"The
Britons" translation of the complete text of the notorious Nilus
"Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion."
Protocol
No. 1
Right
lies in Might. Freedom—an idea
only. Liberalism. Gold.
Faith. Self-Government. Despotism of Capital. The internal foe. The Mob. Anarchy. Politics VERSES Jew-Masonic authority. End justifies Means. The Mob a Blind Man. Political A.B.C. Party Discord. Most
satisfactory form of rule—Despotism.
Alcohol. Classicism. Corruption.
Principles and rules of the Jew-Masonic Government. Terror.
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity." Principles of Dynastic Rule.
Annihilation of the privileges of Goy-Aristocracy (i.e., non-Jew). Abstractness of "Liberty." Power of Removal of representatives of the
people.
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...
Putting aside fine phrases we shall speak of the significance of each
thought: by comparisons and deductions
we shall throw light upon surrounding facts.
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).
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
terrorization,
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.
What
has restrained the beasts of prey who are called men? What has served for their guidance hitherto?
In the
beginnings of the structure of society they were subjected to brutal and blind
force; afterwards—to Law, which is the same force, only disguised. I draw the conclusion that by the law of
nature right lies in force.
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 if 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 author merely fits into the place of the old already
weakened by liberalism.
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.
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
irretrievably 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.
Should
anyone of a liberal mind say that such reactions 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 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?
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, customs,
traditions and sentimental theorism, 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.
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.
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 might have a proof that I am stronger than
you.
Where
does right begin? Where does it
end?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 unreasoning 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.
Only
one trained from childhood for independent rule can have understanding of the
words that can be made up of the political alphabet.
A
people left to itself, i.e., to upstarts from its midst, brings itself to ruin
by party dissension's excited by the pursuit of power and honors and disorders
arising therefrom. Is it possible for
the masses of the people calmly and without petty jealousies to form judgments,
to deal with the affairs of the country, which cannot be mixed up with personal
interests? Can they defend themselves
from an eternal 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.
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 a 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.
Behold
the alcoholized 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.
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.
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 program 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 merciless for all
disobedience to cease.
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 those days by stupid poll-parrots who from all sides round 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 abstractness; did not note the contradiction of their meaning and
inter-relation: 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 immutable 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 these 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.
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 goy 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 natural
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.
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
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.
It is
this possibility of replacing the representatives of the people which has
placed them at our disposal, and, as it were, given us the power of
appointment.
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PROTOCOL NO. 2
Economic
Wars—the foundation of the Jewish predominance. Figure-head government and "secret advisors." Success of destructive doctrines. Adaptability in politics. Part played by the Press. Cost of gold and value of Jewish sacrifice.
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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.
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
knowledge and without any logical verification of it 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.
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.
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.
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 out 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 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
The
Symbolic Snake and its significance.
The instability of the constitutional scales. Terror in the palaces.
Power and ambition. Parliaments
"talkeries," pamphlets. Abuse
of power. Economic slavery. "People's Rights." Monopolist system and the aristocracy. The Army of Mason-Jewry. Decrescence of the GOYIM. Hunger and rights of capital. The mob and the coronation of "The
Sovereign Lord of all the World."
The fundamental precept in the program of the future Masonic national
schools. The secret of the science of
the structure of society. Universal
economic crisis. Security of
"ours" (i.e., our people, Jews).
The despotism of Masonry—the kingdom of reason. Loss of the guide. Masonry and the French Revolution. The King-Despot of the blood of Zion. Causes of the invisibility of Masonry. Part played by secret masonic agents. Freedom.
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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 symbolise our people.
When this ring closes, all the States of Europe will be locked in its
coil as in a powerful vice.
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 farseeing 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.
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 host of confused
issues contend....A little more, and disorders and bankruptcy will be universal....
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.
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
"People's 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 right 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 on 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.
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.
We
appear on the scene as alleged saviors 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 rapport 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.
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 on our way.
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
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 all 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 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.
This
hatred will be still further magnified by the effects of an ECONOMIC CRISIS,
which will stop dealings 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 CRISIS 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.
