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 belonged to their initiative but to our instigation of
their thought....

The goyim enter the lodges out of curiosity or in the hope by their means to
get a nibble at the public pie, and some of them in order to obtain a
hearing before the public for their impracticable and groundless fantasies:
they thirst for the emotion of success and applause, of which we are
remarkably generous. And the reason why we give them this success is to make
use of the high conceit of themselves to which it gives birth, for that
insensibly disposes them to assimilate our suggestions without being on
their guard against them in the fullness of their confidence that it is
their own infallibility which is giving utterance to their own thoughts and
that it is impossible for them to borrow those of others....You cannot
imagine to what extent the wisest of the goyim can be brought to a state of
unconscious naivete in the presence of this condition of high conceit of
themselves, and at the same time how easy it is to take the heart out of
them by the slightest ill success, though it be nothing more than the
stoppage of the applause they had, and to reduce them to a slavish
submission for the sake of winning a renewal of success.... BY SO MUCH AS
OURS DISREGARD SUCCESS IF ONLY THEY CAN CARRY THROUGH THEIR PLANS, BY SO
MUCH THE GOYIM ARE WILLING TO SACRIFICE ANY PLANS ONLY TO HAVE SUCCESS. This
psychology of theirs materially facilitates for us the task of setting them
in the required direction. These tigers in appearance have the souls of
sheep and the wind blows freely through their heads. We have set them on the
hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic
unit of COLLECTIVISM.... They have never yet and they never will have the
sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most
important law of nature which has established from the very creation of the
world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting
individuality....

If we have been able to bring them to such a pitch of stupid blindness is it
not a proof, and an amazingly clear proof, of the degree to which the mind
of the goyim is undeveloped in comparison with our mind? This it is, mainly,
which guarantees our success.

And how far-seeing were our learned elders in ancient times when they said
that to attain a serious end it behoves not to stop at any means or to count
the victims sacrificed for the sake of that end.... We have not counted the
victims of the seed of the goy cattle, though we have sacrificed many of our
own, but for that we have now already given them such a position on the
earth as they could not even have dreamed of. The comparatively small
numbers of the victims from the number of ours have preserved our
nationality from destruction.

Death is the inevitable end for all. It is better to bring that end nearer
to those who hinder our affairs than to ourselves, to the founders of this
affair. WE EXECUTE MASONS IN SUCH WISE THAT NONE SAVE THE BROTHERHOOD CAN
EVER HAVE A SUSPICION OF IT, NOT EVEN THE VICTIMS THEMSELVES OF OUR DEATH
SENTENCE, THEY ALL DIE WHEN REQUIRED AS IF FROM A NORMAL KIND OF ILLNESS...
Knowing this, even the brotherhood in its turn dare not protest. By such
methods we have plucked out of the midst of MASONRY the very root of protest
against our disposition. While preaching liberalism to the goyim we at the
same time keep our own people and our agents in a state of unquestioning
submission.

Under our influence the execution of the laws of the goyim has been reduced
to a minimum. The prestige of the law has been exploded by the liberal
interpretations introduced into this sphere. In the most important and
fundamental affairs and questions judges decide as we dictate to them, see
matters in the light wherewith we enfold them for the administration of the
goyim, of course, through persons who are our tools though we do not appear
to have anything in common with them - by newspaper opinion or by other
means.... Even senators and the higher administration accept our counsels.
The purely brute mind of the goyim is incapable of use for analysis and
observation, and still more for the foreseeing whither a certain manner of
setting a question may tend.

In this difference in capacity for thought between the goyim and ourselves
may be clearly discerned the seal of our position on the Chosen People and
of our higher quality of humaness, in contradistinction to the brute mind of
the goyim. Their eyes are open, but see nothing before them and do not
invent (unless, perhaps, material things). From this it is plain that nature
herself has destined us to guide and rule the world. When comes the time of
our overt rule, the time to manifest its blessings, we shall remake all
legislatures, all our laws will be brief, plain, stable, without any kind of
interpretations, so that anyone will he in a position to know them
perfectly. The main feature which will run right through them is submission
to orders, and this principle will be carried to a grandiose height. Every
abuse will then disappear in consequence of the responsibility of all down
to the lowest unit before the higher authority of the representative of
power. Abuses of power subordinate to this last instance will be so
mercilessly punished that none will be found anxious to try experiments with
their own powers. We shall follow up jealously every action of the
administration on which depends the smooth running of the machinery of the
State, for slackness in this produces slackness everywhere; not a single
case of illegality or abuse of power will be left without exemplary
punishment.

Concealment of guilt, connivance between those in the service of the
administration - all this kind of evil will disappear after the very first
examples of severe punishment. The aureole of our power demands suitable,
that is, cruel, punishments for the slightest infringement, for the sake of
gain, of its supreme prestige. The sufferer, though his punishment may
exceed his fault, will count as a soldier falling on the administrative
field of battle in the interest of authority, principle and law, which do
not permit that any of those who hold the reins of the public coach should
turn aside from the public highway to their own private paths. FOR EXAMPLE:
OUR JUDGES WILL KNOW THAT WHENEVER THEY FEEL DISPOSED TO PLUME THEMSELVES ON
FOOLISH CLEMENCY THEY ARE VIOLATING THE LAW OF JUSTICE WHICH IS INSTITUTED
FOR THE EXEMPLARY EDIFICATION OF MEN BY PENALTIES FOR LAPSES AND NOT FOR
DISPLAY OF THE SPIRITUAL QUALITIES OF THE JUDGE.... Such qualities it is
proper to show in private life, but not in a public square which is the
educationary basis of human life.

Our legal staff will serve not beyond the age of 55, firstly because old men
more obstinately hold to prejudiced opinions, and are less capable of
submitting to new directions and second because this will give us the
possibility by this measure of securing elasticity in the changing of staff,
which will thus the more easily bend under our pressure: he who wishes to
keep his place will have to give blind obedience to deserve it. In general,
our judges will be elected by us only from among those who thoroughly
understand that the part they have to play is to punish and apply laws and
not to dream about the manifestations of liberalism at the expense of the
educationary scheme of the State as the goyim in these days imagine it to
be.... This method of shuffling the staff will serve also to explode any
collective solidarity of those in the same service and will bind all to the
interests of the government upon which their fate will depend. The young
generation of judges will be trained in certain views regarding the
inadmissibility of any abuses that might disturb the established order of
our subjects among themselves.

