-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Scarlet and the Beast - A History of the War Between English and French Freemasonry by John Daniel (C)1994 Chapter 13 -- part 2 of 3 THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF SION Cremie -- Double Agent Intelligence gathering, spying, and the use of double agents are commonplace in this war between Scarlet and the Beast. If Great Britain had wanted to penetrate the French government in Cremieux's day, it would have done so through a French Rosicrucian Freemason. Who would be more likely than Cremieux? If he were to become involved in French politics, which he was, he would join the Grand Orient Lodge, to which most French politicians belonged. From there he could learn state secrets and pass them to London. English Freemasonry had need of spies in French politics for two specific reasons. First, the two movements of socialism and communism, which had developed in Grand Orient Freemasonry, were of grave concern to Great Britain's capitalists. Second, Emperor Napoleon III had cooperated with the Grand Orient Revolution in Italy by ousting the oligarchy's Austrian army. Spymaster Cremieux and British Freemasonry had something in common. Both hated Napoleon III. If Cremieux was assigned the task of deposing the Emperor, his success would be better realized if he could attain the top position within the Emperor's lodge. Shades of Mission Impossible, you say? Perhaps. Nonetheless, everything Cremieux accomplished was of benefit to English Freemasonry, as well as profit to the oligarchy of the Priory of Sion, which it protected. It is most likely that Freemason Cremieux was a master spy, a double agent, a Rosicrucian mole for British Intelligence in the French Templar Grand Orient administration of Napoleon III. Such a scenario certainly fits the Masonic modus operandi. Maurice Joly Gentile Maurice Joly, whose father was a staunch Italian Mason, was also a Mason. Joly was tied to the Alliance Israelite Universelle through his association with Freemason Cremieux and the Mizraim Masonic Lodge. He was also linked to the Priory of Sion through mutual membership In a Rose Croix order with Victor Hugo. This Masonic influence secured Joly a post in the Ministry of the Interior under Freemason M. Chevreau, just before the coup d'etat in 1851 by Louis Napoleon. Joly was not included in the new government, nor did he want to be. He had an inveterate hatred of the Bonapartes. Moreover, he disagreed with Grand Orient politics, which politics demanded a strongman to solidity its failing revolution of 1848.(45) For nine years following Napoleon's 1851 coup, Joly withdrew from politics and satisfied himself by returning to his law practice. Suddenly, in 1860, he began writing articles attacking the government and the Emperor. What, or who rekindled Joly's anger? The answer is Adolphe Cremieux, who also hated the Emperor. Cremieux's animosity grew from a rebuff he received from Louis Napoleon. At the time of Napoleon's coup, Cremieux was legal adviser to the Bonaparte family and an intimate of Louis Napoleon. When Louis became Emperor, he offended Cremieux by not appointing him to the most desired political post -- that of Chief Executive -- a position vital in dealing with Great Britain.(46) The Emperor's first mistake was his refusal to appoint his Masonic superior. Cremieux became his enemy. Napoleon's second error was his refusal to take orders from Grand Orient Masonry, which had placed him in power. After his 1851 coup and declaring himself as Emperor in 1852, he immediately began exerting authority, emulating his great uncle, Napoleon Bonaparte.(47) Now the entire Grand Orient was his enemy. Napoleon's third mistake was exiling Victor Hugo. We shall soon see that Hugo's exile was a consequence of his disagreements with Napoleon following the coup. The Priory of Sion soon became the Emperor's enemy. Napoleon's fourth and fatal mistake was military action against Austria's occupation army In Italy. Napoleon's military success in removing this arm of the British Masonic oligarchy from Italy allowed Mazzini's Grand Orient revolution to succeed. With English Freemasonry now his enemy, the Emperor did not have a prayer. Source of the Protocols It was unnecessary for British Freemasonry to Intrigue against Napoleon, for the Emperor had created enough hostility and enemies on his own. With an angry Cremleux encouraging the pen of an acrimonious Joly, the Grand Orient planned to depose the Emperor. Joly wrote Dialogues between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, which was a compilation of articles in which Joly depicted Napoleon III as Machiavelli. As Victor Hugo's poetry had done in the 1850s (discussed later in this chapter), so too Joly's articles turned public opinion against the Emperor in the 1860s. And as we learned earlier, the London Times (1920) reported that the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Sion were plagiarized from Joly's Dialogues, which the Times called Dialogues of Geneva. Another factor we must consider in discovering the source of the Protocols is that in Joly's day communism was the political fad of Grand Orient Freemasonry. Its spokesman was 32nd degree German Grand Orient Mason and Reform Jew, Levi Mordechai (alias Karl Marx).