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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Meetings</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Learned</strong> <strong>Elders</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Zion</strong>, translated by Victor Marsden<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Meetings</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>Learned</strong> <strong>Elders</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Zion</strong><br />

Translated from <strong>the</strong> Russian Text by<br />

Victor E. Marsden<br />

Formerly Russian Correspondent <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong> Morning Post<br />

LONDON<br />

<strong>The</strong> Britons Publishing Society<br />

40, Great Ormond Street, W.C.1.<br />

1933 (2nd reprint)<br />

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Meetings</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Learned</strong> <strong>Elders</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Zion</strong>, translated by Victor Marsden<br />

<strong>The</strong> Table <strong>of</strong> Contents can be found at <strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong> this document<br />

and also by clicking <strong>the</strong> section and paragraph headings.<br />

Preface<br />

p.1.<br />

THE AUTHOR OF THIS TRANSLATION <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> famous <strong>Protocols</strong> was<br />

himself a victim <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Revolution. He had lived for many years in Russia and<br />

was married to a Russian lady. Among his o<strong>the</strong>r activities in Russia he had<br />

been for a number <strong>of</strong> years a Russian Correspondent <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Morning Post, a<br />

position which he occupied when <strong>the</strong> Revolution broke out, and his vivid<br />

descriptions <strong>of</strong> events in Russia will still be in <strong>the</strong> recollection <strong>of</strong> many <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

readers <strong>of</strong> that Journal. Naturally he was singled out for <strong>the</strong> anger <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Soviet. On <strong>the</strong> day that Captain Cromie was murdered by Jews, Victor<br />

Marsden was arrested and thrown into <strong>the</strong> Peter-Paul Prison, expecting every<br />

day to have his name called out for execution. This, however, he escaped,<br />

and eventually he was allowed to return to England very much <strong>of</strong> a wreck in<br />

bodily health. However, he recovered under treatment and <strong>the</strong> devoted care<br />

<strong>of</strong> his wife and friends. One <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> first things he undertook, as soon as he<br />

was able, was this translation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong>. Mr. Marsden was eminently<br />

well qualified for <strong>the</strong> work. His intimate acquaintance with Russia, Russian life<br />

and <strong>the</strong> Russian language on <strong>the</strong> one hand, and his mastery <strong>of</strong> a terse<br />

literary English style on <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r, placed him in a position <strong>of</strong> advantage<br />

which few o<strong>the</strong>rs could claim. <strong>The</strong> consequence is that we have in his version<br />

an eminently readable work, and though <strong>the</strong> subject-matter is somewhat<br />

formless, Mr. Marsden's literary touch reveals <strong>the</strong> thread running through <strong>the</strong><br />

twenty-four <strong>Protocols</strong>. <strong>The</strong> Summary placed at <strong>the</strong> head <strong>of</strong> each is Mr.<br />

Marsden's own, and will be found very useful in acquiring a comprehensive<br />

view <strong>of</strong> its scope.<br />

p.2.<br />

It may be said with truth that this work was carried out at <strong>the</strong> cost <strong>of</strong> Mr.<br />

Marsden's own life's blood. He told <strong>the</strong> writer <strong>of</strong> this Preface that he could not<br />

stand more than an hour at a time <strong>of</strong> his work on it in <strong>the</strong> British Museum, as<br />

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<strong>the</strong> diabolical spirit <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> matter which he was obliged to turn into English<br />

made him positively ill.<br />

p.3.<br />

Mr. Marsden's connection with <strong>the</strong> Morning Post was not severed by his<br />

return to England, and he was well enough to accept <strong>the</strong> post <strong>of</strong> special<br />

correspondent <strong>of</strong> that journal in <strong>the</strong> suite <strong>of</strong> H.R.H., <strong>the</strong> Prince <strong>of</strong> Wales on<br />

his Empire tour. From this he returned with <strong>the</strong> Prince, apparently in much<br />

better health, but within a few days <strong>of</strong> his landing he was taken suddenly ill,<br />

and died after a very brief illness.<br />

p.4.<br />

May this work be his crowning monument! In it he has performed an immense<br />

service to <strong>the</strong> English-speaking world, and <strong>the</strong>re can be little doubt that it will<br />

take its place in <strong>the</strong> first rank <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> English versions <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>Meetings</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Learned</strong> <strong>Elders</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Zion</strong>.<br />

Introduction<br />

i.1.<br />

OF THE PROTOCOLS THEMSELVES little need be said in <strong>the</strong> way <strong>of</strong><br />

introduction. <strong>The</strong> book in which <strong>the</strong>y are embodied was published by Sergyei<br />

Nilus in Russia in 1905. A copy <strong>of</strong> this is in <strong>the</strong> British Museum bearing <strong>the</strong><br />

date <strong>of</strong> its reception, August 10, 1906. All copies that were known to exist in<br />

Russia were destroyed in <strong>the</strong> Kerensky regime, and under his successors <strong>the</strong><br />

possession <strong>of</strong> a copy by anyone in Soviet land was a crime sufficient to<br />

ensure <strong>the</strong> owner's <strong>of</strong> being shot on sight. <strong>The</strong> fact is in itself sufficient pro<strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> genuineness <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong>. <strong>The</strong> Jewish journals, <strong>of</strong> course, say that<br />

<strong>the</strong>y are a forgery, leaving it to be understood that Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Nilus, who<br />

embodied <strong>the</strong>m in a work <strong>of</strong> his own, had concocted <strong>the</strong>m for his own<br />

purposes.<br />

i.2.<br />

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Mr. Henry Ford, in an interview published in <strong>the</strong> New York World, February<br />

17th, 1921, put <strong>the</strong> case for Nilus tersely and convincingly thus:<br />

Indeed <strong>the</strong>y do!<br />

<strong>The</strong> only statement I care to make about <strong>the</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong> is that<br />

<strong>the</strong>y fit in with what is going on. <strong>The</strong>y are sixteen years old,<br />

and <strong>the</strong>y have fitted <strong>the</strong> world situation up to this time. <strong>The</strong>y fit<br />

it now.<br />

i.3.<br />

<strong>The</strong> word "Protocol" signifies a precis gummed on to <strong>the</strong> front <strong>of</strong> a document,<br />

a draft <strong>of</strong> a document, minutes <strong>of</strong> proceedings. In this instance, "Protocol"<br />

means minutes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> proceedings <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Meetings</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Learned</strong> <strong>Elders</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Zion</strong>. <strong>The</strong>se <strong>Protocols</strong> give <strong>the</strong> substance <strong>of</strong> addresses delivered to <strong>the</strong><br />

innermost circle <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Rulers <strong>of</strong> <strong>Zion</strong>. <strong>The</strong>y reveal <strong>the</strong> converted plan <strong>of</strong><br />

action <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jewish Nation developed through <strong>the</strong> ages and edited by <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>Elders</strong> <strong>the</strong>mselves up to date. Parts and summaries <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> plan have been<br />

published from time to time during <strong>the</strong> centuries as <strong>the</strong> secrets <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Elders</strong><br />

have leaked out. <strong>The</strong> claim <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jews that <strong>the</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong> are forgeries is in<br />

itself an admission <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir genuineness, for <strong>the</strong>y never attempt to answer <strong>the</strong><br />

facts corresponding to <strong>the</strong> threats which <strong>the</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong> contain, and, indeed,<br />

<strong>the</strong> correspondence between prophecy and fulfillment is too glaring to be set<br />

aside or obscured. This <strong>the</strong> Jews well know and <strong>the</strong>refore evade.<br />

i.4.<br />

<strong>The</strong> presumption is strong that <strong>the</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong> were issued, or reissued, at <strong>the</strong><br />

First <strong>Zion</strong>ist Congress held at Basle in 1897 under <strong>the</strong> presidency <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Fa<strong>the</strong>r <strong>of</strong> Modern <strong>Zion</strong>ism, <strong>the</strong> late <strong>The</strong>odore Herzl.<br />

i.5.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re has been recently published a volume <strong>of</strong> Herzl's "Diaries," a translation<br />

<strong>of</strong> some passages which appeared in <strong>the</strong> Jewish Chronicle <strong>of</strong> July 14, 1922.<br />

Herzl gives an account <strong>of</strong> his first visit to England in 1895, and his<br />

conversation with Colonel Goldsmid, a Jew brought up as a Christian, an<br />

<strong>of</strong>ficer in <strong>the</strong> English Army, and at heart a Jew Nationalist all <strong>the</strong> time.<br />

Goldsmid suggested to Herzl that <strong>the</strong> best way <strong>of</strong> expropriating <strong>the</strong> English<br />

aristocracy, and so destroying <strong>the</strong>ir power to protect <strong>the</strong> people <strong>of</strong> England<br />

against Jew domination, was to put excessive taxes on <strong>the</strong> land. Herzl<br />

thought this an excellent idea, and it is now to be found definitely embodied in<br />

Protocol VI!<br />

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i.6.<br />

<strong>The</strong> above extract from Herzl's Diary is an extremely significant bit <strong>of</strong><br />

evidence bearing on <strong>the</strong> existence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jew World Plot and au<strong>the</strong>nticity <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong>, but any reader <strong>of</strong> intelligence will be able from his own<br />

knowledge <strong>of</strong> recent history and from his own experience to confirm <strong>the</strong><br />

genuineness <strong>of</strong> every line <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m, and it is in <strong>the</strong> light <strong>of</strong> this living comment<br />

that all readers are invited to study Mr. Marsden's translation <strong>of</strong> this terribly<br />

inhuman document.<br />

i.7.<br />

And here is ano<strong>the</strong>r very significant circumstance. <strong>The</strong> present successor <strong>of</strong><br />

Herzl, as leader <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Zion</strong>ist movement, Dr. Weizmann, quoted one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se<br />

sayings at <strong>the</strong> send-<strong>of</strong>f banquet given to Chief Rabbi Hertz on October 6,<br />

1920. <strong>The</strong> Chief Rabbi was on <strong>the</strong> point <strong>of</strong> leaving for his Empire tour <strong>of</strong><br />

H.R.H., <strong>the</strong> Prince <strong>of</strong> Wales. And this is <strong>the</strong> "saying" <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Sages which Dr.<br />

Weizmann quoted: "A beneficent protection which God has instituted in <strong>the</strong><br />

life <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jew is that He has dispersed him all over <strong>the</strong> world." (Jewish<br />

Guardian, Oct. 8, 1920.)<br />

i.8.<br />

Now compare this with <strong>the</strong> last clause <strong>of</strong> but one <strong>of</strong> Protocol XI.<br />

God has granted to us, His Chosen People, <strong>the</strong> gift <strong>of</strong><br />

dispersion, and from this, which appears to all eyes to be our<br />

weakness, has come forth all our strength, which has now<br />

brought us to <strong>the</strong> threshold <strong>of</strong> sovereignty over all <strong>the</strong> world.<br />

i.9.<br />

<strong>The</strong> remarkable correspondence between <strong>the</strong>se passages proves several<br />

things. It proves that <strong>the</strong> <strong>Learned</strong> <strong>Elders</strong> exist. It proves that Dr. Weizmann<br />

knows all about <strong>the</strong>m. It proves that <strong>the</strong> desire for a "National Home" in<br />

Palestine is only camouflage and an infinitesimal part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jew's real object.<br />

It proves that <strong>the</strong> Jews <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world have no intention <strong>of</strong> settling in Palestine<br />

or any separate country, and that <strong>the</strong>ir annual prayer that <strong>the</strong>y may all meet<br />

"Next Year in Jerusalem" is merely a piece <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir characteristic makebelieve.<br />

It also demonstrates that <strong>the</strong> Jews are now a world menace, and that<br />

<strong>the</strong> Aryan races will have to domicile <strong>the</strong>m permanently out <strong>of</strong> Europe.<br />

Who are <strong>the</strong> <strong>Elders</strong>?<br />

i.10.<br />

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This is a secret which has not been revealed. <strong>The</strong>y are <strong>the</strong> Hidden hand.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y are not <strong>the</strong> "Board <strong>of</strong> Deputies" (<strong>the</strong> Jewish Parliament in England) or<br />

<strong>the</strong> "Universal Israelite Alliance" which sits in Paris. But <strong>the</strong> late Walter<br />

Ra<strong>the</strong>nau <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Allgemeiner Electricitaets Gesellschaft has thrown a little<br />

light on <strong>the</strong> subject and doubtless he was in possession <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir names,<br />

being, in all likelihood, one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> chief leaders himself. Writing in <strong>the</strong> Wiener<br />

Freie Presse, December 24, 1912, he said:<br />

"Three hundred men, each <strong>of</strong> whom knows all <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rs,<br />

govern <strong>the</strong> fate <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> European continent, and <strong>the</strong>y elect <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

successors from <strong>the</strong>ir entourage."<br />

i.11.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> year 1844, on <strong>the</strong> eve <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jewish Revolution <strong>of</strong> 1848, Benjamin<br />

Disraeli, whose real name was Israel, and who was a " damped," or baptised<br />

Jew, published his novel, Coningsby, in which occurs this ominous passage:<br />

<strong>The</strong> world is governed by very different personages from what<br />

is imagined by those who are not behind <strong>the</strong> scenes.<br />

And he went on to show that <strong>the</strong>se personages were all Jews.<br />

i.12.<br />

Now that Providence has brought to <strong>the</strong> light <strong>of</strong> day <strong>the</strong>se secret <strong>Protocols</strong> all<br />

men may clearly see <strong>the</strong> hidden personages specified by Disraeli at work<br />

"behind <strong>the</strong> scenes" <strong>of</strong> all <strong>the</strong> Governments. This revelation entails on all<br />

white peoples <strong>the</strong> grave responsibility <strong>of</strong> examining and revising au fond <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

attitude towards <strong>the</strong> Race and Nation which boasts <strong>of</strong> its survival over all<br />

Empires.<br />

Notes<br />

Notes I. "Agentur" and "<strong>The</strong> Political."<br />

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n.1.<br />

THERE ARE TWO WORDS in this translation which are unusual, <strong>the</strong> word<br />

"Agentur" and "political" used as a substantive. Agentur appears to be a word<br />

adopted from <strong>the</strong> original and it means <strong>the</strong> whole body <strong>of</strong> agents and<br />

agencies made use <strong>of</strong> by <strong>the</strong> <strong>Elders</strong>, whe<strong>the</strong>r members <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> tribe or <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

Gentile tools.<br />

n.2.<br />

By "<strong>the</strong> Political" Mr. Marsden means, not exactly <strong>the</strong> "body politic" but <strong>the</strong><br />

entire machinery <strong>of</strong> politics.<br />

Notes II. <strong>The</strong> Symbolic Snake <strong>of</strong> Judaism.<br />

n.3.<br />

Protocol III opens with a reference to <strong>the</strong> Symbolic Snake <strong>of</strong> Judaism. In his<br />

Epilogue to <strong>the</strong> 1905 Edition <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong>, Nilus gives <strong>the</strong> following<br />

interesting account <strong>of</strong> this symbol:<br />

n.4.<br />

"According to <strong>the</strong> records <strong>of</strong> secret Jewish <strong>Zion</strong>ism, Solomon and o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

Jewish learned men already, in 929 B.C., thought out a scheme in <strong>the</strong>ory for<br />

a peaceful conquest <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> whole universe by <strong>Zion</strong>.<br />

n.5.<br />

As history developed, this scheme was worked out in detail and completed by<br />

men who were subsequently initiated in this question. <strong>The</strong>se learned men<br />

decided by peaceful means to conquer <strong>the</strong> world for <strong>Zion</strong> with <strong>the</strong> slyness <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Symbolic Snake, whose head was to represent those who have been<br />

initiated into <strong>the</strong> plans <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jewish administration, and <strong>the</strong> body <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Snake to represent <strong>the</strong> Jewish people—<strong>the</strong> administration was always kept<br />

secret, even from <strong>the</strong> Jewish nation itself. As this Snake penetrated into <strong>the</strong><br />

hearts <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> nations which it encountered it undermined and devoured all <strong>the</strong><br />

non-Jewish power <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se States. It is foretold that <strong>the</strong> Snake has still to<br />

finish its work, strictly adhering to <strong>the</strong> designed plan, until <strong>the</strong> course which it<br />

has to run is closed by <strong>the</strong> return <strong>of</strong> its head to <strong>Zion</strong> and until, by this means,<br />

<strong>the</strong> Snake has completed its round <strong>of</strong> Europe and has encircled it—and until,<br />

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by dint <strong>of</strong> enchaining Europe, it has encompassed <strong>the</strong> whole world. This it is<br />

to accomplish by using every endeavor to subdue <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r countriesby an<br />

economical conquest.<br />

n.6.<br />

<strong>The</strong> return <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> head <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Snake to <strong>Zion</strong> can only be accomplished after<br />

<strong>the</strong> power <strong>of</strong> all <strong>the</strong> Sovereign <strong>of</strong> Europe has been laid low, that is to say,<br />

when by means <strong>of</strong> economic crises and wholesale destruction effected<br />

everywhere, <strong>the</strong>re shall have been brought about a spiritual demoralization<br />

and a moral corruption, chiefly with <strong>the</strong> assistance <strong>of</strong> Jewish women<br />

masquerading as French, Italians, etc.. <strong>The</strong>se are <strong>the</strong> surest spreaders <strong>of</strong><br />

licentiousness into <strong>the</strong> lives <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> leading men at <strong>the</strong> heads <strong>of</strong> nations.<br />

n.7.<br />

A map <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> course <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Symbolic Snake is shown as follows: Its first stage<br />

in Europe was in 429 B.C. in Greece, where, about <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> Pericles, <strong>the</strong><br />

Snake first started eating into <strong>the</strong> power <strong>of</strong> that country. <strong>The</strong> second stage<br />

was in Rome in <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> Augustus, about 69 B.C.. <strong>The</strong> third in Madrid in<br />

<strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> Charles V, in A.D. 1552. <strong>The</strong> fourth in Paris about 1790, in <strong>the</strong><br />

time <strong>of</strong> Louis XVI. <strong>The</strong> fifth in London from 1814 onwards (after <strong>the</strong> downfall<br />

<strong>of</strong> Napoleon). <strong>The</strong> sixth in Berlin in 1871 after <strong>the</strong> Franco-Prussian war. <strong>The</strong><br />

seventh in St. Petersburg, over which is drawn <strong>the</strong> head <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Snake under<br />

<strong>the</strong> date <strong>of</strong> 1881.<br />

n.8.<br />

All <strong>the</strong>se States which <strong>the</strong> Snake traversed have had <strong>the</strong> foundations <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

constitutions shaken, Germany, with its apparent power, forming no<br />

exception to <strong>the</strong> rule. In economic conditions, England and Germany are<br />

spared, but only till <strong>the</strong> conquest <strong>of</strong> Russia is accomplished by <strong>the</strong> Snake, on<br />

which at present [i.e., 1905] all its efforts are concentrated. <strong>The</strong> fur<strong>the</strong>r course<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Snake is not shown on this map, but arrows indicate its next movement<br />

towards Moscow, Kieff and Odessa.<br />

n.9.<br />

It is now well known to us to what extent <strong>the</strong> latter cities form <strong>the</strong> centuries <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> militant Jewish race. Constantinople is shown as <strong>the</strong> last stage <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Snake's course before it reaches Jerusalem. (This map was drawn years<br />

before <strong>the</strong> occurrence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> "Young Turk"—i.e., Jewish—Revolution in<br />

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Notes III. Goyim.<br />

n.10.<br />

<strong>The</strong> term "Goyim," meaning Gentile or non-Jews, is used throughout <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>Protocols</strong> and is retained by Mr. Marsden.<br />

PROTOCOL 1<br />

Summary<br />

Right lies in might • Freedom—an idea only • Liberalism • Gold • Faith • Self-<br />

Government • Despotism <strong>of</strong> Capital • <strong>The</strong> internal foe • <strong>The</strong> Mob • Anarchy •<br />

Politics versus Morals • <strong>The</strong> Right <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Strong • <strong>The</strong> Invincibility <strong>of</strong> Jew-<br />

Masonic authority • End justifies Means • <strong>The</strong> Mob a Blind Man • Political<br />

A.B.C. • Party Discord • Most satisfactory form <strong>of</strong> rule—Despotism • Alcohol •<br />

Classicism • Corruption • Principles and rules <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jew-Masonic<br />

Government • Terror • "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" • Principle <strong>of</strong> Dynastic<br />

Rule • Annihilation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> privileges <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Goy-Aristocracy (i.e., non-Jew) •<br />

<strong>The</strong> New Aristocracy • <strong>The</strong> psychological calculation • Abstractness <strong>of</strong><br />

"Liberty" • Power <strong>of</strong> Removal <strong>of</strong> representatives <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> people<br />

1.1.<br />

. . . . PUTTING ASIDE FINE PHRASES we shall speak <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> significance <strong>of</strong><br />

each thought: by comparisons and deductions we shall throw light upon<br />

surrounding facts.<br />

1.2.<br />

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What I am about to set forth, <strong>the</strong>n, is our system from <strong>the</strong> two points <strong>of</strong> view,<br />

that <strong>of</strong> ourselves and that <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim [i.e., non-Jews].<br />

1.3.<br />

It must be noted that men with bad instincts are more in number than <strong>the</strong><br />

good, and <strong>the</strong>refore <strong>the</strong> best results in governing <strong>the</strong>m are attained by<br />

violence and terrorisation, and not by academic discussions. Every man aims<br />

at power, everyone would like to become a dictator if only he could, and rare<br />

indeed are <strong>the</strong> men who would not be willing to sacrifice <strong>the</strong> welfare <strong>of</strong> all for<br />

<strong>the</strong> sake <strong>of</strong> securing <strong>the</strong>ir own welfare.<br />

1.4.<br />

What has restrained <strong>the</strong> beasts <strong>of</strong> prey who are called men? What has<br />

served for <strong>the</strong>ir guidance hi<strong>the</strong>rto?<br />

1.5.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> beginnings <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> structure <strong>of</strong> society, <strong>the</strong>y were subjected to brutal and<br />

blind force; after words—to Law, which is <strong>the</strong> same force, only disguised. I<br />

draw <strong>the</strong> conclusion that by <strong>the</strong> law <strong>of</strong> nature right lies in force.<br />

1.6.<br />

Political freedom is an idea but not a fact. This idea one must know how to<br />

apply whenever it appears necessary with this bait <strong>of</strong> an idea to attract <strong>the</strong><br />

masses <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> people to one's party for <strong>the</strong> purpose <strong>of</strong> crushing ano<strong>the</strong>r who<br />

is in authority. This task is rendered easier <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> opponent has himself been<br />

infected with <strong>the</strong> idea <strong>of</strong> freedom, so-called liberalism, and, for <strong>the</strong> sake <strong>of</strong> an<br />

idea, is willing to yield some <strong>of</strong> his power. It is precisely here that <strong>the</strong> triumph<br />

<strong>of</strong> our <strong>the</strong>ory appears; <strong>the</strong> slackened reins <strong>of</strong> government are immediately, by<br />

<strong>the</strong> law <strong>of</strong> life, caught up and ga<strong>the</strong>red toge<strong>the</strong>r by a new hand, because <strong>the</strong><br />

blind might <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> nation cannot for one single day exist without guidance,<br />

and <strong>the</strong> new authority merely fits into <strong>the</strong> place <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> old already weakened<br />

by liberalism.<br />

1.7.<br />

In our day <strong>the</strong> power which has replaced that <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> rulers who were liberal is<br />

<strong>the</strong> power <strong>of</strong> Gold. Time was when Faith ruled. <strong>The</strong> idea <strong>of</strong> freedom is<br />

impossible <strong>of</strong> realization because no one knows how to use it with<br />

moderation. It is enough to hand over a people to self-government for a<br />

certain length <strong>of</strong> time for that people to be turned into a disorganized mob.<br />

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From that moment on we get internecine strife which soon develops into<br />

battles between classes, in <strong>the</strong> midst <strong>of</strong> which States burn down and <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

importance is reduced to that <strong>of</strong> a heap <strong>of</strong> ashes.<br />

1.8.<br />

Whe<strong>the</strong>r a State exhausts itself in its own convulsions, whe<strong>the</strong>r its internal<br />

discord brings it under <strong>the</strong> power <strong>of</strong> external foes—in any case it can be<br />

accounted irretrievable lost: it is in our power. <strong>The</strong> despotism <strong>of</strong> Capital,<br />

which is entirely in our hands, reaches out to it a straw that <strong>the</strong> State, willynilly,<br />

must take hold <strong>of</strong>: if not—it goes to <strong>the</strong> bottom.<br />

1.9.<br />

Should anyone <strong>of</strong> a liberal mind say that such reflections as <strong>the</strong> above are<br />

immoral, I would put <strong>the</strong> following questions: If every State has two foes and<br />

if in regard to <strong>the</strong> external foe it is allowed and not considered immoral to use<br />

every manner and art <strong>of</strong> conflict, as for example to keep <strong>the</strong> enemy in<br />

ignorance <strong>of</strong> plans <strong>of</strong> attack and defense, to attack him by night or in superior<br />

numbers, <strong>the</strong>n in what way can <strong>the</strong> same means in regard to a worse foe, <strong>the</strong><br />

destroyer <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> structure <strong>of</strong> society and <strong>the</strong> commonweal, be called immoral<br />

and not permissible?<br />

1.10.<br />

Is it possible for any sound logical mind to hope with any success to guide<br />

crowds by <strong>the</strong> aid <strong>of</strong> reasonable counsels and arguments, when any<br />

objection or contradiction, senseless though it may be, can be made and<br />

when such objection may find more favor with <strong>the</strong> people, whose powers <strong>of</strong><br />

reasoning are superficial? Men in masses and <strong>the</strong> men <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> masses, being<br />

guided solely by petty passions, paltry beliefs, traditions and sentimental<br />

<strong>the</strong>orems, fall a prey to party dissension, which hinders any kind <strong>of</strong><br />

agreement even on <strong>the</strong> basis <strong>of</strong> a perfectly reasonable argument. Every<br />

resolution <strong>of</strong> a crowd depends upon a chance or packed majority, which, in its<br />

ignorance <strong>of</strong> political secrets, puts forth some ridiculous resolution that lays in<br />

<strong>the</strong> administration a seed <strong>of</strong> anarchy.<br />

1.11.<br />

<strong>The</strong> political has nothing in common with <strong>the</strong> moral. <strong>The</strong> ruler who is<br />

governed by <strong>the</strong> moral is not a skilled politician, and is <strong>the</strong>refore unstable on<br />

his throne. He who wishes to rule must have recourse both to cunning and to<br />

make-believe. Great national qualities, like frankness and honesty, are vices<br />

in politics, for <strong>the</strong>y bring down rulers from <strong>the</strong>ir thrones more effectively and<br />

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more certainly than <strong>the</strong> most powerful enemy. Such qualities must be <strong>the</strong><br />

attributes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> kingdoms <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim, but we must in no wise be guided by<br />

<strong>the</strong>m.<br />

1.12.<br />

Our right lies in force. <strong>The</strong> word "right" is an abstract thought and proved by<br />

nothing. <strong>The</strong> word means no more than: Give me what I want in order that<br />

<strong>the</strong>reby I may have a pro<strong>of</strong> that I am stronger than you.<br />

1.13.<br />

Where does right begin? Where does it end?<br />

1.14.<br />

In any State in which <strong>the</strong>re is a bad organization <strong>of</strong> authority, an impersonality<br />

<strong>of</strong> laws and <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> rulers who have lost <strong>the</strong>ir personality amid <strong>the</strong> flood <strong>of</strong><br />

rights ever multiplying out <strong>of</strong> liberalism, I find a new right—to attack by <strong>the</strong><br />

right <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> strong, and to scatter to <strong>the</strong> winds all existing forces <strong>of</strong> order and<br />

regulation, to reconstruct all institutions and to become <strong>the</strong> sovereign lord <strong>of</strong><br />

those who have left to us <strong>the</strong> rights <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir power by laying <strong>the</strong>m down<br />

voluntarily in <strong>the</strong>ir liberalism.<br />

1.15.<br />

Our power in <strong>the</strong> present tottering condition <strong>of</strong> all forms <strong>of</strong> power will be more<br />

invincible than any o<strong>the</strong>r, because it will remain invisible until <strong>the</strong> moment<br />

when it has gained such strength that no cunning can any longer undermine<br />

it.<br />

1.16.<br />

Out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> temporary evil we are now compelled to commit will emerge <strong>the</strong><br />

good <strong>of</strong> an unshakable rule, which will restore <strong>the</strong> regular course <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

machinery <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> national life, brought to naught by liberalism. <strong>The</strong> result<br />

justifies <strong>the</strong> means. Let us, however, in our plans, direct our attention not so<br />

much to what is good and moral as to what is necessary and useful.<br />

1.17.<br />

Before us is a plan in which is laid down strategically <strong>the</strong> line from which we<br />

cannot deviate without running <strong>the</strong> risk <strong>of</strong> seeing <strong>the</strong> labor <strong>of</strong> many centuries<br />

brought to naught.<br />

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1.18.<br />

In order to elaborate satisfactory forms <strong>of</strong> action it is necessary to have<br />

regard to <strong>the</strong> rascality, <strong>the</strong> slackness, <strong>the</strong> instability <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mob, its lack <strong>of</strong><br />

capacity to understand and respect <strong>the</strong> conditions <strong>of</strong> its own life, or its own<br />

welfare. It must be understood that <strong>the</strong> might <strong>of</strong> a mob is blind, senseless and<br />

unreasoning force ever at <strong>the</strong> mercy <strong>of</strong> a suggestion from any side. <strong>The</strong> blind<br />

cannot lead <strong>the</strong> blind without bringing <strong>the</strong>m into <strong>the</strong> abyss; consequently,<br />

members <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mob, upstarts from <strong>the</strong> people even though <strong>the</strong>y should be<br />

as a genius for wisdom, yet having no understanding <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> political, cannot<br />

come forward as leaders <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mob without bringing <strong>the</strong> whole nation to ruin.<br />

1.19.<br />

Only one trained from childhood for independent rule can have understanding<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> words that can be made up <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> political alphabet.<br />

1.20.<br />

A people left to itself, i.e., to upstarts from its midst, brings itself to ruin by<br />

party dissensions excited by <strong>the</strong> pursuit <strong>of</strong> power and honors and <strong>the</strong><br />

disorders arising <strong>the</strong>refrom. Is it possible for <strong>the</strong> masses <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> people calmly<br />

and without petty jealousies to form judgment, to deal with <strong>the</strong> affairs <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

country, which cannot be mixed up with personal interest? Can <strong>the</strong>y defend<br />

<strong>the</strong>mselves from an external foe? It is unthinkable; for a plan broken up into<br />

as many parts as <strong>the</strong>re are heads in <strong>the</strong> mob, loses all homogeneity, and<br />

<strong>the</strong>reby becomes unintelligible and impossible <strong>of</strong> execution.<br />

1.21.<br />

It is only with a despotic ruler that plans can be elaborated extensively and<br />

clearly in such a way as to distribute <strong>the</strong> whole properly among <strong>the</strong> several<br />

parts <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> machinery <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State: from this <strong>the</strong> conclusion is inevitable that<br />

a satisfactory form <strong>of</strong> government for any country is one that concentrates in<br />

