PROTOCOLS OF THE
MEETINGS
OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION
PROTOCOL No.
1
1. ....Putting aside fine
phrases we shall speak of the significance of each thought: by
comparisons and deductions we shall throw light upon
surrounding facts.
2. What I am about to set
forth, then, is our system from the two points of view, that of
ourselves and that of the GOYIM [i.e., non-
Jews].
3. It must be noted that men
with bad instincts are more in number than the good, and
therefore the best results in governing them are attained by
violence and terrorisation, and not by academic discussions.
Every man aims at power, everyone would like to become a
dictator if only he could, and rare indeed are the men who
would not be willing to sacrifice the welfare of all for the
sake of securing their own welfare.
4. What has restrained the
beasts of prey who are called men? What has served for their
guidance hitherto?
5. In the beginnings of the
structure of society, they were subjected to brutal and blind
force; after words - to Law, which is the same force, only
disguised. I draw the conclusion that by the law of nature
right lies in force.
6. Political freedom is an idea
but not a fact. This idea one must know how to apply whenever
it appears necessary with this bait of an idea to attract the
masses of the people to one's party for the purpose of crushing
another who is in authority. This task is rendered easier of
the opponent has himself been infected with the idea of
freedom, SO-CALLED LIBERALISM, and, for the sake of an
idea, is willing to yield some of his power. It is precisely
here that the triumph of our theory appears; the slackened
reins of government are immediately, by the law of life, caught
up and gathered together by a new hand, because the blind might
of the nation cannot for one single day exist without guidance,
and the new authority merely fits into the place of the old
already weakened by liberalism.
GOLD
7. In our day the power which
has replaced that of the rulers who were liberal is the power
of Gold. Time was when Faith ruled. The idea of freedom is
impossible of realization because no one knows how to use it
with moderation. It is enough to hand over a people to
self-government for a certain length of time for that people to
be turned into a disorganized mob. From that moment on we get
internecine strife which soon develops into battles between
classes, in the midst of which States burn down and their
importance is reduced to that of a heap of ashes.
8. Whether a State exhausts
itself in its own convulsions, whether its internal discord
brings it under the power of external foes - in any case it can
be accounted irretrievable lost: IT IS IN OUR POWER. The
despotism of Capital, which is entirely in our hands, reaches
out to it a straw that the State, willy-nilly, must take hold
of: if not - it goes to the bottom.
9. Should anyone of a liberal
mind say that such reflections as the above are immoral, I
would put the following questions: If every State has two foes
and if in regard to the external foe it is allowed and not
considered immoral to use every manner and art of conflict, as
for example to keep the enemy in ignorance of plans of attack
and defense, to attack him by night or in superior numbers,
then in what way can the same means in regard to a worse foe,
the destroyer of the structure of society and the commonweal,
be called immoral and not permissible?
10. Is it possible for any
sound logical mind to hope with any success to guide crowds by
the aid of reasonable counsels and arguments, when any
objection or contradiction, senseless though it may be, can be
made and when such objection may find more favor with the
people, whose powers of reasoning are superficial? Men in
masses and the men of the masses, being guided solely by petty
passions, paltry beliefs, traditions and sentimental theorems,
fall a prey to party dissension, which hinders any kind of
agreement even on the basis of a perfectly reasonable argument.
Every resolution of a crowd depends upon a chance or packed
majority, which, in its ignorance of political secrets, puts
forth some ridiculous resolution that lays in the
administration a seed of anarchy.
11. The political has nothing
in common with the moral. The ruler who is governed by the
moral is not a skilled politician, and is therefore unstable on
his throne. He who wishes to rule must have recourse both to
cunning and to make-believe. Great national qualities, like
frankness and honesty, are vices in politics, for they bring
down rulers from their thrones more effectively and more
certainly than the most powerful enemy. Such qualities must be
the attributes of the kingdoms of the GOYIM, but we must
in no wise be guided by them.
RIGHT IS
MIGHT
12. Our right lies in force.
The word "right" is an abstract thought and proved by
nothing. The word means no more than: Give me what I want in
order that thereby I may have a proof that I am stronger than
you.
13. Where does right begin?
Where does it end?
14. In any State in which there
is a bad organization of authority, an impersonality of laws
and of the rulers who have lost their personality amid the
flood of rights ever multiplying out of liberalism, I
find a new right - to attack by the right of the strong, and to
scatter to the winds all existing forces of order and
regulation, to reconstruct all institutions and to become the
sovereign lord of those who have left to us the rights of their
power by laying them down voluntarily in their
liberalism.
15. Our power in the present
tottering condition of all forms of power will be more
invincible than any other, because it will remain invisible
until the moment when it has gained such strength that no
cunning can any longer undermine it.
16. Out of the temporary evil
we are now compelled to commit will emerge the good of an
unshakable rule, which will restore the regular course of the
machinery of the national life, brought to naught by
liberalism. The result justifies the means. Let us,
however, in our plans, direct our attention not so much to what
is good and moral as to what is necessary and
useful.
17. Before us is a plan in
which is laid down strategically the line from which we cannot
deviate without running the risk of seeing the labor of many
centuries brought to naught.
18. In order to elaborate
satisfactory forms of action it is necessary to have regard to
the rascality, the slackness, the instability of the mob, its
lack of capacity to understand and respect the conditions of
its own life, or its own welfare. It must be understood that
the might of a mob is blind, senseless and un- reasoning force
ever at the mercy of a suggestion from any side. The blind
cannot lead the blind without bringing them into the abyss;
consequently, members of the mob, upstarts from the people even
though they should be as a genius for wisdom, yet having no
understanding of the political, cannot come forward as leaders
of the mob without bringing the whole nation to
ruin.
19. Only one trained from
childhood for independent rule can have understanding of the
words that can be made up of the political alphabet.
20. A people left to itself,
i.e., to upstarts from its midst, brings itself to ruin by
party dissensions excited by the pursuit of power and honors
and the disorders arising therefrom. Is it possible for the
masses of the people calmly and without petty jealousies to
form judgment, to deal with the affairs of the country, which
cannot be mixed up with personal interest? Can they defend
themselves from an external foe? It is unthinkable; for a plan
broken up into as many parts as there are heads in the mob,
loses all homogeneity, and thereby becomes unintelligible and
impossible of execution.
WE ARE
DESPOTS
21. It is only with a despotic
ruler that plans can be elaborated extensively and clearly in
such a way as to distribute the whole properly among the
several parts of the machinery of the State: from this the
conclusion is inevitable that a satisfactory form of government
for any country is one that concentrates in the hands of one
responsible person. Without an absolute despotism there can be
no existence for civilization which is carried on not by the
masses but by their guide, whosoever that person may be. The
mob is savage, and displays its savagery at every opportunity.
The moment the mob seizes freedom in its hands it quickly turns
to anarchy, which in itself is the highest degree of
savagery.
22. Behold the alcoholic
animals, bemused with drink, the right to an immoderate use of
which comes along with freedom. It is not for us and ours to
walk that road. The peoples of the GOYIM are bemused
with alcoholic liquors; their youth has grown stupid on
classicism and from early immorality, into which it has been
inducted by our special agents - by tutors, lackeys,
governesses in the houses of the wealthy, by clerks and others,
by our women in the places of dissipation frequented by the
GOYIM. In the number of these last I count also the
so-called "society ladies," voluntary followers of the
others in corruption and luxury.
23. Our countersign is - Force
and Make-believe. Only force conquers in political affairs,
especially if it be concealed in the talents essential to
statesmen. Violence must be the principle, and cunning and
make-believe the rule for governments which do not want to lay
down their crowns at the feet of agents of some new power. This
evil is the one and only means to attain the end, the good.
Therefore we must not stop at bribery, deceit and treachery
when they should serve towards the attainment of our end. In
politics one must know how to seize the property of others
without hesitation if by it we secure submission and
sovereignty.
24. Our State, marching along
the path of peaceful conquest, has the right to replace the
horrors of war by less noticeable and more satisfactory
sentences of death, necessary to maintain the terror which
tends to produce blind submission. Just but merciless severity
is the greatest factor of strength in the State: not only for
the sake of gain but also in the name of duty, for the sake of
victory, we must keep to the programme of violence and
make-believe. The doctrine of squaring accounts is precisely as
strong as the means of which it makes use. Therefore it is not
so much by the means themselves as by the doctrine of severity
that we shall triumph and bring all governments into subjection
to our super-government. It is enough for them to know that we
are too merciless for all disobedience to cease.
WE SHALL END
LIBERTY
25. Far back in ancient times
we were the first to cry among the masses of the people the
words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," words many times
repeated since these days by stupid poll- parrots who, from all
sides around, flew down upon these baits and with them carried
away the well-being of the world, true freedom of the
individual, formerly so well guarded against the pressure of
the mob. The would-be wise men of the GOYIM, the
intellectuals, could not make anything out of the uttered words
in their abstractedness; did not see that in nature there is no
equality, cannot be freedom: that Nature herself has
established inequality of minds, of characters, and capacities,
just as immutably as she has established subordination to her
laws: never stopped to think that the mob is a blind thing,
that upstarts elected from among it to bear rule are, in regard
to the political, the same blind men as the mob itself, that
the adept, though he be a fool, can yet rule, whereas the
non-adept, even if he were a genius, understands nothing in the
political - to all those things the GOYIM paid no
regard; yet all the time it was based upon these things that
dynastic rule rested: the father passed on to the son a
knowledge of the course of political affairs in such wise that
none should know it but members of the dynasty and none could
betray it to the governed. As time went on, the meaning of the
dynastic transference of the true position of affairs in the
political was lost, and this aided the success of our
cause.
26. In all corners of the earth
the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," brought to
our ranks, thanks to our blind agents, whole legions who bore
our banners with enthusiasm. And all the time these words were
canker-worms at work boring into the well-being of the
GOYIM, putting an end everywhere to peace, quiet,
solidarity and destroying all the foundations of the GOYA
States. As you will see later, this helped us to our
triumph: it gave us the possibility, among other things, of
getting into our hands the master card - the destruction of the
privileges, or in other words of the very existence of the
aristocracy of the GOYIM, that class which was the only
defense peoples and countries had against us. On the ruins of
the eternal and genealogical aristocracy of the GOYIM we
have set up the aristocracy of our educated class headed by the
aristocracy of money. The qualifications for this aristocracy
we have established in wealth, which is dependent upon us, and
in knowledge, for which our learned elders provide the motive
force.
27. Our triumph has been
rendered easier by the fact that in our relations with the men,
whom we wanted, we have always worked upon the most sensitive
chords of the human mind, upon the cash account, upon the
cupidity, upon the insatiability for material needs of man; and
each one of these human weaknesses, taken alone, is sufficient
to paralyze initiative, for it hands over the will of men to
the disposition of him who has bought their
activities.
28. The abstraction of freedom
has enabled us to persuade the mob in all countries that their
government is nothing but the steward of the people who are the
owners of the country, and that the steward may be replaced
like a worn-out glove.
29. It is this possibility of
replacing the representatives of the people which has placed at
our disposal, and, as it were, given us the power of
appointment.
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PROTOCOL No.
2
1. It is indispensable for our
purpose that wars, so far as possible, should not result in
territorial gains: war will thus be brought on to the economic
ground, where the nations will not fail to perceive in the
assistance we give the strength of our predominance, and this
state of things will put both sides at the mercy of our
international AGENTUR; which possesses millions of eyes
ever on the watch and unhampered by any limitations whatsoever.
Our international rights will then wipe out national rights, in
the proper sense of right, and will rule the nations precisely
as the civil law of States rules the relations of their
subjects among themselves.
2. The administrators, whom we
shall choose from among the public, with strict regard to their
capacities for servile obedience, will not be persons trained
in the arts of government, and will therefore easily become
pawns in our game in the hands of men of learning and genius
who will be their advisers, specialists bred and reared from
early childhood to rule the affairs of the whole world. As is
well known to you, these specialists of ours have been drawing
to fit them for rule the information they need from our
political plans from the lessons of history, from observations
made of the events of every moment as it passes. The
GOYIM are not guided by practical use of unprejudiced
historical observation, but by theoretical routine without any
critical regard for consequent results. We need not, therefore,
take any account of them - let them amuse themselves until the
hour strikes, or live on hopes of new forms of enterprising
pastime, or on the memories of all they have enjoyed. For them
let that play the principal part which we have persuaded them
to accept as the dictates of science (theory). It is with this
object in view that we are constantly, by means of our press,
arousing a blind confidence in these theories. The
intellectuals of the GOYIM will puff themselves up with
their knowledges and without any logical verification of them
will put into effect all the information available from
science, which our AGENTUR specialists have cunningly
pieced together for the purpose of educating their minds in the
direction we want.
DESTRUCTIVE
EDUCATION
3. Do not suppose for a moment
that these statements are empty words: think carefully of the
successes we arranged for Darwinism, Marxism,
Nietzsche-ism. To us Jews, at any rate, it should be
plain to see what a disintegrating importance these directives
have had upon the minds of the GOYIM.
4. It is indispensable for us
to take account of the thoughts, characters, tendencies of the
nations in order to avoid making slips in the political and in
the direction of administrative affairs. The triumph of our
system of which the component parts of the machinery may be
variously disposed according to the temperament of the peoples
met on our way, will fail of success if the practical
application of it be not based upon a summing up of the lessons
of the past in the light of the present.
5. In the hands of the States
of to-day there is a great force that creates the movement of
thought in the people, and that is the Press. The part played
by the Press is to keep pointing our requirements supposed to
be indispensable, to give voice to the complaints of the
people, to express and to create discontent. It is in the Press
that the triumph of freedom of speech finds its incarnation.
But the GOYIM States have not known how to make use of
this force; and it has fallen into our hands. Through the Press
we have gained the power to influence while remaining ourselves
in the shade; thanks to the Press we have got the GOLD
in our hands, notwithstanding that we have had to gather it out
of the oceans of blood and tears. But it has paid us, though we
have sacrificed many of our people. Each victim on our side is
worth in the sight of God a thousand
GOYIM.
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PROTOCOL No.
3
1. To-day I may tell you that
our goal is now only a few steps off. There remains a small
space to cross and the whole long path we have trodden is ready
now to close its cycle of the Symbolic Snake, by which
we symbolize our people. When this ring closes, all the
States of Europe will be locked in its coil as in a
powerful vice.
2. The constitution scales of
these days will shortly break down, for we have established
them with a certain lack of accurate balance in order that they
may oscillate incessantly until they wear through the pivot on
which they turn. The GOYIM are under the impression that
they have welded them sufficiently strong and they have all
along kept on expecting that the scales would come into
equilibrium. But the pivots - the kings on their thrones - are
hemmed in by their representatives, who play the fool,
distraught with their own uncontrolled and irresponsible power.
This power they owe to the terror which has been breathed into
the palaces. As they have no means of getting at their people,
into their very midst, the kings on their thrones are no longer
able to come to terms with them and so strengthen themselves
against seekers after power. We have made a gulf between the
far-seeing Sovereign Power and the blind force of the people so
that both have lost all meaning, for like the blind man and his
stick, both are powerless apart.
3. In order to incite seekers
after power to a misuse of power we have set all forces in
opposition one to another, breaking up their liberal
tendencies towards independence. To this end we have stirred up
every form of enterprise, we have armed all parties, we have
set up authority as a target for every ambition. Of States we
have made gladiatorial arenas where a lot of confused issues
contend .... A little more, and disorders and bankruptcy will
be universal ....
4. Babblers, inexhaustible,
have turned into oratorical contests the sittings of Parliament
and Administrative Boards. Bold journalists and unscrupulous
pamphleteers daily fall upon executive officials. Abuses of
power will put the final touch in preparing all institutions
for their overthrow and everything will fly skyward under the
blows of the maddened mob.