(48) Joly, however, was a Socialist, and hated both communism and Karl Marx. Aware that communists were the remnant of the Jacobins, who had carried out the 1793 Reign of Terror, Joly wrote: "Socialism seems to me one of the forms of a new life for the peoples emancipated from the traditions of the Old World. I accept a great many of the solutions offered by Socialism but I reject Communism either as a social factor or as a political institution. Communism is but a school of Socialism. In politics I understand extreme means to gain one's ends -- in that, at least, I am a Jacobin."(49) Although Joly hated communism, he agreed with its Jacobin principles; yet he accused Napoleon III of that same ruthlessness, What he actually hated was the Emperor's absolutism. Absolutism is what Freemasonry can not tolerate. Jacobinism is fine, but not outside the auspices of the Masonic hierarchy. When Napoleon III ignored the orders of his Masonic superiors, Joly's hatred toward him was rekindled by Cremieux. The Grand Orient contracted with Joly to expose the Emperor as Machiavellian. To protect himself, Joly signed the dialogues "Mr. X" Why did the London Times in 1920 call Joly's book the Dialogues of Geneva? The answer can be found in the Masonic-Marxist events which took place in Geneva prior to an international communist meeting in London In 1864, the year before Joly published his work. In an earlier chapter we saw that following the Congress of Vienna in 1815, both English and French Masonic lodges were established at Geneva for the express purpose of plotting intrigue on neutral ground. According to Nesta Webster, Geneva, Switzerland, was the meeting-place for all the revolutionaries of Europe.(50) Edith Miller reports that the Geneva meetings took place in the Grand Orient Masonic lodge, Temple Unique. Those in attendance put the name of the Temple on their cards and bills.(51) Following the Geneva gatherings, the Communist revolutionists met in London during the summer of 1862. There they attended the London International Exhibition. The Exhibition was a Marxist front used by French Communists to penetrate Great Britain's labor force. This Exhibition marked the beginning of anti-capitalist labor unions. On August 5, 1862, all the delegates met at a dinner given for them by their English colleagues at Freemason's Hall. An address was read which formed the platform for the First Communist International.(52) On September 28, 1864, the French Communists met again in London at another Masonic lodge called St. Martin's Hall.(53) At this meeting Grand Orient Freemason Karl Marx obtained control of the two-year old International Working Men's Association. A number of secret societies, such as the Anarchists, Nihilists, and Young Europe, were immediately absorbed by this communist body. That same year anarchist Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876;), a Russian Grand Orient Mason, founded: his Alliance Sociale Democratique on the exact lines of Weishaupt's Illuminism.(54) In 1866, one year after Joly's book was published, the inaugural congress of Karl Marx's First Communist International met in Geneva, again at the Masonic lodge, Temple Unique.(55) Miller reports that what was decided at that Masonic meeting was "the abolition of standing armies, the destruction of the monopolies of great companies, and the transfer of railways and other means of locomotion to the people."(56) Also confirmed at that meeting was the declaration that revolution would be transported to foreign soil -- perhaps in reference to Russia, since in Russia, Zionism was to be contained, if not destroyed. When the First International met again in 1869 at Basel, Switzerland, Russian Freemason Mikhail Bakunin fought for control of the organization. He spoke thus without reserve: "'By social liquidation I mean expropriation of all existing proprietors, by the abolition of the political and legal state, which is the sanction and only guarantee of all property as now existing, and of all that is called legal right; and the expropriation, in fact, everywhere, and as much and as quickly as possible by the force of events and circumstances."(57) Thirteen years later, in 1882, on the orders of Bakunin, czar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated.(58) Target: Napoleon III In finding the answer to why the London Times called Joly's book the Dialogues of Geneva. we must investigate the Masonic intrigues in Italy, which occurred a decade before the Geneva meetings. In late 1856 the Italian Grand Orient Masons, already known as the Mafia, were contracted by Lord Palmerston of England to assassinate Napoleon III. In early 1857 several Masons met in London to plan the murder. Four were from Russia, one of whom was Mikhail Bakunin.(59) Chairman of the meeting was the Mafia leader himself, Giuseppe Mazzini. At his side were Francesco Crispi (1819-1901), the Sicilian Mason selected to do the Job, and his comrade-in-arms, Freemason Adriano Lemmi (1822-1896).