PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION

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                               Protocol No. 1

    Right lies in Might. Freedom - an idea only. Liberalism. Gold. Faith.
  Self-Government. Despotism of Capital. The internal foe. The Mob. Anarchy.
  Politics VERSES Jew-Masonic authority. End justifies Means. The Mob a Blind
       Man. Political A.B.C. Party Discord. Most satisfactory form of
rule-Despotism. Alcohol. Classicism. Corruption. Principles and rules of the
  Jew-Masonic Government. Terror. "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity." Principles
  of Dynastic Rule. Annihilation of the priviledges of Goy-Aristocracy (i.e.,
  non-Jew). Abstractness of "Liberty." Power of Removal of representatives of
                                 the people.

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. . . Putting aside fine phrases we shall speak of the significance of each
thought: by comparisons and deductions we shall throw light upon surrounding
facts.

What I am about to set forth, then, is our system from the two points of
view, that of ourselves and that of the goyim (i.e., non-Jews).

It must be noted that men with bad instincts are more in number than the
good, and therefore the best results in governing them are attained by
violence and 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.

What has restrained the beasts of prey who are called men? What has served
for their guidance hitherto?

In the beginnings of the structure of society they were subjected to brutal
and blind force; afterwards-to Law, which is the same force, only disguised.
I draw the conclusion that by the law of nature right lies in force.

Political freedom is an idea but not a fact. This idea one must know how to
apply whenever it appears necessary with this bait of an idea to attract the
masses of the people to one's party for the purpose of crushing another who
is in authority. This task is rendered easier if the opponent has himself
been infected with the idea of freedom, SO-CALLED LIBERALISM, and, for the
sake of an idea, is willing to yield some of his power. It is precisely here
that the triumph of our theory appears: the slackened reins of government
are immediately, by the law of life, caught up and gathered together by a
new hand, because the blind might of the nation cannot for one single day
exist without guidance, and the new author merely fits into the place of the
old already weakened by liberalism.

In our day the power which has replaced that of the rulers who were liberal
is the power of Gold. Time was when Faith ruled. The idea of freedom is
impossible of realisation 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 disorganised mob.
From that moment on we get internecine strife which soon develops into
battles between classes, in the midst of which States burn down and their
importance is reduced to that of a heap of ashes.

Whether a State exhausts itself in its own convulsions, whether its internal
discord brings it under the power of external foes - in any case it can be
accounted irretrievably lost: IT IS IN OUR POWER. The despotism of Capital,
which is entirely in our hands, reaches out to it a straw that the State,
willy-nilly, must take hold of: if not - it goes to the bottom.

Should anyone of a liberal mind say that such reactions as the above are
immoral I would put the following questions - If every State has two foes
and if in regard to the external foe it is allowed and not considered
immoral to use every manner and art of conflict for example to keep the
enemy in ignorance of plans of attack and defence, to attack him by night or
in superior numbers, then in what way can the same means in regard to a
worse foe the destroyer of the structure of society and the commonweal, be
called immoral and not permissible?

Is it possible for any sound logical mind to hope with any success to guide
crowds by the aid of reasonable counsels and arguments, when any objection
or contradiction, senseless though it may be, can be made and when such
objection may find more favour with the people, whose powers of reasoning
are superficial? Men in masses and the men of the masses, being guided
solely by petty passions, paltry beliefs, customs, traditions and
sentimental theorism, fall a prey to party disension, which hinders any kind
of agreement even on the basis of a perfectly reasonable argument. Every
resolution of a crowd depends upon a chance or packed majority which in its
ignorance of political secrets puts forth some ridiculous resolution that
lays in the administration a seed of anarchy.

The political has nothing in common with the moral. The ruler who is
governed by the moral is not a skilled politician, and is therefore unstable
on his throne. He who wishes to rule must have recourse both to cunning and
to make-believe. Great national qualities, like frankness and honesty are
vices in politics for they bring down rulers from their thrones more
effectively and more certainly than the most powerful enemy. Such qualities
must be the attributes of the kingdoms of the goyim, but we must in no wise
be guided by them.

Our right lies in force. The word "right" is an abstract thought and proved
by nothing. The word means no more than: -Give me what I want in order that
thereby I might have a proof that I am stronger than you.

Where does right begin? Where does it end?

In any State in which there is a bad organisation of authority, an
impersonality of laws and of the rulers who have lost their personality amid
the flood of rights ever multiplying out of liberalism, I find a new right -
to attack by the right of the strong, and to scatter to the winds all
existing forces of order and regulation, to reconstruct all institutions and
to become the sovereign lord of those who have left to us the rights of
their power by laying them down voluntarily in their liberalism.

Our power in the present tottering condition of all forms of power will be
more invincible than any other, because it will remain invisible until the
moment when it has gained such strength that no cunning can any longer
undermine it.

Out of the temporary evil we are now compelled to commit will emerge the
good of an unshakable rule, which will restore the regular course of the
machinery of the national life, brought to naught by liberalism. The result
justifies the means. Let us, however, in our plans, direct our attention not
so much to what is good and moral as to what is necessary and useful.

Before us is a plan in which is laid down strategically the line from which
we cannot deviate without running the risk of seeing the labor of many
centuries brought to naught.

In order to elaborate satisfactory forms of action it is necessary to have
regard to the rascality, the slackness, the instability of the mob, its lack
of capacity to understand and respect the conditions of its own life, or its
own welfare. It must be understood that the might of a mob is blind,
senseless and unreasoning force ever at the mercy of a suggestion from any
side. The blind cannot lead the blind without bringing them into the abyss;
consequently, members of the mob, upstarts from the people even though they
should be as a genius for wisdom, yet having no understanding of the
political, cannot come forward as leaders of the mob without bringing the
whole nation to ruin.

Only one trained from childhood for independent rule can have understanding
of the words that can be made up of the political alphabet.

A people left to itself, i.e., to upstarts from its midst, brings itself to
ruin by party dissension's excited by the pursuit of power and honours and
disorders arising therefrom. Is it possible for the masses of the people
calmly and without petty jealousies to form judgments, to deal with the
affairs of the country, which cannot be mixed up with personal interests?
Can they defend themselves from an eternal foe? It is unthinkable, for a
plan broken up into as many parts as there are heads in the mob, loses all
homogeneity, and thereby becomes unintelligible and impossible of execution.

It is only with a despotic ruler that plans can be elaborated extensively
and clearly in such a way as to distribute the whole properly among the
several parts of the machinery of the State: from this the conclusion is
inevitable that a satisfactory form of government for any country is one
that concentrates in the hands of one responsible person. Without an
absolute despotism there can be no existence for civilisation which is
carried on not by the masses but by their guide, whosoever that person may
be. The mob is a savage and displays its savagery at every opportunity. The
moment the mob seizes freedom in its hands it quickly turns to anarchy,
which in itself is the highest degree of savagery.

Behold the alcoholised animals, bemused with drink, the right to an
immoderate use of which comes along with freedom. It is not for us and ours
to walk that road. The peoples of the goyim are bemused with alcoholic
liquors; their youth has grown stupid on classicism and from early
immorality, into which it has been inducted by our special agents - by
tutors, lackeys, governesses in the houses of the wealthy, by clerks and
others, by our women in the places of dissipation frequented by the goyim.
In the number of these last I count also the so-called "society ladies,"
voluntary followers of the others in corruption and luxury.

Our countersign is -Force and Make-believe. Only force conquers in political
affairs, especially if it be concealed in the talents essential to
statesmen. Violence must be the principle, and cunning and make-believe the
rule for governments which do not want to lay down their crowns at the feet
of agents of some new power. This evil is the one and only means to attain
the end, the good. Therefore we must not stop at bribery, deceit and
treachery when they should serve towards the attainment of our end. In
politics one must know how to seize the property of others without
hesitation if by it we secure submission and sovereignty.

Our State, marching along the path of peaceful conquest, has the right to
replace the horrors of war by less noticeable and more satisfactory
sentences of death, necessary to maintain the terror which tends to produce
blind submission. Just but merciless severity is the greatest factor of
strength in the State: not only for the sake of gain but also in the name of
duty, for the sake of victory, we must keep to the 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 merciless for all disobedience to cease.

Far back in ancient times we were the first to cry among the masses of the
people the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," words many times repeated
since those days by stupid poll-parrots who from all sides round flew down
upon these baits and with them carried away the well-being of the world,
true freedom of the individual, formerly so well guarded against the
pressure of the mob. The would-be wise men of the goyim, the intellectuals,
could not make anything out of the uttered words in their abstractness; did
not note the contradiction of their meaning and inter-relation: did not see
that in nature there is no equality, cannot be freedom: that Nature herself
has established inequality of minds, of characters, and capacities, just as
immutable as she has established subordination to her laws: never stopped to
think that the mob is a blind thing, that upstarts elected from among it to
bear rule are, in regard to the political, the same blind men as the mob
itself, that the adept, though he be a fool, can yet rule, whereas the
non-adept, even if he were a genius, understands nothing in the political -
to all these things the goyim paid no regard; yet all the time it was based
upon these things that dynastic rule rested: the father passed on to the son
a knowledge of the course of political affairs in such wise that none should
know it but members of the dynasty and none could betray it to the governed.
As time went on the meaning of the dynastic transference of the true
position of affairs in the political was lost, and this aided the success of
our cause.

In all corners of the earth the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
brought to our ranks, thanks to our blind agents, whole legions who bore our
banners with enthusiasm. And all the time these words were canker-worms at
work boring into the well-being of the goyim, putting an end everywhere to
peace, quiet, solidarity and destroying all the foundations of the goy
States. As you will see later this helped us to our triumph; it gave us the
possibility, among other things, of getting into our hands the master card -
the destruction of the privileges, or in other words of the very existence
of the aristocracy of the goyim, that c ass which was the only defence
peoples and countries had against us. On the ruins of the natural and
genealogical aristocracy of the goyim we have set up the aristocracy of our
educated class headed by the aristocracy of money. The qualifications for
this aristocracy we have established in wealth, which is dependent upon us
and in knowledge, for which our learned elders provide the motive force.