<strong>the</strong> hands <strong>of</strong> one responsible person. Without an absolute despotism <strong>the</strong>re<br />

can be no existence for civilization which is carried on not by <strong>the</strong> masses but<br />

by <strong>the</strong>ir guide, whosoever that person may be. <strong>The</strong> mob is savage, and<br />

displays its savagery at every opportunity. <strong>The</strong> moment <strong>the</strong> mob seizes<br />

freedom in its hands it quickly turns to anarchy, which in itself is <strong>the</strong> highest<br />

degree <strong>of</strong> savagery.<br />

1.22.<br />

Behold <strong>the</strong> alcoholic animals, bemused with drink, <strong>the</strong> right to an immoderate<br />

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use <strong>of</strong> which comes along with freedom. It is not for us and ours to walk that<br />

road. <strong>The</strong> peoples <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim are bemused with alcoholic liquors; <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

youth has grown stupid on classicism and from early immorality, into which it<br />

has been inducted by our special agents—by tutors, lackeys, governesses in<br />

<strong>the</strong> houses <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> wealthy, by clerks and o<strong>the</strong>rs, by our women in <strong>the</strong> places<br />

<strong>of</strong> dissipation frequented by <strong>the</strong> goyim. In <strong>the</strong> number <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se last I count<br />

also <strong>the</strong> so-called "society ladies," voluntary followers <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rs in<br />

corruption and luxury.<br />

1.23.<br />

Our countersign is—Force and Make-believe. Only force conquers in political<br />

affairs, especially if it be concealed in <strong>the</strong> talents essential to statesmen.<br />

Violence must be <strong>the</strong> principle, and cunning and make-believe <strong>the</strong> rule for<br />

governments which do not want to lay down <strong>the</strong>ir crowns at <strong>the</strong> feet <strong>of</strong> agents<br />

<strong>of</strong> some new power. This evil is <strong>the</strong> one and only means to attain <strong>the</strong> end, <strong>the</strong><br />

good. <strong>The</strong>refore we must not stop at bribery, deceit and treachery when <strong>the</strong>y<br />

should serve towards <strong>the</strong> attainment <strong>of</strong> our end. In politics one must know<br />

how to seize <strong>the</strong> property <strong>of</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rs without hesitation if by it we secure<br />

submission and sovereignty.<br />

1.24.<br />

Our State, marching along <strong>the</strong> path <strong>of</strong> peaceful conquest, has <strong>the</strong> right to<br />

replace <strong>the</strong> horrors <strong>of</strong> war by less noticeable and more satisfactory sentences<br />

<strong>of</strong> death, necessary to maintain <strong>the</strong> terror which tends to produce blind<br />

submission. Just but merciless severity is <strong>the</strong> greatest factor <strong>of</strong> strength in <strong>the</strong><br />

State: not only for <strong>the</strong> sake <strong>of</strong> gain but also in <strong>the</strong> name <strong>of</strong> duty, for <strong>the</strong> sake<br />

<strong>of</strong> victory, we must keep to <strong>the</strong> programme <strong>of</strong> violence and make-believe.<br />

<strong>The</strong> doctrine <strong>of</strong> squaring accounts is precisely as strong as <strong>the</strong> means <strong>of</strong><br />

which it makes use. <strong>The</strong>refore it is not so much by <strong>the</strong> means <strong>the</strong>mselves as<br />

by <strong>the</strong> doctrine <strong>of</strong> severity that we shall triumph and bring all governments<br />

into subjection to our Super-Government. It is enough for <strong>the</strong>m to know that<br />

we are too merciless for all disobedience to cease.<br />

1.25.<br />

Far back in ancient times we were <strong>the</strong> first to cry among <strong>the</strong> masses <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

people <strong>the</strong> words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," words many times repeated<br />

since <strong>the</strong>se days by stupid poll-parrots who, from all sides around, flew down<br />

upon <strong>the</strong>se baits and with <strong>the</strong>m carried away <strong>the</strong> well-being <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world, true<br />

freedom <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> individual, formerly so well guarded against <strong>the</strong> pressure <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> mob. <strong>The</strong> would-be wise men <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim, <strong>the</strong> intellectuals, could not<br />

make anything out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> uttered words in <strong>the</strong>ir abstractedness; did not see<br />

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that in nature <strong>the</strong>re is no equality, cannot be freedom: that Nature herself has<br />

established inequality <strong>of</strong> minds, <strong>of</strong> characters, and capacities, just as<br />

immutably as she has established subordination to her laws: never stopped<br />

to think that <strong>the</strong> mob is a blind thing, that upstarts elected from among it to<br />

bear rule are, in regard to <strong>the</strong> political, <strong>the</strong> same blind men as <strong>the</strong> mob itself,<br />

that <strong>the</strong> adept, though he be a fool, can yet rule, whereas <strong>the</strong> non-adept,<br />

even if he were a genius, understands nothing in <strong>the</strong> political—to all those<br />

things <strong>the</strong> goyim paid no regard; yet all <strong>the</strong> time it was based upon <strong>the</strong>se<br />

things that dynastic rule rested: <strong>the</strong> fa<strong>the</strong>r passed on to <strong>the</strong> son a knowledge<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> course <strong>of</strong> political affairs in such wise that none should know it but<br />

members <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> dynasty and none could betray it to <strong>the</strong> governed. As time<br />

went on, <strong>the</strong> meaning <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> dynastic transference <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> true position <strong>of</strong><br />

affairs in <strong>the</strong> political was lost, and this aided <strong>the</strong> success <strong>of</strong> our cause.<br />

1.26.<br />

In all corners <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> earth <strong>the</strong> words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," brought to<br />

our ranks, thanks to our blind agents, whole legions who bore our banners<br />

with enthusiasm. And all <strong>the</strong> time <strong>the</strong>se words were canker-worms at work<br />

boring into <strong>the</strong> well-being <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim, putting an end everywhere to peace,<br />

quiet, solidarity and destroying all <strong>the</strong> foundations <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goya States. As you<br />

will see later, this helped us to our triumph: it gave us <strong>the</strong> possibility, among<br />

o<strong>the</strong>r things, <strong>of</strong> getting into our hands <strong>the</strong> master card—<strong>the</strong> destruction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

privileges, or in o<strong>the</strong>r words <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> very existence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> aristocracy <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

goyim, that class which was <strong>the</strong> only defense peoples and countries had<br />

against us. On <strong>the</strong> ruins <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> eternal and genealogical aristocracy <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

goyim we have set up <strong>the</strong> aristocracy <strong>of</strong> our educated class headed by <strong>the</strong><br />

aristocracy <strong>of</strong> money. <strong>The</strong> qualifications for this aristocracy we have<br />

established in wealth, which is dependent upon us, and in knowledge, for<br />

which our learned elders provide <strong>the</strong> motive force.<br />

1.27.<br />

Our triumph has been rendered easier by <strong>the</strong> fact that in our relations with <strong>the</strong><br />

men, whom we wanted, we have always worked upon <strong>the</strong> most sensitive<br />

chords <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> human mind, upon <strong>the</strong> cash account, upon <strong>the</strong> cupidity, upon<br />

<strong>the</strong> insatiability for material needs <strong>of</strong> man; and each one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se human<br />

weaknesses, taken alone, is sufficient to paralyze initiative, for it hands over<br />

<strong>the</strong> will <strong>of</strong> men to <strong>the</strong> disposition <strong>of</strong> him who has bought <strong>the</strong>ir activities.<br />

1.28.<br />

<strong>The</strong> abstraction <strong>of</strong> freedom has enabled us to persuade <strong>the</strong> mob in all<br />

countries that <strong>the</strong>ir government is nothing but <strong>the</strong> steward <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> people who<br />

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are <strong>the</strong> owners <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> country, and that <strong>the</strong> steward may be replaced like a<br />

worn-out glove.<br />

1.29.<br />

It is this possibility <strong>of</strong> replacing <strong>the</strong> representatives <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> people which has<br />

placed at our disposal, and, as it were, given us <strong>the</strong> power <strong>of</strong> appointment.<br />

PROTOCOL 2<br />

Summary<br />

Economic wars—<strong>the</strong> foundation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jewish predominance • Figure-head<br />

government and "secret advisers" • Successes <strong>of</strong> destructive doctrines •<br />

Adaptability in politics • Part played by <strong>the</strong> Press • Cost <strong>of</strong> gold and value <strong>of</strong><br />

Jewish sacrifice<br />

2.1.<br />

IT IS INDISPENSABLE FOR OUR PURPOSE that wars, so far as possible,<br />

should not result in territorial gains: war will thus be brought on to <strong>the</strong><br />

economic ground, where <strong>the</strong> nations will not fail to perceive in <strong>the</strong> assistance<br />

we give <strong>the</strong> strength <strong>of</strong> our predominance, and this state <strong>of</strong> things will put<br />

both sides at <strong>the</strong> mercy <strong>of</strong> our international agentur; which possesses millions<br />

<strong>of</strong> eyes ever on <strong>the</strong> watch and unhampered by any limitations whatsoever.<br />

Our international rights will <strong>the</strong>n wipe out national rights, in <strong>the</strong> proper sense<br />

<strong>of</strong> right, and will rule <strong>the</strong> nations precisely as <strong>the</strong> civil law <strong>of</strong> States rules <strong>the</strong><br />

relations <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir subjects among <strong>the</strong>mselves.<br />

2.2.<br />

<strong>The</strong> administrators, whom we shall choose from among <strong>the</strong> public, with strict<br />

regard to <strong>the</strong>ir capacities for servile obedience, will not be persons trained in<br />

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<strong>the</strong> arts <strong>of</strong> government, and will <strong>the</strong>refore easily become pawns in our game<br />

in <strong>the</strong> hands <strong>of</strong> men <strong>of</strong> learning and genius who will be <strong>the</strong>ir advisers,<br />

specialists bred and reared from early childhood to rule <strong>the</strong> affairs <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

whole world. As is well known to you, <strong>the</strong>se specialists <strong>of</strong> ours have been<br />

drawing to fit <strong>the</strong>m for rule <strong>the</strong> information <strong>the</strong>y need from our political plans<br />

from <strong>the</strong> lessons <strong>of</strong> history, from observations made <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> events <strong>of</strong> every<br />

moment as it passes. <strong>The</strong> goyim are not guided by practical use <strong>of</strong><br />

unprejudiced historical observation, but by <strong>the</strong>oretical routine without any<br />

critical regard for consequent results. We need not, <strong>the</strong>refore, take any<br />

account <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m—let <strong>the</strong>m amuse <strong>the</strong>mselves until <strong>the</strong> hour strikes, or live on<br />

hopes <strong>of</strong> new forms <strong>of</strong> enterprising pastime, or on <strong>the</strong> memories <strong>of</strong> all <strong>the</strong>y<br />

have enjoyed. For <strong>the</strong>m let that play <strong>the</strong> principal part which we have<br />

persuaded <strong>the</strong>m to accept as <strong>the</strong> dictates <strong>of</strong> science (<strong>the</strong>ory). It is with this<br />

object in view that we are constantly, by means <strong>of</strong> our press, arousing a blind<br />

confidence in <strong>the</strong>se <strong>the</strong>ories. <strong>The</strong> intellectuals <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim will puff<br />

<strong>the</strong>mselves up with <strong>the</strong>ir knowledges and without any logical verification <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>m will put into effect all <strong>the</strong> information available from science, which our<br />

agentur specialists have cunningly pieced toge<strong>the</strong>r for <strong>the</strong> purpose <strong>of</strong><br />

educating <strong>the</strong>ir minds in <strong>the</strong> direction we want.<br />

2.3.<br />

Do not suppose for a moment that <strong>the</strong>se statements are empty words: think<br />

carefully <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> successes we arranged for Darwinism, Marxism, Nietzscheism.<br />

To us Jews, at any rate, it should be plain to see what a disintegrating<br />

importance <strong>the</strong>se directives have had upon <strong>the</strong> minds <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim.<br />

2.4.<br />

It is indispensable for us to take account <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> thoughts, characters,<br />

tendencies <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> nations in order to avoid making slips in <strong>the</strong> political and in<br />

<strong>the</strong> direction <strong>of</strong> administrative affairs. <strong>The</strong> triumph <strong>of</strong> our system <strong>of</strong> which <strong>the</strong><br />

component parts <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> machinery may be variously disposed according to<br />

<strong>the</strong> temperament <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> peoples met on our way, will fail <strong>of</strong> success if <strong>the</strong><br />

practical application <strong>of</strong> it be not based upon a summing up <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> lessons <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> past in <strong>the</strong> light <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> present.<br />

2.5.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> hands <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> States <strong>of</strong> today <strong>the</strong>re is a great force that creates <strong>the</strong><br />

movement <strong>of</strong> thought in <strong>the</strong> people, and that is <strong>the</strong> Press. <strong>The</strong> part played by<br />

<strong>the</strong> Press is to keep pointing our requirements supposed to be indispensable,<br />

to give voice to <strong>the</strong> complaints <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> people, to express and to create<br />

discontent. It is in <strong>the</strong> Press that <strong>the</strong> triumph <strong>of</strong> freedom <strong>of</strong> speech finds its<br />

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incarnation. But <strong>the</strong> goyim States have not known how to make use <strong>of</strong> this<br />

force; and it has fallen into our hands. Through <strong>the</strong> Press we have gained <strong>the</strong><br />

power to influence while remaining ourselves in <strong>the</strong> shade; thanks to <strong>the</strong><br />

Press we have got <strong>the</strong> gold in our hands, notwithstanding that we have had to<br />

ga<strong>the</strong>r it out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> oceans <strong>of</strong> blood and tears. But it has paid us, though we<br />

have sacrificed many <strong>of</strong> our people. Each victim on our side is worth in <strong>the</strong><br />

sight <strong>of</strong> God a thousand goyim.<br />

PROTOCOL 3<br />

Summary<br />

<strong>The</strong> Symbolic Snake and its significance • <strong>The</strong> instability <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> constitutional<br />

scales • Terror in <strong>the</strong> palaces • Power and ambition • Parliaments "talkeries,"<br />

pamphlets • Abuse <strong>of</strong> power • Economic slavery • "People's Rights" •<br />

Monopolist system and <strong>the</strong> aristocracy • <strong>The</strong> Army <strong>of</strong> Mason-Jewry •<br />

Decrescence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Goyim • Hunger and rights <strong>of</strong> capital • <strong>The</strong> mob and <strong>the</strong><br />

coronation <strong>of</strong> "<strong>The</strong> Sovereign Lord <strong>of</strong> all <strong>the</strong> World" • <strong>The</strong> fundamental<br />

precept in <strong>the</strong> programme <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> future Masonic national schools • <strong>The</strong> secret<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> science <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> structure <strong>of</strong> society • Universal economic crisis • Security<br />

<strong>of</strong> "ours" (i.e., our people, Jews) • <strong>The</strong> despotism <strong>of</strong> Masonry—<strong>the</strong> kingdom<br />

<strong>of</strong> reason • Loss <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> guide • Masonry and <strong>the</strong> great French Revolution •<br />

<strong>The</strong> King-Despot <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> blood <strong>of</strong> <strong>Zion</strong> • Causes <strong>of</strong> in <strong>the</strong> invincibility <strong>of</strong><br />

Masonry • Part played by secret masonic agents • Freedom<br />

3.1.<br />

TODAY I MAY TELL YOU that our goal is now only a few steps <strong>of</strong>f. <strong>The</strong>re<br />

remains a small space to cross and <strong>the</strong> whole long path we have trodden is<br />

ready now to close its cycle <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Symbolic Snake, by which we symbolize<br />

our people. When this ring closes, all <strong>the</strong> States <strong>of</strong> Europe will be locked in its<br />

coil as in a powerful vice.<br />

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3.2.<br />

<strong>The</strong> constitution scales <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se days will shortly break down, for we have<br />

established <strong>the</strong>m with a certain lack <strong>of</strong> accurate balance in order that <strong>the</strong>y<br />

may oscillate incessantly until <strong>the</strong>y wear through <strong>the</strong> pivot on which <strong>the</strong>y turn.<br />

<strong>The</strong> goyim are under <strong>the</strong> impression that <strong>the</strong>y have welded <strong>the</strong>m sufficiently<br />

strong and <strong>the</strong>y have all along kept on expecting that <strong>the</strong> scales would come<br />

into equilibrium. But <strong>the</strong> pivots—<strong>the</strong> kings on <strong>the</strong>ir thrones—are hemmed in<br />

by <strong>the</strong>ir representatives, who play <strong>the</strong> fool, distraught with <strong>the</strong>ir own<br />

uncontrolled and irresponsible power. This power <strong>the</strong>y owe to <strong>the</strong> terror which<br />

has been brea<strong>the</strong>d into <strong>the</strong> palaces. As <strong>the</strong>y have no means <strong>of</strong> getting at <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

people, into <strong>the</strong>ir very midst, <strong>the</strong> kings on <strong>the</strong>ir thrones are no longer able to<br />

come to terms with <strong>the</strong>m and so streng<strong>the</strong>n <strong>the</strong>mselves against seekers after<br />

power. We have made a gulf between <strong>the</strong> far-seeing Sovereign Power and<br />

<strong>the</strong> blind force <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> people so that both have lost all meaning, for like <strong>the</strong><br />

blind man and his stick, both are powerless apart.<br />

3.3.<br />

In order to incite seekers after power to a misuse <strong>of</strong> power we have set all<br />

forces in opposition one to ano<strong>the</strong>r, breaking up <strong>the</strong>ir liberal tendencies<br />

towards independence. To this end we have stirred up every form <strong>of</strong><br />

enterprise, we have armed all parties, we have set up authority as a target for<br />

every ambition. Of States we have made gladiatorial arenas where a lot <strong>of</strong><br />

confused issues contend . . . . A little more, and disorders and bankruptcy will<br />

be universal . . . .<br />

3.4.<br />

Babblers, inexhaustible, have turned into oratorical contests <strong>the</strong> sittings <strong>of</strong><br />

Parliament and Administrative Boards. Bold journalists and unscrupulous<br />

pamphleteers daily fall upon executive <strong>of</strong>ficials. Abuses <strong>of</strong> power will put <strong>the</strong><br />

final touch in preparing all institutions for <strong>the</strong>ir overthrow and everything will<br />

fly skyward under <strong>the</strong> blows <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> maddened mob.<br />

3.5.<br />

All people are chained down to heavy toil by poverty more firmly than ever.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y were chained by slavery and serfdom; from <strong>the</strong>se, one way and<br />

ano<strong>the</strong>r, <strong>the</strong>y might free <strong>the</strong>mselves. <strong>The</strong>se could be settled with, but from<br />

want <strong>the</strong>y will never get away. We have included in <strong>the</strong> constitution such<br />

rights as to <strong>the</strong> masses appear fictitious and not actual rights. All <strong>the</strong>se socalled<br />

"Peoples Rights" can exist only in idea, an idea which can never be<br />

realized in practical life. What is it to <strong>the</strong> proletariat laborer, bowed double<br />

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over his heavy toil, crushed by his lot in life, if talkers get <strong>the</strong> right to babble, if<br />

journalists get <strong>the</strong> right to scribble any nonsense side by side with good stuff,<br />

once <strong>the</strong> proletariat has no o<strong>the</strong>r pr<strong>of</strong>it out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> constitution save only those<br />

pitiful crumbs which we fling <strong>the</strong>m from our table in return for <strong>the</strong>ir voting in<br />

favor <strong>of</strong> what we dictate, in favor <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> men we place in power, <strong>the</strong> servants<br />

<strong>of</strong> our agentur . . . Republican rights for a poor man are no more than a bitter<br />

piece <strong>of</strong> irony, for <strong>the</strong> necessity he is under <strong>of</strong> toiling almost all day gives him<br />

no present use <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m, but <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r hand robs him <strong>of</strong> all guarantee <strong>of</strong><br />

regular and certain earnings by making him dependent on strikes by his<br />

comrades or lockouts by his masters.<br />

3.6.<br />

<strong>The</strong> people, under our guidance, have annihilated <strong>the</strong> aristocracy, who were<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir one and only defense and foster- mo<strong>the</strong>r for <strong>the</strong> sake <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir own<br />

advantage which is inseparably bound up with <strong>the</strong> well-being <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> people.<br />

Nowadays, with <strong>the</strong> destruction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> aristocracy, <strong>the</strong> people have fallen into<br />

<strong>the</strong> grips <strong>of</strong> merciless money-grinding scoundrels who have laid a pitiless and<br />

cruel yoke upon <strong>the</strong> necks <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> workers.<br />

3.7.<br />

We appear on <strong>the</strong> scene as alleged saviours <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> worker from this<br />

oppression when we propose to him to enter <strong>the</strong> ranks <strong>of</strong> our fighting<br />

forces—Socialists, Anarchists, Communists—to whom we always give<br />

support in accordance with an alleged bro<strong>the</strong>rly rule (<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> solidarity <strong>of</strong> all<br />

humanity) <strong>of</strong> our social masonry. <strong>The</strong> aristocracy, which enjoyed by law <strong>the</strong><br />

labor <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> workers, was interested in seeing that <strong>the</strong> workers were well fed,<br />

healthy, and strong. We are interested in just <strong>the</strong> opposite—in <strong>the</strong> diminution,<br />

<strong>the</strong> killing out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim. Our power is in <strong>the</strong> chronic shortness <strong>of</strong> food and<br />

physical weakness <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> worker because by all that this implies he is made<br />

<strong>the</strong> slave <strong>of</strong> our will, and he will not find in his own authorities ei<strong>the</strong>r strength<br />

or energy to set against our will. Hunger creates <strong>the</strong> right <strong>of</strong> capital to rule <strong>the</strong><br />

worker more surely than it was given to <strong>the</strong> aristocracy by <strong>the</strong> legal authority<br />

<strong>of</strong> kings.<br />

3.8.<br />

By want and <strong>the</strong> envy and hatred which it engenders we shall move <strong>the</strong> mobs<br />

and with <strong>the</strong>ir hands we shall wipe out all those who hinder us on our way.<br />

3.9.<br />

When <strong>the</strong> hour strikes for our Sovereign Lord <strong>of</strong> all <strong>the</strong> World to be crowned it<br />

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is <strong>the</strong>se same hands which will sweep away everything that might be a<br />

hindrance <strong>the</strong>reto.<br />

3.10.<br />

<strong>The</strong> goyim have lost <strong>the</strong> habit <strong>of</strong> thinking unless prompted by <strong>the</strong> suggestions<br />

<strong>of</strong> our specialists. <strong>The</strong>refore <strong>the</strong>y do not see <strong>the</strong> urgent necessity <strong>of</strong> what we,<br />

when our kingdom comes, shall adopt at once, namely this, that it is essential<br />

to teach in national schools one simple, true piece <strong>of</strong> knowledge, <strong>the</strong> basis <strong>of</strong><br />

all knowledge—<strong>the</strong> knowledge <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> structure <strong>of</strong> human life, <strong>of</strong> social<br />

existence, which requires division <strong>of</strong> labour, and, consequently, <strong>the</strong> division <strong>of</strong><br />

men into classes and conditions. It is essential for all to know that owing to<br />

difference in <strong>the</strong> objects <strong>of</strong> human activity <strong>the</strong>re cannot be any equality, that<br />

he, who by any act <strong>of</strong> his compromises a whole class, cannot be equally<br />

responsible before <strong>the</strong> law with him who affects no one but only his own<br />

honor. <strong>The</strong> true knowledge <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> structure <strong>of</strong> society, into <strong>the</strong> secrets <strong>of</strong><br />

which we do not admit <strong>the</strong> goyim, would demonstrate to all men that <strong>the</strong><br />

positions and work must be kept within a certain circle, that <strong>the</strong>y may not<br />

become a source <strong>of</strong> human suffering, arising from an education which does<br />

not correspond with <strong>the</strong> work which individuals are called upon to do. After a<br />

thorough study <strong>of</strong> this knowledge, <strong>the</strong> peoples will voluntarily submit to<br />

authority and accept such position as is appointed <strong>the</strong>m in <strong>the</strong> State. In <strong>the</strong><br />

present state <strong>of</strong> knowledge and <strong>the</strong> direction we have given to its<br />

development <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> people, blindly believing things in print—cherishes—<br />

thanks to promptings intended to mislead and to its own ignorance—a blind<br />

hatred towards all conditions which it considers above itself, for it has no<br />

understanding <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> meaning <strong>of</strong> class and condition.<br />

3.11.<br />

This hatred will be still fur<strong>the</strong>r magnified by <strong>the</strong> effects <strong>of</strong> an economic crisis,<br />

which will stop dealing on <strong>the</strong> exchanges and bring industry to a standstill.<br />

We shall create by all <strong>the</strong> secret subterranean methods open to us and with<br />

<strong>the</strong> aid <strong>of</strong> gold, which is all in our hands, a universal economic crisis whereby<br />

we shall throw upon <strong>the</strong> streets whole mobs <strong>of</strong> workers simultaneously in all<br />

<strong>the</strong> countries <strong>of</strong> Europe. <strong>The</strong>se mobs will rush delightedly to shed <strong>the</strong> blood<br />

<strong>of</strong> those whom, in <strong>the</strong> simplicity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir ignorance, <strong>the</strong>y have envied from<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir cradles, and whose property <strong>the</strong>y will <strong>the</strong>n be able to loot.<br />

3.12.<br />

"Ours" <strong>the</strong>y will not touch, because <strong>the</strong> moment <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> attack will be known to<br />

us and we shall take measures to protect our own.<br />

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3.13.<br />

We have demonstrated that progress will bring all <strong>the</strong> goyim to <strong>the</strong><br />

sovereignty <strong>of</strong> reason. Our despotism will be precisely that; for it will know<br />

how, by wise severities, to pacificate all unrest, to cauterize liberalism out <strong>of</strong><br />

all institutions.<br />

3.14.<br />

When <strong>the</strong> populace has seen that all sorts <strong>of</strong> concessions and indulgences<br />

are yielded it, in <strong>the</strong> same name <strong>of</strong> freedom it has imagined itself to be<br />

sovereign lord and has stormed its way to power, but, naturally like every<br />

o<strong>the</strong>r blind man, it has come upon a host <strong>of</strong> stumbling blocks. It has rushed to<br />

find a guide, it has never had <strong>the</strong> sense to return to <strong>the</strong> former state and it<br />

has laid down its plenipotentiary powers at our feet. Remember <strong>the</strong> French<br />

Revolution, to which it was we who gave <strong>the</strong> name <strong>of</strong> "Great:" <strong>the</strong> secrets <strong>of</strong><br />

its preparations are well known to us for it was wholly <strong>the</strong> work <strong>of</strong> our hands.<br />

3.15.<br />

Ever since that time we have been leading <strong>the</strong> peoples from one<br />

disenchantment to ano<strong>the</strong>r, so that in <strong>the</strong> end <strong>the</strong>y should turn also from us in<br />

favor <strong>of</strong> that King-Despot <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> blood <strong>of</strong> <strong>Zion</strong>, whom we are preparing for <strong>the</strong><br />

world.<br />

3.16.<br />

At <strong>the</strong> present day we are, as an international force, invincible, because if<br />

attacked by some we are supported by o<strong>the</strong>r States. It is <strong>the</strong> bottomless<br />

rascality <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim peoples, who crawl on <strong>the</strong>ir bellies to force, but are<br />

merciless towards weakness, unsparing to faults and indulgent to crimes,<br />

unwilling to bear <strong>the</strong> contradictions <strong>of</strong> a free social system but patient unto<br />

martyrdom under <strong>the</strong> violence <strong>of</strong> a bold despotism—it is those qualities which<br />

are aiding us to independence. From <strong>the</strong> premier-dictators <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> present day,<br />

<strong>the</strong> goyim peoples suffer patiently and bear such abuses as for <strong>the</strong> least <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>m <strong>the</strong>y would have beheaded twenty kings.<br />

3.17.<br />

What is <strong>the</strong> explanation <strong>of</strong> this phenomenon, this curious inconsequence <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> masses <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> peoples in <strong>the</strong>ir attitude towards what would appear to be<br />

events <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> same order?<br />

3.18.<br />

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It is explained by <strong>the</strong> fact that <strong>the</strong>se dictators whisper to <strong>the</strong> peoples through<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir agents that through <strong>the</strong>se abuses <strong>the</strong>y are inflicting injury on <strong>the</strong> States<br />

with <strong>the</strong> highest purpose—to secure <strong>the</strong> welfare <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> peoples, <strong>the</strong><br />

international bro<strong>the</strong>rhood <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m all, <strong>the</strong>ir solidarity and equality <strong>of</strong> rights.<br />

Naturally <strong>the</strong>y do not tell <strong>the</strong> peoples that this unification must be<br />

accomplished only under our sovereign rule.<br />

3.19.<br />

And thus <strong>the</strong> people condemn <strong>the</strong> upright and acquit <strong>the</strong> guilty, persuaded<br />

ever more and more that it can do whatsoever it wishes. Thanks to this state<br />

<strong>of</strong> things, <strong>the</strong> people are destroying every kind <strong>of</strong> stability and creating<br />

disorders at every step.<br />

3.20.<br />

<strong>The</strong> word "freedom" brings out <strong>the</strong> communities <strong>of</strong> men to fight against every<br />

kind <strong>of</strong> force, against every kind <strong>of</strong> authority even against God and <strong>the</strong> laws<br />

<strong>of</strong> nature. For this reason we, when we come into our kingdom, shall have to<br />

erase this word from <strong>the</strong> lexicon <strong>of</strong> life as implying a principle <strong>of</strong> brute force<br />

which turns mobs into bloodthirsty beasts.<br />

3.21.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se beasts, it is true, fall asleep again every time when <strong>the</strong>y have drunk<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir fill <strong>of</strong> blood, and at such time can easily be riveted into <strong>the</strong>ir chains. But<br />

if <strong>the</strong>y be not given blood <strong>the</strong>y will not sleep and continue to struggle.<br />

PROTOCOL 4<br />

Summary<br />

Stages <strong>of</strong> a Republic • Gentile Masonry • Freedom and Faith • International<br />

Industrial Competition • Role <strong>of</strong> Speculation • Cult <strong>of</strong> Gold<br />

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4.1.<br />

EVERY REPUBLIC passes through several stages. <strong>The</strong> first <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se is<br />

comprised in <strong>the</strong> early days <strong>of</strong> mad raging by <strong>the</strong> blind mob, tossed hi<strong>the</strong>r<br />

and thi<strong>the</strong>r, right and left: <strong>the</strong> second is demagogy from which is born<br />

anarchy, and that leads inevitably to despotism—not any longer legal and<br />

overt, and <strong>the</strong>refore responsible despotism, but to unseen and secretly<br />

hidden, yet never<strong>the</strong>less sensibly felt despotism in <strong>the</strong> hands <strong>of</strong> some secret<br />

organization or o<strong>the</strong>r, whose acts are <strong>the</strong> more unscrupulous inasmuch as it<br />

works behind a screen, behind <strong>the</strong> backs <strong>of</strong> all sorts <strong>of</strong> agents, <strong>the</strong> changing<br />

<strong>of</strong> whom not only does not injuriously affect but actually aids <strong>the</strong> secret force<br />

by saving it, thanks to continual changes, from <strong>the</strong> necessity <strong>of</strong> expanding its<br />

resources on <strong>the</strong> rewarding <strong>of</strong> long services.<br />