(60) In January 1858 Crispi and Lemml met in Paris with Freemason Felice Orsini. Orsini, a lodge brother of Napoleon III, taught the two assassins how to manufacture a bomb, then kept them abreast of the Emperor's movements. During the next few weeks several attempts were made on Napoleon's life, each failing. Crispi and Lemmi escaped, but Orsini was captured, tried and condemned to death. Before his execution on March 13, 1858, Napoleon visited him in prison. Orsini warned the Emperor that if he did not assist the Italian Freemasons in their struggle for democracy, other bombs were reserved for him. Napoleon acquiesced, meeting at Piedmont in July with Count Camillo Benso di Cavour. Mazzini was not at this meeting. Cavour was Grand Master of an English warranted lodge in Italy, a revolutionary lodge competing with Grand Master Mazzini's Grand Orient.(61) Miller tells what united these two rival Grand Masters: The policies of the Grand Master Cavour and the Grand blaster Mazzini, each representing two different Masonic currents [English and French] emanating from different sources, met on the issue of the destruction of the Papacy which it was hoping to submerge through the unification of Italy. Cavour aimed at unity in the form of a constitutional monarchy under the house of Savoy, and Mazzini, aiming at a republic, found himself forced into a compromise which obliged him to accept, temporarily at least, a Piedmontese monarchy for United Italy (62) Together they agreed to accept assistance from Napoleon. France, with Piedmont-Sardinia, declared war on Austria in order to expel Austria's troops from Italy. Miller quotes the French deputy Monsieur Keller's remark before the legislative body on March 13, 1861 on the cause of these events: '"The Italian war was the execution of the will of Orslnl."(63) Meanwhile, Victor Hugo, Grand Master of the Priory of Sion, was in exile writing satirical poetry against Napoleon Hugo's poetry was intended to manipulate public opinion to drive the Emperor from office. Three of these works were: 1) Napoleon le. Petit, an indictment of the "little" Napoleon III as opposed to the "great" Napoleon I:2) Histotre d'un crime, a day-by-day account of Louis Bonaparte's coup as seen by a dissentient witness; and 3) Les Chatiments, ranking among his most powerful satirical poems, a presentation of Napoleon as a thief and a killer.(64) As a result, the Emperor's popularity began to decline during the latter half of the 1850s. To perpetuate the decline, Joly was chosen in 1860 to take up the cause, which culminated in the Dialogues of Geneva in 1865. Hugo planted the seed of dissension: Joly cultivated it and Napoleon reaped a harvest of discontent from his subjects. During the latter half of the 1860s, the anti-imperial opposition strengthened. In 1871 Napoleon III was deposed. Joly's Source How could Joly, a Rosicrucian Freemason, know of the Communist goings-on in Geneva, which caused the London Times to call his book the Dialogues of Geneva? Joly was neither a member of the Templar Scottish Rite of Grand Orient Freemasonry, nor its left-wing Communist Party. He hated Communism and would not have attended their meetings if invited. Here is where Cremieux comes in. As Supreme Commander of the Scottish Rite of Grand Orient Freemasonry, Cremieux was well aware of the agenda of the communist meetings at the Masonic lodge at Geneva and may have attended himself. He is known to have induced Joly to write the Dialogues. Whether Cremieux actually handed Joly minutes of those Machiavellian meetings or verbally informed him of their contents is not known. In any case, Cremieux, a fellow Rosicrucian and intimate of Joly, most certainly guided him in the contents of his writings. This is a Masonic modus operandi -- as we have seen previously in the relationship between Frederick Engels and Karl Marx. Marx followed Engels's suggestions, putting them in revolutionary form. Likewise, two decades later Cremieux suggested what Joly should write. Joly, a government lawyer prior to the Emperor's rise to power, would be credible. Joly's articles implied that the Machiavellian decisions of the several Geneva Communist congresses were the Emperor's plans for the destruction of France. When bound in a book, the articles were titled Dialogues of Geneva. As planned, this Masonic disinformation aroused public opinion against Napoleon III. Joly wrote only under the guarantee of anonymity; hence the pseudonym, Mr. X. Yet, in order to arouse public opinion, the author had to be revealed as someone with authority -- someone acquainted with the political climate of the day. Joly, therefore, was betrayed two months after publication. As a result of this unusual and swift exposure, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to two years in prison. Joly's exposure, trial, conviction and punishment are another example of the Masonic modus operandi. In this world of Masonic intrigue, where the end justifies the means, there are those expendables who are used as scapegoats to protect the conspiracy. Joly, only a Blue Lodge Mason, was sacrificed for the greater cause. Whether Cremieux exposed Joly is not known, but it is a distinct possibility. Albeit, the scheme worked, and Napoleon III was out of government within six