Our triumph has been rendered easier by the fact that in our relations with
the men whom we wanted we have always worked upon the most sensitive chords
of the human mind, upon the cash account, upon the cupidity, upon the
insatiability for material needs of man; and each one of these human
weaknesses, taken alone, is sufficient to paralyse initiative for it hands
over the will of men to the disposition of him who has bought their
activities

The abstraction of freedom has enabled us to persuade the mob in all
countries that their government is nothing but the steward of the people who
are the owners of the country, and that the steward may be replaced like a
worn-out glove.

It is this possibility of replacing the representatives of the people which
has placed them at our disposal, and, as it were, given us the power of
appointment.
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                               PROTOCOL NO. 2
 

   Economic Wars - the foundation of the Jewish predominance. Figure-head
     government and "secret advisors." Success of destructive doctrines.
  Adaptability in politics. Part played by the Press. Cost of gold and value
                            of Jewish sacrifice.

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It is indispensable for our purpose that wars, so far as possible, should
not result in territorial gains: war will thus be brought on to the economic
ground, where the nations will not fail to perceive in the assistance we
give the strength of our predominance, and this state of things will put
both sides at the mercy of our international agentur; which possesses
millions of eyes ever on the watch and unhampered by any limitations
whatsoever. Our international rights will then wipe out national rights, in
the proper sense of right, and will rule the nations precisely as the civil
law of States rules the relations of their subjects among themselves.

The administrators, whom we shall choose from among the public, with strict
regard to their capacities for servile obedience, will not be persons
trained in the arts of government, and will therefore easily become pawns in
our game in the hands of men of learning and genius who will be their
advisers, specialists bred and reared from early childhood to rule the
affairs of the whole world. As is well known to you, these specialists of
ours have been drawing to fit them for rule the information they need from
our political plans, from the lessons of history, from observations made of
the events of every moment as it passes. The goyim are not guided by
practical use of unprejudiced historical observation, but by theoretical
routine without any critical regard for consequent results. We need not,
therefore, take any account of them - let them amuse themselves until the
hour strikes, or live on hopes of new forms of enterprising pastime, or on
the memories of all they have enjoyed. For them let that play the principal
part which we have persuaded them to accept as the dictates of science
(theory). It is with this object in view that we are constantly, by means of
our press, arousing a blind confidence in these theories. The intellectuals
of the goyim will puff themselves up with their knowledge and without any
logical verification of it will put into effect all the information
available from science, which our AGENTUR specialists have cunningly pieced
together for the purpose of educating their minds in the direction we want.

Do not suppose for a moment that these statements are empty words: think
carefully of the successes we arranged for Darwinism, Marxism,
Nietzsche-ism. To us Jews, at any rate, it should be plain to see what a
disintegrating importance these directives have had upon the minds of the
goyim.

It is indispensable for us to take account of the thoughts, characters,
tendencies of the nations in order to avoid making slips in the political
and in the direction of administrative affairs. The triumph of our system,
of which the component parts of the machinery may be variously disposed
according to the temperament of the peoples met on our way, will fail of
success if the practical application of it be not based upon a summing up of
the lessons of the past in the light of the present.

In the hands of the States of to-day there is a great force that creates the
movement of thought in the people, and that is the Press. The part played by
the Press is to keep pointing out requirements supposed to be indispensable,
to give voice to the complaints of the people, to express and to create
discontent. It is in the Press that the triumph of freedom of speech finds
its incarnation. But the goyim States have not known how to make use of this
force; and it has fallen into our hands. Through the Press we have gained
the power to influence while remaining ourselves in the shade; thanks to the
Press we have got the gold in our hands, notwithstanding that we have had to
gather it out of oceans of blood and tears. But it has paid us, though we
have sacrificed many of our people. Each victim on our side is worth in the
sight of God a thousand goyim.
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                               PROTOCOL NO. 3
 

       The Symbolic Snake and its significance. The instability of the
      constitutional scales. Terror in the palaces. Power and ambition.
    Parliaments "talkeries," pamphlets. Abuse of power. Economic slavery.
    "People's Rights." Monopolist system and the aristocracy. The Army of
Mason-Jewry. Decrescence of the GOYIM. Hunger and rights of capital. The mob
and the coronation of "The Sovereign Lord of all the World." The fundamental
   pre- cept in the programme of the future Masonic national schools. The
    secret of the science of the structure of society. Universal economic
    crisis. Security of "ours" (i.e., our people, Jews). The despotism of
  Masonry - the kingdom of reason. Loss of the guide. Masonry and the French
Revolution. The King-Despot of the blood of Zion. Causes of the invisibility
         of Masonry. Part played by secret masonic agents. Freedom.

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To-day I may tell you that our goal is now only a few steps off. There
remains a small space to cross and the whole long path we have trodden is
ready now to close its cycle of the Symbolic Snake, by which we symbolise
our people. When this ring closes, all the States of Europe will be locked
in its coil as in a powerful vice.

The constitution scales of these days will shortly break down, for we have
established them with a certain lack of accurate balance in order that they
may oscillate incessantly until they wear through the pivot on which they
turn. The goyim are under the impression that they have welded them
sufficiently strong and they have all along kept on expecting that the
scales would come into equilibrium. But the pivots - the kings on their
thrones - are hemmed in by their representatives, who play the fool,
distraught with their own uncontrolled and irresponsible power. This power
they owe to the terror which has been breathed into the palaces. As they
have no meant of getting at their people, into their very midst, the kings
on their thrones are no longer able to come to terms with them and so
strengthen themselves against seekers after power. We have made a gulf
between the farseeing sovereign Power and the blind force of the people so
that both have lost all meaning, for like the blind man and his stick, both
are powerless apart.

In order to incite seekers after power to a misuse of power we have set all
forces in opposition one to another, breaking up their liberal tendencies
towards independence. To this end we have stirred up every form of
enterprise, we have armed all parties, we have set up authority as a target
for every ambition. Of States we have made gladiatorial arenas where a host
of confused issues contend....A little more, and disorders and bankruptcy
will be universal....

Babblers inexhaustible have turned into oratorical contests the sittings of
Parliament and Administrative Boards. Bold journalists and unscrupulous
pamphleteers daily fall upon executive officials. Abuses of power will put
the final touch in preparing all institutions for their overthrow and
everything will fly skyward under the blows of the maddened mob.

All people are chained down to heavy toil by poverty more firmly than ever
they were chained by slavery and serfdom; from these, one way and another,
they might free themselves, these could be settled with, but from want they
will never get away. We have included in the constitution such rights as to
the masses appear fictitious and not actual rights. All these so-called
"People's Rights" can exist only in idea, an idea which can never be
realized in practical life. What is it to the proletariat labourer, 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 favour of what we dictate, in favour of
the men we place in power, the servants of our AGENTUR.... Republican right
for a poor man are no more than a bitter piece of irony for the necessity he
is under of toiling almost all day gives him no present use of them, but on
the other hand robs him of all guarantee of regular and certain earnings by
making him dependent on strikes by his comrades or lockouts by his masters.

The people under our guidance have annihilated the aristocracy, who were
their one and only defence and foster-mother for the sake of their own
advantage which is inseparably bound up with the well-being of the people.
Nowadays, with the destruction of the aristocracy, the people have fallen
into the grips of merciless money-grinding scoundrels who have laid a
pitiless and cruel yoke upon the necks of the workers.

We appear on the scene as alleged 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 rapport in
accordance with an alleged brotherly rule (of the solidarity of all
humanity) of our SOCIAL MASONRY. The aristocracy, which enjoyed by law the
labour of the workers, was interested in seeing that the workers were well
fed, healthy and strong. We are interested in just the opposite - in the
diminution, the KILLING OUT OF THE GOYIM. Our power is in the chronic
shortness of food and physical weakness of the worker because by all that
this implies he is made the slave of our will, and he will not find in his
own authorities either strength or energy to set against our will. Hunger
creates the right of capital to rule the worker more surely than it was
given to the aristocracy by the legal authority of kings.

By want and the envy and hatred which it engenders we shall move the mobs
and with their hands we shall wipe out all those who hinder on our way.

WHEN THE HOUR STRIKES FOR OUR SOVEREIGN LORD OF ALL THE WORLD TO BE CROWNED
IT IS THESE SAME HANDS WHICH WILL SWEEP AWAY EVERYTHING THAT MIGHT BE A
HINDRANCE THERETO.

The goyim have lost the habit of thinking unless prompted by the suggestions
of our specialists. Therefore they do not see the urgent necessity of what
we, when our kingdom comes, shall adopt all at once, namely this, that IT IS
ESSENTIAL TO TEACH IN NATIONAL SCHOOLS ONE SIMPLE, TRUE PIECE OF KNOWLEDGE,
THE BASIS OF ALL KNOWLEDGE - THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE STRUCTURE OF HUMAN LIFE,
OF SOCIAL EXISTENCE, WHICH REQUIRES DIVISION OF LABOUR, 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 honour. The true knowledge of the structure of society, into
the secrets of which we do not admit the goyim, would demonstrate to all men
that the positions and work must be kept within a certain circle, that they
may not become a source of human suffering, arising from an education which
does not correspond with the work which individuals are called upon to do.
After a thorough study of this knowledge the peoples will voluntarily submit
to authority and accept such position as is appointed them in the State. In
the present state of knowledge and the direction we have given to its
development the people, blindly believing things in print - cherishes -
thanks to promptings intended to mislead and to its own ignorance a blind
hatred towards all conditions which it considers above itself, for it has no
understanding of the meaning of class and condition.

This hatred will be still further magnified by the effects of an ECONOMIC
CRISIS, which will stop dealings on the exchanges and bring industry to a
standstill. We shall create by all the secret subterranean methods open to
us and with the aid of gold, which is all in our hands, A UNIVERSAL ECONOMIC
CRISIS WHEREBY WE SHALL THROW UPON THE STREETS WHOLE MOBS OF WORKERS
SIMULTANEOUSLY IN ALL THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE. These mobs will rush
delightedly to shed the blood of those whom, in the simplicity of their
ignorance, they have envied from their cradles, and whose property they will
then be able to loot.

"OURS" THEY WILL NOT TOUCH, BECAUSE THE MOMENT OF ATTACK WILL BE KNOWN TO US
AND WE SHALL TAKE MEASURES TO PROTECT OUR OWN.