In these days the judges of the goyim create indulgences to every kind of
crime, not having a just understanding of their office, because the rulers
of the present age in appointing judges to office tale no care to inculcate
in them a sense of duty and consciousness of the matter which is demanded of
them. As a brute beast lets out its young in search of prey, so do the goyim
give their subjects places of profit without thinking to make clear to them
for what purpose such place was created. This is the reason why their
governments are being ruined by their own forces through the acts of their
own administration.

Let us borrow from the example of the results these actions yet another
lesson for our government.

We shall root out liberalism from all the important strategic posts of our
government on which depends the training of subordinates for our State
structure. Such posts will fall exclusively to those who have been trained
by us for administrative rule. To the possible objection that the retirement
of old servants will cost the Treasury heavily, I reply, firstly, they will
be provided with some private service in place of what they lose, and,
secondly, I have to remark that all the money in the world will be
concentrated in our hands, consequently it is not our government that has to
fear expense. Our absolutism will in all things be logically consecutive and
therefore in each one of its decrees our supreme will will be respected and
unquestionably fulfilled: it will ignore all murmurs, all discontents of
every kind and will destroy to the root every kind of manifestation of them
in act by punishment of an exemplary character.

We shall abolish the right of cassation, which will be transferred
exclusively to our disposal - to the cognisance of him who rules, for we
must not allow the conception among the people of a thought that there could
be such a thing as a decision that is not right of judges set up by us. If,
however, anything like this should occur, we shall ourselves cassate the
decision, but inflict therewith such exemplary punishment on the judge for
lack of understanding of his duty and the purpose of his appointment as will
prevent a repetition of such cases.... I repeat that it must be borne in
mind that we shall know every step of our administration which only needs to
be closely watched for the people to be content with us, for it has the
right to demand from a good government a good official.

OUR GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE THE APPEARANCE OF A PATRIARCHAL PATERNAL
GUARDIANSHIP ON THE PART OF OUR RULER. Our own nation and our own subjects
will discern in his person a father caring for their every need, their every
act, their every inter-relation as subjects one with another, as well as
their relations to the ruler. They will then be so thoroughly imbued with
the thought that it is impossible for them to dispense with this wardship
and guidance, if they wish to live in peace and quiet, THAT THEY WILL
ACKNOWLEDGE THE AUTOCRACY OF OUR RULER WITH A DEVOTION BORDERING ON
APOTHEOSIS, especially when they are convinced that those whom we set up do
not put their own in place of his authority, but only blindly execute his
dictates. They will be rejoiced that we have regulated everything in their
lives as is done by wise parents who desire to train their children in the
cause of duty and submission. For the peoples of the world in regard to the
secrets of our polity are ever through the ages only children under age,
precisely as are their governments.

As you see, I found our despotism on right and duty: the right to compel the
execution of duty is the direct obligation of a government which is a father
for its subjects. It has the right of the strong that it may use it for the
benefit of directing humanity towards that order which is defined by nature,
namely, submission. Everything in the world is in a state of submission, if
not to man, then to circumstances or its own inner character, in all cases,
to what is stronger. And so shall we be this something stronger for the sake
of good.

We are obliged without hesitation to sacrifice individuals, who commit a
breach of established order, for in the exemplary punishment of evil lies a
great educational problem.

When the King of Israel sets upon his sacred head the crown offered him by
Europe he will become patriarch of the world. The indispensable victims
offered by him in consequence of their suitability will never reach the
number of victims offered in the course of centuries by the mania of
magnificence, the emulation between the goy governments.

Our King will be in constant communion with the peoples, making to them from
the tribune speeches which fame will in that same hour distribute all over
the world.
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                               PROTOCOL NO. 16
 

  Emasculation of the universities. Substitute for classicism. Training and
   calling. Advertisement of the authority of "the ruler" in the schools.
  Abolition of freedom of instruction. New Theories. Independence of thought.
                        Teaching by object lessons.

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In order to effect the destruction of all collective forces except ours we
shall emasculate the first stage of collectivism - the UNIVERSITIES, by
re-educating them in a new direction. THEIR OFFICIALS AND PROFESSORS WILL BE
PREPARED FOR THEIR BUSINESS BY DETAILED SECRET PROGRAMMES OF ACTION FROM
WHICH THEY WILL NOT WITH IMMUNITY DIVERGE, NOT BY ONE IOTA. THEY WILL BE
APPOINTED WITH ESPECIAL PRECAUTION, AND WILL BE SO PLACED AS TO BE WHOLLY
DEPENDENT UPON THE GOVERNMENT.

We shall exclude from the course of instruction State Law as also all that
concerns the political question. These subjects will be taught to a few
dozens of persons chosen for their pre-eminent capacities from among the
number of the initiated. THE UNIVERSITIES MUST NO LONGER SEND OUT FROM THEIR
HALLS MILKSOPS CONCOCTING PLANS FOR A CONSTITUTION, LIKE A COMEDY OR A
TRADEDY, BUSYING THEMSELVES WITH QUESTIONS OF POLICY IN WHICH EVEN THEIR OWN
FATHERS NEVER HAD ANY POWER OF THOUGHT.

The ill-guided acquaintance of a large number of persons with questions of
polity creates utopian dreamers and bad subjects, as you can see for
yourselves from the example of the universal education in this direction of
the goyim. We must introduce into their education all those principles which
have so brilliantly broken up their order. But when we are in power we shall
remove every kind of disturbing subject from the course of education and
shall make out of the youth obedient children of authority, loving him who
rules as the support and hope of peace and quiet.

Classicism, as also any form of study of ancient history, in which there are
more bad than good examples, we shall replace with the study of the
programme of the future. We shall erase from the memory of men all facts of
previous centuries which are undesirable to us, and leave only those which
depict all the errors of the government of the goyim. The study of practical
life, of the obligations of order, of the relations of people one to
another, of avoiding bad and selfish examples, which spread the infection of
evil, and similar questions of an educative nature, will stand in the
forefront of the teaching programme, which will be drawn up on a separate
plan for each calling or state of life, in no wise generalising the
teaching. This treatment of the question has special importance.

