1. The practice of advocacy produces men cold, cruel, persistent, unprincipled, who in all cases take up an impersonal, purely legal standpoint. They have the inveterate habit to refer everything to its value for the defense and not to the public welfare of its results. They do not usually decline to undertake any defense whatever, they strive for an acquittal at all costs, caviling over every petty crux of jurisprudence and thereby they demoralize justice. For this reason we shall set this profession into narrow frames which will keep it inside this sphere of executive public service. Advocates, equally with judges, will be deprived of the right of communication with litigant; they well receive business only from the court and will study it by notes of report and documents, defending their clients after they have been interrogated in court on facts that have appeared. They will receive an honorarium without regard to the quality of the defense. This will render them mere reporters on law-business in the interests of justice and as counterpoise to the proctor who will be the reporter in the interests of prosecution; this will shorten business before the courts. In this way will be established a practice of honest unprejudiced defense conducted not from personal interest but by conviction. This will also, by the way, remove the present practice of corrupt bargain between advocation to agree only to let that side win which pays most …..

WE SHALL DESTROY THE CLERGY

2. WE HAVE LONG PAST TAKEN CARE TO DISCREDIT THE PRIESTHOOD OF “GOYIM,” and thereby to ruin their mission on earth which in these days might still be a great hindrance to us. Day by day its influence on the peoples of the world is falling lower. FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE HAS BEEN DECLARED EVERYWHERE, SO THAT NOW ONLY YEARS DIVIDE US FROM THE MOMENT OF THE COMPLETE WRECKING OF THAT CHRISTIAN RELIGION: as to other religions we shall have still less difficulty in dealing with them, but it would be premature to speak of this now. We shall act clericalism and clericals into such narrow frames as to make their influence move in retrogressive proportion to its former progress.

3. When the time comes finally to destroy the papal court the finger of an invisible hand will point the nations towards this court. When, however, the nations fling themselves upon it, we shall come forward in the guise of its defenders as if to save excessive bloodshed. By this diversion we shall penetrate to its very bowels and be sure we shall never come out again until we have gnawed through the entire strength of this place.

4. THE KING OF THE JEWS WILL BE THE REAL POPE OF THE UNIVERSE, THE PATRIARCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH [The Antichrist??].

5. But, IN THE MEANTIME, while we are reeducating youth in new traditional religions and afterwards in ours, WE SHALL NOT OVERTLY LAY A FINGER ON EXISTING CHURCHES, BUT WE SHALL FIGHT AGAINST THEM BY CRITICISM CALCULATED TO PRODUCE SCHISM ….

6. In general, then, our contemporary press will continue to CONVICT State affairs, religions, incapacities of the GOYIM, always using the most unprincipled expressions in order by every means to lower their prestige in the manner which can only be practiced by the genius of our gifted tribe ….

7. Our kingdom will be an apologia of the divinity Vishnu, in whom is found its personification – in our hundred hands will be, one in each, the springs of the machinery of social life. We shall see everything without the aid of official police which, in that scope of its rights which we elaborated for the use of the GOYIM, hinders governments from seeing. In our programs ONE-THIRD OF OUR SUBJECTS WILL KEEP THE REST UNDER OBSERVATION from a sense of duty, on the principle of volunteer service to the State. It will then be no disgrace to be a spy and informer, but a merit: unfounded denunciations, however, will be cruelly punished that there may be development of abuses of this right.

8. Our agents will be taken from the higher as well as the lower ranks of society, from among the administrative class who spend their time in amusements, editors, printers and publishers, booksellers, clerks, and salesmen, workmen, coachmen, lackeys, et cetera. This body, having no rights and not being empowered to take any action on their own account, and consequently a police without any power, will only witness and report: verification of their reports and arrests will depend upon a responsible group of controllers of police affairs, while the actual act of arrest will be performed by the gendarmerie and the municipal police. Any person not denouncing anything seen or heard concerning questions of polity will also be charged with and made responsible for concealment, if it be proved that he is guilty of this crime.