4.2.<br />

Who and what is in a position to overthrow an invisible force? And this is<br />

precisely what our force is. Gentile masonry blindly serves as a screen for us<br />

and our objects, but <strong>the</strong> plan <strong>of</strong> action <strong>of</strong> our force, even its very abidingplace,<br />

remains for <strong>the</strong> whole people an unknown mystery.<br />

4.3.<br />

But even freedom might be harmless and have its place in <strong>the</strong> State economy<br />

without injury to <strong>the</strong> well-being <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> peoples if it rested upon <strong>the</strong> foundation<br />

<strong>of</strong> faith in God, upon <strong>the</strong> bro<strong>the</strong>rhood <strong>of</strong> humanity, unconnected with <strong>the</strong><br />

conception <strong>of</strong> equality, which is negatived by <strong>the</strong> very laws <strong>of</strong> creation, for<br />

<strong>the</strong>y have established subordination. With such a faith as this a people might<br />

be governed by a wardship <strong>of</strong> parishes, and would walk contentedly and<br />

humbly under <strong>the</strong> guiding hand <strong>of</strong> its spiritual pastor submitting to <strong>the</strong><br />

dispositions <strong>of</strong> God upon earth. This is <strong>the</strong> reason why it is indispensible for<br />

us to undermine all faith, to tear out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mind <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim <strong>the</strong> very<br />

principle <strong>of</strong> Godhead and <strong>the</strong> spirit, and to put in its place arithmetical<br />

calculations and material needs.<br />

4.4.<br />

In order to give <strong>the</strong> goyim no time to think and take note, <strong>the</strong>ir minds must be<br />

diverted towards industry and trade. Thus, all <strong>the</strong> nations will be swallowed<br />

up in <strong>the</strong> pursuit <strong>of</strong> gain and in <strong>the</strong> race for it will not take note <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

common foe. But again, in order that freedom may once for all disintegrate<br />

and ruin <strong>the</strong> communities <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim, we must put industry on a speculative<br />

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basis: <strong>the</strong> result <strong>of</strong> this will be that what is withdrawn from <strong>the</strong> land by industry<br />

will slip through <strong>the</strong> hands and pass into speculation, that is, to our classes.<br />

4.5.<br />

<strong>The</strong> intensified struggle for superiority and shocks delivered to economic life<br />

will create, nay, have already created, disenchanted, cold and heartless<br />

communities. Such communities will foster a strong aversion towards <strong>the</strong><br />

higher political and towards religion. <strong>The</strong>ir only guide is gain, that is gold,<br />

which <strong>the</strong>y will erect into a veritable cult, for <strong>the</strong> sake <strong>of</strong> those material<br />

delights which it can give. <strong>The</strong>n will <strong>the</strong> hour strike when, not for <strong>the</strong> sake <strong>of</strong><br />

attaining <strong>the</strong> good, not even to win wealth, but solely out <strong>of</strong> hatred towards<br />

<strong>the</strong> privileged, <strong>the</strong> lower classes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim will follow our lead against our<br />

rivals for power, <strong>the</strong> intellectuals <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim.<br />

PROTOCOL 5<br />

Summary<br />

Creation <strong>of</strong> an intensified centralisation <strong>of</strong> government • Methods <strong>of</strong> seizing<br />

power by masonry • Causes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> impossibility <strong>of</strong> agreement between<br />

States • <strong>The</strong> state <strong>of</strong> "predestination" <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jews • Gold—<strong>the</strong> engine <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

machinery <strong>of</strong> States • Significance <strong>of</strong> criticism • "Show" institutions •<br />

Weariness from word-spinning • How to take a grip <strong>of</strong> public opinion •<br />

Significance <strong>of</strong> personal initiative • <strong>The</strong> Super-Government<br />

5.1.<br />

WHAT FORM OF ADMINISTRATIVE RULE can be given to communities in<br />

which corruption has penetrated everywhere, communities where riches are<br />

attained only by <strong>the</strong> clever surprise tactics <strong>of</strong> semi-swindling tricks; where<br />

loseness reigns: where morality is maintained by penal measures and harsh<br />

laws but not by voluntarily accepted principles: where <strong>the</strong> feelings towards<br />

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faith and country are obligated by cosmopolitan convictions? What form <strong>of</strong><br />

rule is to be given to <strong>the</strong>se communities if not that despotism which I shall<br />

describe to you later? We shall create an intensified centralization <strong>of</strong><br />

government in order to grip in our hands all <strong>the</strong> forces <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> community. We<br />

shall regulate mechanically all <strong>the</strong> actions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> political life <strong>of</strong> our subjects<br />

by new laws. <strong>The</strong>se laws will withdraw one by one all <strong>the</strong> indulgences and<br />

liberties which have been permitted by <strong>the</strong> goyim, and our kingdom will be<br />

distinguished by a despotism <strong>of</strong> such magnificent proportions as to be at any<br />

moment and in every place in a position to wipe out any goyim who oppose<br />

us by deed or word.<br />

5.2.<br />

We shall be told that such a despotism as I speak <strong>of</strong> is not consistent with <strong>the</strong><br />

progress <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se days, but I will prove to you that it is.<br />

5.3.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> times when <strong>the</strong> peoples looked upon kings on <strong>the</strong>ir thrones as on a<br />

pure manifestation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> will <strong>of</strong> God, <strong>the</strong>y submitted without a murmur to <strong>the</strong><br />

despotic power <strong>of</strong> kings: but from <strong>the</strong> day when we insinuated into <strong>the</strong>ir minds<br />

<strong>the</strong> conception <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir own rights <strong>the</strong>y began to regard <strong>the</strong> occupants <strong>of</strong><br />

thrones as mere ordinary mortals. <strong>The</strong> holy unction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Lord's Anointed<br />

has fallen from <strong>the</strong> heads <strong>of</strong> kings in <strong>the</strong> eyes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> people, and when we<br />

also robbed <strong>the</strong>m <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir faith in God <strong>the</strong> might <strong>of</strong> power was flung upon <strong>the</strong><br />

streets into <strong>the</strong> place <strong>of</strong> public proprietorship and was seized by us.<br />

5.4.<br />

Moreover, <strong>the</strong> art <strong>of</strong> directing masses and individuals by means <strong>of</strong> cleverly<br />

manipulated <strong>the</strong>ory and verbitage, by regulations <strong>of</strong> life in common and all<br />

sorts <strong>of</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r quirks, in all which <strong>the</strong> goyim understand nothing, belongs<br />

likewise to <strong>the</strong> specialists <strong>of</strong> our administrative brain. Reared on analysis,<br />

observation, on delicacies <strong>of</strong> fine calculation, in this species <strong>of</strong> skill we have<br />

no rivals, any more than we have ei<strong>the</strong>r in <strong>the</strong> drawing up <strong>of</strong> plans <strong>of</strong> political<br />

actions and solidarity. In this respect <strong>the</strong> Jesuits alone might have compared<br />

with us, but we have contrived to discredit <strong>the</strong>m in <strong>the</strong> eyes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> unthinking<br />

mob as an overt organization, while we ourselves all <strong>the</strong> while have kept our<br />

secret organization in <strong>the</strong> shade. However, it is probably all <strong>the</strong> same to <strong>the</strong><br />

world who is its sovereign lord, whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> head <strong>of</strong> Catholicism or our despot<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> blood <strong>of</strong> <strong>Zion</strong>! But to us, <strong>the</strong> Chosen People, it is very far from being a<br />

matter <strong>of</strong> indifference.<br />

5.5.<br />

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For a time perhaps we might be successfully dealt with by a coalition <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

goyim <strong>of</strong> all <strong>the</strong> world: but from this danger we are secured by <strong>the</strong> discord<br />

existing among <strong>the</strong>m whose roots are so deeply seated that <strong>the</strong>y can never<br />

now be plucked up. We have set one against ano<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> personal and<br />

national reckonings <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim, religious and race hatreds, which we have<br />

fostered into a huge growth in <strong>the</strong> course <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> past twenty centuries. This is<br />

<strong>the</strong> reason why <strong>the</strong>re is not one State which would anywhere receive support<br />

if it were to raise its arm, for every one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m must bear in mind that any<br />

agreement against us would be unpr<strong>of</strong>itable to itself. We are too strong—<br />

<strong>the</strong>re is no evading our power. <strong>The</strong> nations cannont come to even an<br />

inconsiderable private agreement without our secretly having a hand in it.<br />

5.6.<br />

Per Me reges regnant. "It is through me that Kings reign." And it was said by<br />

<strong>the</strong> prophets that we were chosen by God Himself to rule over <strong>the</strong> whole<br />

earth. God has endowed us with genius that we may be equal to our task.<br />

Were genius in <strong>the</strong> opposite camp it would still struggle against us, but even<br />

so, a newcomer is no match for <strong>the</strong> old-established settler: <strong>the</strong> struggle would<br />

be merciless between us, such a fight as <strong>the</strong> world has never seen. Aye, and<br />

<strong>the</strong> genius on <strong>the</strong>ir side would have arrived too late. All <strong>the</strong> wheels <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

machinery <strong>of</strong> all States go by <strong>the</strong> force <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> engine, which is in our hands,<br />

and that engine <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> machinery <strong>of</strong> States is—gold. <strong>The</strong> science <strong>of</strong> political<br />

economy invented by our learned elders has for long past been giving royal<br />

prestige to capital.<br />

5.7.<br />

Capital, if it is to co-operate untrammeled, must be free to establish a<br />

monopoly <strong>of</strong> industry and trade: this is already being put in execution by an<br />

unseen hand in all quarters <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world. This freedom will give political force<br />

to those engaged in industry, and that will help to oppress <strong>the</strong> people.<br />

Nowadays it is more important to disarm <strong>the</strong> peoples than to lead <strong>the</strong>m into<br />

war: more important to use for our advantage <strong>the</strong> passions which have burst<br />

into flames than to quench <strong>the</strong>ir fire: more important to eradicate <strong>the</strong>m. <strong>The</strong><br />

prinicipal object <strong>of</strong> our directorate consists in this: to debilitate <strong>the</strong> public mind<br />

by criticism; to lead it away from serious reflections calculated to arouse<br />

resistance; to distract <strong>the</strong> forces <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mind towards a sham fight <strong>of</strong> empty<br />

eloquence.<br />

5.8.<br />

In all ages <strong>the</strong> people <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world, equally with individuals, have accepted<br />

words for deeds, for <strong>the</strong>y are content with a show and rarely pause to note, in<br />

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<strong>the</strong> public arena, whe<strong>the</strong>r promises are followed by performance. <strong>The</strong>refore<br />

we shall establish show institutions which will give eloquent pro<strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

benefit to progress.<br />

5.9.<br />

We shall assume to ourselves <strong>the</strong> liberal physiognomy <strong>of</strong> all parties, <strong>of</strong> all<br />

directions, and we shall give that physiognomy a voice in orators who will<br />

speak so much that <strong>the</strong>y will exhause <strong>the</strong> patience <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir hearers and<br />

produce an abhorrence <strong>of</strong> oratory.<br />

5.10.<br />

In order to put public opinioin into our hands we must bring it into a state <strong>of</strong><br />

bewilderment by giving expression from all sides to so many contradictory<br />

opinions and for such length <strong>of</strong> time as will suffice to make <strong>the</strong> goyim lose<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir heads in <strong>the</strong> labyrinth and come to see that <strong>the</strong> best thing is to have no<br />

opinion <strong>of</strong> any kind in matters political, which it is not given to <strong>the</strong> public to<br />

understand, because <strong>the</strong>y are understood only by him who guides <strong>the</strong> public.<br />

This is <strong>the</strong> first secret.<br />

5.11.<br />

<strong>The</strong> second secret requisite for <strong>the</strong> success <strong>of</strong> our government is comprised<br />

in <strong>the</strong> following: To multiply to such an extent national failings, habits,<br />

passions, conditions <strong>of</strong> civil life, that it will be impossible for anyone to know<br />

where he is in <strong>the</strong> resulting chaos, so that <strong>the</strong> people in consequence will fail<br />

to understand one ano<strong>the</strong>r. This measure will also serve us in ano<strong>the</strong>r way,<br />

namely, to sow discord in all parties, to dislocate all collective forces which<br />

are still unwilling to submit to us, and to discourage any kind <strong>of</strong> personal<br />

initiative which might in any degree hinder our affair. <strong>The</strong>re is nothing more<br />

dangerous than personal initiative: if it has genius behind it, such initiative<br />

can do more than can be done by millions <strong>of</strong> people among whom we have<br />

sown discord. We must so direct <strong>the</strong> education <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim communities that<br />

whenever <strong>the</strong>y come upon a matter requiring initiative <strong>the</strong>y may drop <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

hands in despairing impotence. <strong>The</strong> strain which results from freedom <strong>of</strong><br />

actions saps <strong>the</strong> forces when it meets with <strong>the</strong> freedom <strong>of</strong> ano<strong>the</strong>r. From this<br />

collision arise grave moral shocks, disenchantments, failures. By all <strong>the</strong>se<br />

means we shall so wear down <strong>the</strong> goyim that <strong>the</strong>y will be compelled to <strong>of</strong>fer<br />

us international power <strong>of</strong> a nature that by its position will enable us without<br />

any violence gradually to absorb all <strong>the</strong> state forces <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world and to form a<br />

Super-Government. In place <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> rulers <strong>of</strong> today we shall set up a bogey<br />

which will be called <strong>the</strong> Super-Government Administration. Its hands will<br />

reach out in all directions like nippers and its organization will be <strong>of</strong> such<br />

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colossal dimensions that it cannot fail to subdue all <strong>the</strong> nations <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world.<br />

PROTOCOL 6<br />

Summary<br />

Monopolies; upon <strong>the</strong>m depend <strong>the</strong> fortunes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim • Taking <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> land<br />

out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> hands <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> aristocracy • Trade, Industry and Speculation •<br />

Luxury • Rise <strong>of</strong> wages and increase <strong>of</strong> price in <strong>the</strong> articles <strong>of</strong> primary<br />

necessity • Anarchism and drunkenness • Secret meaning <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> propaganda<br />

<strong>of</strong> economic <strong>the</strong>ories<br />

6.1.<br />

WE SHALL SOON BEGIN to establish huge monopolies, reservoirs <strong>of</strong><br />

colossal riches, upon which even, large fortunes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim will depend to<br />

such an extent that <strong>the</strong>y will go to <strong>the</strong> bottom toge<strong>the</strong>r with <strong>the</strong> credit <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

States on <strong>the</strong> day after <strong>the</strong> political smash . . .<br />

6.2.<br />

You gentlemen here present who are economists, just strike an estimate <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> significance <strong>of</strong> this combination! . . .<br />

6.3.<br />

In every possible way we must develop <strong>the</strong> significance <strong>of</strong> our Super-<br />

Government by representing it as <strong>the</strong> Protector and Benefactor <strong>of</strong> all those<br />

who voluntarily submit to us.<br />

6.4.<br />

<strong>The</strong> aristocracy <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim as a political force, is dead—We need not take it<br />

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into account; but as landed proprietors <strong>the</strong>y can still be harmful to us from <strong>the</strong><br />

fact that <strong>the</strong>y are self-sufficing in <strong>the</strong> resources upon which <strong>the</strong>y live. It is<br />

essential <strong>the</strong>refore for us at whatever cost to deprive <strong>the</strong>m <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir land. This<br />

object will be best attained by increasing <strong>the</strong> burdens upon landed property—<br />

in loading lands with debts. <strong>The</strong>se measures will check land-holding and<br />

keep it in a state <strong>of</strong> humble and un-conditional submission.<br />

6.5.<br />

<strong>The</strong> aristocrats <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim, being hereditarily incapable <strong>of</strong> contenting<br />

<strong>the</strong>mselves with little, will rapidly burn up and fizzle out.<br />

6.6.<br />

At <strong>the</strong> same time we must intensively patronize trade and industry, but, first<br />

and foremost, speculation, <strong>the</strong> part played by which is to provide a<br />

counterpoise to industry: <strong>the</strong> absence <strong>of</strong> speculative industry will multiply<br />

capital in private hands and will serve to restore agriculture by freeing <strong>the</strong><br />

land from indebtedness to <strong>the</strong> land banks. What we want is that industry<br />

should drain <strong>of</strong>f from <strong>the</strong> land both labor and capital and by means <strong>of</strong><br />

speculation transfer into our hands all <strong>the</strong> money <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world, and <strong>the</strong>reby<br />

throw all <strong>the</strong> goyim into <strong>the</strong> ranks <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> proletariat. <strong>The</strong>n <strong>the</strong> goyim will bow<br />

down before us, if for no o<strong>the</strong>r reason but to get <strong>the</strong> right to exist.<br />

6.7.<br />

To complete <strong>the</strong> ruin <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> industry <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim we shall bring to <strong>the</strong><br />

assistance <strong>of</strong> speculation <strong>the</strong> luxury which we have developed among <strong>the</strong><br />

goyim, that greedy demand for luxury which is swallowing up everything. We<br />

shall raise <strong>the</strong> rate <strong>of</strong> wages which, however, will not bring any advantage to<br />

<strong>the</strong> workers, for, at <strong>the</strong> same time, we shall produce a rise in prices <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> first<br />

necessaries <strong>of</strong> life, alleging that it arises from <strong>the</strong> decline <strong>of</strong> agriculture and<br />

cattle-breeding: we shall fur<strong>the</strong>r undermine artfully and deeply sources <strong>of</strong><br />

production, by accustoming <strong>the</strong> workers to anarchy and to drunkenness and<br />

side by side <strong>the</strong>rewith taking all measure to extirpate from <strong>the</strong> face <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Earth all <strong>the</strong> educated forces <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim.<br />

6.8.<br />

In order that <strong>the</strong> true meaning <strong>of</strong> things may not strike <strong>the</strong> goyim before <strong>the</strong><br />

proper time we shall mask it under an alleged ardent desire to serve <strong>the</strong><br />

working classes and <strong>the</strong> great principles <strong>of</strong> political economy about which our<br />

economic <strong>the</strong>ories are carrying on an energetic propaganda.<br />

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PROTOCOL 7<br />

Summary<br />

Object <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> intensification <strong>of</strong> armaments • Ferments, discords and hostility<br />

all over <strong>the</strong> world • Checking <strong>the</strong> opposition <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim by wars and by a<br />

universal war • Secrecy means success in <strong>the</strong> political • <strong>The</strong> Press and public<br />

opinion • <strong>The</strong> guns <strong>of</strong> America, China and Japan<br />

7.1.<br />

THE INTENSIFICATION OF ARMAMENTS, <strong>the</strong> increase <strong>of</strong> police forces—<br />

are all essential for <strong>the</strong> completion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> aforementioned plans. What we<br />

have to get at is that <strong>the</strong>re should be in all <strong>the</strong> States <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world, besides<br />

ourselves, only <strong>the</strong> masses <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> proletariat, a few millionaires devoted to<br />

our interests, police and soldiers.<br />

7.2.<br />

Throughout all Europe, and by means <strong>of</strong> relations with Europe, in o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

continents also, we must create ferments, discords and hostility. <strong>The</strong>rein we<br />

gain a double advantage. In <strong>the</strong> first place we keep in check all countries, for<br />

<strong>the</strong>y will know that we have <strong>the</strong> power whenever we like to create disorders<br />

or to restore order. All <strong>the</strong>se countries are accustomed to see in us an<br />

indispensable force <strong>of</strong> coercion. In <strong>the</strong> second place, by our intrigues we shall<br />

tangle up all <strong>the</strong> threads which we have stretched into <strong>the</strong> cabinets <strong>of</strong> all<br />

States by means <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> political, by economic treaties, or loan obligations. In<br />

order to succeed in this we must use great cunning and penetration during<br />

negotiations and agreements, but, as regards what is called <strong>the</strong> "<strong>of</strong>ficial<br />

language," we shall keep to <strong>the</strong> opposite tactics and assume <strong>the</strong> mask <strong>of</strong><br />

honesty and complacency. In this way <strong>the</strong> peoples and governments <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

goyim, whom we have taught to look only at <strong>the</strong> outside whatever we present<br />

to <strong>the</strong>ir notice, will still continue to accept us as <strong>the</strong> benefactors and saviours<br />

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<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> human race.<br />

7.3.<br />

We must be in a position to respond to every act <strong>of</strong> opposition by war with <strong>the</strong><br />

neighbors <strong>of</strong> that country which dares to oppose us: but if <strong>the</strong>se neighbors<br />

should also venture to stand collectively toge<strong>the</strong>r against us, <strong>the</strong>n we must<br />

<strong>of</strong>fer resistance by a universal war.<br />

7.4.<br />

<strong>The</strong> principal factor <strong>of</strong> success in <strong>the</strong> political is <strong>the</strong> secrecy <strong>of</strong> its<br />

undertakings: <strong>the</strong> word should not agree with <strong>the</strong> deeds <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> diplomat.<br />

7.5.<br />

We must compel <strong>the</strong> governments <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim to take action in <strong>the</strong> direction<br />

favored by our widely conceived plan, already approaching <strong>the</strong> desired<br />

consummation, by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly<br />

promoted by us through <strong>the</strong> means <strong>of</strong> that so-called "Great Power"—<strong>the</strong><br />

Press, which, with a few exceptions that may be disregarded, is already<br />

entirely in our hands.<br />

PROTOCOL 8<br />

Summary<br />

Ambiguous employment <strong>of</strong> juridical rights • Assistants <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Masonic<br />

directorate • Special schools and super-educational training • Economists and<br />

millionaires • To whom to entrust responsible posts in <strong>the</strong> government<br />

8.1.<br />

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WE MUST ARM OURSELVES with all <strong>the</strong> weapons which our opponents<br />

might employ against us. We must search out in <strong>the</strong> very finest shades <strong>of</strong><br />

expression and <strong>the</strong> knotty points <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> lexicon <strong>of</strong> law justification for those<br />

cases where we shall have to pronounce judgments that might appear<br />

abnormally audacious and unjust, for it is important that <strong>the</strong>se resolutions<br />

should be set forth in expressions that shall seem to be <strong>the</strong> most exalted<br />

moral principles cast into legal form. Our directorate must surround itself with<br />

all <strong>the</strong>se forces <strong>of</strong> civilization among which it will have to work. It will surround<br />

itself with publicists, practical jurists, administrators, diplomats and, finally,<br />

with persons prepared by a special super-educational training in our special<br />

schools. <strong>The</strong>se persons will have consonance <strong>of</strong> all <strong>the</strong> secrets <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> social<br />

structure, <strong>the</strong>y will know all <strong>the</strong> languages that can be made up by political<br />

alphabets and words; <strong>the</strong>y will be made acquainted with <strong>the</strong> whole underside<br />

<strong>of</strong> human nature, with all its sensitive chords on which <strong>the</strong>y will have to play.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se chords are <strong>the</strong> cast <strong>of</strong> mind <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim, <strong>the</strong>ir tendencies, shortcomings,<br />

vices and qualities, <strong>the</strong> particularities <strong>of</strong> classes and conditions.<br />

Needless to say that <strong>the</strong> talented assistants <strong>of</strong> authority, <strong>of</strong> whom I speak, will<br />

be taken not from among <strong>the</strong> goyim, who are accustomed to perform <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

administrative work without giving <strong>the</strong>mselves <strong>the</strong> trouble to think what its aim<br />

is, and never consider what it is needed for. <strong>The</strong> administrators <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim<br />

sign papers without reading <strong>the</strong>m, and <strong>the</strong>y serve ei<strong>the</strong>r for mercenary<br />

reasons or from ambition.<br />

8.2.<br />

We shall surround our government with a whole world <strong>of</strong> economists. That is<br />

<strong>the</strong> reason why economic sciences form <strong>the</strong> principal subject <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> teaching<br />

given to <strong>the</strong> Jews. Around us again will be a whole constellation <strong>of</strong> bankers,<br />

industrialists, capitalists and—<strong>the</strong> main thing—millionaires, because in<br />

substance everything will be settled by <strong>the</strong> questions <strong>of</strong> figures.<br />

8.2.<br />

For a time, until <strong>the</strong>re will no longer be any risk in entrusting responsible<br />

posts in our State to our bro<strong>the</strong>r-Jews, we shall put <strong>the</strong>m in <strong>the</strong> hands <strong>of</strong><br />

persons whose past and reputation are such that between <strong>the</strong>m and <strong>the</strong><br />

people lies an abyss, persons who, in case <strong>of</strong> disobedience to our<br />

instructions, must face criminal charges or disappear—this in order to make<br />

<strong>the</strong>m defend our interests to <strong>the</strong>ir last gasp.<br />

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PROTOCOL 9<br />

Summary<br />

Application <strong>of</strong> masonic principles in <strong>the</strong> matter <strong>of</strong> re-educating <strong>the</strong> peoples •<br />

Masonic watchword • Meaning <strong>of</strong> Anti-Semitism • Dictatorship <strong>of</strong> masonry •<br />

Terror • Who are <strong>the</strong> servants <strong>of</strong> masonry • Meaning <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> "clear-sighted"<br />

and <strong>the</strong> "blind" forces <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim States • Communion between authority<br />

and mob • Licence <strong>of</strong> liberalism • Seizure <strong>of</strong> education and training • False<br />

<strong>the</strong>ories • Interpretation <strong>of</strong> laws • <strong>The</strong> "undergrounds" (metropolitains).<br />

9.1.<br />

IN APPLYING OUR PRINCIPLES let attention be paid to <strong>the</strong> character <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

people in whose country you live and act; a general, identical application <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>m, until such time as <strong>the</strong> people shall have been re-educated to our<br />

pattern, cannot have success. But by approaching <strong>the</strong>ir application cautiously<br />

you will see that not a decade will pass before <strong>the</strong> most stubborn character<br />

will change and we shall add a new people to <strong>the</strong> ranks <strong>of</strong> those already<br />

subdued by us.<br />

9.2.<br />

<strong>The</strong> words <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> liberal, which are in effect <strong>the</strong> words <strong>of</strong> our masonic<br />

watchword, namely, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," will, when we come into<br />

our kingdom, be changed by us into words no longer <strong>of</strong> a watchword, but only<br />

an expression <strong>of</strong> idealism, namely, into "<strong>The</strong> right <strong>of</strong> liberty, <strong>the</strong> duty <strong>of</strong><br />

equality, <strong>the</strong> ideal <strong>of</strong> bro<strong>the</strong>rhood." That is how we shall put it,—and so we<br />

shall catch <strong>the</strong> bull by <strong>the</strong> horns . . . de facto we have already wiped out every<br />

kind <strong>of</strong> rule except our own, although de jure <strong>the</strong>re still remain a good many<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m. Nowadays, if any States raise a protest against us it is only pro<br />

forma at our discretion and by our direction, for <strong>the</strong>ir anti-Semitism is<br />

indispensible to us for <strong>the</strong> management <strong>of</strong> our lesser brethren. I will not enter<br />

into fur<strong>the</strong>r explanations, for this matter has formed <strong>the</strong> subject <strong>of</strong> repeated<br />

discussions amongst us.<br />

9.3.<br />

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For us <strong>the</strong>re are not checks to limit <strong>the</strong> range <strong>of</strong> our activity. Our Super-<br />

Government subsists in extra-legal conditions which are described in <strong>the</strong><br />

accepted terminology by <strong>the</strong> energetic and forcible word—Dictatorship. I am<br />

in a position to tell you with a clear conscience that at <strong>the</strong> proper time we, <strong>the</strong><br />

law-givers, shall execute judgment and sentence, we shall slay and we shall<br />

spare, we, as head <strong>of</strong> all our troops, are mounted on <strong>the</strong> steed <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> leader.<br />

We rule by force <strong>of</strong> will, because in our hands are <strong>the</strong> fragments <strong>of</strong> a once<br />

powerful party, now vanquished by us. And <strong>the</strong> weapons in our hands are<br />

limitless ambitions, burning greediness, merciless vengeance, hatreds and<br />

malice.<br />

9.4.<br />

It is from us that <strong>the</strong> all-engulfing terror proceeds. We have in our service<br />

persons <strong>of</strong> all opinions, <strong>of</strong> all doctrines, restorating monarchists,<br />

demagogues, socialists, communists, and utopian dreamers <strong>of</strong> every kind.<br />

We have harnessed <strong>the</strong>m all to <strong>the</strong> task: each one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m on his own<br />

account is boring away at <strong>the</strong> last remnants <strong>of</strong> authority, is striving to<br />

overthrow all established form <strong>of</strong> order. By <strong>the</strong>se acts all States are in torture;<br />

<strong>the</strong>y exhort to tranquility, are ready to sacrifice everything for peace: but we<br />

will not give <strong>the</strong>m peace until <strong>the</strong>y openly acknowledge our international<br />

Super-Government, and with submissiveness.<br />

9.5.<br />

<strong>The</strong> people have raised a howl about <strong>the</strong> necessity <strong>of</strong> settling <strong>the</strong> question <strong>of</strong><br />

Socialism by way <strong>of</strong> an international agreement. Division into fractional<br />

parties has given <strong>the</strong>m into our hands, for, in order to carry on a contested<br />

struggle one must have money, and <strong>the</strong> money is all in our hands.<br />

9.6.<br />

We might have reason to apprehend a union between <strong>the</strong> "clear-sighted"<br />

force <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goy kings on <strong>the</strong>ir thrones and <strong>the</strong> "blind" force <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goy mobs,<br />

but we have taken all <strong>the</strong> needful measure against any such possibility:<br />

between <strong>the</strong> one and <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r force we have erected a bulwark in <strong>the</strong> shape<br />

<strong>of</strong> a mutual terror between <strong>the</strong>m. In this way <strong>the</strong> blind force <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> people<br />

remains our support and we, and we only, shall provide <strong>the</strong>m with a leader<br />

and, <strong>of</strong> course, direct <strong>the</strong>m along <strong>the</strong> road that leads to our goal.<br />

9.7.<br />

In order that <strong>the</strong> hand <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> blind mob may not free itself from our guiding<br />

hand, we must every now and <strong>the</strong>n enter into close communion with it, if not<br />

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actually in person, at any rate through some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> most trusty <strong>of</strong> our<br />

brethren. When we are acknowledged as <strong>the</strong> only authority we shall discuss<br />

with <strong>the</strong> people personally on <strong>the</strong> market, places, and we shall instruct <strong>the</strong>m<br />

on questings <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> political in such wise as may turn <strong>the</strong>m in <strong>the</strong> direction<br />

that suits us.<br />

9.8.<br />

Who is going to verify what is taught in <strong>the</strong> village schools? But what an<br />

envoy <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> government or a king on his throne himself may say cannot but<br />

become immediately known to <strong>the</strong> whole State, for it will be spread abroad by<br />

<strong>the</strong> voice <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> people.<br />

9.9.<br />

In order to annihilate <strong>the</strong> institutions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim before it is time we have<br />

touched <strong>the</strong>m with craft and delicacy, and have taken hold <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ends <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

springs which move <strong>the</strong>ir mechanism. <strong>The</strong>se springs lay in a strict but just<br />

sense <strong>of</strong> order; we have replaced <strong>the</strong>m by <strong>the</strong> chaotic license <strong>of</strong> liberalism.<br />