We have demonstrated that progress will bring all the goyim to the
sovereignty of reason. Our despotism will be precisely that; for it will
know how by wise severities to pacificate all unrest, to cauterise
liberalism out of all institutions.

When the populace has seen that all sorts of concessions and indulgences are
yielded it in the name of freedom it has imagined itself to be sovereign
lord and has stormed its way to power, but, naturally, like every other
blind man it has come upon a host of stumbling blocks, IT HAS RUSHED TO FIND
A GUIDE, IT HAS NEVER HAD THE SENSE TO RETURN TO THE FORMER STATE and it has
laid down its plenipotentiary powers at OUR feet. Remember the French
Revolution, to which it was we who gave the name of "Great": the secrets of
its preparations are well known to us for it was wholly the work of our
hands.

Ever since that time we have been leading the peoples from one
disenchantment to another, so that in the end they should turn also from us
in favour of that KING-DESPOT OF THE BLOOD OF ZION, WHOM WE ARE PREPARING
FOR THE WORLD.

At the present day we are, as an international force, invincible, because if
attacked by some we are supported by other States. It is the bottomless
rascality of the goyim peoples, who crawl on their bellies to force, but are
merciless towards weakness, unsparing to faults and indulgent to crimes,
unwilling to bear the contradictions of a free social system but patient
unto martyrdom under the violence of a bold despotism - it is those
qualities which are aiding us to independence. From the premier-dictators of
the present day the goyim peoples suffer patiently and bear such abuses as
for the least of them they would have beheaded twenty kings.

What is the explanation of this phenomenon, this curious inconsequence of
the masses of the peoples in their attitude towards what would appear to be
events of the same order?

It is explained by the fact that these dictators whisper to the peoples
through their agents that through these abuses they are inflicting injury on
the States with the highest purpose - to secure the welfare of the peoples,
the international brotherhood of them all, their solidarity and equality of
rights. Naturally they do not tell the peoples that this unification must be
accomplished only under our sovereign rule.

And thus the people condemn the upright and acquit the guilty, persuaded
ever more and more that it can do whatsoever it wishes. Thanks to this state
of things the people are destroying every kind of stability and creating
disorders at every step.

The word "freedom" brings out the communities of men to fight against every
kind of force, against every kind of authority, even against God and the
laws of nature. For this reason we, when we come into our kingdom, shall
have to erase this word from the lexicon of life as implying a principle of
brute force which turns mobs into bloodthirsty beasts.

These beasts, it is true, fall asleep again every time when they have drunk
their fill of blood, and at such times can easily be riveted into their
chains. But if they be not given blood they will not sleep and continue to
struggle.
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                               PROTOCOL NO. 4
 

   Stages of a Republic. Gentile Masonry. Freedom and Faith. International
         Industrial Competition. Role of Speculation. Cult of Gold.

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Every republic passes through several stages. The first of these is
comprised in the early days of mad raging by the blind mob, tossed hither
and thither, right and left: the second is demagogy, from which is born
anarchy, and that leads inevitably to despotism - not any longer legal and
overt, and therefore responsible despotism, but to unseen and secretly
hidden, yet nevertheless sensibly felt despotism in the hands of some secret
organisation or other, whose acts are the more unscrupulous inasmuch as it
works behind a screen, behind the backs of all sorts of agents, the changing
of whom not only does not injuriously affect but actually aids the secret
force by saving it, thanks to continual changes, from the necessity of
expending its resources on the rewarding of long services.

Who and what is in a position to overthrow an invisible force? And this is
precisely what our force is. Gentile masonry blindly serves as a screen for
us and our objects, both the plan of action of our force, even its very
abiding-place, remains for the whole people an unknown mystery.

But even freedom might be harmless and have its place in the State economy
without injury to the well-being of the peoples if it rested upon the
foundation of faith in God, upon the brotherhood of humanity, unconnected
with the conception of equality, which is negatived by the very laws of
creation, for they have established subordination. With such a faith as this
a people might be governed by a wardship of pari- shes, and would walk
contentedly and humbly under the guiding hand of its spiritual pastor
submitting to the dispositions of God upon earth. This is the reason why IT
IS INDISPENSABLE FOR US TO UNDERMINE ALL FAITH, TO TEAR OUT OF THE MINDS OF
THE GOYIM THE VERY PRINCIPLE OF GODHEAD AND THE SPIRIT, AND TO PUT IN ITS
PLACE ARITHMETICAL CALCULATIONS AND MATERIAL NEEDS.

In order to give the goyim no time to think and take note, their minds must
be diverted towards industry and trade. Thus, all the nations will be
swallowed up in the pursuit of gain and in the race for it will not take
note of their common foe. But again, in order that freedom may once for all
disintegrate and ruin the communities of the goyim, we must put industry on
a speculative basis: the result of this will be that what is withdrawn from
the land by industry will slip through the hands and pass into speculation,
that is, to our classes.

The intensified struggle for superiority and shocks delivered to economic
life will create, nay, have already created, disenchanted, cold and
heartless communities. Such communities will foster a strong aversion
towards the higher political and towards religion. Their only guide is gain,
that is Gold, which they will erect into a veritable cult, for the sake of
those material delights which it can give. Then will the hour strike when,
not for the sake of attaining the good, not even to win wealth, but solely
out of hatred towards the privileged, the lower classes of the goyim will
follow our lead against our rivals for power, the intellectuals of the
goyim.
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Creation of an intensified centralized of government. Methods of seizing
power by masonry. Causes of the impossibility of agreement between States.
The state of "predestination" of the Jews. Gold - the engine of the
machinery of States. Significance of personal initiative. The
Super-Government.

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What form of administrative rule can be given to communities in which
corruption has penetrated everywhere, communities where riches are attained
only by the clever surprise tactics of semi-swindling tricks; where
looseness reigns: where morality is maintained by penal measures and harsh
laws but not by voluntary accepted principles: where the feelings towards
faith and country are obliterated by cosmopolitan convictions? What form of
rule is to be given to these communities if not that despotism which I shall
describe to you later? We shall create an intensified centralisation of
government in order to grip in our hands all the forces of the community. We
shall regulate mechanically all the actions of the political life of our
subjects by new laws. These laws will withdraw one by one all the
indulgences and liberties which have been permitted by the goyim, and our
kingdom will be distinguished by a despotism of such magnificent proportions
as to be at any moment and in every place in a position to wipe out any
goyim who oppose us by deed or word.

We shall be told that such a despotism as I speak of is not consistent with
the progress of these days, but I will prove to you that it is.

In the times when the peoples looked upon kings on their thrones as on a
pure manifestation of the will of God, they submitted without a murmur to
the despotic power of kings: but from the day when we insinuated into their
minds the conception of their own rights they began to regard the occupants
of thrones as mere ordinary mortals. The holy unction of the Lord's Anointed
has fallen from the heads of kings in the eyes of the people, and when we
also robbed them of their faith in God the might of power was flung upon the
streets into the place of public proprietorship and was seized by us.

Moreover, the art of directing masses and individuals by means of cleverly
manipulated theory and verbiage, by regulations of life in common and all
sorts of other quirks, in all which the goyim understand nothing, belongs
likewise to the specialists of our administrative brain. Reared on analysis,
observation, on delicacies of fine calculation, in this species of skill we
have no rivals, any more than we have either in the drawing up of plans of
political actions and solidarity. In this respect the Jesuits alone might
have compared with us, but we have contrived to discredit them in the eyes
of the unthinking mob as an overt organisation, while we ourselves all the
while have kept our secret organisation in the shade. However, it is
probably all the same to the world who is its sovereign lord, whether the
head of Catholicism or our despot of the blood of Zion! But to us, the
Chosen People, it is very far from being a matter of indifference.

FOR A TIME PERHAPS WE MIGHT BE SUCCESSFULLY DEALT WITH BY A COALITION OF THE
GOYIM OF ALL THE WORLD: but from this danger we are secured by the discord
existing among them whose roots are so deeply seated that they can never now
be plucked up. We have set one against another the personal and national
reckonings of the goyim, religious and race hatreds, which we have fostered
into a huge growth in the course of the past twenty centuries. This is the
reason why there is not one State which would anywhere receive support if it
were to raise its arm, for every one of them must bear in mind that any
agreement against us would be unprofitable to itself. We are too strong -
there is no evading our power. THE NATIONS CANNOT COME TO EVEN AN
INCONSIDERABLE PRIVATE AGREEMENT WITHOUT OUR SECRETLY HAVING A HAND IN IT.

PER ME REGES REGNANT. "It is through Me that Kings reign." And it was said
by the prophets that we were chosen by God Himself to rule over the whole
earth. God has endowed us with genius that we may be equal to our task. Were
genius in the opposite camp it would still struggle against us, but even so
a newcomer is no match for the old established settler: the struggle would
be merciless between us, such a fight as the world has never yet seen. Aye,
and the genius on their side would have arrived too late. All the wheels of
the machinery of all States go by the force of the engine, which is in our
hands, and that engine of the machinery of States is - Gold. The science of
political economy invented by our learned elders has for long past been
giving royal prestige to capital.

Capital, if it is to co-operate untrammelled, must be free to establish a
monopoly of industry and trade: this is already being put in execution by an
unseen hand in all quarters of the world. This freedom will give political
force to those engaged in industry, and that will help to oppress the
people. Nowadays it is more important to disarm the peoples than to lead
them into war: more important to use for our advantage the passions which
have burst into flames than to quench their fire: more important to catch up
and interpret the ideas of others to suit ourselves than to eradicate them.
THE PRINCIPAL OBJECT OF OUR DIRECTORATE CONSISTS IN THIS: TO DEBILITATE THE
PUBLIC MIND BY CRITICISM TO LEAD IT AWAY FROM SERIOUS REFLECTIONS CALCULATED
TO AROUSE RESISTANCE TO DISTRACT THE FORCES OF THE MIND TOWARDS A SHAM FIGHT
OF EMPTY ELOQUENCE.

In all ages the peoples of the world, equally with individuals, have
accepted words for deeds, for THEY ARE CONTENT WITH A SHOW and rarely pause
to note, in the public arena, whether promises are followed by performance.
Therefore we shall establish show institutions which will give eloquent
proof of their benefit to progress.