Each state of life must be trained within strict limits corresponding to its
destination and work in life. The OCCASIONAL GENIUS HAS ALWAYS MANAGED AND
ALWAYS WILL MANAGE TO SLIP THROUGH INTO OTHER STATES OF LIFE, BUT IT IS THE
MOST PERFECT FOLLY FOR THE SAKE OF THIS RARE OCCASIONAL GENIUS TO LET
THROUGH INTO RANKS FOREIGN TO THEM THE UNTALENTED WHO THUS ROB OF THEIR
PLACES THOSE WHO BELONG TO THOSE RANKS BY BIRTH OR EMPLOYMENT. YOU KNOW
YOURSELVES IN WHAT ALL THIS HAS ENDED FOR THE GOYIM WHO ALLOWED THIS CRYING
ABSURDITY.

In order that he who rules may be seated firmly in the hearts and minds of
his subjects it is necessary for the time of his activity to instruct the
whole nation in the schools and on the market places about his meaning and
his acts and all his beneficent initiatives.

We shall abolish every kind of freedom of instruction. Learners of all ages
will have the right to assemble together with their parents in the
educational establishments as it were in a club: during these assemblies, on
holidays, teachers will read what will pass as free lectures on questions of
human relations, of the laws of examples, of the limitations which are born
of unconscious relations, and, finally, of the philosophy of new theories
not yet declared to the world. These theories will be raised by us to the
stage of a dogma of faith as a transitional stage towards our faith. On the
completion of this exposition of our programme of action in the present and
the future I will read you the principles of these theories.

In a word, knowing by the experience of many centuries that people live and
are guided by ideas, that these ideas are imbibed by people only by the aid
of education provided with equal success for all ages of growth, but of
course by varying methods, we shall swallow up and confiscate to our own use
the last scintilla of independence of thought, which we have for long past
been directing towards subjects and ideas useful for us. The system of
bridling thought is already at work in the so-called system of teaching by
OBJECT LESSONS, the purpose of which is to turn the goyim into unthinking
submissive brutes waiting for things to be presented before their eyes in
order to form an idea of them.... In France, one of our best agents,
Bourgeois, has already made public a new programme of teaching by object
lessons.
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                               PROTOCOL NO. 17
 

 Advocacy. Influence of the priesthood of the GOYIM. Freedom of conscience.
  Papal Court. King of the Jews as Patriarch-Pope. How to fight the existing
  Church. Function of contemporary press. Organization of police. Volunteer
     police. Espionage on the pattern of the KABAL espionage. Abuses of
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The practice of advocacy produces men cold, cruel, persistent, unprincipled,
who in all cases take up an impersonal, purely legal standpoint. They have
the inveterate habit to refer everything to its value for the defence and
not to the public welfare of its results. They do not usually decline to
undertake any defence whatever, they strive for an acquittal at all costs,
cavilling over every petty crux of jurisprudence and thereby they demoralise
justice. For this reason we shall set this profession into narrow frames
which will keep it inside this sphere of executive public service.
Advocates, equally with judges, will be deprived of the right of
communication with litigants; they will receive business only from the court
and will study it by notes of re- port and documents, defending their
clients after they have been interrogated in court on facts that have
appeared. They will receive an honorarium without regard to the quality of
the defence. This will render them mere reporters on law-business in the
interests of justice and as counterpoise to the proctor who will be the
reporter in the interests of prosecution; this will shorten business before
the courts. In this way will be established a practice of honest
unprejudiced defence conducted not from personal interest but by conviction.
This will also, by the way, remove the present practice of corrupt bargain
between advocates to agree only to let that side win which pays most...

WE HAVE LONG PAST TAKEN CARE TO DISCREDIT THE PRIESTHOOD OF THE GOYIM, and
thereby to ruin their mission on earth which in these days might still be a
great hindrance to us. Day by day its influence on the peoples of the world
is falling lower. FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE has been declared everywhere, SO
THAT NOW ONLY YEARS DIVIDE US FROM THE MOMENT OF THE COMPLETE WRECKING OF
THAT CHRISTIAN RELIGION: as to other religions we shall have still less
difficulty in dealing with them, but it would be premature to speak of this
now. We shall set clericalism and clericals into such narrow frames as to
make their influence move in retrogressive proportion to its former
progress.

When the time comes finally to destroy the papal court the finger of an
invisible hand will point the nations towards this court. When, however, the
nations fling themselves upon it, we shall come forward in the guise of its
defenders as if to save excessive bloodshed. By this diversion we shall
penetrate to its very bowels and be sure we shall never come out again until
we have gnawed through the entire strength of this place.

THE KING OF THE JEWS WILL BE THE REAL POPE OF THE UNIVERSE, THE PATRIARCH OF
AN INTERNATIONAL CHURCH.

But, IN THE MEANTIME, while we are re-educating youth in new traditional
religions and afterwards in ours, WE SHALL NOT OVERTLY LAY A FINGER ON
EXISTING CHURCHES, BUT WE SHALL FIGHT AGAINST THEM BY CRITICISM CALCULATED
TO PRODUCE SCHISM...

In general, then, our contemporary press will continue to CONVICT State
affairs, religions, incapacities of the goyim, always using the most
unprincipled expressions in order by every means to lower their prestige in
the manner which can only be practised by the genius of our gifted tribe...

Our kingdom will be an apologia of the divinity Vishnu, in whom is found its
personification - in our hundred hands will be, one in each, the springs of
the machinery of social life. We shall see every- thing without the aid of
official police which, in that scope of its rights which we elaborated for
the use of the goyim, hinders governments from seeing. In our programme ONE
- THIRD OF OUR SUBJECTS WILL KEEP THE REST UNDER OBSERVATION from a sense of
duty, on the principle of volunteer service to the State. It will then be no
disgrace to be a spy and informer, but a merit: unfounded denunciations,
however, will be cruelly punished that there may be no development of abuses
of this right.

Our agents will be taken from the higher as well as the lower ranks of
society, from among the administrative class who spend their time in
amusements, editors, printers and publishers, booksellers, clerks, and
salesmen, workmen, coachmen, lackeys, etcetera. This body, having no rights
and not being empowered to take any action on their own account, and
consequently a police without any power, will only witness and report:
verification of their reports and arrests will depend upon a responsible
group of controllers of police affairs, while the actual act of arrest will
be performed by the gendarmerie and the municipal police. Any person not
denouncing anything seen or heard concerning questions of polity will also
be charged with and made responsible for concealment, if it be proved that
he is guilty of this crime.

