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Protocols of the Learned
Elders of Zion
Translated by Victor E. Marsden
PROTOCOL 15: 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 to oppose our coming into our kingdom. Every kind of new
institution of anything like a secret society will also be punished with death;
those of them which are now in existence, are known to us, serve us and have
served us, we shall disband and send into exile to continents far removed from
Europe. IN THIS WAY WE SHALL PROCEED WITH THOSE "GOY" MASONS
WHO KNOW TOO MUCH; such of these as we may for some reason spare will be kept in
constant fear of exile. We shall promulgate a law making all former members of
secret societies liable to exile from Europe as the center of rule.
2. Resolutions of our government will be final, without
appeal.
3. In the GOY societies, in which we have planted and deeply
rooted discord and protestantism, the only possible way of restoring order is to
employ merciless measures that prove the direct force of authority: no regard
must be paid to the victims who fall, they suffer for the well-being of the
future. The attainment of that well-being, even at the expense of sacrifices, is
the duty of any kind of government that acknowledges as justification for its
existence not only its privileges but its obligations. The principal guarantee
of stability of rule is to confirm the aureole of power, and this aureole is
attained only by such a majestic inflexibility of might as shall carry on its
face the emblems of inviolability from mystical causes -- from the choice of
God. SUCH WAS, UNTIL RECENT TIMES, THE RUSSIAN AUTOCRACY, THE ONE AND ONLY
SERIOUS FOE WE HAD IN THE WORLD, WITHOUT COUNTING THE PAPACY. Bear in mind the
example when Italy, drenched with blood, never touched a hair of the head of
Sulla who had poured forth that blood: Sulla enjoyed an apotheosis for his might
in him, but his intrepid return to Italy ringed him round with inviolability.
The people do not lay a finger on him who hypnotizes them by his daring and
strength of mind.
SECRET SOCIETIES
4. Meantime, however, until we come into our kingdom, we shall
act in the contrary way: we shall create and multiply free masonic lodges in all
the countries of the world, absorb into them all who may become or who are
prominent in public activity, for these lodges we shall find our principal
intelligence office and means of influence. All these lodges we shall bring
under one central administration, known to us alone and to all others absolutely
unknown, which will be composed of our learned elders. The lodges will have
their representatives who will serve to screen the above-mentioned
administration of MASONRY and from whom will issue the watchword and program. In
these lodges we shall tie together the knot which binds together all
revolutionary and liberal elements. Their composition will be made up of all
strata of society. The most secret political plots will be known to us and fall
under our guiding hands on the very day of their conception. AMONG THE MEMBERS
OF THESE LODGES WILL BE ALMOST ALL THE AGENTS OF INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL
POLICE since their service is for us irreplaceable in the respect that the
police is in a position not only to use its own particular measures with the
insubordinate, but also to screen our activities and provide pretexts for
discontents, ET CETERA.
5. The class of people who most willingly enter into secret
societies are those who live by their wits, careerists, and in general people,
mostly light-minded, with whom we shall have no difficulty in dealing and in
using to wind up the mechanism of the machine devised by us. If this world grows
agitated the meaning of that will be that we have had to stir up in order to
break up its too great solidarity. BUT IF THERE SHOULD ARISE IN ITS MIDST A
PLOT, THEN AT THE HEAD OF THAT PLOT WILL BE NO OTHER THAN ONE OF OUR MOST
TRUSTED SERVANTS. It is natural that we and no other should lead MASONIC
activities, for we know whither we are leading, we know the final goal of every
form of activity whereas the GOYIM have knowledge of nothing, not even of the
immediate effect of action; they put before themselves, usually, the momentary
reckoning of the satisfaction of their self-opinion in the accomplishment of
their thought without even remarking that the very conception never belonged to
their initiative but to our instigation of their thought ...
GENTILES ARE STUPID
6. The GOYIM enter the lodges out of curiosity or in the hope
by their means to get a nibble at the public pie, and some of them in order to
obtain a hearing before the public for their impracticable and groundless
fantasies: they thirst for the emotion of success and applause, of which we are
remarkably generous. And the reason why we give them this success is to make use
of the nigh conceit of themselves to which it gives birth, for that insensibly
disposes them to assimulate our suggestions without being on their guard against
them in the fullness of their confidence that it is their own infallibility
which is giving utterance to their own thoughts and that it is impossible for
them to borrow those of others .... You cannot imagine to what extent the wisest
of the GOYIM can be brought to a state of unconscious naivete in the presence of
this condition of high conceit of themselves, and at the same time how easy it
is to take the heart out of them by the slightest ill-success, though it be
nothing more than the stoppage of the applause they had, and to reduce them to a
slavish submission for the sake of winning a renewal of success .... BY SO MUCH
AS OURS DISREGARD SUCCESS IF ONLY THEY CAN CARRY THROUGH THEIR PLANS, BY SO MUCH
THE "GOYIM" ARE WILLING TO SACRIFICE ANY PLANS ONLY TO HAVE
SUCCESS. This psychology of theirs materially facilitates for us the task of
setting them in the required direction. These tigers in appearance have the
souls of sheep and the wind blows freely through their heads. We have set them
on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the
symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM .... They have never yet and they never will have
the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most
important law of nature, which has established from the very creation of the
world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting
individuality ....