"OURS"
THEY WILL NOT TOUCH, BECAUSE THE MOMENT OF ATTACK WILL BE KNOWN TO US AND WE
SHALL TAKE MEASURES TO PROTECT OUR OWN.
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.
When
the populace has seen that all sorts of concessions and indulgences are yielded
it in the 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.
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 favour of that
KING-DESPOT OF THE BLOOD OF ZION, WHOM WE ARE PREPARING FOR THE WORLD.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
These
beasts, it is true, fall asleep again every time when they have drunk their
fill of blood, and at such times 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
Stages
of a Republic. Gentile Masonry. Freedom and Faith. International Industrial Competition. Role of Speculation. Cult
of Gold.
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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 expending its resources on the
rewarding of long services.
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, both the plan of action of our force, even its
very abiding-place, remains for the whole people an unknown mystery.
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 MINDS OF THE GOYIM THE VERY PRINCIPLE OF GODHEAD
AND THE SPIRIT, AND TO PUT IN ITS PLACE ARITHMETICAL CALCULATIONS AND MATERIAL
NEEDS.
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.
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
Creation
of an intensified centralization of government. Methods of seizing power by masonry. Causes of the impossibility of agreement between States. The state of "predestination" of
the Jews. Gold—the engine of the
machinery of States. Significance of
personal initiative. The
Super-Government.
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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 looseness reigns: where morality is maintained by penal
measures and harsh laws but not by voluntary accepted principles: where the feelings towards faith and country
are obliterated 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.
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 it is.
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.
Moreover,
the art of directing masses and individuals by means of cleverly manipulated
theory and verbiage, 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.
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.
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 yet 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.
Capital,
if it is to co-operate untrammelled, 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 catch up and interpret the ideas of others to suit
ourselves than to eradicate them. THE
PRINCIPAL 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 ELOQUENCE.
In all
ages the peoples 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.
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.
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.
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 action 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. 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
Monopolities;
upon them depend the fortunes of the goyim.
Taking of the land out of hands of the aristocracy. Trade, Industry and Speculation. Luxury.
Rise of wages and increase of price in the articles of primary
necessity. Anarchism and
drunkenness. Secret meaning of the of
the propaganda of economic theories.
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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....
You
gentlemen here present who are economists, just strike an estimate of the
significance of this combination!
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.
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 unconditional submission.
The
aristocrats of the goyim, being hereditarily incapable of contenting themselves
with little, will rapidly burn up and fizzle out.
At the
same time we must intensively patronise 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 labour 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.
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, 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.
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 DRIVE 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
Object
of the intensification of armaments.
Ferments, discords and hostility all over the world. Checking the opposition of the goyim by wars
and by a universal war. Secrecy means
success in the political. The Press and
public opinion. The guns of America,
China and Japan.
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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.
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 well 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 politics, 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
compliancy. In this way the peoples and
governments of the goyim, whom we have taught to look only at the outside of
whatever we present to their notice, will still continue to accept us as the
benefactors and saviors of the human race.
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.
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.
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 prompted 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.
In a
word, to sum up our system of keeping the governments of the goyim in Europe in
check, we shall show our strength to one of them by terrorist attempts and to
all, if we allow the possibility of a general rising against us, we shall
respond with the guns of America or China or Japan.
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PROTOCOL NO. 8
Ambiguous
employment of juridical right.
Assistants of the Masonic directorate.
Special school and super-educational training. Economists and millionaires.
To whom to entrust responsible post in the government.
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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
civilisation 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. These persons will have cognisance 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, shortcomings, 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.
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. For a time, until
there will no longer be any risk in entrusting responsible posts in our States
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 interest to their last
gasp.
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PROTOCOL NO. 9
Application
of masonic principles in the matter of educating the peoples. Masonic watchword. Meaning of Anti-Semitism.
Dictatorship of masonry. Terror. Who are the servants of masonry. Meaning of the "clear-sighted" and
the "blind" forces of the "goyim" states. Communion between authority and mob. License of liberalism. Seizure of education and training. False theories. Interpretation of laws.
The "undergrounds" (metropolitains).
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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.
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.
For us
there are no 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.