POVERTY OUR
WEAPON
5. All people are chained down
to heavy toil by poverty more firmly than ever. They were
chained by slavery and serfdom; from these, one way and
another, they might free themselves. These could be settled
with, but from want they will never get away. We have included
in the constitution such rights as to the masses appear
fictitious and not actual rights. All these so-called
"Peoples Rights" can exist only in idea, an idea which
can never be realized in practical life. What is it to the
proletariat laborer, bowed double over his heavy toil, crushed
by his lot in life, if talkers get the right to babble, if
journalists get the right to scribble any nonsense side by side
with good stuff, once the proletariat has no other profit out
of the constitution save only those pitiful crumbs which we
fling them from our table in return for their voting in favor
of what we dictate, in favor of the men we place in power, the
servants of our AGENTUR ... Republican rights for a poor
man are no more than a bitter piece of irony, for the necessity
he is under of toiling almost all day gives him no present use
of them, but the other hand robs him of all guarantee of
regular and certain earnings by making him dependent on strikes
by his comrades or lockouts by his masters.
WE SUPPORT
COMMUNISM
6. The people, under our
guidance, have annihilated the aristocracy, who were their one
and only defense and foster- mother for the sake of their own
advantage which is inseparably bound up with the well-being of
the people. Nowadays, with the destruction of the aristocracy,
the people have fallen into the grips of merciless
money-grinding scoundrels who have laid a pitiless and cruel
yoke upon the necks of the workers.
7. We appear on the scene as
alleged saviours of the worker from this oppression when we
propose to him to enter the ranks of our fighting forces -
Socialists, Anarchists, Communists - to whom we always give
support in accordance with an alleged brotherly rule (of the
solidarity of all humanity) of our SOCIAL MASONRY. The
aristocracy, which enjoyed by law the labor of the workers, was
interested in seeing that the workers were well fed, healthy,
and strong. We are interested in just the opposite - in the
diminution, the KILLING OUT OF THE GOYIM. Our power is
in the chronic shortness of food and physical weakness of the
worker because by all that this implies he is made the slave of
our will, and he will not find in his own authorities either
strength or energy to set against our will. Hunger creates the
right of capital to rule the worker more surely than it was
given to the aristocracy by the legal authority of
kings.
8. By want and the envy and
hatred which it engenders we shall move the mobs and with their
hands we shall wipe out all those who hinder us on our
way.
9. WHEN THE HOUR STRIKES FOR OUR
SOVEREIGN LORD OF ALL THE WORLD TO BE CROWNED IT IS THESE SAME
HANDS WHICH WILL SWEEP AWAY EVERYTHING THAT MIGHT BE A
HINDRANCE THERETO. (The Biblical
"Anti-Christ?")
10. The GOYIM have lost
the habit of thinking unless prompted by the suggestions of our
specialists. Therefore they do not see the urgent necessity of
what we, when our kingdom comes, shall adopt at once, namely
this, that IT IS ESSENTIAL TO TEACH IN NATIONAL SCHOOLS ONE
SIMPLE, TRUE PIECE OF KNOWLEDGE, THE BASIS OF ALL KNOWLEDGE -
THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE STRUCTURE OF HUMAN LIFE, OF SOCIAL
EXISTENCE, WHICH REQUIRES DIVISION OF LABOR, AND, CONSEQUENTLY,
THE DIVISION OF MEN INTO CLASSES AND CONDITIONS. It is
essential for all to know that OWING TO DIFFERENCE IN THE
OBJECTS OF HUMAN ACTIVITY THERE CANNOT BE ANY EQUALITY,
that he, who by any act of his compromises a whole class,
cannot be equally responsible before the law with him who
affects no one but only his own honor. The true knowledge of
the structure of society, into the secrets of which we do not
admit the GOYIM, would demonstrate to all men that the
positions and work must be kept within a certain circle, that
they may not become a source of human suffering, arising from
an education which does not correspond with the work which
individuals are called upon to do. After a thorough study of
this knowledge, the peoples will voluntarily submit to
authority and accept such position as is appointed them in the
State. In the present state of knowledge and the direction we
have given to its development of the people, blindly believing
things in print - cherishes - thanks to promptings intended to
mislead and to its own ignorance - a blind hatred towards all
conditions which it considers above itself, for it has no
understanding of the meaning of class and condition.
JEWS WILL BE
SAFE
11. THIS HATRED WILL BE STILL
FURTHER MAGNIFIED BY THE EFFECTS of an ECONOMIC CRISES,
which will stop dealing on the exchanges and bring industry to
a standstill. We shall create by all the secret subterranean
methods open to us and with the aid of gold, which is all in
our hands, A UNIVERSAL ECONOMIC CRISES WHEREBY WE SHALL
THROW UPON THE STREETS WHOLE MOBS OF WORKERS SIMULTANEOUSLY IN
ALL THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE. These mobs will rush
delightedly to shed the blood of those whom, in the simplicity
of their ignorance, they have envied from their cradles, and
whose property they will then be able to loot.
12 "OURS" THEY WILL NOT TOUCH,
BECAUSE THE MOMENT OF ATTACK WILL BE KNOWN TO US AND WE SHALL
TAKE MEASURES TO PROTECT OUR OWN.
13. We have demonstrated that
progress will bring all the GOYIM to the sovereignty of
reason. Our despotism will be precisely that; for it will know
how, by wise severities, to pacificate all unrest, to
cauterize liberalism out of all institutions.
14. When the populace has seen
that all sorts of concessions and indulgences are yielded it,
in the same name of freedom it has imagined itself to be
sovereign lord and has stormed its way to power, but, naturally
like every other blind man, it has come upon a host of
stumbling blocks. IT HAS RUSHED TO FIND A GUIDE, IT HAS
NEVER HAD THE SENSE TO RETURN TO THE FORMER STATE and it
has laid down its plenipotentiary powers at OUR feet.
Remember the French Revolution, to which it was we who
gave the name of "Great": the secrets of its
preparations are well known to us for it was wholly the work of
our hands.
15 Ever since that time we have
been leading the peoples from one disenchantment to another, so
that in the end they should turn also from us in favor of that
KING-DESPOT OF THE BLOOD OF ZION, WHOM WE ARE PREPARING FOR
THE WORLD.
16. At the present day we are,
as an international force, invincible, because if attacked by
some we are supported by other States. It is the bottomless
rascality of the GOYIM peoples, who crawl on their
bellies to force, but are merciless towards weakness, unsparing
to faults and indulgent to crimes, unwilling to bear the
contradictions of a free social system but patient unto
martyrdom under the violence of a bold despotism - it is those
qualities which are aiding us to independence. From the
premier- dictators of the present day, the GOYIM peoples
suffer patiently and bear such abuses as for the least of them
they would have beheaded twenty kings.
17. What is the explanation of
this phenomenon, this curious inconsequence of the masses of
the peoples in their attitude towards what would appear to be
events of the same order?
18. It is explained by the fact
that these dictators whisper to the peoples through their
agents that through these abuses they are inflicting injury on
the States with the highest purpose - to secure the welfare of
the peoples, the international brotherhood of them all, their
solidarity and equality of rights. Naturally they do not tell
the peoples that this unification must be accomplished only
under our sovereign rule.
19. And thus the people condemn
the upright and acquit the guilty, persuaded ever more and more
that it can do whatsoever it wishes. Thanks to this state of
things, the people are destroying every kind of stability and
creating disorders at every step.
20. The word "freedom"
brings out the communities of men to fight against every kind
of force, against every kind of authority even against
God and the laws of nature. For this reason we, when we
come into our kingdom, shall have to erase this word from the
lexicon of life as implying a principle of brute force which
turns mobs into bloodthirsty beasts.
21. These beasts, it is true,
fall asleep again every time when they have drunk their fill of
blood, and at such time can easily be riveted into their
chains. But if they be not given blood they will not sleep and
continue to struggle.
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PROTOCOL No.
4
1. Every republic passes
through several stages. The first of these is comprised in the
early days of mad raging by the blind mob, tossed hither and
thither, right and left: the second is demagogy from which is
born anarchy, and that leads inevitably to despotism - not any
longer legal and overt, and therefore responsible despotism,
but to unseen and secretly hidden, yet nevertheless sensibly
felt despotism in the hands of some secret organization or
other, whose acts are the more unscrupulous inasmuch as it
works behind a screen, behind the backs of all sorts of agents,
the changing of whom not only does not injuriously affect but
actually aids the secret force by saving it, thanks to
continual changes, from the necessity of expanding its
resources on the rewarding of long services.
2. Who and what is in a
position to overthrow an invisible force? And this is precisely
what our force is. GENTILE masonry blindly serves as a
screen for us and our objects, but the plan of action of our
force, even its very abiding-place, remains for the whole
people an unknown mystery.
WE SHALL DESTROY
GOD
3. But even freedom might be
harmless and have its place in the State economy without injury
to the well-being of the peoples if it rested upon the
foundation of faith in God, upon the brotherhood of humanity,
unconnected with the conception of equality, which is negatived
by the very laws of creation, for they have established
subordination. With such a faith as this a people might be
governed by a wardship of parishes, and would walk contentedly
and humbly under the guiding hand of its spiritual pastor
submitting to the dispositions of God upon earth. This is the
reason why IT IS INDISPENSABLE FOR US TO UNDERMINE ALL
FAITH, TO TEAR OUT OF THE MIND OF THE "GOYIM" THE VERY
PRINCIPLE OF GOD-HEAD AND THE SPIRIT, AND TO PUT IN ITS PLACE
ARITHMETICAL CALCULATIONS AND MATERIAL NEEDS.
4. In order to give the
GOYIM no time to think and take note, their minds must
be diverted towards industry and trade. Thus, all the nations
will be swallowed up in the pursuit of gain and in the race for
it will not take note of their common foe. But again, in order
that freedom may once for all disintegrate and ruin the
communities of the GOYIM, we must put industry on a
speculative basis: the result of this will be that what is
withdrawn from the land by industry will slip through the hands
and pass into speculation, that is, to our classes.
5. The intensified struggle for
superiority and shocks delivered to economic life will create,
nay, have already created, disenchanted, cold and heartless
communities. Such communities will foster a strong aversion
towards the higher political and towards religion. Their only
guide is gain, that is Gold, which they will erect into a
veritable cult, for the sake of those material delights which
it can give. Then will the hour strike when, not for the sake
of attaining the good, not even to win wealth, but solely out
of hatred towards the privileged, the lower classes of the
GOYIM will follow our lead against our rivals for power,
the intellectuals of the GOYIM.
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PROTOCOL No.
5
1. What form of administrative
rule can be given to communities in which corruption has
penetrated everywhere, communities where riches are attained
only by the clever surprise tactics of semi-swindling tricks;
where loseness reigns: where morality is maintained by penal
measures and harsh laws but not by voluntarily accepted
principles: where the feelings towards faith and country are
obligated by cosmopolitan convictions? What form of rule is to
be given to these communities if not that despotism which I
shall describe to you later? We shall create an intensified
centralization of government in order to grip in our hands all
the forces of the community. We shall regulate mechanically all
the actions of the political life of our subjects by new laws.
These laws will withdraw one by one all the indulgences and
liberties which have been permitted by the GOYIM, and
our kingdom will be distinguished by a despotism of such
magnificent proportions as to be at any moment and in every
place in a position to wipe out any GOYIM who oppose us
by deed or word.
2. We shall be told that such a
despotism as I speak of is not consistent with the progress of
these days, but I will prove to you that is is.
3. In the times when the
peoples looked upon kings on their thrones as on a pure
manifestation of the will of God, they submitted without
a murmur to the despotic power of kings: but from the day when
we insinuated into their minds the conception of their own
rights they began to regard the occupants of thrones as mere
ordinary mortals. The holy unction of the Lord's
Anointed has fallen from the heads of kings in the eyes of
the people, and when we also robbed them of their faith in
God the might of power was flung upon the streets into
the place of public proprietorship and was seized by
us.
MASSES LED BY
LIES
4. Moreover, the art of
directing masses and individuals by means of cleverly
manipulated theory and verbitage, by regulations of life in
common and all sorts of other quirks, in all which the
GOYIM understand nothing, belongs likewise to the
specialists of our administrative brain. Reared on analysis,
observation, on delicacies of fine calculation, in this species
of skill we have no rivals, any more than we have either in the
drawing up of plans of political actions and solidarity. In
this respect the Jesuits alone might have compared with
us, but we have contrived to discredit them in the eyes of the
unthinking mob as an overt organization, while we ourselves all
the while have kept our secret organization in the shade.
However, it is probably all the same to the world who is its
sovereign lord, whether the head of Catholicism or our
despot of the blood of Zion! But to us, the Chosen
People, it is very far from being a matter of
indifference.
5. FOR A TIME PERHAPS WE MIGHT BE
SUCCESSFULLY DEALT WITH BY A COALITION OF THE "GOYIM" OF ALL
THE WORLD: but from this danger we are secured by the
discord existing among them whose roots are so deeply seated
that they can never now be plucked up. We have set one against
another the personal and national reckonings of the
GOYIM, religious and race hatreds, which we have
fostered into a huge growth in the course of the past twenty
centuries. This is the reason why there is not one State which
would anywhere receive support if it were to raise its arm, for
every one of them must bear in mind that any agreement against
us would be unprofitable to itself. We are too strong - there
is no evading our power. THE NATIONS CANNOT COME TO EVEN AN
INCONSIDERABLE PRIVATE AGREEMENT WITHOUT OUR SECRETLY HAVING A
HAND IN IT.
6. PER ME REGES REGNANT. "It
is through me that Kings reign." And it was said by the
prophets that we were chosen by God Himself to rule over
the whole earth. God has endowed us with genius that we
may be equal to our task. Were genius in the opposite camp it
would still struggle against us, but even so, a newcomer is no
match for the old-established settler: the struggle would be
merciless between us, such a fight as the world has never seen.
Aye, and the genius on their side would have arrived too late.
All the wheels of the machinery of all States go by the force
of the engine, which is in our hands, and that engine of the
machinery of States is - Gold. The science of political economy
invented by our learned elders has for long past been giving
royal prestige to capital.
MONOPOLY
CAPITAL
7. Capital, if it is to
co-operate untrammeled, must be free to establish a monopoly of
industry and trade: this is already being put in execution by
an unseen hand in all quarters of the world. This freedom will
give political force to those engaged in industry, and that
will help to oppress the people. Nowadays it is more important
to disarm the peoples than to lead them into war: more
important to use for our advantage the passions which have
burst into flames than to quench their fire: more important to
eradicate them. THE PRINCIPLE OBJECT OF OUR DIRECTORATE
CONSISTS IN THIS: TO DEBILITATE THE PUBLIC MIND BY CRITICISM;
TO LEAD IT AWAY FROM SERIOUS REFLECTIONS CALCULATED TO AROUSE
RESISTANCE; TO DISTRACT THE FORCES OF THE MIND TOWARDS A SHAM
FIGHT OF EMPTY CLOQUENCE.
8. In all ages the people of
the world, equally with individuals, have accepted words for
deeds, for THEY ARE CONTENT WITH A SHOW and rarely pause
to note, in the public arena, whether promises are followed by
performance. Therefore we shall establish show institutions
which will give eloquent proof of their benefit to
progress.
9. We shall assume to ourselves
the liberal physiognomy of all parties, of all directions, and
we shall give that physiognomy a VOICE IN ORATORS WHO WILL
SPEAK SO MUCH THAT THEY WILL EXHAUST THE PATIENCE OF THEIR
HEARERS AND PRODUCE AN ABHORRENCE OF ORATORY.
10. IN ORDER TO PUT PUBLIC OPINION
INTO OUR HANDS WE MUST BRING IT INTO A STATE OF BEWILDERMENT BY
GIVING EXPRESSION FROM ALL SIDES TO SO MANY CONTRADICTORY
OPINIONS AND FOR SUCH LENGTH OF TIME AS WILL SUFFICE TO MAKE
THE "GOYIM" LOSE THEIR HEADS IN THE LABYRINTH AND COME
TO SEE THAT THE BEST THING IS TO HAVE NO OPINION OF ANY KIND IN
MATTERS POLITICAL, which it is not given to the public to
understand, because they are understood only by him who guides
the public. This is the first secret.