JUST AS NOWADAYS OUR BRETHREN ARE OBLIGED AT THEIR OWN RISK TO DENOUNCE TO
THE KABAL APOSTATES OF THEIR OWN FAMILY or members who have been noticed
doing anything in opposition to the KABAL, SO IN OUR KINGDOM OVER ALL THE
WORLD IT WILL BE OBLIGATORY FOR ALL OUR SUBJECTS TO OBSERVE THE DUTY OF
SERVICE TO THE STATE IN THIS DIRECTION.

Such an organisation will extirpate abuses of authority, of force, of
bribery, everything in fact which we by our counsels, by our theories of the
superhuman rights of man, have introduced into the customs of the goyim...
But how else were we to procure that increase of causes predisposing to
disorders in the midst of their administration?... Among the number of those
methods one of the most important is -agents for the restoration of order,
so placed as to have the opportunity in their disintegrating activity of
developing and displaying their evil inclinations - obstinate self-conceit,
irresponsible exercise of authority, and first and foremost, venality.
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                               PROTOCOL NO. 18
 

  Measures of secret defense. Observation of conspiracies from the inside.
  Overt secret defense - the ruin of authority. Secret defense of the King of
  the Jews. Mystical prestige of authority. Arrest on the first suspicion.

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When it becomes necessary for us to strengthen the strict measures of secret
defence (the most fatal poison for the prestige of authority) we shall
arrange a simulation of disorders or some manifestation of discontents
finding expression through the co-operation of good speakers. Round these
speakers will assemble all who are sympathetic to his utterances. This will
give us the pretext for domiciliary perquisitions and surveillance on the
part of our servants from among the number of the GOYIM POLICE...

As the majority of the conspirators act out of love for the game, for the
sake of talking, so, until they commit some overt act we shall not lay a
finger on them but only introduce into their midst observation elements...
It must be remembered that the prestige of authority is lessened if it
frequently discovers conspiracies against itself: this implies a presumption
of consciousness of weakness, or, what is still worse, of injustice. You are
aware that we have broken the prestige of the goy kings by frequent attempts
upon their lives through our agents, blind sheep of our flock, who are
easily moved by a few liberal phrases to crimes provided only they be
painted in political colours. WE HAVE COMPELLED THE RULERS TO ACKNOWLEDGE
THEIR WEAKNESS IN ADVERTISING OVERT MEASURES OF SECRET DEFENCE AND THEREBY
WE SHALL BRING THE PROMISE OF AUTHORITY TO DESTRUCTION.

Our ruler will be secretly protected only by the most insignificant guard,
because we shall not admit so much as a thought that there could exist
against him any sedition with which he is not strong enough to contend and
is compelled to hide from it.

If we should admit this thought, as the goyim have done and are doing, we
should IPSO FACTO be signing a death sentence, if not for our ruler, at any
rate for his dynasty, at no distant date.

According to strictly enforced outward appearances our ruler will employ his
power only for the advantage of the nation and in no wise for his own or
dynastic profits. Therefore, with the observance of this decorum, his
authority will be respected and guarded by the subjects themselves, it will
receive an apotheosis in the admission that with it is bound up the
well-being of every citizen of the State, for upon it will depend all order
in the common life of the pack...

OVERT DEFENSE OF THE KING ARGUES WEAKNESS IN THE ORGANISATION OF HIS
STRENGTH.

Our ruler will always among the people be surrounded by a mob of apparently
curious men and women, who will occupy the front ranks about him, to all
appearance by chance, and will restrain the ranks of the rest out of respect
as it will appear for good order. This will sow an example of restraint also
in others. If a petitioner appears among the people trying to hand a
petition and forcing his way through the ranks, the first ranks must receive
the petition and before the eyes of the petitioner pass it to the ruler, so
that all may know that what is handed in reaches its destination, that,
consequently, there exists a control of the ruler himself. The aureole of
power requires for its existence that the people may be able to say: "If the
king knew of this," or: "the king will hear of it."

WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICIAL SECRET DEFENSE THE MYSTICAL PRESTIGE OF
AUTHORITY DISAPPEARS: given a certain audacity, and everyone counts himself
master of it, the sedition-monger is conscious of his strength, and when
occasion serves watches for the moment to make an attempt upon authority...

For the goyim we have been preaching something else, but by that very fact
we are enabled to see what measures of overt defence have brought them to...

Criminals with us will be arrested at the first more or less well- grounded
suspicion; it cannot be allowed that out of fear of a possible mistake an
opportunity should be given of escape to persons suspected of a political
lapse or crime, for in these matters we shall be literally merciless. If it
is still possible, by stretching a point, to admit a reconsideration of the
motive causes in simple crimes, there is no possibility of excuse for
persons occupying themselves with questions in which nobody except the
government can understand anything... And it is not all governments that
understand true policy.
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                               PROTOCOL NO. 19
 

   The right of presenting petitions and projects. Sedition. Indictment of
            political crimes. Advertisement of political crimes.

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If we do not permit any independent dabbling in the political we shall on
the other hand encourage every kind of report or petition with proposals for
the government to examine into all kinds of projects for the amelioration of
the condition of the people; this will reveal to us the defects or else the
fantasies of our subjects, to which we shall respond either by accomplishing
them or by a wise rebutment to prove the short-sightedness of one who judges
wrongly.

Sedition-mongering is nothing more than the yapping of a lap-dog at an
elephant. For a government well organised, not from the police but from the
public point of view, the lap-dog yaps at the elephant in entire
unconsciousness of its strength and importance. It needs no more than to
take a good example to show the relative importance of both and the lap-dogs
will cease to yap and will wag their tails the moment they set eyes on an
elephant.

In order to destroy the prestige of heroism for political crime we shall
send it for trial in the category of thieving, murder, and every kind of
abominable and filthy crime. Public opinion will then confuse in its
conception this category of crime with the disgrace attaching to every other
and will brand it with the same contempt.

We have done our best, and I hope we have succeeded, to obtain that the
goyim should not arrive at this means of contending with sedition. It was
for this reason that through the press and in speeches, indirectly - in
cleverly compiled schoolbooks on history, we have advertised the martyrdom
alleged to have been accepted by sedition-mongers for the idea of the
commonweal. This advertisement has increased the contingent of liberals and
has brought thousands of goyim into the ranks of our livestock cattle.
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                               PROTOCOL NO. 20
 

FINANCIAL PROGRAMME. Progressive tax. Stamp progressive taxation. Exchequer,
  interest-bearing papers and stag- nation of currency. Method of accounting.
    Currency issue. Gold standard. Standard of cost of working man power.
   Budget. State loans. One per cent. interest series. Industrial shares.
       Rulers of the GOYIM: courtiers and favouritism. Masonic agents.