We shall assume to ourselves the liberal physiognomy of all parties, of all
directions, and we shall give that physiognomy a voice IN ORATORS WHO WILL
SPEAK SO MUCH THAT THEY WILL EXHAUST THE PATIENCE OF THEIR HEARERS AND
PRODUCE AN ABHORRENCE OF ORATORY.

IN ORDER TO PUT PUBLIC OPINION INTO OUR HANDS WE MUST BRING IT INTO A STATE
OF BEWILDERMENT BY GIVING EXPRESSION FROM ALL SIDES TO SO MANY CONTRADICTORY
OPINIONS AND FOR SUCH LENGTH OF TIME AS WILL SUFFICE TO MAKE THE GOYIM LOSE
THEIR HEADS IN THE LABYRINTH AND COME TO SEE THAT THE BEST THING IS TO HAVE
NO OPINION OF ANY KIND IN MATTERS POLITICAL, which it is not given to the
public to understand, because they are understood only by him who guides the
public. This is the first secret.

The second secret requisite for the success of our government is comprised
in the following. To multiply to such an extent national failings, habits,
passions, conditions of civil life, that it will be impossible for anyone to
know where he is in the resulting chaos, so that the people in consequence
will fail to understand one another. This measure will also serve us in
another way, namely, to sow discord in all parties, to dislocate all
collective forces which are still unwilling to submit to us, and to
discourage any kind of personal initiative which might in any degree hinder
our affair. THERE IS NO- THING MORE DANGEROUS THAN PERSONAL INITIATIVE; if
it has genius behind it, such initiative can do more than can be done by
millions of people among whom we have sown discord. We must so direct the
education of the goyim communities that whenever they come upon a matter
requiring initiative they may drop their hands in despairing impotence. The
strain which results from freedom of action saps the forces when it meets
with the freedom of another. From this collision arise grave moral shocks,
disenchantments, failures. BY ALL THESE MEANS WE SHALL SO WEAR DOWN THE
GOYIM THAT THEY WILL BE COMPELLED TO OFFER US INTERNATIONAL POWER A NATURE
THAT BY ITS POSITION WILL ENABLE US WITHOUT ANY VIOLENCE GRADUALLY TO ABSORB
ALL THE STATE FORCES OF THE WORLD AND TO FORM A SUPER-GOVERNMENT. In place
of the rulers of to-day we shall set up a bogey which will be called the
Super-Government Administration. Its hands will reach out in all directions
like nippers and its organisation will be of such colossal dimensions that
it cannot fail to subdue all the nations of the world.
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Monopolities; upon them depend the fortunes of the goyim. Taking of the land
  out of hands of the aristocracy. Trade, Industry and Speculation. Luxury.
  Rise of wages and increase of price in the articles of primary necessity.
    Anarchism and drunkeness. Secret meaning of the of the propaganda of
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We shall soon begin to establish huge monopolies, reservoirs of colossal
riches, upon which even large fortunes of the goyim will depend to such an
extent that they will go to the bottom together with the credit of the
States on the day after the political smash....

You gentlemen here present who are economists, just strike an estimate of
the significance of this combination !

In every possible way we must develop the significance of our
Super-Government by representing it as the Protector and Benefactor of all
those who voluntarily submit to us.

The aristocracy of the goyim as a political force, is dead - we need not
take it into account; but as landed proprietors they can still be harmful to
us from the fact that they are self-sufficing in the resources upon which
they live. It is essential therefore for us at whatever cost to deprive them
of their land. This object will be best attained by increasing the burdens
upon landed property - in loading lands with debts. These measures will
check land-holding and keep it in a state of humble and unconditional
submission.

The aristocrats of the goyim, being hereditarily incapable of contenting
themselves with little, will rapidly burn up and fizzle out.

At the same time we must intensively patronise trade and industry, but,
first and foremost, speculation, the part played by which is to provide a
counterpoise to industry: the absence of speculative industry will multiply
capital in private hands and will serve to restore agriculture by freeing
the land from indebtedness to the land banks. What we want is that industry
should drain off from the land both labour and capital and by means of
speculation transfer into our hands all the money of the world, and thereby
throw all the goyim into the ranks of the proletariat. Then the goyim will
bow down before us, if for no other reason but to get the right to exist.

To complete the ruin of the industry of the goyim we shall bring to the
assistance of speculation the luxury which we have developed among the
goyim, that greedy demand for luxury which is swallowing up everything. WE
SHALL RAISE THE RATE OF WAGES, HOWEVER, WILL NOT BRING ANY ADVANTAGE TO THE
WORKERS, FOR, AT THE SAME TIME, WE SHALL PRODUCE A RISE IN PRICES OF THE
FIRST NECESSARIES OF LIFE, ALLEGING THAT IT ARISES FROM THE DECLINE OF
AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING: WE SHALL FURTHER UNDERMINE ARTFULLY AND
DEEPLY SOURCES OF PRODUCTION, BY ACCUSTOMING THE WORKERS TO ANARCHY AND TO
DRUNKENNESS AND SIDE BY SIDE THEREWITH TAKING ALL MEASURE TO EXTIRPATE FROM
THE FACE OF THE EARTH ALL THE EDUCATED FORCES OF THE GOYIM.

IN ORDER THAT THE TRUE MEANING OF THINGS MAY NOT STRIKE THE GOYIM BEFORE THE
PROPER TIME WE SHALL MASK IT UNDER AN ALLEGED ARDENT DRIVE TO SERVE THE
WORKING CLASSES AND THE GREAT PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY ABOUT WHICH
OUR ECONOMIC THEORIES ARE CARRYING ON AN ENERGETIC PROPAGANDA.
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                               PROTOCOL NO. 7
 

Object of the intensification of armaments. Ferments, discords and hostility
  all over the world. Checking the opposition of the goyim by wars and by a
  universal war. Secrecy means success in the political. The Press and public
               opinion. The guns of America, China and Japan.

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The intensification of armaments, the increase of police forces - are all
essential for the completion of the aforementioned plans. What we have to
get at is that there should be in all the States of the world, besides
ourselves, only the masses of the proletariat, a few millionaires devoted to
our interests, police and soldiers.

Throughout all Europe, and by means of relations with Europe, in other
continents also, we must create ferments, discords and hostility. Therein we
gain a double advantage. In the first place we keep in check all countries,
for they well know that we have the power whenever we like to create
disorders or to restore order. All these countries are accustomed to see in
us an indispensable force of coercion. In the second place, by our intrigues
we shall tangle up all the threads which we have stretched into the cabinets
of all States by means of politics, by economic treaties, or loan
obligations. In order to succeed in this we must use great cunning and
penetration during negotiations and agreements, but, as regards what is
called the "official language," we shall keep to the opposite tactics and
assume the mask of honesty and compliancy. In this way the peoples and
governments of the goyim, whom we have taught to look only at the outside of
whatever we present to their notice, will still continue to accept us as the
benefactors and saviours of the human race.

We must be in a position to respond to every act of opposition by war with
the neighbours of that country which dares to oppose us: but if these
neighbours should also venture to stand collectively together against us,
then we must offer resistance by a universal war.

The principal factor of success in the political is the secrecy of its
undertakings: the word should not agree with the deeds of the diplomat.

We must compel the governments of the goyim to take action in the direction
favoured by our widely conceived plan, already approaching the desired
consummation, by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly
prompted by us through the means of that so-called "Great Power" --THE
PRESS, WHICH, WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS THAT MAY BE DISREGARDED, IS ALREADY
ENTIRELY IN OUR HANDS.

In a word, to sum up our system of keeping the governments of the goyim in
Europe in check, we shall show our strength to one of them by terrorist
attempts and to all, if we allow the possibility of a general rising against
us, we shall respond with the guns of America or China or Japan.
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     Ambiguous employment of juridical right. Assistants of the Masonic
  directorate. Special school and super-educational training. Economists and
    millionaires. To whom to entrust responsible post in the government.

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We must arm ourselves with all the weapons which our opponents might employ
against us. We must search out in the very finest shades of expression and
the knotty points of the lexicon of law justification for those cases where
we shall have to pronounce judgments that might appear abnormally audacious
and unjust, for it is important that these resolutions should be set forth
in expressions that shall seem to be the most exalted moral principles cast
into legal form. Our directorate must surround itself with all these forces
of civilisation among which it will have to work. It will surround itself
with publicists, practical jurists, administrators, diplomats and, finally,
with persons prepared by a special super-educational training IN OUR SPECIAL
SCHOOLS. These persons will have cognisance of all the secrets of the social
structure, they will know all the languages that can be made up by political
alphabets and words; they will be made acquainted with the whole underside
of human nature, with all its sensitive chords on which they will have to
play. These chords are the cast of mind of the goyim, their tendencies,
shortcomings, vices and qualities, the particularities of classes and
conditions. Needless to say that the talented assistants of authority, of
whom I speak, will be taken not from among the goyim, who are accustomed to
perform their administrative work without giving themselves the trouble to
think what its aim is, and never consider what it is needed for. The
administrators of the goyim sign papers without reading them, and they serve
either for mercenary reasons or from ambition.

We shall surround our government with a whole world of economists. That is
the reason why economic sciences form the principal subject of the teaching
given to the Jews. Around us again will be a whole constellation of bankers,
industrialists, capitalists and - THE MAIN THING - MILLIONAIRES, BECAUSE IN
SUBSTANCE EVERYTHING WILL BE SETTLED BY THE QUESTION OF FIGURES. For a time,
until there will no longer be any risk in entrusting responsible posts in
our States to our brother-Jews we shall put them in the hands of persons
whose past and reputation are such that between them and the people lies an
abyss, persons who, in case of disobedience to our instructions, must face
criminal charges or disappear -- this in order to make them defend our
interest to their last gasp.
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  Application of masonic principles in the matter of educating the peoples.
    Masonic watchword. Meaning of Anti-Semitism. Dictatorship of masonry.
  Terror. Who are the servants of masonry. Meaning of the "clear-sighted" and
  the "blind" forces of the "goyim" states. Communion between authority and
    mob. License of liberalism. Seizure of education and training. False
   theories. Interpretation of laws. The "undergrounds" (metropolitains).

