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PROTOCOLS
of the
LEARNED ELDERS
of
ZION
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INDEX
Index .PREFACE
(Translated by Victor E. Marsden)
The author of this translation of the famous Protocols was himself a victim
of the Revolution. He had lived for many years in Russia and was married to a Russian
lady. Among his other activities in Russia he had been for a number of years a Russian
Correspondent of the MORNING POST, a position which he occupied when the Revolution
broke out, and his vivid descriptions of events in Russia will still be in the recollection
of many of the readers of that Journal. Naturally he was singled out for the anger
of the Soviet. On the day that Captain Cromie was murdered by Jews, Victor
Marsden was arrested and thrown into the Peter-Paul Prison, expecting every
day to have his name called out for execution. This, however, he escaped, and eventually
he was allowed to return to England very much of a wreck in bodily health.
However, he recovered under treatment and the devoted care of his wife and friends.
One of the first things he undertook, as soon as he was able, was this translation
of the Protocols. Mr. Marsden was eminently well qualified for the work.
His intimate acquaintance with Russia, Russian life and the Russian language on the
one hand, and his mastery of a terse literary English style on the other, placed him
in a position of advantage which few others could claim. The consequence is that we
have in his version an eminently readable work, and though the subject-matter is somewhat
formless, Mr. Marsden's literary touch reveals the thread running through the twenty-four
Protocols.
It may be said with truth that this work was carried out at the cost of Mr. Marsden's
own life's blood. He told the writer of this Preface that he could not stand
more than an hour at a time of his work on it in the British Museum, as the
diabolical spirit of the matter which he was obliged to turn into English made him
positively ill.
Mr. Marsden's connection with the MORNING POST was not severed by his return
to England, and he was well enough to accept the post of special correspondent
of that journal in the suite of H.R.H., the Prince of Wales on his Empire
tour. From this he returned with the Prince, apparently in much better health, but
within a few days of his landing he was taken suddenly ill, and died after a very
brief illness.
May this work be his crowning monument! In it he has performed an immense service
to the English-speaking world, and there can be little doubt that it will take its
place in the first rank of the English versions of "THE PROTOCOLS of the
Meetings of the LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION."
Index .INTRODUCTION
Of the Protocols themselves little need be said in the way of introduction.
The book in which they are embodied was published by Sergyei Nilus in Russia
in 1905. A copy of this is in the British Museum bearing the date of its reception,
August 10, 1906. All copies that were known to exist in Russia were destroyed
in the Kerensky regime, and under his successors the possession of a copy by
anyone in Soviet land was a crime sufficient to ensure the owner's of being shot on
sight. The fact is in itself sufficient proof of the genuineness of the Protocols.
The Jewish journals, of course, say that they are a forgery, leaving it to be understood
that Professor Nilus, who embodied them in a work of his own, had concocted
them for his own purposes.
Mr. Henry Ford, in an interview published in the New York WORLD,
February 17th, 1921, put the case for Nilus tersely and convincingly thus:
"The only statement I care to make about the PROTOCOLS is
that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old, and they have
fitted the world situation up to this time. THEY FIT IT NOW."
Indeed they do!
The word "Protocol" signifies a precis gummed on to the front
of a document, a draft of a document, minutes of proceedings. In this instance, "Protocol"
means minutes of the proceedings of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion.
These Protocols give the substance of addresses delivered to the innermost
circle of the Rulers of Zion. They reveal the converted plan of action of the
Jewish Nation developed through the ages and edited by the Elders themselves
up to date. Parts and summaries of the plan have been published from time to time
during the centuries as the secrets of the Elders have leaked out. The claim
of the Jews that the Protocols are forgeries is in itself an admission
of their genuineness, for they NEVER ATTEMPT TO ANSWER THE FACTS corresponding
to the THREATS which the Protocols contain, and, indeed, the correspondence
between prophecy and fulfillment is too glaring to be set aside or obscured. This
the Jews well know and therefore evade.
The presumption is strong that the Protocols were issued, or reissued, at
the First Zionist Congress held at Basle in 1897 under the presidency
of the Father of Modern Zionism, the late Theodore Herzl.
There has been recently published a volume of Herzl's "Diaries,"
a translation of some passages which appeared in the JEWISH CHRONICLE of July
14, 1922. Herzl gives an account of his first visit to England in 1895,
and his conversation with Colonel Goldsmid, a Jew brought up as a Christian,
an officer in the English Army, and at heart a Jew Nationalist all the time. Goldsmid
suggested to Herzl that the best way of expropriating the English aristocracy,
and so destroying their power to protect the people of England against Jew
domination, was to put excessive taxes on the land. Herzl thought this an excellent
idea, and it is now to be found definitely embodied in Protocol VI!
The above extract from Herzl's DIARY is an extremely significant bit of
evidence bearing on the existence of the Jew World Plot and authenticity of
the Protocols, but any reader of intelligence will be able from his own knowledge
of recent history and from his own experience to confirm the genuineness of every
line of them, and it is in the light of this LIVING comment that all readers are invited
to study Mr. Marsden's translation of this terribly inhuman document.
And here is another very significant circumstance. The present successor of Herzl,
as leader of the Zionist movement, Dr. Weizmann, quoted one of these
sayings at the send-off banquet given to Chief Rabbi Hertz on October 6, 1920.
The Chief Rabbi was on the point of leaving for HIS Empire tour of H.R.H.,
the Prince of Wales. And this is the "saying" of the Sages which Dr.
Weizmann quoted: "A beneficent protection which God has instituted in
the life of the Jew is that He has dispersed him all over the world." (JEWISH
GUARDIAN, Oct. 8, 1920.)
Now compare this with the last clause of but one of Protocol XI.
"God has granted to us, His Chosen People, the gift of dispersion,
and from this, which appears to all eyes to be our weakness, has come forth all our
strength, which has now brought us to the threshold of sovereignty over all the world."
The remarkable correspondence between these passages proves several things. It
proves that the Learned Elders exist. It proves that Dr. Weizmann knows
all about them. It proves that the desire for a "National Home" in
Palestine is only camouflage and an infinitesimal part of the Jew's real object.
It proves that the Jews of the world have no intention of settling in Palestine
or any separate country, and that their annual prayer that they may all meet "Next
Year in Jerusalem" is merely a piece of their characteristic make-believe.
It also demonstrates that the Jews are now a world menace, and that the Aryan
races will have to domicile them permanently out of Europe..
Index .WHO
ARE THE ELDERS?
This is a secret which has not been revealed. They are the Hidden hand.
They are not the "Board of Deputies" (the Jewish Parliament
in England) or the "Universal Israelite Alliance" which sits
in Paris. But the late Walter Rathenau of the Allgemeiner Electricitaets
Gesellschaft has thrown a little light on the subject and doubtless he was in
possession of their names, being, in all likelihood, one of the chief leaders himself.
Writing in the WIENER FREIE PRESSE, December 24, 1912, he said:
"Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the others, govern the
fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage."
In the year 1844, on the eve of the Jewish Revolution of 1848, Benjamin
Disraeli, whose real name was Israel, and who was a "damped,"
or baptized Jew, published his novel, CONINGSBY, in which occurs this ominous
passage:
"The world is governed by very different personages from what is
imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."
And he went on to show that these personages were all Jews.
Now that Providence has brought to the light of day these secret Protocols
all men may clearly see the hidden personages specified by Disraeli at work
"behind the scenes" of all the Governments. This revelation entails on all
white peoples the grave responsibility of examining and revising AU FOND their
attitude towards the Race and Nation which boasts of its survival over all Empires.
Notes I. - "Agentur" and "The Political."
There are two words in this translation which are unusual, the word "AGENTUR"
and "political" used as a substantive, AGENTUR appears to
be a word adopted from the original and it means the whole body of agents and agencies
made use of by the Elders, whether members of the tribe or their Gentile tools.
By "the Political" Mr. Marsden means, not exactly the "body
politic" but the entire machinery of politics.
Notes II - The Symbolic Snake of Judaism.
Protocol III opens with a reference to the Symbolic Snake
of Judaism. In his Epilogue to the 1905 Edition of the Protocols,
Nilus gives the following interesting account of this symbol:
"According to the records of secret Jewish Zionism, Solomon and other
Jewish learned men already, in 929 B.C., thought out a scheme in theory for a peaceful
conquest of the whole universe by Zion. As history developed, this scheme was
worked out in detail and completed by men who were subsequently initiated in this
question. These learned men decided by peaceful means to conquer the world for Zion
with the slyness of the Symbolic Snake, whose head was to represent those who
have been initiated into the plans of the Jewish administration, and the body of the
Snake to represent the Jewish people - the administration was always
kept secret, EVEN FROM THE JEWISH NATION ITSELF. As this Snake penetrated
into the hearts of the nations which it encountered it undermined and devoured all
the non-Jewish power of these States. It is foretold that the Snake has still
to finish its work, strictly adhering to the designed plan, until the course which
it has to run is closed by the return of its head to Zion and until, by this
means, the Snake has completed its round of Europe and has encircled
it - and until, by dint of enchaining Europe, it has encompassed the whole
world. This it is to accomplish by using every endeavor to subdue the other countries
by an ECONOMICAL CONQUEST. The return of the head of the Snake to Zion
can only be accomplished after the power of all the Sovereign of Europe
has been laid low, that is to say, when by means of economic crises and wholesale
destruction effected everywhere, there shall have been brought about a spiritual demoralization
and a moral corruption, chiefly with the assistance of Jewish women masquerading as
French, Italians, etc.. These are the surest spreaders of licentiousness into the
lives of the leading men at the heads of nations. A map of the course of the Symbolic
Snake is shown as follows: - Its first stage in Europe was in 429 B.C.
in Greece, where, about the time of Pericles, the Snake first started
eating into the power of that country. The second stage was in Rome in the
time of Augustus, about 69 B.C.. The third in Madrid in the time of
Charles V, in A.D. 1552. The fourth in Paris about 1790, in the time
of Louis XVI. The fifth in London from 1814 onwards (after the downfall
of Napoleon). The sixth in Berlin in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian
war. The seventh in St. Petersburg, over which is drawn the head of the
Snake under the date of 1881. [This "Snake" is now being drawn through the
Americas and in the United States of America, it is been partially identified
as the "Counsel on Foreign Relations"
(C.F.R.) and the "Tri-Lateral Commission"].
All these States which the Snake traversed have had the foundations of their constitutions
shaken, Germany, with its apparent power, forming no exception to the rule.
In economic conditions, England and Germany are spared, but only till
the conquest of Russia is accomplished by the Snake, on which at present [i.e.,
1905] all its efforts are concentrated. The further course of the Snake is not shown
on this map, but arrows indicate its next movement towards Moscow, Kieft and
Odessa. It is now well known to us to what extent the latter cities form the
centuries of the militant Jewish race. Constantinople is shown as the last
stage of the Snake's course before it reaches Jerusalem. (This map was drawn
years before the occurrence of the "Young Turk" - i.e., Jewish
- Revolution in Turkey). den.
Notes III. - The term "Goyim," meaning Gentile
or
non-Jews, is used throughout the
Protocols and is retained by Mr. Mars.
Index .PROTOCOLS
OF THE MEETINGS
OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION
PROTOCOL No. 1
1. ....Putting aside fine phrases we shall speak of the significance
of each thought: by comparisons and deductions we shall throw light upon surrounding
facts.
2. What I am about to set forth, then, is our system from the two points
of view, that of ourselves and that of the GOYIM [i.e., non- Jews].
3. It must be noted that men with bad instincts are more in number than
the good, and therefore the best results in governing them are attained by violence
and terrorisation, and not by academic discussions. Every man aims at power, everyone
would like to become a dictator if only he could, and rare indeed are the men who
would not be willing to sacrifice the welfare of all for the sake of securing their
own welfare.
4. What has restrained the beasts of prey who are called men? What has served
for their guidance hitherto?
5. In the beginnings of the structure of society, they were subjected to
brutal and blind force; after words - to Law, which is the same force, only disguised.
I draw the conclusion that by the law of nature right lies in force.
6. Political freedom is an idea but not a fact. This idea one must know
how to apply whenever it appears necessary with this bait of an idea to attract the
masses of the people to one's party for the purpose of crushing another who is in
authority. This task is rendered easier of the opponent has himself been infected
with the idea of freedom, SO-CALLED LIBERALISM, and, for the sake of an idea,
is willing to yield some of his power. It is precisely here that the triumph of our
theory appears; the slackened reins of government are immediately, by the law of life,
caught up and gathered together by a new hand, because the blind might of the nation
cannot for one single day exist without guidance, and the new authority merely fits
into the place of the old already weakened by liberalism.
GOLD
7. In our day the power which has replaced that of the rulers who
were liberal is the power of Gold. Time was when Faith ruled. The idea of freedom
is impossible of realization because no one knows how to use it with moderation. It
is enough to hand over a people to self-government for a certain length of time for
that people to be turned into a disorganized mob. From that moment on we get internecine
strife which soon develops into battles between classes, in the midst of which States
burn down and their importance is reduced to that of a heap of ashes.
8. Whether a State exhausts itself in its own convulsions, whether its internal
discord brings it under the power of external foes - in any case it can be accounted
irretrievable lost: IT IS IN OUR POWER. The despotism of Capital, which is
entirely in our hands, reaches out to it a straw that the State, willy-nilly, must
take hold of: if not - it goes to the bottom.
9. Should anyone of a liberal mind say that such reflections as the above
are immoral, I would put the following questions: If every State has two foes and
if in regard to the external foe it is allowed and not considered immoral to use every
manner and art of conflict, as for example to keep the enemy in ignorance of plans
of attack and defense, to attack him by night or in superior numbers, then in what
way can the same means in regard to a worse foe, the destroyer of the structure of
society and the commonweal, be called immoral and not permissible?
10. Is it possible for any sound logical mind to hope with any success to
guide crowds by the aid of reasonable counsels and arguments, when any objection or
contradiction, senseless though it may be, can be made and when such objection may
find more favor with the people, whose powers of reasoning are superficial? Men in
masses and the men of the masses, being guided solely by petty passions, paltry beliefs,
traditions and sentimental theorems, fall a prey to party dissension, which hinders
any kind of agreement even on the basis of a perfectly reasonable argument. Every
resolution of a crowd depends upon a chance or packed majority, which, in its ignorance
of political secrets, puts forth some ridiculous resolution that lays in the administration
a seed of anarchy.
11. The political has nothing in common with the moral. The ruler who is
governed by the moral is not a skilled politician, and is therefore unstable on his
throne. He who wishes to rule must have recourse both to cunning and to make-believe.
Great national qualities, like frankness and honesty, are vices in politics, for they
bring down rulers from their thrones more effectively and more certainly than the
most powerful enemy. Such qualities must be the attributes of the kingdoms of the
GOYIM, but we must in no wise be guided by them.
RIGHT IS MIGHT
12. Our right lies in force. The word "right"
is an abstract thought and proved by nothing. The word means no more than: Give
me what I want in order that thereby I may have a proof that I am stronger than you.
13. Where does right begin? Where does it end?
14. In any State in which there is a bad organization of authority, an impersonality
of laws and of the rulers who have lost their personality amid the flood of rights
ever multiplying out of liberalism, I find a new right - to attack by the right
of the strong, and to scatter to the winds all existing forces of order and regulation,
to reconstruct all institutions and to become the sovereign lord of those who have
left to us the rights of their power by laying them down voluntarily in their liberalism.
15. Our power in the present tottering condition of all forms of power will
be more invincible than any other, because it will remain invisible until the moment
when it has gained such strength that no cunning can any longer undermine it.
16. Out of the temporary evil we are now compelled to commit will emerge
the good of an unshakable rule, which will restore the regular course of the machinery
of the national life, brought to naught by liberalism. The result justifies
the means. Let us, however, in our plans, direct our attention not so much to what
is good and moral as to what is necessary and useful.
17. Before us is a plan in which is laid down strategically the line from
which we cannot deviate without running the risk of seeing the labor of many centuries
brought to naught.
18. In order to elaborate satisfactory forms of action it is necessary to
have regard to the rascality, the slackness, the instability of the mob, its lack
of capacity to understand and respect the conditions of its own life, or its own welfare.
It must be understood that the might of a mob is blind, senseless and un- reasoning
force ever at the mercy of a suggestion from any side. The blind cannot lead the blind
without bringing them into the abyss; consequently, members of the mob, upstarts from
the people even though they should be as a genius for wisdom, yet having no understanding
of the political, cannot come forward as leaders of the mob without bringing the whole
nation to ruin.
19. Only one trained from childhood for independent rule can have understanding
of the words that can be made up of the political alphabet.
20. A people left to itself, i.e., to upstarts from its midst, brings itself
to ruin by party dissensions excited by the pursuit of power and honors and the disorders
arising therefrom. Is it possible for the masses of the people calmly and without
petty jealousies to form judgment, to deal with the affairs of the country, which
cannot be mixed up with personal interest? Can they defend themselves from an external
foe? It is unthinkable; for a plan broken up into as many parts as there are heads
in the mob, loses all homogeneity, and thereby becomes unintelligible and impossible
of execution.