9. JUST AS NOWADAYS OUR BRETHREN, ARE OBLIGED AT THEIR OWN RISK TO DENOUNCE TO THE KABAL APOSTATES OF THEIR OWN FAMILY or members who have been noticed doing anything in opposition to the KABAL, SO IN OUR KINGDOM OVER ALL THE WORLD IT WILL BE OBLIGATORY FOR ALL OUR SUBJECTS TO OBSERVE THE DUTY OF SERVICE TO THE STATE IN THIS DIRECTION. 10. Such an organization will extirpate abuses of authority, of force, of bribery, everything in fact which we by our counsels, by out theories of the superhuman rights of man, have introduced into the customs of the GOYIM …. But how else were we to procure that increase of causes predisposing to disorders in the midst of their administration? …. Among the number of those methods one of the most important is – agents for the restoration of order, so placed as to have the opportunity in their disintegrating activity of developing and displaying their evil inclinations – obstinate self-conceit, irresponsible exercise of authority, and, first and foremost, venality.

PROTOCOL No. 18

1. When it becomes necessary for us to strengthen the strict measures of secret defense (the most fatal poison for the prestige of authority) we shall arrange a simulation of disorders or some manifestation of discontents finding expression through the co- operation of good speakers. Round these speakers will assemble all who are sympathetic to his utterances. This will give us the pretext for domiciliary prerequisitions and surveillance on the part of our servants from among the number of the GOYIM police ….

2. As the majority of conspirators act of love for the game, for the sake of talking, so, until they commit some overt act we shall not lay a finger on them but only introduce into their midst observation elements …. It must be remembered that the prestige of authority is lessened if it frequently discovers conspiracies against itself: this implies a presumption of consciousness of weakness, or, what is still worse, of injustice. You are aware that we have broken the prestige of the GOY kings by frequent attempts upon their lives through our agents, blind sheep of our flock, who are easily moved by a few liberal phrases to crimes provided only they be painted in political colors. WE HAVE COMPELLED THE RULERS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR WEAKNESS IN ADVERTISING OVERT MEASURES OF SECRETE DEFENSE AND THEREBY WE SHALL BRING THE PROMISE OF AUTHORITY TO DESTRUCTION.

3. Our ruler will be secretly protected only by the most insignificant guard, because we shall not admit so much as a thought that there could exist against him any sedition with which he is not strong enough to contend and is compelled to hide from it.

4. If we should admit this thought, as the GOYIM have done and are doing, we should IPSO FACTO be signing a death sentence, if not for our ruler, at any rate for his dynasty, at no distant date.

GOVERNMENT BY FEAR

5. According to strictly enforced outward appearances our ruler will employ his power only for the advantage of the nation and in no wise for his own or dynastic profits. Therefore, with the observance of this decorum, his authority will be respected and guarded by the subjects themselves, it will receive an apotheosis in the admission that with it is bound up the well-being of every citizen of the State, for upon it will depend all order in the common life of the pack ….

6. OVERT DEFENSE OF THE KIND ARGUES WEAKNESS IN THE ORGANIZATION OF HIS STRENGTH.

7. Our ruler will always be among the people and be surrounded by a mob of apparently curious men and women, who will occupy the front ranks about him, to all appearance by chance, and will restrain the ranks of the rest out of respect as it will appear for good order. This will sow an example of restraint also in others. If a petitioner appears among the people trying to hand a petition and forcing his way through the ranks, the first ranks must receive the petition and before the eyes of the petitioner pass it to the ruler, so that all may know that what is handed in reaches its destination, that consequently, there exists a control of the ruler himself. The aureole of power requires for is existence that the people may be able to say: “If the king knew of this,” or: “the king will hear it.”

8. WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICIAL DEFENSE, THE MYSTICAL PRESTIGE OF AUTHORITY DISAPPEARS: given a certain audacity, and everyone counts himself master of it, the sedition- monger is conscious of his strength, and when occasion serves watches for the moment to make an attempt upon authority …. For the GOYIM we have been preaching something else, but by that very fact we are enabled to see what measures of overt defense have brought them to ….

9. CRIMINALS WITH US WILL BE ARRESTED AT THE FIRST, more or less, well-grounded SUSPICION: it cannot be allowed that out of fear of a possible mistake an opportunity should be given of escape to persons suspected of a political lapse of crime, for in these matters we shall be literally merciless. If it is still possible, by stretching a point, to admit a reconsideration of the motive causes in simple crimes, there is no possibility of excuse for persons occupying themselves with questions in which nobody except the government can understand anything …. And it is not all governments that understand true policy.