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In applying our principles let attention be paid to the character of the
people in whose country you live and act; a general, identical application
of them, until such time as the people shall have been re-educated to our
pattern, cannot have success. But by approaching their application
cautiously you will see that not a decade will pass before the most stubborn
character will change and we shall add a new people to the ranks of those
already subdued by us.

The words of the liberal, which are in effect the words of our masonic
watchword, namely, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," will, when we come into
our kingdom, be changed by us into words no longer of a watchword, but only
an expression of idealism, namely, into: "The right of liberty, the duty of
equality, the ideal of brotherhood." That is how we shall put it, and so we
shall catch the bull by the horns... DE FACTO we have already wiped out
every kind of rule except our own, although DE JURE there still remain a
good many of them. Nowadays, if any States raise a protest against us it is
only PRO FORMA at our discretion and by our direction, for THEIR
ANTI-SEMITISM IS INDISPENSABLE TO US FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF OUR LESSER
BRETHREN. I will not enter into further explanations, for this matter has
formed the subject of repeated discussions amongst us.

For us there are no checks to limit the range of our activity. Our
Super-Government subsists in extra-legal conditions which are described in
the accepted terminology by the energetic and forcible word - Dictatorship.
I am in a position to tell you with a clear conscience that at the proper
time we, the law-givers shall execute judgment and sentence, we shall slay
and we shall spare, we, as head of all our troops, are mounted on the steed
of the leader. We rule by force of will, because in our hands are the
fragments of a once powerful party, now vanquished by us. AND THE WEAPONS IN
OUR HANDS ARE LIMITLESS AMBITIONS, BURNING GREEDINESS, MERCILESS VENGEANCE,
HATREDS AND MALICE.

IT IS FROM US THAT ALL-ENGULFING TERROR PROCEEDS. WE HAVE IN OUR SERVICE
PERSONS OF ALL OPINIONS, OF ALL DOCTRINES, RESTORATING MONARCHISTS,
DEMAGOGUES, SOCIALISTS, COMMUNISTS, AND UTOPIAN DREAMERS OF EVERY KIND. We
have harnessed them all to the task: EACH ONE OF THEM ON HIS OWN ACCOUNT IS
BORING AWAY AT THE LAST REMNANTS OF AUTHORITY, IS STRIVING TO OVERTHROW ALL
ESTABLISHED FORM OF ORDER. By these acts all States are in torture; they
exhort to tranquillity, are ready to sacrifice everything for peace: but we
will not give them peace until they openly acknowledge our international
Super-Government, and with submissiveness.

The people have raised a howl about the necessity of settling the question
of Socialism by way of an international agreement. DIVISION INTO FRACTIONAL
PARTIES HAS GIVEN THEM INTO OUR HANDS, FOR, IN ORDER TO CARRY ON A CONTESTED
STRUGGLE ONE MUST HAVE MONEY, AND THE MONEY IS ALL IN OUR HANDS.

We might have reason to apprehend a union between the "clearsighted" force
of the goy kings on their thrones and the "blind" force of the goy mobs, but
we have taken all the needful measure against any such possibility: between
the one and the other force we have erected a bulwark in the shape of a
mutual terror between them. In this way the blind force of the people
remains our support and we, and we only, shall provide them with a leader
and, of course, direct them along the road that leads to our goal.

In order that the hand of the blind mob may not free itself from our guiding
hand, we must every now and then enter into close communion with it, if not
actually in person, at any rate through some of the most trusty of our
brethren. When we are acknowledged as the only authority we shall discuss
with the people personally on the market places, and we shall instruct them
on questions of the political in such wise as may turn them in the direction
that suits us.

Who is going to verify what is taught in the village schools? But what an
envoy of the government or a king on his throne himself may say cannot but
become immediately known to the whole State, for it will be spread abroad by
the voice of the people.

In order not to annihilate the institutions of the goyim before it is time
we have touched them with craft and delicacy, and have taken hold of the
ends of the springs which move their mechanism. These springs lay in a
strict but just sense of order; we have replaced them by the chaotic license
of liberalism. We have got our hands into the administration of the law into
the conduct of elections, into the press into liberty of the person, BUT
PRINCIPALLY INTO EDUCATION AND TRAINING AS BEING THE CORNER-STONES OF A FREE
EXISTENCE.

WE HAVE FOOLED, BEMUSED, AND CORRUPTED THE YOUTH OF THE GOYIM BY REARING
THEM IN PRINCIPLES AND THEORIES WHICH ARE KNOWN TO US TO BE FALSE ALTHOUGH
IT IS BY US THAT THEY HAVE BEEN INCULCATED.

Above the existing laws without substantially altering them, and by merely
twisting them into contradictions of interpretations, we have erected
something grandiose in the way of results. These results found expression
first in the fact that the INTERPRETATIONS MASKED THE LAWS: afterwards they
entirely hid them from the eyes of the governments owing to the
impossibility of making anything out of the tangled web of legislation.

This is the origin of the theory of course of arbitration.

You may say the goyim will rise upon us, arms in hand if they guess what is
going on before the time comes; but in the West we have against this a
maneuver of such appalling terror that the very stoutest hearts quail - the
undergrounds, metropolitains, those subterranean corridors which, before the
time comes, will be driven under all the capitals and from whence those
capitals will be blown into the air with all their organisations and
archives.
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The outside appearances in the political. The "genius" of rascality. What is
  promised by a Masonic "coup d'etat"? Universal suffrage. Self-importance.
     Leaders of Masonry. Institutions and their functions. The poison of
  liberalism. Constitution - a school of party discords. Era of republics.
  Presidents - the puppets of Masonry. Responsibility of Presidents. "Panama"
  Part played by chamber of deputies and president. Masonry - the legislative
   force. New republican constitution. Transition to masonic "despotism."
  Moment for the proclamation of "The Lord of all the World." Inoculation of
                    diseases and other wiles of Masonry.

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To-day I begin with repetition of what I said before, and I BEG YOU TO BEAR
IN MIND THAT GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLES ARE CONTENT IN THE POLITICAL WITH
OUTSIDE APPEARANCES. And how, indeed, are the goyim to perceive the
underlying meaning of things when their representatives give the best of
their energies to enjoying themselves? For our policy it is of the greatest
importance to take cognisance of this detail; it will be of assistance to us
when we come to consider the division of authority, freedom of speech, of
the press, of religion (faith), of the law of association, of equality
before the law, of the inviolability of property, of the dwelling, of
taxation (the idea of concealed taxes), of the reflex force of the laws. All
these questions are such as ought not to be touched upon directly and openly
before the people. In cases where it is indispensable to touch upon them
they must not be categorically named, it must merely be declared without
detailed exposition that the principles of contemporary law are acknowledged
by us. The reason of keeping silence in this respect is that by not naming a
principle we leave ourselves freedom of action, to drop this or that out of
it without attracting notice; if they were all categorically named they
would all appear to have been already given.

The mob cherishes a special affection and respect for the geniuses of
political power and accepts all their deeds of violence with the admiring
response: "rascally, well, yes, it is rascally, but it's clever! . . . a
trick, if you like, but how craftily played, how magnificently done, what
impudent audacity!" . . .

We count upon attracting all nations to the task of erecting the new
fundamental structure, the project for which has been drawn up by us. This
is why, before everything, it is indispensable for us to arm ourselves and
to store up in ourselves that absolutely reckless audacity and irresistible
might of the spirit which in the person of our active workers will break
down all hindrances on our way.

WHEN WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED OUR COUP D'ETAT WE SHALL SAY THEN TO THE VARIOUS
PEOPLES: EVERYTHING HAS GONE TERRIBLY BADLY, ALL HAVE BEEN WORN OUT WITH
SUFFERINGS. WE ARE DESTROYING THE CAUSES OF YOUR TORMENT - NATIONALITIES,
FRONTIERS, DIFFERENCES OF COINAGES. YOU ARE AT LIBERTY, OF COURSE, TO
PRONOUNCE SENTENCE UPON US, BUT CAN IT POSSIBLY BE A JUST ONE IF IT IS
CONFIRMED BY YOU BEFORE YOU MAKE ANY TRIAL OF WHAT WE ARE OFFERING YOU." . .
. THEN WILL THE MOB EXALT US AND BEAR US UP IN THEIR HANDS IN A UNANIMOUS
TRIUMPH OF HOPES AND EXPECTATIONS. VOTING, WHICH WE HAVE MADE THE INSTRUMENT
WHICH WILL SET US ON THE THRONE OF THE WORLD BY TEACHING EVEN THE VERY
SMALLEST UNITS OF MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN RACE TO VOTE BY MEANS OF MEETINGS AND
AGREEMENTS BY GROUPS, WILL THEN HAVE SERVED ITS PURPOSES AND WILL PLAY ITS
PART THEN FOR THE LAST TIME BY A UNANIMITY OF DESIRE TO MAKE CLOSE
ACQUAINTANCE WITH US BEFORE CONDEMNING US.

TO SECURE THIS WE MUST HAVE EVERYBODY VOTE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF CLASSES
AND QUALIFICATIONS, in order to establish an absolute majority, which cannot
be got from the educated propertied classes. In this way by inculcating in
all a sense of self-importance, we shall destroy among the goyim the
importance of the family and its educational value and remove the
possibility of individual minds splitting off, for the mob, handled by us,
will not let them come to the front nor even give them a hearing; it is
accustomed to listen to us only who pay it for obedience and attention. In
this way we shall create a blind, mighty force which will never be in a
position to move in any direction without the guidance of our agents set at
its head by us as leaders of the mob. The people will submit to this regime
because it will know that upon these leaders will depend its earnings,
gratifications and the receipt of all kinds of benefits.

A scheme of government should come ready made from one brain, because it
will never be clinched firmly if it is allowed to be split into fractional
parts in the minds of many. It is allowable, therefore, for us to have
cognisance of the scheme of action but not to discuss it lest we disturb its
artfulness, the interdependence of its component parts, the practical force
of the secret meaning of each clause. To discuss an make alterations in a
labour of this kind by means of numerous votings is to impress upon it the
stamp of all ratiocinations and misunderstandings which have failed to
penetrate the depth and nexus of its plottings. We want our schemes to be
forcible and suitably concocted. Therefore WE OUGHT NOT TO FLING THE WORK OF
GENIUS OF OUR GUIDE to the fangs of the mob or even of a select company.