WE ARE DESPOTS
21. It is only with a despotic ruler that plans can be elaborated
extensively and clearly in such a way as to distribute the whole properly among the
several parts of the machinery of the State: from this the conclusion is inevitable
that a satisfactory form of government for any country is one that concentrates in
the hands of one responsible person. Without an absolute despotism there can be no
existence for civilization which is carried on not by the masses but by their guide,
whosoever that person may be. The mob is savage, and displays its savagery at every
opportunity. The moment the mob seizes freedom in its hands it quickly turns to anarchy,
which in itself is the highest degree of savagery.
22. Behold the alcoholic animals, bemused with drink, the right to an immoderate
use of which comes along with freedom. It is not for us and ours to walk that road.
The peoples of the GOYIM are bemused with alcoholic liquors; their youth has
grown stupid on classicism and from early immorality, into which it has been inducted
by our special agents - by tutors, lackeys, governesses in the houses of the wealthy,
by clerks and others, by our women in the places of dissipation frequented by the
GOYIM. In the number of these last I count also the so-called "society
ladies," voluntary followers of the others in corruption and luxury.
23. Our countersign is - Force and Make-believe. Only force conquers in
political affairs, especially if it be concealed in the talents essential to statesmen.
Violence must be the principle, and cunning and make-believe the rule for governments
which do not want to lay down their crowns at the feet of agents of some new power.
This evil is the one and only means to attain the end, the good. Therefore we must
not stop at bribery, deceit and treachery when they should serve towards the attainment
of our end. In politics one must know how to seize the property of others without
hesitation if by it we secure submission and sovereignty.
24. Our State, marching along the path of peaceful conquest, has the right
to replace the horrors of war by less noticeable and more satisfactory sentences of
death, necessary to maintain the terror which tends to produce blind submission. Just
but merciless severity is the greatest factor of strength in the State: not only for
the sake of gain but also in the name of duty, for the sake of victory, we must keep
to the programme of violence and make-believe. The doctrine of squaring accounts is
precisely as strong as the means of which it makes use. Therefore it is not so much
by the means themselves as by the doctrine of severity that we shall triumph and bring
all governments into subjection to our super-government. It is enough for them to
know that we are too merciless for all disobedience to cease.
WE SHALL END LIBERTY
25. Far back in ancient times we were the first to cry among the
masses of the people the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," words
many times repeated since these days by stupid poll- parrots who, from all sides around,
flew down upon these baits and with them carried away the well-being of the world,
true freedom of the individual, formerly so well guarded against the pressure of the
mob. The would-be wise men of the GOYIM, the intellectuals, could not make
anything out of the uttered words in their abstractedness; did not see that in nature
there is no equality, cannot be freedom: that Nature herself has established inequality
of minds, of characters, and capacities, just as immutably as she has established
subordination to her laws: never stopped to think that the mob is a blind thing, that
upstarts elected from among it to bear rule are, in regard to the political, the same
blind men as the mob itself, that the adept, though he be a fool, can yet rule, whereas
the non-adept, even if he were a genius, understands nothing in the political - to
all those things the GOYIM paid no regard; yet all the time it was based upon
these things that dynastic rule rested: the father passed on to the son a knowledge
of the course of political affairs in such wise that none should know it but members
of the dynasty and none could betray it to the governed. As time went on, the meaning
of the dynastic transference of the true position of affairs in the political was
lost, and this aided the success of our cause.
26. In all corners of the earth the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,"
brought to our ranks, thanks to our blind agents, whole legions who bore our banners
with enthusiasm. And all the time these words were canker-worms at work boring into
the well-being of the GOYIM, putting an end everywhere to peace, quiet, solidarity
and destroying all the foundations of the GOYA States. As you will see later,
this helped us to our triumph: it gave us the possibility, among other things, of
getting into our hands the master card - the destruction of the privileges, or in
other words of the very existence of the aristocracy of the GOYIM, that class
which was the only defense peoples and countries had against us. On the ruins of the
eternal and genealogical aristocracy of the GOYIM we have set up the aristocracy
of our educated class headed by the aristocracy of money. The qualifications for this
aristocracy we have established in wealth, which is dependent upon us, and in knowledge,
for which our learned elders provide the motive force.
27. Our triumph has been rendered easier by the fact that in our relations
with the men, whom we wanted, we have always worked upon the most sensitive chords
of the human mind, upon the cash account, upon the cupidity, upon the insatiability
for material needs of man; and each one of these human weaknesses, taken alone, is
sufficient to paralyze initiative, for it hands over the will of men to the disposition
of him who has bought their activities.
28. The abstraction of freedom has enabled us to persuade the mob in all
countries that their government is nothing but the steward of the people who are the
owners of the country, and that the steward may be replaced like a worn-out glove.
29. It is this possibility of replacing the representatives of the people
which has placed at our disposal, and, as it were, given us the power of appointment.
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No. 2
1. It is indispensable for our purpose that wars, so far as possible,
should not result in territorial gains: war will thus be brought on to the economic
ground, where the nations will not fail to perceive in the assistance we give the
strength of our predominance, and this state of things will put both sides at the
mercy of our international AGENTUR; which possesses millions of eyes ever on
the watch and unhampered by any limitations whatsoever. Our international rights will
then wipe out national rights, in the proper sense of right, and will rule the nations
precisely as the civil law of States rules the relations of their subjects among themselves.
2. The administrators, whom we shall choose from among the public, with
strict regard to their capacities for servile obedience, will not be persons trained
in the arts of government, and will therefore easily become pawns in our game in the
hands of men of learning and genius who will be their advisers, specialists bred and
reared from early childhood to rule the affairs of the whole world. As is well known
to you, these specialists of ours have been drawing to fit them for rule the information
they need from our political plans from the lessons of history, from observations
made of the events of every moment as it passes. The GOYIM are not guided by
practical use of unprejudiced historical observation, but by theoretical routine without
any critical regard for consequent results. We need not, therefore, take any account
of them - let them amuse themselves until the hour strikes, or live on hopes of new
forms of enterprising pastime, or on the memories of all they have enjoyed. For them
let that play the principal part which we have persuaded them to accept as the dictates
of science (theory). It is with this object in view that we are constantly, by means
of our press, arousing a blind confidence in these theories. The intellectuals of
the GOYIM will puff themselves up with their knowledges and without any logical
verification of them will put into effect all the information available from science,
which our AGENTUR specialists have cunningly pieced together for the purpose
of educating their minds in the direction we want.
DESTRUCTIVE EDUCATION
3. Do not suppose for a moment that these statements are empty
words: think carefully of the successes we arranged for Darwinism, Marxism, Nietzsche-ism.
To us Jews, at any rate, it should be plain to see what a disintegrating importance
these directives have had upon the minds of the GOYIM.
4. It is indispensable for us to take account of the thoughts, characters,
tendencies of the nations in order to avoid making slips in the political and in the
direction of administrative affairs. The triumph of our system of which the component
parts of the machinery may be variously disposed according to the temperament of the
peoples met on our way, will fail of success if the practical application of it be
not based upon a summing up of the lessons of the past in the light of the present.
5. In the hands of the States of to-day there is a great force that creates
the movement of thought in the people, and that is the Press. The part played by the
Press is to keep pointing our requirements supposed to be indispensable, to give voice
to the complaints of the people, to express and to create discontent. It is in the
Press that the triumph of freedom of speech finds its incarnation. But the GOYIM
States have not known how to make use of this force; and it has fallen into our
hands. Through the Press we have gained the power to influence while remaining ourselves
in the shade; thanks to the Press we have got the GOLD in our hands, notwithstanding
that we have had to gather it out of the oceans of blood and tears. But it has paid
us, though we have sacrificed many of our people. Each victim on our side is worth
in the sight of God a thousand GOYIM.
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No. 3
1. To-day I may tell you that our goal is now only a few steps
off. There remains a small space to cross and the whole long path we have trodden
is ready now to close its cycle of the Symbolic Snake, by which we symbolize
our people. When this ring closes, all the States of Europe will be locked
in its coil as in a powerful vice.
2. The constitution scales of these days will shortly break down, for we
have established them with a certain lack of accurate balance in order that they may
oscillate incessantly until they wear through the pivot on which they turn. The GOYIM
are under the impression that they have welded them sufficiently strong and they have
all along kept on expecting that the scales would come into equilibrium. But the pivots
- the kings on their thrones - are hemmed in by their representatives, who play the
fool, distraught with their own uncontrolled and irresponsible power. This power they
owe to the terror which has been breathed into the palaces. As they have no means
of getting at their people, into their very midst, the kings on their thrones are
no longer able to come to terms with them and so strengthen themselves against seekers
after power. We have made a gulf between the far-seeing Sovereign Power and the blind
force of the people so that both have lost all meaning, for like the blind man and
his stick, both are powerless apart.
3. In order to incite seekers after power to a misuse of power we have set
all forces in opposition one to another, breaking up their liberal tendencies
towards independence. To this end we have stirred up every form of enterprise, we
have armed all parties, we have set up authority as a target for every ambition. Of
States we have made gladiatorial arenas where a lot of confused issues contend ....
A little more, and disorders and bankruptcy will be universal ....
4. Babblers, inexhaustible, have turned into oratorical contests the sittings
of Parliament and Administrative Boards. Bold journalists and unscrupulous pamphleteers
daily fall upon executive officials. Abuses of power will put the final touch in preparing
all institutions for their overthrow and everything will fly skyward under the blows
of the maddened mob.
POVERTY OUR WEAPON
5. All people are chained down to heavy toil by poverty more firmly
than ever. They were chained by slavery and serfdom; from these, one way and another,
they might free themselves. These could be settled with, but from want they will never
get away. We have included in the constitution such rights as to the masses appear
fictitious and not actual rights. All these so-called "Peoples Rights"
can exist only in idea, an idea which can never be realized in practical life. What
is it to the proletariat laborer, bowed double over his heavy toil, crushed by his
lot in life, if talkers get the right to babble, if journalists get the right to scribble
any nonsense side by side with good stuff, once the proletariat has no other profit
out of the constitution save only those pitiful crumbs which we fling them from our
table in return for their voting in favor of what we dictate, in favor of the men
we place in power, the servants of our AGENTUR ... Republican rights for a
poor man are no more than a bitter piece of irony, for the necessity he is under of
toiling almost all day gives him no present use of them, but the other hand robs him
of all guarantee of regular and certain earnings by making him dependent on strikes
by his comrades or lockouts by his masters.
WE SUPPORT COMMUNISM
6. The people, under our guidance, have annihilated the aristocracy,
who were their one and only defense and foster- mother for the sake of their own advantage
which is inseparably bound up with the well-being of the people. Nowadays, with the
destruction of the aristocracy, the people have fallen into the grips of merciless
money-grinding scoundrels who have laid a pitiless and cruel yoke upon the necks of
the workers.
7. We appear on the scene as alleged saviours of the worker from this oppression
when we propose to him to enter the ranks of our fighting forces - Socialists, Anarchists,
Communists - to whom we always give support in accordance with an alleged brotherly
rule (of the solidarity of all humanity) of our SOCIAL MASONRY. The aristocracy,
which enjoyed by law the labor of the workers, was interested in seeing that the workers
were well fed, healthy, and strong. We are interested in just the opposite - in the
diminution, the KILLING OUT OF THE GOYIM. Our power is in the chronic shortness
of food and physical weakness of the worker because by all that this implies he is
made the slave of our will, and he will not find in his own authorities either strength
or energy to set against our will. Hunger creates the right of capital to rule the
worker more surely than it was given to the aristocracy by the legal authority of
kings.
8. By want and the envy and hatred which it engenders we shall move the
mobs and with their hands we shall wipe out all those who hinder us on our way.
9. WHEN THE HOUR STRIKES FOR OUR SOVEREIGN LORD OF ALL THE WORLD TO BE CROWNED
IT IS THESE SAME HANDS WHICH WILL SWEEP AWAY EVERYTHING THAT MIGHT BE A HINDRANCE
THERETO. (The Biblical "Anti-Christ?")
10. The GOYIM have lost the habit of thinking unless prompted by
the suggestions of our specialists. Therefore they do not see the urgent necessity
of what we, when our kingdom comes, shall adopt at once, namely this, that IT IS
ESSENTIAL TO TEACH IN NATIONAL SCHOOLS ONE SIMPLE, TRUE PIECE OF KNOWLEDGE, THE BASIS
OF ALL KNOWLEDGE - THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE STRUCTURE OF HUMAN LIFE, OF SOCIAL EXISTENCE,
WHICH REQUIRES DIVISION OF LABOR, AND, CONSEQUENTLY, THE DIVISION OF MEN INTO CLASSES
AND CONDITIONS. It is essential for all to know that OWING TO DIFFERENCE IN
THE OBJECTS OF HUMAN ACTIVITY THERE CANNOT BE ANY EQUALITY, that he, who by any
act of his compromises a whole class, cannot be equally responsible before the law
with him who affects no one but only his own honor. The true knowledge of the structure
of society, into the secrets of which we do not admit the GOYIM, would demonstrate
to all men that the positions and work must be kept within a certain circle, that
they may not become a source of human suffering, arising from an education which does
not correspond with the work which individuals are called upon to do. After a thorough
study of this knowledge, the peoples will voluntarily submit to authority and accept
such position as is appointed them in the State. In the present state of knowledge
and the direction we have given to its development of the people, blindly believing
things in print - cherishes - thanks to promptings intended to mislead and to its
own ignorance - a blind hatred towards all conditions which it considers above itself,
for it has no understanding of the meaning of class and condition.
JEWS WILL BE SAFE
11. THIS HATRED WILL BE STILL FURTHER MAGNIFIED BY THE EFFECTS of an
ECONOMIC CRISES, which will stop dealing on the exchanges and bring industry to
a standstill. We shall create by all the secret subterranean methods open to us and
with the aid of gold, which is all in our hands, A UNIVERSAL ECONOMIC CRISES WHEREBY
WE SHALL THROW UPON THE STREETS WHOLE MOBS OF WORKERS SIMULTANEOUSLY IN ALL THE COUNTRIES
OF EUROPE. These mobs will rush delightedly to shed the blood of those whom, in
the simplicity of their ignorance, they have envied from their cradles, and whose
property they will then be able to loot.
12 "OURS" THEY WILL NOT TOUCH, BECAUSE THE MOMENT OF ATTACK WILL BE
KNOWN TO US AND WE SHALL TAKE MEASURES TO PROTECT OUR OWN.
13. We have demonstrated that progress will bring all the GOYIM to
the sovereignty of reason. Our despotism will be precisely that; for it will know
how, by wise severities, to pacificate all unrest, to cauterize liberalism
out of all institutions.
14. When the populace has seen that all sorts of concessions and indulgences
are yielded it, in the same name of freedom it has imagined itself to be sovereign
lord and has stormed its way to power, but, naturally like every other blind man,
it has come upon a host of stumbling blocks. IT HAS RUSHED TO FIND A GUIDE, IT
HAS NEVER HAD THE SENSE TO RETURN TO THE FORMER STATE and it has laid down its
plenipotentiary powers at OUR feet. Remember the French Revolution,
to which it was we who gave the name of "Great": the secrets of its
preparations are well known to us for it was wholly the work of our hands.
15 Ever since that time we have been leading the peoples from one disenchantment
to another, so that in the end they should turn also from us in favor of that KING-DESPOT
OF THE BLOOD OF ZION, WHOM WE ARE PREPARING FOR THE WORLD.
16. At the present day we are, as an international force, invincible, because
if attacked by some we are supported by other States. It is the bottomless rascality
of the GOYIM peoples, who crawl on their bellies to force, but are merciless
towards weakness, unsparing to faults and indulgent to crimes, unwilling to bear the
contradictions of a free social system but patient unto martyrdom under the violence
of a bold despotism - it is those qualities which are aiding us to independence. From
the premier- dictators of the present day, the GOYIM peoples suffer patiently
and bear such abuses as for the least of them they would have beheaded twenty kings.
17. What is the explanation of this phenomenon, this curious inconsequence
of the masses of the peoples in their attitude towards what would appear to be events
of the same order?
18. It is explained by the fact that these dictators whisper to the peoples
through their agents that through these abuses they are inflicting injury on the States
with the highest purpose - to secure the welfare of the peoples, the international
brotherhood of them all, their solidarity and equality of rights. Naturally they do
not tell the peoples that this unification must be accomplished only under our sovereign
rule.
19. And thus the people condemn the upright and acquit the guilty, persuaded
ever more and more that it can do whatsoever it wishes. Thanks to this state of things,
the people are destroying every kind of stability and creating disorders at every
step.
20. The word "freedom" brings out the communities of men
to fight against every kind of force, against every kind of authority even against
God and the laws of nature. For this reason we, when we come into our kingdom,
shall have to erase this word from the lexicon of life as implying a principle of
brute force which turns mobs into bloodthirsty beasts.
21. These beasts, it is true, fall asleep again every time when they have
drunk their fill of blood, and at such time can easily be riveted into their chains.
But if they be not given blood they will not sleep and continue to struggle.