IT IS
FROM US THAT 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.
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.
We
might have reason to apprehend a union between the "clearsighted"
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.
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 questions of the political in such wise as may turn
them in the direction that suits us.
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.
In
order not 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 CORNER-STONES OF A FREE
EXISTENCE.
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 BY US
THAT THEY HAVE BEEN INCULCATED.
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 first in the fact that the INTERPRETATIONS MASKED THE
LAWS: 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.
This is
the origin of the theory of course of arbitration.
You may
say 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 maneuver of such
appalling terror that the very stoutest hearts quail—the undergrounds,
metropolitains, 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
The
outside appearances in the political.
The "genius" of rascality.
What is promised by a Masonic "coup d'etat"? Universal suffrage. Self-importance. Leaders of Masonry.
Institutions and their functions.
The poison of liberalism.
Constitution—a school of party discords. Era of republics.
Presidents—the puppets of Masonry.
Responsibility of Presidents.
"Panama" Part played by chamber of deputies and
president. Masonry—the legislative
force. New republican
constitution. Transition to masonic
"despotism." Moment for the
proclamation of "The Lord of all the World." Inoculation of diseases and other wiles of
Masonry.
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To-day
I begin with repetition of what I said before, and I BEG YOU TO BEAR IN MIND
THAT GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLES 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, freedom of speech, of the
press, of religion (faith), of the law of association, of equality before the
law, of the inviolability 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.
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!" ...
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.
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 SUFFERINGS.
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.
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.
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 an 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.
These
schemes will not turn existing institutions upside down just yet. They will only affect 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.
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.
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.
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 "TALKERIES"
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 BECAME 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, OUR SLAVES. This was the
foundation of the mine which we have laid under the goy people, I should rather
say, under the goy peoples.
In the
near future we shall establish the responsibility of presidents.
By that
time we shall be in a position to disregard forms in carrying through matters
for which our personal 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?
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 privileges,
advantages and honor connected with the office of president. The chamber of deputies will provide cover
for, will protect, will elect the president, 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 president
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 representitives,
that is to say, an appeal to that same 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.
It is
easy to understand that in these conditions the key of the shrine will lie in
our hands, and no one outside of ourselves will any longer direct the force of
legislation.
Besides
this we shall, with the introduction of the new republican constitution, take
from the Chamber the right of interpellation 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
Parliament 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, fall upon the responsibility established by us 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 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 other being the requirements for the supreme welfare
of the State.
By such
measures 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.
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 discords—frontiers, nationalities,
religions, State debts—who will give us peace and quiet, which we cannot find
under our rulers and representatives."
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.
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
Program
of the new constitution. Certain
details of the proposed revolution. The
goyim—a pack of sheep. Secret masonry
and its "show" lodges.
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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.
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.
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 that
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 in a sense of further indulgences it will be said
that we have recognized our own wrongdoing 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
recognise once for all that we are so strong, so inexpugnable, so
superabundantly 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.
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?
...
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....
It is
not worth while to say anything about how long a time they will be kept waiting
for this return of their liberties....
For
what purpose then have we invented this whole policy and insinuated it into the
minds of the goys 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 organisation 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.
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.
There
now remains not much more for us to build up upon the foundation we have
laid.
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PROTOCOL NO. 12
Masonic
interpretation of the word "freedom." Future of the press in the masonic kingdom. Control of the press. Correspondence agencies. What is progress as understood by
masonry? More about the press. Masonic solidarity in the press of to-day. The arousing of "public" demands
in the provinces. Infallibility of the
new regime.
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The
word "freedom," which can be interpreted in various ways, is defined
by us as follows:—
Freedom
is the right to do that 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.
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
lay 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.
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.
If
already now we have contrived to possess ourselves of the minds of the goy communities
to such an extent that 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 position be then, when we shall be acknowledged supreme lords of the
world in the person of our king of all the world....
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 therefor, which,
in case of any fault, will be immediately impounded. With such measures THE INSTRUMENT OF THOUGHT WILL BECOME AN
EDUCATIVE MEANS IN 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 is hunting
after phantoms of freedom, and falling exclusively into license, that is, into
the anarchy of protest for the sake of protest....