11. The second secret requisite
for the success of our government is comprised in the
following: To multiply to such an extent national failings,
habits, passions, conditions of civil life, that it will be
impossible for anyone to know where he is in the resulting
chaos, so that the people in consequence will fail to
understand one another. This measure will also serve us in
another way, namely, to sow discord in all parties, to
dislocate all collective forces which are still unwilling to
submit to us, and to discourage any kind of personal initiative
which might in any degree hinder our affair. THERE IS
NOTHING MORE DANGEROUS THAN PERSONAL INITIATIVE: if it has
genius behind it, such initiative can do more than can be done
by millions of people among whom we have sown discord. We must
so direct the education of the GOYIM communities that
whenever they come upon a matter requiring initiative they may
drop their hands in despairing impotence. The strain which
results from freedom of actions saps the forces when it meets
with the freedom of another. From this collision arise grave
moral shocks, disenchantments, failures. BY ALL THESE MEANS
WE SHALL SO WEAR DOWN THE "GOYIM" THAT THEY WILL BE COMPELLED
TO OFFER US INTERNATIONAL POWER OF A NATURE THAT BY ITS
POSITION WILL ENABLE US WITHOUT ANY VIOLENCE GRADUALLY TO
ABSORB ALL THE STATE FORCES OF THE WORLD AND TO FORM A
SUPER-GOVERNMENT (European Common Market?). In place
of the rulers of to-day we shall set up a bogey which will be
called the Super-Government Administration. Its hands will
reach out in all directions like nippers and its organization
will be of such colossal dimensions that it cannot fail to
subdue all the nations of the world.
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PROTOCOL No.
6
1. We shall soon begin to
establish huge monopolies, reservoirs of colossal riches, upon
which even, large fortunes of the GOYIM will depend to
such an extent that they will go to the bottom together with
the credit of the States on the day after the political smash
...
2. You gentlemen here present
who are economists, just strike an estimate of the significance
of this combination! ...
3. In every possible way we
must develop the significance of our Super-Government by
representing it as the Protector and Benefactor of all those
who voluntarily submit to us.
4. The aristocracy of the
GOYIM as a political force, is dead - We need not take
it into account; but as landed proprietors they can still be
harmful to us from the fact that they are self-sufficing in the
resources upon which they live. It is essential therefore for
us at whatever cost to deprive them of their land. This object
will be best attained by increasing the burdens upon landed
property - in loading lands with debts. These measures will
check land- holding and keep it in a state of humble and
un-conditional submission.
5. The aristocrats of the
GOYIM, being hereditarily incapable of contenting
themselves with little, will rapidly burn up and fizzle
out.
WE SHALL ENSLAVE
GENTILES
6. At the same time we must
intensively patronize trade and industry, but, first and
foremost, speculation, the part played by which is to provide a
counterpoise to industry: the absence of speculative industry
will multiply capital in private hands and will serve to
restore agriculture by freeing the land from indebtedness to
the land banks. What we want is that industry should drain off
from the land both labor and capital and by means of
speculation transfer into our hands all the money of the world,
and thereby throw all the GOYIM into the ranks of the
proletariat. Then the GOYIM will bow down before us, if
for no other reason but to get the right to exist.
7. To complete the ruin of the
industry of the GOYIM we shall bring to the assistance
of speculation the luxury which we have developed among the
GOYIM, that greedy demand for luxury which is swallowing
up everything. WE SHALL RAISE THE RATE OF WAGES WHICH,
HOWEVER, WILL NOT BRING ANY ADVANTAGE TO THE WORKERS, FOR, AT
THE SAME TIME, WE SHALL PRODUCE A RISE IN PRICES OF THE FIRST
NECESSARIES OF LIFE, ALLEGING THAT IT ARISES FROM THE DECLINE
OF AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING: WE SHALL FURTHER UNDERMINE
ARTFULLY AND DEEPLY SOURCES OF PRODUCTION, BY ACCUSTOMING THE
WORKERS TO ANARCHY AND TO DRUNKENNESS AND SIDE BY SIDE
THEREWITH TAKING ALL MEASURE TO EXTIRPATE FROM THE FACE OF THE
EARTH ALL THE EDUCATED FORCES OF THE
"GOYIM."
8. IN ORDER THAT THE TRUE MEANING
OF THINGS MAY NOT STRIKE THE "GOYIM" BEFORE THE PROPER
TIME WE SHALL MASK IT UNDER AN ALLEGED ARDENT DESIRE TO SERVE
THE WORKING CLASSES AND THE GREAT PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL
ECONOMY ABOUT WHICH OUR ECONOMIC THEORIES ARE CARRYING ON AN
ENERGETIC PROPAGANDA.
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PROTOCOL No.
7
1. The intensification of
armaments, the increase of police forces - are all essential
for the completion of the aforementioned plans. What we have to
get at is that there should be in all the States of the world,
besides ourselves, only the masses of the proletariat, a few
millionaires devoted to our interests, police and
soldiers.
2. Throughout all
Europe, and by means of relations with Europe, in
other continents also, we must create ferments, discords and
hostility. Therein we gain a double advantage. In the first
place we keep in check all countries, for they will know that
we have the power whenever we like to create disorders or to
restore order. All these countries are accustomed to see in us
an indispensable force of coercion. In the second place, by our
intrigues we shall tangle up all the threads which we have
stretched into the cabinets of all States by means of the
political, by economic treaties, or loan obligations. In order
to succeed in this we must use great cunning and penetration
during negotiations and agreements, but, as regards what is
called the "official language," we shall keep to the
opposite tactics and assume the mask of honesty and
complacency. In this way the peoples and governments of the
GOYIM, whom we have taught to look only at the outside
whatever we present to their notice, will still continue to
accept us as the benefactors and saviours of the human
race.
UNIVERSAL
WAR
3. We must be in a position to
respond to every act of opposition by war with the neighbors of
that country which dares to oppose us: but if these neighbors
should also venture to stand collectively together against us,
then we must offer resistance by a universal war.
4. The principal factor of
success in the political is the secrecy of its undertakings:
the word should not agree with the deeds of the
diplomat.
5. We must compel the
governments of the GOYIM to take action in the direction
favored by our widely conceived plan, already approaching the
desired consummation, by what we shall represent as public
opinion, secretly promoted by us through the means of that
so-called "Great Power" - THE PRESS, WHICH, WITH A
FEW EXCEPTIONS THAT MAY BE DISREGARDED, IS ALREADY ENTIRELY IN
OUR HANDS.
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PROTOCOL No.
8
1. We must arm ourselves with
all the weapons which our opponents might employ against us. We
must search out in the very finest shades of expression and the
knotty points of the lexicon of law justification for those
cases where we shall have to pronounce judgments that might
appear abnormally audacious and unjust, for it is important
that these resolutions should be set forth in expressions that
shall seem to be the most exalted moral principles cast into
legal form. Our directorate must surround itself with all these
forces of civilization among which it will have to work. It
will surround itself with publicists, practical jurists,
administrators, diplomats and, finally, with persons prepared
by a special super-educational training IN OUR SPECIAL
SCHOOLS (Rhode Scholers?). These persons will have
consonance of all the secrets of the social structure, they
will know all the languages that can be made up by political
alphabets and words; they will be made acquainted with the
whole underside of human nature, with all its sensitive chords
on which they will have to play. These chords are the cast of
mind of the GOYIM, their tendencies, short-comings,
vices and qualities, the particularities of classes and
conditions. Needless to say that the talented assistants of
authority, of whom I speak, will be taken not from among the
GOYIM, who are accustomed to perform their
administrative work without giving themselves the trouble to
think what its aim is, and never consider what it is needed
for. The administrators of the GOYIM sign papers without
reading them, and they serve either for mercenary reasons or
from ambition.
2. We shall surround our
government with a whole world of economists. That is the reason
why economic sciences form the principal subject of the
teaching given to the Jews. Around us again will be a whole
constellation of bankers, industrialists, capitalists and -
THE MAIN THING - MILLIONAIRES, BECAUSE IN SUBSTANCE
EVERYTHING WILL BE SETTLED BY THE QUESTION OF
FIGURES.
3. For a time, until there will
no longer be any risk in entrusting responsible posts in our
State to our brother-Jews, we shall put them in the hands of
persons whose past and reputation are such that between them
and the people lies an abyss, persons who, in case of
disobedience to our instructions, must face criminal charges or
disappear - this in order to make them defend our interests to
their last gasp.
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PROTOCOL No.
9
1. In applying our principles
let attention be paid to the character of the people in whose
country you live and act; a general, identical application of
them, until such time as the people shall have been re-educated
to our pattern, cannot have success. But by approaching their
application cautiously you will see that not a decade will pass
before the most stubborn character will change and we shall add
a new people to the ranks of those already subdued by
us.
2. The words of the liberal,
which are in effect the words of our masonic watchword, namely,
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," will, when we come into
our kingdom, be changed by us into words no longer of a
watchword, but only an expression of idealism, namely, into
"The right of liberty, the duty of equality, the ideal of
brotherhood." That is how we shall put it, - and so we
shall catch the bull by the horns ... DE FACTO we have
already wiped out every kind of rule except our own, although
DE JURE there still remain a good many of them.
Nowadays, if any States raise a protest against us it is only
PRO FORMA at our discretion and by our direction, for
THEIR ANTI-SEMITISM IS INDISPENSABLE TO US FOR THE
MANAGEMENT OF OUR LESSER BRETHREN. I will not enter into
further explanations, for this matter has formed the subject of
repeated discussions amongst us.
JEWISH
SUPER-STATE
3. For us there are not checks
to limit the range of our activity. Our Super-Government
subsists in extra-legal conditions which are described in the
accepted terminology by the energetic and forcible word -
Dictatorship. I am in a position to tell you with a clear
conscience that at the proper time we, the law-givers, shall
execute judgment and sentence, we shall slay and we shall
spare, we, as head of all our troops, are mounted on the steed
of the leader. We rule by force of will, because in our hands
are the fragments of a once powerful party, now vanquished by
us. AND THE WEAPONS IN OUR HANDS ARE LIMITLESS AMBITIONS,
BURNING GREEDINESS, MERCILESS VENGEANCE, HATREDS AND
MALICE.
4. IT IS FROM US THAT THE
ALL-ENGULFING TERROR PROCEEDS. WE HAVE IN OUR SERVICE PERSONS
OF ALL OPINIONS, OF ALL DOCTRINES, RESTORATING MONARCHISTS,
DEMAGOGUES, SOCIALISTS, COMMUNISTS, AND UTOPIAN DREAMERS OF
EVERY KIND. We have harnessed them all to the task: EACH
ONE OF THEM ON HIS OWN ACCOUNT IS BORING AWAY AT THE LAST
REMNANTS OF AUTHORITY, IS STRIVING TO OVERTHROW ALL ESTABLISHED
FORM OF ORDER. By these acts all States are in torture;
they exhort to tranquility, are ready to sacrifice everything
for peace: BUT WE WILL NOT GIVE THEM PEACE UNTIL THEY OPENLY
ACKNOWLEDGE OUR INTERNATIONAL SUPER-GOVERNMENT, AND WITH
SUBMISSIVENESS (European Common
Market??).
5. The people have raised a
howl about the necessity of settling the question of
Socialism by way of an international agreement.
DIVISION INTO FRACTIONAL PARTIES HAS GIVEN THEM INTO OUR
HANDS, FOR, IN ORDER TO CARRY ON A CONTESTED STRUGGLE ONE MUST
HAVE MONEY, AND THE MONEY IS ALL IN OUR HANDS.
6. We might have reason to
apprehend a union between the "clear-sighted" force of
the GOY kings on their thrones and the "blind"
force of the GOY mobs, but we have taken all the needful
measure against any such possibility: between the one and the
other force we have erected a bulwark in the shape of a mutual
terror between them. In this way the blind force of the people
remains our support and we, and we only, shall provide them
with a leader and, of course, direct them along the road that
leads to our goal.
7. In order that the hand of
the blind mob may not free itself from our guiding hand, we
must every now and then enter into close communion with it, if
not actually in person, at any rate through some of the most
trusty of our brethren. When we are acknowledged as the only
authority we shall discuss with the people personally on the
market, places, and we shall instruct them on questings of the
political in such wise as may turn them in the direction that
suits us.
8. Who is going to verify what
is taught in the village schools? But what an envoy of the
government or a king on his throne himself may say cannot but
become immediately known to the whole State, for it will be
spread abroad by the voice of the people.
9. In order to annihilate the
institutions of the GOYIM before it is time we have
touched them with craft and delicacy, and have taken hold of
the ends of the springs which move their mechanism. These
springs lay in a strict but just sense of order; we have
replaced them by the chaotic license of liberalism. We
have got our hands into the administration of the law, into the
conduct of elections, into the press, into liberty of the
person, BUT PRINCIPALLY INTO EDUCATION AND TRAINING AS BEING
THE CORNERSTONES OF A FREE EXISTENCE.
CHRISTIAN YOUTH
DESTROYED
10. WE HAVE FOOLED, BEMUSED AND
CORRUPTED THE YOUTH OF THE "GOYIM" BY REARING THEM IN
PRINCIPLES AND THEORIES WHICH ARE KNOWN TO US TO BE FALSE
ALTHOUGH IT IS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN INCULCATED.
11. Above the existing laws
without substantially altering them, and by merely twisting
them into contradictions of interpretations, we have erected
something grandiose in the way of results. These results found
expression in the fact that the INTERPRETATIONS MASKED THE
LAW: afterwards they entirely hid them from the eyes of the
governments owing to the impossibility of making anything out
of the tangled web of legislation.
12. This is the origin of the
theory of course of arbitration.
13. You may say that the
GOYIM will rise upon us, arms in hand, if they guess
what is going on before the time comes; but in the West we have
against this a manoeuvre of such appalling terror that the very
stoutest hearts quail - the undergrounds, metropolitans, those
subterranean corridors which, before the time comes, will be
driven under all the capitals and from whence those capitals
will be blown into the air with all their organizations and
archives.
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PROTOCOL No.
10
1. To-day I begin with a
repetition of what I said before, and I BEG YOU TO BEAR IN
MIND THAT GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLE ARE CONTENT IN THE POLITICAL
WITH OUTSIDE APPEARANCES. And how, indeed, are the
GOYIM to perceive the underlying meaning of things when
their representatives give the best of their energies to
enjoying themselves? For our policy it is of the greatest
importance to take cognizance of this detail; it will be of
assistance to us when we come to consider the division of
authority of property, of the dwelling, of taxation (the
idea of concealed taxes), of the reflex force of the laws.
All these questions are such as ought not to be touched upon
directly and openly before the people. In cases where it is
indispensable to touch upon them they must not be categorically
named, it must merely be declared without detailed exposition
that the principles of contemporary law are acknowledged by us.
The reason of keeping silence in this respect is that by not
naming a principle we leave ourselves freedom of action, to
drop this or that out of it without attracting notice; if they
were all categorically named they would all appear to have been
already given.
2. The mob cherishes a special
affection and respect for the geniuses of political power and
accepts all their deeds of violence with the admiring response:
"rascally, well, yes, it is rascally, but it's clever! ... a
trick, if you like, but how craftily played, how magnificently
done, what impudent audacity!" ...
OUR GOAL - WORLD
POWER
3. We count upon attracting all
nations to the task of erecting the new fundamental structure,
the project for which has been drawn up by us. This is why,
before everything, it is indispensable for us to arm ourselves
and to store up in ourselves that absolutely reckless audacity
and irresistible might of the spirit which in the person of our
active workers will break down all hindrances on our
way.
4. WHEN WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED OUR
COUP D'ETAT WE SHALL SAY THEN TO THE VARIOUS PEOPLES:
"EVERYTHING HAS GONE TERRIBLY BADLY, ALL HAVE BEEN WORN OUT
WITH SUFFERING. WE ARE DESTROYING THE CAUSES OF YOUR TORMENT -
NATIONALITIES, FRONTIERS, DIFFERENCES OF COINAGES. YOU ARE AT
LIBERTY, OF COURSE, TO PRONOUNCE SENTENCE UPON US, BUT CAN IT
POSSIBLY BE A JUST ONE IF IT IS CONFIRMED BY YOU BEFORE YOU
MAKE ANY TRIAL OF WHAT WE ARE OFFERING YOU." ... THEN WILL
THE MOB EXALT US AND BEAR US UP IN THEIR HANDS IN A UNANIMOUS
TRIUMPH OF HOPES AND EXPECTATIONS. VOTING, WHICH WE HAVE MADE
THE INSTRUMENT WHICH WILL SET US ON THE THRONE OF THE WORLD BY
TEACHING EVEN THE VERY SMALLEST UNITS OF MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN
RACE TO VOTE BY MEANS OF MEETINGS AND AGREEMENTS BY GROUPS,
WILL THEN HAVE SERVED ITS PURPOSES AND WILL PLAY ITS PART THEN
FOR THE LAST TIME BY A UNANIMITY OF DESIRE TO MAKE CLOSE
ACQUAINTANCE WITH US BEFORE CONDEMNING US.
