PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS

OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION

Protocol I

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 f

orth 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.

MIGHT IS RIGHT

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 unreasoning force ever at the mercy of a suggestion

from any side. The blind cannot lead the blind without bringing them into the abyss;

consequently, members of the mob, upstarts from the people even though they should

be as a genius for wisdom, yet having no understanding of the political, cannot

come forward as leaders of the mob without bringing the whole nation to ruin.

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.

Protocol II

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 knowledge 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 ofeducating 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.

Protocol III

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.

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

Protocol IV

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.

Protocol V

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 looseness 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 ELOQUENCE.

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.

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.

Protocol VI

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 unconditional 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

Protocol VII

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.

In a word, to sum up our system of keeping the governments of the goyim in Europe in

check, we shall show our strength to one of them by terrorist attempts and to all, if

we allow the possibility of a general rising against us, we

shall respond with the guns of America or China or Japan.

Protocol VIII

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 t

hese 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. 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.

Protocol IX

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.

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 maneuver 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.

Protocol X

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 plotting. 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.

Protocol XI

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.

Protocol XII

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 tranquilize 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.

Protocol XIII

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

hope, 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 disaccustomed to reflect

and form any opinions of their own, people will begin to talk in the same tone as we because

we alone shall be offering them new directions for thought ... of course

through such persons as will not be suspected of solidarity with us.

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?

Protocol XIV

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 tranquility, though it be

a tranquility 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 tranquility 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 T

RUE 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.

Protocol XV

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 assimilate our suggestions without being on their guard

against them in the fullness of their confidence that it is their own infallibility which is

giving utterance to their own thoughts and that it is impossible for them to borrow those

of others .... You cannot imagine to what extent the wisest of the GOYIM can be brought

to a state of unconscious naivete in the presence of this condition of high conceit of themselves,

and at the same time how easy it is to take the heart out of them by the slightest ill-success,

though it be nothing more than the stoppage of the applause they had, and to reduce them

to a slavish submission for the sake of winning a renewal of success .... BY SO MUCH AS

OURS DISREGARD SUCCESS IF ONLY THEY CAN CARRY THROUGH THEIR PLANS,

BY SO MUCH THE "GOYIM" ARE WILLING TO SACRIFICE ANY PLANS ONLY TO

HAVE SUCCESS. This psychology of theirs materially facilitates for us the task of setting

them in the required direction. These tigers in appearance have the souls of sheep and

the wind blows freely through their heads. We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea

about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM .... They

have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a

manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very

creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose

of instituting individuality ....

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.

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.

Protocol XVI

1. In order to effect the destruction of all collective forces except ours we shall emasculate

the first stage of collectivism - the UNIVERSITIES, by reeducating 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 preeminent 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.

Protocol XVII

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 [The Antichrist??].

5. But, IN THE MEANTIME, while we are reeducating 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.

Protocol XVIII

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.

Protocol XIX

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.

Protocol XX

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.

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 ....

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.

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.

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.

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 demigods.

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.

Protocol XXI

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.

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 ....

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.

Protocol XXII

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.

Protocol XXIII

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 reestablish 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 been 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.

Protocol XXIV

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.

KING OF THE JEWS

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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The (Not So) Secret War Against God

  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.

It is hard to imagine a more devastatingly cynical and satanic statement than the above.

Here is acknowledged the sublime value to ourselves of "faith in God and the brotherhood

of man" followed by a statement that we absolutely must be

denied any chance of creating such a benign world for ourselves.

Protocol 5

  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.

Here we read how public discourse and debate will find expression. Should we be surprised

that political discussion shows only allow proponents of opposing views to harangue each

other in short sound bites. All the while the establishment view is promoted relentlessly in

news programmes and documentaries while threatening opposing narratives are allowed

no time to build a case nor to even present scientific

or evidential facts in support of their argument.

Protocol 14

WE SHALL FORBID CHRIST

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.

Protocol 17

WE SHALL DESTROY THE CLERGY

2. WE HAVE LONG PAST TAKEN CARE TO DISCREDIT THE PRIESTHOOD OF

THE "GOYIM," and thereby to ruin their mission on earth which in these days might

still be a great hindrance to us. Day by day its influence on the peoples of the world is

falling lower. FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE HAS BEEN DECLARED EVERYWHERE,

SO THAT NOW ONLY YEARS DIVIDE US FROM THE MOMENT OF THE COMPLETE

WRECKING OF THAT CHRISTIAN RELIGION: as to other religions we shall have still

less difficulty in dealing with them, but it would be premature to speak of this now. We

shall set clericalism and clericals into such narrow frames as to make

their influence move in retrogressive proportion to its former progress.