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.
Before accepting any production for publication 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.
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 nowise 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 our quite unsuspicious opponents, who will thus
fall into our trap and be rendered harmless.
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.
In the
second rank will be the semi-official organs, whose part it will be to attract
the tepid and indifferent.
In the
third rank we shall set up our own, to all appearance, opposition, 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.
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.
In
order to direct our newspaper militia in this sense we must take especial 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 and controverting, 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.
THESE
ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO SERVE ANOTHER PURPOSE, NAMELY, THAT OUR SUBJECTS WILL
BE CONVINCED OF 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.
Methods
of organization like these, imperceptible to the public eye but absolutely
true, 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.
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.
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 to 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 attracts the majority
of the country—the mob follows after him with enthusiasm.
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 OF POWER, THE CAPITALS SHOULD FIND
THEMSELVES STIFLED BY THE PROVINCIAL OPINION OF THE NATION, 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.
WHEN WE
ARE IN THE PERIOD OF THE NEW REGIME TRANSITIONAL TO THAT OF OUR ASSUMPTION OF
FULL SOVEREIGNTY. WE MUST NOT ADMIT ANY
REVELATIONS BY THE PRESS OF ANY FORM OF PUBLIC DISHONESTY; IT IS NECESSARY THAT
THE NEW REGIME SHOULD BE THOUGHT TO HAVE SO PERFECTLY CONTENTED 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
The
need for daily bread. Questions of the
Political. Questions of industry. Amusements.
People's Palaces. "Truth is
One." The great problems.
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The
need for daily bread forces the goyim to keep silence and be our humble
servants. Agents taken on to our press
from among the goyim will at our order 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.
From
all this you will see that in securing 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 hope,
joined to the conviction, that are we serving the common weal.
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 activity (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 OF 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 disaccustomed 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.
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, for truth
is one and in it there is no place for progress. Progress, like a fallacious idea serves to obscure truth so that
none may know it except us the Chosen of God, its guardians.
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.
Who
will ever suspect then that ALL THESE PEOPLE 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
The
religion of the future. Future
conditions of serfdom. Inaccessibility
of knowledge regarding the religion of the future. Pornography and the printed matter of the future.
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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 atheist 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 blessings
of tranquility though it be a tranquility forcibly brought about by centuries
of agitation will throw into higher relief the benefits to which we shall
point. The errors of the goyim
government will be depicted by us in the most vivid hues. We shall implant such an abhorrence of them
that the peoples will prefer tranquility 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.
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....
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.
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.
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
One-day
"coup d'etat" (revolution) over all the world. Executions.
Future lot of GOYIM-masons.
Mysticism of authority.
Multiplication of masonic lodges.
Central governing board of masonic elders. The "Azev-tactics."
Masonry as leader and guide of all secret societies. Significance of public applause. Collectivism. Victims. Executions of
masons. Fall of the prestige of laws
and authority. Our position as the
Chosen people. Brevity and clarity of
the laws of the kingdom of the future.
Obedience to orders. Measures
against abuse of authority. Severity of
penalties. Age-limit for judges. Liberalism of judges and authorities. The money of all the world. Absolutism of masonry. Right of appeal. Patriarchal "outside appearance" of the power of the
future "ruler." Apotheosis of
the ruler. The right of the strong as
one and only right. The King of
Israel. Patriarch of all the world.
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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 the worthlessness of all existing
forms of government has been 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 centre of our rule.
Resolutions
of our government will be final, without appeal.
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 the eyes of the people,
though they had been torn in pieces by 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.
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 in 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 competition will be
made up of all strata of society. The
most secret political plot will be known to us and will 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 insubordinite, but also to screen our activities and provide pretexts
for discontents, ET CETERA.
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 it 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....
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 high
conceit of themselves to which it gives birth, for that insensibly disposes
them to assimilate 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....
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.
And how
far-seeing were our learned elders in ancient times when they said that to
attain a serious end it behoves 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.
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 goyim we at the same time keep our own people and our agents
in a state of unquestioning submission.
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.
