Books I've Read(or am reading)- Eighteen: "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" by Victor E. Marsden (C)

This book is a very controversial one and I would like the reader to know that I post this with some reservation because it may be assumed that I hold positions as a result of such a book that may not actually be mine in fact.

The fact is that this book has had a major effect on history. Whether it is indeed a forgery, as its detractors claim, or whether it is true as its author claims, peoples' ideas have been set into motion as a result of this collection of these protocols and perhaps to understand the previous century and the one we are now in it is necessary to read such a book to see what, if any, effect this book may have had.

I myself will offer no comment except to note that the protocols have a very detailed and profound understanding of the human condition and in a C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Letters type of way, the Protocols view the human being in the reverse of the Benevolent God Who desires the healing of the human being through union with Himself and Who accurately expounds on the human condition so as to bring about this healing.

In the Protocols we have the same viewing of the fallen condition which is prone to sin and error but with the aim of exploiting this weakness to bring about the subjugation of the human being using this understanding of the psychology of the fallen human condition against itself. There is a certain wisdom in these protocols which surprised me.

Also, interestingly, Plato's Republic came to mind when I read this book. As the reader may know, in his work, Plato argued that Rule should be in the hands of a born and bred Philosopher King whose rule alone should be desired over the other forms of government he speaks of in descending value from the Philosopher King: Tyranny(and remember that a "tyrant", in the ancient Greek usage of this word denotes something other what a modern user of this word means, Oligarchy(the rule of the few) and in Plato's mind the worst form of government, Democracy.

Along these lines, it must be noted that in the aim of the protocols there is also manifested a certain desire by those orchestrating the events to bring about the good of those to be ruled for their own good as they, if left to themselves cannot rule. So the "takeover" is viewed in a "positive"light by the one being instructed in the protocols for the ultimate good of those to be ruled who cannot, because of an inherent weakness, rule themselves.

I will over the course of time print all the protocols. It is a fascinating work. I will preface each post with the above primer I have provided.

Protocol XI

The Totalitarian State

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.
There now remains not much more for us to build up upon
the foundation we have laid.

Protocol XII

Control of the Press

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
neecessity of censoring it, will be turned by us into a very
lucrative source of income to our State: we shall lay 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
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. Before accepting any production for publication 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,
opposition, which, in at least one of its organs, will present
what looks like the very antipodes to us. Our real opponents at
heart will accept this simulated opposition as their own and
will show us their cards.

12. All our newspapers will be of all possible complexions —
aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, even anarchical - for so
long, of course, as the constitution exists .... Like the Indian
idol "Vishnu" they will have a hundred hands, and every one of
them will have a finger on any one of the public opinions as
required. When a pulse quickens these hands will lead opinion
in the direction of our aims, for an excited patient loses all
power of judgment and easily yields to suggestion. Those fools
who will think they are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of
their own camp will be repeating our opinion or any opinion
that seems desirable for us. In the vain belief that they are
following the organ of their party they will, in fact, follow the
flag which we hang out for them.

13. In order to direct our newspaper militia in this sense we
must take special and minute care in organizing this matter.
Under the title of central department of the press we shall
institute literary gatherings at which our agents will without
attracting attention issue the orders and watchwords of the day.
By discussing and controverting, but always superficially,
without touching the essence of the matter, our organs will
carry on a sham fight fusillade with the official newspapers
solely for the purpose of giving occasion for us to express
ourselves more fully than could well be done from the outset in
official announcements, whenever, of course, that is to our advantage.

14. THESE ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO SERVE
ANOTHER PURPOSE, NAMELY, THAT OUR SUBJECTS
WILL BE CONVINCED TO THE EXISTENCE OF FULL
FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND SO GIVE OUR AGENTS AN
OCCASION TO AFFIRM THAT ALL ORGANS WHICH
OPPOSE US ARE EMPTY BABBLERS, since they are
incapable of finding any substantial objections to our orders.

ONLY LIES PRINTED

15. Methods of organization like these, imperceptible to the
public eye but absolutely sure, are the best calculated to
succeed in bringing the attention and the confidence of the
public to the side of our government. Thanks to such methods
we shall be in a position as from time to time may be required,
to excite or to tranquillize the public mind on political
questions, to persuade or to confuse, printing now truth, now
lies, facts or their contradictions, according as they may be well
or ill received, always very cautiously feeling our ground
before stepping upon it.... WE SHALL HAVE A SURE
TRIUMPH OVER OUR OPPONENTS SINCE THEY WILL
NOT HAVE AT THEIR DISPOSITION ORGANS OF THE
PRESS IN WHICH THEY CAN GIVE FULL AND FINAL
EXPRESSION TO THEIR VIEWS owing to the aforesaid
methods of dealing with the press. We shall not even need to
refute them except very superficially.