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1. Every republic passes through several stages. The first of these
is comprised in the early days of mad raging by the blind mob, tossed hither and thither,
right and left: the second is demagogy from which is born anarchy, and that leads
inevitably to despotism - not any longer legal and overt, and therefore responsible
despotism, but to unseen and secretly hidden, yet nevertheless sensibly felt despotism
in the hands of some secret organization or other, whose acts are the more unscrupulous
inasmuch as it works behind a screen, behind the backs of all sorts of agents, the
changing of whom not only does not injuriously affect but actually aids the secret
force by saving it, thanks to continual changes, from the necessity of expanding its
resources on the rewarding of long services.
2. Who and what is in a position to overthrow an invisible force? And this
is precisely what our force is. GENTILE masonry blindly serves as a screen
for us and our objects, but the plan of action of our force, even its very abiding-place,
remains for the whole people an unknown mystery.
WE SHALL DESTROY GOD
3. But even freedom might be harmless and have its place in the
State economy without injury to the well-being of the peoples if it rested upon the
foundation of faith in God, upon the brotherhood of humanity, unconnected with the
conception of equality, which is negatived by the very laws of creation, for they
have established subordination. With such a faith as this a people might be governed
by a wardship of parishes, and would walk contentedly and humbly under the guiding
hand of its spiritual pastor submitting to the dispositions of God upon earth. This
is the reason why IT IS INDISPENSABLE FOR US TO UNDERMINE ALL FAITH, TO TEAR OUT
OF THE MIND OF THE "GOYIM" THE VERY PRINCIPLE OF GOD-HEAD AND THE
SPIRIT, AND TO PUT IN ITS PLACE ARITHMETICAL CALCULATIONS AND MATERIAL NEEDS.
4. In order to give the GOYIM no time to think and take note, their
minds must be diverted towards industry and trade. Thus, all the nations will be swallowed
up in the pursuit of gain and in the race for it will not take note of their common
foe. But again, in order that freedom may once for all disintegrate and ruin the communities
of the GOYIM, we must put industry on a speculative basis: the result of this
will be that what is withdrawn from the land by industry will slip through the hands
and pass into speculation, that is, to our classes.
5. The intensified struggle for superiority and shocks delivered to economic
life will create, nay, have already created, disenchanted, cold and heartless communities.
Such communities will foster a strong aversion towards the higher political and towards
religion. Their only guide is gain, that is Gold, which they will erect into a veritable
cult, for the sake of those material delights which it can give. Then will the hour
strike when, not for the sake of attaining the good, not even to win wealth, but solely
out of hatred towards the privileged, the lower classes of the GOYIM will follow
our lead against our rivals for power, the intellectuals of the GOYIM.
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1. What form of administrative rule can be given to communities
in which corruption has penetrated everywhere, communities where riches are attained
only by the clever surprise tactics of semi-swindling tricks; where loseness reigns:
where morality is maintained by penal measures and harsh laws but not by voluntarily
accepted principles: where the feelings towards faith and country are obligated by
cosmopolitan convictions? What form of rule is to be given to these communities if
not that despotism which I shall describe to you later? We shall create an intensified
centralization of government in order to grip in our hands all the forces of the community.
We shall regulate mechanically all the actions of the political life of our subjects
by new laws. These laws will withdraw one by one all the indulgences and liberties
which have been permitted by the GOYIM, and our kingdom will be distinguished
by a despotism of such magnificent proportions as to be at any moment and in every
place in a position to wipe out any GOYIM who oppose us by deed or word.
2. We shall be told that such a despotism as I speak of is not consistent
with the progress of these days, but I will prove to you that is is.
3. In the times when the peoples looked upon kings on their thrones as on
a pure manifestation of the will of God, they submitted without a murmur to
the despotic power of kings: but from the day when we insinuated into their minds
the conception of their own rights they began to regard the occupants of thrones as
mere ordinary mortals. The holy unction of the Lord's Anointed has fallen from
the heads of kings in the eyes of the people, and when we also robbed them of their
faith in God the might of power was flung upon the streets into the place of
public proprietorship and was seized by us.
MASSES LED BY LIES
4. Moreover, the art of directing masses and individuals by means
of cleverly manipulated theory and verbitage, by regulations of life in common and
all sorts of other quirks, in all which the GOYIM understand nothing, belongs
likewise to the specialists of our administrative brain. Reared on analysis, observation,
on delicacies of fine calculation, in this species of skill we have no rivals, any
more than we have either in the drawing up of plans of political actions and solidarity.
In this respect the Jesuits alone might have compared with us, but we have
contrived to discredit them in the eyes of the unthinking mob as an overt organization,
while we ourselves all the while have kept our secret organization in the shade. However,
it is probably all the same to the world who is its sovereign lord, whether the head
of Catholicism or our despot of the blood of Zion! But to us, the Chosen
People, it is very far from being a matter of indifference.
5. FOR A TIME PERHAPS WE MIGHT BE SUCCESSFULLY DEALT WITH BY A COALITION OF
THE "GOYIM" OF ALL THE WORLD: but from this danger we are secured by
the discord existing among them whose roots are so deeply seated that they can never
now be plucked up. We have set one against another the personal and national reckonings
of the GOYIM, religious and race hatreds, which we have fostered into a huge
growth in the course of the past twenty centuries. This is the reason why there is
not one State which would anywhere receive support if it were to raise its arm, for
every one of them must bear in mind that any agreement against us would be unprofitable
to itself. We are too strong - there is no evading our power. THE NATIONS CANNOT
COME TO EVEN AN INCONSIDERABLE PRIVATE AGREEMENT WITHOUT OUR SECRETLY HAVING A HAND
IN IT.
6. PER ME REGES REGNANT. "It is through me that Kings reign."
And it was said by the prophets that we were chosen by God Himself to rule
over the whole earth. God has endowed us with genius that we may be equal to
our task. Were genius in the opposite camp it would still struggle against us, but
even so, a newcomer is no match for the old-established settler: the struggle would
be merciless between us, such a fight as the world has never seen. Aye, and the genius
on their side would have arrived too late. All the wheels of the machinery of all
States go by the force of the engine, which is in our hands, and that engine of the
machinery of States is - Gold. The science of political economy invented by our learned
elders has for long past been giving royal prestige to capital.
MONOPOLY CAPITAL
7. Capital, if it is to co-operate untrammeled, must be free to
establish a monopoly of industry and trade: this is already being put in execution
by an unseen hand in all quarters of the world. This freedom will give political force
to those engaged in industry, and that will help to oppress the people. Nowadays it
is more important to disarm the peoples than to lead them into war: more important
to use for our advantage the passions which have burst into flames than to quench
their fire: more important to eradicate them. THE PRINCIPLE OBJECT OF OUR DIRECTORATE
CONSISTS IN THIS: TO DEBILITATE THE PUBLIC MIND BY CRITICISM; TO LEAD IT AWAY FROM
SERIOUS REFLECTIONS CALCULATED TO AROUSE RESISTANCE; TO DISTRACT THE FORCES OF THE
MIND TOWARDS A SHAM FIGHT OF EMPTY CLOQUENCE.
8. In all ages the people of the world, equally with individuals, have accepted
words for deeds, for THEY ARE CONTENT WITH A SHOW and rarely pause to note,
in the public arena, whether promises are followed by performance. Therefore we shall
establish show institutions which will give eloquent proof of their benefit to progress.
9. We shall assume to ourselves the liberal physiognomy of all parties,
of all directions, and we shall give that physiognomy a VOICE IN ORATORS WHO WILL
SPEAK SO MUCH THAT THEY WILL EXHAUST THE PATIENCE OF THEIR HEARERS AND PRODUCE AN
ABHORRENCE OF ORATORY.
10. IN ORDER TO PUT PUBLIC OPINION INTO OUR HANDS WE MUST BRING IT INTO A STATE
OF BEWILDERMENT BY GIVING EXPRESSION FROM ALL SIDES TO SO MANY CONTRADICTORY OPINIONS
AND FOR SUCH LENGTH OF TIME AS WILL SUFFICE TO MAKE THE "GOYIM" LOSE
THEIR HEADS IN THE LABYRINTH AND COME TO SEE THAT THE BEST THING IS TO HAVE NO OPINION
OF ANY KIND IN MATTERS POLITICAL, which it is not given to the public to understand,
because they are understood only by him who guides the public. This is the first secret.
11. The second secret requisite for the success of our government is comprised
in the following: To multiply to such an extent national failings, habits, passions,
conditions of civil life, that it will be impossible for anyone to know where he is
in the resulting chaos, so that the people in consequence will fail to understand
one another. This measure will also serve us in another way, namely, to sow discord
in all parties, to dislocate all collective forces which are still unwilling to submit
to us, and to discourage any kind of personal initiative which might in any degree
hinder our affair. THERE IS NOTHING MORE DANGEROUS THAN PERSONAL INITIATIVE:
if it has genius behind it, such initiative can do more than can be done by millions
of people among whom we have sown discord. We must so direct the education of the
GOYIM communities that whenever they come upon a matter requiring initiative
they may drop their hands in despairing impotence. The strain which results from freedom
of actions saps the forces when it meets with the freedom of another. From this collision
arise grave moral shocks, disenchantments, failures. BY ALL THESE MEANS WE SHALL
SO WEAR DOWN THE "GOYIM" THAT THEY WILL BE COMPELLED TO OFFER US INTERNATIONAL
POWER OF A NATURE THAT BY ITS POSITION WILL ENABLE US WITHOUT ANY VIOLENCE GRADUALLY
TO ABSORB ALL THE STATE FORCES OF THE WORLD AND TO FORM A SUPER-GOVERNMENT (European
Common Market?). In place of the rulers of to-day we shall set up a bogey which
will be called the Super-Government Administration. Its hands will reach out in all
directions like nippers and its organization will be of such colossal dimensions that
it cannot fail to subdue all the nations of the world.
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No. 6
1. We shall soon begin to establish huge monopolies, reservoirs
of colossal riches, upon which even, large fortunes of the GOYIM will depend
to such an extent that they will go to the bottom together with the credit of the
States on the day after the political smash ...
2. You gentlemen here present who are economists, just strike an estimate
of the significance of this combination! ...
3. In every possible way we must develop the significance of our Super-Government
by representing it as the Protector and Benefactor of all those who voluntarily submit
to us.
4. The aristocracy of the GOYIM as a political force, is dead - We
need not take it into account; but as landed proprietors they can still be harmful
to us from the fact that they are self-sufficing in the resources upon which they
live. It is essential therefore for us at whatever cost to deprive them of their land.
This object will be best attained by increasing the burdens upon landed property -
in loading lands with debts. These measures will check land- holding and keep it in
a state of humble and un-conditional submission.
5. The aristocrats of the GOYIM, being hereditarily incapable of
contenting themselves with little, will rapidly burn up and fizzle out.
WE SHALL ENSLAVE GENTILES
6. At the same time we must intensively patronize trade and industry,
but, first and foremost, speculation, the part played by which is to provide a counterpoise
to industry: the absence of speculative industry will multiply capital in private
hands and will serve to restore agriculture by freeing the land from indebtedness
to the land banks. What we want is that industry should drain off from the land both
labor and capital and by means of speculation transfer into our hands all the money
of the world, and thereby throw all the GOYIM into the ranks of the proletariat.
Then the GOYIM will bow down before us, if for no other reason but to get the
right to exist.
7. To complete the ruin of the industry of the GOYIM we shall bring
to the assistance of speculation the luxury which we have developed among the GOYIM,
that greedy demand for luxury which is swallowing up everything. WE SHALL RAISE
THE RATE OF WAGES WHICH, HOWEVER, WILL NOT BRING ANY ADVANTAGE TO THE WORKERS, FOR,
AT THE SAME TIME, WE SHALL PRODUCE A RISE IN PRICES OF THE FIRST NECESSARIES OF LIFE,
ALLEGING THAT IT ARISES FROM THE DECLINE OF AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING: WE SHALL
FURTHER UNDERMINE ARTFULLY AND DEEPLY SOURCES OF PRODUCTION, BY ACCUSTOMING THE WORKERS
TO ANARCHY AND TO DRUNKENNESS AND SIDE BY SIDE THEREWITH TAKING ALL MEASURE TO EXTIRPATE
FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH ALL THE EDUCATED FORCES OF THE "GOYIM."
8. IN ORDER THAT THE TRUE MEANING OF THINGS MAY NOT STRIKE THE "GOYIM"
BEFORE THE PROPER TIME WE SHALL MASK IT UNDER AN ALLEGED ARDENT DESIRE TO SERVE THE
WORKING CLASSES AND THE GREAT PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY ABOUT WHICH OUR ECONOMIC
THEORIES ARE CARRYING ON AN ENERGETIC PROPAGANDA.
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No. 7
1. The intensification of armaments, the increase of police forces
- are all essential for the completion of the aforementioned plans. What we have to
get at is that there should be in all the States of the world, besides ourselves,
only the masses of the proletariat, a few millionaires devoted to our interests, police
and soldiers.
2. Throughout all Europe, and by means of relations with Europe,
in other continents also, we must create ferments, discords and hostility. Therein
we gain a double advantage. In the first place we keep in check all countries, for
they will know that we have the power whenever we like to create disorders or to restore
order. All these countries are accustomed to see in us an indispensable force of coercion.
In the second place, by our intrigues we shall tangle up all the threads which we
have stretched into the cabinets of all States by means of the political, by economic
treaties, or loan obligations. In order to succeed in this we must use great cunning
and penetration during negotiations and agreements, but, as regards what is called
the "official language," we shall keep to the opposite tactics and
assume the mask of honesty and complacency. In this way the peoples and governments
of the GOYIM, whom we have taught to look only at the outside whatever we present
to their notice, will still continue to accept us as the benefactors and saviours
of the human race.
UNIVERSAL WAR
3. We must be in a position to respond to every act of opposition
by war with the neighbors of that country which dares to oppose us: but if these neighbors
should also venture to stand collectively together against us, then we must offer
resistance by a universal war.
4. The principal factor of success in the political is the secrecy of its
undertakings: the word should not agree with the deeds of the diplomat.
5. We must compel the governments of the GOYIM to take action in
the direction favored by our widely conceived plan, already approaching the desired
consummation, by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly promoted by us
through the means of that so-called "Great Power" - THE PRESS,
WHICH, WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS THAT MAY BE DISREGARDED, IS ALREADY ENTIRELY IN OUR HANDS.
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No. 8
1. We must arm ourselves with all the weapons which our opponents
might employ against us. We must search out in the very finest shades of expression
and the knotty points of the lexicon of law justification for those cases where we
shall have to pronounce judgments that might appear abnormally audacious and unjust,
for it is important that these resolutions should be set forth in expressions that
shall seem to be the most exalted moral principles cast into legal form. Our directorate
must surround itself with all these forces of civilization among which it will have
to work. It will surround itself with publicists, practical jurists, administrators,
diplomats and, finally, with persons prepared by a special super-educational training
IN OUR SPECIAL SCHOOLS (Rhode Scholers?). These persons will have consonance
of all the secrets of the social structure, they will know all the languages that
can be made up by political alphabets and words; they will be made acquainted with
the whole underside of human nature, with all its sensitive chords on which they will
have to play. These chords are the cast of mind of the GOYIM, their tendencies,
short-comings, vices and qualities, the particularities of classes and conditions.
Needless to say that the talented assistants of authority, of whom I speak, will be
taken not from among the GOYIM, who are accustomed to perform their administrative
work without giving themselves the trouble to think what its aim is, and never consider
what it is needed for. The administrators of the GOYIM sign papers without
reading them, and they serve either for mercenary reasons or from ambition.
2. We shall surround our government with a whole world of economists. That
is the reason why economic sciences form the principal subject of the teaching given
to the Jews. Around us again will be a whole constellation of bankers, industrialists,
capitalists and - THE MAIN THING - MILLIONAIRES, BECAUSE IN SUBSTANCE EVERYTHING
WILL BE SETTLED BY THE QUESTION OF FIGURES.
3. For a time, until there will no longer be any risk in entrusting responsible
posts in our State to our brother-Jews, we shall put them in the hands of persons
whose past and reputation are such that between them and the people lies an abyss,
persons who, in case of disobedience to our instructions, must face criminal charges
or disappear - this in order to make them defend our interests to their last gasp.
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No. 9
1. In applying our principles let attention be paid to the character
of the people in whose country you live and act; a general, identical application
of them, until such time as the people shall have been re-educated to our pattern,
cannot have success. But by approaching their application cautiously you will see
that not a decade will pass before the most stubborn character will change and we
shall add a new people to the ranks of those already subdued by us.
2. The words of the liberal, which are in effect the words of our masonic
watchword, namely, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," will, when we
come into our kingdom, be changed by us into words no longer of a watchword, but only
an expression of idealism, namely, into "The right of liberty, the duty of
equality, the ideal of brotherhood." That is how we shall put it, - and so
we shall catch the bull by the horns ... DE FACTO we have already wiped out
every kind of rule except our own, although DE JURE there still remain a good
many of them. Nowadays, if any States raise a protest against us it is only PRO
FORMA at our discretion and by our direction, for THEIR ANTI-SEMITISM IS INDISPENSABLE
TO US FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF OUR LESSER BRETHREN. I will not enter into further
explanations, for this matter has formed the subject of repeated discussions amongst
us.