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To-day we shall touch upon the financial programme, which I put off to the
end of my report as being the most difficult, the crowning and the decisive
point of our plans. Before entering upon it I will remind you that I have
already spoken before by way of a hint when I said that the sum total of our
actions is settled by the question of figures.

When we come into our kingdom our autocratic government will avoid, from a
principle of self-preservation, sensibly burdening the masses of the people
with taxes, remembering that it plays the part of father and protector. But
as State organisation costs dear it is necessary nevertheless to obtain the
funds required for it. It will, therefore, elaborate with particular
precaution the question of equilibrium in this matter.

Our rule, in which the king will enjoy the legal fiction that everything in
his State belongs to him (which may easily be translated into fact), will be
enabled to resort to the lawful confiscation of all sums of every kind for
the regulation of their circulation in the State. From this follows that
taxation will best be covered by a progressive tax on property. In this
manner the dues will be paid without straitening or ruining anybody in the
form of a percentage of the amount of property. The rich must be aware that
it is their duty to place a part of their superfluities at the disposal of
the State since the State guarantees them security of possession of the rest
of their property and the right of honest gains, I say honest, for the
control over property will do away with robbery on a legal basis.

This social reform must come from above, for the time is ripe for it - it is
indispensable as a pledge of peace.

The tax upon the poor man is a seed of revolution and works to the detriment
of the State which in hunting after the trifling is missing the big. Quite
apart from this, a tax on capitalists diminishes the growth of wealth in
private hands in which we have in these days concentrated it as a
counterpoise to the government strength of the goyim - their State finances.

A tax increasing in a percentage ratio to capital will give a much larger
revenue than the present individual or property tax, which is useful to us
now for the sole reason that it excites trouble and discontent among the
goyim.

The force upon which our king will rest consists in the equilibrium and the
guarantee of peace, for the sake of which things it is indispensable that
the capitalists should yield up a portion of their incomes for the sake of
the secure working of the machinery of the State. State needs must be paid
by those who will not feel the burden and have enough to take from.

Such a measure will destroy the hatred of the poor man for the rich, in who
he will see a necessary financial support for the State, will see in him the
organiser of peace and well-being since he will see that it is the rich man
who is paying the necessary means to attain these things.

In order that payers of the educated classes should not too much distress
themselves over the new payments they will have full accounts given them of
the destination of those payments, with the exception of such sums as will
be appropriated for the needs of the throne and the administrative
institutions.

He who reigns will not have any properties of his own once all in the State
represents his patrimony, or else the one would be in contradiction to the
other; the fact of holding private means would destroy the right of property
in the common possessions of all.

Relatives of him who reigns, his heirs excepted, who will be maintained by
the resources of the State, must enter the ranks of servants of the State or
must work to obtain the right of property; the privilege of royal blood must
not serve for the spoiling of the treasury.

Purchase, receipt of money or inheritance will be subject to the payment of
a stamp progressive tax. Any transfer of property, whether money or other,
without evidence of payment of this tax which will be strictly registered by
names, will render the former holder liable to pat interest on the tax from
the moment of transfer of these sums up to the discovery of his evasion of
declaration of the transfer. Transfer documents must be presented weekly at
the local treasury office with notification of the name, surname and
permanent place of residence of the former and the new holder of the
property. This transfer with register of names must begin from a definite
sum which exceeds the ordinary expenses of buying and selling of
necessaries, and these will be subject to payment only by a stamp impost of
a definite percentage of the unit.

Just strike an estimate of how many times such taxes as these will cover the
revenue of the GOYIM STATES.

The State exchequer will have to maintain a definite complement of reserve
sums, and all that is collected above that complement must be returned into
circulation. On these sums will be organised public works. The initiative of
works of this kind, proceeding from State sources, will bind the working
class family firmly to the interests of the State and to those who reign.
>From these same sums also a part will be set aside as rewards of
inventiveness and productiveness.

On no account should so much as a single unit above the definite and freely
estimated sums be retained in the State treasuries, for money exists to be
circulated and any kind of stagnation of money acts ruinously on the running
of the State machinery, for which it is the lubricant; a stagnation of the
lubricant may stop the regular working of the mechanism.

The substitution of interest-bearing paper for a part of the token of
exchange has produced exactly this stagnation. The consequences of this
circumstance are already sufficiently noticeable.

A court of account will also be instituted by us and in it the ruler will
find at any moment a full accounting for State income and expenditure, with
the exception of the current monthly account, not yet made up, and that of
the preceding month, which will not yet have been delivered.

The one and only person who will have no interest in robbing the State is
its owner, the ruler. This is why his personal control will remove the
possibility of leakages of extravagances.

The representative function of the ruler at receptions for the sake of
etiquette, which absorbs so much invaluable time, will be abolished in order
that the ruler may have time for control and consideration. His power will
not then be split up into fractional parts among timeserving favourites who
surround the throne for its pomp and splendour, and are interested only in
their own and not in the common interests of the State.

Economic crises have been produced by us for the goyim by no other means
than the withdrawal of money from circulation. Huge capitals have stagnated,
withdrawing money from States, which were constantly obliged to apply to
those same stagnant capitals for loans. These loans burdened the finances of
the State with the payment of interest and made them the bond slaves of
these capitals... The concentration of industry in the hands of capitalists
out of the hands of small masters has drained away all the juices of the
peoples and with them also the States...

The present issue of money in general does not correspond with the
requirements per head, and cannot therefore satisfy all the needs of the
workers. The issue of money ought to correspond with the growth of
population and thereby children must also absolutely be reckoned as
consumers of currency from the day of their birth. The revision of issue is
a material question for the whole world.

YOU ARE AWARE THAT THE GOLD STANDARD HAS BEEN THE RUIN OF THE STATES WHICH
ADOPTED IT, FOR IT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO SATIFSY THE DEMANDS FOR MONEY, THE
MORE SO THAT WE HAVE REMOVED GOLD FROM CIRCULATION AS FAR AS POSSIBLE.