16. Trial shots like these, fired by us in the third rank of our press, in case of need, will be energetically refuted by us in our semi-official organs.

17. Even nowadays, already, to take only the French press,
there are forms which reveal masonic solidarity in acting on the
watchword: all organs of the press are bound together by
professional secrecy; like the augurs of old, not one of their
numbers will give away the secret of his sources of information
unless it be resolved to make announcement of them. Not one
journalist will venture to betray this secret, for not one of them
is ever admitted to practice literature unless his whole past has
some disgraceful sore or other .... These sores would be
immediately revealed. So long as they remain the secret of a
few the prestige of the journalist attacks the majority of the
country - the mob follow after him with enthusiasm.

18. Our calculations are especially extended to the provinces. It
is indispensable for us to inflame there those hopes and
impulses with which we could at any moment fall upon the
capital, and we shall represent to the capitals that these
expressions are the independent hopes and impulses of the
provinces. Naturally, the source of them will be always one and
the same - ours. WHAT WE NEED IS THAT, UNTIL SUCH
TIME AS WE ARE IN THE PLENITUDE POWER, THE
CAPITALS SHOULD FIND THEMSELVES STIFLED BY
THE PROVINCIAL OPINION OF THE NATIONS, I.E., OF
A MAJORITY ARRANGED BY OUR AGENTUR. What we
need is that at the psychological moment the capitals should
not be in a position to discuss an accomplished fact for the
simple reason, if for no other, that it has been accepted by the
public opinion of a majority in the provinces.

19. WHEN WE ARE IN THE PERIOD OF THE NEW
REGIME TRANSITIONAL TO THAT OF OUR
ASSUMPTION OF FULL SOVEREIGNTY WE MUST NOT
ADMIT ANY REVELATION BY THE PRESS OF ANY FORM OF PUBLIC DISHONESTY; IT IS NECESSARY THAT THE NEW REGIME SHOULD BE THOUGHT TO HAVE SO PERFECTLY CONTENDED EVERYBODY THAT EVEN CRIMINALITY HAS DISAPPEARED ... Cases of the manifestation of criminality should remain known only to their victims and to chance witnesses - no more.

Protocol XIII

Distractions

1. The need for daily bread 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 securing 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 unaccustomed 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, for truth is one, and in it there is no place for progress. Progress, 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

Assault on Religion

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
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 XV

Ruthless Suppression

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, like Waco? Randy
Weaver? Port Arthur? Oklahoma?) 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 win be known to us and fall under our guiding hands on the very day of their conception. AMONG "HE 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 high conceit of themselves to which it gives birth, for that insensibly disposes them to assimulate our suggestions without being on their guard against them in the fullness of their confidence that it is their own infallibility which is giving utterance to their own thoughts and that it is impossible for them to borrow those of others .... You cannot imagine to what extent the wisest of the GOYIM can be brought to a state of unconscious naivete in the presence of this condition of high conceit of themselves, and at the same time how easy it is to take the heart out of them by the slightest ill-success, though it be nothing more than the stoppage of the applause they had, and to reduce them to a slavish submission for the sake of winning a renewal of success .... BY SO MUCH AS OURS DISREGARD SUCCESS IF ONLY THEY CAN CARRY THROUGH THEIR PLANS, BY SO MUCH THE "GOYIM" ARE WILLING TO SACRIFICE ANY PLANS ONLY TO HAVE SUCCESS. This psychology of theirs materially facilitates for us the task of setting them in the required direction. These tigers in appearance have the souls of sheep and the wind blows freely through their heads. We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM .... They have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very
creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality ....

7. If we have been able to bring them to such a pitch of stupid
blindness is it not a proof, and an amazingly clear proof, of the
degree to which the mind of the GOYIM is undeveloped in
comparison with our mind? This it is, mainly, which
guarantees our success.

GENTILES ARE CATTLE

8. And how far-seeing were our learned elders in ancient times
when they said that to attain a serious end it behooves not to
stop at any means or to count the victims sacrificed for the sake
of that end .... We have not counted the victims of the seed of
the GOY cattle, though we have sacrificed many of our own,
but for that we have now already given them such a position on
the earth as they could not even have dreamed of. The
comparatively small numbers of the victims from the number
of ours have preserved our nationality from destruction.
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 unquestioning 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 interests 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 educational 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 pan
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 must
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 appeal, 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 quash 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
interrelation 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.
When the King of Israel sets upon his sacred head the
crown offered him by Europe he will become patriarch of the
world. The indispensable victims offered by him in
consequence of their suitability will never reach the number of
victims offered in the course of centuries by the mania of
magnificence, the emulation between the GOY governments.

24. Our King will be in constant communion with the peoples,
making to them from the tribune speeches which fame will in
that same hour distribute over all the world.

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