5. TO SECURE THIS WE MUST HAVE
EVERYBODY VOTE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF CLASSES AND
QUALIFICATIONS, in order to establish an absolute majority,
which cannot be got from the educated propertied classes. In
this way, by inculcating in all a sense of self-importance, we
shall destroy among the GOYIM the importance of the
family and its educational value and remove the possibility of
individual minds splitting off, for the mob, handled by us,
will not let them come to the front nor even give them a
hearing; it is accustomed to listen to us only who pay it for
obedience and attention. In this way we shall create a blind,
mighty force which will never be in a position to move in any
direction without the guidance of our agents set at its head by
us as leaders of the mob. The people will submit to this regime
because it will know that upon these leaders will depend its
earnings, gratifications and the receipt of all kinds of
benefits.
6. A scheme of government
should come ready made from one brain, because it will never be
clinched firmly if it is allowed to be split into fractional
parts in the minds of many. It is allowable, therefore, for us
to have cognizance of the scheme of action but not to discuss
it lest we disturb its artfulness, the interdependence of its
component parts, the practical force of the secret meaning of
each clause. To discuss and make alterations in a labor of this
kind by means of numerous votings is to impress upon it the
stamp of all ratiocinations and misunderstandings which have
failed to penetrate the depth and nexus of its plottings. We
want our schemes to be forcible and suitably concocted.
Therefore WE OUGHT NOT TO FLING THE WORK OF GENIUS OF OUR
GUIDE to the fangs of the mob or even of a select
company.
7. These schemes will not turn
existing institutions upside down just yet. They will only
effect changes in their economy and consequently in the whole
combined movement of their progress, which will thus be
directed along the paths laid down in our schemes.
POISON OF
LIBERALISM
8. Under various names there
exists in all countries approximately one and the same thing.
Representation, Ministry, Senate, State Council, Legislative
and Executive Corps. I need not explain to you the mechanism of
the relation of these institutions to one another, because you
are aware of all that; only take note of the fact that each of
the above-named institutions corresponds to some important
function of the State, and I would beg you to remark that the
word "important" I apply not to the institution but to
the function, consequently it is not the institutions which are
important but their functions. These institutions have divided
up among themselves all the functions of government -
administrative, legislative, executive, wherefore they have
come to operate as do the organs in the human body. If we
injure one part in the machinery of State, the State falls
sick, like a human body, and ... will die.
9. When we introduced into the
State organism the poison of Liberalism its whole
political complexion underwent a change. States have been
seized with a mortal illness - blood poisoning. All that
remains is to await the end of their death agony.
10. Liberalism produced
Constitutional States, which took the place of what was
the only safeguard of the GOYIM, namely, Despotism; and
A CONSTITUTION, AS YOU WELL KNOW, IS NOTHING ELSE BUT A
SCHOOL OF DISCORDS, misunderstandings, quarrels,
disagreements, fruitless party agitations, party whims - in a
word, a school of everything that serves to destroy the
personality of State activity. THE TRIBUNE OF THE
"TALKERICS" HAS, NO LESS EFFECTIVELY THAN THE PRESS, CONDEMNED
THE RULERS TO INACTIVITY AND IMPOTENCE, and thereby
rendered them useless and superfluous, for which reason indeed
they have been in many countries deposed. THEN IT WAS THAT
THE ERA OF REPUBLICS BECOME POSSIBLE OF REALIZATION; AND THEN
IT WAS THAT WE REPLACED THE RULER BY A CARICATURE OF A
GOVERNMENT - BY A PRESIDENT, TAKEN FROM THE MOB, FROM THE MIDST
OF OUR PUPPET CREATURES, OR SLAVES. This was the foundation
of the mine which we have laid under the GOY people, I
should rather say, under the GOY peoples.
WE NAME
PRESIDENTS
11. In the near future we shall
establish the responsibility of presidents.
12. By that time we shall be in
a position to disregard forms in carrying through matters for
which our impersonal puppet will be responsible. What do we
care if the ranks of those striving for power should be
thinned, if there should arise a deadlock from the
impossibility of finding presidents, a deadlock which will
finally disorganize the country? ...
13. In order that our scheme
may produce this result we shall arrange elections in favor of
such presidents as have in their past some dark, undiscovered
stain, some "Panama" or other - then they will be
trustworthy agents for the accomplishment of our plans out of
fear of revelations and from the natural desire of everyone who
has attained power, namely, the retention of the privileges,
advantages and honor connected with the office of president.
The chamber of deputies will provide cover for, will protect,
will elect presidents, but we shall take from it the right to
propose new, or make changes in existing laws, for this right
will be given by us to the responsible president, a puppet in
our hands. Naturally, the authority of the presidents will then
become a target for every possible form of attack, but we shall
provide him with a means of self-defense in the right of an
appeal to the people, for the decision of the people over the
heads of their representatives, that is to say, an appeal to
that some blind slave of ours - the majority of the mob.
Independently of this we shall invest the president with the
right of declaring a state of war. We shall justify this last
right on the ground that the president as chief of the whole
army of the country must have it at his disposal, in case of
need for the defense of the new republican constitution, the
right to defend which will belong to him as the responsible
representative of this constitution.
14. It is easy to understand
them in these conditions the key of the shrine will lie in our
hands, and no one outside ourselves will any longer direct the
force of legislation.
15. Besides this we shall, with
the introduction of the new republican constitution, take from
the Chamber the right of interpolation on government measures,
on the pretext of preserving political secrecy, and, further,
we shall by the new constitution reduce the number of
representatives to a minimum, thereby proportionately reducing
political passions and the passion for politics. If, however,
they should, which is hardly to be expected, burst into flame,
even in this minimum, we shall nullify them by a stirring
appeal and a reference to the majority of the whole people ...
Upon the president will depend the appointment of presidents
and vice-presidents of the Chamber and the Senate. Instead of
constant sessions of Parliaments we shall reduce their sittings
to a few months. Moreover, the president, as chief of the
executive power, will have the right to summon and dissolve
Parliament, and, in the latter case, to prolong the time for
the appointment of a new parliamentary assembly. But in order
that the consequences of all these acts which in substance are
illegal, should not, prematurely for our plans, upon the
responsibility established by use of the president, WE SHALL
INSTIGATE MINISTERS AND OTHER OFFICIALS OF THE HIGHER
ADMINISTRATION ABOUT THE PRESIDENT TO EVADE HIS DISPOSITIONS BY
TAKING MEASURES OF THEIR OWN, for doing which they will be
made the scapegoats in his place ... This part we especially
recommend to be given to be played by the Senate, the Council
of State, or the Council of Ministers, but not to an individual
official.
16. The president will, at our
discretion, interpret the sense of such of the existing laws as
admit of various interpretation; he will further annul them
when we indicate to him the necessity to do so, besides this,
he will have the right to propose temporary laws, and even new
departures in the government constitutional working, the
pretext both for the one and the other being the requirements
for the supreme welfare of the State.
WE SHALL
DESTROY
17. By such measure we shall
obtain the power of destroying little by little, step by step,
all that at the outset when we enter on our rights, we are
compelled to introduce into the constitutions of States to
prepare for the transition to an imperceptible abolition of
every kind of constitution, and then the time is come to turn
every form of government into OUR DESPOTISM.
18. The recognition of our
despot may also come before the destruction of the
constitution; the moment for this recognition will come when
the peoples, utterly wearied by the irregularities and
incompetence - a matter which we shall arrange for - of their
rulers, will clamor: "Away with them and give us one king
over all the earth who will unite us and annihilate the causes
of disorders - frontiers, nationalities, religions, State debts
- who will give us peace and quiet which we cannot find under
our rulers and representatives."
19. But you yourselves
perfectly well know that TO PRODUCE THE POSSIBILITY OF THE
EXPRESSION OF SUCH WISHES BY ALL THE NATIONS IT IS
INDISPENSABLE TO TROUBLE IN ALL COUNTRIES THE PEOPLE'S
RELATIONS WITH THEIR GOVERNMENTS SO AS TO UTTERLY EXHAUST
HUMANITY WITH DISSENSION, HATRED, STRUGGLE, ENVY AND EVEN BY
THE USE OF TORTURE, BY STARVATION, BY THE INOCULATION OF
DISEASES, BY WANT, SO THAT THE "GOYIM" SEE NO OTHER ISSUE THAN
TO TAKE REFUGE IN OUR COMPLETE SOVEREIGNTY IN MONEY AND IN ALL
ELSE.
20. But if we give the nations
of the world a breathing space the moment we long for is hardly
likely ever to arrive.
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PROTOCOL No.
11
1. The State Council has been,
as it were, the emphatic expression of the authority of the
ruler: it will be, as the "show" part of the Legislative
Corps, what may be called the editorial committee of the laws
and decrees of the ruler.
2. This, then, is the program
of the new constitution. We shall make Law, Right and Justice
(1) in the guise of proposals to the Legislative Corps,
(2) by decrees of the president under the guise of
general regulations, of orders of the Senate and of resolutions
of the State Council in the guise of ministerial orders,
(3) and in case a suitable occasion should arise - in
the form of a revolution in the State.
3. Having established
approximately the MODUS AGENDI we will occupy ourselves
with details of those combinations by which we have still to
complete the revolution in the course of the machinery of State
in the direction already indicated. By these combinations I
mean the freedom of the Press, the right of association,
freedom of conscience, the voting principle, and many another
that must disappear for ever from the memory of man, or undergo
a radical alteration the day after the promulgation of the new
constitution. It is only at the moment that we shall be able at
once to announce all our orders, for, afterwards, every
noticeable alteration will be dangerous, for the following
reasons: if this alteration be brought in with harsh severity
and in a sense of severity and limitations, it may lead to a
feeling of despair caused by fear of new alterations in the
same direction; if, on the other hand, it be brought in a sense
of further indulgences it will be said that we have recognized
our own wrong-doing and this will destroy the prestige of the
infallibility of our authority, or else it will be said that we
have become alarmed and are compelled to show a yielding
disposition, for which we shall get no thanks because it will
be supposed to be compulsory ... Both the one and the other are
injurious to the prestige of the new constitution. What we want
is that from the first moment of its promulgation, while the
peoples of the world are still stunned by the accomplished fact
of the revolution, still in a condition of terror and
uncertainty, they should recognize once for all that we are so
strong, so inexpugnable, so super-abundantly filled with power,
that in no case shall we take any account of them, and so far
from paying any attention to their opinions or wishes, we are
ready and able to crush with irresistible power all expression
or manifestation thereof at every moment and in every place,
that we have seized at once everything we wanted and shall in
no case divide our power with them ... Then in fear and
trembling they will close their eyes to everything, and be
content to await what will be the end of it all.
WE ARE
WOLVES
4. The GOYIM are a flock
of sheep, and we are their wolves. And you know what happens
when the wolves get hold of the flock? ....
5. There is another reason also
why they will close their eyes: for we shall keep promising
them to give back all the liberties we have taken away as soon
as we have quelled the enemies of peace and tamed all parties
....
6. It is not worth to say
anything about how long a time they will be kept waiting for
this return of their liberties ....
7. For what purpose then have
we invented this whole policy and insinuated it into the minds
of the GOY without giving them any chance to examine its
underlying meaning? For what, indeed, if not in order to obtain
in a roundabout way what is for our scattered tribe
unattainable by the direct road? It is this which has served as
the basis for our organization of SECRET MASONRY WHICH IS
NOT KNOWN TO, AND AIMS WHICH ARE NOT EVEN SO MUCH AS SUSPECTED
BY, THESE "GOY" CATTLE, ATTRACTED BY US INTO THE
"SHOW" ARMY OF MASONIC LODGES IN ORDER TO THROW DUST IN
THE EYES OF THEIR FELLOWS.
8. God has granted to
us, His Chosen People, the gift of the dispersion, and
in this which appears in all eyes to be our weakness, has come
forth all our strength, which has now brought us to the
threshold of sovereignty over all the world.
9. There now remains not much
more for us to build up upon the foundation we have
laid.
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PROTOCOL No.
12
1. The word "freedom,"
which can be interpreted in various ways, is defined by us as
follows -
2. Freedom is the right to do
what which the law allows. This interpretation of the word will
at the proper time be of service to us, because all freedom
will thus be in our hands, since the laws will abolish or
create only that which is desirable for us according to the
aforesaid program.
3. We shall deal with the press
in the following way: what is the part played by the press
to-day? It serves to excite and inflame those passions which
are needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends of
parties. It is often vapid, unjust, mendacious, and the
majority of the public have not the slightest idea what ends
the press really serves. We shall saddle and bridle it with a
tight curb: we shall do the same also with all productions of
the printing press, for where would be the sense of getting rid
of the attacks of the press if we remain targets for pamphlets
and books? The produce of publicity, which nowadays is a source
of heavy expense owing to the necessity of censoring it, will
be turned by us into a very lucrative source of income to our
State: we shall law on it a special stamp tax and require
deposits of caution-money before permitting the establishment
of any organ of the press or of printing offices; these will
then have to guarantee our government against any kind of
attack on the part of the press. For any attempt to attack us,
if such still be possible, we shall inflict fines without
mercy. Such measures as stamp tax, deposit of caution-money and
fines secured by these deposits, will bring in a huge income to
the government. It is true that party organs might not spare
money for the sake of publicity, but these we shall shut up at
the second attack upon us. No one shall with impunity lay a
finger on the aureole of our government infallibility. The
pretext for stopping any publication will be the alleged plea
that it is agitating the public mind without occasion or
justification. I BEG YOU TO NOTE THAT AMONG THOSE MAKING
ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO BE ORGANS ESTABLISHED BY US, BUT THEY
WILL ATTACK EXCLUSIVELY POINTS THAT WE HAVE PRE-DETERMINED TO
ALTER.
WE CONTROL THE
PRESS
4. NOT A SINGLE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL
REACH THE PUBLIC WITHOUT OUR CONTROL. Even now this is
already being attained by us inasmuch as all news items are
received by a few agencies, in whose offices they are focused
from all parts of the world. These agencies will then be
already entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we
dictate to them.
5. If already now we have
contrived to possess ourselves of the minds of the GOY
communities to such an extent the they all come near looking
upon the events of the world through the colored glasses of
those spectacles we are setting astride their noses; if already
now there is not a single State where there exist for us any
barriers to admittance into what GOY stupidity calls
State secrets: what will our positions be then, when we shall
be acknowledged supreme lords of the world in the person of our
king of all the world ....
6. Let us turn again to the
FUTURE OF THE PRINTING PRESS. Every one desirous of
being a publisher, librarian, or printer, will be obliged to
provide himself with the diploma instituted therefore, which,
in case of any fault, will be immediately impounded. With such
measures THE INSTRUMENT OF THOUGHT WILL BECOME AN EDUCATIVE
MEANS ON THE HANDS OF OUR GOVERNMENT, WHICH WILL NO LONGER
ALLOW THE MASS OF THE NATION TO BE LED ASTRAY IN BY-WAYS AND
FANTASIES ABOUT THE BLESSINGS OF PROGRESS. Is there any one
of us who does not know that these phantom blessings are the
direct roads to foolish imaginings which give birth to
anarchical relations of men among themselves and towards
authority, because progress, or rather the idea of progress,
has introduced the conception of every kind of emancipation,
but has failed to establish its limits .... All the so-called
liberals are anarchists, if not in fact, at any rate in
thought. Every one of them in hunting after phantoms of
freedom, and falling exclusively into license, that is, into
the anarchy of protest for the sake of protest ....
