene untroubled persecutors of the human race." All accepted standards of justice — from Nicholas I ninth-century condemnation of torture as a violation of divine law to the sixth century judiciary order of Gregory the Great to ignore testimony given under duress — were brushed aside.

Between 1200 and 1500 a series of papal laws were enacted to extract the maximum cruelty on the most trivial, the most absurd misdemeanor. Even thoughts were punishable. Innocent IVs Bull Ad extirpanda allowed the Inquisition to use torture.

By the thirteenth century the early church declared that heretics had no rights and thus to be tortured with a clear conscience, subject to the most unspeakable atrocities before being put to death. "From the mid-14th century to the end of the 18th century, torture was a common and sanctioned part of the legal proceedings of most European countries and the Roman Catholic Church, which had approved of its use by the inquisition in cases of heresy." No pope checked this madness and the Inquisition achieved unprecedented powers. Their motto: 'Better for a hundred innocent people to die than one heretic to go free.' All popes explicitly forbid any mercy on their victims, a hereditary trait that only Satan could bless them with. Torturers were assured that his Holiness would take on himself any guilt or excess they incurred. "Like the Nazi SS in the twentieth century, they were able to torture and destroy with a quiet mind because their superior officer — in this case, the pope — assured them that heretics were a dirty, diseased and contagious foe that must be purged at all costs and by all means."

Torture was horrendously effective in making stubborn tongues loose. Hot iron on raw flesh did wonders to open mouths and memory. The rack stretched both body and imagination. The cat-of-nine-tails exposed skin and sinners. Drowning devices drove victims insane with fear. Bloodcurdling howls of pain, shrieks of horror and screams of terror reduced next-in-line victims into quivering, hapless masses, ready to confess to the most absurd charges in order to be allowed the mercy of a quick death by being burnt at the stake.

Torture was satanically successful as to be almost perfect — so successful that just a century ago there was a papal display of the Black Book, or Libro Nero, for guiding inquisitors. (Its popular name was the Book of the Dead.) A portion reads:

"Either the person confesses and he is proved guilty from his own confession, or he does not confess and is equally guilty on the evidence of witnesses. If a person confesses the whole of what he is accused of, he is unquestionably guilty of the whole; but if he confesses only a part, he ought still to be regarded as guilty of the whole, since what he has confesses proves him to be capable of guilt as to the other points of the accusation. . . . Bodily torture has ever been found the most salutary and efficient means leading to spiritual repentance. Therefore, the choice of the most befitting mode of torture is left to the Judge of the Inquisition, who determines according to age, the sex, and the constitution of the party . . . If, notwithstanding all the means employed, the unfortunate wretch still denies his guilt, he is to be considered as a victim of the devil: and, as such, deserves no compassion from the servants of God, nor the pity and indulgence of Holy Mother Church: he is a son of perdition. Let him perish among the damned."

No document is so contrary to the principles of natural justice. According to the Black Book, "a child must betray his parents, a mother must betray her child. Not to do so is a 'sin against the Holy Office' and merits excommunication, that is, exclusion from the sacraments and, if there is no amendment, exclusion from heaven."

The Inquisition even provided for witnesses to be tortured! Those complaining or refusing to testify were accused of heretical leanings. "There were instances of entire families being tortured to make them incriminate one of their members." What possessed these men — God Almighty or the Devil?

The inquisitors never lost a single case and neither are there any records of acquittal. The laws of the Inquisition were all encompassing. Even the slightest opposition to the papal system was 'against the faith.' "Inquisitors arrested people for eating meat on Friday, omitting their Easter duties, reading the Bible, saying it is a sin to persecute for conscience's sake, speaking ill of a cleric. Any jibe against his Holiness was an indictable offence, even when uttered by a man in his cups. Any departure from the life of the community was proof of heresy meriting death. It is clear from this that the aim of the Inquisition was to defend not the faith but the papal system."

The lists of punishable offences were long: blasphemy, sodomy, sacrilege, sorcery, papal tax evasion, and saying that usury is not a sin incurred the wrath of the inquisitors.

Some were ridiculous — any person not lighting a fire on Sabbath was presumed to be a convert Jew and burnt at the stake. Through experience the Inquisitors became Satan’s siblings. If a victim proved his innocence — even under the most barbaric torture — there was an ingenious loophole: he could still be condemned for his inmost thoughts, doubts, temptations or anything vaguely heretical!

The diabolic insanity of the tribunal allowed it to even try the dead. Pope Formosa was twice dug up and excommunicated. This started a trend and disinterred corpses were on trial. Where corpses were unavailable effigies were made. After sentencing, the dead were again burnt to 'death.' There was a creative motive for this ghoulish pursuit. This practice facilitated inquisitors to acquire the properties of the dead and the rich feared them, therefore, even more than the poor. The pontiff rubbed his hands in glee: half went into the church's treasury and half to the inquisitors, minus petty expenses. Some pontiffs, like Nicholas III (1277-80), amassed a fortune.