JEWISH SUPER-STATE
3. For us there are not checks to limit the range of our activity.
Our Super-Government subsists in extra-legal conditions which are described in the
accepted terminology by the energetic and forcible word - Dictatorship. I am in a
position to tell you with a clear conscience that at the proper time we, the law-givers,
shall execute judgment and sentence, we shall slay and we shall spare, we, as head
of all our troops, are mounted on the steed of the leader. We rule by force of will,
because in our hands are the fragments of a once powerful party, now vanquished by
us. AND THE WEAPONS IN OUR HANDS ARE LIMITLESS AMBITIONS, BURNING GREEDINESS, MERCILESS
VENGEANCE, HATREDS AND MALICE.
4. IT IS FROM US THAT THE ALL-ENGULFING TERROR PROCEEDS. WE HAVE IN OUR SERVICE
PERSONS OF ALL OPINIONS, OF ALL DOCTRINES, RESTORATING MONARCHISTS, DEMAGOGUES, SOCIALISTS,
COMMUNISTS, AND UTOPIAN DREAMERS OF EVERY KIND. We have harnessed them all to
the task: EACH ONE OF THEM ON HIS OWN ACCOUNT IS BORING AWAY AT THE LAST REMNANTS
OF AUTHORITY, IS STRIVING TO OVERTHROW ALL ESTABLISHED FORM OF ORDER. By these
acts all States are in torture; they exhort to tranquility, are ready to sacrifice
everything for peace: BUT WE WILL NOT GIVE THEM PEACE UNTIL THEY OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE
OUR INTERNATIONAL SUPER-GOVERNMENT, AND WITH SUBMISSIVENESS (European Common
Market??).
5. The people have raised a howl about the necessity of settling the question
of Socialism by way of an international agreement. DIVISION INTO FRACTIONAL
PARTIES HAS GIVEN THEM INTO OUR HANDS, FOR, IN ORDER TO CARRY ON A CONTESTED STRUGGLE
ONE MUST HAVE MONEY, AND THE MONEY IS ALL IN OUR HANDS.
6. We might have reason to apprehend a union between the "clear-sighted"
force of the GOY kings on their thrones and the "blind" force
of the GOY mobs, but we have taken all the needful measure against any such
possibility: between the one and the other force we have erected a bulwark in the
shape of a mutual terror between them. In this way the blind force of the people remains
our support and we, and we only, shall provide them with a leader and, of course,
direct them along the road that leads to our goal.
7. In order that the hand of the blind mob may not free itself from our
guiding hand, we must every now and then enter into close communion with it, if not
actually in person, at any rate through some of the most trusty of our brethren. When
we are acknowledged as the only authority we shall discuss with the people personally
on the market, places, and we shall instruct them on questings of the political in
such wise as may turn them in the direction that suits us.
8. Who is going to verify what is taught in the village schools? But what
an envoy of the government or a king on his throne himself may say cannot but become
immediately known to the whole State, for it will be spread abroad by the voice of
the people.
9. In order to annihilate the institutions of the GOYIM before it
is time we have touched them with craft and delicacy, and have taken hold of the ends
of the springs which move their mechanism. These springs lay in a strict but just
sense of order; we have replaced them by the chaotic license of liberalism.
We have got our hands into the administration of the law, into the conduct of elections,
into the press, into liberty of the person, BUT PRINCIPALLY INTO EDUCATION AND
TRAINING AS BEING THE CORNERSTONES OF A FREE EXISTENCE.
CHRISTIAN YOUTH DESTROYED
10. WE HAVE FOOLED, BEMUSED AND CORRUPTED THE YOUTH OF THE "GOYIM"
BY REARING THEM IN PRINCIPLES AND THEORIES WHICH ARE KNOWN TO US TO BE FALSE ALTHOUGH
IT IS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN INCULCATED.
11. Above the existing laws without substantially altering them, and by
merely twisting them into contradictions of interpretations, we have erected something
grandiose in the way of results. These results found expression in the fact that the
INTERPRETATIONS MASKED THE LAW: afterwards they entirely hid them from the
eyes of the governments owing to the impossibility of making anything out of the tangled
web of legislation.
12. This is the origin of the theory of course of arbitration.
13. You may say that the GOYIM will rise upon us, arms in hand, if
they guess what is going on before the time comes; but in the West we have against
this a manoeuvre of such appalling terror that the very stoutest hearts quail - the
undergrounds, metropolitans, those subterranean corridors which, before the time comes,
will be driven under all the capitals and from whence those capitals will be blown
into the air with all their organizations and archives.
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1. To-day I begin with a repetition of what I said before, and
I BEG YOU TO BEAR IN MIND THAT GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLE ARE CONTENT IN THE POLITICAL
WITH OUTSIDE APPEARANCES. And how, indeed, are the GOYIM to perceive the
underlying meaning of things when their representatives give the best of their energies
to enjoying themselves? For our policy it is of the greatest importance to take cognizance
of this detail; it will be of assistance to us when we come to consider the division
of authority of property, of the dwelling, of taxation (the idea of concealed taxes),
of the reflex force of the laws. All these questions are such as ought not to be touched
upon directly and openly before the people. In cases where it is indispensable to
touch upon them they must not be categorically named, it must merely be declared without
detailed exposition that the principles of contemporary law are acknowledged by us.
The reason of keeping silence in this respect is that by not naming a principle we
leave ourselves freedom of action, to drop this or that out of it without attracting
notice; if they were all categorically named they would all appear to have been already
given.
2. The mob cherishes a special affection and respect for the geniuses of
political power and accepts all their deeds of violence with the admiring response:
"rascally, well, yes, it is rascally, but it's clever! ... a trick, if you
like, but how craftily played, how magnificently done, what impudent audacity!"
...
OUR GOAL - WORLD POWER
3. We count upon attracting all nations to the task of erecting
the new fundamental structure, the project for which has been drawn up by us. This
is why, before everything, it is indispensable for us to arm ourselves and to store
up in ourselves that absolutely reckless audacity and irresistible might of the spirit
which in the person of our active workers will break down all hindrances on our way.
4. WHEN WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED OUR COUP D'ETAT WE SHALL SAY THEN TO THE VARIOUS
PEOPLES: "EVERYTHING HAS GONE TERRIBLY BADLY, ALL HAVE BEEN WORN OUT WITH
SUFFERING. WE ARE DESTROYING THE CAUSES OF YOUR TORMENT - NATIONALITIES, FRONTIERS,
DIFFERENCES OF COINAGES. YOU ARE AT LIBERTY, OF COURSE, TO PRONOUNCE SENTENCE UPON
US, BUT CAN IT POSSIBLY BE A JUST ONE IF IT IS CONFIRMED BY YOU BEFORE YOU MAKE ANY
TRIAL OF WHAT WE ARE OFFERING YOU." ... THEN WILL THE MOB EXALT US AND BEAR
US UP IN THEIR HANDS IN A UNANIMOUS TRIUMPH OF HOPES AND EXPECTATIONS. VOTING, WHICH
WE HAVE MADE THE INSTRUMENT WHICH WILL SET US ON THE THRONE OF THE WORLD BY TEACHING
EVEN THE VERY SMALLEST UNITS OF MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN RACE TO VOTE BY MEANS OF MEETINGS
AND AGREEMENTS BY GROUPS, WILL THEN HAVE SERVED ITS PURPOSES AND WILL PLAY ITS PART
THEN FOR THE LAST TIME BY A UNANIMITY OF DESIRE TO MAKE CLOSE ACQUAINTANCE WITH US
BEFORE CONDEMNING US.
5. TO SECURE THIS WE MUST HAVE EVERYBODY VOTE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF CLASSES
AND QUALIFICATIONS, in order to establish an absolute majority, which cannot be
got from the educated propertied classes. In this way, by inculcating in all a sense
of self-importance, we shall destroy among the GOYIM the importance of the
family and its educational value and remove the possibility of individual minds splitting
off, for the mob, handled by us, will not let them come to the front nor even give
them a hearing; it is accustomed to listen to us only who pay it for obedience and
attention. In this way we shall create a blind, mighty force which will never be in
a position to move in any direction without the guidance of our agents set at its
head by us as leaders of the mob. The people will submit to this regime because it
will know that upon these leaders will depend its earnings, gratifications and the
receipt of all kinds of benefits.
6. A scheme of government should come ready made from one brain, because
it will never be clinched firmly if it is allowed to be split into fractional parts
in the minds of many. It is allowable, therefore, for us to have cognizance of the
scheme of action but not to discuss it lest we disturb its artfulness, the interdependence
of its component parts, the practical force of the secret meaning of each clause.
To discuss and make alterations in a labor of this kind by means of numerous votings
is to impress upon it the stamp of all ratiocinations and misunderstandings which
have failed to penetrate the depth and nexus of its plottings. We want our schemes
to be forcible and suitably concocted. Therefore WE OUGHT NOT TO FLING THE WORK
OF GENIUS OF OUR GUIDE to the fangs of the mob or even of a select company.
7. These schemes will not turn existing institutions upside down just yet.
They will only effect changes in their economy and consequently in the whole combined
movement of their progress, which will thus be directed along the paths laid down
in our schemes.
POISON OF LIBERALISM
8. Under various names there exists in all countries approximately
one and the same thing. Representation, Ministry, Senate, State Council, Legislative
and Executive Corps. I need not explain to you the mechanism of the relation of these
institutions to one another, because you are aware of all that; only take note of
the fact that each of the above-named institutions corresponds to some important function
of the State, and I would beg you to remark that the word "important"
I apply not to the institution but to the function, consequently it is not the institutions
which are important but their functions. These institutions have divided up among
themselves all the functions of government - administrative, legislative, executive,
wherefore they have come to operate as do the organs in the human body. If we injure
one part in the machinery of State, the State falls sick, like a human body, and ...
will die.
9. When we introduced into the State organism the poison of Liberalism
its whole political complexion underwent a change. States have been seized with a
mortal illness - blood poisoning. All that remains is to await the end of their death
agony.
10. Liberalism produced Constitutional States, which took the place
of what was the only safeguard of the GOYIM, namely, Despotism; and A CONSTITUTION,
AS YOU WELL KNOW, IS NOTHING ELSE BUT A SCHOOL OF DISCORDS, misunderstandings,
quarrels, disagreements, fruitless party agitations, party whims - in a word, a school
of everything that serves to destroy the personality of State activity. THE TRIBUNE
OF THE "TALKERICS" HAS, NO LESS EFFECTIVELY THAN THE PRESS, CONDEMNED THE
RULERS TO INACTIVITY AND IMPOTENCE, and thereby rendered them useless and superfluous,
for which reason indeed they have been in many countries deposed. THEN IT WAS THAT
THE ERA OF REPUBLICS BECOME POSSIBLE OF REALIZATION; AND THEN IT WAS THAT WE REPLACED
THE RULER BY A CARICATURE OF A GOVERNMENT - BY A PRESIDENT, TAKEN FROM THE MOB, FROM
THE MIDST OF OUR PUPPET CREATURES, OR SLAVES. This was the foundation of the mine
which we have laid under the GOY people, I should rather say, under the GOY
peoples.
WE NAME PRESIDENTS
11. In the near future we shall establish the responsibility of
presidents.
12. By that time we shall be in a position to disregard forms in carrying
through matters for which our impersonal puppet will be responsible. What do we care
if the ranks of those striving for power should be thinned, if there should arise
a deadlock from the impossibility of finding presidents, a deadlock which will finally
disorganize the country? ...
13. In order that our scheme may produce this result we shall arrange elections
in favor of such presidents as have in their past some dark, undiscovered stain, some
"Panama" or other - then they will be trustworthy agents for the
accomplishment of our plans out of fear of revelations and from the natural desire
of everyone who has attained power, namely, the retention of the privileges, advantages
and honor connected with the office of president. The chamber of deputies will provide
cover for, will protect, will elect presidents, but we shall take from it the right
to propose new, or make changes in existing laws, for this right will be given by
us to the responsible president, a puppet in our hands. Naturally, the authority of
the presidents will then become a target for every possible form of attack, but we
shall provide him with a means of self-defense in the right of an appeal to the people,
for the decision of the people over the heads of their representatives, that is to
say, an appeal to that some blind slave of ours - the majority of the mob. Independently
of this we shall invest the president with the right of declaring a state of war.
We shall justify this last right on the ground that the president as chief of the
whole army of the country must have it at his disposal, in case of need for the defense
of the new republican constitution, the right to defend which will belong to him as
the responsible representative of this constitution.
14. It is easy to understand them in these conditions the key of the shrine
will lie in our hands, and no one outside ourselves will any longer direct the force
of legislation.
15. Besides this we shall, with the introduction of the new republican constitution,
take from the Chamber the right of interpolation on government measures, on the pretext
of preserving political secrecy, and, further, we shall by the new constitution reduce
the number of representatives to a minimum, thereby proportionately reducing political
passions and the passion for politics. If, however, they should, which is hardly to
be expected, burst into flame, even in this minimum, we shall nullify them by a stirring
appeal and a reference to the majority of the whole people ... Upon the president
will depend the appointment of presidents and vice-presidents of the Chamber and the
Senate. Instead of constant sessions of Parliaments we shall reduce their sittings
to a few months. Moreover, the president, as chief of the executive power, will have
the right to summon and dissolve Parliament, and, in the latter case, to prolong the
time for the appointment of a new parliamentary assembly. But in order that the consequences
of all these acts which in substance are illegal, should not, prematurely for our
plans, upon the responsibility established by use of the president, WE SHALL INSTIGATE
MINISTERS AND OTHER OFFICIALS OF THE HIGHER ADMINISTRATION ABOUT THE PRESIDENT TO
EVADE HIS DISPOSITIONS BY TAKING MEASURES OF THEIR OWN, for doing which they will
be made the scapegoats in his place ... This part we especially recommend to be given
to be played by the Senate, the Council of State, or the Council of Ministers, but
not to an individual official.
16. The president will, at our discretion, interpret the sense of such of
the existing laws as admit of various interpretation; he will further annul them when
we indicate to him the necessity to do so, besides this, he will have the right to
propose temporary laws, and even new departures in the government constitutional working,
the pretext both for the one and the other being the requirements for the supreme
welfare of the State.
WE SHALL DESTROY
17. By such measure we shall obtain the power of destroying little
by little, step by step, all that at the outset when we enter on our rights, we are
compelled to introduce into the constitutions of States to prepare for the transition
to an imperceptible abolition of every kind of constitution, and then the time is
come to turn every form of government into OUR DESPOTISM.
18. The recognition of our despot may also come before the destruction of
the constitution; the moment for this recognition will come when the peoples, utterly
wearied by the irregularities and incompetence - a matter which we shall arrange for
- of their rulers, will clamor: "Away with them and give us one king over
all the earth who will unite us and annihilate the causes of disorders - frontiers,
nationalities, religions, State debts - who will give us peace and quiet which we
cannot find under our rulers and representatives."
19. But you yourselves perfectly well know that TO PRODUCE THE POSSIBILITY
OF THE EXPRESSION OF SUCH WISHES BY ALL THE NATIONS IT IS INDISPENSABLE TO TROUBLE
IN ALL COUNTRIES THE PEOPLE'S RELATIONS WITH THEIR GOVERNMENTS SO AS TO UTTERLY EXHAUST
HUMANITY WITH DISSENSION, HATRED, STRUGGLE, ENVY AND EVEN BY THE USE OF TORTURE, BY
STARVATION, BY THE INOCULATION OF DISEASES, BY WANT, SO THAT THE "GOYIM"
SEE NO OTHER ISSUE THAN TO TAKE REFUGE IN OUR COMPLETE SOVEREIGNTY IN MONEY AND IN
ALL ELSE.
20. But if we give the nations of the world a breathing space the moment
we long for is hardly likely ever to arrive.
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1. The State Council has been, as it were, the emphatic expression
of the authority of the ruler: it will be, as the "show" part of
the Legislative Corps, what may be called the editorial committee of the laws and
decrees of the ruler.
2. This, then, is the program of the new constitution. We shall make Law,
Right and Justice (1) in the guise of proposals to the Legislative Corps, (2)
by decrees of the president under the guise of general regulations, of orders of the
Senate and of resolutions of the State Council in the guise of ministerial orders,
(3) and in case a suitable occasion should arise - in the form of a revolution
in the State.
3. Having established approximately the MODUS AGENDI we will occupy
ourselves with details of those combinations by which we have still to complete the
revolution in the course of the machinery of State in the direction already indicated.
By these combinations I mean the freedom of the Press, the right of association, freedom
of conscience, the voting principle, and many another that must disappear for ever
from the memory of man, or undergo a radical alteration the day after the promulgation
of the new constitution. It is only at the moment that we shall be able at once to
announce all our orders, for, afterwards, every noticeable alteration will be dangerous,
for the following reasons: if this alteration be brought in with harsh severity and
in a sense of severity and limitations, it may lead to a feeling of despair caused
by fear of new alterations in the same direction; if, on the other hand, it be brought
in a sense of further indulgences it will be said that we have recognized our own
wrong-doing and this will destroy the prestige of the infallibility of our authority,
or else it will be said that we have become alarmed and are compelled to show a yielding
disposition, for which we shall get no thanks because it will be supposed to be compulsory
... Both the one and the other are injurious to the prestige of the new constitution.