FREE PRESS
DESTROYED
7. We turn to the periodical
press. We shall impose on it, as on all printed matter, stamp
taxes per sheet and deposits of caution- money, and books of
less than 30 sheets will pay double. We shall reckon them as
pamphlets in order, on the one hand, to reduce the number of
magazines, which are the worst form of printed poison, and, on
the other, in order that this measure may force writers into
such lengthy productions that they will be little read,
especially as they will be costly. At the same time what we
shall publish ourselves to influence mental development in the
direction laid down for our profit will be cheap and will be
read voraciously. The tax will bring vapid literary ambitions
within bounds and the liability to penalties will make literary
men dependent upon us. And if there should be any found who are
desirous of writing against us, they will not find any person
eager to print their productions in print the publisher or
printer will have to apply to the authorities for permission to
do so. Thus we shall know beforehand of all tricks preparing
against us and shall nullify them by getting ahead with
explanations on the subject treated of.
8. Literature and journalism
are two of the most important educative forces, and therefore
our government will become proprietor of the majority of the
journals. This will neutralize the injurious influence of the
privately-owned press and will put us in possession of a
tremendous influence upon the public mind .... If we give
permits for ten journals, we shall ourselves found thirty, and
so on in the same proportion. This, however, must in no wise be
suspected by the public. For which reason all journals
published by us will be of the most opposite, in appearance,
tendencies and opinions, thereby creating confidence in us and
bringing over to us quite unsuspicious opponents, who will thus
fall into our trap and be rendered harmless.
9. In the front rank will stand
organs of an official character. They will always stand guard
over our interests, and therefore their influence will be
comparatively insignificant.
10. In the second rank will be
the semi-official organs, whose part it will be to attack the
tepid and indifferent.
11. In the third rank we shall
set up our own, to all appearance, off position, which, in at
least one of its organs, will present what looks like the very
antipodes to us. Our real opponents at heart will accept this
simulated opposition as their own and will show us their
cards.
12. All our newspapers will be
of all possible complexions - aristocratic, republican,
revolutionary, even anarchical - for so long, of course, as the
constitution exists .... Like the Indian idol "Vishnu"
they will have a hundred hands, and every one of them will have
a finger on any one of the public opinions as required. When a
pulse quickens these hands will lead opinion in the direction
of our aims, for an excited patient loses all power of judgment
and easily yields to suggestion. Those fools who will think
they are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own camp
will be repeating our opinion or any opinion that seems
desirable for us. In the vain belief that they are following
the organ of their party they will, in fact, follow the flag
which we hang out for them.
13. In order to direct our
newspaper militia in this sense we must take special and minute
care in organizing this matter. Under the title of central
department of the press we shall institute literary gatherings
at which our agents will without attracting attention issue the
orders and watchwords of the day. By discussing
andcontroverting, but always superficially, without touching
the essence of the matter, our organs will carry on a sham
fight fusillade with the official newspapers solely for the
purpose of giving occasion for us to express ourselves more
fully than could well be done from the outset in official
announcements, whenever, of course, that is to our
advantage.
14. THESE ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO
SERVE ANOTHER PURPOSE, NAMELY, THAT OUR SUBJECTS WILL BE
CONVINCED TO THE EXISTENCE OF FULL FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND SO
GIVE OUR AGENTS AN OCCASION TO AFFIRM THAT ALL ORGANS WHICH
OPPOSE US ARE EMPTY BABBLERS, since they are incapable of
finding any substantial objections to our orders.
ONLY LIES
PRINTED
15. Methods of organization
like these, imperceptible to the public eye but absolutely
sure, are the best calculated to succeed in bringing the
attention and the confidence of the public to the side of our
government. Thanks to such methods we shall be in a position as
from time to time may be required, to excite or to tranquillize
the public mind on political questions, to persuade or to
confuse, printing now truth, now lies, facts or their
contradictions, according as they may be well or ill received,
always very cautiously feeling our ground before stepping upon
it .... WE SHALL HAVE A SURE TRIUMPH OVER OUR OPPONENTS
SINCE THEY WILL NOT HAVE AT THEIR DISPOSITION ORGANS OF THE
PRESS IN WHICH THEY CAN GIVE FULL AND FINAL EXPRESSION TO THEIR
VIEWS owing to the aforesaid methods of dealing with the
press. We shall not even need to refute them except very
superficially.
16. Trial shots like these,
fired by us in the third rank of our press, in case of need,
will be energetically refuted by us in our semi-official
organs.
17. Even nowadays, already, to
take only the French press, there are forms which reveal
masonic solidarity in acting on the watchword: all organs of
the press are bound together by professional secrecy; like the
augurs of old, not one of their numbers will give away the
secret of his sources of information unless it be resolved to
make announcement of them. Not one journalist will venture to
betray this secret, for not one of them is ever admitted to
practice literature unless his whole past has some disgraceful
sore or other .... These sores would be immediately revealed.
So long as they remain the secret of a few the prestige of the
journalist attacks the majority of the country - the mob follow
after him with enthusiasm.
18. Our calculations are
especially extended to the provinces. It is indispensable for
us to inflame there those hopes and impulses with which we
could at any moment fall upon the capital, and we shall
represent to the capitals that these expressions are the
independent hopes and impulses of the provinces. Naturally, the
source of them will be always one and the same - ours. WHAT
WE NEED IS THAT, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE ARE IN THE PLENITUDE
POWER, THE CAPITALS SHOULD FIND THEMSELVES STIFLED BY THE
PROVINCIAL OPINION OF THE NATIONS, I.E., OF A MAJORITY ARRANGED
BY OUR AGENTUR. What we need is that at the psychological
moment the capitals should not be in a position to discuss an
accomplished fact for the simple reason, if for no other, that
it has been accepted by the public opinion of a majority in the
provinces.
19. WHEN WE ARE IN THE PERIOD OF
THE NEW REGIME TRANSITIONAL TO THAT OF OUR ASSUMPTION OF FULL
SOVEREIGNTY WE MUST NOT ADMIT ANY REVELATION BY THE PRESS OF
ANY FORM OF PUBLIC DISHONESTY; IT IS NECESSARY THAT THE NEW
REGIME SHOULD BE THOUGHT TO HAVE SO PERFECTLY CONTENDED
EVERYBODY THAT EVEN CRIMINALITY HAS DISAPPEARED ... Cases
of the manifestation of criminality should remain known only to
their victims and to chance witnesses - no more.
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PROTOCOL No.
13
1. The need for daily forces
the GOYIM to keep silence and be our humble servants.
Agents taken on to our press from among the GOYIM will
at our orders discuss anything which it is inconvenient for us
to issue directly in official documents, and we meanwhile,
quietly amid the din of the discussion so raised, shall simply
take and carry through such measures as we wish and then offer
them to the public as an accomplished fact. No one will dare to
demand the abrogation of a matter once settled, all the more so
as it will be represented as an improvement ... And immediately
the press will distract the current of thought towards, new
questions, (have we not trained people always to be seeking
something new?). Into the discussions of these new
questions will throw themselves those of the brainless
dispensers of fortunes who are not able even now to understand
that they have not the remotest conception about the matters
which they undertake to discuss. Questions of the political are
unattainable for any save those who have guided it already for
many ages, the creators.
2. From all this you will see
that in seeming the opinion of the mob we are only facilitating
the working of our machinery, and you may remark that it is not
for actions but for words issued by us on this or that question
that we seem to seek approval. We are constantly making public
declaration that we are guided in all our undertakings by the
hoope, joined to the conviction, that we are serving the common
weal.
WE DECEIVE
WORKERS
3. In order to distract people
who may be too troublesome from discussions of questions of the
political we are now putting forward what we allege to be new
questions of the political, namely, questions of industry. In
this sphere let them discuss themselves silly! The masses are
agreed to remain inactive, to take a rest from what they
suppose to be political (which we trained them to in order
to use them as a means of combating the
GOY governments) only on condition of
being found new employments, in which we are prescribing them
something that looks like the same political object. In order
that the masses themselves may not guess what they are about
WE FURTHER DISTRACT THEM WITH AMUSEMENTS, GAMES, PASTIMES,
PASSIONS, PEOPLE'S PALACES .... SOON WE SHALL BEGIN THROUGH THE
PRESS TO PROPOSE COMPETITIONS IN ART, IN SPORT IN ALL
KINDS: these interests will finally distract their minds
from questions in which we should find ourselves compelled to
oppose them. Growing more and more dis- accustomed to reflect
and form any opinions of their own, people will begin to talk
in the same tone as we because we alone shall be offering them
new directions for thought ... of course through such persons
as will not be suspected of solidarity with us.
4. The part played by the
liberals, utopian dreamers, will be finally played out when our
government is acknowledged. Till such time they will continue
to do us good service. Therefore we shall continue to direct
their minds to all sorts of vain conceptions of fantastic
theories, new and apparently progressive: for have we not with
complete success turned the brainless heads of the GOYIM
with progress, till there is not among the GOYIM one
mind able to perceive that under this word lies a departure
from truth in all cases where it is not a question of material
inventions, like a fallacious idea, serves to obscure truth so
that none may know it except us, the Chosen of God, its
guardians.
5. When, we come into our
kingdom our orators will expound great problems which have
turned humanity upside down in order to bring it at the end
under our beneficent rule.
6. Who will ever suspect then
that ALL THESE PEOPLES WERE STAGE-MANAGED BY US ACCORDING TO
A POLITICAL PLAN WHICH NO ONE HAS SO MUCH AS GUESSED AT IN THE
COURSE OF MANY CENTURIES?
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PROTOCOL No.
14
1. When we come into our
kingdom it will be undesirable for us that there should exist
any other religion than ours of the One God with whom our
destiny is bound up by our position as the Chosen People and
through whom our same destiny is united with the destinies of
the world. We must therefore sweep away all other forms of
belief. If this gives birth to the atheists whom we see to-day,
it will not, being only a transitional stage, interfere with
our views, but will serve as a warning for those generations
which will hearken to our preaching of the religion of Moses,
that, by its stable and thoroughly elaborated system has
brought all the peoples of the world into subjection to us.
Therein we shall emphasize its mystical right, on which, as we
shall say, all its educative power is based .... Then at every
possible opportunity we shall publish articles in which we
shall make comparisons between our beneficent rule and those of
past ages. The blessing of tranquillity, though it be a
tranquillity forcibly brought about by centuries of agitation,
will throw into higher relief the benefits to which we shall
point. The errors of the GOYIM governments will be
depicted by us in the most vivid hues. We shall implant such an
abhorrence of them that the peoples will prefer tranquillity in
a state of serfdom to those rights of vaunted freedom which
have tortured humanity and exhausted the very sources of human
existence, sources which have been exploited by a mob of
rascally adventurers who know not what they do .... USELESS
CHANGES OF FORMS OF GOVERNMENT TO WHICH WE INSTIGATED THE
"GOYIM" WHEN WE WERE UNDERMINING THEIR STATE STRUCTURES, WILL
HAVE SO WEARIED THE PEOPLES BY THAT TIME THAT THEY WILL PREFER
TO SUFFER ANYTHING UNDER US RATHER THAN RUN THE RISK OF
ENDURING AGAIN ALL THE AGITATIONS AND MISERIES THEY HAVE GONE
THROUGH.
WE SHALL FORBID
CHRIST
2. At the same time we shall
not omit to emphasize the historical mistakes of the GOY
governments which have tormented humanity for so many centuries
by their lack of understanding of everything that constitutes
the true good of humanity in their chase after fantastic
schemes of social blessings, and have never noticed that these
schemes kept on producing a worse and never a better state of
the universal relations which are the basis of human life
....
3. The whole force of our
principles and methods will lie in the fact that we shall
present them and expound them as a splendid contrast to the
dead and decomposed old order of things in social
life.
4. Our philosophers will
discuss all the shortcomings of the various beliefs of the
"GOYIM," BUT NO ONE WILL EVER BRING UNDER DISCUSSION
OUR FAITH FROM ITS TRUE POINT OF VIEW SINCE THIS WILL BE FULLY
LEARNED BY NONE SAVE OURS WHO WILL NEVER DARE TO BETRAY ITS
SECRETS.
5. IN COUNTRIES KNOWN AS
PROGRESSIVE AND ENLIGHTENED WE HAVE CREATED A SENSELESS,
FILTHY, ABOMINABLE LITERATURE. For some time after our
entrance to power we shall continue to encourage its existence
in order to provide a telling relief by contrast to the
speeches, party program, which will be distributed from exalted
quarters of ours .... Our wise men, trained to become leaders
of the GOYIM, will compose speeches, projects, memoirs,
articles, which will be used by us to influence the minds of
the GOYIM, directing them towards such understanding and
forms of knowledge as have been determined by us.
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PROTOCOL No.
15
1. When we at last definitely
come into our kingdom by the aid of COUPS D'ETAT
prepared everywhere for one and the same day, after definitely
acknowledged (and not a little time will pass before that
comes about, perhaps even a whole century) we shall make it
our task to see that against us such things as plots shall no
longer exist. With this purpose we shall slay without mercy all
who take arms (in hand) to oppose our coming into our
kingdom. Every kind of new institution of anything like a
secret society will also be punished with death; those of them
which are now in existence, are known to us, serve us and have
served us, we shall disband and send into exile to continents
far removed from Europe. IN THIS WAY WE SHALL PROCEED WITH
THOSE "GOY" MASONS WHO KNOW TOO MUCH; such of these
as we may for some reason spare will be kept in constant fear
of exile. We shall promulgate a law making all former members
of secret societies liable to exile from Europe as the
center of rule.
2. Resolutions of our
government will be final, without appeal.
3. In the GOY societies,
in which we have planted and deeply rooted discord and
protestantism, the only possible way of restoring order is to
employ merciless measures that prove the direct force of
authority: no regard must be paid to the victims who fall, they
suffer for the well-being of the future. The attainment of that
well-being, even at the expense of sacrifices, is the duty of
any kind of government that acknowledges as justification for
its existence not only its privileges but its obligations. The
principal guarantee of stability of rule is to confirm the
aureole of power, and this aureole is attained only by such a
majestic inflexibility of might as shall carry on its face the
emblems of inviolability from mystical causes - from the choice
of God. SUCH WAS, UNTIL RECENT TIMES, THE RUSSIAN AUTOCRACY,
THE ONE AND ONLY SERIOUS FOE WE HAD IN THE WORLD, WITHOUT
COUNTING THE PAPACY. Bear in mind the example when Italy,
drenched with blood, never touched a hair of the head of Sulla
who had poured forth that blood: Sulla enjoyed an apotheosis
for his might in him, but his intrepid return to Italy ringed
him round with inviolability. The people do not lay a finger on
him who hypnotizes them by his daring and strength of
mind.
SECRET
SOCIETIES
4. Meantime, however, until we
come into our kingdom, we shall act in the contrary way: we
shall create and multiply free masonic lodges in all the
countries of the world, absorb into them all who may become or
who are prominent in public activity, for these lodges we shall
find our principal intelligence office and means of influence.
All these lodges we shall bring under one central
administration, known to us alone and to all others absolutely
unknown, which will be composed of our learned elders. The
lodges will have their representatives who will serve to screen
the above-mentioned administration of MASONRY and from whom
will issue the watchword and program. In these lodges we shall
tie together the knot which binds together all revolutionary
and liberal elements. Their composition will be made up of all
strata of society. The most secret political plots will be
known to us and fall under our guiding hands on the very day of
their conception. AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THESE LODGES WILL BE
ALMOST ALL THE AGENTS OF INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL POLICE
since their service is for us irreplaceable in the respect that
the police is in a position not only to use its own particular
measures with the insubordinate, but also to screen our
activities and provide pretexts for discontents, ET
CETERA.