We have got our hands into <strong>the</strong> administration <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> law, into <strong>the</strong> conduct <strong>of</strong><br />

elections, into <strong>the</strong> press, into liberty <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> person, but principally into<br />

education and training as being <strong>the</strong> cornerstones <strong>of</strong> a free existence.<br />

9.10.<br />

We have fooled, bemused and corrupted <strong>the</strong> youth <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim by rearing<br />

<strong>the</strong>m in principles and <strong>the</strong>ories which are known to us to be false although it<br />

is by us that <strong>the</strong>y have been inculcated.<br />

9.11.<br />

Above <strong>the</strong> existing laws without substantially altering <strong>the</strong>m, and by merely<br />

twisting <strong>the</strong>m into contradictions <strong>of</strong> interpretations, we have erected<br />

something grandiose in <strong>the</strong> way <strong>of</strong> results. <strong>The</strong>se results found expression in<br />

<strong>the</strong> fact that <strong>the</strong> interpretations masked <strong>the</strong> law: afterwards <strong>the</strong>y entirely hid<br />

<strong>the</strong>m from <strong>the</strong> eyes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> governments owing to <strong>the</strong> impossibility <strong>of</strong> making<br />

anything out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> tangled web <strong>of</strong> legislation.<br />

9.12.<br />

This is <strong>the</strong> origin <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>ory <strong>of</strong> course <strong>of</strong> arbitration.<br />

9.13.<br />

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You may say that <strong>the</strong> goyim will rise upon us, arms in hand, if <strong>the</strong>y guess<br />

what is going on before <strong>the</strong> time comes; but in <strong>the</strong> West we have against this<br />

a manoeuvre <strong>of</strong> such appalling terror that <strong>the</strong> very stoutest hearts quail—<strong>the</strong><br />

undergrounds, metropolitans, those subterranean corridors which, before <strong>the</strong><br />

time comes, will be driven under all <strong>the</strong> capitals and from whence those<br />

capitals will be blown into <strong>the</strong> air with all <strong>the</strong>ir organizations and archives.<br />

PROTOCOL 10<br />

Summary<br />

<strong>The</strong> outside appearances in <strong>the</strong> political • <strong>The</strong> "genius" <strong>of</strong> rascality • What is<br />

promised by a Masonic coup d'etat? • Universal suffrage • Self-importance •<br />

Leaders <strong>of</strong> Masonry • <strong>The</strong> genius who is guide <strong>of</strong> Masonry • Institutions and<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir functions • <strong>The</strong> poison <strong>of</strong> liberalism • Constitution—school <strong>of</strong> party<br />

discords • Era <strong>of</strong> republics • Presidents—<strong>the</strong> puppets <strong>of</strong> Masonry •<br />

Responsibility <strong>of</strong> Presidents • "Panama" • Part played by chamber <strong>of</strong> deputies<br />

and president • Masonry—<strong>the</strong> legislative force • New republican constitution •<br />

Transition to masonic "despotism" • Moment for <strong>the</strong> proclamation <strong>of</strong> "<strong>The</strong><br />

Lord <strong>of</strong> all <strong>the</strong> World" • Inoculation <strong>of</strong> diseases and o<strong>the</strong>r wiles <strong>of</strong> Masonry<br />

10.1.<br />

TODAY I BEGIN with a repetition <strong>of</strong> what I said before, and I beg you to bear<br />

in mind that governments and people are content in <strong>the</strong> politcal with outside<br />

appearances. And how, indeed, are <strong>the</strong> goyim to perceive <strong>the</strong> underlying<br />

meaning <strong>of</strong> things when <strong>the</strong>ir representatives give <strong>the</strong> best <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir energies<br />

to enjoying <strong>the</strong>mselves? For our policy it is <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> greatest importance to take<br />

cognizance <strong>of</strong> this detail; it will be <strong>of</strong> assistance to us when we come to<br />

consider <strong>the</strong> division <strong>of</strong> authority <strong>of</strong> property, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> dwelling, <strong>of</strong> taxation (<strong>the</strong><br />

idea <strong>of</strong> concealed taxes), <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> reflex force <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> laws. All <strong>the</strong>se questions<br />

are such as ought not to be touched upon directly and openly before <strong>the</strong><br />

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people. In cases where it is indispensable to touch upon <strong>the</strong>m <strong>the</strong>y must not<br />

be categorically named, it must merely be declared without detailed<br />

exposition that <strong>the</strong> principles <strong>of</strong> contemporary law are acknowledged by us.<br />

<strong>The</strong> reason <strong>of</strong> keeping silence in this respect is that by not naming a principle<br />

we leave ourselves freedom <strong>of</strong> action, to drop this or that out <strong>of</strong> it without<br />

attracting notice; if <strong>the</strong>y were all categorically named <strong>the</strong>y would all appear to<br />

have been already given.<br />

10.2.<br />

<strong>The</strong> mob cherishes a special affection and respect for <strong>the</strong> geniuses <strong>of</strong><br />

political power and accepts all <strong>the</strong>ir deeds <strong>of</strong> violence with <strong>the</strong> admiring<br />

response: "rascally, well, yes, it is rascally, but it's clever! . . . a trick, if you<br />

like, but how craftily played, how magnificently done, what impudent<br />

audacity!" . . .<br />

10.3.<br />

We count upon attracting all nations to <strong>the</strong> task <strong>of</strong> erecting <strong>the</strong> new<br />

fundamental structure, <strong>the</strong> project for which has been drawn up by us. This is<br />

why, before everything, it is indispensable for us to arm ourselves and to<br />

store up in ourselves that absolutely reckless audacity and irresistible might<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> spirit which in <strong>the</strong> person <strong>of</strong> our active workers will break down all<br />

hindrances on our way.<br />

10.4.<br />

When we have accomplished our coup d'etat we shall say <strong>the</strong>n to <strong>the</strong> various<br />

peoples: "Everything has gone terribly badly, all have been worn out with<br />

suffering. We are destroying <strong>the</strong> causes <strong>of</strong> your torment—nationalities,<br />

frontiers, difference <strong>of</strong> coinages. You are at liberty, <strong>of</strong> course, to pronounce<br />

sentence upon us, but can it possibly be a just one if it is confirmed by you<br />

before you make any trial <strong>of</strong> what we are <strong>of</strong>fering you." . . . <strong>The</strong>n will <strong>the</strong> mob<br />

exalt us and bear us up in <strong>the</strong>ir hands in a unanimous triumph <strong>of</strong> hopes and<br />

expectations. Voting, which we have made <strong>the</strong> instrument which will set us on<br />

<strong>the</strong> throne <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world by teaching even <strong>the</strong> very smallest units <strong>of</strong> memebers<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> human race to vote by means <strong>of</strong> meetings and agreements by groups,<br />

will <strong>the</strong>n have served its purposes and will play its part <strong>the</strong>n for <strong>the</strong> last time<br />

by a unanimity <strong>of</strong> desire to make close acquaintance with us before<br />

condemning us.<br />

10.5.<br />

To secure this we must have everybody vote without distinction <strong>of</strong> classes<br />

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and qualifications, in order to establish an absolute majority, which cannot be<br />

got from <strong>the</strong> educated propertied classes. In this way, by inculcating in all a<br />

sense <strong>of</strong> self-importance, we shall destroy among <strong>the</strong> goyim <strong>the</strong> importance<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> family and its educational value and remove <strong>the</strong> possibility <strong>of</strong> individual<br />

minds splitting <strong>of</strong>f, for <strong>the</strong> mob, handled by us, will not let <strong>the</strong>m come to <strong>the</strong><br />

front nor even give <strong>the</strong>m a hearing; it is accustomed to listen to us only who<br />

pay it for obedience and attention. In this way we shall create a blind, mighty<br />

force which will never be in a position to move in any direction without <strong>the</strong><br />

guidance <strong>of</strong> our agents set at its head by us as leaders <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mob. <strong>The</strong><br />

people will submit to this regime because it will know that upon <strong>the</strong>se leaders<br />

will depend its earnings, gratifications and <strong>the</strong> receipt <strong>of</strong> all kinds <strong>of</strong> benefits.<br />

10.6.<br />

A scheme <strong>of</strong> government should come ready made from one brain, because<br />

it will never be clinched firmly if it is allowed to be split into fractional parts in<br />

<strong>the</strong> minds <strong>of</strong> many. It is allowable, <strong>the</strong>refore, for us to have cognizance <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

scheme <strong>of</strong> action but not to discuss it lest we disturb its artfulness, <strong>the</strong><br />

interdependence <strong>of</strong> its component parts, <strong>the</strong> practical force <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> secret<br />

meaning <strong>of</strong> each clause. To discuss and make alterations in a labor <strong>of</strong> this<br />

kind by means <strong>of</strong> numerous votings is to impress upon it <strong>the</strong> stamp <strong>of</strong> all<br />

ratiocinations and misunderstandings which have failed to penetrate <strong>the</strong><br />

depth and nexus <strong>of</strong> its plottings. We want our schemes to be forcible and<br />

suitably concocted. <strong>The</strong>refore we ought not to fling <strong>the</strong> work <strong>of</strong> genius <strong>of</strong> our<br />

guide to <strong>the</strong> fangs <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mob or even <strong>of</strong> a select company.<br />

10.7.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se schemes will not turn existing institutions upside down just yet. <strong>The</strong>y<br />

will only effect changes in <strong>the</strong>ir economy and consequently in <strong>the</strong> whole<br />

combined movement <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir progress, which will thus be directed along <strong>the</strong><br />

paths laid down in our schemes.<br />

10.8.<br />

Under various names <strong>the</strong>re exists in all countries approximately one and <strong>the</strong><br />

same thing. Representation, Ministry, Senate, State Council, Legislative and<br />

Executive Corps. I need not explain to you <strong>the</strong> mechanism <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> relation <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>se institutions to one ano<strong>the</strong>r, because you are aware <strong>of</strong> all that; only take<br />

note <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fact that each <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> above-named institutions corresponds to<br />

some important function <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State, and I would beg you to remark that <strong>the</strong><br />

word "important" I apply not to <strong>the</strong> institution but to <strong>the</strong> function, consequently<br />

it is not <strong>the</strong> institutions which are important but <strong>the</strong>ir functions. <strong>The</strong>se<br />

institutions have divided up among <strong>the</strong>mselves all <strong>the</strong> functions <strong>of</strong><br />

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government—administrative, legislative, executive, wherefore <strong>the</strong>y have<br />

come to operate as do <strong>the</strong> organs in <strong>the</strong> human body. If we injure one part in<br />

<strong>the</strong> machinery <strong>of</strong> State, <strong>the</strong> State falls sick, like a human body, and . . . will<br />

die..<br />

10.9.<br />

When we introduced into <strong>the</strong> State organism <strong>the</strong> poison <strong>of</strong> Liberalism its<br />

whole political complexion underwent a change. States have been seized<br />

with a mortal illness—blood poisoning. All that remains is to await <strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>ir death agony.<br />

10.10.<br />

Liberalism produced Constitutional States, which took <strong>the</strong> place <strong>of</strong> what was<br />

<strong>the</strong> only safeguard <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim, namely, Despotism; and a constitution, as<br />

you well know, is nothing else but a school <strong>of</strong> discords, misunderstandings,<br />

quarrels, disagreements, fruitless party agitations, party whims—in a word, a<br />

school <strong>of</strong> everything that serves to destroy <strong>the</strong> personality <strong>of</strong> State activity.<br />

<strong>The</strong> tribune <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> tribune <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> "talkerics" has, no less effectively than <strong>the</strong><br />

press, condemned <strong>the</strong> rulers to inactivity and impotence, and <strong>the</strong>reby<br />

rendered <strong>the</strong>m useless and superfluous, for which reason indeed <strong>the</strong>y have<br />

been in many countries deposed. <strong>The</strong>n it was that <strong>the</strong> era <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> republics<br />

became possible <strong>of</strong> realization; and <strong>the</strong>n it was that we replaced <strong>the</strong> ruler by<br />

a caricature <strong>of</strong> a government—by a president, taken from <strong>the</strong> mob, from <strong>the</strong><br />

midst <strong>of</strong> our puppet creatures, our slaves. This was <strong>the</strong> foundation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

mine which we have laid under <strong>the</strong> goy people, I should ra<strong>the</strong>r say, under <strong>the</strong><br />

goy peoples.<br />

10.11.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> near future we shall establish <strong>the</strong> responsibility <strong>of</strong> presidents.<br />

10.12.<br />

By that time we shall be in a position to disregard forms in carrying through<br />

matters for which our impersonal puppet will be responsible. What do we care<br />

if <strong>the</strong> ranks <strong>of</strong> those striving for power should be thinned, if <strong>the</strong>re should arise<br />

a deadlock from <strong>the</strong> impossibility <strong>of</strong> finding presidents, a deadlock which will<br />

finally disorganize <strong>the</strong> country? . . .<br />

10.13.<br />

In order that our scheme may produce this result we shall arrange elections<br />

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in favor <strong>of</strong> such presidents as have in <strong>the</strong>ir past some dark, undiscovered<br />

stain, some "Panama" or o<strong>the</strong>r—<strong>the</strong>n <strong>the</strong>y will be trustworthy agents for <strong>the</strong><br />

accomplishment <strong>of</strong> our plans out <strong>of</strong> fear <strong>of</strong> revelations and from <strong>the</strong> natural<br />

desire <strong>of</strong> everyone who has attained power, namely, <strong>the</strong> retention <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

privileges, advantages and honor connected with <strong>the</strong> <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> president. <strong>The</strong><br />

chamber <strong>of</strong> deputies will provide cover for, will protect, will elect presidents,<br />

but we shall take from it <strong>the</strong> right to propose new, or make changes in<br />

existing laws, for this right will be given by us to <strong>the</strong> responsible president, a<br />

puppet in our hands. Naturally, <strong>the</strong> authority <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> presidents will <strong>the</strong>n<br />

become a target for every possible form <strong>of</strong> attack, but we shall provide him<br />

with a means <strong>of</strong> self-defense in <strong>the</strong> right <strong>of</strong> an appeal to <strong>the</strong> people, for <strong>the</strong><br />

decision <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> people over <strong>the</strong> heads <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir representatives, that is to say,<br />

an appeal to that some blind slave <strong>of</strong> ours—<strong>the</strong> majority <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mob.<br />

Independently <strong>of</strong> this we shall invest <strong>the</strong> president with <strong>the</strong> right <strong>of</strong> declaring a<br />

state <strong>of</strong> war. We shall justify this last right on <strong>the</strong> ground that <strong>the</strong> president as<br />

chief <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> whole army <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> country must have it at his disposal, in case <strong>of</strong><br />

need for <strong>the</strong> defense <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> new republican constitution, <strong>the</strong> right to defend<br />

which will belong to him as <strong>the</strong> responsible representative <strong>of</strong> this constitution.<br />

10.14.<br />

It is easy to understand <strong>the</strong>m in <strong>the</strong>se conditions <strong>the</strong> key <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> shrine will lie<br />

in our hands, and no one outside ourselves will any longer direct <strong>the</strong> force <strong>of</strong><br />

legislation.<br />

10.15.<br />

Besides this we shall, with <strong>the</strong> introduction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> new republican constitution,<br />

take from <strong>the</strong> Chamber <strong>the</strong> right <strong>of</strong> interpolation on government measures, on<br />

<strong>the</strong> pretext <strong>of</strong> preserving political secrecy, and, fur<strong>the</strong>r, we shall by <strong>the</strong> new<br />

constitution reduce <strong>the</strong> number <strong>of</strong> representatives to a minimum, <strong>the</strong>reby<br />

proportionately reducing political passions and <strong>the</strong> passion for politics. If,<br />

however, <strong>the</strong>y should, which is hardly to be expected, burst into flame, even<br />

in this minimum, we shall nullify <strong>the</strong>m by a stirring appeal and a reference to<br />

<strong>the</strong> majority <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> whole people . . . Upon <strong>the</strong> president will depend <strong>the</strong><br />

appointment <strong>of</strong> presidents and vice-presidents <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Chamber and <strong>the</strong><br />

Senate. Instead <strong>of</strong> constant sessions <strong>of</strong> Parliaments we shall reduce <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

sittings to a few months. Moreover, <strong>the</strong> president, as chief <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> executive<br />

power, will have <strong>the</strong> right to summon and dissolve Parliament, and, in <strong>the</strong><br />

latter case, to prolong <strong>the</strong> time for <strong>the</strong> appointment <strong>of</strong> a new parliamentary<br />

assembly. But in order that <strong>the</strong> consequences <strong>of</strong> all <strong>the</strong>se acts which in<br />

substance are illegal, should not, prematurely for our plans, upon <strong>the</strong><br />

responsibility established by use <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> president, we shall instigate ministers<br />

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and o<strong>the</strong>r <strong>of</strong>ficials <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> higher administration about <strong>the</strong> president to evade<br />

his dispositions by taking measures <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir own, for doing which <strong>the</strong>y will be<br />

made <strong>the</strong> scapegoats in his place . . . This part we especially recommend to<br />

be given to be played by <strong>the</strong> Senate, <strong>the</strong> Council <strong>of</strong> State, or <strong>the</strong> Council <strong>of</strong><br />

Ministers, but not to an individual <strong>of</strong>ficial.<br />

10.16.<br />

<strong>The</strong> president will, at our discretion, interpret <strong>the</strong> sense <strong>of</strong> such <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> existing<br />

laws as admit <strong>of</strong> various interpretation; he will fur<strong>the</strong>r annul <strong>the</strong>m when we<br />

indicate to him <strong>the</strong> necessity to do so, besides this, he will have <strong>the</strong> right to<br />

propose temporary laws, and even new departures in <strong>the</strong> government<br />

constitutional working, <strong>the</strong> pretext both for <strong>the</strong> one and <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r being <strong>the</strong><br />

requirements for <strong>the</strong> supreme welfare <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State.<br />

10.17.<br />

By such measure we shall obtain <strong>the</strong> power <strong>of</strong> destroying little by little, step<br />

by step, all that at <strong>the</strong> outset when we enter on our rights, we are compelled<br />

to introduce into <strong>the</strong> constitutions <strong>of</strong> States to prepare for <strong>the</strong> transition to an<br />

imperceptible abolition <strong>of</strong> every kind <strong>of</strong> constitution, and <strong>the</strong>n <strong>the</strong> time is come<br />

to turn every form <strong>of</strong> government into our despotism.<br />

10.18.<br />

<strong>The</strong> recognition <strong>of</strong> our despot may also come before <strong>the</strong> destruction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

constitution; <strong>the</strong> moment for this recognition will come when <strong>the</strong> peoples,<br />

utterly wearied by <strong>the</strong> irregularities and incompetence—a matter which we<br />

shall arrange for—<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir rulers, will clamor: "Away with <strong>the</strong>m and give us<br />

one king over all <strong>the</strong> earth who will unite us and annihilate <strong>the</strong> causes <strong>of</strong><br />

disorders—frontiers, nationalities, religions, State debts—who will give us<br />

peace and quiet which we cannot find under our rulers and representatives."<br />

10.19.<br />

But you yourselves perfectly well know that to produce <strong>the</strong> possibility <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

expression <strong>of</strong> such wishes by all <strong>the</strong> nations it is indispensible to trouble in all<br />

countries <strong>the</strong> people's relations with <strong>the</strong>ir governments so as to utterly<br />

exhaust humanity with dissension, hatred, struggle, envy and even by <strong>the</strong> use<br />

<strong>of</strong> torture, by starvation, by <strong>the</strong> inoculation <strong>of</strong> diseases, by want, so that <strong>the</strong><br />

goyim see no o<strong>the</strong>r issue than to take refuge in our complete sovereignty in<br />

money and in all else.<br />

10.20.<br />

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But if we give <strong>the</strong> nations <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world a breathing space <strong>the</strong> moment we long<br />

for is hardly likely ever to arrive.<br />

PROTOCOL 11<br />

Summary<br />

Programme <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> new constitution • Certain details <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> proposed<br />

revolution • <strong>The</strong> goyim—a pack <strong>of</strong> sheep • Secret masonry and its "show"<br />

lodges<br />

11.1.<br />

THE STATE COUNCIL has been, as it were, <strong>the</strong> emphatic expression <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

authority <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ruler: it will be, as <strong>the</strong> "show" part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Legislative Corps,<br />

what may be called <strong>the</strong> editorial committee <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> laws and decrees <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

ruler.<br />

11.2.<br />

This, <strong>the</strong>n, is <strong>the</strong> program <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> new constitution. We shall make Law, Right<br />

and Justice (1) in <strong>the</strong> guise <strong>of</strong> proposals to <strong>the</strong> Legislative Corps, (2) by<br />

decrees <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> president under <strong>the</strong> guise <strong>of</strong> general regulations, <strong>of</strong> orders <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Senate and <strong>of</strong> resolutions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State Council in <strong>the</strong> guise <strong>of</strong> ministerial<br />

orders, (3) and in case a suitable occasion should arise—in <strong>the</strong> form <strong>of</strong> a<br />

revolution in <strong>the</strong> State.<br />

11.3.<br />

Having established approximately <strong>the</strong> modus agendi we will occupy<br />

ourselves with details <strong>of</strong> those combinations by which we have still to<br />

complete <strong>the</strong> revolution in <strong>the</strong> course <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> machinery <strong>of</strong> State in <strong>the</strong><br />

direction already indicated. By <strong>the</strong>se combinations I mean <strong>the</strong> freedom <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

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Press, <strong>the</strong> right <strong>of</strong> association, freedom <strong>of</strong> conscience, <strong>the</strong> voting principle,<br />

and many ano<strong>the</strong>r that must disappear for ever from <strong>the</strong> memory <strong>of</strong> man, or<br />

undergo a radical alteration <strong>the</strong> day after <strong>the</strong> promulgation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> new<br />

constitution. It is only at <strong>the</strong> moment that we shall be able at once to<br />

announce all our orders, for, afterwards, every noticeable alteration will be<br />

dangerous, for <strong>the</strong> following reasons: if this alteration be brought in with harsh<br />

severity and in a sense <strong>of</strong> severity and limitations, it may lead to a feeling <strong>of</strong><br />

despair caused by fear <strong>of</strong> new alterations in <strong>the</strong> same direction; if, on <strong>the</strong><br />

o<strong>the</strong>r hand, it be brought in a sense <strong>of</strong> fur<strong>the</strong>r indulgences it will be said that<br />

we have recognized our own wrong-doing and this will destroy <strong>the</strong> prestige <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> infallibility <strong>of</strong> our authority, or else it will be said that we have become<br />

alarmed and are compelled to show a yielding disposition, for which we shall<br />

get no thanks because it will be supposed to be compulsory . . . Both <strong>the</strong> one<br />

and <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r are injurious to <strong>the</strong> prestige <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> new constitution. What we<br />

want is that from <strong>the</strong> first moment <strong>of</strong> its promulgation, while <strong>the</strong> peoples <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

world are still stunned by <strong>the</strong> accomplished fact <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> revolution, still in a<br />

condition <strong>of</strong> terror and uncertainty, <strong>the</strong>y should recognize once for all that we<br />

are so strong, so inexpugnable, so super-abundantly filled with power, that in<br />

no case shall we take any account <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m, and so far from paying any<br />

attention to <strong>the</strong>ir opinions or wishes, we are ready and able to crush with<br />

irresistible power all expression or manifestation <strong>the</strong>re<strong>of</strong> at every moment and<br />

in every place, that we have seized at once everything we wanted and shall<br />

in no case divide our power with <strong>the</strong>m . . . <strong>The</strong>n in fear and trembling <strong>the</strong>y will<br />

close <strong>the</strong>ir eyes to everything, and be content to await what will be <strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong><br />

it all.<br />

11.4.<br />

<strong>The</strong> goyim are a flock <strong>of</strong> sheep, and we are <strong>the</strong>ir wolves. And you know what<br />

happens when <strong>the</strong> wolves get hold <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> flock? . . . .<br />

11.5.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is ano<strong>the</strong>r reason also why <strong>the</strong>y will close <strong>the</strong>ir eyes: for we shall keep<br />

promising <strong>the</strong>m to give back all <strong>the</strong> liberties we have taken away as soon as<br />

we have quelled <strong>the</strong> enemies <strong>of</strong> peace and tamed all parties . . . .<br />

11.6.<br />

It is not worth to say anything about how long a time <strong>the</strong>y will be kept waiting<br />

for this return <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir liberties . . . .<br />

11.7.<br />

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For what purpose <strong>the</strong>n have we invented this whole policy and insinuated it<br />

into <strong>the</strong> minds <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goy without giving <strong>the</strong>m any chance to examine its<br />

underlying meaning? For what, indeed, if not in order to obtain in a<br />

roundabout way what is for our scattered tribe unattainable by <strong>the</strong> direct<br />

road? It is this which has served as <strong>the</strong> basis for our organization <strong>of</strong> secret<br />

masonry which is not known to, and aims which are not even so much as<br />

suspected by, <strong>the</strong>se goy cattle, attracted by us into <strong>the</strong> "show" army <strong>of</strong><br />

masonic lodges in order to throw dust in <strong>the</strong> eyes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir fellows.<br />

11.8.<br />

God has granted to us, His Chosen People, <strong>the</strong> gift <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> dispersion, and in<br />

this which appears in all eyes to be our weakness, has come forth all our<br />

strength, which has now brought us to <strong>the</strong> threshold <strong>of</strong> sovereignty over all<br />

<strong>the</strong> world.<br />

11.9.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re now remains not much more for us to build up upon <strong>the</strong> foundation we<br />

have laid.<br />

PROTOCOL 12<br />

Summary<br />

Masonic interpretation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> word "freedom" • Future <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> press in <strong>the</strong><br />

masonic kingdom • Control <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> press • Correspondence agencies • What is<br />

progress as understood by masonry? • More about <strong>the</strong> press • Masonic<br />

solidarity in <strong>the</strong> press <strong>of</strong> today • <strong>The</strong> arousing <strong>of</strong> "public" demands in <strong>the</strong><br />

provinces • Infallibility <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> new regime<br />

12.1.<br />

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THE WORD "FREEDOM," which can be interpreted in various ways, is<br />

defined by us as follows:<br />

12.2.<br />

Freedom is <strong>the</strong> right to do what which <strong>the</strong> law allows. This interpretation <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> word will at <strong>the</strong> proper time be <strong>of</strong> service to us, because all freedom will<br />

thus be in our hands, since <strong>the</strong> laws will abolish or create only that which is<br />

desirable for us according to <strong>the</strong> aforesaid program.<br />

12.3.<br />

We shall deal with <strong>the</strong> press in <strong>the</strong> following way: what is <strong>the</strong> part played by<br />

<strong>the</strong> press today? It serves to excite and inflame those passions which are<br />

needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends <strong>of</strong> parties. It is <strong>of</strong>ten<br />

vapid, unjust, mendacious, and <strong>the</strong> majority <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> public have not <strong>the</strong><br />

slightest idea what ends <strong>the</strong> press really serves. We shall saddle and bridle it<br />

with a tight curb: we shall do <strong>the</strong> same also with all productions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> printing<br />

press, for where would be <strong>the</strong> sense <strong>of</strong> getting rid <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> attacks <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> press if<br />

we remain targets for pamphlets and books? <strong>The</strong> produce <strong>of</strong> publicity, which<br />

nowadays is a source <strong>of</strong> heavy expense owing to <strong>the</strong> necessity <strong>of</strong> censoring<br />

it, will be turned by us into a very lucrative source <strong>of</strong> income to our State: we<br />

shall law on it a special stamp tax and require deposits <strong>of</strong> caution-money<br />

before permitting <strong>the</strong> establishment <strong>of</strong> any organ <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> press or <strong>of</strong> printing<br />

<strong>of</strong>fices; <strong>the</strong>se will <strong>the</strong>n have to guarantee our government against any kind <strong>of</strong><br />

attack on <strong>the</strong> part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> press. For any attempt to attack us, if such still be<br />

possible, we shall inflict fines without mercy. Such measures as stamp tax,<br />

deposit <strong>of</strong> caution-money and fines secured by <strong>the</strong>se deposits, will bring in a<br />

huge income to <strong>the</strong> government. It is true that party organs might not spare<br />

money for <strong>the</strong> sake <strong>of</strong> publicity, but <strong>the</strong>se we shall shut up at <strong>the</strong> second<br />

attack upon us. No one shall with impunity lay a finger on <strong>the</strong> aureole <strong>of</strong> our<br />

government infallibility. <strong>The</strong> pretext for stopping any publication will be <strong>the</strong><br />

alleged plea that it is agitating <strong>the</strong> public mind without occasion or<br />

justification. I beg you to note that among those making attacks upon us will<br />

also be organs established by us, but <strong>the</strong>y will attack exclusively points that<br />

we have pre-determined to alter.<br />

12.4.<br />

Not a single announcement will reach <strong>the</strong> public without our control. Even<br />

now this is already being attained by us inasmuch as all news items are<br />

received by a few agencies, in whose <strong>of</strong>fices <strong>the</strong>y are focused from all parts<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world. <strong>The</strong>se agencies will <strong>the</strong>n be already entirely ours and will give<br />

publicity only to what we dictate to <strong>the</strong>m.<br />

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12.5.<br />

If already now we have contrived to possess ourselves <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> minds <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

goy communities to such an extent <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>y all come near looking upon <strong>the</strong><br />

events <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world through <strong>the</strong> colored glasses <strong>of</strong> those spectacles we are<br />

setting astride <strong>the</strong>ir noses; if already now <strong>the</strong>re is not a single State where<br />

<strong>the</strong>re exist for us any barriers to admittance into what goy stupidity calls State<br />

secrets: what will our positions be <strong>the</strong>n, when we shall be acknowledged<br />

supreme lords <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world in <strong>the</strong> person <strong>of</strong> our king <strong>of</strong> all <strong>the</strong> world . . . .<br />

12.6.<br />

Let us turn again to <strong>the</strong> future <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> printing press. Every one desirous <strong>of</strong><br />

being a publisher, librarian, or printer, will be obliged to provide himself with<br />

<strong>the</strong> diploma instituted <strong>the</strong>refore, which, in case <strong>of</strong> any fault, will be<br />

immediately impounded. With such measures <strong>the</strong> instrument <strong>of</strong> thought will<br />

become an educative means on <strong>the</strong> hands <strong>of</strong> our government, which will no<br />

longer allow <strong>the</strong> mass <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> nation to be led astry in by-ways and fantasies<br />

about <strong>the</strong> blessings <strong>of</strong> progress. Is <strong>the</strong>re any one <strong>of</strong> us who does not know<br />

that <strong>the</strong>se phantom blessings are <strong>the</strong> direct roads to foolish imaginings which<br />

give birth to anarchical relations <strong>of</strong> men among <strong>the</strong>mselves and towards<br />

authority, because progress, or ra<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> idea <strong>of</strong> progress, has introduced<br />