These schemes will not turn existing institutions upside down just yet. They
will only affect changes in their economy and consequently in the whole
combined movement of their progress, which will thus be directed along the
paths laid down in our schemes.

Under various names there exists in all countries approximately one and the
same thing. Representation, Ministry, Senate, State Council, Legislative and
Executive Corps. I need not explain to you the mechanism of the relation of
these institutions to one another, because you are aware of all that; only
take note of the fact that each of the above-named institutions corresponds
to some important function of the State, and I would beg you to remark that
the word "important" I apply not to the institution but to the function,
consequently it is not the institutions which are important but their
functions. These institutions have divided up among themselves all the
functions of government - administrative, legislative, executive, wherefore
they have come to operate as do the organs in the human body. If we injure
one part in the machinery of State, the State falls sick, like a human body,
and will die.

When we introduced into the State organism the poison of Liberalism its
whole political complexion underwent a change. States have been seized with
a mortal illness-blood-poisoning. All that remains is to await the end of
their death agony.

Liberalism produced Constitutional States, which took the place of what was
the only safeguard of the goyim, namely, Despotism; and a CONSTITUTION, AS
YOU WELL KNOW, IS NOTHING ELSE BUT A SCHOOL OF DISCORDS, misunderstandings,
quarrels, disagreements, fruitless party agitations, party whims - in a
word, a school of everything that serves to destroy the personality of State
activity. THE TRIBUNE OF THE "TALKERIES" HAS, NO LESS EFFECTIVELY THAN THE
PRESS, CONDEMNED THE RULERS TO INACTIVITY AND IMPOTENCE, and thereby
rendered them useless and superfluous, for which reason indeed they have
been in many countries deposed. THEN IT WAS THAT THE ERA OF REPUBLICS BECAME
POSSIBLE OF REALISATION; AND THEN IT WAS THAT WE REPLACED THE RULER BY A
CARICATURE OF A GOVERNMENT - BY A PRESIDENT, TAKEN FROM THE MOB, FROM THE
MIDST OF OUR PUPPET CREATURES, OUR SLAVES. This was the foundation of the
mine which we have laid under the goy people, I should rather say, under the
goy peoples.

In the near future we shall establish the responsibility of presidents.

By that time we shall be in a position to disregard forms in carrying
through matters for which our personal puppet will be responsible. What do
we care if the ranks of those striving for power should be thinned, if there
should arise a deadlock from the impossibility of finding presidents, a
deadlock which will finally disorganize the country?

In order that our scheme may produce this result we shall arrange elections
in favour of such presidents as have in their past some dark, undiscovered
stain, some "Panama" or other - then they will be trustworthy agents for the
accomplishment of our plans out of fear of revelations and from the natural
desire of everyone who has attained power, namely, the retention of
privileges, advantages and honour connected with the office of president.
The chamber of deputies will provide cover for, will protect, will elect the
president, but we shall take from it the right to propose new, or make
changes in existing laws, for this right will be given by us to the
responsible president, a puppet in our hands. Naturally, the authority of
the president will then become a target for every possible form of attack,
but we shall provide him with a means of self-defence in the right of an
appeal to the people, for the decision of the people over the heads of their
representitives, that is to say, an appeal to that same blind slave of ours
- the majority of the mob. Independently of this we shall invest the
president with the right of declaring a state of war. We shall justify this
last right on the ground that the president as chief of the whole army of
the country must have it at his disposal, in case of need for the defence of
the new republican constitution, the right to defend which will belong to
him as the responsible representative of this constitution.

It is easy to understand that in these conditions the key of the shrine will
lie in our hands, and no one outside of ourselves will any longer direct the
force of legislation.

Besides this we shall, with the introduction of the new republican
constitution, take from the Chamber the right of interpellation on
government measures, on the pretext of preserving political secrecy, and,
further, we shall by the new constitution reduce the number of
representatives to a minimum, thereby proportionately reducing political
passions and the passion for politics. If, however, they should, which is
hardly to be expected, burst into flame, even in this minimum, we shall
nullify them by a stirring appeal and a reference to the majority of the
whole people.... Upon the president will depend the appointment of
presidents and vice-presidents of the Chamber and the Senate. Instead of
constant sessions of Parliament we shall reduce their sittings to a few
months. Moreover, the president, as chief of the executive power, will have
the right to summon and dissolve Parliament, and, in the latter case, to
prolong the time for the appointment of a new parliamentary assembly. But in
order that the consequences of all these acts which in substance are
illegal, should not, prematurely for our plans, fall upon the responsibility
established by us of the president, WE SHALL INSTIGATE MINISTERS AND OTHER
OFFICIALS OF THE HIGHER ADMINISTRATION ABOUT THE PRESIDENT TO EVADE HIS
DISPOSITIONS BY TAKING MEASURES OF THEIR OWN, for doing which they will be
made the scapegoats in his place.... This part we especially recommend to be
given to be played by the Senate, the Council of State, or the Council of
Ministers, but not to an individual official The president will, at our
discretion, interpret the sense of such of the existing laws as admit of
various interpretation; he will further annul them when we indicate to him
the necessity to do so, besides this, he will have the right to propose
temporary laws, and even new departures in the government constitutional
working, the pretext both for the one and other being the requirements for
the supreme welfare of the State.

By such measures we shall obtain the power of destroying little by little,
step by step, all that at the outset when we enter on our rights, we are
compelled to introduce into the constitutions of States to prepare for the
transition to an imperceptible abolition of every kind of constitution, and
then the time is come to turn every form of government into OUR DESPOTISM.

The recognition of our despot may also come before the destruction of the
constitution; the moment for this recognition will come when the peoples,
utterly wearied by the irregularities and incompetence - a matter which we
shall arrange for - of their rulers, will clamour: " Away with them and give
us one king over all the earth who will unite us and annihilate the causes
of discords - frontiers, nationalities, religions, State debts - who will
give us peace and quiet, which we cannot find under our rulers and
representatives."

But you yourselves perfectly well know that TO PRODUCE THE POSSIBILITY OF
THE EXPRESSION OF SUCH WISHES BY ALL THE NATIONS IT IS INDISSPENSABLE TO
TROUBLE IN ALL COUNTRIES THE PEOPLE'S RELATIONS WITH THEIR GOVERNMENTS SO AS
TO UTTERLY EXHAUST HUMANITY WITH DISSENSION, HATRED, STRUGGLE, ENVY AND EVEN
BY THE USE OF TORTURE, BY STARVATION, BY THE *INOCULATION OF DISEASES*, BY
WANT, SO THAT THE GOYIM SEE NO OTHER ISSUE THAN TO TAKE REFUGE IN OUR
COMPLETE SOVEREIGNTY IN MONEY AND IN ALL ELSE.

But if we give the nations of the world a breathing space the moment we long
for is hardly likely ever to arrive.
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     Programme of the new constitution. Certain details of the proposed
   revolution. The goyim - a pack of sheep. Secret masonry and its "show"
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The State Council has been, as it were, the emphatic expression of the
authority of the ruler: it will be, as the "show" part of the Legislative
Corps, what may be called the editorial committee of the laws and decrees of
the ruler.

This, then, is the programme of the new constitution. We shall make Law,
Right and Justice (1) in the guise of proposals to the Legislative Corps,
(2) by decrees of the president under the guise of general regulations, of
orders of the Senate and of resolutions of the State Council in the guise of
ministerial orders, (3) and in case a suitable occasion should arise-in the
form of a revolution in the State.

Having established approximately the "modus agendi" we will occupy ourselves
with details of those combinations by which we have still to complete the
revolution in the course of the machinery of State in the direction already
indicated. By these combinations I mean the freedom of the Press, the right
of association, freedom of conscience, the voting principle and many another
that must disappear for ever from the memory of man or undergo a radical
alteration the day after the promulgation of the new constitution. It is
only at that moment that we shall be able at once to announce all our orders
for afterwards, every noticeable alteration will be dangerous for the
following reasons: if this alteration be brought in with harsh severity and
in a sense of severity and limitations, it may lead to a feeling of despair
caused by fear of new alterations in the same direction; if, on the other
hand, it be brought in in a sense of further indulgences it will be said
that we have recognised our own wrongdoing and this will destroy the
prestige of the infallibility of our authority, or else it will be said that
we have become alarmed and are compelled to show a yielding disposition for
which we shall get no thanks because it will be supposed to be
compulsory.... Both the one and the other are injurious to the prestige of
the new constitution. What we want is that from the first moment of its
promulgation, while the peoples of the world are still stunned by the
accomplished fact of the revolution, still in a condition of terror and
uncertainty, they should recognise once for all that we are so strong, so
inexpugnable, so superabundantly filled with power that in no case shall we
take any account of them, and so far from paying any attention to their
opinions or wishes we are ready and able to crush with irresistible power
all expression or manifestation thereof at every moment and in every place,
that we have seized at once everything we wanted and shall in no case divide
our power with them.... Then in fear and trembling they will close their
eyes to everything, and be content to await what will be the end of it all.

The goyim are a flock of sheep, and we are their wolves. And you know what
happens when the wolves get hold of the flock? . . .

There is another reason also why they will close their eyes: for we shall
keep promising them to give back all the liberties we have taken away as
soon as we have quelled the enemies of peace and tamed all parties....

It is not worth while to say anything about how long a time they will be
kept waiting for this return of their liberties....

For what purpose then have we invented this whole policy and insinuated it
into the minds of the goys without giving them any chance to examine its
underlying meaning? For what, indeed, if not in order to obtain in a
roundabout way what is for our scattered tribe unattainable by the direct
road? It Is this which has served as the basis for our organisation of
secret masonry which is not known to, and aims which are not even so much as
suspected by, these GOY cattle, attracted by us into the "show" army of
Masonic lodges in order to throw dust in the eyes of their fellows.