In this
difference in capacity for thought between the goyim and ourselves may be
clearly discerned the seal of our position on 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.
When comes the time of our overt rule, the time to manifest its
blessings, we shall remake all legislatures, all our laws will be brief, plain,
stable, without any kind of interpretations, so that anyone will he 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.
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
EXAMPLE: 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 JUDGE.... Such qualities it is
proper to show in private life, but not in a public square which is the
educationary basis of human life.
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 second 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 educationary 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.
In
these days the judges of the goyim create indulgences to every kind of crime,
not having a just understanding of their office, because the rulers of the
present age in appointing judges to office tale 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 their subjects places of profit without
thinking to make clear 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.
Let us
borrow from the example of the results these actions yet another lesson for our
government.
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. Our absolutism will in all things be
logically consecutive and therefore in each one of its decrees our supreme will
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.
We
shall abolish the right of cassation, 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 borne 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.
OUR
GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE THE APPEARANCE OF A PATRIARCHAL PATERNAL GUARDIANSHIP ON THE
PART OF OUR RULER. Our own nation and
our own 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 his
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 their 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 their governments.
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.
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.
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.
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 all over the
world.
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PROTOCOL NO. 16
Emasculation
of the universities. Substitute for
classicism. Training and calling. Advertisement of the authority of "the
ruler" in the schools. Abolition
of freedom of instruction. New
Theories. Independence of thought. Teaching by object lessons.
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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.
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 dozens 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
MILKSOPS 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.
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.
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.
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 THOSE 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.
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 his meaning and his acts
and all his beneficent initiatives.
We
shall abolish every kind of freedom of instruction. Learners of all ages will 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 limitations which are born of
unconscious relations, and, finally, 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 transitional 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.
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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PROTOCOL NO. 17
Advocacy. Influence of the priesthood of the
GOYIM. Freedom of conscience. Papal Court. King of the Jews as Patriarch-Pope. How to fight the existing Church. Function of contemporary press.
Organization of police.
Volunteer police. Espionage on
the pattern of the KABAL espionage.
Abuses of authority.
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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
litigants; they will receive business only from the court and will study it by
notes off 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 advocates to agree only to let that
side win which pays most...
WE HAVE
LONG PAST TAKEN CARE TO DISCREDIT THE PRIESTHOOD OF THE 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 set clericalism and clericals into such narrow frames as
to make their influence move in retrogressive proportion to its former
progress.
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.
THE
KING OF THE JEWS WILL BE THE REAL POPE OF THE UNIVERSE, THE PATRIARCH OF AN
INTERNATIONAL CHURCH.
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...
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 practised by the genius of our gifted tribe...
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 program 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 no development of abuses of this right.
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, etcetera. 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.
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.
Such an
organization will extirpate abuses of authority, of force, of bribery,
everything in fact which we by our counsels, by our 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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PROTOCOL NO. 18
Measures
of secret defense. Observation of
conspiracies from the inside. Overt
secret defense—the ruin of authority.
Secret defense of the King of the Jews.
Mystical prestige of authority.
Arrest on the first suspicion.
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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 perquisitions and surveillance on the part of our
servants from among the number of the GOYIM POLICE...
As the
majority of the conspirators act out 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 SECRET DEFENSE AND THEREBY WE
SHALL BRING THE PROMISE OF AUTHORITY TO DESTRUCTION.
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.
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.
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...
OVERT
DEFENSE OF THE KING ARGUES WEAKNESS IN THE ORGANIZATION OF HIS STRENGTH.
Our
ruler will always among the people 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 its existence that the people may be able to say: "If the king knew of this," or: "the king will hear of it."
WITH
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICIAL SECRET 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...
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 or 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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PROTOCOL NO. 19
The
right of presenting petitions and projects.
Sedition. Indictment of
political crimes. Advertisement of
political crimes.
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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 rebutment to prove the short-sightedness of one who judges
wrongly.
Sedition-mongering
is nothing more than the yapping of a lap-dog at an elephant. For a government well organised, 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.
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 this category of crime with the disgrace attaching to
every other and will brand it with the same contempt.
