"The
Britons" translation of the complete text of the notorious Nilus
"Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion."
Protocol
No. 1
Right
lies in Might. Freedom—an idea
only. Liberalism. Gold.
Faith. Self-Government. Despotism of Capital. The internal foe. The Mob. Anarchy. Politics VERSES Jew-Masonic authority. End justifies Means. The Mob a Blind Man. Political A.B.C. Party Discord. Most
satisfactory form of rule—Despotism.
Alcohol. Classicism. Corruption.
Principles and rules of the Jew-Masonic Government. Terror.
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity." Principles of Dynastic Rule.
Annihilation of the privileges of Goy-Aristocracy (i.e., non-Jew). Abstractness of "Liberty." Power of Removal of representatives of the
people.
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...
Putting aside fine phrases we shall speak of the significance of each
thought: by comparisons and deductions
we shall throw light upon surrounding facts.
What I
am about to set forth, then, is our system from the two points of view, that of
ourselves and that of the goyim (i.e., non-Jews).
It must
be noted that men with bad instincts are more in number than the good, and
therefore the best results in governing them are attained by violence and
terrorization,
and not by academic discussions. Every
man aims at power, everyone would like to become a dictator if only he could,
and rare indeed are the men who would not be willing to sacrifice the welfare
of all for the sake of securing their own welfare.
What
has restrained the beasts of prey who are called men? What has served for their guidance hitherto?
In the
beginnings of the structure of society they were subjected to brutal and blind
force; afterwards—to Law, which is the same force, only disguised. I draw the conclusion that by the law of
nature right lies in force.
Political
freedom is an idea but not a fact. This
idea one must know how to apply whenever it appears necessary with this bait of
an idea to attract the masses of the people to one's party for the purpose of
crushing another who is in authority.
This task is rendered easier if the opponent has himself been infected
with the idea of freedom, SO-CALLED LIBERALISM, and, for the sake of an idea,
is willing to yield some of his power.
It is precisely here that the triumph of our theory appears: the slackened reins of government are
immediately, by the law of life, caught up and gathered together by a new hand,
because the blind might of the nation cannot for one single day exist without
guidance, and the new author merely fits into the place of the old already
weakened by liberalism.
In our
day the power which has replaced that of the rulers who were liberal is the
power of Gold. Time was when Faith
ruled. The idea of freedom is
impossible of realization because no one knows how to use it with
moderation. It is enough to hand over a
people to self-government for a certain length of time for that people to be
turned into a disorganized mob. From
that moment on we get internecine strife which soon develops into battles
between classes, in the midst of which States burn down and their importance is
reduced to that of a heap of ashes.
Whether
a State exhausts itself in its own convulsions, whether its internal discord brings
it under the power of external foes—in any case it can be accounted
irretrievably lost: IT IS IN OUR
POWER. The despotism of Capital, which
is entirely in our hands, reaches out to it a straw that the State,
willy-nilly, must take hold of: if not—it
goes to the bottom.
Should
anyone of a liberal mind say that such reactions as the above are immoral I
would put the following questions—If every State has two foes and if in regard
to the external foe it is allowed and not considered immoral to use every
manner and art of conflict for example to keep the enemy in ignorance of plans
of attack and defense, to attack him by night or in superior numbers, then in
what way can the same means in regard to a worse foe the destroyer of the
structure of society and the commonweal, be called immoral and not
permissible?
Is it
possible for any sound logical mind to hope with any success to guide crowds by
the aid of reasonable counsels and arguments, when any objection or
contradiction, senseless though it may be, can be made and when such objection
may find more favor with the people, whose powers of reasoning are
superficial? Men in masses and the men
of the masses, being guided solely by petty passions, paltry beliefs, customs,
traditions and sentimental theorism, fall a prey to party dissension, which
hinders any kind of agreement even on the basis of a perfectly reasonable
argument. Every resolution of a crowd
depends upon a chance or packed majority which in its ignorance of political
secrets puts forth some ridiculous resolution that lays in the administration a
seed of anarchy.
The
political has nothing in common with the moral. The ruler who is governed by the moral is not a skilled
politician, and is therefore unstable on his throne. He who wishes to rule must have recourse both to cunning and to
make-believe. Great national qualities,
like frankness and honesty are vices in politics for they bring down rulers
from their thrones more effectively and more certainly than the most powerful
enemy. Such qualities must be the
attributes of the kingdoms of the goyim, but we must in no wise be guided by
them.
Our
right lies in force. The word
"right" is an abstract thought and proved by nothing. The word means no more than: —Give me what I
want in order that thereby I might have a proof that I am stronger than
you.
Where
does right begin? Where does it
end?
In any
State in which there is a bad organization of authority, an impersonality of
laws and of the rulers who have lost their personality amid the flood of rights
ever multiplying out of liberalism, I find a new right—to attack by the right
of the strong, and to scatter to the winds all existing forces of order and
regulation, to reconstruct all institutions and to become the sovereign lord of
those who have left to us the rights of their power by laying them down
voluntarily in their liberalism.
Our
power in the present tottering condition of all forms of power will be more
invincible than any other, because it will remain invisible until the moment
when it has gained such strength that no cunning can any longer undermine
it.