With us the standard that must be introduced is the cost of workingman
power, whether it be reckoned in paper or in wood. We shall make the issue
of money in accordance with the normal requirements of each subject, adding
to the quantity with every birth and subtracting with every death.

The accounts will be managed by each department (the French administrative
division), each circle.

In order that there may be no delays in the paying out of money for State
needs the sums and terms of such payments will be fixed by decree of the
ruler; this will do away with the protection by a ministry of one
institution to the detriment of others.

The budgets of income and expenditures will be carried out side by side that
they may not be obscured by distance one to another.

The reforms projected by us in the financial institutions and principles of
the goyim will be closed by us in such forms will alarm nobody. We shall
point out the necessity of reforms in consequence of the disorderly darkness
into which the goyim by their irregularities have plunged the finances. The
first irregularity, as we shall point out, consists in their beginning with
drawing up a single budget which year after year grows owing to the
following cause: this budget is dragged out to half the year, then they
demand a budget to put things right, and this they expend in three months,
after which they ask for a supplementary budget, and all this ends with a
liquidation budget. But, as the budget of the following year is drawn up in
accordance with the sum of the total addition, the annual departure from the
normal reaches as much as 50 per cent. in a year, and so the annual budget
is trebled in ten years. Thanks to such methods, allowed by the carelessness
of the goy States, their treasuries are empty. The period of loans
supervenes, and that has swallowed up remainders and brought all the goy
States to bankruptcy.

You understand perfectly that economic arrangements of this kind, which have
been suggested to the goyim by us, cannot be carried on by us.

Every kind of loan proves infirmity in the State and a want of understanding
of the rights of the State. Loans hang like a sword of Damocles over the
heads of rulers, who, instead of taking from their subjects by a temporary
tax, come begging with outstretched palm of our bankers. Foreign loans are
leeches which there is no possibility of removing from the body of the State
until they fall off of themselves or the State flings them off. But the goy
States do not tear them off; they go on in persisting in putting more on to
themselves so that they must inevitably perish, drained by voluntary
blood-letting.

What also indeed is, in substance, a loan, especially a foreign loan? A loan
is - an issue of government bills of exchange containing a percentage
obligation commensurate to the sum of the loan capital. If the loan bears a
charge of 5 per cent., then in twenty years the State vainly pays away in
interest a sum equal to the loan borrowed, in forty years it is paying a
double sum, in sixty-treble, and all the while the debt remains an unpaid
debt.

>From this calculation it is obvious that with any form of taxation per head
the State is baling out the last coppers of the poor taxpayers in order to
settle accounts with wealthy foreigners, from whom it has borrowed money
instead of collecting these coppers for its own needs without the additional
interest.

So long as the loans were internal the goyim only shuffled their money from
the pockets of the poor to those of the rich, but when we bought up the
necessary person in order to transfer loans into the external sphere all the
wealth of the States flowed into our cash-boxes and all the goyim began to
pay us the tribute of subjects.

If the superficiality of goy kings on their thrones in regard to State
affairs and the venality of ministers or the want of understanding of
financial matters on the part of other ruling persons have made their
countries debtors to our treasuries to amounts quite impossible to pay it
has not been accomplished without on our part heavy expenditure of trouble
and money.

Stagnation of money will not be allowed by us and therefore there will be no
State interest-bearing paper, except at one per cent. series, so that there
will be no payment of interest to leeches that suck all the strength out of
the State. The right to issue interest-bearing paper will be given
exclusively to industrial companies who will find no difficulty in paying
interest out of profits, whereas the State does not make interest on
borrowed money like these companies, for the State borrows to spend and not
to use in operations.

Industrial papers will be bought also by the government which from being as
now a payer of tribute by loan operations will be transformed into a lender
of money at a profit. This measure will stop the stagnation of money,
parasitic profits and idleness, all of which were useful for us among the
goyim so long as they were independent but are not desirable under our rule.

How clear is the undeveloped power of thought of the purely brute brains of
the goyim, as expressed in the fact that they have been borrowing from us
with payment of interest without ever thinking that all the same these very
moneys plus an addition for payment of interest must be got by them for
their own State pockets in order to settle up with us. What could have been
simpler than to take the money they wanted from their own people?

But it is a proof of the genius of our chosen mind that we have contrived to
present the matter of loans to them in such a light that they have even seen
in them an advantage for themselves.

Our accounts, which we shall present when the time comes, in the light of
centuries of experience gained by experiments made by us on the goy States,
will be distinguished by clearness and definiteness and will show at a
glance to all men the advantage of our innovations. They will put an end to
those abuses to which we owe our mastery over the goyim, but which cannot be
allowed in our kingdom.

We shall so hedge about our system of accounting that neither the ruler nor
the most insignificant public servant will be in a position to divert even
the smallest sum from its destination without detection or to direct it in
another direction except that which will be once fixed in a definite plan of
action.

And without a definite plan it is impossible to rule. Marching along an
undetermined road and with undetermined resources brings to ruin by the way
heroes and demi-gods.

The goy rulers, whom we once upon a time advised should be distracted from
State occupations by representative receptions, observances of etiquette,
entertainments, were only screens for our rule. The accounts of favourite
courtiers who replaced them in the sphere of affairs were drawn up for them

by our agents, and every time gave satisfaction to short-sighted minds by
promises that in the future economies and improvements were foreseen...
Economies from what? From new taxes? - were questions that might have been
but were not asked by those who read our accounts and projects...

You know to what they have been brought by this carelessness, to what a
pitch of financial disorder they have arrived, notwithstanding the
astonishing industry of their peoples...
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 Internal loans. Debit and taxes. Conversions. Bankruptcy. Savings banks and
    rentes. Abolition of money markets. Regulation of industrial values.

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To what I reported to you at the last meeting I shall now add a detailed
explanation of external loans. Of foreign loans I shall say nothing more,
because they have fed us with the national moneys of the goyim, but for our
State there will be no foreigners, that is, nothing external.

We have taken advantage of the venality of administrators and the slackness
of rulers to get our moneys twice, thrice and more times over, by lending to
the goy governments moneys which were not at all needed by the States. Could
anyone do the like in regard to us?... Therefore, I shall only deal with the
details of internal loans.