PROTOCOL No. 19

1. If we do not permit any independent dabbling in the political we shall on the other hand encourage every kind of report or petition with proposals for the government to examine into all kinds of projects for the amelioration of the condition of the people; this will reveal to us the defects or else the fantasies of our subjects, to which we shall respond either by accomplishing them or by a wise rebuttment to prove the shortsightedness of one who judges wrongly.

2. Sedition-mongering is nothing more than the yapping of a lap- dog at an elephant. For a government well organized, not from the police but from the public point of view, the lap-dog yaps at the elephant in entire unconsciousness of its strength and importance. It needs no more than to take a good example to show the relative importance of both and the lap-dogs will cease to yap and will wag their tails the moment they set eyes on an elephant.

3. In order to destroy the prestige of heroism for political crime we shall send it for trial in the category of thieving, murder, and every kind of abominable and filthy crime. Public opinion will then confuse in its conception of this category of crime with the disgrace attaching to every other and will brand it with the same contempt.

4. We have done our best, and I hope we have succeeded to obtain that the GOYIM should not arrive at this means of contending with sedition. It was for this reason that through the Press and in speeches, indirectly – in cleverly compiled school- books on history, we have advertised the martyrdom alleged to have been accredited by sedition-mongers for the idea of the commonweal. This advertisement has increased the contingent of liberals and has brought thousands of GOYIM into the ranks of our livestock cattle.

PROTOCOL No. 20

1. To-day we shall touch upon the financial program, which I put off to the end of my report as being the most difficult, the crowning and the decisive point of our plans. Before entering upon it I will remind you that I have already spoken before by way of a hint when I said that the sum total of our actions is settled by the question of figures.

2. When we come into our kingdom our autocratic government will avoid, from a principle of self-preservation, sensibly burdening the masses of the people with taxes, remembering that it plays the part of father and protector. But as State organization cost dear it is necessary nevertheless to obtain the funds required for it. It will, therefore, elaborate with particular precaution the question of equilibrium in this matter.

3. Our rule, in which the king will enjoy the legal fiction that everything in his State belongs to him (which may easily be translated into fact), will be enabled to resort to the lawful confiscation of all sums of every kind for the regulation of their circulation in the State. From this follows that taxation will best be covered by a progressive tax on property. In this manner the dues will be paid without straitening or ruining anybody in the form of a percentage of the amount of property. The rich must be aware that it is their duty to place a part of their superfluities at the disposal of the State since the State guarantees them security of possession of the rest of their property and the right of honest gains, I say honest, for the control over property will do away with robbery on a legal basis.

4. This social reform must come from above, for the time is ripe for it – it is indispensable as a pledge of peace.

WE SHALL DESTROY CAPITAL

5. The tax upon the poor man is a seed of revolution and works to the detriment of the State which is hunting after the trifling is missing the big. Quite apart from this, a tax on capitalists diminishes the growth of wealth in private hands in which we have in these days concentrated it as a counterpoise to the government strength of the GOYIM – their State finances.

6. A tax increasing in a percentage ratio to capital will give much larger revenue than the present individual or property tax, which is useful to us now for the sole reason that it excites trouble and discontent among the GOYIM.

7. The force upon which our king will rest consists in the equilibrium and the guarantee of peace, for the sake of which things it is indispensable that the capitalists should yield up a portion of their incomes for the sake of the secure working of the machinery of the State. State needs must be paid by those who will not feel the burden and have enough to take from.

8. Such a measure will destroy the hatred of the poor man for the rich, in whom he will see a necessary financial support for the State, will see in him the organizer of peace and well-being since he will see that it is the rich man who is paying the necessary means to attain these things.

9. In order that payers of the educated classes should not too much distress themselves over the new payments they will have full accounts given them of the destination of those payments, with the exception of such sums as will be appropriated for the needs of the throne and the administrative institutions.

10. He who reigns will not have any properties of his own once all in the State represented his patrimony, or else the one would be in contradiction to the other; the fact of holding private means would destroy the right of property in the common possessions of all.