What we want is that from the first moment of its promulgation, while the peoples
of the world are still stunned by the accomplished fact of the revolution, still in
a condition of terror and uncertainty, they should recognize once for all that we
are so strong, so inexpugnable, so super-abundantly filled with power, that in no
case shall we take any account of them, and so far from paying any attention to their
opinions or wishes, we are ready and able to crush with irresistible power all expression
or manifestation thereof at every moment and in every place, that we have seized at
once everything we wanted and shall in no case divide our power with them ... Then
in fear and trembling they will close their eyes to everything, and be content to
await what will be the end of it all.
WE ARE WOLVES
4. The GOYIM are a flock of sheep, and we are their wolves.
And you know what happens when the wolves get hold of the flock? ....
5. There is another reason also why they will close their eyes: for we shall
keep promising them to give back all the liberties we have taken away as soon as we
have quelled the enemies of peace and tamed all parties ....
6. It is not worth to say anything about how long a time they will be kept
waiting for this return of their liberties ....
7. For what purpose then have we invented this whole policy and insinuated
it into the minds of the GOY without giving them any chance to examine its
underlying meaning? For what, indeed, if not in order to obtain in a roundabout way
what is for our scattered tribe unattainable by the direct road? It is this which
has served as the basis for our organization of SECRET MASONRY WHICH IS NOT KNOWN
TO, AND AIMS WHICH ARE NOT EVEN SO MUCH AS SUSPECTED BY, THESE "GOY"
CATTLE, ATTRACTED BY US INTO THE "SHOW" ARMY OF MASONIC LODGES IN
ORDER TO THROW DUST IN THE EYES OF THEIR FELLOWS.
8. God has granted to us, His Chosen People, the gift of the
dispersion, and in this which appears in all eyes to be our weakness, has come forth
all our strength, which has now brought us to the threshold of sovereignty over all
the world.
9. There now remains not much more for us to build up upon the foundation
we have laid.
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1. The word "freedom," which can be interpreted
in various ways, is defined by us as follows -
2. Freedom is the right to do what which the law allows. This interpretation
of the word will at the proper time be of service to us, because all freedom will
thus be in our hands, since the laws will abolish or create only that which is desirable
for us according to the aforesaid program.
3. We shall deal with the press in the following way: what is the part played
by the press to-day? It serves to excite and inflame those passions which are needed
for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends of parties. It is often vapid, unjust,
mendacious, and the majority of the public have not the slightest idea what ends the
press really serves. We shall saddle and bridle it with a tight curb: we shall do
the same also with all productions of the printing press, for where would be the sense
of getting rid of the attacks of the press if we remain targets for pamphlets and
books? The produce of publicity, which nowadays is a source of heavy expense owing
to the necessity of censoring it, will be turned by us into a very lucrative source
of income to our State: we shall law on it a special stamp tax and require deposits
of caution-money before permitting the establishment of any organ of the press or
of printing offices; these will then have to guarantee our government against any
kind of attack on the part of the press. For any attempt to attack us, if such still
be possible, we shall inflict fines without mercy. Such measures as stamp tax, deposit
of caution-money and fines secured by these deposits, will bring in a huge income
to the government. It is true that party organs might not spare money for the sake
of publicity, but these we shall shut up at the second attack upon us. No one shall
with impunity lay a finger on the aureole of our government infallibility. The pretext
for stopping any publication will be the alleged plea that it is agitating the public
mind without occasion or justification. I BEG YOU TO NOTE THAT AMONG THOSE MAKING
ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO BE ORGANS ESTABLISHED BY US, BUT THEY WILL ATTACK EXCLUSIVELY
POINTS THAT WE HAVE PRE-DETERMINED TO ALTER.
WE CONTROL THE PRESS
4. NOT A SINGLE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL REACH THE PUBLIC WITHOUT OUR CONTROL.
Even now this is already being attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received
by a few agencies, in whose offices they are focused from all parts of the world.
These agencies will then be already entirely ours and will give publicity only to
what we dictate to them.
5. If already now we have contrived to possess ourselves of the minds of
the GOY communities to such an extent the they all come near looking upon the
events of the world through the colored glasses of those spectacles we are setting
astride their noses; if already now there is not a single State where there exist
for us any barriers to admittance into what GOY stupidity calls State secrets:
what will our positions be then, when we shall be acknowledged supreme lords of the
world in the person of our king of all the world ....
6. Let us turn again to the FUTURE OF THE PRINTING PRESS. Every one
desirous of being a publisher, librarian, or printer, will be obliged to provide himself
with the diploma instituted therefore, which, in case of any fault, will be immediately
impounded. With such measures THE INSTRUMENT OF THOUGHT WILL BECOME AN EDUCATIVE
MEANS ON THE HANDS OF OUR GOVERNMENT, WHICH WILL NO LONGER ALLOW THE MASS OF THE NATION
TO BE LED ASTRAY IN BY-WAYS AND FANTASIES ABOUT THE BLESSINGS OF PROGRESS. Is
there any one of us who does not know that these phantom blessings are the direct
roads to foolish imaginings which give birth to anarchical relations of men among
themselves and towards authority, because progress, or rather the idea of progress,
has introduced the conception of every kind of emancipation, but has failed to establish
its limits .... All the so-called liberals are anarchists, if not in fact, at any
rate in thought. Every one of them in hunting after phantoms of freedom, and falling
exclusively into license, that is, into the anarchy of protest for the sake of protest
....
FREE PRESS DESTROYED
7. We turn to the periodical press. We shall impose on it, as on
all printed matter, stamp taxes per sheet and deposits of caution- money, and books
of less than 30 sheets will pay double. We shall reckon them as pamphlets in order,
on the one hand, to reduce the number of magazines, which are the worst form of printed
poison, and, on the other, in order that this measure may force writers into such
lengthy productions that they will be little read, especially as they will be costly.
At the same time what we shall publish ourselves to influence mental development in
the direction laid down for our profit will be cheap and will be read voraciously.
The tax will bring vapid literary ambitions within bounds and the liability to penalties
will make literary men dependent upon us. And if there should be any found who are
desirous of writing against us, they will not find any person eager to print their
productions in print the publisher or printer will have to apply to the authorities
for permission to do so. Thus we shall know beforehand of all tricks preparing against
us and shall nullify them by getting ahead with explanations on the subject treated
of.
8. Literature and journalism are two of the most important educative forces,
and therefore our government will become proprietor of the majority of the journals.
This will neutralize the injurious influence of the privately-owned press and will
put us in possession of a tremendous influence upon the public mind .... If we give
permits for ten journals, we shall ourselves found thirty, and so on in the same proportion.
This, however, must in no wise be suspected by the public. For which reason all journals
published by us will be of the most opposite, in appearance, tendencies and opinions,
thereby creating confidence in us and bringing over to us quite unsuspicious opponents,
who will thus fall into our trap and be rendered harmless.
9. In the front rank will stand organs of an official character. They will
always stand guard over our interests, and therefore their influence will be comparatively
insignificant.
10. In the second rank will be the semi-official organs, whose part it will
be to attack the tepid and indifferent.
11. In the third rank we shall set up our own, to all appearance, off position,
which, in at least one of its organs, will present what looks like the very antipodes
to us. Our real opponents at heart will accept this simulated opposition as their
own and will show us their cards.
12. All our newspapers will be of all possible complexions - aristocratic,
republican, revolutionary, even anarchical - for so long, of course, as the constitution
exists .... Like the Indian idol "Vishnu" they will have a hundred
hands, and every one of them will have a finger on any one of the public opinions
as required. When a pulse quickens these hands will lead opinion in the direction
of our aims, for an excited patient loses all power of judgment and easily yields
to suggestion. Those fools who will think they are repeating the opinion of a newspaper
of their own camp will be repeating our opinion or any opinion that seems desirable
for us. In the vain belief that they are following the organ of their party they will,
in fact, follow the flag which we hang out for them.
13. In order to direct our newspaper militia in this sense we must take
special and minute care in organizing this matter. Under the title of central department
of the press we shall institute literary gatherings at which our agents will without
attracting attention issue the orders and watchwords of the day. By discussing and
controverting, but always superficially, without touching the essence of the matter,
our organs will carry on a sham fight fusillade with the official newspapers solely
for the purpose of giving occasion for us to express ourselves more fully than could
well be done from the outset in official announcements, whenever, of course, that
is to our advantage.
14. THESE ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO SERVE ANOTHER PURPOSE, NAMELY, THAT OUR
SUBJECTS WILL BE CONVINCED TO THE EXISTENCE OF FULL FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND SO GIVE
OUR AGENTS AN OCCASION TO AFFIRM THAT ALL ORGANS WHICH OPPOSE US ARE EMPTY BABBLERS,
since they are incapable of finding any substantial objections to our orders.
ONLY LIES PRINTED
15. Methods of organization like these, imperceptible to the public
eye but absolutely sure, are the best calculated to succeed in bringing the attention
and the confidence of the public to the side of our government. Thanks to such methods
we shall be in a position as from time to time may be required, to excite or to tranquillize
the public mind on political questions, to persuade or to confuse, printing now truth,
now lies, facts or their contradictions, according as they may be well or ill received,
always very cautiously feeling our ground before stepping upon it .... WE SHALL
HAVE A SURE TRIUMPH OVER OUR OPPONENTS SINCE THEY WILL NOT HAVE AT THEIR DISPOSITION
ORGANS OF THE PRESS IN WHICH THEY CAN GIVE FULL AND FINAL EXPRESSION TO THEIR VIEWS
owing to the aforesaid methods of dealing with the press. We shall not even need to
refute them except very superficially.
16. Trial shots like these, fired by us in the third rank of our press,
in case of need, will be energetically refuted by us in our semi-official organs.
17. Even nowadays, already, to take only the French press, there are forms
which reveal masonic solidarity in acting on the watchword: all organs of the press
are bound together by professional secrecy; like the augurs of old, not one of their
numbers will give away the secret of his sources of information unless it be resolved
to make announcement of them. Not one journalist will venture to betray this secret,
for not one of them is ever admitted to practice literature unless his whole past
has some disgraceful sore or other .... These sores would be immediately revealed.
So long as they remain the secret of a few the prestige of the journalist attacks
the majority of the country - the mob follow after him with enthusiasm.
18. Our calculations are especially extended to the provinces. It is indispensable
for us to inflame there those hopes and impulses with which we could at any moment
fall upon the capital, and we shall represent to the capitals that these expressions
are the independent hopes and impulses of the provinces. Naturally, the source of
them will be always one and the same - ours. WHAT WE NEED IS THAT, UNTIL SUCH TIME
AS WE ARE IN THE PLENITUDE POWER, THE CAPITALS SHOULD FIND THEMSELVES STIFLED BY THE
PROVINCIAL OPINION OF THE NATIONS, I.E., OF A MAJORITY ARRANGED BY OUR AGENTUR. What
we need is that at the psychological moment the capitals should not be in a position
to discuss an accomplished fact for the simple reason, if for no other, that it has
been accepted by the public opinion of a majority in the provinces.
19. WHEN WE ARE IN THE PERIOD OF THE NEW REGIME TRANSITIONAL TO THAT OF OUR
ASSUMPTION OF FULL SOVEREIGNTY WE MUST NOT ADMIT ANY REVELATION BY THE PRESS OF ANY
FORM OF PUBLIC DISHONESTY; IT IS NECESSARY THAT THE NEW REGIME SHOULD BE THOUGHT TO
HAVE SO PERFECTLY CONTENDED EVERYBODY THAT EVEN CRIMINALITY HAS DISAPPEARED ...
Cases of the manifestation of criminality should remain known only to their victims
and to chance witnesses - no more.
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1. The need for daily forces the GOYIM to keep silence and
be our humble servants. Agents taken on to our press from among the GOYIM will
at our orders discuss anything which it is inconvenient for us to issue directly in
official documents, and we meanwhile, quietly amid the din of the discussion so raised,
shall simply take and carry through such measures as we wish and then offer them to
the public as an accomplished fact. No one will dare to demand the abrogation of a
matter once settled, all the more so as it will be represented as an improvement ...
And immediately the press will distract the current of thought towards, new questions,
(have we not trained people always to be seeking something new?). Into the
discussions of these new questions will throw themselves those of the brainless dispensers
of fortunes who are not able even now to understand that they have not the remotest
conception about the matters which they undertake to discuss. Questions of the political
are unattainable for any save those who have guided it already for many ages, the
creators.
2. From all this you will see that in seeming the opinion of the mob we
are only facilitating the working of our machinery, and you may remark that it is
not for actions but for words issued by us on this or that question that we seem to
seek approval. We are constantly making public declaration that we are guided in all
our undertakings by the hoope, joined to the conviction, that we are serving the common
weal.
WE DECEIVE WORKERS
3. In order to distract people who may be too troublesome from
discussions of questions of the political we are now putting forward what we allege
to be new questions of the political, namely, questions of industry. In this sphere
let them discuss themselves silly! The masses are agreed to remain inactive, to take
a rest from what they suppose to be political (which we trained them to in order
to use them as a means of combating the GOY governments) only on condition
of being found new employments, in which we are prescribing them something that looks
like the same political object. In order that the masses themselves may not guess
what they are about WE FURTHER DISTRACT THEM WITH AMUSEMENTS, GAMES, PASTIMES,
PASSIONS, PEOPLE'S PALACES .... SOON WE SHALL BEGIN THROUGH THE PRESS TO PROPOSE COMPETITIONS
IN ART, IN SPORT IN ALL KINDS: these interests will finally distract their minds
from questions in which we should find ourselves compelled to oppose them. Growing
more and more dis- accustomed to reflect and form any opinions of their own, people
will begin to talk in the same tone as we because we alone shall be offering them
new directions for thought ... of course through such persons as will not be suspected
of solidarity with us.
4. The part played by the liberals, utopian dreamers, will be finally played
out when our government is acknowledged. Till such time they will continue to do us
good service. Therefore we shall continue to direct their minds to all sorts of vain
conceptions of fantastic theories, new and apparently progressive: for have we not
with complete success turned the brainless heads of the GOYIM with progress,
till there is not among the GOYIM one mind able to perceive that under this
word lies a departure from truth in all cases where it is not a question of material
inventions, like a fallacious idea, serves to obscure truth so that none may know
it except us, the Chosen of God, its guardians.
5. When, we come into our kingdom our orators will expound great problems
which have turned humanity upside down in order to bring it at the end under our beneficent
rule.
6. Who will ever suspect then that ALL THESE PEOPLES WERE STAGE-MANAGED
BY US ACCORDING TO A POLITICAL PLAN WHICH NO ONE HAS SO MUCH AS GUESSED AT IN THE
COURSE OF MANY CENTURIES?
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1. When we come into our kingdom it will be undesirable for us
that there should exist any other religion than ours of the One God with whom our
destiny is bound up by our position as the Chosen People and through whom our same
destiny is united with the destinies of the world. We must therefore sweep away all
other forms of belief. If this gives birth to the atheists whom we see to-day, it
will not, being only a transitional stage, interfere with our views, but will serve
as a warning for those generations which will hearken to our preaching of the religion
of Moses, that, by its stable and thoroughly elaborated system has brought all the
peoples of the world into subjection to us. Therein we shall emphasize its mystical
right, on which, as we shall say, all its educative power is based .... Then at every
possible opportunity we shall publish articles in which we shall make comparisons
between our beneficent rule and those of past ages. The blessing of tranquillity,
though it be a tranquillity forcibly brought about by centuries of agitation, will
throw into higher relief the benefits to which we shall point. The errors of the GOYIM
governments will be depicted by us in the most vivid hues. We shall implant such an
abhorrence of them that the peoples will prefer tranquillity in a state of serfdom
to those rights of vaunted freedom which have tortured humanity and exhausted the
very sources of human existence, sources which have been exploited by a mob of rascally
adventurers who know not what they do .... USELESS CHANGES OF FORMS OF GOVERNMENT
TO WHICH WE INSTIGATED THE "GOYIM" WHEN WE WERE UNDERMINING THEIR STATE
STRUCTURES, WILL HAVE SO WEARIED THE PEOPLES BY THAT TIME THAT THEY WILL PREFER TO
SUFFER ANYTHING UNDER US RATHER THAN RUN THE RISK OF ENDURING AGAIN ALL THE AGITATIONS
AND MISERIES THEY HAVE GONE THROUGH.
WE SHALL FORBID CHRIST
2. At the same time we shall not omit to emphasize the historical
mistakes of the GOY governments which have tormented humanity for so many centuries
by their lack of understanding of everything that constitutes the true good of humanity
in their chase after fantastic schemes of social blessings, and have never noticed
that these schemes kept on producing a worse and never a better state of the universal
relations which are the basis of human life ....
3. The whole force of our principles and methods will lie in the fact that
we shall present them and expound them as a splendid contrast to the dead and decomposed
old order of things in social life.
4. Our philosophers will discuss all the shortcomings of the various beliefs
of the "GOYIM," BUT NO ONE WILL EVER BRING UNDER DISCUSSION OUR
FAITH FROM ITS TRUE POINT OF VIEW SINCE THIS WILL BE FULLY LEARNED BY NONE SAVE OURS
WHO WILL NEVER DARE TO BETRAY ITS SECRETS.