<strong>the</strong> conception <strong>of</strong> every kind <strong>of</strong> emancipation, but has failed to establish its<br />

limits . . . . All <strong>the</strong> so-called liberals are anarchists, if not in fact, at any rate in<br />

thought. Every one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m in hunting after phantoms <strong>of</strong> freedom, and falling<br />

exclusively into license, that is, into <strong>the</strong> anarchy <strong>of</strong> protest for <strong>the</strong> sake <strong>of</strong><br />

protest . . . .<br />

12.7.<br />

We turn to <strong>the</strong> periodical press. We shall impose on it, as on all printed<br />

matter, stamp taxes per sheet and deposits <strong>of</strong> caution- money, and books <strong>of</strong><br />

less than 30 sheets will pay double. We shall reckon <strong>the</strong>m as pamphlets in<br />

order, on <strong>the</strong> one hand, to reduce <strong>the</strong> number <strong>of</strong> magazines, which are <strong>the</strong><br />

worst form <strong>of</strong> printed poison, and, on <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r, in order that this measure<br />

may force writers into such lengthy productions that <strong>the</strong>y will be little read,<br />

especially as <strong>the</strong>y will be costly. At <strong>the</strong> same time what we shall publish<br />

ourselves to influence mental development in <strong>the</strong> direction laid down for our<br />

pr<strong>of</strong>it will be cheap and will be read voraciously. <strong>The</strong> tax will bring vapid<br />

literary ambitions within bounds and <strong>the</strong> liability to penalties will make literary<br />

men dependent upon us. And if <strong>the</strong>re should be any found who are desirous<br />

<strong>of</strong> writing against us, <strong>the</strong>y will not find any person eager to print <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

productions in print <strong>the</strong> publisher or printer will have to apply to <strong>the</strong> authorities<br />

for permission to do so. Thus we shall know beforehand <strong>of</strong> all tricks preparing<br />

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against us and shall nullify <strong>the</strong>m by getting ahead with explanations on <strong>the</strong><br />

subject treated <strong>of</strong>.<br />

12.8.<br />

Literature and journalism are two <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> most important educative forces, and<br />

<strong>the</strong>refore our government will become proprietor <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> majority <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

journals. This will neutralize <strong>the</strong> injurious influence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> privately-owned<br />

press and will put us in possession <strong>of</strong> a tremendous influence upon <strong>the</strong> public<br />

mind . . . . If we give permits for ten journals, we shall ourselves found thirty,<br />

and so on in <strong>the</strong> same proportion. This, however, must in no wise be<br />

suspected by <strong>the</strong> public. For which reason all journals published by us will be<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> most opposite, in appearance, tendencies and opinions, <strong>the</strong>reby<br />

creating confidence in us and bringing over to us quite unsuspicious<br />

opponents, who will thus fall into our trap and be rendered harmless.<br />

12.9.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> front rank will stand organs <strong>of</strong> an <strong>of</strong>ficial character. <strong>The</strong>y will always<br />

stand guard over our interests, and <strong>the</strong>refore <strong>the</strong>ir influence will be<br />

comparatively insignificant.<br />

12.10.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> second rank will be <strong>the</strong> semi-<strong>of</strong>ficial organs, whose part it will be to<br />

attack <strong>the</strong> tepid and indifferent.<br />

12.11.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> third rank we shall set up our own, to all appearance, <strong>of</strong>f position,<br />

which, in at least one <strong>of</strong> its organs, will present what looks like <strong>the</strong> very<br />

antipodes to us. Our real opponents at heart will accept this simulated<br />

opposition as <strong>the</strong>ir own and will show us <strong>the</strong>ir cards.<br />

12.12.<br />

All our newspapers will be <strong>of</strong> all possible complexions—aristocratic,<br />

republican, revolutionary, even anarchical—for so long, <strong>of</strong> course, as <strong>the</strong><br />

constitution exists . . . . Like <strong>the</strong> Indian idol "Vishnu" <strong>the</strong>y will have a hundred<br />

hands, and every one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m will have a finger on any one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> public<br />

opinions as required. When a pulse quickens <strong>the</strong>se hands will lead opinion in<br />

<strong>the</strong> direction <strong>of</strong> our aims, for an excited patient loses all power <strong>of</strong> judgment<br />

and easily yields to suggestion. Those fools who will think <strong>the</strong>y are repeating<br />

<strong>the</strong> opinion <strong>of</strong> a newspaper <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir own camp will be repeating our opinion or<br />

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any opinion that seems desirable for us. In <strong>the</strong> vain belief that <strong>the</strong>y are<br />

following <strong>the</strong> organ <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir party <strong>the</strong>y will, in fact, follow <strong>the</strong> flag which we<br />

hang out for <strong>the</strong>m.<br />

12.13.<br />

In order to direct our newspaper militia in this sense we must take special and<br />

minute care in organizing this matter. Under <strong>the</strong> title <strong>of</strong> central department <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> press we shall institute literary ga<strong>the</strong>rings at which our agents will without<br />

attracting attention issue <strong>the</strong> orders and watchwords <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> day. By<br />

discussing andcontroverting, but always superficially, without touching <strong>the</strong><br />

essence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> matter, our organs will carry on a sham fight fusillade with <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong>ficial newspapers solely for <strong>the</strong> purpose <strong>of</strong> giving occasion for us to express<br />

ourselves more fully than could well be done from <strong>the</strong> outset in <strong>of</strong>ficial<br />

announcements, whenever, <strong>of</strong> course, that is to our advantage.<br />

12.14.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se attacks upon us will also serve ano<strong>the</strong>r purpose, namely, that our<br />

subjects will be convinced <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> existence <strong>of</strong> full freedom <strong>of</strong> speech and so<br />

give our agents an occasion to affirm that all organs which oppose us are<br />

empty babblers, since <strong>the</strong>y are incapable <strong>of</strong> finding any substantial objections<br />

to our orders.<br />

12.15.<br />

Methods <strong>of</strong> organization like <strong>the</strong>se, imperceptible to <strong>the</strong> public eye but<br />

absolutely sure, are <strong>the</strong> best calculated to succeed in bringing <strong>the</strong> attention<br />

and <strong>the</strong> confidence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> public to <strong>the</strong> side <strong>of</strong> our government. Thanks to<br />

such methods we shall be in a position as from time to time may be required,<br />

to excite or to tranquillize <strong>the</strong> public mind on political questions, to persuade<br />

or to confuse, printing now truth, now lies, facts or <strong>the</strong>ir contradictions,<br />

according as <strong>the</strong>y may be well or ill received, always very cautiously feeling<br />

our ground before stepping upon it . . . . We shall have a sure triumph over<br />

our opponents since <strong>the</strong>y will not have at <strong>the</strong>ir disposition organs <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> press<br />

in which <strong>the</strong>y can give full and final expression to <strong>the</strong>ir views owing to <strong>the</strong><br />

aforesaid methods <strong>of</strong> dealing with <strong>the</strong> press. We shall not even need to refute<br />

<strong>the</strong>m except very superficially.<br />

12.16.<br />

Trial shots like <strong>the</strong>se, fired by us in <strong>the</strong> third rank <strong>of</strong> our press, in case <strong>of</strong><br />

need, will be energetically refuted by us in our semi-<strong>of</strong>ficial organs.<br />

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12.17.<br />

Even nowadays, already, to take only <strong>the</strong> French press, <strong>the</strong>re are forms<br />

which reveal masonic solidarity in acting on <strong>the</strong> watchword: all organs <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

press are bound toge<strong>the</strong>r by pr<strong>of</strong>essional secrecy; like <strong>the</strong> augurs <strong>of</strong> old, not<br />

one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir numbers will give away <strong>the</strong> secret <strong>of</strong> his sources <strong>of</strong> information<br />

unless it be resolved to make announcement <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m. Not one journalist will<br />

venture to betray this secret, for not one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m is ever admitted to practice<br />

literature unless his whole past has some disgraceful sore or o<strong>the</strong>r . . . .<br />

<strong>The</strong>se sores would be immediately revealed. So long as <strong>the</strong>y remain <strong>the</strong><br />

secret <strong>of</strong> a few <strong>the</strong> prestige <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> journalist attacks <strong>the</strong> majority <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

country—<strong>the</strong> mob follow after him with enthusiasm.<br />

12.18.<br />

Our calculations are especially extended to <strong>the</strong> provinces. It is indispensable<br />

for us to inflame <strong>the</strong>re those hopes and impulses with which we could at any<br />

moment fall upon <strong>the</strong> capital, and we shall represent to <strong>the</strong> capitals that <strong>the</strong>se<br />

expressions are <strong>the</strong> independent hopes and impulses <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> provinces.<br />

Naturally, <strong>the</strong> source <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m will be always one and <strong>the</strong> same—ours. What<br />

we need is that, until such time as we are in <strong>the</strong> plenitude power, <strong>the</strong> capitals<br />

should find <strong>the</strong>mselves stifled by <strong>the</strong> provincial opinion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> nation, i.e., <strong>of</strong> a<br />

majority arranged by our agentur. What we need is that at <strong>the</strong> psychological<br />

moment <strong>the</strong> capitals should not be in a position to discuss an accomplished<br />

fact for <strong>the</strong> simple reason, if for no o<strong>the</strong>r, that it has been accepted by <strong>the</strong><br />

public opinion <strong>of</strong> a majority in <strong>the</strong> provinces.<br />

12.19.<br />

When we are in <strong>the</strong> period <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> new regime transitional to that <strong>of</strong> our<br />

assumption <strong>of</strong> sovereignty we must not admit any revelation by <strong>the</strong> press <strong>of</strong><br />

any form <strong>of</strong> public dishonesty; it is necessary that <strong>the</strong> new regime should be<br />

thought to have so perfectly contended everybody that even criminality has<br />

disappeared . . . . Cases <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> manifestation <strong>of</strong> criminality should remain<br />

known only to <strong>the</strong>ir victims and to chance witnesses—no more.<br />

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Summary<br />

<strong>The</strong> need for daily bread • Questions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Political • Questions <strong>of</strong> industry •<br />

Amusements • People's Palaces • "Truth is One" • <strong>The</strong> great problems<br />

13.1.<br />

THE NEED FOR DAILY BREAD forces <strong>the</strong> goyim to keep silence and be our<br />

humble servants. Agents taken on to our press from among <strong>the</strong> goyim will at<br />

our orders discuss anything which it is inconvenient for us to issue directly in<br />

<strong>of</strong>ficial documents, and we meanwhile, quietly amid <strong>the</strong> din <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> discussion<br />

so raised, shall simply take and carry through such measures as we wish and<br />

<strong>the</strong>n <strong>of</strong>fer <strong>the</strong>m to <strong>the</strong> public as an accomplished fact. No one will dare to<br />

demand <strong>the</strong> abrogation <strong>of</strong> a matter once settled, all <strong>the</strong> more so as it will be<br />

represented as an improvement . . . And immediately <strong>the</strong> press will distract<br />

<strong>the</strong> current <strong>of</strong> thought towards, new questions, (have we not trained people<br />

always to be seeking something new?). Into <strong>the</strong> discussions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se new<br />

questions will throw <strong>the</strong>mselves those <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> brainless dispensers <strong>of</strong> fortunes<br />

who are not able even now to understand that <strong>the</strong>y have not <strong>the</strong> remotest<br />

conception about <strong>the</strong> matters which <strong>the</strong>y undertake to discuss. Questions <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> political are unattainable for any save those who have guided it already<br />

for many ages, <strong>the</strong> creators.<br />

13.2.<br />

From all this you will see that in seeming <strong>the</strong> opinion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mob we are only<br />

facilitating <strong>the</strong> working <strong>of</strong> our machinery, and you may remark that it is not for<br />

actions but for words issued by us on this or that question that we seem to<br />

seek approval. We are constantly making public declaration that we are<br />

guided in all our undertakings by <strong>the</strong> hope, joined to <strong>the</strong> conviction, that we<br />

are serving <strong>the</strong> common weal.<br />

13.3.<br />

In order to distract people who may be too troublesome from discussions <strong>of</strong><br />

questions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> political we are now putting forward what we allege to be<br />

new questions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> political, namely, questions <strong>of</strong> industry. In this sphere let<br />

<strong>the</strong>m discuss <strong>the</strong>mselves silly! <strong>The</strong> masses are agreed to remain inactive, to<br />

take a rest from what <strong>the</strong>y suppose to be political (which we trained <strong>the</strong>m to<br />

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in order to use <strong>the</strong>m as a means <strong>of</strong> combating <strong>the</strong> goy governments) only on<br />

condition <strong>of</strong> being found new employments, in which we are prescribing <strong>the</strong>m<br />

something that looks like <strong>the</strong> same political object. In order that <strong>the</strong> masses<br />

<strong>the</strong>mselves may not guess what <strong>the</strong>y are about we fur<strong>the</strong>r distract <strong>the</strong>m with<br />

amusements, games, pastimes, passions, people's palaces . . . . Soon we<br />

shall begin through <strong>the</strong> press to propose competitions in art, in sport <strong>of</strong> all<br />

kinds: <strong>the</strong>se interests will finally distract <strong>the</strong>ir minds from questions in which<br />

we should find ourselves compelled to oppose <strong>the</strong>m. Growing more and more<br />

disaccustomed to reflect and form any opinions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir own, people will begin<br />

to talk in <strong>the</strong> same tone as we because we alone shall be <strong>of</strong>fering <strong>the</strong>m new<br />

directions for thought . . . <strong>of</strong> course through such persons as will not be<br />

suspected <strong>of</strong> solidarity with us.<br />

13.4.<br />

<strong>The</strong> part played by <strong>the</strong> liberals, utopian dreamers, will be finally played out<br />

when our government is acknowledged. Till such time <strong>the</strong>y will continue to do<br />

us good service. <strong>The</strong>refore we shall continue to direct <strong>the</strong>ir minds to all sorts<br />

<strong>of</strong> vain conceptions <strong>of</strong> fantastic <strong>the</strong>ories, new and apparently progressive: for<br />

have we not with complete success turned <strong>the</strong> brainless heads <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim<br />

with progress, till <strong>the</strong>re is not among <strong>the</strong> goyim one mind able to perceive that<br />

under this word lies a departure from truth in all cases where it is not a<br />

question <strong>of</strong> material inventions, like a fallacious idea, serves to obscure truth<br />

so that none may know it except us, <strong>the</strong> Chosen <strong>of</strong> God, its guardians.<br />

13.5.<br />

When, we come into our kingdom our orators will expound great problems<br />

which have turned humanity upside down in order to bring it at <strong>the</strong> end under<br />

our beneficent rule.<br />

13.6.<br />

Who will ever suspect <strong>the</strong>n that all <strong>the</strong>se peoples were stage-managed by us<br />

according to a political plan which no one has so much as guessed at in <strong>the</strong><br />

course <strong>of</strong> many centuries?<br />

PROTOCOL 14<br />

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Summary<br />

<strong>The</strong> religion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> future • Future conditions <strong>of</strong> serfdom • Inaccessibility <strong>of</strong><br />

knowledge regarding <strong>the</strong> religion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> future • Pornography and <strong>the</strong> printed<br />

matter <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> future<br />

14.1.<br />

WHEN WE COME INTO OUR KINGDOM it will be undesirable for us that<br />

<strong>the</strong>re should exist any o<strong>the</strong>r religion than ours <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> One God with whom our<br />

destiny is bound up by our position as <strong>the</strong> Chosen People and through whom<br />

our same destiny is united with <strong>the</strong> destinies <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world. We must <strong>the</strong>refore<br />

sweep away all o<strong>the</strong>r forms <strong>of</strong> belief. If this gives birth to <strong>the</strong> a<strong>the</strong>ists whom<br />

we see today, it will not, being only a transitional stage, interfere with our<br />

views, but will serve as a warning for those generations which will hearken to<br />

our preaching <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> religion <strong>of</strong> Moses, that, by its stable and thoroughly<br />

elaborated system has brought all <strong>the</strong> peoples <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world into subjection to<br />

us. <strong>The</strong>rein we shall emphasize its mystical right, on which, as we shall say,<br />

all its educative power is based . . . . <strong>The</strong>n at every possible opportunity we<br />

shall publish articles in which we shall make comparisons between our<br />

beneficent rule and those <strong>of</strong> past ages. <strong>The</strong> blessing <strong>of</strong> tranquillity, though it<br />

be a tranquillity forcibly brought about by centuries <strong>of</strong> agitation, will throw into<br />

higher relief <strong>the</strong> benefits to which we shall point. <strong>The</strong> errors <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim<br />

governments will be depicted by us in <strong>the</strong> most vivid hues. We shall implant<br />

such an abhorrence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m that <strong>the</strong> peoples will prefer tranquillity in a state<br />

<strong>of</strong> serfdom to those rights <strong>of</strong> vaunted freedom which have tortured humanity<br />

and exhausted <strong>the</strong> very sources <strong>of</strong> human existence, sources which have<br />

been exploited by a mob <strong>of</strong> rascally adventurers who know not what <strong>the</strong>y do .<br />

. . . Useless changes <strong>of</strong> forms <strong>of</strong> government to which we instigated <strong>the</strong><br />

goyim when we were undermining <strong>the</strong>ir state structures, will have so wearied<br />

<strong>the</strong> peoples by that time that <strong>the</strong>y will prefer to suffer anything under us ra<strong>the</strong>r<br />

than run <strong>the</strong> risk <strong>of</strong> enduring again all <strong>the</strong> agitations and miseries <strong>the</strong>y have<br />

gone through.<br />

14.2.<br />

At <strong>the</strong> same time we shall not omit to emphasize <strong>the</strong> historical mistakes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

goy governments which have tormented humanity for so many centuries by<br />

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<strong>the</strong>ir lack <strong>of</strong> understanding <strong>of</strong> everything that constitutes <strong>the</strong> true good <strong>of</strong><br />

humanity in <strong>the</strong>ir chase after fantastic schemes <strong>of</strong> social blessings, and have<br />

never noticed that <strong>the</strong>se schemes kept on producing a worse and never a<br />

better state <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> universal relations which are <strong>the</strong> basis <strong>of</strong> human life . . . .<br />

14.3.<br />

<strong>The</strong> whole force <strong>of</strong> our principles and methods will lie in <strong>the</strong> fact that we shall<br />

present <strong>the</strong>m and expound <strong>the</strong>m as a splendid contrast to <strong>the</strong> dead and<br />

decomposed old order <strong>of</strong> things in social life.<br />

14.4.<br />

Our philosophers will discuss all <strong>the</strong> shortcomings <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> various beliefs <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

goyim, but no one will ever bring under discussion our faith from its true point<br />

<strong>of</strong> view since this will be fully learned by none save ours who will never dare<br />

to betray its secrets.<br />

14.5.<br />

In countries known as progressive and enlightened we have created a<br />

senseless, filthy, abominable literature. For some time after our entrance to<br />

power we shall continue to encourage its existence in order to provide a<br />

telling relief by contrast to <strong>the</strong> speeches, party program, which will be<br />

distributed from exalted quarters <strong>of</strong> ours . . . . Our wise men, trained to<br />

become leaders <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim, will compose speeches, projects, memoirs,<br />

articles, which will be used by us to influence <strong>the</strong> minds <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim,<br />

directing <strong>the</strong>m towards such understanding and forms <strong>of</strong> knowledge as have<br />

been determined by us.<br />

PROTOCOL 15<br />

Summary<br />

One-day coup d'etat (revolution) over all <strong>the</strong> world • Executions • Future lot <strong>of</strong><br />

goyim-masons • Mysticism <strong>of</strong> authority • Multiplication <strong>of</strong> masonic lodges •<br />

Central governing board <strong>of</strong> masonic elders • <strong>The</strong> "Azev-tactics" • Masonry as<br />

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leader and guide <strong>of</strong> all secret societies• Significance <strong>of</strong> public applause •<br />

Collectivism • Victims • Executions <strong>of</strong> masons • Fall <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> prestige <strong>of</strong> laws<br />

and authority • Our position as <strong>the</strong> Chosen People • Brevity and clarity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

laws <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> kingdom <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> future • Obedience to orders • Measures against<br />

abuse <strong>of</strong> authority • Severity <strong>of</strong> penalties • Age-limit for judges • Liberalism <strong>of</strong><br />

judges and authorities • <strong>The</strong> money <strong>of</strong> all <strong>the</strong> world • Absolutism <strong>of</strong> masonry •<br />

Right <strong>of</strong> appeal • Patriarchal "outside appearance" <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> power <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> future<br />

"ruler" • Apo<strong>the</strong>osis <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ruler • <strong>The</strong> right <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> strong as <strong>the</strong> one and only<br />

right • <strong>The</strong> King <strong>of</strong> Israel • Patriarch <strong>of</strong> all tbe world<br />

15.1.<br />

WHEN WE AT LAST definitely come into our kingdom by <strong>the</strong> aid <strong>of</strong> coups<br />

d'etat prepared everywhere for one and <strong>the</strong> same day, after definitely<br />

acknowledged (and not a little time will pass before that comes about,<br />

perhaps even a whole century) we shall make it our task to see that against<br />

us such things as plots shall no longer exist. With this purpose we shall slay<br />

without mercy all who take arms (in hand) to oppose our coming into our<br />

kingdom. Every kind <strong>of</strong> new institution <strong>of</strong> anything like a secret society will<br />

also be punished with death; those <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m which are now in existence, are<br />

known to us, serve us and have served us, we shall disband and send into<br />

exile to continents far removed from Europe. In this way we shall proceed<br />

with those goy masons who know too much; such <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se as we may for<br />

some reason spare will be kept in constant fear <strong>of</strong> exile. We shall promulgate<br />

a law making all former members <strong>of</strong> secret societies liable to exile from<br />

Europe as <strong>the</strong> center <strong>of</strong> rule.<br />

15.2.<br />

Resolutions <strong>of</strong> our government will be final, without appeal.<br />

15.3.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> goy societies, in which we have planted and deeply rooted discord and<br />

protestantism, <strong>the</strong> only possible way <strong>of</strong> restoring order is to employ merciless<br />

measures that prove <strong>the</strong> direct force <strong>of</strong> authority: no regard must be paid to<br />

<strong>the</strong> victims who fall, <strong>the</strong>y suffer for <strong>the</strong> well-being <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> future. <strong>The</strong> attainment<br />

<strong>of</strong> that well-being, even at <strong>the</strong> expense <strong>of</strong> sacrifices, is <strong>the</strong> duty <strong>of</strong> any kind <strong>of</strong><br />

government that acknowledges as justification for its existence not only its<br />

privileges but its obligations. <strong>The</strong> principal guarantee <strong>of</strong> stability <strong>of</strong> rule is to<br />

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confirm <strong>the</strong> aureole <strong>of</strong> power, and this aureole is attained only by such a<br />

majestic inflexibility <strong>of</strong> might as shall carry on its face <strong>the</strong> emblems <strong>of</strong><br />

inviolability from mystical causes—from <strong>the</strong> choice <strong>of</strong> God. Such was, until<br />

recent times, <strong>the</strong> Russian autocracy, <strong>the</strong> one and only serious for we had in<br />

<strong>the</strong> world, without counting <strong>the</strong> Papacy. Bear in mind <strong>the</strong> example when Italy,<br />

drenched with blood, never touched a hair <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> head <strong>of</strong> Sulla who had<br />

poured forth that blood: Sulla enjoyed an apo<strong>the</strong>osis for his might in him, but<br />

his intrepid return to Italy ringed him round with inviolability. <strong>The</strong> people do<br />

not lay a finger on him who hypnotizes <strong>the</strong>m by his daring and strength <strong>of</strong><br />

mind.<br />

15.4.<br />

Meantime, however, until we come into our kingdom, we shall act in <strong>the</strong><br />

contrary way: we shall create and multiply free masonic lodges in all <strong>the</strong><br />

countries <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world, absorb into <strong>the</strong>m all who may become or who are<br />

prominent in public activity, for <strong>the</strong>se lodges we shall find our principal<br />

intelligence <strong>of</strong>fice and means <strong>of</strong> influence. All <strong>the</strong>se lodges we shall bring<br />

under one central administration, known to us alone and to all o<strong>the</strong>rs<br />

absolutely unknown, which will be composed <strong>of</strong> our learned elders. <strong>The</strong><br />

lodges will have <strong>the</strong>ir representatives who will serve to screen <strong>the</strong> abovementioned<br />

administration <strong>of</strong> masonry and from whom will issue <strong>the</strong><br />

watchword and program. In <strong>the</strong>se lodges we shall tie toge<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> knot which<br />

binds toge<strong>the</strong>r all revolutionary and liberal elements. <strong>The</strong>ir composition will be<br />

made up <strong>of</strong> all strata <strong>of</strong> society. <strong>The</strong> most secret political plots will be known<br />

to us and fall under our guiding hands on <strong>the</strong> very day <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir conception.<br />

Among <strong>the</strong> members <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se lodges will be almost all <strong>the</strong> agents <strong>of</strong><br />

international and national police since <strong>the</strong>ir service is for us irreplaceable in<br />

<strong>the</strong> respect that <strong>the</strong> police is in a position not only to use its own particular<br />

measures with <strong>the</strong> insubordinate, but also to screen our activities and provide<br />

pretexts for discontents, et cetera.<br />

15.5.<br />

<strong>The</strong> class <strong>of</strong> people who most willingly enter into secret societies are those<br />

who live by <strong>the</strong>ir wits, careerists, and in general people, mostly light-minded,<br />

with whom we shall have no difficulty in dealing and in using to wind up <strong>the</strong><br />

mechanism <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> machine devised by us. If this world grows agitated <strong>the</strong><br />

meaning <strong>of</strong> that will be that we have had to stir up in order to break up its too<br />

great solidarity. But if <strong>the</strong>re should arise in its midst a plot, <strong>the</strong>n at <strong>the</strong> head <strong>of</strong><br />

that plot will be no o<strong>the</strong>r than one <strong>of</strong> our most trusted servants. It is natural<br />

that we and no o<strong>the</strong>r should lead masonic activities, for we know whi<strong>the</strong>r we<br />

are leading, we know <strong>the</strong> final goal <strong>of</strong> every form <strong>of</strong> activity whereas <strong>the</strong><br />

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goyim have knowledge <strong>of</strong> nothing, not even <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> immediate effect <strong>of</strong> action;<br />

<strong>the</strong>y put before <strong>the</strong>mselves, usually, <strong>the</strong> momentary reckoning <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

satisfaction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir self-opinion in <strong>the</strong> accomplishment <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir thought without<br />

even remarking that <strong>the</strong> very conception never belonged to <strong>the</strong>ir initiative but<br />

to our instigation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir thought . . . .<br />

15.6.<br />

<strong>The</strong> goyim enter <strong>the</strong> lodges out <strong>of</strong> curiosity or in <strong>the</strong> hope by <strong>the</strong>ir means to<br />

get a nibble at <strong>the</strong> public pie, and some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m in order to obtain a hearing<br />

before <strong>the</strong> public for <strong>the</strong>ir impracticable and groundless fantasies: <strong>the</strong>y thirst<br />

for <strong>the</strong> emotion <strong>of</strong> success and applause, <strong>of</strong> which we are remarkably<br />

generous. And <strong>the</strong> reason why we give <strong>the</strong>m this success is to make use <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> nigh conceit <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>mselves to which it gives birth, for that insensibly<br />

disposes <strong>the</strong>m to assimulate our suggestions without being on <strong>the</strong>ir guard<br />

against <strong>the</strong>m in <strong>the</strong> fullness <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir confidence that it is <strong>the</strong>ir own infallibility<br />

which is giving utterance to <strong>the</strong>ir own thoughts and that it is impossible for<br />

<strong>the</strong>m to borrow those <strong>of</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rs . . . . You cannot imagine to what extent <strong>the</strong><br />

wisest <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim can be brought to a state <strong>of</strong> unconscious naivete in <strong>the</strong><br />

presence <strong>of</strong> this condition <strong>of</strong> high conceit <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>mselves, and at <strong>the</strong> same<br />

time how easy it is to take <strong>the</strong> heart out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m by <strong>the</strong> slightest ill-success,<br />

though it be nothing more than <strong>the</strong> stoppage <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> applause <strong>the</strong>y had, and to<br />

reduce <strong>the</strong>m to a slavish submission for <strong>the</strong> sake <strong>of</strong> winning a renewal <strong>of</strong><br />

success . . . . By so much as ours disregard success if only <strong>the</strong>y can carry<br />

through <strong>the</strong>ir plans, by so much <strong>the</strong> goyim are willing to sacrifice any plans<br />

only to have success. This psychology <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>irs materially facilitates for us <strong>the</strong><br />

task <strong>of</strong> setting <strong>the</strong>m in <strong>the</strong> required direction. <strong>The</strong>se tigers in appearance<br />

have <strong>the</strong> souls <strong>of</strong> sheep and <strong>the</strong> wind blows freely through <strong>the</strong>ir heads. We<br />

have set <strong>the</strong>m on <strong>the</strong> hobby-horse <strong>of</strong> an idea about <strong>the</strong> absorption <strong>of</strong><br />

individuality by <strong>the</strong> symbolic unit <strong>of</strong> collectivism . . . . <strong>The</strong>y have never yet and<br />

<strong>the</strong>y never will have <strong>the</strong> sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest<br />

violation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> most important law <strong>of</strong> nature, which has established from <strong>the</strong><br />

very creation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world one unit unlike ano<strong>the</strong>r and precisely for <strong>the</strong><br />

purpose <strong>of</strong> instituting individuality . . . .<br />

15.7.<br />

If we have been able to bring <strong>the</strong>m to such a pitch <strong>of</strong> stupid blindness is it not<br />

a pro<strong>of</strong>, and an amazingly clear pro<strong>of</strong>, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> degree to which <strong>the</strong> mind <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

goyim is undeveloped in comparison with our mind? This it is, mainly, which<br />

guarantees our success.<br />

15.8.<br />

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And how far-seeing were our learned elders in ancient times when <strong>the</strong>y said<br />

that to attain a serious end it behooves not to stop at any means or to count<br />

<strong>the</strong> victims sacrificed for <strong>the</strong> sake <strong>of</strong> that end . . . . We have not counted <strong>the</strong><br />

victims <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> seed <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goy cattle, though we have sacrificed many <strong>of</strong> our<br />

own, but for that we have now already given <strong>the</strong>m such a position on <strong>the</strong><br />

earth as <strong>the</strong>y could not even have dreamed <strong>of</strong>. <strong>The</strong> comparatively small<br />

numbers <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> victims from <strong>the</strong> number <strong>of</strong> ours have preserved our<br />

nationality from destruction.<br />

15.9.<br />

Death is <strong>the</strong> inevitable end for all. It is better to bring that end nearer to those<br />

who hinder our affairs than to ourselves, to <strong>the</strong> founders <strong>of</strong> this affair. We<br />

execute masons in such wise that none save <strong>the</strong> bro<strong>the</strong>rhood can ever have<br />

a suspicion <strong>of</strong> it, not even <strong>the</strong> victims <strong>the</strong>mselves <strong>of</strong> our death sentence, <strong>the</strong>y<br />

all die when required as if from a normal kind <strong>of</strong> illness . . . . Knowing this,<br />

even <strong>the</strong> bro<strong>the</strong>rhood in its turn dare not protest. By such methods we have<br />

plucked out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> midst <strong>of</strong> masonry <strong>the</strong> very root <strong>of</strong> protest against our<br />

disposition. While preaching liberalism to <strong>the</strong> goy we at <strong>the</strong> same time keep<br />

our own people and our agents in a state <strong>of</strong> unquestioningly submission.<br />