5. The class of people who most
willingly enter into secret societies are those who live by
their wits, careerists, and in general people, mostly
light-minded, with whom we shall have no difficulty in dealing
and in using to wind up the mechanism of the machine devised by
us. If this world grows agitated the meaning of that will be
that we have had to stir up in order to break up its too great
solidarity. BUT IF THERE SHOULD ARISE IN ITS MIDST A PLOT,
THEN AT THE HEAD OF THAT PLOT WILL BE NO OTHER THAN ONE OF OUR
MOST TRUSTED SERVANTS. It is natural that we and no other
should lead MASONIC activities, for we know whither we
are leading, we know the final goal of every form of activity
whereas the GOYIM have knowledge of nothing, not even of
the immediate effect of action; they put before themselves,
usually, the momentary reckoning of the satisfaction of their
self- opinion in the accomplishment of their thought without
even remarking that the very conception never belonged to their
initiative but to our instigation of their thought
....
GENTILES ARE
STUPID
6. The GOYIM enter the
lodges out of curiosity or in the hope by their means to get a
nibble at the public pie, and some of them in order to obtain a
hearing before the public for their impracticable and
groundless fantasies: they thirst for the emotion of success
and applause, of which we are remarkably generous. And the
reason why we give them this success is to make use of the nigh
conceit of themselves to which it gives birth, for that
insensibly disposes them to assimulate our suggestions without
being on their guard against them in the fullness of their
confidence that it is their own infallibility which is giving
utterance to their own thoughts and that it is impossible for
them to borrow those of others .... You cannot imagine to what
extent the wisest of the GOYIM can be brought to a state
of unconscious naivete in the presence of this condition of
high conceit of themselves, and at the same time how easy it is
to take the heart out of them by the slightest ill-success,
though it be nothing more than the stoppage of the applause
they had, and to reduce them to a slavish submission for the
sake of winning a renewal of success .... BY SO MUCH AS OURS
DISREGARD SUCCESS IF ONLY THEY CAN CARRY THROUGH THEIR PLANS,
BY SO MUCH THE "GOYIM" ARE WILLING TO SACRIFICE ANY
PLANS ONLY TO HAVE SUCCESS. This psychology of theirs
materially facilitates for us the task of setting them in the
required direction. These tigers in appearance have the souls
of sheep and the wind blows freely through their heads. We have
set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of
individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM ....
They have never yet and they never will have the sense to
reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the
most important law of nature, which has established from the
very creation of the world one unit unlike another and
precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality
....
7. If we have been able to
bring them to such a pitch of stupid blindness is it not a
proof, and an amazingly clear proof, of the degree to which the
mind of the GOYIM is undeveloped in comparison with our
mind? This it is, mainly, which guarantees our
success.
GENTILES ARE
CATTLE
8. And how far-seeing were our
learned elders in ancient times when they said that to attain a
serious end it behooves not to stop at any means or to count
the victims sacrificed for the sake of that end .... We have
not counted the victims of the seed of the GOY cattle,
though we have sacrificed many of our own, but for that we have
now already given them such a position on the earth as they
could not even have dreamed of. The comparatively small numbers
of the victims from the number of ours have preserved our
nationality from destruction.
9. Death is the inevitable end
for all. It is better to bring that end nearer to those who
hinder our affairs than to ourselves, to the founders of this
affair. WE EXECUTE MASONS IN SUCH WISE THAT NONE SAVE THE
BROTHERHOOD CAN EVER HAVE A SUSPICION OF IT, NOT EVEN THE
VICTIMS THEMSELVES OF OUR DEATH SENTENCE, THEY ALL DIE WHEN
REQUIRED AS IF FROM A NORMAL KIND OF ILLNESS ..... Knowing
this, even the brotherhood in its turn dare not protest. By
such methods we have plucked out of the midst of MASONRY
the very root of protest against our disposition. While
preaching liberalism to the GOY we at the same
time keep our own people and our agents in a state of
unquestioningly submission.
10. Under our influence the
execution of the laws of the GOYIM has been reduced to a
minimum. The prestige of the law has been exploded by the
liberal interpretations introduced into this sphere. In the
most important and fundamental affairs and questions, JUDGES
DECIDE AS WE DICTATE TO THEM, see matters in the light
wherewith we enfold them for the administration of the
GOYIM, of course, through persons who are our tools
though we do not appear to have anything in common with them -
by newspaper opinion or by other means .... Even senators and
the higher administration accept our counsels. The purely brute
mind of the GOYIM is incapable of use for analysis and
observation, and still more for the foreseeing whither a
certain manner of setting a question may tend.
11. In this difference in
capacity for thought between the GOYIM and ourselves may
be clearly discerned the seal of our position as the Chosen
People and of our higher quality of humanness, in
contradistinction to the brute mind of the GOYIM. Their
eyes are open, but see nothing before them and do not invent
(unless perhaps, material things). From this it is plain
that nature herself has destined us to guide and rule the
world.
WE DEMAND
SUBMISSION
12. When comes the time of our
overt rule, the time to manifest its blessing, we shall remake
all legislatures, all our laws will be brief, plain, stable,
without any kind of interpretations, so that anyone will be in
a position to know them perfectly. The main feature which will
run right through them is submission to orders, and this
principle will be carried to a grandiose height. Every abuse
will then disappear in consequence of the responsibility of all
down to the lowest unit before the higher authority of the
representative of power. Abuses of power subordinate to this
last instance will be so mercilessly punished that none will be
found anxious to try experiments with their own powers. We
shall follow up jealously every action of the administration on
which depends the smooth running of the machinery of the State,
for slackness in this produces slackness everywhere; not a
single case of illegality or abuse of power will be left
without exemplary punishment.
13. Concealment of guilt,
connivance between those in the service of the administration -
all this kind of evil will disappear after the very first
examples of severe punishment. The aureole of our power demands
suitable, that is, cruel, punishments for the slightest
infringement, for the sake of gain, of its supreme prestige.
The sufferer, though his punishment may exceed his fault, will
count as a soldier falling on the administrative field of
battle in the interest of authority, principle and law, which
do not permit that any of those who hold the reins of the
public coach should turn aside from the public highway to their
own private paths. FOR EXAMPLES OUR JUDGES WILL KNOW THAT
WHENEVER THEY FEEL DISPOSED TO PLUME THEMSELVES ON FOOLISH
CLEMENCY THEY ARE VIOLATING THE LAW OF JUSTICE WHICH IS
INSTITUTED FOR THE EXEMPLARY EDIFICATION OF MEN BY PENALTIES
FOR LAPSES AND NOT FOR DISPLAY OF THE SPIRITUAL QUALITIES OF
THE JUDGES .... Such qualities it is proper to show in
private life, but not in a public square which is the
educationally basis of human life.
14. Our legal staff will serve
not beyond the age of 55, firstly because old men more
obstinately hold to prejudiced opinions, and are less capable
of submitting to new directions, and secondly because this will
give us the possibility by this measure of securing elasticity
in the changing of staff, which will thus the more easily bend
under our pressure: he who wishes to keep his place will have
to give blind obedience to deserve it. In general, our judges
will be elected by us only from among those who thoroughly
understand that the part they have to play is to punish and
apply laws and not to dream about the manifestations of
liberalism at the expense of the educational scheme of the
State, as the GOYIM in these days imagine it to be ....
This method of shuffling the staff will serve also to explode
any collective solidarity of those in the same service and will
bind all to the interests of the government upon which their
fate will depend. The young generation of judges will be
trained in certain views regarding the inadmissibility of any
abuses that might disturb the established order of our subjects
among themselves.
15. In these days the judges of
the GOYIM create indulgences to every kind of crimes,
not having a just understanding of their office, because the
rulers of the present age in appointing judges to office take
no care to inculcate in them a sense of duty and consciousness
of the matter which is demanded of them. As a brute beast lets
out its young in search of prey, so do the GOYIM give to
them for what purpose such place was created. This is the
reason why their governments are being ruined by their own
forces through the acts of their own administration.
16. Let us borrow from the
example of the results of these actions yet another lesson for
our government.
17. We shall root out
liberalism from all the important strategic posts of our
government on which depends the training of subordinates for
our State structure. Such posts will fall exclusively to those
who have been trained by us for administrative rule. To the
possible objection that the retirement of old servants will
cost the Treasury heavily, I reply, firstly, they will be
provided with some private service in place of what they lose,
and, secondly, I have to remark that all the money in the world
will be concentrated in our hands, consequently it is not our
government that has to fear expense.
WE SHALL BE
CRUEL
18. Our absolutism will in all
things be logically consecutive and therefore in each one of
its decrees our supreme will be respected and unquestionably
fulfilled: it will ignore all murmurs, all discontents of every
kind and will destroy to the root every kind of manifestation
of them in act by punishment of an exemplary
character.
19. We shall abolish the right
of cessation, which will be transferred exclusively to our
disposal - to the cognizance of him who rules, for we must not
allow the conception among the people of a thought that there
could be such a thing as a decision that is not right of judges
set up by us. If, however, anything like this should occur, we
shall ourselves cassate the decision, but inflict therewith
such exemplary punishment on the judge for lack of
understanding of his duty and the purpose of his appointment as
will prevent a repetition of such cases .... I repeat that it
must be born in mind that we shall know every step of our
administration which only needs to be closely watched for the
people to be content with us, for it has the right to demand
from a good government a good official.
20. OUR GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE THE
APPEARANCE OF A PATRIARCHAL PATERNAL GUARDIANSHIP ON THE PART
OF OUR RULER. Our own nation and our subjects will discern
in his person a father caring for their every need, their every
act, their every inter-relation as subjects one with another,
as well as their relations to the ruler. They will then be so
thoroughly imbued with the thought that it is impossible for
them to dispense with this wardship and guidance, if they wish
to live in peace and quiet, THAT THEY WILL ACKNOWLEDGE THE
AUTOCRACY OF OUR RULER WITH A DEVOTION BORDERING ON
"APOTHEOSIS," especially when they are convinced that those
whom we set up do not put their own in place of authority, but
only blindly execute his dictates. They will be rejoiced that
we have regulated everything in their lives as is done by wise
parents who desire to train children in the cause of duty and
submission. For the peoples of the world in regard to the
secrets of our polity are ever through the ages only children
under age, precisely as are also their governments.
21. As you see, I found our
despotism on right and duty: the right to compel the execution
of duty is the direct obligation of a government which is a
father for its subjects. It has the right of the strong that it
may use it for the benefit of directing humanity towards that
order which is defined by nature, namely, submission.
Everything in the world is in a state of submission, if not to
man, then to circumstances or its own inner character, in all
cases, to what is stronger. And so shall we be this something
stronger for the sake of good.
22. We are obliged without
hesitation to sacrifice individuals, who commit a breach of
established order, for in the exemplary punishment of evil lies
a great educational problem.
23. When the King of
Israel sets upon his sacred head the crown offered him by
Europe he will become patriarch of the world. The
indispensable victims offered by him in consequence of their
suitability will never reach the number of victims offered in
the course of centuries by the mania of magnificence, the
emulation between the GOY governments.
24. Our King will be in
constant communion with the peoples, making to them from the
tribune speeches which fame will in that same hour distribute
over all the world.
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1. In order to effect the
destruction of all collective forces except ours we shall
emasculate the first stage of collectivism - the
UNIVERSITIES, by re-educating them in a new direction.
THEIR OFFICIALS AND PROFESSORS WILL BE PREPARED FOR THEIR
BUSINESS BY DETAILED SECRET PROGRAMS OF ACTION FROM WHICH THEY
WILL NOT WITH IMMUNITY DIVERGE, NOT BY ONE IOTA. THEY WILL BE
APPOINTED WITH ESPECIAL PRECAUTION, AND WILL BE SO PLACED AS TO
BE WHOLLY DEPENDENT UPON THE GOVERNMENT.
2. We shall exclude from the
course of instruction State Law as also all that concerns the
political question. These subjects will be taught to a few
dozen of persons chosen for their pre-eminent capacities from
among the number of the initiated. THE UNIVERSITIES MUST NO
LONGER SEND OUT FROM THEIR HALLS MILK SOPS CONCOCTING PLANS FOR
A CONSTITUTION, LIKE A COMEDY OR A TRAGEDY, BUSYING THEMSELVES
WITH QUESTIONS OF POLICY IN WHICH EVEN THEIR OWN FATHERS NEVER
HAD ANY POWER OF THOUGHT.
3. The ill-guided acquaintance
of a large number of persons with questions of polity creates
utopian dreamers and bad subjects, as you can see for
yourselves from the example of the universal education in this
direction of the GOYIM. We must introduce into their
education all those principles which have so brilliantly broken
up their order. But when we are in power we shall remove every
kind of disturbing subject from the course of education and
shall make out of the youth obedient children of authority,
loving him who rules as the support and hope of peace and
quiet.
WE SHALL CHANGE
HISTORY
4. Classicism as also any form
of study of ancient history, in which there are more bad than
good examples, we shall replace with the study of the program
of the future. We shall erase from the memory of men all facts
of previous centuries which are undesirable to us, and leave
only those which depict all the errors of the government of the
GOYIM. The study of practical life, of the obligations
of order, of the relations of people one to another, of
avoiding bad and selfish examples, which spread the infection
of evil, and similar questions of an educative nature, will
stand in the forefront of the teaching program, which will be
drawn up on a separate plan for each calling or state of life,
in no wise generalizing the teaching. This treatment of the
question has special importance.
5. Each state of life must be
trained within strict limits corresponding to its destination
and work in life. The OCCASIONAL GENIUS HAS ALWAYS MANAGED
AND ALWAYS WILL MANAGE TO SLIP THROUGH INTO OTHER STATES OF
LIFE, BUT IT IS THE MOST PERFECT FOLLY FOR THE SAKE OF THIS
RARE OCCASIONAL GENIUS TO LET THROUGH INTO RANKS FOREIGN TO
THEM THE UNTALENTED WHO THUS ROB OF THEIR PLACES WHO BELONG TO
THOSE RANKS BY BIRTH OR EMPLOYMENT. YOU KNOW YOURSELVES IN WHAT
ALL THIS HAS ENDED FOR THE "GOYIM" WHO ALLOWED THIS CRYING
ABSURDITY.
6. In order that he who rules
may be seated firmly in the hearts and minds of his subjects it
is necessary for the time of his activity to instruct the whole
nation in the schools and on the market places about this
meaning and his acts and all his beneficent
initiatives.
7. We shall abolish every kind
of freedom of instruction. Learners of all ages have the right
to assemble together with their parents in the educational
establishments as it were in a club: during these assemblies,
on holidays, teachers will read what will pass as free lectures
on questions of human relations, of the laws of examples, of
the philosophy of new theories not yet declared to the world.
These theories will be raised by us to the stage of a dogma of
faith as a traditional stage towards our faith. On the
completion of this exposition of our program of action in the
present and the future I will read you the principles of these
theories.
8. In a word, knowing by the
experience of many centuries that people live and are guided by
ideas, that these ideas are imbibed by people only by the aid
of education provided with equal success for all ages of
growth, but of course by varying methods, we shall swallow up
and confiscate to our own use the last scintilla of
independence of thought, which we have for long past been
directing towards subjects and ideas useful for us. The system
of bridling thought is already at work in the so-called system
of teaching by OBJECT LESSONS, the purpose of which is
to turn the GOYIM into unthinking submissive brutes
waiting for things to be presented before their eyes in order
to form an idea of them .... In France, one of our best
agents, Bourgeois, has already made public a new program
of teaching by object lessons.
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1. The practice of advocacy
produces men cold, cruel, persistent, unprincipled, who in all
cases take up an impersonal, purely legal standpoint. They have
the inveterate habit to refer everything to its value for the
defense and not to the public welfare of its results. They do
not usually decline to undertake any defense whatever, they
strive for an acquittal at all costs, caviling over every petty
crux of jurisprudence and thereby they demoralize justice. For
this reason we shall set this profession into narrow frames
which will keep it inside this sphere of executive public
service. Advocates, equally with judges, will be deprived of
the right of communication with litigant; they well receive
business only from the court and will study it by notes of
report and documents, defending their clients after they have
been interrogated in court on facts that have appeared. They
will receive an honorarium without regard to the quality of the
defense. This will render them mere reporters on law-business
in the interests of justice and as counterpoise to the proctor
who will be the reporter in the interests of prosecution; this
will shorten business before the courts. In this way will be
established a practice of honest unprejudiced defense conducted
not from personal interest but by conviction. This will also,
by the way, remove the present practice of corrupt bargain
between advocation to agree only to let that side win which
pays most .....