Out of
the temporary evil we are now compelled to commit will emerge the good of an
unshakable rule, which will restore the regular course of the machinery of the
national life, brought to naught by liberalism. The result justifies the means.
Let us, however, in our plans, direct our attention not so much to what
is good and moral as to what is necessary and useful.
Before us
is a plan in which is laid down strategically the line from which we cannot
deviate without running the risk of seeing the labor of many centuries brought
to naught.
In
order to elaborate satisfactory forms of action it is necessary to have regard
to the rascality, the slackness, the instability of the mob, its lack of
capacity to understand and respect the conditions of its own life, or its own
welfare. It must be understood that the
might of a mob is blind, senseless and unreasoning force ever at the mercy of a
suggestion from any side. The blind
cannot lead the blind without bringing them into the abyss; consequently,
members of the mob, upstarts from the people even though they should be as a
genius for wisdom, yet having no understanding of the political, cannot come
forward as leaders of the mob without bringing the whole nation to ruin.
Only
one trained from childhood for independent rule can have understanding of the
words that can be made up of the political alphabet.
A
people left to itself, i.e., to upstarts from its midst, brings itself to ruin
by party dissension's excited by the pursuit of power and honors and disorders
arising therefrom. Is it possible for
the masses of the people calmly and without petty jealousies to form judgments,
to deal with the affairs of the country, which cannot be mixed up with personal
interests? Can they defend themselves
from an eternal foe? It is
unthinkable, for a plan broken up into as many parts as there are heads in the
mob, loses all homogeneity, and thereby becomes unintelligible and impossible
of execution.
It is
only with a despotic ruler that plans can be elaborated extensively and clearly
in such a way as to distribute the whole properly among the several parts of
the machinery of the State: from this
the conclusion is inevitable that a satisfactory form of government for any
country is one that concentrates in the hands of one responsible person. Without an absolute despotism there can be
no existence for civilization which is carried on not by the masses but by
their guide, whosoever that person may be.
The mob is a savage and displays its savagery at every opportunity. The moment the mob seizes freedom in its
hands it quickly turns to anarchy, which in itself is the highest degree of
savagery.
Behold
the alcoholized animals, bemused with drink, the right to an immoderate use of
which comes along with freedom. It is
not for us and ours to walk that road.
The peoples of the goyim are bemused with alcoholic liquors; their youth
has grown stupid on classicism and from early immorality, into which it has
been inducted by our special agents—by tutors, lackeys, governesses in the
houses of the wealthy, by clerks and others, by our women in the places of
dissipation frequented by the goyim. In
the number of these last I count also the so-called "society ladies,"
voluntary followers of the others in corruption and luxury.
Our
countersign is—Force and Make-believe.
Only force conquers in political affairs, especially if it be concealed
in the talents essential to statesmen.
Violence must be the principle, and cunning and make-believe the rule
for governments which do not want to lay down their crowns at the feet of
agents of some new power. This evil is
the one and only means to attain the end, the good. Therefore we must not stop at bribery, deceit and treachery when
they should serve towards the attainment of our end. In politics one must know how to seize the property of others
without hesitation if by it we secure submission and sovereignty.
Our
State, marching along the path of peaceful conquest, has the right to replace
the horrors of war by less noticeable and more satisfactory sentences of death,
necessary to maintain the terror which tends to produce blind submission. Just but merciless severity is the greatest
factor of strength in the State: not
only for the sake of gain but also in the name of duty, for the sake of
victory, we must keep to the program of violence and make-believe. The doctrine of squaring accounts is
precisely as strong as the means of which it makes use. Therefore it is not so much by the means
themselves as by the doctrine of severity that we shall triumph and bring all
governments into subjection to our super-government. It is enough for them to know that we are merciless for all
disobedience to cease.
Far
back in ancient times we were the first to cry among the masses of the people
the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," words many times repeated
since those days by stupid poll-parrots who from all sides round flew down upon
these baits and with them carried away the well-being of the world, true
freedom of the individual, formerly so well guarded against the pressure of the
mob. The would-be wise men of the
goyim, the intellectuals, could not make anything out of the uttered words in
their abstractness; did not note the contradiction of their meaning and
inter-relation: did not see that in
nature there is no equality, cannot be freedom: that Nature herself has established inequality of minds, of
characters, and capacities, just as immutable as she has established
subordination to her laws: never
stopped to think that the mob is a blind thing, that upstarts elected from
among it to bear rule are, in regard to the political, the same blind men as
the mob itself, that the adept, though he be a fool, can yet rule, whereas the
non-adept, even if he were a genius, understands nothing in the political—to
all these things the goyim paid no regard; yet all the time it was based upon
these things that dynastic rule rested:
the father passed on to the son a knowledge of the course of political
affairs in such wise that none should know it but members of the dynasty and
none could betray it to the governed.
As time went on the meaning of the dynastic transference of the true
position of affairs in the political was lost, and this aided the success of
our cause.
