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