God has granted to us, His Chosen People, the gift of the dispersion, and in
this which appears in all eyes to be our weakness, has come forth all our
strength, which has now brought us to the threshold of sovereignty over all
the world.

There now remains not much more for us to build up upon the foundation we
have laid.
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                               PROTOCOL NO. 12
 

  Masonic interpretation of the word "freedom." Future of the press in the
   masonic kingdom. Control of the press. Correspondence agencies. What is
  progress as understood by masonry? More about the press. Masonic solidarity
  in the press of to-day. The arousing of "public" demands in the provinces.
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The word "freedom," which can be interpreted in various ways, is defined by
us as follows: -

Freedom is the right to do that which the law allows. This interpretation of
the word will at the proper time be of service to us because all freedom
will thus be in our hands, since the laws will abolish or create only that
which is desirable for us according to the aforesaid programme.

We shall deal with the press in the following way: What is the part played
by the press to-day? It serves to excite and inflame those passions which
are needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends of parties. It is
often vapid, unjust, mendacious, and the majority of the public have not the
slightest idea what ends the press really serves. We shall saddle and bridle
it with a tight curb: we shall do the same also with all productions of the
printing press, for where would be the sense of getting rid of the attacks
of the press if we remain targets for pamphlets and books? The produce of
publicity, which nowadays is a source of heavy expense owing to the
necessity of censoring it, will be turned by us into a very lucrative source
of income to our State: we shall lay on it a special stamp tax and require
deposits of caution-money before permitting the establishment of any organ
of the press or of printing offices; these will then have to guarantee our
government against any kind of attack on the part of the press. For any
attempt to attack us, if such still be possible, we shall inflict fines
without mercy. Such measures as stamp tax, deposit of caution-money and
fines secured by these deposits, will bring in a huge income to the
government. It is true that party organs might not spare money for the sake
of publicity, but these we shall shut up at the second attack upon us. No
one shall with impunity lay a finger on the aureole of our government
infallibility. The pretext for stopping any publication will be the alleged
plea that it is agitating the public mind without occasion or justification.
I BEG YOU TO NOTE THAT AMONG THOSE MAKING ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO BE
ORGANS ESTABLISHED BY US, BUT THEY WILL ATTACK EXCLUSIVELY POINTS THAT WE
HAVE PRE-DETERMINED TO ALTER.

NOT A SINGLE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL REACH THE PUBLIC WITHOUT OUR CONTROL. Even
now this is already being attained by us inasmuch as all news items are
received by a few agencies, in whose offices they are focused from all parts
of the world. These agencies will then be already entirely ours and will
give publicity only to what we dictate to them.

If already now we have contrived to possess ourselves of the minds of the
goy communities to such an extent that they all come near looking upon the
events of the world through the coloured glasses of those spectacles we are
setting astride their noses: if already now there is not a single State
where there exist for us any barriers to admittance into what goy stupidity
calls State secrets: what will our position be then, when we shall be
acknowledged supreme lords of the world in the person of our king of all the
world....

Let us turn again to the FUTURE OF THE PRINTING PRESS. Every one desirous of
being a publisher, librarian, or printer, will be obliged to provide himself
with the diploma instituted therefor, which, in case of any fault, will be
immediately impounded. With such measures THE INSTRUMENT OF THOUGHT WILL
BECOME AN EDUCATIVE MEANS IN THE HANDS OF OUR GOVERNMENT, WHICH WILL NO
LONGER ALLOW THE MASS OF THE NATION TO BE LED ASTRAY IN BY-WAYS AND
FANTASIES ABOUT THE BLESSINGS OF PROGRESS. Is there any one of us who does
not know that these phantom blessings are the direct roads to foolish
imaginings which give birth to anarchical relations of men among themselves
and towards authority, because progress, or rather the idea of progress, has
introduced the conception of every kind of emancipation, but has failed to
establish its limits.... All the so-called liberals are anarchists, if not
in fact, at any rate in thought. Every one of them is hunting after phantoms
of freedom, and falling exclusively into license, that is, into the anarchy
of protest for the sake of protest....

We turn to the periodical press. We shall impose on it, as on all printed
matter, stamp taxes per sheet and deposits of caution-money, and books of
less than 30 sheets will pay double. We shall reckon them as pamphlets in
order, on the one hand, to reduce the number of magazines, which are the
worst form of printed poison, and, on the other, in order that this measure
may force writers into such lengthy productions that they will be little
read, especially as they will be costly. At the same time what we shall
publish ourselves to influence mental development in the direction laid down
for our profit will be cheap and will be read voraciously. The tax will
bring vapid literary ambitions within bounds and the liability to penalties
will make literary men dependent upon us. And if there should be any found
who are desirous of writing against us, they will not find any person eager
to print their productions. Before accepting any production for publication
in print the publisher or printer will have to apply to the authorities for
permission to do so. Thus we shall know beforehand of all tricks preparing
against us and shall nullify them by getting ahead with explanations on the
subject treated of.

Literature and journalism are two of the most important educative forces,
and therefore our government will become proprietor of the majority of the
journals. This will neutralise the injurious influence of the privately
owned press and will put us in possession of a tremendous influence upon the
public mind... If we give permits for ten journals, we shall ourselves found
thirty, and so on in the same proportion. This, however, must in nowise be
suspected by the public. For which reason all journals published by us will
be of the most opposite, in appearance, tendencies and opinions, thereby
creating confidence in us and bringing over to us our quite unsuspicious
opponents, who will thus fall into our trap and be rendered harmless.

In the front rank will stand organs of an official character. They will
always stand guard over our interests, and therefore their influence will be
comparatively insignificant.

In the second rank will be the semi-official organs, whose part it will be
to attract the tepid and indifferent.

In the third rank we shall set up our own, to all appearance, opposition,
which, in at least one of its organs will present what looks like the very
antipodes to us. Our real opponents at heart will accept this simulated
opposition as their own and will show us their cards.

All our newspapers will be of all possible complexions - aristocratic,
republican, revolutionary, even anarchical - for so long, of course, as the
constitution exists.... Like the Indian idol Vishnu they will have a hundred
hands and every one of them will have a finger on any one of the public
opinions as required. When a pulse quickens these hands will lead opinion in
the direction of our aims, for an excited patient loses all power of
judgment and easily yields to suggestion. Those fools who will think they
are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own camp will be repeating
our opinion or any opinion that seems desirable for us. In the vain belief
that they are following the organ of their party they will in fact follow
the flag which we hang out for them.

In order to direct our newspaper militia in this sense we must take especial
and minute care in organising this matter. Under the title of central
department of the press we shall institute literary gatherings at which our
agents will without attracting attention issue the orders and watchwords of
the day. By discussing and controverting, but always superficially without
touching the essence of the matter, our organs will carry on a sham fight
fusillade with the official newspapers solely for the purpose of giving
occasion for us to express ourselves more fully than could well be done from
the outset in official announcements, whenever, of course, that is to our
advantage.

THESE ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO SERVE ANOTHER PURPOSE, NAMELY, THAT OUR
SUBJECTS WILL BE CONVINCED OF THE EXISTENCE OF FULL FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND SO
GIVE OUR AGENTS AN OCCASION TO AFFIRM THAT ALL ORGANS WHICH OPPOSE US ARE
EMPTY BABBLERS, since they are incapable of finding any substantial
objections to our orders.

Methods of organisation like these, imperceptible to the public eye but
absolutely true, are the best calculated to succeed in bringing the
attention and the confidence of the public to the side of our government.
Thanks to such methods we shall be in a position as from time to time may be
required, to excite or to tranquillise the public mind on political
questions, to persuade or to confuse, printing now truth, now lies, facts or
their contradictions, according as they may be well or ill received, always
very cautiously feeling our ground before stepping upon it.... WE SHALL HAVE
A SURE TRIUMPH OVER OUR OPPONENTS SINCE THEY WILL NOT HAVE AT THEIR
DISPOSITION ORGANS OF THE PRESS IN WHICH THEY CAN GIVE FULL AND FINAL
EXPRESSION TO THEIR VIEWS owing to the aforesaid methods of dealing with the
press. We shall not even need to refute them except very superficially.

Trial shots like these, fired by us in the third rank of our press, in case
of need, will be energetically refuted by us in our semi-official organs.

Even nowadays, already, to take only the French press, there are forms which
reveal masonic solidarity in acting on the watchword: all organs of the
press are bound together by professional secrecy; like the augurs of old,
not one of their numbers will give away the secret of his sources of
information unless it be resolved to make announcement to them. Not one
journalist will venture to betray this secret, for not one of them is ever
admitted to practise literature unless his whole past has some disgraceful
sore or other. . . These sores would be immediately revealed. So long as
they remain the secret of a few the prestige of the journalist attracts the
majority of the country - the mob follows after him with enthusiasm.

Our calculations are especially extended to the provinces. It is
indispensable for us to inflame there those hopes and impulses with which we
could at any moment fall upon the capital, and we shall represent to the
capitals that these expressions are the independent hopes and impulses of
the provinces. Naturally, the source of them will be always one and the same
- ours. WHAT WE NEED IS THAT, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE ARE IN THE PLENITUDE OF
POWER, THE CAPITALS SHOULD FIND THEMSELVES STIFLED BY THE PROVINCIAL OPINION
OF THE NATION, i.e., OF A MAJORITY ARRANGED BY OUR AGENTUR. What we need is
that at the psychological moment the capitals should not be in a position to
discuss an accomplished fact for the simple reason, if for no other, that it
has been accepted by the public opinion of a majority in the provinces.

WHEN WE ARE IN THE PERIOD OF THE NEW REGIME TRANSITIONAL TO THAT OF OUR
ASSUMPTION OF FULL SOVEREIGNTY. WE MUST NOT ADMIT ANY REVELATIONS BY THE
PRESS OF ANY FORM OF PUBLIC DISHONESTY; IT IS NECESSARY THAT THE NEW REGIME
SHOULD BE THOUGHT TO HAVE SO PERFECTLY CONTENTED EVERYBODY THAT EVEN
CRIMINALITY HAS DISAPPEARED... Cases of the manifestation of criminality
should remain known only to their victims and to chance witnesses - no more.
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The need for daily bread. Questions of the Political. Questions of industry.
      Amusements. People's Palaces. "Truth is One." The great problems.