In all
corners of the earth the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
brought to our ranks, thanks to our blind agents, whole legions who bore our
banners with enthusiasm. And all the
time these words were canker-worms at work boring into the well-being of the
goyim, putting an end everywhere to peace, quiet, solidarity and destroying all
the foundations of the goy States. As
you will see later this helped us to our triumph; it gave us the possibility,
among other things, of getting into our hands the master card—the destruction
of the privileges, or in other words of the very existence of the aristocracy
of the goyim, that class which was the only defense peoples and countries had
against us. On the ruins of the natural
and genealogical aristocracy of the goyim we have set up the aristocracy of our
educated class headed by the aristocracy of money. The qualifications for this aristocracy we have established in
wealth, which is dependent upon us and in knowledge, for which our learned
elders provide the motive force.
Our
triumph has been rendered easier by the fact that in our relations with the men
whom we wanted we have always worked upon the most sensitive chords of the
human mind, upon the cash account, upon the cupidity, upon the insatiability
for material needs of man; and each one of these human weaknesses, taken alone,
is sufficient to paralyze initiative for it hands over the will of men to the
disposition of him who has bought their activities
The
abstraction of freedom has enabled us to persuade the mob in all countries that
their government is nothing but the steward of the people who are the owners of
the country, and that the steward may be replaced like a worn-out glove.
It is
this possibility of replacing the representatives of the people which has
placed them at our disposal, and, as it were, given us the power of
appointment.
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PROTOCOL NO. 2
Economic
Wars—the foundation of the Jewish predominance. Figure-head government and "secret advisors." Success of destructive doctrines. Adaptability in politics. Part played by the Press. Cost of gold and value of Jewish sacrifice.
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It is
indispensable for our purpose that wars, so far as possible, should not result
in territorial gains: war will thus be
brought on to the economic ground, where the nations will not fail to perceive
in the assistance we give the strength of our predominance, and this state of
things will put both sides at the mercy of our international agentur; which
possesses millions of eyes ever on the watch and unhampered by any limitations
whatsoever. Our international rights
will then wipe out national rights, in the proper sense of right, and will rule
the nations precisely as the civil law of States rules the relations of their
subjects among themselves.
The
administrators, whom we shall choose from among the public, with strict regard
to their capacities for servile obedience, will not be persons trained in the
arts of government, and will therefore easily become pawns in our game in the
hands of men of learning and genius who will be their advisers, specialists
bred and reared from early childhood to rule the affairs of the whole
world. As is well known to you, these
specialists of ours have been drawing to fit them for rule the information they
need from our political plans, from the lessons of history, from observations
made of the events of every moment as it passes. The goyim are not guided by practical use of unprejudiced
historical observation, but by theoretical routine without any critical regard
for consequent results. We need not,
therefore, take any account of them—let them amuse themselves until the hour
strikes, or live on hopes of new forms of enterprising pastime, or on the
memories of all they have enjoyed. For
them let that play the principal part which we have persuaded them to accept as
the dictates of science (theory). It is
with this object in view that we are constantly, by means of our press,
arousing a blind confidence in these theories.
The intellectuals of the goyim will puff themselves up with their
knowledge and without any logical verification of it will put into effect all
the information available from science, which our AGENTUR specialists have
cunningly pieced together for the purpose of educating their minds in the
direction we want.
Do not
suppose for a moment that these statements are empty words: think carefully of the successes we arranged
for Darwinism, Marxism, Nietzsche-ism.
To us Jews, at any rate, it should be plain to see what a disintegrating
importance these directives have had upon the minds of the goyim.
It is
indispensable for us to take account of the thoughts, characters, tendencies of
the nations in order to avoid making slips in the political and in the
direction of administrative affairs.
The triumph of our system, of which the component parts of the machinery
may be variously disposed according to the temperament of the peoples met on
our way, will fail of success if the practical application of it be not based
upon a summing up of the lessons of the past in the light of the present.
In the
hands of the States of to-day there is a great force that creates the movement
of thought in the people, and that is the Press. The part played by the Press is to keep pointing out requirements
supposed to be indispensable, to give voice to the complaints of the people, to
express and to create discontent. It is
in the Press that the triumph of freedom of speech finds its incarnation. But the goyim States have not known how to
make use of this force; and it has fallen into our hands. Through the Press we have gained the power
to influence while remaining ourselves in the shade; thanks to the Press we
have got the gold in our hands, notwithstanding that we have had to gather it
out of oceans of blood and tears. But
it has paid us, though we have sacrificed many of our people. Each victim on our side is worth in the
sight of God a thousand goyim.
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PROTOCOL NO. 3
The
Symbolic Snake and its significance.
The instability of the constitutional scales. Terror in the palaces.
Power and ambition. Parliaments
"talkeries," pamphlets. Abuse
of power. Economic slavery. "People's Rights." Monopolist system and the aristocracy. The Army of Mason-Jewry. Decrescence of the GOYIM. Hunger and rights of capital. The mob and the coronation of "The
Sovereign Lord of all the World."
The fundamental precept in the program of the future Masonic national
schools. The secret of the science of
the structure of society. Universal
economic crisis. Security of
"ours" (i.e., our people, Jews).