15.10.<br />

Under our influence <strong>the</strong> execution <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> laws <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim has been reduced<br />

to a minimum. <strong>The</strong> prestige <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> law has been exploded by <strong>the</strong> liberal<br />

interpretations introduced into this sphere. In <strong>the</strong> most important and<br />

fundamental affairs and questions, judges decide as we dictate to <strong>the</strong>m, see<br />

matters in <strong>the</strong> light wherewith we enfold <strong>the</strong>m for <strong>the</strong> administration <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

goyim, <strong>of</strong> course, through persons who are our tools though we do not<br />

appear to have anything in common with <strong>the</strong>m—by newspaper opinion or by<br />

o<strong>the</strong>r means . . . . Even senators and <strong>the</strong> higher administration accept our<br />

counsels. <strong>The</strong> purely brute mind <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim is incapable <strong>of</strong> use for analysis<br />

and observation, and still more for <strong>the</strong> foreseeing whi<strong>the</strong>r a certain manner <strong>of</strong><br />

setting a question may tend.<br />

15.11.<br />

In this difference in capacity for thought between <strong>the</strong> goyim and ourselves<br />

may be clearly discerned <strong>the</strong> seal <strong>of</strong> our position as <strong>the</strong> Chosen People and<br />

<strong>of</strong> our higher quality <strong>of</strong> humanness, in contradistinction to <strong>the</strong> brute mind <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> goyim. <strong>The</strong>ir eyes are open, but see nothing before <strong>the</strong>m and do not<br />

invent (unless perhaps, material things). From this it is plain that nature<br />

herself has destined us to guide and rule <strong>the</strong> world.<br />

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15.12.<br />

When comes <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> our overt rule, <strong>the</strong> time to manifest its blessing, we<br />

shall remake all legislatures, all our laws will be brief, plain, stable, without<br />

any kind <strong>of</strong> interpretations, so that anyone will be in a position to know <strong>the</strong>m<br />

perfectly. <strong>The</strong> main feature which will run right through <strong>the</strong>m is submission to<br />

orders, and this principle will be carried to a grandiose height. Every abuse<br />

will <strong>the</strong>n disappear in consequence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> responsibility <strong>of</strong> all down to <strong>the</strong><br />

lowest unit before <strong>the</strong> higher authority <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> representative <strong>of</strong> power. Abuses<br />

<strong>of</strong> power subordinate to this last instance will be so mercilessly punished that<br />

none will be found anxious to try experiments with <strong>the</strong>ir own powers. We shall<br />

follow up jealously every action <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> administration on which depends <strong>the</strong><br />

smooth running <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> machinery <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State, for slackness in this produces<br />

slackness everywhere; not a single case <strong>of</strong> illegality or abuse <strong>of</strong> power will be<br />

left without exemplary punishment.<br />

15.13.<br />

Concealment <strong>of</strong> guilt, connivance between those in <strong>the</strong> service <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

administration—all this kind <strong>of</strong> evil will disappear after <strong>the</strong> very first examples<br />

<strong>of</strong> severe punishment. <strong>The</strong> aureole <strong>of</strong> our power demands suitable, that is,<br />

cruel, punishments for <strong>the</strong> slightest infringement, for <strong>the</strong> sake <strong>of</strong> gain, <strong>of</strong> its<br />

supreme prestige. <strong>The</strong> sufferer, though his punishment may exceed his fault,<br />

will count as a soldier falling on <strong>the</strong> administrative field <strong>of</strong> battle in <strong>the</strong> interest<br />

<strong>of</strong> authority, principle and law, which do not permit that any <strong>of</strong> those who hold<br />

<strong>the</strong> reins <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> public coach should turn aside from <strong>the</strong> public highway to<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir own private paths. For examples our judges will know that whenever<br />

<strong>the</strong>y feel disposed to plume <strong>the</strong>mselves on foolish clemency <strong>the</strong>y are<br />

violating <strong>the</strong> law <strong>of</strong> justice which is instituted for <strong>the</strong> exemplary edification <strong>of</strong><br />

men by penalties for lapses and not for display <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> spiritual qualities <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

judges . . . . Such qualities it is proper to show in private life, but not in a<br />

public square which is <strong>the</strong> educationally basis <strong>of</strong> human life.<br />

15.14.<br />

Our legal staff will serve not beyond <strong>the</strong> age <strong>of</strong> 55, firstly because old men<br />

more obstinately hold to prejudiced opinions, and are less capable <strong>of</strong><br />

submitting to new directions, and secondly because this will give us <strong>the</strong><br />

possibility by this measure <strong>of</strong> securing elasticity in <strong>the</strong> changing <strong>of</strong> staff,<br />

which will thus <strong>the</strong> more easily bend under our pressure: he who wishes to<br />

keep his place will have to give blind obedience to deserve it. In general, our<br />

judges will be elected by us only from among those who thoroughly<br />

understand that <strong>the</strong> part <strong>the</strong>y have to play is to punish and apply laws and not<br />

to dream about <strong>the</strong> manifestations <strong>of</strong> liberalism at <strong>the</strong> expense <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

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educational scheme <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State, as <strong>the</strong> goyim in <strong>the</strong>se days imagine it to be .<br />

. . . This method <strong>of</strong> shuffling <strong>the</strong> staff will serve also to explode any collective<br />

solidarity <strong>of</strong> those in <strong>the</strong> same service and will bind all to <strong>the</strong> interests <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

government upon which <strong>the</strong>ir fate will depend. <strong>The</strong> young generation <strong>of</strong><br />

judges will be trained in certain views regarding <strong>the</strong> inadmissibility <strong>of</strong> any<br />

abuses that might disturb <strong>the</strong> established order <strong>of</strong> our subjects among<br />

<strong>the</strong>mselves.<br />

15.15.<br />

In <strong>the</strong>se days <strong>the</strong> judges <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim create indulgences to every kind <strong>of</strong><br />

crimes, not having a just understanding <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir <strong>of</strong>fice, because <strong>the</strong> rulers <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> present age in appointing judges to <strong>of</strong>fice take no care to inculcate in<br />

<strong>the</strong>m a sense <strong>of</strong> duty and consciousness <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> matter which is demanded <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>m. As a brute beast lets out its young in search <strong>of</strong> prey, so do <strong>the</strong> goyim<br />

give to <strong>the</strong>m for what purpose such place was created. This is <strong>the</strong> reason<br />

why <strong>the</strong>ir governments are being ruined by <strong>the</strong>ir own forces through <strong>the</strong> acts<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir own administration.<br />

15.16.<br />

Let us borrow from <strong>the</strong> example <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> results <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se actions yet ano<strong>the</strong>r<br />

lesson for our government.<br />

15.17.<br />

We shall root out liberalism from all <strong>the</strong> important strategic posts <strong>of</strong> our<br />

government on which depends <strong>the</strong> training <strong>of</strong> subordinates for our State<br />

structure. Such posts will fall exclusively to those who have been trained by<br />

us for administrative rule. To <strong>the</strong> possible objection that <strong>the</strong> retirement <strong>of</strong> old<br />

servants will cost <strong>the</strong> Treasury heavily, I reply, firstly, <strong>the</strong>y will be provided<br />

with some private service in place <strong>of</strong> what <strong>the</strong>y lose, and, secondly, I have to<br />

remark that all <strong>the</strong> money in <strong>the</strong> world will be concentrated in our hands,<br />

consequently it is not our government that has to fear expense.<br />

15.18.<br />

Our absolutism will in all things be logically consecutive and <strong>the</strong>refore in each<br />

one <strong>of</strong> its decrees our supreme will be respected and unquestionably fulfilled:<br />

it will ignore all murmurs, all discontents <strong>of</strong> every kind and will destroy to <strong>the</strong><br />

root every kind <strong>of</strong> manifestation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m in act by punishment <strong>of</strong> an exemplary<br />

character.<br />

15.19.<br />

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We shall abolish <strong>the</strong> right <strong>of</strong> cassation, which will be transferred exclusively to<br />

our disposal—to <strong>the</strong> cognizance <strong>of</strong> him who rules, for we must not allow <strong>the</strong><br />

conception among <strong>the</strong> people <strong>of</strong> a thought that <strong>the</strong>re could be such a thing as<br />

a decision that is not right <strong>of</strong> judges set up by us. If, however, anything like<br />

this should occur, we shall ourselves cassate <strong>the</strong> decision, but inflict<br />

<strong>the</strong>rewith such exemplary punishment on <strong>the</strong> judge for lack <strong>of</strong> understanding<br />

<strong>of</strong> his duty and <strong>the</strong> purpose <strong>of</strong> his appointment as will prevent a repetition <strong>of</strong><br />

such cases . . . . I repeat that it must be born in mind that we shall know<br />

every step <strong>of</strong> our administration which only needs to be closely watched for<br />

<strong>the</strong> people to be content with us, for it has <strong>the</strong> right to demand from a good<br />

government a good <strong>of</strong>ficial.<br />

15.20.<br />

Our government will have <strong>the</strong> appearance <strong>of</strong> a patriarchal paternal<br />

guardianship on <strong>the</strong> part <strong>of</strong> our ruler. Our own nation and our subjects will<br />

discern in his person a fa<strong>the</strong>r caring for <strong>the</strong>ir every need, <strong>the</strong>ir every act, <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

every inter-relation as subjects one with ano<strong>the</strong>r, as well as <strong>the</strong>ir relations to<br />

<strong>the</strong> ruler. <strong>The</strong>y will <strong>the</strong>n be so thoroughly imbued with <strong>the</strong> thought that it is<br />

impossible for <strong>the</strong>m to dispense with this wardship and guidance, if <strong>the</strong>y wish<br />

to live in peace and quiet, that <strong>the</strong>y will acknowledge <strong>the</strong> autocracy <strong>of</strong> our<br />

ruler with a devotion bordering on "apo<strong>the</strong>osis," especially when <strong>the</strong>y are<br />

convinced that those whom we set up do not put <strong>the</strong>ir own in place <strong>of</strong><br />

authority, but only blindly execute his dictates. <strong>The</strong>y will be rejoiced that we<br />

have regulated everything in <strong>the</strong>ir lives as is done by wise parents who desire<br />

to train children in <strong>the</strong> cause <strong>of</strong> duty and submission. For <strong>the</strong> peoples <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

world in regard to <strong>the</strong> secrets <strong>of</strong> our polity are ever through <strong>the</strong> ages only<br />

children under age, precisely as are also <strong>the</strong>ir governments.<br />

15.21.<br />

As you see, I found our despotism on right and duty: <strong>the</strong> right to compel <strong>the</strong><br />

execution <strong>of</strong> duty is <strong>the</strong> direct obligation <strong>of</strong> a government which is a fa<strong>the</strong>r for<br />

its subjects. It has <strong>the</strong> right <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> strong that it may use it for <strong>the</strong> benefit <strong>of</strong><br />

directing humanity towards that order which is defined by nature, namely,<br />

submission. Everything in <strong>the</strong> world is in a state <strong>of</strong> submission, if not to man,<br />

<strong>the</strong>n to circumstances or its own inner character, in all cases, to what is<br />

stronger. And so shall we be this something stronger for <strong>the</strong> sake <strong>of</strong> good.<br />

15.22.<br />

We are obliged without hesitation to sacrifice individuals, who commit a<br />

breach <strong>of</strong> established order, for in <strong>the</strong> exemplary punishment <strong>of</strong> evil lies a<br />

great educational problem.<br />

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15.23.<br />

When <strong>the</strong> King <strong>of</strong> Israel sets upon his sacred head <strong>the</strong> crown <strong>of</strong>fered him by<br />

Europe he will become patriarch <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world. <strong>The</strong> indispensable victims<br />

<strong>of</strong>fered by him in consequence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir suitability will never reach <strong>the</strong> number<br />

<strong>of</strong> victims <strong>of</strong>fered in <strong>the</strong> course <strong>of</strong> centuries by <strong>the</strong> mania <strong>of</strong> magnificence, <strong>the</strong><br />

emulation between <strong>the</strong> goy governments.<br />

15.24.<br />

Our King will be in constant communion with <strong>the</strong> peoples, making to <strong>the</strong>m<br />

from <strong>the</strong> tribune speeches which fame will in that same hour distribute over<br />

all <strong>the</strong> world.<br />

PROTOCOL 16<br />

Summary<br />

Emasculation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> universities • Substitute for classicism • Training and<br />

calling • Advertisement <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> authority <strong>of</strong> "<strong>the</strong> ruler" in <strong>the</strong> schools • Abolition<br />

<strong>of</strong> freedom <strong>of</strong> instruction • New <strong>The</strong>ories • Independence <strong>of</strong> thought •<br />

Teaching by object lessons<br />

16.1.<br />

IN ORDER TO EFFECT <strong>the</strong> destruction <strong>of</strong> all collective forces except ours we<br />

shall emasculate <strong>the</strong> first stage <strong>of</strong> collectivism—<strong>the</strong> universities, by reeducating<br />

<strong>the</strong>m in a new direction. <strong>The</strong>ir <strong>of</strong>ficials and pr<strong>of</strong>essors will be<br />

prepared for <strong>the</strong>ir business by detailed secret programs <strong>of</strong> action from which<br />

<strong>the</strong>y will not with immunity diverge, not by one iota. <strong>The</strong>y will be appointed<br />

with especial precaution, and will be so placed as to be wholly dependent<br />

upon <strong>the</strong> government.<br />

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16.2.<br />

We shall exclude from <strong>the</strong> course <strong>of</strong> instruction State Law as also all that<br />

concerns <strong>the</strong> political question. <strong>The</strong>se subjects will be taught to a few dozen<br />

<strong>of</strong> persons chosen for <strong>the</strong>ir pre-eminent capacities from among <strong>the</strong> number <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> initiated. <strong>The</strong> universities must no longer send out from <strong>the</strong>ir halls milks<br />

sops concocting plans for a constitution, like a comedy or tragedy, busying<br />

<strong>the</strong>mselves with questions <strong>of</strong> policy in which even <strong>the</strong>ir own fa<strong>the</strong>rs never had<br />

any power <strong>of</strong> thought.<br />

16.3.<br />

<strong>The</strong> ill-guided acquaintance <strong>of</strong> a large number <strong>of</strong> persons with questions <strong>of</strong><br />

polity creates utopian dreamers and bad subjects, as you can see for<br />

yourselves from <strong>the</strong> example <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> universal education in this direction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

goyim. We must introduce into <strong>the</strong>ir education all those principles which have<br />

so brilliantly broken up <strong>the</strong>ir order. But when we are in power we shall remove<br />

every kind <strong>of</strong> disturbing subject from <strong>the</strong> course <strong>of</strong> education and shall make<br />

out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> youth obedient children <strong>of</strong> authority, loving him who rules as <strong>the</strong><br />

support and hope <strong>of</strong> peace and quiet.<br />

16.4.<br />

Classicism as also any form <strong>of</strong> study <strong>of</strong> ancient history, in which <strong>the</strong>re are<br />

more bad than good examples, we shall replace with <strong>the</strong> study <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

program <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> future. We shall erase from <strong>the</strong> memory <strong>of</strong> men all facts <strong>of</strong><br />

previous centuries which are undesirable to us, and leave only those which<br />

depict all <strong>the</strong> errors <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> government <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim. <strong>The</strong> study <strong>of</strong> practical<br />

life, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> obligations <strong>of</strong> order, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> relations <strong>of</strong> people one to ano<strong>the</strong>r, <strong>of</strong><br />

avoiding bad and selfish examples, which spread <strong>the</strong> infection <strong>of</strong> evil, and<br />

similar questions <strong>of</strong> an educative nature, will stand in <strong>the</strong> forefront <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

teaching program, which will be drawn up on a separate plan for each calling<br />

or state <strong>of</strong> life, in no wise generalizing <strong>the</strong> teaching. This treatment <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

question has special importance.<br />

16.5.<br />

Each state <strong>of</strong> life must be trained within strict limits corresponding to its<br />

destination and work in life. <strong>The</strong> occasional genius has always managed and<br />

always will manage to slip through into o<strong>the</strong>r states <strong>of</strong> life, but it is <strong>the</strong> most<br />

perfect folly for <strong>the</strong> sake <strong>of</strong> this rare occasional genius to let through into <strong>the</strong><br />

ranks foreign to <strong>the</strong>m <strong>the</strong> untalented who thus rob <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir places who belong<br />

to those ranks by birth or employment. You know yourselves in what all this<br />

has ended for <strong>the</strong> goyim who allowed this crying absurdity.<br />

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16.6.<br />

In order that he who rules may be seated firmly in <strong>the</strong> hearts and minds <strong>of</strong> his<br />

subjects it is necessary for <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> his activity to instruct <strong>the</strong> whole nation<br />

in <strong>the</strong> schools and on <strong>the</strong> market places about this meaning and his acts and<br />

all his beneficent initiatives.<br />

16.7.<br />

We shall abolish every kind <strong>of</strong> freedom <strong>of</strong> instruction. Learners <strong>of</strong> all ages<br />

have <strong>the</strong> right to assemble toge<strong>the</strong>r with <strong>the</strong>ir parents in <strong>the</strong> educational<br />

establishments as it were in a club: during <strong>the</strong>se assemblies, on holidays,<br />

teachers will read what will pass as free lectures on questions <strong>of</strong> human<br />

relations, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> laws <strong>of</strong> examples, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> philosophy <strong>of</strong> new <strong>the</strong>ories not yet<br />

declared to <strong>the</strong> world. <strong>The</strong>se <strong>the</strong>ories will be raised by us to <strong>the</strong> stage <strong>of</strong> a<br />

dogma <strong>of</strong> faith as a traditional stage towards our faith. On <strong>the</strong> completion <strong>of</strong><br />

this exposition <strong>of</strong> our program <strong>of</strong> action in <strong>the</strong> present and <strong>the</strong> future I will<br />

read you <strong>the</strong> principles <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se <strong>the</strong>ories.<br />

16.8.<br />

In a word, knowing by <strong>the</strong> experience <strong>of</strong> many centuries that people live and<br />

are guided by ideas, that <strong>the</strong>se ideas are imbibed by people only by <strong>the</strong> aid <strong>of</strong><br />

education provided with equal success for all ages <strong>of</strong> growth, but <strong>of</strong> course by<br />

varying methods, we shall swallow up and confiscate to our own use <strong>the</strong> last<br />

scintilla <strong>of</strong> independence <strong>of</strong> thought, which we have for long past been<br />

directing towards subjects and ideas useful for us. <strong>The</strong> system <strong>of</strong> bridling<br />

thought is already at work in <strong>the</strong> so-called system <strong>of</strong> teaching by object<br />

lessons, <strong>the</strong> purpose <strong>of</strong> which is to turn <strong>the</strong> goyim into unthinking submissive<br />

brutes waiting for things to be presented before <strong>the</strong>ir eyes in order to form an<br />

idea <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m . . . . In France, one <strong>of</strong> our best agents, Bourgeois, has already<br />

made public a new program <strong>of</strong> teaching by object lessons.<br />

PROTOCOL 17<br />

Summary<br />

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Advocacy • Influence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> priesthood <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim • Freedom <strong>of</strong><br />

conscience • Papal Court • King <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jews as Patriarch-Pope • How to fight<br />

<strong>the</strong> existing Church • Function <strong>of</strong> contemporary press • Organisation <strong>of</strong><br />

police • Volunteer police • Espionage on <strong>the</strong> pattern <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> kabal espionage •<br />

Abuses <strong>of</strong> authority<br />

17.1.<br />

THE PRACTICE OF ADVOCACY produces men cold, cruel, persistent,<br />

unprincipled, who in all cases take up an impersonal, purely legal standpoint.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y have <strong>the</strong> inveterate habit to refer everything to its value for <strong>the</strong> defense<br />

and not to <strong>the</strong> public welfare <strong>of</strong> its results. <strong>The</strong>y do not usually decline to<br />

undertake any defense whatever, <strong>the</strong>y strive for an acquittal at all costs,<br />

caviling over every petty crux <strong>of</strong> jurisprudence and <strong>the</strong>reby <strong>the</strong>y demoralize<br />

justice. For this reason we shall set this pr<strong>of</strong>ession into narrow frames which<br />

will keep it inside this sphere <strong>of</strong> executive public service. Advocates, equally<br />

with judges, will be deprived <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> right <strong>of</strong> communication with litigant; <strong>the</strong>y<br />

well receive business only from <strong>the</strong> court and will study it by notes <strong>of</strong> report<br />

and documents, defending <strong>the</strong>ir clients after <strong>the</strong>y have been interrogated in<br />

court on facts that have appeared. <strong>The</strong>y will receive an honorarium without<br />

regard to <strong>the</strong> quality <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> defense. This will render <strong>the</strong>m mere reporters on<br />

law-business in <strong>the</strong> interests <strong>of</strong> justice and as counterpoise to <strong>the</strong> proctor who<br />

will be <strong>the</strong> reporter in <strong>the</strong> interests <strong>of</strong> prosecution; this will shorten business<br />

before <strong>the</strong> courts. In this way will be established a practice <strong>of</strong> honest<br />

unprejudiced defense conducted not from personal interest but by conviction.<br />

This will also, by <strong>the</strong> way, remove <strong>the</strong> present practice <strong>of</strong> corrupt bargain<br />

between advocation to agree only to let that side win which pays most . . . . .<br />

17.2.<br />

We have long past taken care to discredit <strong>the</strong> priesthood <strong>of</strong> goyim, and<br />

<strong>the</strong>reby to ruin <strong>the</strong>ir mission on earth which in <strong>the</strong>se days might still be a<br />

great hindrance to us. Day by day its influence on <strong>the</strong> peoples <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world is<br />

falling lower. Freedom <strong>of</strong> conscience has been declared everywhere, so that<br />

now only years divide us from <strong>the</strong> moment <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> complete wrecking <strong>of</strong> that<br />

Christian religion: as to o<strong>the</strong>r religions we shall have still less difficulty in<br />

dealing with <strong>the</strong>m, but it would be premature to speak <strong>of</strong> this now. We shall<br />

act clericalism and clericals into such narrow frames as to make <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

influence move in retrogressive proportion to its former progress.<br />

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17.3.<br />

When <strong>the</strong> time comes finally to destroy <strong>the</strong> papal court <strong>the</strong> finger <strong>of</strong> an<br />

invisible hand will point <strong>the</strong> nations towards this court. When, however, <strong>the</strong><br />

nations fling <strong>the</strong>mselves upon it, we shall come forward in <strong>the</strong> guise <strong>of</strong> its<br />

defenders as if to save excessive bloodshed. By this diversion we shall<br />

penetrate to its very bowels and be sure we shall never come out again until<br />

we have gnawed through <strong>the</strong> entire strength <strong>of</strong> this place.<br />

17.4.<br />

<strong>The</strong> King <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jews will be <strong>the</strong> real Pope <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Universe, <strong>the</strong> Patriarch <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> International Church.<br />

17.5.<br />

But, in <strong>the</strong> meantime, while we are re-educating youth in new traditional<br />

religions and afterwards in ours, we shall not overtly lay a finger on existing<br />

churches, but we shall fight against <strong>the</strong>m by criticism calculated to produce<br />

schism . . . .<br />

17.6.<br />

In general, <strong>the</strong>n, our contemporary press will continue to convict State affairs,<br />

religions, incapacities <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim, always using <strong>the</strong> most unprincipled<br />

expressions in order by every means to lower <strong>the</strong>ir prestige in <strong>the</strong> manner<br />

which can only be practiced by <strong>the</strong> genius <strong>of</strong> our gifted tribe . . . .<br />

17.7.<br />

Our kingdom will be an apologia <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> divinity Vishnu, in whom is found its<br />

personification—in our hundred hands will be, one in each, <strong>the</strong> springs <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

machinery <strong>of</strong> social life. We shall see everything without <strong>the</strong> aid <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong>ficial<br />

police which, in that scope <strong>of</strong> its rights which we elaborated for <strong>the</strong> use <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

goyim, hinders governments from seeing. In our programs one-third <strong>of</strong> our<br />

subjects will keep <strong>the</strong> rest under observation from a sense <strong>of</strong> duty, on <strong>the</strong><br />

principle <strong>of</strong> volunteer service to <strong>the</strong> State. It will <strong>the</strong>n be no disgrace to be a<br />

spy and informer, but a merit: unfounded denunciations, however, will be<br />

cruelly punished that <strong>the</strong>re may be development <strong>of</strong> abuses <strong>of</strong> this right.<br />

17.8.<br />

Our agents will be taken from <strong>the</strong> higher as well as <strong>the</strong> lower ranks <strong>of</strong> society,<br />

from among <strong>the</strong> administrative class who spend <strong>the</strong>ir time in amusements,<br />

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editors, printers and publishers, booksellers, clerks, and salesmen, workmen,<br />

coachmen, lackeys, et cetera. This body, having no rights and not being<br />

empowered to take any action on <strong>the</strong>ir own account, and consequently a<br />

police without any power, will only witness and report: verification <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

reports and arrests will depend upon a responsible group <strong>of</strong> controllers <strong>of</strong><br />

police affairs, while <strong>the</strong> actual act <strong>of</strong> arrest will be performed by <strong>the</strong><br />

gendarmerie and <strong>the</strong> municipal police. Any person not denouncing anything<br />

seen or heard concerning questions <strong>of</strong> polity will also be charged with and<br />

made responsible for concealment, if it be proved that he is guilty <strong>of</strong> this<br />

crime.<br />

17.9.<br />

Just as nowadays our brethren are obliged at <strong>the</strong>ir own risk to denounce to<br />

<strong>the</strong> kabal apostates <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir own family or members who have been noticed<br />

doing anything in opposition to <strong>the</strong> kabal, so in our kingdom over all <strong>the</strong> world<br />

it will be obligatory for all our subjects to observe <strong>the</strong> duty <strong>of</strong> service to <strong>the</strong><br />

State in this direction.<br />

17.10.<br />

Such an organization will extirpate abuses <strong>of</strong> authority, <strong>of</strong> force, <strong>of</strong> bribery,<br />

everything in fact which we by our counsels, by out <strong>the</strong>ories <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

superhuman rights <strong>of</strong> man, have introduced into <strong>the</strong> customs <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim . . .<br />

. But how else were we to procure that increase <strong>of</strong> causes predisposing to<br />

disorders in <strong>the</strong> midst <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir administration? . . . . Among <strong>the</strong> number <strong>of</strong><br />

those methods one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> most important is—agents for <strong>the</strong> restoration <strong>of</strong><br />

order, so placed as to have <strong>the</strong> opportunity in <strong>the</strong>ir disintegrating activity <strong>of</strong><br />

developing and displaying <strong>the</strong>ir evil inclinations—obstinate self-conceit,<br />

irresponsible exercise <strong>of</strong> authority, and, first and foremost, venality.<br />

PROTOCOL 18<br />

Summary<br />

Measures <strong>of</strong> secret defence • Observation <strong>of</strong> conspiracies from <strong>the</strong> inside •<br />

Overt secret defence — <strong>the</strong> ruin <strong>of</strong> authority • Secret defence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> King <strong>of</strong><br />

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<strong>the</strong> Jews • Mystical prestige <strong>of</strong> authority • Arrest on <strong>the</strong> first suspicion<br />

18.1.<br />

WHEN IT BECOMES NECESSARY FOR US to streng<strong>the</strong>n <strong>the</strong> strict<br />

measures <strong>of</strong> secret defense (<strong>the</strong> most fatal poison for <strong>the</strong> prestige <strong>of</strong><br />

authority) we shall arrange a simulation <strong>of</strong> disorders or some manifestation <strong>of</strong><br />

discontents finding expression through <strong>the</strong> co- operation <strong>of</strong> good speakers.<br />

Round <strong>the</strong>se speakers will assemble all who are sympa<strong>the</strong>tic to his<br />

utterances. This will give us <strong>the</strong> pretext for domiciliary prerequisitions and<br />

surveillance on <strong>the</strong> part <strong>of</strong> our servants from among <strong>the</strong> number <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim<br />

police . . . .<br />

18.2.<br />

As <strong>the</strong> majority <strong>of</strong> conspirators act <strong>of</strong> love for <strong>the</strong> game, for <strong>the</strong> sake <strong>of</strong><br />

talking, so, until <strong>the</strong>y commit some overt act we shall not lay a finger on <strong>the</strong>m<br />

but only introduce into <strong>the</strong>ir midst observation elements . . . . It must be<br />

remembered that <strong>the</strong> prestige <strong>of</strong> authority is lessened if it frequently discovers<br />

conspiracies against itself: this implies a presumption <strong>of</strong> consciousness <strong>of</strong><br />

weakness, or, what is still worse, <strong>of</strong> injustice. You are aware that we have<br />

broken <strong>the</strong> prestige <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goy kings by frequent attempts upon <strong>the</strong>ir lives<br />

through our agents, blind sheep <strong>of</strong> our flock, who are easily moved by a few<br />

liberal phrases to crimes provided only <strong>the</strong>y be painted in political colors. We<br />

have compelled <strong>the</strong> rulers to acknowledge <strong>the</strong>ir weakness in advertising overt<br />

measures <strong>of</strong> secret defense and <strong>the</strong>reby we shall bring <strong>the</strong> promise <strong>of</strong><br />

authority to destruction.<br />

18.3.<br />

Our ruler will be secretly protected only by <strong>the</strong> most insignificant guard,<br />

because we shall not admit so much as a thought that <strong>the</strong>re could exist<br />

against him any sedition with which he is not strong enough to contend and is<br />

compelled to hide from it.<br />

18.4.<br />

If we should admit this thought, as <strong>the</strong> goyim have done and are doing, we<br />

should IPSO FACTO be signing a death sentence, if not for our ruler, at any<br />

rate for his dynasty, at no distant date.<br />

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18.5.<br />

According to strictly enforced outward appearances our ruler will employ his<br />

power only for <strong>the</strong> advantage <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> nation and in no wise for his own or<br />

dynastic pr<strong>of</strong>its. <strong>The</strong>refore, with <strong>the</strong> observance <strong>of</strong> this decorum, his authority<br />

will be respected and guarded by <strong>the</strong> subjects <strong>the</strong>mselves, it will receive an<br />

apo<strong>the</strong>osis in <strong>the</strong> admission that with it is bound up <strong>the</strong> well-being <strong>of</strong> every<br />

citizen <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State, for upon it will depend all order in <strong>the</strong> common life <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

pack . . . .<br />

18.6.<br />

Overt defense <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> kind argues weakness in <strong>the</strong> organization <strong>of</strong> his<br />

strength.<br />

18.7.<br />

Our ruler will always be among <strong>the</strong> people and be surrounded by a mob <strong>of</strong><br />

apparently curious men and women, who will occupy <strong>the</strong> front ranks about<br />

him, to all appearance by chance, and will restrain <strong>the</strong> ranks <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> rest out <strong>of</strong><br />

respect as it will appear for good order. This will sow an example <strong>of</strong> restraint<br />

also in o<strong>the</strong>rs. If a petitioner appears among <strong>the</strong> people trying to hand a<br />

petition and forcing his way through <strong>the</strong> ranks, <strong>the</strong> first ranks must receive <strong>the</strong><br />

petition and before <strong>the</strong> eyes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> petitioner pass it to <strong>the</strong> ruler, so that all<br />

may know that what is handed in reaches its destination, that consequently,<br />