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 schoolbooks on history, we have advertised the martyrdom
alleged to have been accepted 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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PROTOCOL NO. 20
FINANCIAL
PROGRAM. Progressive tax. Stamp progressive taxation. Exchequer, interest-bearing papers and stagnation
of currency. Method of accounting. Currency issue. Gold standard. Standard
of cost of working man power.
Budget. State loans. One per cent. interest series. Industrial shares. Rulers of the GOYIM:
courtiers and favoritism, masonic agents.
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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.
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 costs 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.
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.
This
social reform must come from above, for the time is ripe for it—it is
indispensable as a pledge of peace.
The tax
upon the poor man is a seed of revolution and works to the detriment of the
State which in 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.
A tax
increasing in a percentage ratio to capital will give a 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.
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.
Such a
measure will destroy the hatred of the poor man for the rich, in who 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.
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.
He who
reigns will not have any properties of his own once all in the State represents
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.
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 of property; the privilege of royal blood must not serve for
the spoiling of the treasury.
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
pat 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 notification 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 of necessaries, and these will be subject to payment only by a stamp
impost of a definite percentage of the unit.
Just
strike an estimate of how many times such taxes as these will cover the revenue
of the GOYIM STATES.
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 of works
of this kind, proceeding from State sources, will bind the working class family
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
timeserving 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.
Economic
crises have been produced 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...
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 must also 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.
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.
With us
the standard that must be introduced is the cost of workingman 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.
The
accounts will be managed by each department (the French administrative
division), each circle.
In
order that there may be no delays in the paying out 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.
The
budgets of income and expenditures will be carried out side by side that they
may not be obscured by distance one to another.
The
reforms projected by us in the financial institutions and principles of the
goyim will be closed by us in such forms 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.
You
understand perfectly that economic arrangements of this kind, which have been
suggested to the goyim by us, cannot be carried on by us.
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.
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.
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 wealthy foreigners, from whom it has borrowed money instead of
collecting these coppers for its own needs without the additional interest.
So long
as the 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 the States
flowed into our cash-boxes and all the goyim began to pay us the tribute of
subjects.
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.
Stagnation
of money will not be allowed by us and therefore there will be no State
interest-bearing paper, except at 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.
Industrial
papers will be bought also by the government which from being as now a payer 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.
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 for 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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 favourite 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 economies
and improvements were foreseen...
Economies from what? From new
taxes? —were questions that might have been but were not asked by those who
read our accounts and projects...
You
know to what they have been brought by this carelessness, to what a pitch of financial
disorder they have arrived, notwithstanding the astonishing industry of their
peoples...
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PROTOCOL NO. 21
Internal
loans. Debit and taxes. Conversions. Bankruptcy. Savings banks
and rentes. Abolition of money
markets. Regulation of industrial
values.
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To what
I reported to you at the last meeting I shall now add a detailed explanation of
external loans. Of foreign loans I
shall say nothing more, because they have fed us with the national moneys of
the goyim, but for our State there will be no foreigners, that is, nothing
external.
We have
taken advantage of the venality of administrators and the 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.
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.
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...
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 flies 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.
Nowadays,
with external loans, these tricks cannot be played by the goyim for they know
that we shall demand all our moneys back.
In this
way an acknowledged bankruptcy will best prove to the various countries the
absence of any means between the interests of the peoples and those who rule
them.
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
payments 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 replaced by the deposit of equivalent amount of RENTES.
And
these last it is which patch up all the leaks in the State treasuries of the
goyim.
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 will 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.)
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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PROTOCOL NO. 22
The
secret of what is coming. The evil of
many centuries as the foundations of future well-being. The aureole of power and its mystical
worship.
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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.
IN OUR
HANDS IS THE GREATEST POWER OF OUR DAY—GOLD:
IN TWO DAYS WE CAN PRODUCE FROM OUR STOREHOUSES ANY QUANTITY WE MAY
PLEASE.
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
even be 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 dignity and force of a man do not consist in the right for everyone to
promulgate destructive principles in the nature of freedom of conscience,
equality and the 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.
Our
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
nothing 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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PROTOCOL NO. 23
Reduction
of the manufacture of articles of luxury.