The despotism of Masonry—the kingdom of reason. Loss of the guide. Masonry and the French Revolution. The King-Despot of the blood of Zion. Causes of the invisibility of Masonry. Part played by secret masonic agents. Freedom.
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To-day
I may tell you that our goal is now only a few steps off. There remains a small space to cross and the
whole long path we have trodden is ready now to close its cycle of the Symbolic
Snake, by which we symbolise our people.
When this ring closes, all the States of Europe will be locked in its
coil as in a powerful vice.
The
constitution scales of these days will shortly break down, for we have
established them with a certain lack of accurate balance in order that they may
oscillate incessantly until they wear through the pivot on which they
turn. The goyim are under the impression
that they have welded them sufficiently strong and they have all along kept on
expecting that the scales would come into equilibrium. But the pivots—the kings on their
thrones—are hemmed in by their representatives, who play the fool, distraught
with their own uncontrolled and irresponsible power. This power they owe to the terror which has been breathed into
the palaces. As they have no means of
getting at their people, into their very midst, the kings on their thrones are
no longer able to come to terms with them and so strengthen themselves against
seekers after power. We have made a
gulf between the farseeing sovereign Power and the blind force of the people so
that both have lost all meaning, for like the blind man and his stick, both are
powerless apart.
In
order to incite seekers after power to a misuse of power we have set all forces
in opposition one to another, breaking up their liberal tendencies towards
independence. To this end we have
stirred up every form of enterprise, we have armed all parties, we have set up
authority as a target for every ambition.
Of States we have made gladiatorial arenas where a host of confused
issues contend....A little more, and disorders and bankruptcy will be universal....
Babblers
inexhaustible have turned into oratorical contests the sittings of Parliament
and Administrative Boards. Bold
journalists and unscrupulous pamphleteers daily fall upon executive officials. Abuses of power will put the final touch in
preparing all institutions for their overthrow and everything will fly skyward
under the blows of the maddened mob.
All
people are chained down to heavy toil by poverty more firmly than ever they
were chained by slavery and serfdom; from these, one way and another, they might
free themselves, these could be settled with, but from want they will never get
away. We have included in the
constitution such rights as to the masses appear fictitious and not actual
rights. All these so-called
"People's Rights" can exist only in idea, an idea which can never be
realized in practical life. What is it
to the proletariat laborer, bowed double over his heavy toil, crushed by his
lot in life, if talkers get the right to babble, if journalists get the right
to scribble any nonsense side by side with good stuff, once the proletariat has
no other profit out of the constitution save only those pitiful crumbs which we
fling them from our table in return for their voting in favor of what we
dictate, in favor of the men we place in power, the servants of our
AGENTUR.... Republican right for a poor
man are no more than a bitter piece of irony for the necessity he is under of
toiling almost all day gives him no present use of them, but on the other hand
robs him of all guarantee of regular and certain earnings by making him
dependent on strikes by his comrades or lockouts by his masters.
The
people under our guidance have annihilated the aristocracy, who were their one
and only defense and foster-mother for the sake of their own advantage which is
inseparably bound up with the well-being of the people. Nowadays, with the destruction of the
aristocracy, the people have fallen into the grips of merciless money-grinding
scoundrels who have laid a pitiless and cruel yoke upon the necks of the workers.
We
appear on the scene as alleged saviors of the worker from this oppression when
we propose to him to enter the ranks of our fighting forces—Socialists,
Anarchists, Communists—to whom we always give rapport in accordance with an
alleged brotherly rule (of the solidarity of all humanity) of our SOCIAL
MASONRY. The aristocracy, which enjoyed
by law the labor of the workers, was interested in seeing that the workers
were well fed, healthy and strong. We
are interested in just the opposite—in the diminution, the KILLING OUT OF THE
GOYIM. Our power is in the chronic
shortness of food and physical weakness of the worker because by all that this
implies he is made the slave of our will, and he will not find in his own
authorities either strength or energy to set against our will. Hunger creates the right of capital to rule
the worker more surely than it was given to the aristocracy by the legal
authority of kings.
By want
and the envy and hatred which it engenders we shall move the mobs and with their
hands we shall wipe out all those who hinder on our way.
WHEN
THE HOUR STRIKES FOR OUR SOVEREIGN LORD OF ALL THE WORLD TO BE CROWNED IT IS
THESE SAME HANDS WHICH WILL SWEEP AWAY EVERYTHING THAT MIGHT BE A HINDRANCE
THERETO.
The
goyim have lost the habit of thinking unless prompted by the suggestions of our
specialists. Therefore they do not see
the urgent necessity of what we, when our kingdom comes, shall adopt all at
once, namely this, that IT IS ESSENTIAL TO TEACH IN NATIONAL SCHOOLS ONE SIMPLE,
TRUE PIECE OF KNOWLEDGE, THE BASIS OF ALL KNOWLEDGE—THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE
STRUCTURE OF HUMAN LIFE, OF SOCIAL EXISTENCE, WHICH REQUIRES DIVISION OF
LABOR, AND, CONSEQUENTLY, THE DIVISION OF MEN INTO CLASSES AND CONDITIONS. It is essential for all to know that owing
to DIFFERENCE IN THE OBJECTS OF HUMAN ACTIVITY THERE CANNOT BE ANY EQUALITY,
that he who by any act of his compromises a whole class cannot be equally
responsible before the law with him who affects no one but only his own honor. The true knowledge of the structure of
society, into the secrets of which we do not admit the goyim, would demonstrate
to all men that the positions and work must be kept within a certain circle,
that they may not become a source of human suffering, arising from an education
which does not correspond with the work which individuals are called upon to
do. After a thorough study of this
knowledge the peoples will voluntarily submit to authority and accept such
position as is appointed them in the State.