5. IN COUNTRIES KNOWN AS PROGRESSIVE AND ENLIGHTENED WE HAVE CREATED A SENSELESS,
FILTHY, ABOMINABLE LITERATURE. For some time after our entrance to power we shall
continue to encourage its existence in order to provide a telling relief by contrast
to the speeches, party program, which will be distributed from exalted quarters of
ours .... Our wise men, trained to become leaders of the GOYIM, will compose
speeches, projects, memoirs, articles, which will be used by us to influence the minds
of the GOYIM, directing them towards such understanding and forms of knowledge
as have been determined by us.
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1. When we at last definitely come into our kingdom by the aid
of COUPS D'ETAT prepared everywhere for one and the same day, after definitely
acknowledged (and not a little time will pass before that comes about, perhaps
even a whole century) we shall make it our task to see that against us such things
as plots shall no longer exist. With this purpose we shall slay without mercy all
who take arms (in hand) to oppose our coming into our kingdom. Every kind of
new institution of anything like a secret society will also be punished with death;
those of them which are now in existence, are known to us, serve us and have served
us, we shall disband and send into exile to continents far removed from Europe.
IN THIS WAY WE SHALL PROCEED WITH THOSE "GOY" MASONS WHO KNOW TOO
MUCH; such of these as we may for some reason spare will be kept in constant fear
of exile. We shall promulgate a law making all former members of secret societies
liable to exile from Europe as the center of rule.
2. Resolutions of our government will be final, without appeal.
3. In the GOY societies, in which we have planted and deeply rooted
discord and protestantism, the only possible way of restoring order is to employ merciless
measures that prove the direct force of authority: no regard must be paid to the victims
who fall, they suffer for the well-being of the future. The attainment of that well-being,
even at the expense of sacrifices, is the duty of any kind of government that acknowledges
as justification for its existence not only its privileges but its obligations. The
principal guarantee of stability of rule is to confirm the aureole of power, and this
aureole is attained only by such a majestic inflexibility of might as shall carry
on its face the emblems of inviolability from mystical causes - from the choice of
God. SUCH WAS, UNTIL RECENT TIMES, THE RUSSIAN AUTOCRACY, THE ONE AND ONLY SERIOUS
FOE WE HAD IN THE WORLD, WITHOUT COUNTING THE PAPACY. Bear in mind the example
when Italy, drenched with blood, never touched a hair of the head of Sulla who had
poured forth that blood: Sulla enjoyed an apotheosis for his might in him, but his
intrepid return to Italy ringed him round with inviolability. The people do not lay
a finger on him who hypnotizes them by his daring and strength of mind.
SECRET SOCIETIES
4. Meantime, however, until we come into our kingdom, we shall
act in the contrary way: we shall create and multiply free masonic lodges in all the
countries of the world, absorb into them all who may become or who are prominent in
public activity, for these lodges we shall find our principal intelligence office
and means of influence. All these lodges we shall bring under one central administration,
known to us alone and to all others absolutely unknown, which will be composed of
our learned elders. The lodges will have their representatives who will serve to screen
the above-mentioned administration of MASONRY and from whom will issue the watchword
and program. In these lodges we shall tie together the knot which binds together all
revolutionary and liberal elements. Their composition will be made up of all strata
of society. The most secret political plots will be known to us and fall under our
guiding hands on the very day of their conception. AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THESE LODGES
WILL BE ALMOST ALL THE AGENTS OF INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL POLICE since their
service is for us irreplaceable in the respect that the police is in a position not
only to use its own particular measures with the insubordinate, but also to screen
our activities and provide pretexts for discontents, ET CETERA.
5. The class of people who most willingly enter into secret societies are
those who live by their wits, careerists, and in general people, mostly light-minded,
with whom we shall have no difficulty in dealing and in using to wind up the mechanism
of the machine devised by us. If this world grows agitated the meaning of that will
be that we have had to stir up in order to break up its too great solidarity. BUT
IF THERE SHOULD ARISE IN ITS MIDST A PLOT, THEN AT THE HEAD OF THAT PLOT WILL BE NO
OTHER THAN ONE OF OUR MOST TRUSTED SERVANTS. It is natural that we and no other
should lead MASONIC activities, for we know whither we are leading, we know
the final goal of every form of activity whereas the GOYIM have knowledge of
nothing, not even of the immediate effect of action; they put before themselves, usually,
the momentary reckoning of the satisfaction of their self- opinion in the accomplishment
of their thought without even remarking that the very conception never belonged to
their initiative but to our instigation of their thought ....
GENTILES ARE STUPID
6. The GOYIM enter the lodges out of curiosity or in the
hope by their means to get a nibble at the public pie, and some of them in order to
obtain a hearing before the public for their impracticable and groundless fantasies:
they thirst for the emotion of success and applause, of which we are remarkably generous.
And the reason why we give them this success is to make use of the nigh conceit of
themselves to which it gives birth, for that insensibly disposes them to assimulate
our suggestions without being on their guard against them in the fullness of their
confidence that it is their own infallibility which is giving utterance to their own
thoughts and that it is impossible for them to borrow those of others .... You cannot
imagine to what extent the wisest of the GOYIM can be brought to a state of
unconscious naivete in the presence of this condition of high conceit of themselves,
and at the same time how easy it is to take the heart out of them by the slightest
ill-success, though it be nothing more than the stoppage of the applause they had,
and to reduce them to a slavish submission for the sake of winning a renewal of success
.... BY SO MUCH AS OURS DISREGARD SUCCESS IF ONLY THEY CAN CARRY THROUGH THEIR
PLANS, BY SO MUCH THE "GOYIM" ARE WILLING TO SACRIFICE ANY PLANS
ONLY TO HAVE SUCCESS. This psychology of theirs materially facilitates for us
the task of setting them in the required direction. These tigers in appearance have
the souls of sheep and the wind blows freely through their heads. We have set them
on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic
unit of COLLECTIVISM .... They have never yet and they never will have the
sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important
law of nature, which has established from the very creation of the world one unit
unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality ....
7. If we have been able to bring them to such a pitch of stupid blindness
is it not a proof, and an amazingly clear proof, of the degree to which the mind of
the GOYIM is undeveloped in comparison with our mind? This it is, mainly, which
guarantees our success.
GENTILES ARE CATTLE
8. And how far-seeing were our learned elders in ancient times
when they said that to attain a serious end it behooves not to stop at any means or
to count the victims sacrificed for the sake of that end .... We have not counted
the victims of the seed of the GOY cattle, though we have sacrificed many of
our own, but for that we have now already given them such a position on the earth
as they could not even have dreamed of. The comparatively small numbers of the victims
from the number of ours have preserved our nationality from destruction.
9. Death is the inevitable end for all. It is better to bring that end nearer
to those who hinder our affairs than to ourselves, to the founders of this affair.
WE EXECUTE MASONS IN SUCH WISE THAT NONE SAVE THE BROTHERHOOD CAN EVER HAVE A SUSPICION
OF IT, NOT EVEN THE VICTIMS THEMSELVES OF OUR DEATH SENTENCE, THEY ALL DIE WHEN REQUIRED
AS IF FROM A NORMAL KIND OF ILLNESS ..... Knowing this, even the brotherhood in
its turn dare not protest. By such methods we have plucked out of the midst of MASONRY
the very root of protest against our disposition. While preaching liberalism
to the GOY we at the same time keep our own people and our agents in a state
of unquestioningly submission.
10. Under our influence the execution of the laws of the GOYIM has
been reduced to a minimum. The prestige of the law has been exploded by the liberal
interpretations introduced into this sphere. In the most important and fundamental
affairs and questions, JUDGES DECIDE AS WE DICTATE TO THEM, see matters in
the light wherewith we enfold them for the administration of the GOYIM, of
course, through persons who are our tools though we do not appear to have anything
in common with them - by newspaper opinion or by other means .... Even senators and
the higher administration accept our counsels. The purely brute mind of the GOYIM
is incapable of use for analysis and observation, and still more for the foreseeing
whither a certain manner of setting a question may tend.
11. In this difference in capacity for thought between the GOYIM
and ourselves may be clearly discerned the seal of our position as the Chosen People
and of our higher quality of humanness, in contradistinction to the brute mind of
the GOYIM. Their eyes are open, but see nothing before them and do not invent
(unless perhaps, material things). From this it is plain that nature herself
has destined us to guide and rule the world.
WE DEMAND SUBMISSION
12. When comes the time of our overt rule, the time to manifest
its blessing, we shall remake all legislatures, all our laws will be brief, plain,
stable, without any kind of interpretations, so that anyone will be in a position
to know them perfectly. The main feature which will run right through them is submission
to orders, and this principle will be carried to a grandiose height. Every abuse will
then disappear in consequence of the responsibility of all down to the lowest unit
before the higher authority of the representative of power. Abuses of power subordinate
to this last instance will be so mercilessly punished that none will be found anxious
to try experiments with their own powers. We shall follow up jealously every action
of the administration on which depends the smooth running of the machinery of the
State, for slackness in this produces slackness everywhere; not a single case of illegality
or abuse of power will be left without exemplary punishment.
13. Concealment of guilt, connivance between those in the service of the
administration - all this kind of evil will disappear after the very first examples
of severe punishment. The aureole of our power demands suitable, that is, cruel, punishments
for the slightest infringement, for the sake of gain, of its supreme prestige. The
sufferer, though his punishment may exceed his fault, will count as a soldier falling
on the administrative field of battle in the interest of authority, principle and
law, which do not permit that any of those who hold the reins of the public coach
should turn aside from the public highway to their own private paths. FOR EXAMPLES
OUR JUDGES WILL KNOW THAT WHENEVER THEY FEEL DISPOSED TO PLUME THEMSELVES ON FOOLISH
CLEMENCY THEY ARE VIOLATING THE LAW OF JUSTICE WHICH IS INSTITUTED FOR THE EXEMPLARY
EDIFICATION OF MEN BY PENALTIES FOR LAPSES AND NOT FOR DISPLAY OF THE SPIRITUAL QUALITIES
OF THE JUDGES .... Such qualities it is proper to show in private life, but not
in a public square which is the educationally basis of human life. (Is it not a
coincidence that the Jewish created "Bar Associations" has declared
that "May 1st" to be "Law Day;" the same date that
the Jews created the "Illuminati"
under the guidance of Adam Wiesthaust in 1776? Is it also a coincidence that
the Jewish created "Communist Nations" celebrate "May 1st"
as a National holiday?).
14. Our legal staff will serve not beyond the age of 55, firstly because
old men more obstinately hold to prejudiced opinions, and are less capable of submitting
to new directions, and secondly because this will give us the possibility by this
measure of securing elasticity in the changing of staff, which will thus the more
easily bend under our pressure: he who wishes to keep his place will have to give
blind obedience to deserve it. In general, our judges will be elected by us only from
among those who thoroughly understand that the part they have to play is to punish
and apply laws and not to dream about the manifestations of liberalism at the expense
of the educational scheme of the State, as the GOYIM in these days imagine
it to be .... This method of shuffling the staff will serve also to explode any collective
solidarity of those in the same service and will bind all to the interests of the
government upon which their fate will depend. The young generation of judges will
be trained in certain views regarding the inadmissibility of any abuses that might
disturb the established order of our subjects among themselves.
15. In these days the judges of the GOYIM create indulgences to every
kind of crimes, not having a just understanding of their office, because the rulers
of the present age in appointing judges to office take no care to inculcate in them
a sense of duty and consciousness of the matter which is demanded of them. As a brute
beast lets out its young in search of prey, so do the GOYIM give to them for
what purpose such place was created. This is the reason why their governments are
being ruined by their own forces through the acts of their own administration.
16. Let us borrow from the example of the results of these actions yet another
lesson for our government.
17. We shall root out liberalism from all the important strategic posts
of our government on which depends the training of subordinates for our State structure.
Such posts will fall exclusively to those who have been trained by us for administrative
rule. To the possible objection that the retirement of old servants will cost the
Treasury heavily, I reply, firstly, they will be provided with some private service
in place of what they lose, and, secondly, I have to remark that all the money in
the world will be concentrated in our hands, consequently it is not our government
that has to fear expense.
WE SHALL BE CRUEL
18. Our absolutism will in all things be logically consecutive
and therefore in each one of its decrees our supreme will be respected and unquestionably
fulfilled: it will ignore all murmurs, all discontents of every kind and will destroy
to the root every kind of manifestation of them in act by punishment of an exemplary
character.
19. We shall abolish the right of cessation, which will be transferred exclusively
to our disposal - to the cognizance of him who rules, for we must not allow the conception
among the people of a thought that there could be such a thing as a decision that
is not right of judges set up by us. If, however, anything like this should occur,
we shall ourselves cassate the decision, but inflict therewith such exemplary punishment
on the judge for lack of understanding of his duty and the purpose of his appointment
as will prevent a repetition of such cases .... I repeat that it must be born in mind
that we shall know every step of our administration which only needs to be closely
watched for the people to be content with us, for it has the right to demand from
a good government a good official.
20. OUR GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE THE APPEARANCE OF A PATRIARCHAL PATERNAL GUARDIANSHIP
ON THE PART OF OUR RULER. Our own nation and our subjects will discern in his
person a father caring for their every need, their every act, their every inter-relation
as subjects one with another, as well as their relations to the ruler. They will then
be so thoroughly imbued with the thought that it is impossible for them to dispense
with this wardship and guidance, if they wish to live in peace and quiet, THAT
THEY WILL ACKNOWLEDGE THE AUTOCRACY OF OUR RULER WITH A DEVOTION BORDERING ON "APOTHEOSIS,"
especially when they are convinced that those whom we set up do not put their own
in place of authority, but only blindly execute his dictates. They will be rejoiced
that we have regulated everything in their lives as is done by wise parents who desire
to train children in the cause of duty and submission. For the peoples of the world
in regard to the secrets of our polity are ever through the ages only children under
age, precisely as are also their governments.
21. As you see, I found our despotism on right and duty: the right to compel
the execution of duty is the direct obligation of a government which is a father for
its subjects. It has the right of the strong that it may use it for the benefit of
directing humanity towards that order which is defined by nature, namely, submission.
Everything in the world is in a state of submission, if not to man, then to circumstances
or its own inner character, in all cases, to what is stronger. And so shall we be
this something stronger for the sake of good.
22. We are obliged without hesitation to sacrifice individuals, who commit
a breach of established order, for in the exemplary punishment of evil lies a great
educational problem.
23. When the King of Israel sets upon his sacred head the crown offered
him by Europe he will become patriarch of the world. The indispensable victims
offered by him in consequence of their suitability will never reach the number of
victims offered in the course of centuries by the mania of magnificence, the emulation
between the GOY governments.
24. Our King will be in constant communion with the peoples, making to them
from the tribune speeches which fame will in that same hour distribute over all the
world.
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1. In order to effect the destruction of all collective forces
except ours we shall emasculate the first stage of collectivism - the UNIVERSITIES,
by re-educating them in a new direction. THEIR OFFICIALS AND PROFESSORS WILL BE
PREPARED FOR THEIR BUSINESS BY DETAILED SECRET PROGRAMS OF ACTION FROM WHICH THEY
WILL NOT WITH IMMUNITY DIVERGE, NOT BY ONE IOTA. THEY WILL BE APPOINTED WITH ESPECIAL
PRECAUTION, AND WILL BE SO PLACED AS TO BE WHOLLY DEPENDENT UPON THE GOVERNMENT.
2. We shall exclude from the course of instruction State Law as also all
that concerns the political question. These subjects will be taught to a few dozen
of persons chosen for their pre-eminent capacities from among the number of the initiated.
THE UNIVERSITIES MUST NO LONGER SEND OUT FROM THEIR HALLS MILK SOPS CONCOCTING
PLANS FOR A CONSTITUTION, LIKE A COMEDY OR A TRAGEDY, BUSYING THEMSELVES WITH QUESTIONS
OF POLICY IN WHICH EVEN THEIR OWN FATHERS NEVER HAD ANY POWER OF THOUGHT.
3. The ill-guided acquaintance of a large number of persons with questions
of polity creates utopian dreamers and bad subjects, as you can see for yourselves
from the example of the universal education in this direction of the GOYIM.
We must introduce into their education all those principles which have so brilliantly
broken up their order. But when we are in power we shall remove every kind of disturbing
subject from the course of education and shall make out of the youth obedient children
of authority, loving him who rules as the support and hope of peace and quiet.
WE SHALL CHANGE HISTORY
4. Classicism as also any form of study of ancient history, in
which there are more bad than good examples, we shall replace with the study of the
program of the future. We shall erase from the memory of men all facts of previous
centuries which are undesirable to us, and leave only those which depict all the errors
of the government of the GOYIM. The study of practical life, of the obligations
of order, of the relations of people one to another, of avoiding bad and selfish examples,
which spread the infection of evil, and similar questions of an educative nature,
will stand in the forefront of the teaching program, which will be drawn up on a separate
plan for each calling or state of life, in no wise generalizing the teaching. This
treatment of the question has special importance.