WE SHALL DESTROY THE
CLERGY
2. WE HAVE LONG PAST TAKEN CARE TO
DISCREDIT THE PRIESTHOOD OF "GOYIM," and thereby to
ruin their mission on earth which in these days might still be
a great hindrance to us. Day by day its influence on the
peoples of the world is falling lower. FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE
HAS BEEN DECLARED EVERYWHERE, SO THAT NOW ONLY YEARS DIVIDE US
FROM THE MOMENT OF THE COMPLETE WRECKING OF THAT CHRISTIAN
RELIGION: as to other religions we shall have still less
difficulty in dealing with them, but it would be premature to
speak of this now. We shall act clericalism and clericals into
such narrow frames as to make their influence move in
retrogressive proportion to its former progress.
3. When the time comes finally
to destroy the papal court the finger of an invisible hand will
point the nations towards this court. When, however, the
nations fling themselves upon it, we shall come forward in the
guise of its defenders as if to save excessive bloodshed. By
this diversion we shall penetrate to its very bowels and be
sure we shall never come out again until we have gnawed through
the entire strength of this place.
4. THE KING OF THE JEWS WILL BE THE
REAL POPE OF THE UNIVERSE, THE PATRIARCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL
CHURCH (Antichrist??).
5. But, IN THE MEANTIME,
while we are re-educating youth in new traditional religions
and afterwards in ours, WE SHALL NOT OVERTLY LAY A FINGER ON
EXISTING CHURCHES, BUT WE SHALL FIGHT AGAINST THEM BY CRITICISM
CALCULATED TO PRODUCE SCHISM ....
6. In general, then, our
contemporary press will continue to CONVICT State
affairs, religions, incapacities of the GOYIM, always
using the most unprincipled expressions in order by every means
to lower their prestige in the manner which can only be
practiced by the genius of our gifted tribe ....
7. Our kingdom will be an
apologia of the divinity Vishnu, in whom is found its
personification - in our hundred hands will be, one in each,
the springs of the machinery of social life. We shall see
everything without the aid of official police which, in that
scope of its rights which we elaborated for the use of the
GOYIM, hinders governments from seeing. In our programs
ONE-THIRD OF OUR SUBJECTS WILL KEEP THE REST UNDER
OBSERVATION from a sense of duty, on the principle of
volunteer service to the State. It will then be no disgrace to
be a spy and informer, but a merit: unfounded denunciations,
however, will be cruelly punished that there may be development
of abuses of this right.
8. Our agents will be taken
from the higher as well as the lower ranks of society, from
among the administrative class who spend their time in
amusements, editors, printers and publishers, booksellers,
clerks, and salesmen, workmen, coachmen, lackeys, et cetera.
This body, having no rights and not being empowered to take any
action on their own account, and consequently a police without
any power, will only witness and report: verification of their
reports and arrests will depend upon a responsible group of
controllers of police affairs, while the actual act of arrest
will be performed by the gendarmerie and the municipal police.
Any person not denouncing anything seen or heard concerning
questions of polity will also be charged with and made
responsible for concealment, if it be proved that he is guilty
of this crime.
9. JUST AS NOWADAYS OUR BRETHREN,
ARE OBLIGED AT THEIR OWN RISK TO DENOUNCE TO THE KABAL
APOSTATES OF THEIR OWN FAMILY or members who have been
noticed doing anything in opposition to the KABAL, SO IN OUR
KINGDOM OVER ALL THE WORLD IT WILL BE OBLIGATORY FOR ALL OUR
SUBJECTS TO OBSERVE THE DUTY OF SERVICE TO THE STATE IN THIS
DIRECTION.
10. Such an organization will
extirpate abuses of authority, of force, of bribery, everything
in fact which we by our counsels, by out theories of the
superhuman rights of man, have introduced into the customs of
the GOYIM .... But how else were we to procure that
increase of causes predisposing to disorders in the midst of
their administration? .... Among the number of those methods
one of the most important is - agents for the restoration of
order, so placed as to have the opportunity in their
disintegrating activity of developing and displaying their evil
inclinations - obstinate self-conceit, irresponsible exercise
of authority, and, first and foremost, venality.
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1. When it becomes necessary
for us to strengthen the strict measures of secret defense (the
most fatal poison for the prestige of authority) we shall
arrange a simulation of disorders or some manifestation of
discontents finding expression through the co- operation of
good speakers. Round these speakers will assemble all who are
sympathetic to his utterances. This will give us the pretext
for domiciliary prerequisitions and surveillance on the part of
our servants from among the number of the GOYIM police
....
2. As the majority of
conspirators act of love for the game, for the sake of talking,
so, until they commit some overt act we shall not lay a finger
on them but only introduce into their midst observation
elements .... It must be remembered that the prestige of
authority is lessened if it frequently discovers conspiracies
against itself: this implies a presumption of consciousness of
weakness, or, what is still worse, of injustice. You are aware
that we have broken the prestige of the GOY kings by
frequent attempts upon their lives through our agents, blind
sheep of our flock, who are easily moved by a few liberal
phrases to crimes provided only they be painted in political
colors. WE HAVE COMPELLED THE RULERS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR
WEAKNESS IN ADVERTISING OVERT MEASURES OF SECRETE DEFENSE AND
THEREBY WE SHALL BRING THE PROMISE OF AUTHORITY TO
DESTRUCTION.
3. Our ruler will be secretly
protected only by the most insignificant guard, because we
shall not admit so much as a thought that there could exist
against him any sedition with which he is not strong enough to
contend and is compelled to hide from it.
4. If we should admit this
thought, as the GOYIM have done and are doing, we
should IPSO FACTO be signing a death sentence, if not
for our ruler, at any rate for his dynasty, at no distant
date.
GOVERNMENT BY
FEAR
5. According to strictly
enforced outward appearances our ruler will employ his power
only for the advantage of the nation and in no wise for his own
or dynastic profits. Therefore, with the observance of this
decorum, his authority will be respected and guarded by the
subjects themselves, it will receive an apotheosis in the
admission that with it is bound up the well-being of every
citizen of the State, for upon it will depend all order in the
common life of the pack ....
6. OVERT DEFENSE OF THE KIND ARGUES
WEAKNESS IN THE ORGANIZATION OF HIS STRENGTH.
7. Our ruler will always be
among the people and be surrounded by a mob of apparently
curious men and women, who will occupy the front ranks about
him, to all appearance by chance, and will restrain the ranks
of the rest out of respect as it will appear for good order.
This will sow an example of restraint also in others. If a
petitioner appears among the people trying to hand a petition
and forcing his way through the ranks, the first ranks must
receive the petition and before the eyes of the petitioner pass
it to the ruler, so that all may know that what is handed in
reaches its destination, that consequently, there exists a
control of the ruler himself. The aureole of power requires for
is existence that the people may be able to say: "If the
king knew of this," or: "the king will hear
it."
8. WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
OFFICIAL DEFENSE, THE MYSTICAL PRESTIGE OF AUTHORITY
DISAPPEARS: given a certain audacity, and everyone counts
himself master of it, the sedition- monger is conscious of his
strength, and when occasion serves watches for the moment to
make an attempt upon authority .... For the GOYIM we
have been preaching something else, but by that very fact we
are enabled to see what measures of overt defense have brought
them to ....
9. CRIMINALS WITH US WILL BE
ARRESTED AT THE FIRST, more or less, well-grounded
SUSPICION: it cannot be allowed that out of fear of a
possible mistake an opportunity should be given of escape to
persons suspected of a political lapse of crime, for in these
matters we shall be literally merciless. If it is still
possible, by stretching a point, to admit a reconsideration of
the motive causes in simple crimes, there is no possibility of
excuse for persons occupying themselves with questions in which
nobody except the government can understand anything .... And
it is not all governments that understand true
policy.
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1. If we do not permit any
independent dabbling in the political we shall on the other
hand encourage every kind of report or petition with proposals
for the government to examine into all kinds of projects for
the amelioration of the condition of the people; this will
reveal to us the defects or else the fantasies of our subjects,
to which we shall respond either by accomplishing them or by a
wise rebuttment to prove the shortsightedness of one who judges
wrongly.
2. Sedition-mongering is
nothing more than the yapping of a lap- dog at an elephant. For
a government well organized, not from the police but from the
public point of view, the lap-dog yaps at the elephant in
entire unconsciousness of its strength and importance. It needs
no more than to take a good example to show the relative
importance of both and the lap-dogs will cease to yap and will
wag their tails the moment they set eyes on an
elephant.
3. In order to destroy the
prestige of heroism for political crime we shall send it for
trial in the category of thieving, murder, and every kind of
abominable and filthy crime. Public opinion will then confuse
in its conception of this category of crime with the disgrace
attaching to every other and will brand it with the same
contempt.
4. We have done our best, and I
hope we have succeeded to obtain that the GOYIM should
not arrive at this means of contending with sedition. It was
for this reason that through the Press and in speeches,
indirectly - in cleverly compiled school- books on history, we
have advertised the martyrdom alleged to have been accredited
by sedition-mongers for the idea of the commonweal. This
advertisement has increased the contingent of liberals
and has brought thousands of GOYIM into the ranks of our
livestock cattle.
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1. To-day we shall touch upon
the financial program, which I put off to the end of my report
as being the most difficult, the crowning and the decisive
point of our plans. Before entering upon it I will remind you
that I have already spoken before by way of a hint when I said
that the sum total of our actions is settled by the question of
figures.
2. When we come into our
kingdom our autocratic government will avoid, from a principle
of self-preservation, sensibly burdening the masses of the
people with taxes, remembering that it plays the part of father
and protector. But as State organization cost dear it is
necessary nevertheless to obtain the funds required for it. It
will, therefore, elaborate with particular precaution the
question of equilibrium in this matter.
3. Our rule, in which the king
will enjoy the legal fiction that everything in his State
belongs to him (which may easily be translated into
fact), will be enabled to resort to the lawful confiscation
of all sums of every kind for the regulation of their
circulation in the State. From this follows that taxation will
best be covered by a progressive tax on property. In this
manner the dues will be paid without straitening or ruining
anybody in the form of a percentage of the amount of property.
The rich must be aware that it is their duty to place a part of
their superfluities at the disposal of the State since the
State guarantees them security of possession of the rest of
their property and the right of honest gains, I say honest, for
the control over property will do away with robbery on a legal
basis.
4. This social reform must come
from above, for the time is ripe for it - it is indispensable
as a pledge of peace.
WE SHALL DESTROY
CAPITAL
5. The tax upon the poor man is
a seed of revolution and works to the detriment of the State
which is hunting after the trifling is missing the big. Quite
apart from this, a tax on capitalists diminishes the growth of
wealth in private hands in which we have in these days
concentrated it as a counterpoise to the government strength of
the GOYIM - their State finances.
6. A tax increasing in a
percentage ratio to capital will give much larger revenue than
the present individual or property tax, which is useful to us
now for the sole reason that it excites trouble and discontent
among the GOYIM. (Now we know the purpose of the
16th Amendment!!).
7. The force upon which our
king will rest consists in the equilibrium and the guarantee of
peace, for the sake of which things it is indispensable that
the capitalists should yield up a portion of their incomes for
the sake of the secure working of the machinery of the State.
State needs must be paid by those who will not feel the burden
and have enough to take from.
8. Such a measure will destroy
the hatred of the poor man for the rich, in whom he will see a
necessary financial support for the State, will see in him the
organizer of peace and well-being since he will see that it is
the rich man who is paying the necessary means to attain these
things.
9. In order that payers of the
educated classes should not too much distress themselves over
the new payments they will have full accounts given them of the
destination of those payments, with the exception of such sums
as will be appropriated for the needs of the throne and the
administrative institutions.
10. He who reigns will not have
any properties of his own once all in the State represented his
patrimony, or else the one would be in contradiction to the
other; the fact of holding private means would destroy the
right of property in the common possessions of all.
11. Relatives of him who
reigns, his heirs excepted, who will be maintained by the
resources of the State, must enter the ranks of servants of the
State or must work to obtain the right to property; the
privilege of royal blood must not serve for the spoiling of the
treasury.
12. Purchase, receipt of money
or inheritance will be subject to the payment of a stamp
progressive tax. Any transfer of property, whether money or
other, without evidence of payment of this tax which will be
strictly registered by names, will render the former holder
liable to pay interest on the tax from the moment of transfer
of these sums up to the discovery of his evasion of declaration
of the transfer. Transfer documents must be presented weekly at
the local treasury office with notifications of the name,
surname and permanent place of residence of the former and the
new holder of the property. This transfer with register of
names must begin from a definite sum which exceeds the ordinary
expenses of buying and selling necessaries, and these will be
subject to payment only by a stamp impost of a definite
percentage of the unit.
13. Just strike an estimate of
how many times such taxes as these will cover the revenue of
the GOYIM States.
WE CAUSE
DEPRESSIONS
14. The State exchequer will
have to maintain a definite complement of reserve sums, and all
that is collected above that complement must be returned into
circulation. On these sums will be organized public works. The
initiative in works of this kind, proceeding from State
sources, will blind the working class firmly to the interests
of the State and to those who reign. From these same sums also
a part will be set aside as rewards of inventiveness and
productiveness.
15. On no account should so
much as a single unit above the definite and freely estimated
sums be retained in the State Treasuries, for money exists to
be circulated and any kind of stagnation of money acts
ruinously on the running of the State machinery, for which it
is the lubricant; a stagnation of the lubricant may stop the
regular working of the mechanism.
16. The substitution of
interest-bearing paper for a part of the token of exchange has
produced exactly this stagnation. The consequences of this
circumstance are already sufficiently noticeable.
17. A court of account will
also be instituted by us, and in it the ruler will find at any
moment a full accounting for State income and expenditure, with
the exception of the current monthly account, not yet made up,
and that of the preceding month, which will not yet have been
delivered.
18. The one and only person who
will have no interest in robbing the State is its owner, the
ruler. This is why his personal control will remove the
possibility of leakages of extravagances.
19. The representative function
of the ruler at receptions for the sake of etiquette, which
absorbs so much invaluable time, will be abolished in order
that the ruler may have time for control and consideration. His
power will not then be split up into fractional parts among
time-serving favorites who surround the throne for its pomp and
splendor, and are interested only in their own and not in the
common interests of the State.
20. Economic crises have been
producer by us for the GOYIM by no other means than the
withdrawal of money from circulation. Huge capitals have
stagnated, withdrawing money from States, which were constantly
obliged to apply to those same stagnant capitals for loans.
These loans burdened the finances of the State with the payment
of interest and made them the bond slaves of these capitals
.... The concentration of industry in the hands of capitalists
out of the hands of small masters has drained away all the
juices of the peoples and with them also the States ....
(Now we know the purpose of the Federal Reserve
Bank Corporation!!).
21. The present issue of money
in general does not correspond with the requirements per head,
and cannot therefore satisfy all the needs of the workers. The
issue of money ought to correspond with the growth of
population and thereby children also must absolutely be
reckoned as consumers of currency from the day of their birth.
The revision of issue is a material question for the whole
world.
22. YOU ARE AWARE THAT THE GOLD
STANDARD HAS BEEN THE RUIN OF THE STATES WHICH ADOPTED IT, FOR
IT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO SATISFY THE DEMANDS FOR MONEY, THE MORE
SO THAT WE HAVE REMOVED GOLD FROM CIRCULATION AS FAR AS
POSSIBLE.
GENTILE STATES
BANKRUPT
23. With us the standard that
must be introduced is the cost of working-man power, whether it
be reckoned in paper or in wood. We shall make the issue of
money in accordance with the normal requirements of each
subject, adding to the quantity with every birth and
subtracting with every death.
24. The accounts will be
managed by each department (the French administrative
division), each circle.
25. In order that there may be
no delays in the paying our of money for State needs the sums
and terms of such payments will be fixed by decree of the
ruler; this will do away with the protection by a ministry of
one institution to the detriment of others.
26. The budgets of income and
expenditure will be carried out side by side that they may not
be obscured by distance one to another.
27. The reforms projected by us
in the financial institutions and principles of the
GOYIM will be clothed by us in such forms as will alarm
nobody. We shall point out the necessity of reforms in
consequence of the disorderly darkness into which the
GOYIM by their irregularities have plunged the finances.