years of the publication of Joly's book. Who were the winners? First, Rosicrucian English Freemasonry, now rid of the man who ousted the oligarchy's occupation forces from Italy. Second, French Templar Grand Orient Freemasonry, which deposed an Emperor for refusing to take orders from his Masonic hierarchy. Third, Cremieux, whose vengeance was the deposition of Napoleon III for denying him high political office. Cremieux's revenge, however, had far-reaching consequences For example, Joly's book contributed to the release of documents called The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Sion, which in turn fueled post-World War I Europe against the Jews, giving rise to Fascism. In this climate, Hitler went unchallenged when he engineered the slaughter of six million Jews and five million Gentiles in concentration camps. Nesta Webster makes a strong case for Joly as the source of the Protocols. In Secret Societies and Subversive Movements, she states: "The Protocols were largely copied from the book of Maurice Joly, Dialogues aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu, published in 1864. Let it be said at once that the resemblance between the two works could not be accidental. Not only are whole paragraphs almost identical, but the various points in the programme follow each other in precisely the same order."(65) On the other hand, it is plausible to suggest that the Protocols were not a plagiarism of Joly's book at all, but were the actual minutes to the Marxist revolutionary meetings held in the Masonic lodge at Geneva. As earlier suggested, these notes may have been given to Joly by Cremieux. This author's hypothesis is that Joly plagiarized the Geneva minutes, which he reshaped into the Dialogues of Geneva Whether the Protocols were a plagiarism of Joly's book. or the Dialogues a plagiarism of the Protocols. the result was the same. Most significant to our investigation is that Joly, a Freemason, was a close associate of Cremieux. Cremieux, in turn, was on the Supreme Council of the Mizraim Masonic Lodge at Paris. It was from this lodge that the "Protocols" were stolen in 1884. If, in fact, Joly did plagiarize the minutes to the Geneva meetings In 1865, apparently they were carelessly stored and forgotten in the archives of the Mizraim Lodge. Two decades later they were "found" by a casual peruser, who, not knowing their original purpose, stole them, An interesting story concerning the 1884 discovery of the Protocols was told in 1934 by Victor E. Marsden in his English translation of the Russian Protocols. Marsden had been the Russian correspondent for the Morning Post of London when the Bolshevik Revolution broke out. He reports that In 1884 [two years after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II by Masonic Nihilists] the daughter of a Russian general, Mlle. Justine Glinka, was endeavoring to serve her country in Paris by obtaining political information, which she communicated to General Orgevskii in St. Petersburg. For this purpose she employed a Jew, Joseph Schorst, member of the Mizraim Lodge in Paris. One day Schorst offered to obtain for her a document of great importance to Russia, on payment of 2,500 francs. This sum being received from St. Petersburg was paid over and the document handed to Mlle. Glinka. She forwarded the French original, accompanied by a Russian translation, to Orgevskii, who in turn handed it to his chief, General Cherevin, for transmission to the Tsar."(66) The document was the French original of The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Sion, General Cherevin did not give them to the Royal Court as Glinka had requested. Instead, he filed them, and they lay dormant for the next two decades. What lends credence to this story is that Mlle. Justine Glinka was arrested shortly after on trumped up charges, not at all related to the Protocols, and banished to her estate in Orel, Russia. Some believe this was engineered by Freemasonry in an attempt to keep Mlle. Glinka from further investigation.(67) As for the Masonic traitor Joseph Schorst -- in payment for his part played in the intrigue, he was hunted down and murdered in Egypt possibly by Masonic agents.(68) The strongest case for linking the Protocols of Sion to Gentile Freemasonry is the Protocols itself. Read in the light of Masonic hegemony, the fourth Protocol, for instance, seems to confirm that the 33rd degree Supreme Council of Universal Freemasonry, and not Zionist Jews, is the manipulator of world revolution: Who or what can dethrone an invisible power? Now, this is Just what our Government is. The Masonic Lodge throughout the world unconsciously acts as a mask for our purpose. But the use we are going to make of this power in our plan of action, and even our headquarters, remain perpetually unknown to the world at large.