<strong>the</strong>re exists a control <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ruler himself. <strong>The</strong> aureole <strong>of</strong> power requires for is<br />

existence that <strong>the</strong> people may be able to say: "If <strong>the</strong> king knew <strong>of</strong> this," or:<br />

"<strong>the</strong> king will hear it."<br />

18.8.<br />

With <strong>the</strong> establishment <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong>ficial defense, <strong>the</strong> mystical prestige <strong>of</strong> authority<br />

disappears: given a certain audacity, and everyone counts himself master <strong>of</strong><br />

it, <strong>the</strong> sedition-monger is conscious <strong>of</strong> his strength, and when occasion<br />

serves watches for <strong>the</strong> moment to make an attempt upon authority . . . . For<br />

<strong>the</strong> goyim we have been preaching something else, but by that very fact we<br />

are enabled to see what measures <strong>of</strong> overt defense have brought <strong>the</strong>m to . . .<br />

.<br />

18.9.<br />

Criminals with us will be arrested at <strong>the</strong> first more or less, well-grounded<br />

suspicion: it cannot be allowed that out <strong>of</strong> fear <strong>of</strong> a possible mistake an<br />

opportunity should be given <strong>of</strong> escape to persons suspected <strong>of</strong> a political<br />

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lapse <strong>of</strong> crime, for in <strong>the</strong>se matters we shall be literally merciless. If it is still<br />

possible, by stretching a point, to admit a reconsideration <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> motive<br />

causes in simple crimes, <strong>the</strong>re is no possibility <strong>of</strong> excuse for persons<br />

occupying <strong>the</strong>mselves with questions in which nobody except <strong>the</strong> government<br />

can understand anything . . . . And it is not all governments that understand<br />

true policy.<br />

PROTOCOL 19<br />

Summary<br />

<strong>The</strong> right <strong>of</strong> presenting petitions and projects • Sedition • Indictment <strong>of</strong><br />

political crimes • Advertisement <strong>of</strong> political crimes<br />

19.1.<br />

IF WE DO NOT PERMIT any independent dabbling in <strong>the</strong> political we shall on<br />

<strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r hand encourage every kind <strong>of</strong> report or petition with proposals for<br />

<strong>the</strong> government to examine into all kinds <strong>of</strong> projects for <strong>the</strong> amelioration <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> condition <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> people; this will reveal to us <strong>the</strong> defects or else <strong>the</strong><br />

fantasies <strong>of</strong> our subjects, to which we shall respond ei<strong>the</strong>r by accomplishing<br />

<strong>the</strong>m or by a wise rebuttment to prove <strong>the</strong> shortsightedness <strong>of</strong> one who<br />

judges wrongly.<br />

19.2.<br />

Sedition-mongering is nothing more than <strong>the</strong> yapping <strong>of</strong> a lap- dog at an<br />

elephant. For a government well organized, not from <strong>the</strong> police but from <strong>the</strong><br />

public point <strong>of</strong> view, <strong>the</strong> lap-dog yaps at <strong>the</strong> elephant in entire<br />

unconsciousness <strong>of</strong> its strength and importance. It needs no more than to<br />

take a good example to show <strong>the</strong> relative importance <strong>of</strong> both and <strong>the</strong> lapdogs<br />

will cease to yap and will wag <strong>the</strong>ir tails <strong>the</strong> moment <strong>the</strong>y set eyes on an<br />

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19.3.<br />

In order to destroy <strong>the</strong> prestige <strong>of</strong> heroism for political crime we shall send it<br />

for trial in <strong>the</strong> category <strong>of</strong> thieving, murder, and every kind <strong>of</strong> abominable and<br />

filthy crime. Public opinion will <strong>the</strong>n confuse in its conception <strong>of</strong> this category<br />

<strong>of</strong> crime with <strong>the</strong> disgrace attaching to every o<strong>the</strong>r and will brand it with <strong>the</strong><br />

same contempt.<br />

19.4.<br />

We have done our best, and I hope we have succeeded to obtain that <strong>the</strong><br />

goyim should not arrive at this means <strong>of</strong> contending with sedition. It was for<br />

this reason that through <strong>the</strong> Press and in speeches, indirectly—in cleverly<br />

compiled schoolbooks on history, we have advertised <strong>the</strong> martyrdom alleged<br />

to have been accredited by sedition-mongers for <strong>the</strong> idea <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

commonweal. This advertisement has increased <strong>the</strong> contingent <strong>of</strong> liberals<br />

and has brought thousands <strong>of</strong> goyim into <strong>the</strong> ranks <strong>of</strong> our livestock cattle.<br />

PROTOCOL 20<br />

Summary<br />

Financial program • Progressive tax • Stamp progressive taxation •<br />

Exchequer, interest-bearing papers and stagnation <strong>of</strong> currency • Method <strong>of</strong><br />

accounting • Abolition <strong>of</strong> ceremonial displays • Stagnation <strong>of</strong> capital •<br />

Currency issue • Gold standard • Standard <strong>of</strong> cost <strong>of</strong> working man power •<br />

Budget • State loans • One per cent interest series • Industrial shares • Rulers<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim: courtiers and favouritism, masonic agents<br />

20.1.<br />

TODAY WE SHALL TOUCH UPON <strong>the</strong> financial program, which I put <strong>of</strong>f to<br />

<strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong> my report as being <strong>the</strong> most difficult, <strong>the</strong> crowning and <strong>the</strong> decisive<br />

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point <strong>of</strong> our plans. Before entering upon it I will remind you that I have already<br />

spoken before by way <strong>of</strong> a hint when I said that <strong>the</strong> sum total <strong>of</strong> our actions is<br />

settled by <strong>the</strong> question <strong>of</strong> figures.<br />

20.2.<br />

When we come into our kingdom our autocratic government will avoid, from a<br />

principle <strong>of</strong> self-preservation, sensibly burdening <strong>the</strong> masses <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> people<br />

with taxes, remembering that it plays <strong>the</strong> part <strong>of</strong> fa<strong>the</strong>r and protector. But as<br />

State organization cost dear it is necessary never<strong>the</strong>less to obtain <strong>the</strong> funds<br />

required for it. It will, <strong>the</strong>refore, elaborate with particular precaution <strong>the</strong><br />

question <strong>of</strong> equilibrium in this matter.<br />

20.3.<br />

Our rule, in which <strong>the</strong> king will enjoy <strong>the</strong> legal fiction that everything in his<br />

State belongs to him (which may easily be translated into fact), will be<br />

enabled to resort to <strong>the</strong> lawful confiscation <strong>of</strong> all sums <strong>of</strong> every kind for <strong>the</strong><br />

regulation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir circulation in <strong>the</strong> State. From this follows that taxation will<br />

best be covered by a progressive tax on property. In this manner <strong>the</strong> dues will<br />

be paid without straitening or ruining anybody in <strong>the</strong> form <strong>of</strong> a percentage <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> amount <strong>of</strong> property. <strong>The</strong> rich must be aware that it is <strong>the</strong>ir duty to place a<br />

part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir superfluities at <strong>the</strong> disposal <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State since <strong>the</strong> State<br />

guarantees <strong>the</strong>m security <strong>of</strong> possession <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> rest <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir property and <strong>the</strong><br />

right <strong>of</strong> honest gains, I say honest, for <strong>the</strong> control over property will do away<br />

with robbery on a legal basis.<br />

20.4<br />

This social reform must come from above, for <strong>the</strong> time is ripe for it—it is<br />

indispensable as a pledge <strong>of</strong> peace.<br />

20.5.<br />

<strong>The</strong> tax upon <strong>the</strong> poor man is a seed <strong>of</strong> revolution and works to <strong>the</strong> detriment<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State which is hunting after <strong>the</strong> trifling is missing <strong>the</strong> big. Quite apart<br />

from this, a tax on capitalists diminishes <strong>the</strong> growth <strong>of</strong> wealth in private hands<br />

in which we have in <strong>the</strong>se days concentrated it as a counterpoise to <strong>the</strong><br />

government strength <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim—<strong>the</strong>ir State finances.<br />

20.6.<br />

A tax increasing in a percentage ratio to capital will give much larger revenue<br />

than <strong>the</strong> present individual or property tax, which is useful to us now for <strong>the</strong><br />

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sole reason that it excites trouble and discontent among <strong>the</strong> goyim.<br />

20.7.<br />

<strong>The</strong> force upon which our king will rest consists in <strong>the</strong> equilibrium and <strong>the</strong><br />

guarantee <strong>of</strong> peace, for <strong>the</strong> sake <strong>of</strong> which things it is indispensable that <strong>the</strong><br />

capitalists should yield up a portion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir incomes for <strong>the</strong> sake <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

secure working <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> machinery <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State. State needs must be paid by<br />

those who will not feel <strong>the</strong> burden and have enough to take from.<br />

20.8.<br />

Such a measure will destroy <strong>the</strong> hatred <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> poor man for <strong>the</strong> rich, in whom<br />

he will see a necessary financial support for <strong>the</strong> State, will see in him <strong>the</strong><br />

organizer <strong>of</strong> peace and well-being since he will see that it is <strong>the</strong> rich man who<br />

is paying <strong>the</strong> necessary means to attain <strong>the</strong>se things.<br />

20.9.<br />

In order that payers <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> educated classes should not too much distress<br />

<strong>the</strong>mselves over <strong>the</strong> new payments <strong>the</strong>y will have full accounts given <strong>the</strong>m <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> destination <strong>of</strong> those payments, with <strong>the</strong> exception <strong>of</strong> such sums as will be<br />

appropriated for <strong>the</strong> needs <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> throne and <strong>the</strong> administrative institutions.<br />

20.10.<br />

He who reigns will not have any properties <strong>of</strong> his own once all in <strong>the</strong> State<br />

represented his patrimony, or else <strong>the</strong> one would be in contradiction to <strong>the</strong><br />

o<strong>the</strong>r; <strong>the</strong> fact <strong>of</strong> holding private means would destroy <strong>the</strong> right <strong>of</strong> property in<br />

<strong>the</strong> common possessions <strong>of</strong> all.<br />

20.11.<br />

Relatives <strong>of</strong> him who reigns, his heirs excepted, who will be maintained by<br />

<strong>the</strong> resources <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State, must enter <strong>the</strong> ranks <strong>of</strong> servants <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State or<br />

must work to obtain <strong>the</strong> right to property; <strong>the</strong> privilege <strong>of</strong> royal blood must not<br />

serve for <strong>the</strong> spoiling <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> treasury.<br />

20.12.<br />

Purchase, receipt <strong>of</strong> money or inheritance will be subject to <strong>the</strong> payment <strong>of</strong> a<br />

stamp progressive tax. Any transfer <strong>of</strong> property, whe<strong>the</strong>r money or o<strong>the</strong>r,<br />

without evidence <strong>of</strong> payment <strong>of</strong> this tax which will be strictly registered by<br />

names, will render <strong>the</strong> former holder liable to pay interest on <strong>the</strong> tax from <strong>the</strong><br />

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moment <strong>of</strong> transfer <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se sums up to <strong>the</strong> discovery <strong>of</strong> his evasion <strong>of</strong><br />

declaration <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> transfer. Transfer documents must be presented weekly at<br />

<strong>the</strong> local treasury <strong>of</strong>fice with notifications <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> name, surname and<br />

permanent place <strong>of</strong> residence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> former and <strong>the</strong> new holder <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

property. This transfer with register <strong>of</strong> names must begin from a definite sum<br />

which exceeds <strong>the</strong> ordinary expenses <strong>of</strong> buying and selling necessaries, and<br />

<strong>the</strong>se will be subject to payment only by a stamp impost <strong>of</strong> a definite<br />

percentage <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> unit.<br />

20.13.<br />

Just strike an estimate <strong>of</strong> how many times such taxes as <strong>the</strong>se will cover <strong>the</strong><br />

revenue <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim States.<br />

20.14.<br />

<strong>The</strong> State exchequer will have to maintain a definite complement <strong>of</strong> reserve<br />

sums, and all that is collected above that complement must be returned into<br />

circulation. On <strong>the</strong>se sums will be organized public works. <strong>The</strong> initiative in<br />

works <strong>of</strong> this kind, proceeding from State sources, will blind <strong>the</strong> working class<br />

firmly to <strong>the</strong> interests <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State and to those who reign. From <strong>the</strong>se same<br />

sums also a part will be set aside as rewards <strong>of</strong> inventiveness and<br />

productiveness.<br />

20.15.<br />

On no account should so much as a single unit above <strong>the</strong> definite and freely<br />

estimated sums be retained in <strong>the</strong> State Treasuries, for money exists to be<br />

circulated and any kind <strong>of</strong> stagnation <strong>of</strong> money acts ruinously on <strong>the</strong> running<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State machinery, for which it is <strong>the</strong> lubricant; a stagnation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

lubricant may stop <strong>the</strong> regular working <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mechanism.<br />

20.16.<br />

<strong>The</strong> substitution <strong>of</strong> interest-bearing paper for a part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> token <strong>of</strong> exchange<br />

has produced exactly this stagnation. <strong>The</strong> consequences <strong>of</strong> this circumstance<br />

are already sufficiently noticeable.<br />

20.17.<br />

A court <strong>of</strong> account will also be instituted by us, and in it <strong>the</strong> ruler will find at<br />

any moment a full accounting for State income and expenditure, with <strong>the</strong><br />

exception <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> current monthly account, not yet made up, and that <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

preceding month, which will not yet have been delivered.<br />

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20.18.<br />

<strong>The</strong> one and only person who will have no interest in robbing <strong>the</strong> State is its<br />

owner, <strong>the</strong> ruler. This is why his personal control will remove <strong>the</strong> possibility <strong>of</strong><br />

leakages <strong>of</strong> extravagances.<br />

20.19.<br />

<strong>The</strong> representative function <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ruler at receptions for <strong>the</strong> sake <strong>of</strong> etiquette,<br />

which absorbs so much invaluable time, will be abolished in order that <strong>the</strong><br />

ruler may have time for control and consideration. His power will not <strong>the</strong>n be<br />

split up into fractional parts among time-serving favorites who surround <strong>the</strong><br />

throne for its pomp and splendor, and are interested only in <strong>the</strong>ir own and not<br />

in <strong>the</strong> common interests <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State.<br />

20.20.<br />

Economic crises have been producer by us for <strong>the</strong> goyim by no o<strong>the</strong>r means<br />

than <strong>the</strong> withdrawal <strong>of</strong> money from circulation. Huge capitals have stagnated,<br />

withdrawing money from States, which were constantly obliged to apply to<br />

those same stagnant capitals for loans. <strong>The</strong>se loans burdened <strong>the</strong> finances <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> State with <strong>the</strong> payment <strong>of</strong> interest and made <strong>the</strong>m <strong>the</strong> bond slaves <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>se capitals . . . . <strong>The</strong> concentration <strong>of</strong> industry in <strong>the</strong> hands <strong>of</strong> capitalists<br />

out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> hands <strong>of</strong> small masters has drained away all <strong>the</strong> juices <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

peoples and with <strong>the</strong>m also <strong>the</strong> States . . . .<br />

20.21.<br />

<strong>The</strong> present issue <strong>of</strong> money in general does not correspond with <strong>the</strong><br />

requirements per head, and cannot <strong>the</strong>refore satisfy all <strong>the</strong> needs <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

workers. <strong>The</strong> issue <strong>of</strong> money ought to correspond with <strong>the</strong> growth <strong>of</strong><br />

population and <strong>the</strong>reby children also must absolutely be reckoned as<br />

consumers <strong>of</strong> currency from <strong>the</strong> day <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir birth. <strong>The</strong> revision <strong>of</strong> issue is a<br />

material question for <strong>the</strong> whole world.<br />

20.22.<br />

You are aware that <strong>the</strong> gold standard has been <strong>the</strong> ruin <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> states which<br />

adopted it, for it has not been able to satisfy <strong>the</strong> demands for money, <strong>the</strong><br />

more so that we have removed gold from circulation as far as possible.<br />

20.23.<br />

With us <strong>the</strong> standard that must be introduced is <strong>the</strong> cost <strong>of</strong> working-man<br />

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power, whe<strong>the</strong>r it be reckoned in paper or in wood. We shall make <strong>the</strong> issue<br />

<strong>of</strong> money in accordance with <strong>the</strong> normal requirements <strong>of</strong> each subject, adding<br />

to <strong>the</strong> quantity with every birth and subtracting with every death.<br />

20.24.<br />

<strong>The</strong> accounts will be managed by each department (<strong>the</strong> French<br />

administrative division), each circle.<br />

20.25.<br />

In order that <strong>the</strong>re may be no delays in <strong>the</strong> paying our <strong>of</strong> money for State<br />

needs <strong>the</strong> sums and terms <strong>of</strong> such payments will be fixed by decree <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

ruler; this will do away with <strong>the</strong> protection by a ministry <strong>of</strong> one institution to<br />

<strong>the</strong> detriment <strong>of</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rs.<br />

20.26.<br />

<strong>The</strong> budgets <strong>of</strong> income and expenditure will be carried out side by side that<br />

<strong>the</strong>y may not be obscured by distance one to ano<strong>the</strong>r.<br />

20.27.<br />

<strong>The</strong> reforms projected by us in <strong>the</strong> financial institutions and principles <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

goyim will be clo<strong>the</strong>d by us in such forms as will alarm nobody. We shall point<br />

out <strong>the</strong> necessity <strong>of</strong> reforms in consequence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> disorderly darkness into<br />

which <strong>the</strong> goyim by <strong>the</strong>ir irregularities have plunged <strong>the</strong> finances. <strong>The</strong> first<br />

irregularity, as we shall point out, consists in <strong>the</strong>ir beginning with drawing up<br />

a single budget which year after year grows owing to <strong>the</strong> following cause: this<br />

budget is dragged out to half <strong>the</strong> year, <strong>the</strong>n <strong>the</strong>y demand a budget to put<br />

things right, and this <strong>the</strong>y expend in three months, after which <strong>the</strong>y ask for a<br />

supplementary budget, and all this ends with a liquidation budget. But, as <strong>the</strong><br />

budget <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> following year is drawn up in accordance with <strong>the</strong> sum <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

total addition, <strong>the</strong> annual departure from <strong>the</strong> normal reaches as much as 50<br />

per cent in a year, and so <strong>the</strong> annual budget is trebled in ten years. Thanks to<br />

such methods, allowed by <strong>the</strong> carelessness <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goy States, <strong>the</strong>ir treasuries<br />

are empty. <strong>The</strong> period <strong>of</strong> loans supervenes, and that has swallowed up<br />

remainders and brought all <strong>the</strong> goy States to bankruptcy.<br />

20.28.<br />

You understand perfectly that economic arrangements <strong>of</strong> this kind, which<br />

have been suggested to <strong>the</strong> goyim by us, cannot be carried on by us.<br />

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20.29.<br />

Every kind <strong>of</strong> loan proves infirmity in <strong>the</strong> State and a want <strong>of</strong> understanding <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> rights <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State. Loans hang like a sword <strong>of</strong> Damocles over <strong>the</strong> heads<br />

<strong>of</strong> rulers, who, instead <strong>of</strong> taking from <strong>the</strong>ir subjects by a temporary tax, come<br />

begging with outstretched palm <strong>of</strong> our bankers. Foreign loans are leeches<br />

which <strong>the</strong>re is no possibility <strong>of</strong> removing from <strong>the</strong> body <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State until <strong>the</strong>y<br />

fall <strong>of</strong>f <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>mselves or <strong>the</strong> State flings <strong>the</strong>m <strong>of</strong>f. But <strong>the</strong> goy States do not<br />

tear <strong>the</strong>m <strong>of</strong>f; <strong>the</strong>y go on in persisting in putting more on to <strong>the</strong>mselves so<br />

that <strong>the</strong>y must inevitably perish, drained by voluntary blood-letting.<br />

20.30.<br />

What also indeed is, in substance, a loan, especially a foreign loan? A loan<br />

is—an issue <strong>of</strong> government bills <strong>of</strong> exchange containing a percentage<br />

obligation commensurate to <strong>the</strong> sum <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> loan capital. If <strong>the</strong> loan bears a<br />

charge <strong>of</strong> 5 per cent, <strong>the</strong>n in twenty years <strong>the</strong> State vainly pays away in<br />

interest a sum equal to <strong>the</strong> loan borrowed, in forty years it is paying a double<br />

sum, in sixty—treble, and all <strong>the</strong> while <strong>the</strong> debt remains an unpaid debt.<br />

20.31.<br />

From this calculation it is obvious that with any form <strong>of</strong> taxation per head <strong>the</strong><br />

State is baling out <strong>the</strong> last coppers <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> poor taxpayers in order to settle<br />

accounts with wealth foreigners, from whom it has borrowed money instead<br />

<strong>of</strong> collecting <strong>the</strong>se coppers for its own needs without <strong>the</strong> additional interest.<br />

20.32.<br />

So long as loans were internal <strong>the</strong> goyim only shuffled <strong>the</strong>ir money from <strong>the</strong><br />

pockets <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> poor to those <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> rich, but when we bought up <strong>the</strong><br />

necessary person in order to transfer loans into <strong>the</strong> external sphere, all <strong>the</strong><br />

wealth <strong>of</strong> States flowed into our cash-boxes and all <strong>the</strong> goyim began to pay<br />

us <strong>the</strong> tribute <strong>of</strong> subjects.<br />

20.33.<br />

If <strong>the</strong> superficiality <strong>of</strong> goy kings on <strong>the</strong>ir thrones in regard to State affairs and<br />

<strong>the</strong> venality <strong>of</strong> ministers or <strong>the</strong> want <strong>of</strong> understanding <strong>of</strong> financial matters on<br />

<strong>the</strong> part <strong>of</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r ruling persons have made <strong>the</strong>ir countries debtors to our<br />

treasuries to amounts quite impossible to pay it has not been accomplished<br />

without, on our part, heavy expenditure <strong>of</strong> trouble and money.<br />

20.34.<br />

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Stagnation <strong>of</strong> money will not be allowed by us and <strong>the</strong>refore <strong>the</strong>re will be no<br />

State interest-bearing paper, except a one per- cent series, so that <strong>the</strong>re will<br />

be no payment <strong>of</strong> interest to leeches that suck all <strong>the</strong> strength out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

State. <strong>The</strong> right to issue interest-bearing paper will be given exclusively to<br />

industrial companies who will find no difficulty in paying interest out <strong>of</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>its,<br />

whereas <strong>the</strong> State does not make interest on borrowed money like <strong>the</strong>se<br />

companies, for <strong>the</strong> State borrows to spend and not to use in operations.<br />

20.35.<br />

Industrial papers will be bought also by <strong>the</strong> government which from being as<br />

now a paper <strong>of</strong> tribute by loan operations will be transformed into a lender <strong>of</strong><br />

money at a pr<strong>of</strong>it. This measure will stop <strong>the</strong> stagnation <strong>of</strong> money, parasitic<br />

pr<strong>of</strong>its and idleness, all <strong>of</strong> which were useful for us among <strong>the</strong> goyim so long<br />

as <strong>the</strong>y were independent but are not desirable under our rule.<br />

20.36.<br />

How clear is <strong>the</strong> undeveloped power <strong>of</strong> thought <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> purely brute brains <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> goyim, as expressed in <strong>the</strong> fact that <strong>the</strong>y have been borrowing from us<br />

with payment <strong>of</strong> interest without ever thinking that all <strong>the</strong> same <strong>the</strong>se very<br />

moneys plus an addition for payment <strong>of</strong> interest must be got by <strong>the</strong>m from<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir own State pockets in order to settle up with us. What could have been<br />

simpler than to take <strong>the</strong> money <strong>the</strong>y wanted from <strong>the</strong>ir own people?<br />

20.37.<br />

But it is a pro<strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> genius <strong>of</strong> our chosen mind that we have contrived to<br />

present <strong>the</strong> matter <strong>of</strong> loans to <strong>the</strong>m in such a light that <strong>the</strong>y have even seen<br />

in <strong>the</strong>m an advantage for <strong>the</strong>mselves.<br />

20.38.<br />

Our accounts, which we shall present when <strong>the</strong> time comes, in <strong>the</strong> light <strong>of</strong><br />

centuries <strong>of</strong> experience gained by experiments made by us on <strong>the</strong> goy<br />

States, will be distinguished by clearness and definiteness and will show at a<br />

glance to all men <strong>the</strong> advantage <strong>of</strong> our innovations. <strong>The</strong>y will put an end to<br />

those abuses to which we owe our mastery over <strong>the</strong> goyim, but which cannot<br />

be allowed in our kingdom.<br />

20.39.<br />

We shall so hedge about our system <strong>of</strong> accounting that nei<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> ruler nor<br />

<strong>the</strong> most insignificant public servant will be in a position to divert even <strong>the</strong><br />

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smallest sum from its destination without detection or to direct it in ano<strong>the</strong>r<br />

direction except that which will be once fixed in a definite plan <strong>of</strong> action.<br />

20.40.<br />

And without a definite plan it is impossible to rule. Marching along an<br />

undetermined road and with undetermined resources brings to ruin by <strong>the</strong><br />

way heroes and demi-gods.<br />

20.41.<br />

<strong>The</strong> goy rulers, whom we once upon a time advised should be distracted from<br />

State occupations by representative receptions, observances <strong>of</strong> etiquette,<br />

entertainments, were only screens for our rule. <strong>The</strong> accounts <strong>of</strong> favorite<br />

courtiers who replaced <strong>the</strong>m in <strong>the</strong> sphere <strong>of</strong> affairs were drawn up for <strong>the</strong>m<br />

by our agents, and every time gave satisfaction to short-sighted minds by<br />

promises that in <strong>the</strong> future economics and improvements were foreseen . . . .<br />

Economics from what? From new taxes?—were questions that might have<br />

been but were not asked by those who read our accounts and projects.<br />

20.42.<br />

You know to what <strong>the</strong>y have been brought by this carelessness, to what pitch<br />

<strong>of</strong> financial disorder <strong>the</strong>y have arrived, notwithstanding <strong>the</strong> astonishing<br />

industry <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir peoples . . . .<br />

PROTOCOL 21<br />

Summary<br />

Internal loans • Debit and taxes • Conversions • Bankruptcy • Savings banks<br />

and rents • Abolition <strong>of</strong> money markets • Regulation <strong>of</strong> industrial values<br />

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21.1.<br />

TO WHAT I REPORTED TO YOU at <strong>the</strong> last meeting I shall now add a<br />

detailed explanation <strong>of</strong> internal loans. Of foreign loans I shall say nothing<br />

more, because <strong>the</strong>y have fed us with national moneys <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim, but for<br />

our State <strong>the</strong>re will be no foreigners, that is, nothing external.<br />

21.2.<br />

We have taken advantage <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> venality <strong>of</strong> administrators and slackness <strong>of</strong><br />

rulers to get our moneys twice, thrice and more times over, by lending to <strong>the</strong><br />

goy governments moneys which were not at all needed by <strong>the</strong> States. Could<br />

anyone do <strong>the</strong> like in regard to us? . . . . <strong>The</strong>refore, I shall only deal with <strong>the</strong><br />

details <strong>of</strong> internal loans.<br />

21.3.<br />

States announce that such a loan is to be concluded and open subscriptions<br />

for <strong>the</strong>ir own bills <strong>of</strong> exchange, that is, for <strong>the</strong>ir interest-bearing paper. That<br />

<strong>the</strong>y may be within <strong>the</strong> reach <strong>of</strong> all <strong>the</strong> price is determined at from a hundred<br />

to a thousand; and a discount is made for <strong>the</strong> earliest subscribers. Next day<br />

by artificial means <strong>the</strong> price <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m goes up, <strong>the</strong> alleged reason being that<br />

everyone is rushing to buy <strong>the</strong>m. In a few days <strong>the</strong> treasury safes are as <strong>the</strong>y<br />

say overflowing and <strong>the</strong>re's more money than <strong>the</strong>y can do with (why <strong>the</strong>n<br />

take it?). <strong>The</strong> subscription, it is alleged, covers many times over <strong>the</strong> issue<br />

total <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> loan; in this lies <strong>the</strong> whole stage effect—look you, <strong>the</strong>y say, what<br />

confidence is shown in <strong>the</strong> government's bills <strong>of</strong> exchange.<br />

21.4.<br />

But when <strong>the</strong> comedy is played out <strong>the</strong>re emerges <strong>the</strong> fact that a debit and an<br />

exceedingly burdensome debit has been created. For <strong>the</strong> payment <strong>of</strong> interest<br />

it becomes necessary to have recourse to new loans, which do not swallow<br />

up but only add to <strong>the</strong> capital debt. And when this credit is exhausted it<br />

becomes necessary by new taxes to cover, not <strong>the</strong> loan, but only <strong>the</strong> interest<br />

on it. <strong>The</strong>se taxes are a debit employed to cover a debit . . . .<br />

21.5.<br />

Later comes <strong>the</strong> time for conversions, but <strong>the</strong>y diminish <strong>the</strong> payment <strong>of</strong><br />

interest without covering <strong>the</strong> debt, and besides <strong>the</strong>y cannot be made without<br />

<strong>the</strong> consent <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> lenders; on announcing a conversion a proposal is made<br />

to return <strong>the</strong> money to those who are not willing to convert <strong>the</strong>ir paper. If<br />

everybody expressed his unwillingness and demanded his money back, <strong>the</strong><br />

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government would be hooked on <strong>the</strong>ir own files and would be found insolvent<br />

and unable to pay <strong>the</strong> proposed sums. By good luck <strong>the</strong> subjects <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goy<br />

governments, knowing nothing about financial affairs, have always preferred<br />

losses on exchange and diminution <strong>of</strong> interest to <strong>the</strong> risk <strong>of</strong> new investments<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir moneys, and have <strong>the</strong>reby many a time enabled <strong>the</strong>se governments<br />

to throw <strong>of</strong>f <strong>the</strong>ir shoulders a debit <strong>of</strong> several millions.<br />

21.6.<br />

Nowadays, with external loans, <strong>the</strong>se tricks cannot be played by <strong>the</strong> goyim<br />

for <strong>the</strong>y know that we shall demand all our moneys back.<br />

21.7.<br />

In this way in acknowledged bankruptcy will best prove to <strong>the</strong> various<br />

countries <strong>the</strong> absence <strong>of</strong> any means between <strong>the</strong> interest <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> peoples and<br />

<strong>of</strong> those who rule <strong>the</strong>m.<br />

21.8.<br />

I beg you to concentrate your particular attention upon this point and upon <strong>the</strong><br />

following: nowadays all internal loans are consolidated by so-called flying<br />

loans, that is, such as have terms <strong>of</strong> payment more or less near. <strong>The</strong>se debts<br />

consist <strong>of</strong> moneys paid into <strong>the</strong> savings banks and reserve funds. If left for<br />

long at <strong>the</strong> disposition <strong>of</strong> a government <strong>the</strong>se funds evaporate in <strong>the</strong> payment<br />

