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Protocols of the Learned
Elders of Zion
Translated by Victor E. Marsden
PROTOCOL 22: POWER
OF GOLD
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 nothing 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.
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