5. Each state of life must be trained within strict limits corresponding
to its destination and work in life. The OCCASIONAL GENIUS HAS ALWAYS MANAGED AND
ALWAYS WILL MANAGE TO SLIP THROUGH INTO OTHER STATES OF LIFE, BUT IT IS THE MOST PERFECT
FOLLY FOR THE SAKE OF THIS RARE OCCASIONAL GENIUS TO LET THROUGH INTO RANKS FOREIGN
TO THEM THE UNTALENTED WHO THUS ROB OF THEIR PLACES WHO BELONG TO THOSE RANKS BY BIRTH
OR EMPLOYMENT. YOU KNOW YOURSELVES IN WHAT ALL THIS HAS ENDED FOR THE "GOYIM"
WHO ALLOWED THIS CRYING ABSURDITY.
6. In order that he who rules may be seated firmly in the hearts and minds
of his subjects it is necessary for the time of his activity to instruct the whole
nation in the schools and on the market places about this meaning and his acts and
all his beneficent initiatives.
7. We shall abolish every kind of freedom of instruction. Learners of all
ages have the right to assemble together with their parents in the educational establishments
as it were in a club: during these assemblies, on holidays, teachers will read what
will pass as free lectures on questions of human relations, of the laws of examples,
of the philosophy of new theories not yet declared to the world. These theories will
be raised by us to the stage of a dogma of faith as a traditional stage towards our
faith. On the completion of this exposition of our program of action in the present
and the future I will read you the principles of these theories.
8. In a word, knowing by the experience of many centuries that people live
and are guided by ideas, that these ideas are imbibed by people only by the aid of
education provided with equal success for all ages of growth, but of course by varying
methods, we shall swallow up and confiscate to our own use the last scintilla of independence
of thought, which we have for long past been directing towards subjects and ideas
useful for us. The system of bridling thought is already at work in the so-called
system of teaching by OBJECT LESSONS, the purpose of which is to turn the GOYIM
into unthinking submissive brutes waiting for things to be presented before their
eyes in order to form an idea of them .... In France, one of our best agents,
Bourgeois, has already made public a new program of teaching by object lessons.
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1. The practice of advocacy produces men cold, cruel, persistent,
unprincipled, who in all cases take up an impersonal, purely legal standpoint. They
have the inveterate habit to refer everything to its value for the defense and not
to the public welfare of its results. They do not usually decline to undertake any
defense whatever, they strive for an acquittal at all costs, caviling over every petty
crux of jurisprudence and thereby they demoralize justice. For this reason we shall
set this profession into narrow frames which will keep it inside this sphere of executive
public service. Advocates, equally with judges, will be deprived of the right of communication
with litigant; they well receive business only from the court and will study it by
notes of report and documents, defending their clients after they have been interrogated
in court on facts that have appeared. They will receive an honorarium without regard
to the quality of the defense. This will render them mere reporters on law-business
in the interests of justice and as counterpoise to the proctor who will be the reporter
in the interests of prosecution; this will shorten business before the courts. In
this way will be established a practice of honest unprejudiced defense conducted not
from personal interest but by conviction. This will also, by the way, remove the present
practice of corrupt bargain between advocation to agree only to let that side win
which pays most .....
WE SHALL DESTROY THE CLERGY
2. WE HAVE LONG PAST TAKEN CARE TO DISCREDIT THE PRIESTHOOD OF "GOYIM,"
and thereby to ruin their mission on earth which in these days might still be
a great hindrance to us. Day by day its influence on the peoples of the world is falling
lower. FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE HAS BEEN DECLARED EVERYWHERE, SO THAT NOW ONLY YEARS
DIVIDE US FROM THE MOMENT OF THE COMPLETE WRECKING OF THAT CHRISTIAN RELIGION:
as to other religions we shall have still less difficulty in dealing with them, but
it would be premature to speak of this now. We shall act clericalism and clericals
into such narrow frames as to make their influence move in retrogressive proportion
to its former progress.
3. When the time comes finally to destroy the papal court the finger of
an invisible hand will point the nations towards this court. When, however, the nations
fling themselves upon it, we shall come forward in the guise of its defenders as if
to save excessive bloodshed. By this diversion we shall penetrate to its very bowels
and be sure we shall never come out again until we have gnawed through the entire
strength of this place.
4. THE KING OF THE JEWS WILL BE THE REAL POPE OF THE UNIVERSE, THE PATRIARCH
OF THE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH (Antichrist??).
5. But, IN THE MEANTIME, while we are re-educating youth in new traditional
religions and afterwards in ours, WE SHALL NOT OVERTLY LAY A FINGER ON EXISTING
CHURCHES, BUT WE SHALL FIGHT AGAINST THEM BY CRITICISM CALCULATED TO PRODUCE SCHISM
....
6. In general, then, our contemporary press will continue to CONVICT
State affairs, religions, incapacities of the GOYIM, always using the most
unprincipled expressions in order by every means to lower their prestige in the manner
which can only be practiced by the genius of our gifted tribe ....
7. Our kingdom will be an apologia of the divinity Vishnu, in whom
is found its personification - in our hundred hands will be, one in each, the springs
of the machinery of social life. We shall see everything without the aid of official
police which, in that scope of its rights which we elaborated for the use of the GOYIM,
hinders governments from seeing. In our programs ONE-THIRD OF OUR SUBJECTS WILL
KEEP THE REST UNDER OBSERVATION from a sense of duty, on the principle of volunteer
service to the State. It will then be no disgrace to be a spy and informer, but a
merit: unfounded denunciations, however, will be cruelly punished that there may be
development of abuses of this right.
8. Our agents will be taken from the higher as well as the lower ranks of
society, from among the administrative class who spend their time in amusements, editors,
printers and publishers, booksellers, clerks, and salesmen, workmen, coachmen, lackeys,
et cetera. This body, having no rights and not being empowered to take any action
on their own account, and consequently a police without any power, will only witness
and report: verification of their reports and arrests will depend upon a responsible
group of controllers of police affairs, while the actual act of arrest will be performed
by the gendarmerie and the municipal police. Any person not denouncing anything seen
or heard concerning questions of polity will also be charged with and made responsible
for concealment, if it be proved that he is guilty of this crime.
9. JUST AS NOWADAYS OUR BRETHREN, ARE OBLIGED AT THEIR OWN RISK TO DENOUNCE
TO THE KABAL APOSTATES OF THEIR OWN FAMILY or members who have been noticed doing
anything in opposition to the KABAL, SO IN OUR KINGDOM OVER ALL THE WORLD IT WILL
BE OBLIGATORY FOR ALL OUR SUBJECTS TO OBSERVE THE DUTY OF SERVICE TO THE STATE IN
THIS DIRECTION.
10. Such an organization will extirpate abuses of authority, of force, of
bribery, everything in fact which we by our counsels, by out theories of the superhuman
rights of man, have introduced into the customs of the GOYIM .... But how else
were we to procure that increase of causes predisposing to disorders in the midst
of their administration? .... Among the number of those methods one of the most important
is - agents for the restoration of order, so placed as to have the opportunity in
their disintegrating activity of developing and displaying their evil inclinations
- obstinate self-conceit, irresponsible exercise of authority, and, first and foremost,
venality.
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1. When it becomes necessary for us to strengthen the strict measures
of secret defense (the most fatal poison for the prestige of authority) we shall arrange
a simulation of disorders or some manifestation of discontents finding expression
through the co- operation of good speakers. Round these speakers will assemble all
who are sympathetic to his utterances. This will give us the pretext for domiciliary
prerequisitions and surveillance on the part of our servants from among the number
of the GOYIM police ....
2. As the majority of conspirators act of love for the game, for the sake
of talking, so, until they commit some overt act we shall not lay a finger on them
but only introduce into their midst observation elements .... It must be remembered
that the prestige of authority is lessened if it frequently discovers conspiracies
against itself: this implies a presumption of consciousness of weakness, or, what
is still worse, of injustice. You are aware that we have broken the prestige of the
GOY kings by frequent attempts upon their lives through our agents, blind sheep
of our flock, who are easily moved by a few liberal phrases to crimes provided only
they be painted in political colors. WE HAVE COMPELLED THE RULERS TO ACKNOWLEDGE
THEIR WEAKNESS IN ADVERTISING OVERT MEASURES OF SECRETE DEFENSE AND THEREBY WE SHALL
BRING THE PROMISE OF AUTHORITY TO DESTRUCTION.
3. Our ruler will be secretly protected only by the most insignificant guard,
because we shall not admit so much as a thought that there could exist against him
any sedition with which he is not strong enough to contend and is compelled to hide
from it.
4. If we should admit this thought, as the GOYIM have done and are
doing, we should IPSO FACTO be signing a death sentence, if not for our ruler,
at any rate for his dynasty, at no distant date.
GOVERNMENT BY FEAR
5. According to strictly enforced outward appearances our ruler
will employ his power only for the advantage of the nation and in no wise for his
own or dynastic profits. Therefore, with the observance of this decorum, his authority
will be respected and guarded by the subjects themselves, it will receive an apotheosis
in the admission that with it is bound up the well-being of every citizen of the State,
for upon it will depend all order in the common life of the pack ....
6. OVERT DEFENSE OF THE KIND ARGUES WEAKNESS IN THE ORGANIZATION OF HIS STRENGTH.
7. Our ruler will always be among the people and be surrounded by a mob
of apparently curious men and women, who will occupy the front ranks about him, to
all appearance by chance, and will restrain the ranks of the rest out of respect as
it will appear for good order. This will sow an example of restraint also in others.
If a petitioner appears among the people trying to hand a petition and forcing his
way through the ranks, the first ranks must receive the petition and before the eyes
of the petitioner pass it to the ruler, so that all may know that what is handed in
reaches its destination, that consequently, there exists a control of the ruler himself.
The aureole of power requires for is existence that the people may be able to say:
"If the king knew of this," or: "the king will hear it."
8. WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICIAL DEFENSE, THE MYSTICAL PRESTIGE OF AUTHORITY
DISAPPEARS: given a certain audacity, and everyone counts himself master of it,
the sedition- monger is conscious of his strength, and when occasion serves watches
for the moment to make an attempt upon authority .... For the GOYIM we have
been preaching something else, but by that very fact we are enabled to see what measures
of overt defense have brought them to ....
9. CRIMINALS WITH US WILL BE ARRESTED AT THE FIRST, more or less, well-grounded
SUSPICION: it cannot be allowed that out of fear of a possible mistake an opportunity
should be given of escape to persons suspected of a political lapse of crime, for
in these matters we shall be literally merciless. If it is still possible, by stretching
a point, to admit a reconsideration of the motive causes in simple crimes, there is
no possibility of excuse for persons occupying themselves with questions in which
nobody except the government can understand anything .... And it is not all governments
that understand true policy.
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1. If we do not permit any independent dabbling in the political
we shall on the other hand encourage every kind of report or petition with proposals
for the government to examine into all kinds of projects for the amelioration of the
condition of the people; this will reveal to us the defects or else the fantasies
of our subjects, to which we shall respond either by accomplishing them or by a wise
rebuttment to prove the shortsightedness of one who judges wrongly.
2. Sedition-mongering is nothing more than the yapping of a lap- dog at
an elephant. For a government well organized, not from the police but from the public
point of view, the lap-dog yaps at the elephant in entire unconsciousness of its strength
and importance. It needs no more than to take a good example to show the relative
importance of both and the lap-dogs will cease to yap and will wag their tails the
moment they set eyes on an elephant.
3. In order to destroy the prestige of heroism for political crime we shall
send it for trial in the category of thieving, murder, and every kind of abominable
and filthy crime. Public opinion will then confuse in its conception of this category
of crime with the disgrace attaching to every other and will brand it with the same
contempt.
4. We have done our best, and I hope we have succeeded to obtain that the
GOYIM should not arrive at this means of contending with sedition. It was for
this reason that through the Press and in speeches, indirectly - in cleverly compiled
school- books on history, we have advertised the martyrdom alleged to have been accredited
by sedition-mongers for the idea of the commonweal. This advertisement has increased
the contingent of liberals and has brought thousands of GOYIM into the
ranks of our livestock cattle.
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1. To-day we shall touch upon the financial program, which I put
off to the end of my report as being the most difficult, the crowning and the decisive
point of our plans. Before entering upon it I will remind you that I have already
spoken before by way of a hint when I said that the sum total of our actions is settled
by the question of figures.
2. When we come into our kingdom our autocratic government will avoid, from
a principle of self-preservation, sensibly burdening the masses of the people with
taxes, remembering that it plays the part of father and protector. But as State organization
cost dear it is necessary nevertheless to obtain the funds required for it. It will,
therefore, elaborate with particular precaution the question of equilibrium in this
matter.
3. Our rule, in which the king will enjoy the legal fiction that everything
in his State belongs to him (which may easily be translated into fact), will
be enabled to resort to the lawful confiscation of all sums of every kind for the
regulation of their circulation in the State. From this follows that taxation will
best be covered by a progressive tax on property. In this manner the dues will be
paid without straitening or ruining anybody in the form of a percentage of the amount
of property. The rich must be aware that it is their duty to place a part of their
superfluities at the disposal of the State since the State guarantees them security
of possession of the rest of their property and the right of honest gains, I say honest,
for the control over property will do away with robbery on a legal basis.
4. This social reform must come from above, for the time is ripe for it
- it is indispensable as a pledge of peace.
WE SHALL DESTROY CAPITAL
5. The tax upon the poor man is a seed of revolution and works
to the detriment of the State which is hunting after the trifling is missing the big.
Quite apart from this, a tax on capitalists diminishes the growth of wealth in private
hands in which we have in these days concentrated it as a counterpoise to the government
strength of the GOYIM - their State finances.
6. A tax increasing in a percentage ratio to capital will give much larger
revenue than the present individual or property tax, which is useful to us now for
the sole reason that it excites trouble and discontent among the GOYIM. (Now
we know the purpose of the 16th Amendment!!).
7. The force upon which our king will rest consists in the equilibrium and
the guarantee of peace, for the sake of which things it is indispensable that the
capitalists should yield up a portion of their incomes for the sake of the secure
working of the machinery of the State. State needs must be paid by those who will
not feel the burden and have enough to take from.
8. Such a measure will destroy the hatred of the poor man for the rich,
in whom he will see a necessary financial support for the State, will see in him the
organizer of peace and well-being since he will see that it is the rich man who is
paying the necessary means to attain these things.
9. In order that payers of the educated classes should not too much distress
themselves over the new payments they will have full accounts given them of the destination
of those payments, with the exception of such sums as will be appropriated for the
needs of the throne and the administrative institutions.
10. He who reigns will not have any properties of his own once all in the
State represented his patrimony, or else the one would be in contradiction to the
other; the fact of holding private means would destroy the right of property in the
common possessions of all.
11. Relatives of him who reigns, his heirs excepted, who will be maintained
by the resources of the State, must enter the ranks of servants of the State or must
work to obtain the right to property; the privilege of royal blood must not serve
for the spoiling of the treasury.
12. Purchase, receipt of money or inheritance will be subject to the payment
of a stamp progressive tax. Any transfer of property, whether money or other, without
evidence of payment of this tax which will be strictly registered by names, will render
the former holder liable to pay interest on the tax from the moment of transfer of
these sums up to the discovery of his evasion of declaration of the transfer. Transfer
documents must be presented weekly at the local treasury office with notifications
of the name, surname and permanent place of residence of the former and the new holder
of the property. This transfer with register of names must begin from a definite sum
which exceeds the ordinary expenses of buying and selling necessaries, and these will
be subject to payment only by a stamp impost of a definite percentage of the unit.
13. Just strike an estimate of how many times such taxes as these will cover
the revenue of the GOYIM States.
WE CAUSE DEPRESSIONS
14. The State exchequer will have to maintain a definite complement
of reserve sums, and all that is collected above that complement must be returned
into circulation. On these sums will be organized public works. The initiative in
works of this kind, proceeding from State sources, will blind the working class firmly
to the interests of the State and to those who reign. From these same sums also a
part will be set aside as rewards of inventiveness and productiveness.
15. On no account should so much as a single unit above the definite and
freely estimated sums be retained in the State Treasuries, for money exists to be
circulated and any kind of stagnation of money acts ruinously on the running of the
State machinery, for which it is the lubricant; a stagnation of the lubricant may
stop the regular working of the mechanism.
16. The substitution of interest-bearing paper for a part of the token of
exchange has produced exactly this stagnation. The consequences of this circumstance
are already sufficiently noticeable.
17. A court of account will also be instituted by us, and in it the ruler
will find at any moment a full accounting for State income and expenditure, with the
exception of the current monthly account, not yet made up, and that of the preceding
month, which will not yet have been delivered.
18. The one and only person who will have no interest in robbing the State
is its owner, the ruler. This is why his personal control will remove the possibility
of leakages of extravagances.
19. The representative function of the ruler at receptions for the sake
of etiquette, which absorbs so much invaluable time, will be abolished in order that
the ruler may have time for control and consideration. His power will not then be
split up into fractional parts among time-serving favorites who surround the throne
for its pomp and splendor, and are interested only in their own and not in the common
interests of the State.
20. Economic crises have been producer by us for the GOYIM by no
other means than the withdrawal of money from circulation. Huge capitals have stagnated,
withdrawing money from States, which were constantly obliged to apply to those same
stagnant capitals for loans. These loans burdened the finances of the State with the
payment of interest and made them the bond slaves of these capitals .... The concentration
of industry in the hands of capitalists out of the hands of small masters has drained
away all the juices of the peoples and with them also the States .... (Now we know
the purpose of the Federal Reserve Bank Corporation!!).