The Dominican friar Thomas of Torquemada was the most famous of the Grand Inquisitors. From 1483 -1498 he tortured more than 114,000 of whom 10,220 were burned, and many others sentenced to life imprisonment. He acted absolutely out of love for Christ and duty to the pope. Under Philip II, Bloody Mary's Spanish husband, it is said the death toll of the Inquisition far exceeded the carnage under the Romans. Pope Paul III on 21 July 1542, bought and outfitted a house with state-of-the-art torture instruments, all out his own pocket — a small gesture of his love for God.

The Roman Inquisition, separate from the medieval Inquisition that thrived for centuries, continued its satanic savagery right into the nineteenth century. Till 1870 the special court, the Santa Consular tried religious lawbreakers. Only priests sat in judgement and in the best tradition of papal justice offenders were never allowed defense lawyers, nor confronted by witnesses. And yes, the priests had absolute power as judge, jury and executioner.

According to Peter de Rosa "the most frightening of the inquisitors were the incorruptible ones; they tortured purely and simply for the love of God. They had no financial interest. The very asceticism of most of those pious God-fearing Dominicans made them pathologically harsh. Used to pain themselves, they had a spiritual yearning to inflict pain on others. The screams of victims were a kind of theological music to the ears, a proof that Satan was taking a pasting. They also rejoiced like children at the pope's benevolence towards them; he gave them the same indulgences he gave the knights who went to the Crusades."

Today, John Paul II fondly remembers his long departed flock with these nostalgic words: "What supreme dignity those men and women have who are consecrated, who, as their vocation, have chosen to embrace the nuptial dimension of the Church — Christ's bride!"

(We will have to leave out witch hunts, crusades, slavery, holocaust and battlefield invocations for the time being.)

The Resurrection and Last Judgment is the death-knell of all organized religions who have created destructive, anti-God dogmas and behaviors. Because religious people believe the religious elite, they are infected with those same beliefs as are promoted by their religions' heads. They thus become infected with the same evil spirits with which those religious heads were consumed. 

In this age those following the empty rituals and false beliefs will wonder whose names will not be written in the Book of Life. In other words will the blind followers of religious regimes be able to attain eternal life by following their high priests who know next to nothing about the Resurrection and Last Judgment. Yet is is claimed that "the Church's first purpose is to be the sacrament of the inner union of men with God. Because men's communion with one another is rooted in that union with God, the Church is also the sacrament of the unity of the human race. In her, this unity is already begun, since she gathers men "from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues"; (Rev 7:9.)" ²

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

"There was, as you know, Peter. Peter was very egotistical fellow and once Christ said, "You will deny Me three times." That’s the time this Paul came up and he taught it was a easy chance to get hold of somebody who is a weak person, who is satanic; is a very good Antichrist — and he found. He, being a great bureaucrat, wooed him, managed him, and took him into his own confidence, and told him you can join hands with me. . . .

He edited the Bible, this sinister fellow Paul. He edited the Bible. The whole work of Christ went into the hands of this devil. . . .

So this devil entered into the arena of such a great religion as Christianity and the whole thing became upset. And that’s how Bible is used today as a authority, has such words that people start thinking no end of themselves; the first one suggesting if you, if you become members of a Church you are chosen. But first of all he (Paul) saw that it should be written that Peter will start this Church and he will become the key, that’s what Christ said, and put him on a rock, and he will start a Church. IMPOSSIBLE! Put Me in the place of Christ. Will I ask the wickedest man to do such a thing? Will I appoint one person to look after the whole thing? This part of the Bible is absolutely blasphemy!"

Shri Maha-virendra-varada Devi
14 Types Of Sahaja Yogis, Rome, Italy, 
Easter Puja — April 19, 1992

Maha-virendra-varada (493rd): ‘Mahavira’ here means ‘Trimurtis’ or ‘Paramahamsas.’ She grants boons to them. ‘Indra’ means the ‘Jiva’ who found his identity with the Ultimate Reality (Ait. Up. 1-3-14.) So Virendra means "Paramahamsa’ who experiences the Turiya state.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

"Pope is another horrible fake guru sitting here. Then we have another one that is of Canterbury sitting there. All of them are false gurus — know nothing about Kundalini, don’t know anything of Brahma, . . . So they want to propound that they are the solution, achieving nothing, spoiling the name of Christ and doing all kinds of things against Him, stupidly, without knowing the Divine.

Then we have many in Islam. Horrible people, just the opposite of Muhammad Sahib, who will say wrong things in the name of Muhammad Sahib. Its something like one can understand that a thief has to become an impostor to behave like a king to show that he is not a thief, and to have his thieving done. This is how they are — all of them! Right from India we have many brahmins of the same category.