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The need for daily bread forces the goyim to keep silence and be our humble
servants. Agents taken on to our press from among the goyim will at our
order discuss anything which it is inconvenient for us to issue directly in
official documents, and we meanwhile, quietly amid the din of the discussion
so raised, shall simply take and carry through such measures as we wish and
then offer them to the public as an accomplished fact. No one will dare to
demand the abrogation of a matter once settled, all the more so as it will
be represented as an improvement.... And immediately the press will distract
the current of thought towards new questions (have we not trained people
always to be seeking something new?). Into the discussions of these new
questions will throw themselves those of the brainless dispensers of
fortunes who are not able even now to understand that they have not the
remotest conception about the matters which they undertake to discuss.
Questions of the political are unattainable for any save those who have
guided it already for many ages, the creators.

>From all this you will see that in securing the opinion of the mob we are
only facilitating the working of our machinery, and you may remark that it
is not for actions but for words issued by us on this or that question that
we seem to seek approval. We are constantly making public declaration that
we are guided in all our undertakings by the hope, joined to the conviction,
that are we serving the common weal.

In order to distract people who may be too troublesome from discussions of
questions of the political we are now putting forward what we allege to be
new questions of the political, namely, questions of industry. In this
sphere let them discuss themselves silly! The masses are agreed to remain
inactive, to take a rest from what they suppose to be political activity
(which we trained them to in order to use them as a means of combating the
goy governments) only on condition of being found new employments, in which
we are prescribing them something that looks like the same political object.
In order that the masses themselves may not guess what they are about WE
FURTHER DISTRACT THEM WITH AMUSEMENTS, GAMES, PASTIMES, PASSIONS, PEOPLE'S
PALACES... SOON WE SHALL BEGIN THROUGH THE PRESS TO PROPOSE COMPETITIONS IN
ART, IN SPORT OF ALL KINDS: these interests will finally distract their
minds from questions in which we should find ourselves compelled to oppose
them. Growing more and more disaccustomed to reflect and form any opinions
of their own, people will begin to talk in the same tone as we, because we
alone shall be offering them new directions for thought . . . of course
through such persons as will not be suspected of solidarity with us.

The part played by the liberals, utopian dreamers, will be finally played
out when our government is acknowledged. Till such time they will continue
to do us good service. Therefore we shall continue to direct their minds to
all sorts of vain conceptions of fantastic theories, new and apparently
progressive: for have we not with complete success turned the brainless
heads of the goyim with progress till there is not among the goyim one mind
able to perceive that under this word lies a departure from truth in all
cases where it is not a question of material inventions, for truth is one
and in it there is no place for progress. Progress, like a fallacious idea
serves to obscure truth so that none may know it except us the Chosen of
God, its guardians.

When we come into our kingdom our orators will expound great problems which
have turned humanity upside down in order to bring it at the end under our
beneficent rule.

Who will ever suspect then that ALL THESE PEOPLE WERE STAGE-MANAGED BY US
ACCORDING TO A POLITICAL PLAN WHICH NO ONE HAS SO MUCH AS GUESSED AT IN THE
COURSE OF MANY CENTURIES? . . .
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                               PROTOCOL NO. 14
 

The religion of the future. Future conditions of serfdom. Inaccessibility of
knowledge regarding the religion of the future. Pornography and the printed
matter of the future.

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When we come into our kingdom it will be undesirable for us that there
should exist any other religion than ours of the One God with whom our
destiny is bound up by our position as the Chosen People and through whom
our same destiny is united with the destinies of the world. We must
therefore sweep away all other forms of belief. If this gives birth to the
atheist whom we see to-day, it will not, being only a transitional stage,
interfere with our views, but will serve as a warning for those generations
which will hearken to our preaching of the religion of Moses, that, by its
stable and thoroughly elaborated system has brought all the peoples of the
world into subjection to us. Therein we shall emphasise its mystical right,
on which as we shall say, all its educative power is based.... Then at every
possible opportunity we shall publish articles in which we shall make
comparisons between our beneficent rule and those of past ages. The
blessings of 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 government 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.

At the same time we shall not omit to emphasize the historical mistakes of
the goy governments which have tormented humanity for so many centuries by
their lack of understanding of everything that constitutes the true good of
humanity in their chase after fantastic schemes of social blessings and have
never noticed that these schemes kept on producing a worse and never a
better state of the universal relations which are the basis of human
life....

The whole force of our principles and methods will lie in the fact that we
shall present them and expound them as a splendid contrast to the dead and
decomposed old order of things in social life.

Our philosophers will discuss all the shortcomings of the various beliefs of
the GOYIM, BUT NO ONE WILL EVER BRING UNDER DISCUSSION OUR FAITH FROM ITS
TRUE POINT OF VIEW SINCE THIS WILL BE FULLY LEARNED BY NONE SAVE OURS, WHO
WILL NEVER DARE TO BETRAY ITS SECRETS.

IN COUNTRIES KNOWN AS PROGRESSIVE AND ENLIGHTENED WE HAVE CREATED A
SENSELESS, FILTHY, ABOMINABLE LITERATURE. For some time after our entrance
to power we shall continue to encourage its existence in order to provide a
telling relief by contrast to the speeches, party programme, which will be
distributed from exalted quarters of ours.... Our wise men, trained to
become leaders of the goyim, will compose speeches, projects, memoirs,
articles, which will be used by us to influence the minds of the goyim,
directing them towards such understanding and forms of knowledge as have
been determined by us.
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                               PROTOCOL NO. 15
 

One-day "coup d'etat (revolution) over all the world. Executions. Future lot
  of GOYIM-masons. Mysticism of authority. Multiplication of masonic lodges.
  Central governing board of masonic elders. The "Azev-tactics." Masonry as
  leader and guide of all secret societies. Significance of public applause.
  Collectivism. Victims. Executions of masons. Fall of the prestige of laws
and authority. Our position as the Chosen people. Brevity and clarity of the
  laws of the kingdom of the future. Obedience to orders. Measures against
  abuse of authority. Severity of penalties. Age-limit for judges. Liberalism
    of judges and authorities. The money of all the world. Absolutism of
  masonry. Right of appeal. Patriarchal "outside appearance" of the power of
  the future "ruler." Apotheosis of the ruler. The right of the strong as one
       and only right. The King of Israel. Patriarch of all the world.

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When we at last definitely come into our kingdom by the aid of COUPS D'ETAT
prepared everywhere for one and the same day, after the worthlessness of all
existing forms of government has been definitely acknowledged (and not a
little time will pass before that comes about, perhaps even a whole century)
we shall make it our task to see that against us such things as plots shall
no longer exist. With this purpose we shall slay without mercy all who take
arms (in hand) to oppose our coming into our kingdom. Every kind of new
institution of anything like a secret society will also be punished with
death; those of them which are now in existence are known to us, serve us
and have served us, we shall disband and send into exile to continents far
removed from Europe. IN THIS WAY WE SHALL PROCEED WITH THOSE GOY-MASONS WHO
KNOW TOO MUCH; such of these as we may for some reason spare will be kept in
constant fear of exile. We shall promulgate a law making all former members
of secret societies liable to exile from Europe as the centre of our rule.

Resolutions of our government will be final, without appeal.

In the goy societies in which we have planted and deeply rooted discord and
protestantism, the only possible way of restoring order is to employ
merciless measures that prove the direct force of authority: no regard must
be paid to the victims who fall, they suffer for the well-being of the
future. The attainment of that well-being, even at the expense of
sacrifices, is the duty of any kind of government that acknowledges as
justification for its existence not only its privileges but its obligations.
The principal guarantee of stability of rule is to confirm the aureole of
power and this aureole is attained only by such a majestic inflexibility of
might as shall carry on its face the emblems of inviolability from mystical
causes - from the choice of God. SUCH WAS, UNTIL RECENT TIMES, THE RUSSIAN
AUTOCRACY, THE ONE AND ONLY SERIOUS FOE WE HAD IN THE WORLD, WITHOUT
COUNTING THE PAPACY. Bear in mind the example when Italy, drenched with
blood, never touched a hair of the head of Sulla who had poured forth that
blood: Sulla enjoyed an apotheosis for his might in the eyes of the people,
though they had been torn in pieces by him, but his intrepid return to Italy
ringed him round with inviolability. The people do not lay a finger on him
who hypnotizes them by his daring and strength of mind.

Meantime, however, until we come into our kingdom, we shall act in the
contrary way: we shall create and multiply free masonic lodges in all the
countries of the world, absorb into them all who may become or who are
prominent in public activity, for in these lodges we shall find our
principal intelligence office and means of influence. All these lodges we
shall bring under one central administration, known to us alone and to all
others absolutely unknown, which will be composed of our learned elders. The
lodges will have their representatives who will serve to screen the
above-mentioned administration of masonry and from whom will issue the
watchword and programme. In these lodges we shall tie together the knot
which binds together all revolutionary and liberal elements. Their
competition will be made up of all strata of society. The most secret
political plot will be known to us and will fall under our guiding hands on
the very day of their conception. AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THESE LODGES WILL BE
ALMOST ALL THE AGENTS OF INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL POLICE since their
service is for us irreplaceable in the respect that the police is in a
position not only to use its own particular measures with the insubordinite,
but also to screen our activities and provide pretexts for discontents, ET
CETERA.

The class of people who most willingly enter into secret societies are those
who live by their wits, careerists, and in general people, mostly
light-minded, with whom we shall have no difficulty in dealing and in using
to wind up the mechanism of the machine devised by us. If this world grows
agitated the meaning of that will be that we have had to stir it up in order
to break up its too great solidarity. BUT IF THERE SHOULD ARISE IN ITS MIDST
A PLOT, THEN AT THE HEAD OF THAT PLOT WILL BE NO OTHER THAN ONE OF OUR MOST
TRUSTED SERVANTS. It is natural that we and no other should lead MASONIC
activities, for we know whither we are leading, we know the final goal of
every form of activity whereas the goyim have knowledge of nothing, not even
of the immediate effect of action; they put before themselves, usually, the
momentary reckoning of the satisfaction of their self-opinion in the
accomplishment of their thought without even remarking that the very
conception never be