11. Relatives of him who reigns, his heirs excepted, who will be maintained by the resources of the State, must enter the ranks of servants of the State or must work to obtain the right to property; the privilege of royal blood must not serve for the spoiling of the treasury.

12. Purchase, receipt of money or inheritance will be subject to the payment of a stamp progressive tax. Any transfer of property, whether money or other, without evidence of payment of this tax which will be strictly registered by names, will render the former holder liable to pay interest on the tax from the moment of transfer of these sums up to the discovery of his evasion of declaration of the transfer. Transfer documents must be presented weekly at the local treasury office with notifications of the name, surname and permanent place of residence of the former and the new holder of the property. This transfer with register of names must begin from a definite sum which exceeds the ordinary expenses of buying and selling necessaries, and these will be subject to payment only by a stamp impost of a definite percentage of the unit.

13. Just strike an estimate of how many times such taxes as these will cover the revenue of the GOYIM States.

WE CAUSE DEPRESSIONS

14. The State exchequer will have to maintain a definite complement of reserve sums, and all that is collected above that complement must be returned into circulation. On these sums will be organized public works. The initiative in works of this kind, proceeding from State sources, will blind the working class firmly to the interests of the State and to those who reign. From these same sums also a part will be set aside as rewards of inventiveness and productiveness.

15. On no account should so much as a single unit above the definite and freely estimated sums be retained in the State Treasuries, for money exists to be circulated and any kind of stagnation of money acts ruinously on the running of the State machinery, for which it is the lubricant; a stagnation of the lubricant may stop the regular working of the mechanism.

16. The substitution of interest-bearing paper for a part of the token of exchange has produced exactly this stagnation. The consequences of this circumstance are already sufficiently noticeable.

17. A court of account will also be instituted by us, and in it the ruler will find at any moment a full accounting for State income and expenditure, with the exception of the current monthly account, not yet made up, and that of the preceding month, which will not yet have been delivered.

18. The one and only person who will have no interest in robbing the State is its owner, the ruler. This is why his personal control will remove the possibility of leakages of extravagances.

19. The representative function of the ruler at receptions for the sake of etiquette, which absorbs so much invaluable time, will be abolished in order that the ruler may have time for control and consideration. His power will not then be split up into fractional parts among time-serving favorites who surround the throne for its pomp and splendor, and are interested only in their own and not in the common interests of the State.

20. Economic crises have been producer by us for the GOYIM by no other means than the withdrawal of money from circulation. Huge capitals have stagnated, withdrawing money from States, which were constantly obliged to apply to those same stagnant capitals for loans. These loans burdened the finances of the State with the payment of interest and made them the bond slaves of these capitals …. The concentration of industry in the hands of capitalists out of the hands of small masters has drained away all the juices of the peoples and with them also the States ….

21. The present issue of money in general does not correspond with the requirements per head, and cannot therefore satisfy all the needs of the workers. The issue of money ought to correspond with the growth of population and thereby children also must absolutely be reckoned as consumers of currency from the day of their birth. The revision of issue is a material question for the whole world.

22. YOU ARE AWARE THAT THE GOLD STANDARD HAS BEEN THE RUIN OF THE STATES WHICH ADOPTED IT, FOR IT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO SATISFY THE DEMANDS FOR MONEY, THE MORE SO THAT WE HAVE REMOVED GOLD FROM CIRCULATION AS FAR AS POSSIBLE.

GENTILE STATES BANKRUPT

23. With us the standard that must be introduced is the cost of working-man power, whether it be reckoned in paper or in wood. We shall make the issue of money in accordance with the normal requirements of each subject, adding to the quantity with every birth and subtracting with every death.

24. The accounts will be managed by each department (the French administrative division), each circle.

25. In order that there may be no delays in the paying our of money for State needs the sums and terms of such payments will be fixed by decree of the ruler; this will do away with the protection by a ministry of one institution to the detriment of others.

26. The budgets of income and expenditure will be carried out side by side that they may not be obscured by distance one to another.