<strong>of</strong> interest on foreign loans, and are placed by <strong>the</strong> deposit <strong>of</strong> equivalent<br />

amount <strong>of</strong> rents.<br />

21.9.<br />

And <strong>the</strong>se last it is which patch up all <strong>the</strong> leaks in <strong>the</strong> State treasuries <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

goyim.<br />

21.10.<br />

When we ascend <strong>the</strong> throne <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world all <strong>the</strong>se financial and similar shifts,<br />

as being not in accord with our interests, will be swept away so as not to<br />

leave a trace, as also will be destroyed all money markets, since we shall not<br />

allow <strong>the</strong> prestige <strong>of</strong> our power to be shaken by fluctuations <strong>of</strong> prices set<br />

upon our values, which we shall announce by law at <strong>the</strong> price which<br />

represents <strong>the</strong>ir full worth without any possibility <strong>of</strong> lowering or raising.<br />

(Raising gives <strong>the</strong> pretext for lowering, which indeed was where we made a<br />

beginning in relation to <strong>the</strong> values <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goyim.)<br />

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21.11.<br />

We shall replace <strong>the</strong> money markets by grandiose government credit<br />

institutions, <strong>the</strong> object <strong>of</strong> which will be to fix <strong>the</strong> price <strong>of</strong> industrial values in<br />

accordance with government views. <strong>The</strong>se institutions will be in a position to<br />

fling upon <strong>the</strong> market five hundred millions <strong>of</strong> industrial paper in one day, or<br />

to buy up for <strong>the</strong> same amount. In this way all industrial undertakings will<br />

come into dependence upon us. You may imagine for yourselves what<br />

immense power we shall <strong>the</strong>reby secure for ourselves . . . .<br />

PROTOCOL 22<br />

Summary<br />

<strong>The</strong> secret <strong>of</strong> what is coming • <strong>The</strong> evil <strong>of</strong> many centuries as <strong>the</strong> foundation <strong>of</strong><br />

future well-being • <strong>The</strong> aureole <strong>of</strong> power and its mystical worship<br />

22.1.<br />

IN ALL THAT HAS SO FAR been reported by me to you, I have endeavored<br />

to depict with care <strong>the</strong> secret <strong>of</strong> what is coming, <strong>of</strong> what is past, and <strong>of</strong> what<br />

is going on now, rushing into <strong>the</strong> flood <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> great events coming already in<br />

<strong>the</strong> near future, <strong>the</strong> secret <strong>of</strong> our relations to <strong>the</strong> goyim and <strong>of</strong> financial<br />

operations. On this subject <strong>the</strong>re remains still a little for me to add.<br />

22.2.<br />

In our hands <strong>the</strong> greatest power <strong>of</strong> our day—gold: in two days we can<br />

procure from our storehouses any quantity we may please.<br />

22.3.<br />

Surely <strong>the</strong>re is no need to seek fur<strong>the</strong>r pro<strong>of</strong> that our rule is predestined by<br />

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God? Surely we shall not fail with such wealth to prove that all that evil which<br />

for so many centuries we have had to commit has served at <strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong> ends<br />

<strong>the</strong> cause <strong>of</strong> true well- being—<strong>the</strong> bringing <strong>of</strong> everything into order? Though it<br />

be even by <strong>the</strong> exercise <strong>of</strong> some violence, yet all <strong>the</strong> same it will be<br />

established. We shall contrive to prove that we are benefactors who have<br />

restored to <strong>the</strong> rent and mangled earth <strong>the</strong> true good and also freedom <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

person, and <strong>the</strong>rewith we shall enable it to be enjoyed in peace and quiet,<br />

with proper dignity <strong>of</strong> relations, on <strong>the</strong> condition, <strong>of</strong> course, <strong>of</strong> strict<br />

observance <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> laws established by us. We shall make plain <strong>the</strong>rewith that<br />

freedom does not consist in dissipation and in <strong>the</strong> right <strong>of</strong> unbridled license<br />

any more than <strong>the</strong> dignity and force <strong>of</strong> a man do not consist in <strong>the</strong> right <strong>of</strong><br />

everyone to promulgate destructive principles in <strong>the</strong> nature <strong>of</strong> freedom <strong>of</strong><br />

conscience, equality and a like, that freedom <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> person in no wise<br />

consists in <strong>the</strong> right to agitate oneself and o<strong>the</strong>rs by abominable speeches<br />

before disorderly mobs, and that true freedom consists in <strong>the</strong> inviolability <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> person who honorably and strictly observes all <strong>the</strong> laws <strong>of</strong> life in common,<br />

that human dignity is wrapped up in consciousness <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> rights and also <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> absence <strong>of</strong> rights <strong>of</strong> each, and not wholly and solely in fantastic<br />

imaginings about <strong>the</strong> subject <strong>of</strong> one's ego.<br />

22.4.<br />

One authority will be glorious because it will be all-powerful, will rule and<br />

guide, and not muddle along after leaders and orators shrieking <strong>the</strong>mselves<br />

hoarse with senseless words which <strong>the</strong>y call great principles and which are<br />

noting else, to speak honestly, but utopian . . . . Our authority will be <strong>the</strong><br />

crown <strong>of</strong> order, and in that is included <strong>the</strong> whole happiness <strong>of</strong> man. <strong>The</strong><br />

aureole <strong>of</strong> this authority will inspire a mystical bowing <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> knee before it<br />

and a reverent fear before it <strong>of</strong> all <strong>the</strong> peoples. True force makes no terms<br />

with any right, not even with that <strong>of</strong> God: none dare come near to it so as to<br />

take so much as a span from it away.<br />

PROTOCOL 23<br />

Summary<br />

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Reduction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> manufacture <strong>of</strong> articles <strong>of</strong> luxury • Small master production •<br />

Unemployment • Prohibition <strong>of</strong> drunkenness • Killing out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> old society<br />

and its resurrection in a new form • <strong>The</strong> chosen one <strong>of</strong> God<br />

23.1.<br />

THAT THE PEOPLES may become accustomed to obedience it is necessary<br />

to inculcate lessons <strong>of</strong> humility and <strong>the</strong>refore to reduce <strong>the</strong> production <strong>of</strong><br />

articles <strong>of</strong> luxury. By this we shall improve morals which have been debased<br />

by emulation in <strong>the</strong> sphere <strong>of</strong> luxury. We shall re-establish small master<br />

production which will mean laying a mine under <strong>the</strong> private capital <strong>of</strong><br />

manufactures. This is indispensable also for <strong>the</strong> reason that manufacturers<br />

on <strong>the</strong> grand scale <strong>of</strong>ten move, though not always consciously, <strong>the</strong> thoughts<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> masses in directions against <strong>the</strong> government. A people <strong>of</strong> small<br />

masters knows nothing <strong>of</strong> unemployment and this binds him closely with<br />

existing order, and consequently with <strong>the</strong> firmness <strong>of</strong> authority. For us its part<br />

will have ben played out <strong>the</strong> moment authority is transferred into our hands.<br />

Drunkenness also will be prohibited by law and punishable as a crime against<br />

humanness <strong>of</strong> man who is turned into a brute under <strong>the</strong> influence <strong>of</strong> alcohol.<br />

23.2.<br />

Subjects, I repeat once more, give blind obedience only to <strong>the</strong> strong hand<br />

which is absolutely independent <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m, for in it <strong>the</strong>y feel <strong>the</strong> sword <strong>of</strong><br />

defense and support against social scourges . . . . What do <strong>the</strong>y want with an<br />

angelic spirit in a king? What <strong>the</strong>y have to see in him is <strong>the</strong> personification <strong>of</strong><br />

force and power.<br />

23.3.<br />

<strong>The</strong> supreme lord who will replace all now existing ruler, dragging in <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

existence among societies demoralized by us, societies that have denied<br />

even <strong>the</strong> authority <strong>of</strong> God, from whose midst breads out on all sides <strong>the</strong> fire <strong>of</strong><br />

anarchy, must first <strong>of</strong> all proceed to quench this all-devouring flame.<br />

<strong>The</strong>refore he will be obliged to kill <strong>of</strong>f those existing societies, though he<br />

should drench <strong>the</strong>m with his own blood, that he may resurrect <strong>the</strong>m again in<br />

<strong>the</strong> form <strong>of</strong> regularly organized troops fighting consciously with every kind <strong>of</strong><br />

infection that may cover <strong>the</strong> body <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State with sores.<br />

23.4.<br />

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This Chosen One <strong>of</strong> God is chosen from above to demolish <strong>the</strong> senseless<br />

forces moved by instinct and not reason, by brutishness and humanness.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se forces now triumph in manifestations <strong>of</strong> robbery and every kind <strong>of</strong><br />

violence under <strong>the</strong> mask <strong>of</strong> principles <strong>of</strong> freedom and every kind <strong>of</strong> violence<br />

under <strong>the</strong> mask <strong>of</strong> principles <strong>of</strong> freedom and rights. <strong>The</strong>y have overthrown all<br />

forms <strong>of</strong> social order to erect on <strong>the</strong> ruins <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> throne <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> King <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Jews; but <strong>the</strong>ir part will be played out <strong>the</strong> moment he enters into his kingdom.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n it will be necessary to sweep <strong>the</strong>m away from his path, on which must<br />

be left no knot, no splinter.<br />

23.5.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n will it be possible for us to say to <strong>the</strong> peoples <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world: Give thanks<br />

to God and bow <strong>the</strong> knee before him who bears on his front <strong>the</strong> seal <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

predestination <strong>of</strong> man, to which God himself has led his star that none o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

but Him might free us from all <strong>the</strong> before-mentioned forces and evils.<br />

PROTOCOL 24<br />

Summary<br />

Confirming <strong>the</strong> roots <strong>of</strong> King David • Training <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> king • Setting aside <strong>of</strong><br />

direct heirs • <strong>The</strong> king and three <strong>of</strong> his sponsors • <strong>The</strong> king is fate •<br />

Irreproachability <strong>of</strong> exterior morality <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> King <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jews<br />

24.1.<br />

I PASS NOW TO THE METHOD <strong>of</strong> confirming <strong>the</strong> dynastic roots <strong>of</strong> King<br />

David to <strong>the</strong> last strata <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> earth.<br />

24.2.<br />

This confirmation will first and foremost be included in that which to this day<br />

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has rested <strong>the</strong> force <strong>of</strong> conservatism by our learned elders <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> conduct <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> affairs <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world, in <strong>the</strong> directing <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> education <strong>of</strong> thought <strong>of</strong> all<br />

humanity.<br />

24.3.<br />

Certain members <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> seed <strong>of</strong> David will prepare <strong>the</strong> kings and <strong>the</strong>ir heirs,<br />

selecting not by right <strong>of</strong> heritage but by eminent capacities, inducting <strong>the</strong>m<br />

into <strong>the</strong> most secret mysteries <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> political, into schemes <strong>of</strong> government,<br />

but providing always that none may come to knowledge <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> secrets. <strong>The</strong><br />

object <strong>of</strong> this mode <strong>of</strong> action is that all may know that government cannot be<br />

entrusted to those who have not been inducted into <strong>the</strong> secret places <strong>of</strong> its<br />

art . . . .<br />

24.4.<br />

To <strong>the</strong>se persons only will be taught <strong>the</strong> practical application <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

aforenamed plans by comparison <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> experiences <strong>of</strong> many centuries, all<br />

<strong>the</strong> observations on <strong>the</strong> politico-economic moves and social sciences—in a<br />

word, all <strong>the</strong> spirit <strong>of</strong> laws which have been unshakably established by nature<br />

herself for <strong>the</strong> regulation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> relations <strong>of</strong> humanity.<br />

24.5.<br />

Direct heirs will <strong>of</strong>ten be set aside from ascending <strong>the</strong> throne if in <strong>the</strong>ir time <strong>of</strong><br />

training <strong>the</strong>y exhibit frivolity, s<strong>of</strong>tness and o<strong>the</strong>r qualities that are <strong>the</strong> ruin <strong>of</strong><br />

authority, which render <strong>the</strong>m incapable <strong>of</strong> governing and in <strong>the</strong>mselves<br />

dangerous for kingly <strong>of</strong>fice.<br />

24.6.<br />

Only those who are unconditionally capable for firm, even if it be to cruelty,<br />

direct rule will receive <strong>the</strong> reins <strong>of</strong> rule from our learned elders.<br />

24.7.<br />

In case <strong>of</strong> falling sick with weakness <strong>of</strong> will or o<strong>the</strong>r form <strong>of</strong> incapacity. kings<br />

must by law hand over <strong>the</strong> reins <strong>of</strong> rule to new and capable hands.<br />

24.8.<br />

<strong>The</strong> king's plan <strong>of</strong> action for <strong>the</strong> current moment, and all <strong>the</strong> more so for <strong>the</strong><br />

future, will be unknown, even to those who are called his closest counselors.<br />

24.9.<br />

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Only <strong>the</strong> king and <strong>the</strong> three who stood sponsor for him will know what is<br />

coming.<br />

24.10.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> person <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> king who with unbending will is master <strong>of</strong> himself and <strong>of</strong><br />

humanity all will discern as it were fate with its mysterious ways. None will<br />

know what <strong>the</strong> king wishes to attain by his dispositions, and <strong>the</strong>refore none<br />

will dare to stand across an unknown path.<br />

24.11.<br />

It is understood that <strong>the</strong> brain reservoir <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> king must correspond in<br />

capacity to <strong>the</strong> plan <strong>of</strong> government it has to contain. It is for this reason that<br />

he will ascend <strong>the</strong> throne not o<strong>the</strong>rwise than after examination <strong>of</strong> his mind by<br />

<strong>the</strong> aforesaid learned elders.<br />

24.12.<br />

That <strong>the</strong> people may know and love <strong>the</strong>ir king, it is indispensable for him to<br />

converse in <strong>the</strong> market-places with his people. This ensures <strong>the</strong> necessary<br />

clinching <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> two forces which are now divided one from ano<strong>the</strong>r by us by<br />

<strong>the</strong> terror.<br />

24.13.<br />

This terror was indispensable for us till <strong>the</strong> time comes for both <strong>the</strong>se forces<br />

separately to fall under our influence.<br />

24.14.<br />

<strong>The</strong> king <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jews must not be at <strong>the</strong> mercy <strong>of</strong> his passions, and especially<br />

<strong>of</strong> sensuality: on no side <strong>of</strong> his character must he give brute instincts power<br />

over his mind. Sensuality worse than all else disorganizes <strong>the</strong> capacities <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> mind and clearness <strong>of</strong> views, distracting <strong>the</strong> thoughts to <strong>the</strong> worst and<br />

most brutal side <strong>of</strong> human activity.<br />

24.15.<br />

<strong>The</strong> prop <strong>of</strong> humanity in <strong>the</strong> person <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> supreme lord <strong>of</strong> all <strong>the</strong> world <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

holy seed <strong>of</strong> David must sacrifice to his people all personal inclinations.<br />

24.16.<br />

Our supreme lord must be <strong>of</strong> an exemplary irreproachability.<br />

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Signed by <strong>the</strong> representatives ot <strong>Zion</strong>,<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> 33rd degree.<br />

Appendix 1: A Fifteenth Century "Protocol"<br />

THE PRINCIPLES AND MORALITY <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se latter-day <strong>Protocols</strong> are as old<br />

as <strong>the</strong> tribe. Here is one from <strong>the</strong> Fifteenth Century which Jews can hardly<br />

pronounce a forgery, seeing that it is taken from a Rothschild journal.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Revue des études Juives, financed by James de Rothschild, published in<br />

1889 two documents which showed how true <strong>the</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong> are in saying that<br />

<strong>the</strong> <strong>Learned</strong> <strong>Elders</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Zion</strong> have been carrying on <strong>the</strong>ir plan for centuries. On<br />

January 13th, 1489, Chemor, Jewish Rabbi <strong>of</strong> Arles in Provence, wrote to <strong>the</strong><br />

Grand Sanhedrim, which had its seat in Constantinople, for advice, as <strong>the</strong><br />

people <strong>of</strong> Arles were threatening <strong>the</strong> synagogues. What should <strong>the</strong> Jews do?<br />

This was <strong>the</strong> reply:<br />

Dear beloved brethren in Moses, we have received your letter<br />

in which you tell us <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> anxieties and misfortunes which you<br />

are enduring. We are pierced by as great pain to hear it as<br />

yourselves.<br />

<strong>The</strong> advice <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Grand Satraps and Rabbis is <strong>the</strong> following:<br />

1. As for what you say that <strong>the</strong> King <strong>of</strong> France obliges you to<br />

become Christians; do it, since you cannot do o<strong>the</strong>rwise, but<br />

let <strong>the</strong> law <strong>of</strong> Moses be kept in your hearts.<br />

2. As for what you say about <strong>the</strong> command to despoil you <strong>of</strong><br />

your goods " [<strong>the</strong> law was that on becoming converted Jews<br />

gave up <strong>the</strong>ir possessions]: make your sons merchants, that<br />

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little by little <strong>the</strong>y may despoil <strong>the</strong> Christians <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>irs.<br />

3. As for what you say about <strong>the</strong>ir making attempts on your<br />

lives: make your sons doctors and apo<strong>the</strong>caries, that <strong>the</strong>y may<br />

take away Christians' lives.<br />

4. As for what you say <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir destroying your synagogues:<br />

make your sons canons and clerics in order that <strong>the</strong>y may<br />

destroy <strong>the</strong>ir churches.<br />

5. As for <strong>the</strong> many o<strong>the</strong>r vexations you complain <strong>of</strong>; arrange<br />

that your sons become advocates and lawyers, and see that<br />

<strong>the</strong>y always mix <strong>the</strong>mselves up with <strong>the</strong> affairs <strong>of</strong> State, in<br />

order that by putting Christians under your yoke you may<br />

dominate <strong>the</strong> world and be avenged on <strong>the</strong>m.<br />

6. Do not swerve from this order that we give you, because<br />

you will find by experience that, humiliated as you are, you will<br />

reach <strong>the</strong> actuality <strong>of</strong> power.<br />

Signed V.S.S.V.F.F.,<br />

prince <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jews, 21st Caslue<br />

(November), 1489.<br />

Appendix 2: Lord Sydenham's Letter to <strong>the</strong><br />

Spectator<br />

THE FOLLOWING LETTER appeared in <strong>the</strong> Spectator <strong>of</strong> August 27, 1921,<br />

and <strong>the</strong> late Lord Sydenham kindly consented to its reproduction as one <strong>of</strong><br />

"THE BRITONS" leaflets.<br />

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SIR,<br />

When <strong>the</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong> first appeared in English it was pointed out that <strong>the</strong>y<br />

embodied a forgery perpetrated by <strong>the</strong> Tsar's police with <strong>the</strong> idea <strong>of</strong><br />

promoting pogroms. It now appears that <strong>the</strong>y are adapted from a "pamphlet<br />

<strong>of</strong> 1865 attacking <strong>the</strong> Second Empire." This is most interesting, but it explains<br />

nothing. As you point out, Mrs. Webster had shown <strong>the</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong> to be full <strong>of</strong><br />

plagiarisms which she effectively explained by <strong>the</strong> use <strong>of</strong> parallel columns,<br />

and before her most able book appeared Mr. Lucien Wolfe had traced o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

similarities. As <strong>the</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong> were obviously a compilation this was to be<br />

expected, and fur<strong>the</strong>r resemblances may be discovered. <strong>The</strong> importance <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> most sinister compilation that has ever appeared resides in <strong>the</strong> subject<br />

matter. <strong>The</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong> explain in almost laborious detail <strong>the</strong> objects <strong>of</strong><br />

Bolshevism and <strong>the</strong> methods <strong>of</strong> carrying it into effect. Those methods were in<br />

operation in 1901, when Nilus said that he received <strong>the</strong> documents, but<br />

Bolshevism was <strong>the</strong>n Marxian Communism, and <strong>the</strong> time had not come for<br />

applying it by military force. Nothing that was written in 1865 can have any<br />

bearing upon <strong>the</strong> deadly accuracy <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> forecasts in <strong>the</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong>, most <strong>of</strong><br />

which have since been fulfilled to <strong>the</strong> letter. Moreover <strong>the</strong> principles <strong>the</strong>y<br />

enunciate correspond closely with <strong>the</strong> recorded statements <strong>of</strong> Jewish<br />

authorities. If you will read <strong>the</strong> American edition, with its valuable annexes,<br />

you will understand this, and <strong>the</strong> confirmatory quotations <strong>the</strong>re given can be<br />

multiplied. Even <strong>the</strong> "Jewish world despotism," which you described as "a<br />

piece <strong>of</strong> malignant lunacy," is not obscurely hinted at. Take this one quotation<br />

from <strong>the</strong> Jewish State, by <strong>The</strong>odore Herzl: "When we sink we become a<br />

revolutionary prolelariat, <strong>the</strong> subordinate <strong>of</strong>ficers <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> revolutionary party;<br />

when we rise, <strong>the</strong>re rises also our terrible power <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> purse." Compare this<br />

ominous statement with those <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> "<strong>Protocols</strong>," <strong>of</strong> which it is plainly an<br />

echo.<br />

I note with thankfulness that you say that <strong>the</strong> discovery <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> French<br />

pamphlet "does not clear up <strong>the</strong> whole mystery." Indeed it does not, and if<br />

you will carefully read Mr. Ford's amazing disclosures you will wish for more<br />

light. <strong>The</strong> main point is, <strong>of</strong> course, <strong>the</strong> source from which Nilus obtained <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>Protocols</strong>. <strong>The</strong> Russians who knew Nilus and his writings, cannot all have<br />

been exterminated by <strong>the</strong> Bolshevics. His book, in which <strong>the</strong> "<strong>Protocols</strong>" only<br />

form one chapter, has not been translated; though it would give some idea <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> man. He was, I have been told by a Russian lady, absolutely incapable<br />

ei<strong>the</strong>r <strong>of</strong> writing any portion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong> or <strong>of</strong> being party to a fraud.<br />

What is <strong>the</strong> most striking characteristic <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong>? <strong>The</strong> answer is<br />

knowledge <strong>of</strong> a rare kind, embracing <strong>the</strong> widest field. <strong>The</strong> solution <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

"mystery," if it is one, is to be found by ascertaining where this uncanny<br />

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knowledge, on which prophecies now literally fullilled are based, can be<br />

shown to reside.<br />

— I am, Sir, &c.,<br />

SYDENHAM<br />

Table <strong>of</strong> Contents and Paragraph <strong>Index</strong><br />

Introduction<br />

i.1. • i.2. • i.3. • i.4. • i.5. • i.6. • i.7.<br />

• i.8. • i.9. • i.10. • i.11. • i.12.<br />

PROTOCOL 1<br />

Summary<br />

1.1. • 1.2. • 1.3. • 1.4. • 1.5. • 1.6.<br />

• 1.7. • 1.8. • 1.9. • 1.10. • 1.11. •<br />

1.12. • 1.13. • 1.14. • 1.15. • 1.16.<br />

• 1.17. • 1.18. • 1.19. • 1.20. •<br />

1.21. • 1.22. • 1.23. • 1.24. • 1.25.<br />

• 1.26. • 1.27. • 1.28. • 1.29.<br />

Title<br />

Preface<br />

p.1. • p.2. • p.3. • p.4.<br />

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Notes<br />

n.1. • n.2. • n.3. • n.4. • n.5. • n.6.<br />

• n.7. • n.8. • n.9. • n.10.<br />

PROTOCOL 2<br />

Summary<br />

2.1. • 2.2. • 2.3. • 2.4. • 2.5.<br />

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PROTOCOL 3<br />

Summary<br />

3.1. • 3.2. • 3.3. • 3.4. • 3.5. • 3.6.<br />

• 3.7. • 3.8. • 3.9. • 3.10. • 3.11. •<br />

3.12. • 3.13. • 3.14. • 3.15. • 3.16.<br />

• 3.17. • 3.18. • 3.19. • 3.20. •<br />

3.21.<br />

PROTOCOL 5<br />

Summary<br />

5.1. • 5.2. • 5.3. • 5.4. • 5.5. • 5.6.<br />

• 5.7. • 5.8. • 5.9. • 5.10. • 5.11.<br />

PROTOCOL 7<br />

Summary<br />

7.1. • 7.2. • 7.3. • 7.4. • 7.5.<br />

PROTOCOL 9<br />

Summary<br />

9.1. • 9.2. • 9.3. • 9.4. • 9.5. • 9.6.<br />

• 9.7. • 9.8. • 9.9. • 9.10. • 9.11. •<br />

9.12. • 9.13.<br />

PROTOCOL 11<br />

Summary<br />

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PROTOCOL 4<br />

Summary<br />

4.1. • 4.2. • 4.3.• 4.4.• 4.5.<br />

PROTOCOL 6<br />

Summary<br />

6.1. • 6.2. • 6.3. • 6.4. • 6.5. • 6.6.<br />

• 6.7. • 6.8.<br />

PROTOCOL 8<br />

Summary<br />

8.1. • 8.2.<br />

PROTOCOL 10<br />

Summary<br />

10.1. • 10.2. • 10.3. • 10.4. • 10.5.<br />

• 10.6. • 10.7. • 10.8. • 10.9. •<br />

10.10. • 10.11. • 10.12. • 10.13. •<br />

10.14. • 10.15. • 10.16. • 10.17. •<br />

10.18. • 10.19. • 10.20.<br />

PROTOCOL 12<br />

Summary<br />

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11.1. • 11.2. • 11.3. • 11.4. • 11.5.<br />

• 11.6. • 11.7. • 11.8. • 11.9.<br />

PROTOCOL 13<br />

Summary<br />

13.1. • 13.2. • 13.3. • 13.4. • 13.5.<br />

• 13.6.<br />

PROTOCOL 15<br />

Summary<br />

15.1. • 15.2. • 15.3. • 15.4. • 15.5.<br />

• 15.6. • 15.7. • 15.8. • 15.9. •<br />

15.10. • 15.11. • 15.12. • 15.13. •<br />

15.14. • 15.15. • 15.16. • 15.17. •<br />

15.18. • 15.19. • 15.20. • 15.21. •<br />

15.22. • 15.23. • 15.24.<br />

PROTOCOL 17<br />

Summary<br />

17.1. • 17.2. • 17.3. • 17.4. • 17.5.<br />

• 17.6. • 17.7. • 17.8. • 17.9. •<br />

17.10.<br />

PROTOCOL 19<br />

Summary<br />

19.1. • 19.2. • 19.3. • 19.4.<br />

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12.1. • 12.2. • 12.3. • 12.4. • 12.5.<br />

• 12.6. • 12.7. • 12.8. • 12.9. •<br />

12.10. • 12.11. • 12.12. • 12.13. •<br />

12.14. • 12.15. • 12.16. • 12.17. •<br />

12.18. • 12.19.<br />

PROTOCOL 14<br />

Summary<br />

14.1. • 14.2. • 14.3. • 14.4. • 14.5.<br />

PROTOCOL 16<br />

Summary<br />

16.1. • 16.2. • 16.3. • 16.4. • 16.5.<br />

• 16.6. • 16.7. • 16.8.<br />

PROTOCOL 18<br />

Summary<br />

18.1. • 18.2. • 18.3. • 18.4. • 18.5.<br />

• 18.6. • 18.7. • 18.8. • 18.9.<br />

PROTOCOL 20<br />

Summary<br />

20.1. • 20.2. • 20.3. • 20.4. • 20.5.<br />

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PROTOCOL 21<br />

Summary<br />

21.1. • 21.2. • 21.3. • 21.4. • 21.5.<br />

• 21.6. • 21.7. • 21.8. • 21.9. •<br />

21.10. • 21.11.<br />

PROTOCOL 23<br />

Summary<br />

23.1. • 23.2. • 23.3. • 23.4. • 23.5.<br />

Appendix 1<br />

A Fifteenth Century "Protocol"<br />

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• 20.6. • 20.7. • 20.8. • 20.9. •<br />

20.10. • 20.11. • 20.12. • 20.13. •<br />

20.14. • 20.15. • 20.16. • 20.17. •<br />

20.18. • 20.19. • 20.20. • 20.21. •<br />

20.22. • 20.23. • 20.24. • 20.25. •<br />

20.26. • 20.27. • 20.28. • 20.29. •<br />

20.30. • 20.31. • 20.32. • 20.33. •<br />

20.34. • 20.35. • 20.36. • 20.37. •<br />

20.38. • 20.39. • 20.40. • 20.41. •<br />

20.42.<br />

PROTOCOL 22<br />

Summary<br />

22.1. • 22.2. • 22.3. • 22.4.<br />

PROTOCOL 24<br />

Summary<br />

24.1. • 24.2. • 24.3. • 24.4. • 24.5.<br />

• 24.6. • 24.7. • 24.8. • 24.9. •<br />

24.10. • 24.11. • 24.12. • 24.13. •<br />

24.14. • 24.15. • 24.16.<br />

Appendix 2<br />

Lord Sydenham's Letter to <strong>the</strong><br />

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Fur<strong>the</strong>r Reading on <strong>the</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Elders</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Zion</strong><br />

An earlier translation with additional material:<br />

<strong>The</strong> Jewish Peril: <strong>The</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Learned</strong> <strong>Elders</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Zion</strong> published<br />

by <strong>The</strong> Britons<br />

Web Editor's Note<br />

This edition <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Marsden <strong>Protocols</strong> has been edited from two originals, <strong>the</strong> 1933<br />

2nd reprint edition and a 1960 edition published by <strong>the</strong> Christian Nationalist Crusade.<br />

<strong>The</strong> 1933 edition contained <strong>the</strong> Protocol summaries and <strong>the</strong> appendices (<strong>The</strong> first<br />

appendix was originally simply part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Introduction, but as it was omitted in <strong>the</strong><br />

later edition and as it seemed to be a fairly standalone piece I felt it best to separate<br />

it. <strong>The</strong> second appendix, <strong>the</strong> Sydenham letter, is placed as in <strong>the</strong> original, at <strong>the</strong><br />

end.) <strong>The</strong> 1960 edition included paragraph numbers for <strong>the</strong> main text and <strong>the</strong>se are<br />

retained as labeled while <strong>the</strong> running headings throughout <strong>the</strong> text (likely drawn from<br />

<strong>the</strong> summaries) have been omitted. Paragraph numbers have been fur<strong>the</strong>r added to<br />

<strong>the</strong> Preface, Introduction and Notes in a somewhat arbitrary but still hopefully useful<br />

manner.<br />

One major editorial change to this version has been <strong>the</strong> omission <strong>of</strong> emphatic<br />

typography. Marsden employed frequent and extensive italics, capitals and bold type<br />

for <strong>the</strong> emphasis <strong>of</strong> noteworthy passages. While this may have been reflected in <strong>the</strong><br />

original (which I find personally unlikely—at least from <strong>the</strong> standpoint <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> original<br />

document as minutes <strong>of</strong> meetings) I find it too distracting and an obstacle to taking<br />

<strong>the</strong> document more seriously. If <strong>the</strong>re are provocative and important passages to be<br />

discovered, people should be able to exercise <strong>the</strong>ir own judgement to find and<br />

measure <strong>the</strong>m.<br />

O<strong>the</strong>r than a few o<strong>the</strong>r stylistic changes from <strong>the</strong> standpoint <strong>of</strong> contemporary usage<br />

(e.g., changing "to-day" to "today" and <strong>the</strong> like), no o<strong>the</strong>r changes to <strong>the</strong> text have<br />

been made.<br />

This document is best viewed with a screen resolution <strong>of</strong> 1024x768.<br />

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