7. If we have been able to bring them to such a pitch of
stupid blindness is it not a proof, and an amazingly clear proof, of the degree
to which the mind of the GOYIM is undeveloped in comparison with our mind? This
it is, mainly, which guarantees our success.
GENTILES ARE CATTLE
8. And how far-seeing were our learned elders in ancient times
when they said that to attain a serious end it behooves not to stop at any means
or to count the victims sacrificed for the sake of that end .... We have not
counted the victims of the seed of the GOY cattle, though we have sacrificed
many of our own, but for that we have now already given them such a position on
the earth as they could not even have dreamed of. The comparatively small
numbers of the victims from the number of ours have preserved our nationality
from destruction.
9. Death is the inevitable end for all. It is better to bring
that end nearer to those who hinder our affairs than to ourselves, to the
founders of this affair. WE EXECUTE MASONS IN SUCH WISE THAT NONE SAVE THE
BROTHERHOOD CAN EVER HAVE A SUSPICION OF IT, NOT EVEN THE VICTIMS THEMSELVES OF
OUR DEATH SENTENCE, THEY ALL DIE WHEN REQUIRED AS IF FROM A NORMAL KIND OF
ILLNESS ..... Knowing this, even the brotherhood in its turn dare not protest.
By such methods we have plucked out of the midst of MASONRY the very root of
protest against our disposition. While preaching liberalism to the GOY we at the
same time keep our own people and our agents in a state of unquestioningly
submission.
10. Under our influence the execution of the laws of the GOYIM
has been reduced to a minimum. The prestige of the law has been exploded by the
liberal interpretations introduced into this sphere. In the most important and
fundamental affairs and questions, JUDGES DECIDE AS WE DICTATE TO THEM, see
matters in the light wherewith we enfold them for the administration of the
GOYIM, of course, through persons who are our tools though we do not appear to
have anything in common with them -- by newspaper opinion or by other means ....
Even senators and the higher administration accept our counsels. The purely
brute mind of the GOYIM is incapable of use for analysis and observation, and
still more for the foreseeing whither a certain manner of setting a question may
tend.
11. In this difference in capacity for thought between the
GOYIM and ourselves may be clearly discerned the seal of our position as the
Chosen People and of our higher quality of humanness, in contradistinction to
the brute mind of the GOYIM. Their eyes are open, but see nothing before them
and do not invent (unless perhaps, material things). From this it is
plain that nature herself has destined us to guide and rule the world.
WE DEMAND SUBMISSION
12. When comes the time of our overt rule, the time to
manifest its blessing, we shall remake all legislatures, all our laws will be
brief, plain, stable, without any kind of interpretations, so that anyone will
be in a position to know them perfectly. The main feature which will run right
through them is submission to orders, and this principle will be carried to a
grandiose height. Every abuse will then disappear in consequence of the
responsibility of all down to the lowest unit before the higher authority of the
representative of power. Abuses of power subordinate to this last instance will
be so mercilessly punished that none will be found anxious to try experiments
with their own powers. We shall follow up jealously every action of the
administration on which depends the smooth running of the machinery of the
State, for slackness in this produces slackness everywhere; not a single case of
illegality or abuse of power will be left without exemplary punishment.