The first irregularity, as we shall point out, consists in
their beginning with drawing up a single budget which year
after year grows owing to the following cause: this budget is
dragged out to half the year, then they demand a budget to put
things right, and this they expend in three months, after which
they ask for a supplementary budget, and all this ends with a
liquidation budget. But, as the budget of the following year is
drawn up in accordance with the sum of the total addition, the
annual departure from the normal reaches as much as 50 per cent
in a year, and so the annual budget is trebled in ten years.
Thanks to such methods, allowed by the carelessness of the
GOY States, their treasuries are empty. The period of
loans supervenes, and that has swallowed up remainders and
brought all the GOY States to bankruptcy. (The United
States was declared "bankrupt" at the
Geneva Convention of 1929! [see 31 USC 5112,
5118, and 5119).
28. You understand perfectly
that economic arrangements of this kind, which have been
suggested to the GOYIM by us, cannot be carried on by
us.
29. Every kind of loan proves
infirmity in the State and a want of understanding of the
rights of the State. Loans hang like a sword of Damocles over
the heads of rulers, who, instead of taking from their subjects
by a temporary tax, come begging with outstretched palm of our
bankers. Foreign loans are leeches which there is no
possibility of removing from the body of the State until they
fall off of themselves or the State flings them off. But the
GOY States do not tear them off; they go on in
persisting in putting more on to themselves so that they must
inevitably perish, drained by voluntary
blood-letting.
TYRANNY OF
USURY
30. What also indeed is, in
substance, a loan, especially a foreign loan? A loan is - an
issue of government bills of exchange containing a percentage
obligation commensurate to the sum of the loan capital. If the
loan bears a charge of 5 per cent, then in twenty years the
State vainly pays away in interest a sum equal to the loan
borrowed, in forty years it is paying a double sum, in sixty -
treble, and all the while the debt remains an unpaid
debt.
31. From this calculation it is
obvious that with any form of taxation per head the State is
baling out the last coppers of the poor taxpayers in order to
settle accounts with wealth foreigners, from whom it has
borrowed money instead of collecting these coppers for its own
needs without the additional interest.
32. So long as loans were
internal the GOYIM only shuffled their money from the
pockets of the poor to those of the rich, but when we bought up
the necessary person in order to transfer loans into the
external sphere, all the wealth of States flowed into our cash-
boxes and all the GOYIM began to pay us the tribute of
subjects.
33. If the superficiality of
GOY kings on their thrones in regard to State affairs
and the venality of ministers or the want of understanding of
financial matters on the part of other ruling persons have made
their countries debtors to our treasuries to amounts quite
impossible to pay it has not been accomplished without, on our
part, heavy expenditure of trouble and money.
34. Stagnation of money will
not be allowed by us and therefore there will be no State
interest-bearing paper, except a one per- cent series, so that
there will be no payment of interest to leeches that suck all
the strength out of the State. The right to issue
interest-bearing paper will be given exclusively to industrial
companies who will find no difficulty in paying interest out of
profits, whereas the State does not make interest on borrowed
money like these companies, for the State borrows to spend and
not to use in operations. (Now we know why
President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963
when he refused to borrow any more of the "Bank
Notes" from the bankers of the Federal
Reserve Bank and began circulating non-interest
bearing "Notes" of the "United
States of America"!!!).
35. Industrial papers will be
bought also by the government which from being as now a paper
of tribute by loan operations will be transformed into a lender
of money at a profit. This measure will stop the stagnation of
money, parasitic profits and idleness, all of which were useful
for us among the GOYIM so long as they were independent
but are not desirable under our rule.
36. How clear is the
undeveloped power of thought of the purely brute brains of the
GOYIM, as expressed in the fact that they have been
borrowing from us with payment of interest without ever
thinking that all the same these very moneys plus an addition
for payment of interest must be got by them from their own
State pockets in order to settle up with us. What could have
been simpler than to take the money they wanted from their own
people?
37. But it is a proof of the
genius of our chosen mind that we have contrived to present the
matter of loans to them in such a light that they have even
seen in them an advantage for themselves.
38. Our accounts, which we
shall present when the time comes, in the light of centuries of
experience gained by experiments made by us on the GOY
States, will be distinguished by clearness and definiteness
and will show at a glance to all men the advantage of our
innovations. They will put an end to those abuses to which we
owe our mastery over the GOYIM, but which cannot be
allowed in our kingdom.
39. We shall so hedge about our
system of accounting that neither the ruler nor the most
insignificant public servant will be in a position to divert
even the smallest sum from its destination without detection or
to direct it in another direction except that which will be
once fixed in a definite plan of action. (Is this why a
"private corporation," known as the
"Internal Revenue Service," is in charge
of collecting the "payments" of the
"Income Taxes" and the
IRS always deposits those
"payments" to the Federal
Reserve bank and never to the Treasury of
the United States??).
40. And without a definite plan
it is impossible to rule. Marching along an undetermined road
and with undetermined resources brings to ruin by the way
heroes and demi-gods.
41. The GOY rulers, whom
we once upon a time advised should be distracted from State
occupations by representative receptions, observances of
etiquette, entertainments, were only screens for our rule. The
accounts of favorite courtiers who replaced them in the sphere
of affairs were drawn up for them by our agents, and every time
gave satisfaction to short-sighted minds by promises that in
the future economics and improvements were foreseen ....
Economics from what? From new taxes? - were questions that
might have been but were not asked by those who read our
accounts and projects.
42. You know to what they have
been brought by this carelessness, to what pitch of financial
disorder they have arrived, notwithstanding the astonishing
industry of their peoples ....
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1. To what I reported to you at
the last meeting I shall now add a detailed explanation of
internal loans. Of foreign loans I shall say nothing more,
because they have fed us with national moneys of the
GOYIM, but for our State there will be no foreigners,
that is, nothing external.
2. We have taken advantage of
the venality of administrators and slackness of rulers to get
our moneys twice, thrice and more times over, by lending to the
GOY governments moneys which were not at all needed by
the States. Could anyone do the like in regard to us? ....
Therefore, I shall only deal with the details of internal
loans.
3. States announce that such a
loan is to be concluded and open subscriptions for their own
bills of exchange, that is, for their interest-bearing paper.
That they may be within the reach of all the price is
determined at from a hundred to a thousand; and a discount is
made for the earliest subscribers. Next day by artificial means
the price of them goes up, the alleged reason being that
everyone is rushing to buy them. In a few days the treasury
safes are as they say overflowing and there's more money than
they can do with (why then take it?). The subscription,
it is alleged, covers many times over the issue total of the
loan; in this lies the whole stage effect - look you, they say,
what confidence is shown in the government's bills of
exchange.
4. But when the comedy is
played out there emerges the fact that a debit and an
exceedingly burdensome debit has been created. For the payment
of interest it becomes necessary to have recourse to new loans,
which do not swallow up but only add to the capital debt. And
when this credit is exhausted it becomes necessary by new taxes
to cover, not the loan, BUT ONLY THE INTEREST ON IT.
These taxes are a debit employed to cover a debit ....
(NOW WE NOW OF THE PURPOSE OF THE BULLSHIT CRY FOR
BALANCING THE BUDGET!!)
5. Later comes the time for
conversions, but they diminish the payment of interest without
covering the debt, and besides they cannot be made without the
consent of the lenders; on announcing a conversion a proposal
is made to return the money to those who are not willing to
convert their paper. If everybody expressed his unwillingness
and demanded his money back, the government would be hooked on
their own files and would be found insolvent and unable to pay
the proposed sums. By good luck the subjects of the GOY
governments, knowing nothing about financial affairs, have
always preferred losses on exchange and diminution of interest
to the risk of new investments of their moneys, and have
thereby many a time enabled these governments to throw off
their shoulders a debit of several millions.
6. Nowadays, with external
loans, these tricks cannot be played by the GOYIM for
they know that we shall demand all our moneys back.
7. In this way in acknowledged
bankruptcy will best prove to the various countries the absence
of any means between the interest of the peoples and of those
who rule them.
8. I beg you to concentrate
your particular attention upon this point and upon the
following: nowadays all internal loans are consolidated by
so-called flying loans, that is, such as have terms of payment
more or less near. These debts consist of moneys paid into the
savings banks and reserve funds. If left for long at the
disposition of a government these funds evaporate in the
payment of interest on foreign loans, and are placed by the
deposit of equivalent amount of RENTS.
9. And these last it is which
patch up all the leaks in the State treasuries of the
GOYIM.
10. When we ascend the throne
of the world all these financial and similar shifts, as being
not in accord with our interests, will be swept away so as not
to leave a trace, as also will be destroyed all money markets,
since we shall not allow the prestige of our power to be shaken
by fluctuations of prices set upon our values, which we shall
announce by law at the price which represents their full worth
without any possibility of lowering or raising. (Raising
gives the pretext for lowering, which indeed was where we made
a beginning in relation to the values of the
GOYIM.)
11. We shall replace the money
markets by grandiose government credit institutions, the object
of which will be to fix the price of industrial values in
accordance with government views. These institutions will be in
a position to fling upon the market five hundred millions of
industrial paper in one day, or to buy up for the same amount.
In this way all industrial undertakings will come into
dependence upon us. You may imagine for yourselves what immense
power we shall thereby secure for ourselves ....
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1 In all that has so far been
reported by me to you, I have endeavored to depict with care
the secret of what is coming, of what is past, and of what is
going on now, rushing into the flood of the great events coming
already in the near future, the secret of our relations to the
GOYIM and of financial operations. On this subject there
remains still a little for me to add.
2. IN OUR HANDS IS THE GREATEST
POWER OF OUR DAY - GOLD: IN TWO DAYS WE CAN PROCURE FROM OUR
STOREHOUSES ANY QUANTITY WE MAY PLEASE.
3. Surely there is no need to
seek further proof that our rule is predestined by God? Surely
we shall not fail with such wealth to prove that all that evil
which for so many centuries we have had to commit has served at
the end of ends the cause of true well- being - the bringing of
everything into order? Though it be even by the exercise of
some violence, yet all the same it will be established. We
shall contrive to prove that we are benefactors who have
restored to the rent and mangled earth the true good and also
freedom of the person, and therewith we shall enable it to be
enjoyed in peace and quiet, with proper dignity of relations,
on the condition, of course, of strict observance of the laws
established by us. We shall make plain therewith that freedom
does not consist in dissipation and in the right of unbridled
license any more than the dignity and force of a man do not
consist in the right of everyone to promulgate destructive
principles in the nature of freedom of conscience, equality and
a like, that freedom of the person in no wise consists in the
right to agitate oneself and others by abominable speeches
before disorderly mobs, and that true freedom consists in the
inviolability of the person who honorably and strictly observes
all the laws of life in common, that human dignity is wrapped
up in consciousness of the rights and also of the absence of
rights of each, and not wholly and solely in fantastic
imaginings about the subject of one's EGO.
4. One authority will be
glorious because it will be all-powerful, will rule and guide,
and not muddle along after leaders and orators shrieking
themselves hoarse with senseless words which they call great
principles and which are noting else, to speak honestly, but
utopian .... Our authority will be the crown of order, and in
that is included the whole happiness of man. The aureole of
this authority will inspire a mystical bowing of the knee
before it and a reverent fear before it of all the peoples.
True force makes no terms with any right, not even with that of
God: none dare come near to it so as to take so much as a span
from it away.
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1. That the peoples may become
accustomed to obedience it is necessary to inculcate lessons of
humility and therefore to reduce the production of articles of
luxury. By this we shall improve morals which have been debased
by emulation in the sphere of luxury. We shall re-establish
small master production which will mean laying a mine under the
private capital of manufactures. This is indispensable also for
the reason that manufacturers on the grand scale often move,
though not always consciously, the thoughts of the masses in
directions against the government. A people of small masters
knows nothing of unemployment and this binds him closely with
existing order, and consequently with the firmness of
authority. For us its part will have ben played out the moment
authority is transferred into our hands. Drunkenness also will
be prohibited by law and punishable as a crime against
humanness of man who is turned into a brute under the influence
of alcohol.
2. Subjects, I repeat once
more, give blind obedience only to the strong hand which is
absolutely independent of them, for in it they feel the sword
of defense and support against social scourges .... What do
they want with an angelic spirit in a king? What they have to
see in him is the personification of force and
power.
3. The supreme lord who will
replace all now existing ruler, dragging in their existence
among societies demoralized by us, societies that have denied
even the authority of God, from whose midst breads out on all
sides the fire of anarchy, must first of all proceed to quench
this all-devouring flame. Therefore he will be obliged to kill
off those existing societies, though he should drench them with
his own blood, that he may resurrect them again in the form of
regularly organized troops fighting consciously with every kind
of infection that may cover the body of the State with
sores.
4. This Chosen One of
God is chosen from above to demolish the senseless
forces moved by instinct and not reason, by brutishness and
humanness. These forces now triumph in manifestations of
robbery and every kind of violence under the mask of principles
of freedom and every kind of violence under the mask of
principles of freedom and rights. They have overthrown all
forms of social order to erect on the ruins of the throne of
the King of the Jews; but their part will be played out
the moment he enters into his kingdom. Then it will be
necessary to sweep them away from his path, on which must be
left no knot, no splinter.
5. Then will it be possible for
us to say to the peoples of the world: Give thanks to God and
bow the knee before him who bears on his front the seal of the
predestination of man, to which God himself has led his star
that none other but Him might free us from all the
before-mentioned forces and evils.
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1. I pass now to the method of
confirming the dynastic roots of King David to the last
strata of the earth.
2. This confirmation will first
and foremost be included in that which to this day has rested
the force of conservatism by our learned elders of the conduct
of the affairs of the world, in the directing of the education
of thought of all humanity.
3. Certain members of the seed
of David will prepare the kings and their heirs,
selecting not by right of heritage but by eminent capacities,
inducting them into the most secret mysteries of the political,
into schemes of government, but providing always that none may
come to knowledge of the secrets. The object of this mode of
action is that all may know that government cannot be entrusted
to those who have not been inducted into the secret places of
its art ....
4. To these persons only will
be taught the practical application of the aforenamed plans by
comparison of the experiences of many centuries, all the
observations on the politico-economic moves and social sciences
- in a word, all the spirit of laws which have been unshakably
established by nature herself for the regulation of the
relations of humanity.
5. Direct heirs will often be
set aside from ascending the throne if in their time of
training they exhibit frivolity, softness and other qualities
that are the ruin of authority, which render them incapable of
governing and in themselves dangerous for kingly
office.
6. Only those who are
unconditionally capable for firm, even if it be to cruelty,
direct rule will receive the reins of rule from our learned
elders.
7. In case of falling sick with
weakness of will or other form of incapacity. kings must by law
hand over the reins of rule to new and capable
hands.
8. The king's plan of action
for the current moment, and all the more so for the future,
will be unknown, even to those who are called his closest
counselors.
KING OF THE
JEWS
9. Only the king and the three
who stood sponsor for him will know what is coming.
10. In the person of the king
who with unbending will is master of himself and of humanity
all will discern as it were fate with its mysterious ways. None
will know what the king wishes to attain by his dispositions,
and therefore none will dare to stand across an unknown
path.
11. It is understood that the
brain reservoir of the king must correspond in capacity to the
plan of government it has to contain. It is for this reason
that he will ascend the throne not otherwise than after
examination of his mind by the aforesaid learned
elders.
12. That the people may know
and love their king, it is indispensable for him to converse in
the market-places with his people. This ensures the necessary
clinching of the two forces which are now divided one from
another by us by the terror.
13. This terror was
indispensable for us till the time comes for both these forces
separately to fall under our influence.
14. The king of the Jews
must not be at the mercy of his passions, and especially of
sensuality: on no side of his character must he give brute
instincts power over his mind. Sensuality worse than all else
disorganizes the capacities of the mind and clearness of views,
distracting the thoughts to the worst and most brutal side of
human activity.
15. The prop of humanity in the
person of the supreme lord of all the world of the holy seed of
David must sacrifice to his people all personal
inclinations.
16. Our supreme lord must be of
an exemplary irreproachable.