In the present state of knowledge and the direction we have given to its
development the people, blindly believing things in print—cherishes—thanks to
promptings intended to mislead and to its own ignorance a blind hatred towards
all conditions which it considers above itself, for it has no understanding of
the meaning of class and condition.
This
hatred will be still further magnified by the effects of an ECONOMIC CRISIS,
which will stop dealings on the exchanges and bring industry to a
standstill. We shall create by all the
secret subterranean methods open to us and with the aid of gold, which is all
in our hands, A UNIVERSAL ECONOMIC CRISIS WHEREBY WE SHALL THROW UPON THE
STREETS WHOLE MOBS OF WORKERS SIMULTANEOUSLY IN ALL THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE. These mobs will rush delightedly to shed the
blood of those whom, in the simplicity of their ignorance, they have envied
from their cradles, and whose property they will then be able to loot.
"OURS"
THEY WILL NOT TOUCH, BECAUSE THE MOMENT OF ATTACK WILL BE KNOWN TO US AND WE
SHALL TAKE MEASURES TO PROTECT OUR OWN.
We have
demonstrated that progress will bring all the goyim to the sovereignty of
reason. Our despotism will be precisely
that; for it will know how by wise severities to pacificate all unrest, to
cauterize liberalism out of all institutions.
When
the populace has seen that all sorts of concessions and indulgences are yielded
it in the name of freedom it has imagined itself to be sovereign lord and has
stormed its way to power, but, naturally, like every other blind man it has
come upon a host of stumbling blocks, IT HAS RUSHED TO FIND A GUIDE, IT HAS
NEVER HAD THE SENSE TO RETURN TO THE FORMER STATE and it has laid down its
plenipotentiary powers at OUR feet. Remember
the French Revolution, to which it was we who gave the name of
"Great": the secrets of its
preparations are well known to us for it was wholly the work of our hands.
Ever
since that time we have been leading the peoples from one disenchantment to
another, so that in the end they should turn also from us in favour of that
KING-DESPOT OF THE BLOOD OF ZION, WHOM WE ARE PREPARING FOR THE WORLD.
At the
present day we are, as an international force, invincible, because if attacked
by some we are supported by other States.
It is the bottomless rascality of the goyim peoples, who crawl on their
bellies to force, but are merciless towards weakness, unsparing to faults and
indulgent to crimes, unwilling to bear the contradictions of a free social
system but patient unto martyrdom under the violence of a bold despotism—it is
those qualities which are aiding us to independence. From the premier-dictators of the present day the goyim peoples
suffer patiently and bear such abuses as for the least of them they would have
beheaded twenty kings.
What is
the explanation of this phenomenon, this curious inconsequence of the masses of
the peoples in their attitude towards what would appear to be events of the
same order?
It is explained
by the fact that these dictators whisper to the peoples through their agents
that through these abuses they are inflicting injury on the States with the
highest purpose—to secure the welfare of the peoples, the international
brotherhood of them all, their solidarity and equality of rights. Naturally they do not tell the peoples that
this unification must be accomplished only under our sovereign rule.
And
thus the people condemn the upright and acquit the guilty, persuaded ever more
and more that it can do whatsoever it wishes.
Thanks to this state of things the people are destroying every kind of
stability and creating disorders at every step.
The
word "freedom" brings out the communities of men to fight against
every kind of force, against every kind of authority, even against God and the
laws of nature. For this reason we,
when we come into our kingdom, shall have to erase this word from the lexicon
of life as implying a principle of brute force which turns mobs into
bloodthirsty beasts.
These
beasts, it is true, fall asleep again every time when they have drunk their
fill of blood, and at such times can easily be riveted into their chains. But if they be not given blood they will not
sleep and continue to struggle.
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PROTOCOL NO. 4
Stages
of a Republic. Gentile Masonry. Freedom and Faith. International Industrial Competition. Role of Speculation. Cult
of Gold.
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Every
republic passes through several stages.
The first of these is comprised in the early days of mad raging by the
blind mob, tossed hither and thither, right and left: the second is demagogy, from which is born anarchy, and that
leads inevitably to despotism—not any longer legal and overt, and therefore
responsible despotism, but to unseen and secretly hidden, yet nevertheless
sensibly felt despotism in the hands of some secret organization or other,
whose acts are the more unscrupulous inasmuch as it works behind a screen,
behind the backs of all sorts of agents, the changing of whom not only does not
injuriously affect but actually aids the secret force by saving it, thanks to
continual changes, from the necessity of expending its resources on the
rewarding of long services.