21. The present issue of money in general does not correspond with the requirements
per head, and cannot therefore satisfy all the needs of the workers. The issue of
money ought to correspond with the growth of population and thereby children also
must absolutely be reckoned as consumers of currency from the day of their birth.
The revision of issue is a material question for the whole world.
22. YOU ARE AWARE THAT THE GOLD STANDARD HAS BEEN THE RUIN OF THE STATES WHICH
ADOPTED IT, FOR IT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO SATISFY THE DEMANDS FOR MONEY, THE MORE SO
THAT WE HAVE REMOVED GOLD FROM CIRCULATION AS FAR AS POSSIBLE.
GENTILE STATES BANKRUPT
23. With us the standard that must be introduced is the cost of
working-man power, whether it be reckoned in paper or in wood. We shall make the issue
of money in accordance with the normal requirements of each subject, adding to the
quantity with every birth and subtracting with every death.
24. The accounts will be managed by each department (the French administrative
division), each circle.
25. In order that there may be no delays in the paying our of money for
State needs the sums and terms of such payments will be fixed by decree of the ruler;
this will do away with the protection by a ministry of one institution to the detriment
of others.
26. The budgets of income and expenditure will be carried out side by side
that they may not be obscured by distance one to another.
27. The reforms projected by us in the financial institutions and principles
of the GOYIM will be clothed by us in such forms as will alarm nobody. We shall
point out the necessity of reforms in consequence of the disorderly darkness into
which the GOYIM by their irregularities have plunged the finances. The first
irregularity, as we shall point out, consists in their beginning with drawing up a
single budget which year after year grows owing to the following cause: this budget
is dragged out to half the year, then they demand a budget to put things right, and
this they expend in three months, after which they ask for a supplementary budget,
and all this ends with a liquidation budget. But, as the budget of the following year
is drawn up in accordance with the sum of the total addition, the annual departure
from the normal reaches as much as 50 per cent in a year, and so the annual budget
is trebled in ten years. Thanks to such methods, allowed by the carelessness of the
GOY States, their treasuries are empty. The period of loans supervenes, and
that has swallowed up remainders and brought all the GOY States to bankruptcy.
(The United States was declared "bankrupt" at the Geneva
Convention of 1929! [see 31 USC 5112, 5118, and 5119).
28. You understand perfectly that economic arrangements of this kind, which
have been suggested to the GOYIM by us, cannot be carried on by us.
29. Every kind of loan proves infirmity in the State and a want of understanding
of the rights of the State. Loans hang like a sword of Damocles over the heads of
rulers, who, instead of taking from their subjects by a temporary tax, come begging
with outstretched palm of our bankers. Foreign loans are leeches which there is no
possibility of removing from the body of the State until they fall off of themselves
or the State flings them off. But the GOY States do not tear them off; they
go on in persisting in putting more on to themselves so that they must inevitably
perish, drained by voluntary blood-letting.
TYRANNY OF USURY
30. What also indeed is, in substance, a loan, especially a foreign
loan? A loan is - an issue of government bills of exchange containing a percentage
obligation commensurate to the sum of the loan capital. If the loan bears a charge
of 5 per cent, then in twenty years the State vainly pays away in interest a sum equal
to the loan borrowed, in forty years it is paying a double sum, in sixty - treble,
and all the while the debt remains an unpaid debt.
31. From this calculation it is obvious that with any form of taxation per
head the State is baling out the last coppers of the poor taxpayers in order to settle
accounts with wealth foreigners, from whom it has borrowed money instead of collecting
these coppers for its own needs without the additional interest.
32. So long as loans were internal the GOYIM only shuffled their
money from the pockets of the poor to those of the rich, but when we bought up the
necessary person in order to transfer loans into the external sphere, all the wealth
of States flowed into our cash- boxes and all the GOYIM began to pay us the
tribute of subjects.
33. If the superficiality of GOY kings on their thrones in regard
to State affairs and the venality of ministers or the want of understanding of financial
matters on the part of other ruling persons have made their countries debtors to our
treasuries to amounts quite impossible to pay it has not been accomplished without,
on our part, heavy expenditure of trouble and money.
34. Stagnation of money will not be allowed by us and therefore there will
be no State interest-bearing paper, except a one per- cent series, so that there will
be no payment of interest to leeches that suck all the strength out of the State.
The right to issue interest-bearing paper will be given exclusively to industrial
companies who will find no difficulty in paying interest out of profits, whereas the
State does not make interest on borrowed money like these companies, for the State
borrows to spend and not to use in operations. (Now we know why President Kennedy
was assassinated in 1963 when he refused to borrow any more of the "Bank Notes"
from the bankers of the Federal Reserve Bank and began circulating non-interest
bearing "Notes" of the "United States of America"!!!).
35. Industrial papers will be bought also by the government which from being
as now a paper of tribute by loan operations will be transformed into a lender of
money at a profit. This measure will stop the stagnation of money, parasitic profits
and idleness, all of which were useful for us among the GOYIM so long as they
were independent but are not desirable under our rule.
36. How clear is the undeveloped power of thought of the purely brute brains
of the GOYIM, as expressed in the fact that they have been borrowing from us
with payment of interest without ever thinking that all the same these very moneys
plus an addition for payment of interest must be got by them from their own State
pockets in order to settle up with us. What could have been simpler than to take the
money they wanted from their own people?
37. But it is a proof of the genius of our chosen mind that we have contrived
to present the matter of loans to them in such a light that they have even seen in
them an advantage for themselves.
38. Our accounts, which we shall present when the time comes, in the light
of centuries of experience gained by experiments made by us on the GOY States,
will be distinguished by clearness and definiteness and will show at a glance to all
men the advantage of our innovations. They will put an end to those abuses to which
we owe our mastery over the GOYIM, but which cannot be allowed in our kingdom.
39. We shall so hedge about our system of accounting that neither the ruler
nor the most insignificant public servant will be in a position to divert even the
smallest sum from its destination without detection or to direct it in another direction
except that which will be once fixed in a definite plan of action. (Is this why
a "private corporation," known as the "Internal Revenue Service,"
is in charge of collecting the "payments" of the "Income
Taxes" and the IRS always deposits those "payments"
to the Federal Reserve bank and never to the Treasury of the United States??).
40. And without a definite plan it is impossible to rule. Marching along
an undetermined road and with undetermined resources brings to ruin by the way heroes
and demi-gods.
41. The GOY rulers, whom we once upon a time advised should be distracted
from State occupations by representative receptions, observances of etiquette, entertainments,
were only screens for our rule. The accounts of favorite courtiers who replaced them
in the sphere of affairs were drawn up for them by our agents, and every time gave
satisfaction to short-sighted minds by promises that in the future economics and improvements
were foreseen .... Economics from what? From new taxes? - were questions that might
have been but were not asked by those who read our accounts and projects.
42. You know to what they have been brought by this carelessness, to what
pitch of financial disorder they have arrived, notwithstanding the astonishing industry
of their peoples ....
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1. To what I reported to you at the last meeting I shall now add
a detailed explanation of internal loans. Of foreign loans I shall say nothing more,
because they have fed us with national moneys of the GOYIM, but for our State
there will be no foreigners, that is, nothing external.
2. We have taken advantage of the venality of administrators and slackness
of rulers to get our moneys twice, thrice and more times over, by lending to the GOY
governments moneys which were not at all needed by the States. Could anyone do the
like in regard to us? .... Therefore, I shall only deal with the details of internal
loans.
3. States announce that such a loan is to be concluded and open subscriptions
for their own bills of exchange, that is, for their interest-bearing paper. That they
may be within the reach of all the price is determined at from a hundred to a thousand;
and a discount is made for the earliest subscribers. Next day by artificial means
the price of them goes up, the alleged reason being that everyone is rushing to buy
them. In a few days the treasury safes are as they say overflowing and there's more
money than they can do with (why then take it?). The subscription, it is alleged,
covers many times over the issue total of the loan; in this lies the whole stage effect
- look you, they say, what confidence is shown in the government's bills of exchange.
4. But when the comedy is played out there emerges the fact that a debit
and an exceedingly burdensome debit has been created. For the payment of interest
it becomes necessary to have recourse to new loans, which do not swallow up but only
add to the capital debt. And when this credit is exhausted it becomes necessary by
new taxes to cover, not the loan, BUT ONLY THE INTEREST ON IT. These taxes
are a debit employed to cover a debit .... (NOW WE NOW OF THE PURPOSE OF THE
BULLSHIT CRY FOR BALANCING THE BUDGET!!)
5. Later comes the time for conversions, but they diminish the payment of
interest without covering the debt, and besides they cannot be made without the consent
of the lenders; on announcing a conversion a proposal is made to return the money
to those who are not willing to convert their paper. If everybody expressed his unwillingness
and demanded his money back, the government would be hooked on their own files and
would be found insolvent and unable to pay the proposed sums. By good luck the subjects
of the GOY governments, knowing nothing about financial affairs, have always preferred
losses on exchange and diminution of interest to the risk of new investments of their
moneys, and have thereby many a time enabled these governments to throw off their
shoulders a debit of several millions.
6. Nowadays, with external loans, these tricks cannot be played by the GOYIM
for they know that we shall demand all our moneys back.
7. In this way in acknowledged bankruptcy will best prove to the various
countries the absence of any means between the interest of the peoples and of those
who rule them.
8. I beg you to concentrate your particular attention upon this point and
upon the following: nowadays all internal loans are consolidated by so-called flying
loans, that is, such as have terms of payment more or less near. These debts consist
of moneys paid into the savings banks and reserve funds. If left for long at the disposition
of a government these funds evaporate in the payment of interest on foreign loans,
and are placed by the deposit of equivalent amount of RENTS.
9. And these last it is which patch up all the leaks in the State treasuries
of the GOYIM.
10. When we ascend the throne of the world all these financial and similar
shifts, as being not in accord with our interests, will be swept away so as not to
leave a trace, as also will be destroyed all money markets, since we shall not allow
the prestige of our power to be shaken by fluctuations of prices set upon our values,
which we shall announce by law at the price which represents their full worth without
any possibility of lowering or raising. (Raising gives the pretext for lowering,
which indeed was where we made a beginning in relation to the values of the GOYIM.)
11. We shall replace the money markets by grandiose government credit institutions,
the object of which will be to fix the price of industrial values in accordance with
government views. These institutions will be in a position to fling upon the market
five hundred millions of industrial paper in one day, or to buy up for the same amount.
In this way all industrial undertakings will come into dependence upon us. You may
imagine for yourselves what immense power we shall thereby secure for ourselves ....
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1 In all that has so far been reported by me to you, I have endeavored
to depict with care the secret of what is coming, of what is past, and of what is
going on now, rushing into the flood of the great events coming already in the near
future, the secret of our relations to the GOYIM and of financial operations.
On this subject there remains still a little for me to add.
2. IN OUR HANDS IS THE GREATEST POWER OF OUR DAY - GOLD: IN TWO DAYS WE CAN
PROCURE FROM OUR STOREHOUSES ANY QUANTITY WE MAY PLEASE.
3. Surely there is no need to seek further proof that our rule is predestined
by God? Surely we shall not fail with such wealth to prove that all that evil which
for so many centuries we have had to commit has served at the end of ends the cause
of true well- being - the bringing of everything into order? Though it be even by
the exercise of some violence, yet all the same it will be established. We shall contrive
to prove that we are benefactors who have restored to the rent and mangled earth the
true good and also freedom of the person, and therewith we shall enable it to be enjoyed
in peace and quiet, with proper dignity of relations, on the condition, of course,
of strict observance of the laws established by us. We shall make plain therewith
that freedom does not consist in dissipation and in the right of unbridled license
any more than the dignity and force of a man do not consist in the right of everyone
to promulgate destructive principles in the nature of freedom of conscience, equality
and a like, that freedom of the person in no wise consists in the right to agitate
oneself and others by abominable speeches before disorderly mobs, and that true freedom
consists in the inviolability of the person who honorably and strictly observes all
the laws of life in common, that human dignity is wrapped up in consciousness of the
rights and also of the absence of rights of each, and not wholly and solely in fantastic
imaginings about the subject of one's EGO.
4. One authority will be glorious because it will be all-powerful, will
rule and guide, and not muddle along after leaders and orators shrieking themselves
hoarse with senseless words which they call great principles and which are noting
else, to speak honestly, but utopian .... Our authority will be the crown of order,
and in that is included the whole happiness of man. The aureole of this authority
will inspire a mystical bowing of the knee before it and a reverent fear before it
of all the peoples. True force makes no terms with any right, not even with that of
God: none dare come near to it so as to take so much as a span from it away.
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1. That the peoples may become accustomed to obedience it is necessary
to inculcate lessons of humility and therefore to reduce the production of articles
of luxury. By this we shall improve morals which have been debased by emulation in
the sphere of luxury. We shall re-establish small master production which will mean
laying a mine under the private capital of manufactures. This is indispensable also
for the reason that manufacturers on the grand scale often move, though not always
consciously, the thoughts of the masses in directions against the government. A people
of small masters knows nothing of unemployment and this binds him closely with existing
order, and consequently with the firmness of authority. For us its part will have
ben played out the moment authority is transferred into our hands. Drunkenness also
will be prohibited by law and punishable as a crime against humanness of man who is
turned into a brute under the influence of alcohol.
2. Subjects, I repeat once more, give blind obedience only to the strong
hand which is absolutely independent of them, for in it they feel the sword of defense
and support against social scourges .... What do they want with an angelic spirit
in a king? What they have to see in him is the personification of force and power.
3. The supreme lord who will replace all now existing ruler, dragging in
their existence among societies demoralized by us, societies that have denied even
the authority of God, from whose midst breads out on all sides the fire of anarchy,
must first of all proceed to quench this all-devouring flame. Therefore he will be
obliged to kill off those existing societies, though he should drench them with his
own blood, that he may resurrect them again in the form of regularly organized troops
fighting consciously with every kind of infection that may cover the body of the State
with sores.
4. This Chosen One of God is chosen from above to demolish
the senseless forces moved by instinct and not reason, by brutishness and humanness.
These forces now triumph in manifestations of robbery and every kind of violence under
the mask of principles of freedom and every kind of violence under the mask of principles
of freedom and rights. They have overthrown all forms of social order to erect on
the ruins of the throne of the King of the Jews; but their part will be played
out the moment he enters into his kingdom. Then it will be necessary to sweep them
away from his path, on which must be left no knot, no splinter.
5. Then will it be possible for us to say to the peoples of the world: Give
thanks to God and bow the knee before him who bears on his front the seal of the predestination
of man, to which God himself has led his star that none other but Him might free us
from all the before-mentioned forces and evils.
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1. I pass now to the method of confirming the dynastic roots of
King David to the last strata of the earth.
2. This confirmation will first and foremost be included in that which to
this day has rested the force of conservatism by our learned elders of the conduct
of the affairs of the world, in the directing of the education of thought of all humanity.
3. Certain members of the seed of David will prepare the kings and
their heirs, selecting not by right of heritage but by eminent capacities, inducting
them into the most secret mysteries of the political, into schemes of government,
but providing always that none may come to knowledge of the secrets. The object of
this mode of action is that all may know that government cannot be entrusted to those
who have not been inducted into the secret places of its art ....
4. To these persons only will be taught the practical application of the
aforenamed plans by comparison of the experiences of many centuries, all the observations
on the politico-economic moves and social sciences - in a word, all the spirit of
laws which have been unshakably established by nature herself for the regulation of
the relations of humanity.
5. Direct heirs will often be set aside from ascending the throne if in
their time of training they exhibit frivolity, softness and other qualities that are
the ruin of authority, which render them incapable of governing and in themselves
dangerous for kingly office.
6. Only those who are unconditionally capable for firm, even if it be to
cruelty, direct rule will receive the reins of rule from our learned elders.
7. In case of falling sick with weakness of will or other form of incapacity.
kings must by law hand over the reins of rule to new and capable hands.
8. The king's plan of action for the current moment, and all the more so
for the future, will be unknown, even to those who are called his closest counselors.
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9. Only the king and the three who stood sponsor for him will know
what is coming.
10. In the person of the king who with unbending will is master of himself
and of humanity all will discern as it were fate with its mysterious ways. None will
know what the king wishes to attain by his dispositions, and therefore none will dare
to stand across an unknown path.
11. It is understood that the brain reservoir of the king must correspond
in capacity to the plan of government it has to contain. It is for this reason that
he will ascend the throne not otherwise than after examination of his mind by the
aforesaid learned elders.
12. That the people may know and love their king, it is indispensable for
him to converse in the market-places with his people. This ensures the necessary clinching
of the two forces which are now divided one from another by us by the terror.
13. This terror was indispensable for us till the time comes for both these
forces separately to fall under our influence.
14. The king of the Jews must not be at the mercy of his passions,
and especially of sensuality: on no side of his character must he give brute instincts
power over his mind. Sensuality worse than all else disorganizes the capacities of
the mind and clearness of views, distracting the thoughts to the worst and most brutal
side of human activity.
15. The prop of humanity in the person of the supreme lord of all the world
of the holy seed of David must sacrifice to his people all personal inclinations.
16. Our supreme lord must be of an exemplary irreproachable.
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