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That might be quite a stretch, and Josh can certainly speak for himself. I won't see his stuff because I'm not on Facebook and won't be, oh well. So here's how I see things today: Let's go back only a thousand years or so, then try to get up to speed. It's all conspiratorial speculation, of course, because there's no available paper trail or hard evidence, but there's a lot of circumstantial evidence surfacing nowadays - particularly archaeological and cartographic. I'm not in any way trying to prove anything here - just my Cliffs Notes version of what some of the popular buzz is.
It's all about information, and who has it. Begin, say, with Bernard of Clairvaux, a Cistercian (quite an interesting bunch) who championed the fledgling Knights Templar back in the 11th century. The KT set up shop at Temple Mount in Jerusalem during the Crusades era and, as legend has it, dug up artifacts, treasure and ancient information presumably once belonging to the Solomon crowd way back when. Where they got the idea to start digging there - who knows? The KT's subsequent rise to power and later crash is fairly well known - their legacy and who they passed the baton to is a little cloudier.
Of course, we have allegations about secret missions, including to North America, the early involvement of guys like Henry Sinclair, et al, later, heavy hitters such as Thomas Jefferson, Alexander von Humbolt, etc. We also have rumors about great treasures cached in the Southwest, using the information found by the KT in Jerusalem. Throw all the mesoamerican "bearded white gods" legends into the mix, and you've got some pretty weird craziness to think about. Your specialty is Jesuits, I guess, and as far as we know, these shock troops may be in the same big club with the KTs, the Masons, the Mormons, the Merovingians, et al. Who the true top dogs are is, of course, the big unanswered question.
Anyway, cutting to the chase, the allegations are that the SJ had information and were in the New World to exploit it. Some folks think there are large valuable caches of some sort dating back many moons hidden in the Southwest, and that the highest ranking brothers knew where they were supposed to be and went hither to verify them. Presumably, the sites are still closed - waiting for who knows what before they're claimed. Meanwhile, the SJ's lower ranking minion priests, etc. executed the well-known Christian mission dog and pony show in the foreground with the local Natives.
The "Jesuit Treasures - Are They Real?" question? IMO, no, those fairy tales are just bs diversions designed to keep nosy scum like us running around in circles until we decide to take up golf instead. After all, we're not in the club and this stuff is secret - smart guys can keep secrets.
I agree for the most part...some do really exist. The treasure hunter will always make things more difficult than it really is.