Who and
what is in a position to overthrow an invisible force? And this is precisely what our force
is. Gentile masonry blindly serves as a
screen for us and our objects, both the plan of action of our force, even its
very abiding-place, remains for the whole people an unknown mystery.
But
even freedom might be harmless and have its place in the State economy without
injury to the well-being of the peoples if it rested upon the foundation of
faith in God, upon the brotherhood of humanity, unconnected with the conception
of equality, which is negatived by the very laws of creation, for they have
established subordination. With such a
faith as this a people might be governed by a wardship of parishes, and would
walk contentedly and humbly under the guiding hand of its spiritual pastor
submitting to the dispositions of God upon earth. This is the reason why IT IS INDISPENSABLE FOR US TO UNDERMINE
ALL FAITH, TO TEAR OUT OF THE MINDS OF THE GOYIM THE VERY PRINCIPLE OF GODHEAD
AND THE SPIRIT, AND TO PUT IN ITS PLACE ARITHMETICAL CALCULATIONS AND MATERIAL
NEEDS.
In
order to give the goyim no time to think and take note, their minds must be
diverted towards industry and trade.
Thus, all the nations will be swallowed up in the pursuit of gain and in
the race for it will not take note of their common foe. But again, in order that freedom may once
for all disintegrate and ruin the communities of the goyim, we must put
industry on a speculative basis: the
result of this will be that what is withdrawn from the land by industry will
slip through the hands and pass into speculation, that is, to our classes.
The
intensified struggle for superiority and shocks delivered to economic life will
create, nay, have already created, disenchanted, cold and heartless
communities. Such communities will
foster a strong aversion towards the higher political and towards
religion. Their only guide is gain,
that is Gold, which they will erect into a veritable cult, for the sake of
those material delights which it can give.
Then will the hour strike when, not for the sake of attaining the good,
not even to win wealth, but solely out of hatred towards the privileged, the
lower classes of the goyim will follow our lead against our rivals for power,
the intellectuals of the goyim.
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PROTOCOL NO. 5
Creation
of an intensified centralization of government. Methods of seizing power by masonry. Causes of the impossibility of agreement between States. The state of "predestination" of
the Jews. Gold—the engine of the
machinery of States. Significance of
personal initiative. The
Super-Government.
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What
form of administrative rule can be given to communities in which corruption has
penetrated everywhere, communities where riches are attained only by the clever
surprise tactics of semi-swindling tricks; where looseness reigns: where morality is maintained by penal
measures and harsh laws but not by voluntary accepted principles: where the feelings towards faith and country
are obliterated by cosmopolitan convictions?
What form of rule is to be given to these communities if not that
despotism which I shall describe to you later?
We shall create an intensified centralization of government in order to
grip in our hands all the forces of the community. We shall regulate mechanically all the actions of the political
life of our subjects by new laws. These
laws will withdraw one by one all the indulgences and liberties which have been
permitted by the goyim, and our kingdom will be distinguished by a despotism of
such magnificent proportions as to be at any moment and in every place in a
position to wipe out any goyim who oppose us by deed or word.
We
shall be told that such a despotism as I speak of is not consistent with the
progress of these days, but I will prove to you that it is.
In the
times when the peoples looked upon kings on their thrones as on a pure
manifestation of the will of God, they submitted without a murmur to the
despotic power of kings: but from the
day when we insinuated into their minds the conception of their own rights they
began to regard the occupants of thrones as mere ordinary mortals. The holy unction of the Lord's Anointed has
fallen from the heads of kings in the eyes of the people, and when we also
robbed them of their faith in God the might of power was flung upon the streets
into the place of public proprietorship and was seized by us.
Moreover,
the art of directing masses and individuals by means of cleverly manipulated
theory and verbiage, by regulations of life in common and all sorts of other
quirks, in all which the goyim understand nothing, belongs likewise to the
specialists of our administrative brain.
Reared on analysis, observation, on delicacies of fine calculation, in
this species of skill we have no rivals, any more than we have either in the
drawing up of plans of political actions and solidarity. In this respect the Jesuits alone might have
compared with us, but we have contrived to discredit them in the eyes of the
unthinking mob as an overt organization, while we ourselves all the while have
kept our secret organization in the shade.
However, it is probably all the same to the world who is its sovereign
lord, whether the head of Catholicism or our despot of the blood of Zion! But
to us, the Chosen People, it is very far from being a matter of
indifference.
FOR A
TIME PERHAPS WE MIGHT BE SUCCESSFULLY DEALT WITH BY A COALITION OF THE GOYIM OF
ALL THE WORLD: but from this danger we
are secured by the discord existing among them whose roots are so deeply seated
that they can never now be plucked up.
We have set one against another the personal and national reckonings of
the goyim, religious and race hatreds, which we have fostered into a huge
growth in the course of the past twenty centuries. This is the reason why there is not one State which would
anywhere receive support if it were to raise its arm, for every one of them
must bear in mind that any agreement against us would be unprofitable to
itself. We are too strong—there is no
evading our power. THE NATIONS CANNOT
COME TO EVEN AN INCONSIDERABLE PRIVATE AGREEMENT WITHOUT OUR SECRETLY HAVING A
HAND IN IT.
