Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion: Protocol No. 14...
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 the worthlessness of all existing forms of government has
been 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 centre of our rule.
Resolutions of our government will be final, without appeal.
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 the eyes of the people, though they had been torn in
pieces by 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.
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 in 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 programme. 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 will 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.
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 it 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...
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 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.
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.
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 goyim
we at the same time keep our own people and our agents in a state
of unquestioning submission.
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.
In this difference in capacity for thought between the goyim
and ourselves may be clearly discerned the seal of our position
on the Chosen People and of our higher quality of humanness, in
contra-distinction 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.
When comes the time of our overt rule, the time to manifest
its blessings, 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.
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 example: 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
judge. . . Such qualities it is proper to show in private life,
but not in a public square which is the educationary basis of
human life.
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 educationary 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.
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 their subjects places of profit without thinking to
make clear 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.
Let us borrow from the example of the results of these
actions yet another lesson for our government.
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.
Our absolutism will in all things be logically consecutive
and therefore in each one of its decrees our supreme will 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.
We shall abolish the right of cassation, which will be
transferred exclusively to our disposal -- to the cognisanze 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 borne 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.
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 the wish to live in piece 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 his 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 their 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.
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.
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.
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.
...Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion: Protocol No. 16.
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