States announce that such a loan is to be concluded and open subscriptions
for their own bills of exchange, that is, for their interestbearing paper.
That they may be within the reach of all the price is determined at from a
hundred to a thousand; and a discount is made for the earliest subscribers.
Next day by artificial means the price of them goes up, the alleged reason
being that everyone is rushing to buy them. In a few days the treasury safes
are as they say overflowing and there's more money than they can do with
(why then take it?). The subscription, it is alleged, covers many times over
the issue total of the loan; in this lies the whole stage effect - look you,
they say, what confidence is shown in the government's bills of exchange.

But when the comedy is played out there emerges the fact that a debit and an
exceedingly burdensome debit has been created. For the payment of interest
it becomes necessary to have recourse to new loans, which do not swallow up
but only add to the capital debt. And when this credit is exhausted it
becomes necessary by new taxes to cover, not the loan, but only the interest
on it. These taxes are a debit employed to cover a debit...

Later comes the time for conversions, but they diminish the payment of
interest without covering the debt, and besides they cannot be made without
the consent of the lenders; on announcing a conversion a proposal is made to
return the money to those who are not willing to con- vert their paper. If
everybody expressed his unwillingness and demanded his money back, the
government would be hooked on their own flies and would be found insolvent
and unable to pay the proposed sums. By good luck the subjects of the goy
governments, knowing nothing about financial affairs, have always preferred
losses on exchange and diminution of interest to the risk of new investments
of their moneys, and have thereby many a time enabled these governments to
throw off their shoulders a debit of several millions.

Nowadays, with external loans, these tricks cannot be played by the goyim
for they know that we shall demand all our moneys back.

In this way an acknowledged bankruptcy will best prove to the various
countries the absence of any means between the interests of the peoples and
those who rule them.

I beg you to concentrate your particular attention upon this point and upon
the following: nowadays all internal loans are consolidated by so-called
flying loans, that is, such as have terms of payments more or less near.
These debts consist of moneys paid into the savings banks and reserve funds.
If left for long at the disposition of a government these funds evaporate in
the payment of interest on foreign loans, and are replaced by the deposit of
equivalent amount of RENTES.

And these last it is which patch up all the leaks in the State treasuries of
the goyim.

When we ascend the throne of the world all these financial and similar
shifts, as being not in accord with our interests, will be swept away so as
not to leave a trace, as also will be destroyed all money markets, since we
will not allow the prestige of our power to be shaken by fluctuations of
prices set upon our values, which we shall announce by law at the price
which represents their full worth without any possibility of lowering or
raising. (Raising gives the pretext for lowering, which indeed was where we
made a beginning in relation to the values of the goyim.)

We shall replace the money markets by grandiose government credit
institutions, the object of which will be to fix the price of industrial
values in accordance with government views. These institutions will be in a
position to fling upon the market five hundred millions of industrial paper
in one day, or to buy up for the same amount. In this way all industrial
undertakings will come into dependence upon us. You may imagine for
yourselves what immense power we shall thereby secure for ourselves... .
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                               PROTOCOL NO. 22
 

 The secret of what is coming. The evil of many centuries as the foundations
    of future well-being. The aureole of power and its mystical worship.

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In all that has so far been reported by me to you, I have endeavoured to
depict with care the secret of what is coming, of what is past, and of what
is going on now, rushing into the flood of the great events coming already
in the near future, the secret of our relations to the goyim and of
financial operations. On this subject there remains still a little for me to
add.

IN OUR HANDS IS THE GREATEST POWER OF OUR DAY - GOLD: IN TWO DAYS WE CAN
PRODUCE FROM OUR STOREHOUSES ANY QUANTITY WE MAY PLEASE.

Surely there is no need to seek further proof that our rule is predestined
by God? Surely we shall not fail with such wealth to prove that all that
evil which for so many centuries we have had to commit has served at the end
of ends the cause of true well-being - the bringing of everything into
order? Though it even be by the exercise of some violence, yet all the same
it will be established. We shall contrive to prove that we are benefactors
who have restored to the rent and mangled earth the true good and also
freedom of the person, and therewith we shall enable it to be enjoyed in
peace and quiet, with proper dignity of relations, on the condition of
course, of strict observance of the laws established by us. We shall make
plain therewith that freedom does not consist in dissipation and in the
right of unbridled license any more than dignity and force of a man do not
consist in the right for everyone to promulgate destructive principles in
the nature of freedom of conscience, equality and the like, that freedom of
the person in no wise consists in the right to agitate oneself and others by
abominable speeches before disorderly mobs, and that true freedom consists
in the inviolability of the person who honourably and strictly observes all
the laws of life in common, that human dignity is wrapped up in
consciousness of the rights and also of the absence of rights of each, and
not wholly and solely in fantastic imaginings about the subject of one's
ego.

Our authority will be glorious because it will be all-powerful, will rule
and guide, and not muddle along after leaders and orators shrieking
themselves hoarse with senseless words which they call great principles and
which are nothing else, to speak honestly, but utopian... Our authority will
be the crown of order, and in that is included the whole happiness of man.
The aureole of this authority will inspire a mystical bowing of the knee
before it and a reverent fear before it of all the peoples. True force makes
no terms with any right, not even with that of God: none dare come near to
it so as to take so much as a span from it away. .
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                               PROTOCOL NO. 23
 

Reduction of the manufacture of articles of luxury. Small master production.
  Unemployment. Prohibition of drunkeness. Killing out of the old society and
           its ressurrection in a new form. The chosen one of God.

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That the peoples may become accustomed to obedience it is necessary to
inculcate lessons of humility and therefore to reduce the production of
articles of luxury. By this we shall improve morals which have been debased
by emulation in the sphere of luxury. We shall re-establish small master
production which will mean laying a mine under the private capital of
manufacturers. This is indispensable also for the reason that manufacturers
on the grand scale often move, though not always consciously, the thoughts
of the masses in directions against the government. A people of small
masters knows nothing of unemployment and this binds him closely with
existing order, and consequently with the firmness of authority.
Unemployment is a most perilous thing for a government. For us its part will
have been played out the moment authority is transferred into our hands.
Drunkenness also will be prohibited by law and punishable as a crime against
the humanness of man who is turned into a brute under the influence of
alcohol.

Subjects, I repeat once more, give blind obedience only to the strong hand
which is absolutely independent of them, for in it they feel the sword of
defence and support against social scourges... What do they want with an
angelic spirit in a king? What they have to see in him is the
personification of force and power.