PER ME
REGES REGNANT. "It is through Me
that Kings reign." And it was said
by the prophets that we were chosen by God Himself to rule over the whole
earth. God has endowed us with genius
that we may be equal to our task. Were
genius in the opposite camp it would still struggle against us, but even so a
newcomer is no match for the old established settler: the struggle would be merciless between us, such a fight as the
world has never yet seen. Aye, and the genius
on their side would have arrived too late.
All the wheels of the machinery of all States go by the force of the
engine, which is in our hands, and that engine of the machinery of States
is—Gold. The science of political
economy invented by our learned elders has for long past been giving royal
prestige to capital.
Capital,
if it is to co-operate untrammelled, must be free to establish a monopoly of
industry and trade: this is already
being put in execution by an unseen hand in all quarters of the world. This freedom will give political force to
those engaged in industry, and that will help to oppress the people. Nowadays it is more important to disarm the
peoples than to lead them into war:
more important to use for our advantage the passions which have burst
into flames than to quench their fire:
more important to catch up and interpret the ideas of others to suit
ourselves than to eradicate them. THE
PRINCIPAL OBJECT OF OUR DIRECTORATE CONSISTS IN THIS: TO DEBILITATE THE PUBLIC MIND BY CRITICISM TO LEAD IT AWAY FROM
SERIOUS REFLECTIONS CALCULATED TO AROUSE RESISTANCE TO DISTRACT THE FORCES OF
THE MIND TOWARDS A SHAM FIGHT OF EMPTY ELOQUENCE.
In all
ages the peoples of the world, equally with individuals, have accepted words
for deeds, for THEY ARE CONTENT WITH A SHOW and rarely pause to note, in the
public arena, whether promises are followed by performance. Therefore we shall establish show
institutions which will give eloquent proof of their benefit to progress.
We
shall assume to ourselves the liberal physiognomy of all parties, of all
directions, and we shall give that physiognomy a voice IN ORATORS WHO WILL
SPEAK SO MUCH THAT THEY WILL EXHAUST THE PATIENCE OF THEIR HEARERS AND PRODUCE
AN ABHORRENCE OF ORATORY.
IN
ORDER TO PUT PUBLIC OPINION INTO OUR HANDS WE MUST BRING IT INTO A STATE OF
BEWILDERMENT BY GIVING EXPRESSION FROM ALL SIDES TO SO MANY CONTRADICTORY
OPINIONS AND FOR SUCH LENGTH OF TIME AS WILL SUFFICE TO MAKE THE GOYIM LOSE
THEIR HEADS IN THE LABYRINTH AND COME TO SEE THAT THE BEST THING IS TO HAVE NO
OPINION OF ANY KIND IN MATTERS POLITICAL, which it is not given to the public
to understand, because they are understood only by him who guides the
public. This is the first secret.
The
second secret requisite for the success of our government is comprised in the
following. To multiply to such an
extent national failings, habits, passions, conditions of civil life, that it
will be impossible for anyone to know where he is in the resulting chaos, so
that the people in consequence will fail to understand one another. This measure will also serve us in another
way, namely, to sow discord in all parties, to dislocate all collective forces
which are still unwilling to submit to us, and to discourage any kind of
personal initiative which might in any degree hinder our affair. THERE IS NOTHING MORE DANGEROUS THAN
PERSONAL INITIATIVE; if it has genius behind it, such initiative can do more
than can be done by millions of people among whom we have sown discord. We must so direct the education of the goyim
communities that whenever they come upon a matter requiring initiative they may
drop their hands in despairing impotence.
The strain which results from freedom of action saps the forces when it
meets with the freedom of another. From
this collision arise grave moral shocks, disenchantments, failures. BY ALL THESE MEANS WE SHALL SO WEAR DOWN THE
GOYIM THAT THEY WILL BE COMPELLED TO OFFER US INTERNATIONAL POWER OF A NATURE
THAT BY ITS POSITION WILL ENABLE US WITHOUT ANY VIOLENCE GRADUALLY TO ABSORB
ALL THE STATE FORCES OF THE WORLD AND TO FORM A SUPER-GOVERNMENT. In place of the rulers of to-day we shall
set up a bogey which will be called the Super-Government Administration. Its hands will reach out in all directions
like nippers and its organization will be of such colossal dimensions that it
cannot fail to subdue all the nations of the world.
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PROTOCOL NO. 6
Monopolities;
upon them depend the fortunes of the goyim.
Taking of the land out of hands of the aristocracy. Trade, Industry and Speculation. Luxury.
Rise of wages and increase of price in the articles of primary
necessity. Anarchism and
drunkenness. Secret meaning of the of
the propaganda of economic theories.
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We
shall soon begin to establish huge monopolies, reservoirs of colossal riches,
upon which even large fortunes of the goyim will depend to such an extent that
they will go to the bottom together with the credit of the States on the day
after the political smash....
You
gentlemen here present who are economists, just strike an estimate of the
significance of this combination!
In
every possible way we must develop the significance of our Super-Government by
representing it as the Protector and Benefactor of all those who voluntarily
submit to us.