(69) The "Government" referred to in this Protocol could well be the Supreme Council of Freemasonry. And the Dialogues, upon which we believe the Protocols is based, could have been of much earlier origin than the 1860s, for it echoes Weishaupt's correspondence with his co-conspirators in the Illuminate The Dialogues could as well have been the correspondence between members of the Templar hierarchy, such as Mazzini in Italy, Pike in America, Palmerston in England, and Bismarck in Germany. It is also just as likely that Karl Marx, or Mikhail Bakunin, both of whom were at the Geneva Masonic Congress, spouted the fourth Protocol from'that forum. It certainly would have befitted their Communist program. In fact, a segment of Protocol twelve could have been spoken at Geneva against Russia by this remnant of Communist Jacobins. It reads; Briefly, in order to demonstrate our enslavement of the Gentile governments in Europe, we will show our power to one of them by means of crimes of violence, that is to say by a reign of terror. (70) By using the word "Gentile," the anonymous authors of the Protocols suggested to general readers and investigators that the authors and planners of the "crimes of violence" were Jews. When the barbarous Bolshevik Revolution destroyed old Russia, conspiracy researchers pointed to this Protocol, because of the word "Gentile," and blamed the Revolution on the Jews, who they believed were retaliating against the Russian czars for their persecution of the Russian Jewish populations. --[7b]-- The Protocols, Jack the Ripper and Gentile "Non-Masons" Gentile Freemasonry refers to its initiates as Jews, refers to its lodges as Solomon's Temple, and calls non-Masons Gentiles. Likewise, a republic founded by Freemasonry and governed by Masons is by inference a Jewish nation. Conversely, a kingdom not ruled by Freemasonry, such as Russia, would be considered a Gentile nation. Christian Russia, then, would certainly be called a "Gentile government" by "them that say they are Jews, and are not, but do Stephen Knight documents the Masonic use of the word "Gentile" in The Brotherhood When a meeting is called at the Masonic Temple, he says Masons converge on the lodge from all directions. "Once inside the Hail, each turned his steps towards the Crypt, which was cordoned off so that no intruder could make his way down the stair and report the goings-on to any 'Gentile'.(71) Knight connects the Protocols to Gentile Freemasonry by examining a seemingly unrelated subject: the notorious murders of Jack the Ripper, committed in 1888 between August and November. 'The Jack the Ripper murders in the East End of London in 1888," asserts Knight, "were perpetrated according to masonic [sic] ritual and a subsequent police cover-up was led by the Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, both Freemasons."(72) To comprehend what is meant by "murders... according to Masonic ritual," we must understand the Masonic ceremony of the 3rd degree -- the Master Mason degree. Stephen Knight explains the Masonic ritual focus on murder: Much of Masonic ritual centres on murder. At the 3rd degree, the victim is Hiram Abiff, mythical architect in charge of the building of Solomon's temple. The ceremony involves the mimed murder of Hiram by three Apprentice Masons, and his subsequent resurrection. The three Apprentices are named Jubela, Jubelo and Jubelum -- known collectively as the Juwes [Masonic spelling for Jews]. In masonic [sic] lore, the Juwes are hunted down and executed, "by the breast being torn open and the heart and vitals taken out and thrown over the left shoulder," which closely parallels the details of Jack the Ripper's modus operardi.(73) In 1888, Sir Charles Warren was Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and one of the country's most eminent Freemasons. Two years earlier Warren also helped found the most secret of Masonic Lodges, the Quatuor Coronati Lodge of Masonic Research. Knight reports that Warren impeded the investigation of the murders at every turn, caused endless confusion and delays, and personally destroyed the only clue the Ripper ever left. This was a scrawled chalk message on a wall inside a tenement block near the site of the fourth murder. Beneath the message was a blood-soaked piece of cloth which Jack the Ripper had recently cut from the apron of his latest victim. The message itself, according to a careful copy made by a conscientious PC who was at the scene early -- which had been concealed in the Scotland Yard files on the case for nearly ninety years before I gained access to them -- read: "The Juwes are The Men That will not be blamed for nothing" The moment he was told of this, Warren, who had not previously ventured near the East End, rushed to the place before the message could be photographed and washed it away. This has never been explained. The truth was that Warren, who had been exalted to the Royal Arch in 1861, had realized that the writing on the wall was a masonic [sicl] message. Warren, a founder of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge of Masonic Research and by the time of the Ripper murders a Past Grand Sojourner of the Supreme Grand Chapter, knew only too well that the writing on the wall was telling the world, "The Freemasons are the men that will not be blamed for nothing."(74) The significance of the word "Juwes" in the Ripper's message will not escape anyone versed in Masonic lore. As Knight pointed out in a previous book, Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution (1976), Masons refer to themselves as Jews, and use the word "Gentile," "borrowed from Hebrew and used to mean non-Masonic."