Small master production.
Unemployment. Prohibition of
drunkenness. Killing out of the old
society and its resurrection in a new form.
The chosen one of God.
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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
manufacturers. 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. Unemployment is a most perilous thing for a government. For us its part will have been played out the
moment authority is transferred into our hands. Drunkenness also will be prohibited by law and punishable as a
crime against the humanness of man who is turned into a brute under the
influence of alcohol.
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.
The
supreme lord who will replace all now existing rulers, dragging on their
existence among societies demoralized by us, societies that have denied even
the authority of God, from whose midst breaks 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.
This
Chosen One of God is chosen from above to demolish the senseless forces moved
by instinct and not reason, by brutishness and not humanness. These forces now triumph in manifestations
of robbery 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 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.
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 He might free us from
all the before-mentioned forces and evils."
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PROTOCOL NO. 24
Confirming
the roots of King David (?). Training
of the king. Setting aside of direct
heirs. The king and three of his
sponsors. The king is fate. Irreproachability of exterior morality of the
King of the Jews.
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I pass
now to the method of confirming the dynastic roots of King David to the last
strata of the earth.
This
confirmation will first and foremost be included in that in which to this day
has rested the force of conservatism by our learned elders of the conduct of
all the affairs of the world, in the directing of the education of thought of
all humanity.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Only
the king and the three who stood sponsor for him will know what is coming.
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.
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.
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.
This
terror was indispensable for us till the time comes for both these forces
separately to fall under our influence.
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.
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.
Our
supreme lord must be of an exemplary irreproachability.
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CONCLUDING PASSAGE FROM THE EPILOGUE OF NILUS
(Edition
of 1905)
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According
to the testament of Montefiore, Zion is not sparing, either of money or of any
other means, to achieve its ends. In
our day, all the governments of the entire world are consciously or
unconsciously submissive to the commands of this great Supergovernment of Zion,
because all the bonds and securities are in its hands; for all countries are
indebted to the Jews for sums which they will never be able to pay. All affairs—industry, commerce, and
diplomacy—are in the hands of Zion. It
is by means of its capital loans that it has enslaved all nations. By keeping education on purely materialistic
lines, the Jews have loaded the Gentiles with heavy chains with which they have
harnessed them to their "Supergovernment".
The end
of national liberty is near, therefore personal freedom is approaching its
close; for true liberty cannot exist where Zion uses the lever of its gold to
rule the masses and dominate the most respectable and enlightened class of
society.
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"He
that hath ears to hear, let him hear".
It is
nearly four years since the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" came
into my possession. Only God knows what
efforts I have made to bring them to general notice—in vain and even to warn
those in power, by disclosing the causes of the storm about to break on
apathetic Russia who seems, in her misfortune, to have lost all notion of what
is going on around her.
And it
is only now when I fear it may be too late, that I have succeeded in publishing
my work, hoping to put on their guard those who still have ears to hear and
eyes to see.
One can
no longer doubt it, the triumphant reign of the King of Israel rises over our degenerate
world as that of Satan, with his power and his terrors; the King born of the
blood of Zion—the Antichrist—is about to mount the throne of universal
empire.
Events
are precipitated in the world at a terrifying speed: quarrels, wars, rumors, famines, epidemics,
earthquakes—everything which even yesterday was impossible, today is an
accomplished fact. One would think that
the days pass so rapidly to advance the cause of the chosen people. Space does not allow us to enter into the
details of world history with regard to the disclosed "mysteries of
iniquity", to prove from history the influence which the "Wise Men of
Zion" have exercised through universal misfortunes by foretelling the
certain and already near future of humanity, or by raising the curtain for the
last act of the world's tragedy.
Only
the light of Christ and of his Holy Church Universal can fathom the abyss of
Satan and disclose the extent of its wickedness.
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I feel
in my heart that the hour has already struck when there should urgently be
convoked an Eighth Oecumenical Council which would unite the pastor and
representatives of all Christendom.
Secular quarrels and schisms would all be forgotten in the imminent need
of preparing against the coming of the Antichrist.
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