13. Concealment of guilt, connivance between those in the
service of the administration -- all this kind of evil will disappear after the
very first examples of severe punishment. The aureole of our power demands
suitable, that is, cruel, punishments for the slightest infringement, for the
sake of gain, of its supreme prestige. The sufferer, though his punishment may
exceed his fault, will count as a soldier falling on the administrative field of
battle in the interest of authority, principle and law, which do not permit that
any of those who hold the reins of the public coach should turn aside from the
public highway to their own private paths. FOR EXAMPLES OUR JUDGES WILL KNOW
THAT WHENEVER THEY FEEL DISPOSED TO PLUME THEMSELVES ON FOOLISH CLEMENCY THEY
ARE VIOLATING THE LAW OF JUSTICE WHICH IS INSTITUTED FOR THE EXEMPLARY
EDIFICATION OF MEN BY PENALTIES FOR LAPSES AND NOT FOR DISPLAY OF THE SPIRITUAL
QUALITIES OF THE JUDGES .... Such qualities it is proper to show in private
life, but not in a public square which is the 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 part they have to play is to punish and apply laws and not to dream
about the manifestations of liberalism at the expense of the educational scheme
of the State, as the GOYIM in these days imagine it to be .... This method of
shuffling the staff will serve also to explode any collective solidarity of
those in the same service and will bind all to the interests of the government
upon which their fate will depend. The young generation of judges will be
trained in certain views regarding the inadmissibility of any abuses that might
disturb the established order of our subjects among themselves.
15. In these days the judges of the GOYIM create indulgences
to every kind of crimes, not having a just understanding of their office,
because the rulers of the present age in appointing judges to office take no
care to inculcate in them a sense of duty and consciousness of the matter which
is demanded of them. As a brute beast lets out its young in search of prey, so
do the GOYIM give to them for what purpose such place was created. This is the
reason why their governments are being ruined by their own forces through the
acts of their own administration.
16. Let us borrow from the example of the results of these
actions yet another lesson for our government.
17. We shall root out liberalism from all the important
strategic posts of our government on which depends the training of subordinates
for our State structure. Such posts will fall exclusively to those who have been
trained by us for administrative rule. To the possible objection that the
retirement of old servants will cost the Treasury heavily, I reply, firstly,
they will be provided with some private service in place of what they lose, and,
secondly, I have to remark that all the money in the world will be concentrated
in our hands, consequently it is not our government that has to fear expense.
WE SHALL BE CRUEL
18. Our absolutism will in all things be logically consecutive
and therefore in each one of its decrees our supreme will be respected and
unquestionably fulfilled: it will ignore all murmurs, all discontents of every
kind and will destroy to the root every kind of manifestation of them in act by
punishment of an exemplary character.
19. We shall abolish the right of cessation, which will be
transferred exclusively to our disposal -- to the cognizance of him who rules,
for we must not allow the conception among the people of a thought that there
could be such a thing as a decision that is not right of judges set up by us.
If, however, anything like this should occur, we shall ourselves cassate the
decision, but inflict therewith such exemplary punishment on the judge for lack
of understanding of his duty and the purpose of his appointment as will prevent
a repetition of such cases .... I repeat that it must be born in mind that we
shall know every step of our administration which only needs to be closely
watched for the people to be content with us, for it has the right to demand
from a good government a good official.
20. OUR GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE THE APPEARANCE OF A PATRIARCHAL
PATERNAL GUARDIANSHIP ON THE PART OF OUR RULER. Our own nation and our subjects
will discern in his person a father caring for their every need, their every
act, their every inter-relation as subjects one with another, as well as their
relations to the ruler. They will then be so thoroughly imbued with the thought
that it is impossible for them to dispense with this wardship and guidance, if
they wish to live in peace and quiet, THAT THEY WILL ACKNOWLEDGE THE AUTOCRACY
OF OUR RULER WITH A DEVOTION BORDERING ON "APOTHEOSIS," especially
when they are convinced that those whom we set up do not put their own in place
of authority, but only blindly execute his dictates. They will be rejoiced that
we have regulated everything in their lives as is done by wise parents who
desire to train children in the cause of duty and submission. For the peoples of
the world in regard to the secrets of our polity are ever through the ages only
children under age, precisely as are also their governments.
21. As you see, I found our despotism on right and duty: the
right to compel the execution of duty is the direct obligation of a government
which is a father for its subjects. It has the right of the strong that it may
use it for the benefit of directing humanity towards that order which is defined
by nature, namely, submission. Everything in the world is in a state of
submission, if not to man, then to circumstances or its own inner character, in
all cases, to what is stronger. And so shall we be this something stronger for
the sake of good.
22. We are obliged without hesitation to sacrifice
individuals, who commit a breach of established order, for in the exemplary
punishment of evil lies a great educational problem.
23. When the King of Israel sets upon his sacred head the
crown offered him by Europe he will become patriarch of the world. The
indispensable victims offered by him in consequence of their suitability will
never reach the number of victims offered in the course of centuries by the
mania of magnificence, the emulation between the GOY governments.
24. Our King will be in constant communion with the peoples,
making to them from the tribune speeches which fame will in that same hour
distribute over all the world.
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