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Protocols of the Learned
Elders of Zion
Translated by Victor E. Marsden
PROTOCOL 23: INSTILLING
OBEDIENCE
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 re-establish 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 breeds 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.
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