The
aristocracy of the goyim as a political force, is dead—we need not take it into
account; but as landed proprietors they can still be harmful to us from the
fact that they are self-sufficing in the resources upon which they live. It is essential therefore for us at whatever
cost to deprive them of their land.
This object will be best attained by increasing the burdens upon landed
property—in loading lands with debts.
These measures will check land-holding and keep it in a state of humble
and unconditional submission.
The
aristocrats of the goyim, being hereditarily incapable of contenting themselves
with little, will rapidly burn up and fizzle out.
At the
same time we must intensively patronise trade and industry, but, first and
foremost, speculation, the part played by which is to provide a counterpoise to
industry: the absence of speculative
industry will multiply capital in private hands and will serve to restore
agriculture by freeing the land from indebtedness to the land banks. What we want is that industry should drain
off from the land both labour and capital and by means of speculation transfer
into our hands all the money of the world, and thereby throw all the goyim into
the ranks of the proletariat. Then the
goyim will bow down before us, if for no other reason but to get the right to
exist.
To
complete the ruin of the industry of the goyim we shall bring to the assistance
of speculation the luxury which we have developed among the goyim, that greedy
demand for luxury which is swallowing up everything. WE SHALL RAISE THE RATE OF WAGES, HOWEVER, WILL NOT BRING ANY
ADVANTAGE TO THE WORKERS, FOR, AT THE SAME TIME, WE SHALL PRODUCE A RISE IN
PRICES OF THE FIRST NECESSARIES OF LIFE, ALLEGING THAT IT ARISES FROM THE
DECLINE OF AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING:
WE SHALL FURTHER UNDERMINE ARTFULLY AND DEEPLY SOURCES OF PRODUCTION, BY
ACCUSTOMING THE WORKERS TO ANARCHY AND TO DRUNKENNESS AND SIDE BY SIDE
THEREWITH TAKING ALL MEASURE TO EXTIRPATE FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH ALL THE
EDUCATED FORCES OF THE GOYIM.
IN
ORDER THAT THE TRUE MEANING OF THINGS MAY NOT STRIKE THE GOYIM BEFORE THE
PROPER TIME WE SHALL MASK IT UNDER AN ALLEGED ARDENT DRIVE TO SERVE THE WORKING
CLASSES AND THE GREAT PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY ABOUT WHICH OUR ECONOMIC
THEORIES ARE CARRYING ON AN ENERGETIC PROPAGANDA.
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PROTOCOL NO. 7
Object
of the intensification of armaments.
Ferments, discords and hostility all over the world. Checking the opposition of the goyim by wars
and by a universal war. Secrecy means
success in the political. The Press and
public opinion. The guns of America,
China and Japan.
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The
intensification of armaments, the increase of police forces—are all essential for
the completion of the aforementioned plans.
What we have to get at is that there should be in all the States of the
world, besides ourselves, only the masses of the proletariat, a few
millionaires devoted to our interests, police and soldiers.
Throughout
all Europe, and by means of relations with Europe, in other continents also, we
must create ferments, discords and hostility.
Therein we gain a double advantage.
In the first place we keep in check all countries, for they well know
that we have the power whenever we like to create disorders or to restore
order. All these countries are
accustomed to see in us an indispensable force of coercion. In the second place, by our intrigues we
shall tangle up all the threads which we have stretched into the cabinets of
all States by means of politics, by economic treaties, or loan
obligations. In order to succeed in
this we must use great cunning and penetration during negotiations and
agreements, but, as regards what is called the "official language,"
we shall keep to the opposite tactics and assume the mask of honesty and
compliancy. In this way the peoples and
governments of the goyim, whom we have taught to look only at the outside of
whatever we present to their notice, will still continue to accept us as the
benefactors and saviors of the human race.
We must
be in a position to respond to every act of opposition by war with the
neighbors of that country which dares to oppose us: but if these neighbors should also venture to stand collectively
together against us, then we must offer resistance by a universal war.
The
principal factor of success in the political is the secrecy of its
undertakings: the word should not agree
with the deeds of the diplomat.
We must
compel the governments of the goyim to take action in the direction favored by
our widely conceived plan, already approaching the desired consummation, by
what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly prompted by us through the
means of that so-called "Great Power"—THE PRESS, WHICH, WITH A FEW
EXCEPTIONS THAT MAY BE DISREGARDED, IS ALREADY ENTIRELY IN OUR HANDS.
In a
word, to sum up our system of keeping the governments of the goyim in Europe in
check, we shall show our strength to one of them by terrorist attempts and to
all, if we allow the possibility of a general rising against us, we shall
respond with the guns of America or China or Japan.
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PROTOCOL NO. 8
Ambiguous
employment of juridical right.
Assistants of the Masonic directorate.
Special school and super-educational training. Economists and millionaires.
To whom to entrust responsible post in the government.
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We must arm ourselves with all the weapons which our opponents might employ against us. We must search out in the very finest shades of expression and the knotty points of the lexicon of law justification for those cases where we shall have to pronounce judgments that might appear abnormally audacious and unjust, for