The supreme lord who will replace all now existing rulers, dragging on their
existence among societies demoralised by us, societies that have denied even
the authority of God, from whose midst breaks out on all sides the fire of
anarchy, must first of all proceed to quench this all-devouring flame.
Therefore he will be obliged to kill off those existing societies, though he
should drench them with his own blood, that he may resurrect them again in
the form of regularly organised troops fighting consciously with every kind
of infection that may cover the body of the State with sores.

This Chosen One of God is chosen from above to demolish the senseless forces
moved by instinct and not reason, by brutishness and not humanness. These
forces now triumph in manifestations of robbery and every kind of violence
under the mask of principles of freedom and rights. They have overthrown all
forms of social order to erect on the ruins the throne of the King of the
Jews; but their part will be played out the moment he enters into his
kingdom. Then it will be necessary to sweep them away from his path, on
which must be left no knot, no splinter.

Then will it be possible for us to say to the peoples of the world: "Give
thanks to God and bow the knee before him who bears on his front the seal of
the predestination of man, to which God Himself has led his star that none
other but He might free us from all the beforementioned forces and evils." .
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                               PROTOCOL NO. 24
 

 Confirming the roots of King David (?). Training of the king. Setting aside
   of direct heirs. The king and three of his sponsors. The king is fate.
       Irreproachability of exterior morality of the King of the Jews.

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I pass now to the method of confirming the dynastic roots of King David to
the last strata of the earth.

This confirmation will first and foremost be included in that in which to
this day has rested the force of conservatism by our learned elders of the
conduct of all the affairs of the world, in the directing of the education
of thought of all humanity.

Certain members of the seed of David will prepare the kings and their heirs,
selecting not by right of heritage but by eminent capacities, inducting them
into the most secret mysteries of the political, into schemes of government,
but providing always that none may come to knowledge of the secrets. The
object of this mode of action is that all may know that government cannot be
entrusted to those who have not been inducted into the secret places of its
art...

To these persons only will be taught the practical application of the
aforenamed plans by comparison of the experiences of many centuries, all the
observations on the politico-economic moves and social sciences - in a word,
all the spirit of laws which have been unshakably established by nature
herself for the regulation of the relations of humanity.

Direct heirs will often be set aside from ascending the throne if in their
time of training they exhibit frivolity, softness and other qualities that
are the ruin of authority, which render them incapable of governing and in
themselves dangerous for kingly office.

Only those who are unconditionally capable for firm, even if it be to
cruelty, direct rule will receive the reins of rule from our learned elders.

In case of falling sick with weakness of will or other form of incapacity,
kings must by law hand over the reins of rule to new and capable hands...

The king's plan of action for the current moment, and all the more so for
the future, will be unknown, even to those who are called his closest
counsellors.

Only the king and the three who stood sponsor for him will know what is
coming.

In the person of the king who with unbending will is master of himself and
of humanity all will discern as it were fate with its mysterious ways. None
will know what the king wishes to attain by his dispositions, and therefore
none will dare to stand across an unknown path.

It is understood that the brain reservoir of the king must correspond in
capacity to the plan of government it has to contain. It is for this reason
that he will ascend the throne not otherwise than after examination of his
mind by the aforesaid learned elders.

That the people may know and love their king it is indispensable for him to
converse in the market-places with his people. This ensures the necessary
clinching of the two forces which are now divided one from another by us by
the terror.

This terror was indispensable for us till the time comes for both these
forces separately to fall under our influence.

The King of the Jews must not be at the mercy of his passions, and
especially of sensuality: on no side of his character must he give brute
instincts power over his mind. Sensuality worse than all else disorganises
the capacities of the mind and clearness of views, distracting the thoughts
to the worst and most brutal side of human activity.

The prop of humanity in the person of the supreme lord of all the world of
the holy seed of David must sacrifice to his people all personal
inclinations.

Our supreme lord must be of an exemplary irreproachability.

[END]
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                CONCLUDING PASSAGE FROM THE EPILOGUE OF NILUS
 

                              (Edition of 1905)

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According to the testament of Montefiore, Zion is not sparing, either of
money or of any other means, to achieve its ends. In our day, all the
governments of the entire world are consciously or unconsciously submissive
to the commands of this great Supergovernment of Zion, because all the bonds
and securities are in its hands; for all countries are indebted to the Jews
for sums which they will never be able to pay. All affairs - industry,
commerce, and diplomacy - are in the hands of Zion. It is by means of its
capital loans that it has enslaved all nations. By keeping education on
purely materialistic lines, the Jews have loaded the Gentiles with heavy
chains with which they have harnessed them to their "Supergovernment".

The end of national liberty is near, therefore personal freedom is
approaching its close; for true liberty cannot exist where Zion uses the
lever of its gold to rule the masses and dominate the most respectable and
enlightened class of society.
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                 "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear".
 

It is nearly four years since the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" came
into my possession. Only God knows what efforts I have made to bring them to
general notice - in vain and even to warn those in power, by disclosing tbe
causes of the storm about to break on apathetic Russia who seems, in her
misfortune, to have lost all notion of what is going on around her.

And it is only now when I fear it may be too late, that I have succeeded in
publishing my work, hoping to put on their guard those who still have ears
to hear and eyes to see.

One can no longer doubt it, the triumphant reign of the King of Israel rises
over our degenerate world as that of Satan, with his power and his terrors;
the King born of the blood of Zion - the Antichrist - is about to mount the
throne of universal empire.

Events are precipitated in the world at a terrifying speed: quarrels, wars,
rumours, famines, epidemics, earthquakes - everything which even yesterday
was impossible, today is an accomplished fact. One would think that the days
pass so rapidly to advance the cause of the chosen people. Space does not
allow us to enter into the details of world history with regard to the
disclosed "mysteries of iniquity", to prove from history the influence which
the "Wise Men of Zion" have exercised through universal misfortunes by
foretelling the certain and already near future of humanity, or by raising
the curtain for the last act of the world's tragedy.

  Only the light of Christ and of his Holy Church Universal can fathom the
         abyss of Satan and disclose the extent of its wickedness.

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I feel in my heart that the hour has already struck when there should
urgently be convoked an Eighth Oecumenical Council which would unite the
pastor and representatives of all Christendom. Secular quarrels and schisms
would all be forgotten in the imminent need of preparing against the coming
of the Antichrist. (1)

(1) This forecast of Sergius Nilus is all the more remarkable, when one
considers that it appeared in the Epilogue to his edition of the Protocols
of 1905.