(75) How does the message at the scene of the fourth "Ripper" murder shed light by analogy on who may have authored the Protocols? First, it confirms that Freemasonry establishes decoys, then calls those decoys Jews. Second, the scrawled chalk message on the wall above the scene of the fourth Ripper murder can be extrapolated and applied to all Masonic intrigues and their authors, including authors of the Protocols: "The Freemasons are the men that will not be blamed for the Protocols." Third, by making the Protocols read like a Jewish manuscript, the Gentile Masonic conspiracy continues unimpeded by sending researchers chasing the Jewish scapegoat. In 1935, after studying the Protocols and hearing months of testimony, the court at Berne, Switzerland, declared that they were not of Jewish origin. If we accept the court's declaration, the only logical explanation for the Protocols authorship is Gentile Freemasonry: "those that say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie." The Protocols is another facet of the age-old plot of Satan to destroy both Jews and Christians alike. Stephen Knight's intent in exposing the reason behind the Masonic use of the word "Juwes" was not to reveal Freemasonry's anti-Semitic symbolism, but to tie the Protocols to Gentile Freemasonry. He offers even more convincing evidence of the Protocols Masonic authorship: "The translator of the Protocols claimed they were in the form of minutes which were removed from a large book of notes for lectures. They were signed, he said, by Freemasons of the highest rank, the thirty-third degree."(76) Thirty-third degree Masons, of course, meet separately from their Masonic brethren of the lower degrees. Signiflcantly, Edith Miller informs us that the name of the meeting hall in Paris where the 33rd degree Supreme Council of Mizraim Masons gathered was the Sanctuary of Levites, corroborating Knight's discovery that Gentile Masons refer to themselves as Jews.(77) Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry sheds more light on French Freemasonry's fixation on becoming Jews, when documenting that in the French lodges, "Levite" is the "highest of the Masonic Degrees...."(78) How could a person, or persons, who supposedly forged the Protocols, have known to connect Jewish terminology used by a Gentile Masonic Lodge in Paris, unless he, or they, were 33rd degree Masons from that same lodge? We know that Adolphe Cremieux was that Mason who sat on the Supreme Council of Mizraim Freemasonry. We also know that the Protocols were stolen from that same Lodge. Stephen Knight concludes: It must be stated that the Protocols have been the subject of debate since they first appeared in print. Hitler twisted their meaning and alleged that they proved the existence of a worldwide conspiracy by the Jews, and used them in a hopeless attempt to justify his extermination programme. Chiefly because of the Nazi atrocities many writers have attacked the Protocols as forgeries. The argument continues to rage, and there are strong points both for and against. An important point to bear in mind is that they had been in existence a long time before they were finally published... Forgeries or not, the product of fanatical minds or not, the fact is they have been taken in deadly seriousness by thousands of people. Of course, even accepting for a moment that there were no questions of the documents' authenticity, it would still be ludicrous to believe that they form the code by which all Freemasons live. Most Masons do not progress beyond the third degree, so the vast majority of Freemasons before the Protocols were published would never have heard of them. But what they [the Protocols] would have conveyed to those high initiates, who not only read them, but took them seriously, is fascinating and disturbing.(79) The Masonic "Protocol' Conspiracy in Russia The Reform Jews left Germany for Russia in 1840 to destroy Judaism there. Their tactics were reprehensible, resulting in violence and bloodletting. In anger the Reformers spread vicious lies about their Jewish brothers, inciting Christian Russia to anti-Semitism. The most horrendous were accusations of blood libels. One such incident took place in the small town of Villovich where the Reform Jews took revenge on the local rabbi. They dressed up one of their women as the rabbi's wife. "The impersonation was perfect," wrote Rabbi Antelman. "She appeared before the local priest and said that she saw the rabbi kill a Christian child for Passover. Because of this incident, the rabbi and all the members of his congregation were killed after a brief trial. The rabbi's wife and his five remaining children were tortured into accepting Christianity."(80) Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry confirms that "[i]n Russia the Protocols were used to back up charges against the Jews for 'ritual murder."(81) Is Mackey's statement Freemasonry's subtle way of suggesting that the authors of the Protocols were Reform Jews? . DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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