27. The reforms projected by us in the financial institutions and principles of the GOYIM will be clothed by us in such forms as will alarm nobody. We shall point out the necessity of reforms in consequence of the disorderly darkness into which the GOYIM by their irregularities have plunged the finances. The first irregularity, as we shall point out, consists in their beginning with drawing up a single budget which year after year grows owing to the following cause: this budget is dragged out to half the year, then they demand a budget to put things right, and this they expend in three months, after which they ask for a supplementary budget, and all this ends with a liquidation budget. But, as the budget of the following year is drawn up in accordance with the sum of the total addition, the annual departure from the normal reaches as much as 50 per cent in a year, and so the annual budget is trebled in ten years. Thanks to such methods, allowed by the carelessness of the GOY States, their treasuries are empty. The period of loans supervenes, and that has swallowed up remainders and brought all the GOY States to bankruptcy.

28. You understand perfectly that economic arrangements of this kind, which have been suggested to the GOYIM by us, cannot be carried on by us.

29. Every kind of loan proves infirmity in the State and a want of understanding of the rights of the State. Loans hang like a sword of Damocles over the heads of rulers, who, instead of taking from their subjects by a temporary tax, come begging with outstretched palm of our bankers. Foreign loans are leeches which there is no possibility of removing from the body of the State until they fall off of themselves or the State flings them off. But the GOY States do not tear them off; they go on in persisting in putting more on to themselves so that they must inevitably perish, drained by voluntary blood-letting.

TYRANNY OF USURY

30. What also indeed is, in substance, a loan, especially a foreign loan? A loan is – an issue of government bills of exchange containing a percentage obligation commensurate to the sum of the loan capital. If the loan bears a charge of 5 per cent, then in twenty years the State vainly pays away in interest a sum equal to the loan borrowed, in forty years it is paying a double sum, in sixty – treble, and all the while the debt remains an unpaid debt.

31. From this calculation it is obvious that with any form of taxation per head the State is baling out the last coppers of the poor taxpayers in order to settle accounts with wealth foreigners, from whom it has borrowed money instead of collecting these coppers for its own needs without the additional interest.

32. So long as loans were internal the GOYIM only shuffled their money from the pockets of the poor to those of the rich, but when we bought up the necessary person in order to transfer loans into the external sphere, all the wealth of States flowed into our cash- boxes and all the GOYIM began to pay us the tribute of subjects.

33. If the superficiality of GOY kings on their thrones in regard to State affairs and the venality of ministers or the want of understanding of financial matters on the part of other ruling persons have made their countries debtors to our treasuries to amounts quite impossible to pay it has not been accomplished without, on our part, heavy expenditure of trouble and money.

34. Stagnation of money will not be allowed by us and therefore there will be no State interest-bearing paper, except a one per- cent series, so that there will be no payment of interest to leeches that suck all the strength out of the State. The right to issue interest-bearing paper will be given exclusively to industrial companies who will find no difficulty in paying interest out of profits, whereas the State does not make interest on borrowed money like these companies, for the State borrows to spend and not to use in operations.

35. Industrial papers will be bought also by the government which from being as now a paper of tribute by loan operations will be transformed into a lender of money at a profit. This measure will stop the stagnation of money, parasitic profits and idleness, all of which were useful for us among the GOYIM so long as they were independent but are not desirable under our rule.

36. How clear is the undeveloped power of thought of the purely brute brains of the GOYIM, as expressed in the fact that they have been borrowing from us with payment of interest without ever thinking that all the same these very moneys plus an addition for payment of interest must be got by them from their own State pockets in order to settle up with us. What could have been simpler than to take the money they wanted from their own people?

37. But it is a proof of the genius of our chosen mind that we have contrived to present the matter of loans to them in such a light that they have even seen in them an advantage for themselves.

38. Our accounts, which we shall present when the time comes, in the light of centuries of experience gained by experiments made by us on the GOY States, will be distinguished by clearness and definiteness and will show at a glance to all men the advantage of our innovations. They will put an end to those abuses to which we owe our mastery over the GOYIM, but which cannot be allowed in our kingdom.

39. We shall so hedge about our system of accounting that neither the ruler nor the most insignificant public servant will be in a position to divert even the smallest sum from its destination without detection or to direct it in another direction except that which will be once fixed in a definite plan of action.

40. And without a definite plan it is impossible to rule. Marching along an undetermined road and with undetermined resources brings to ruin by the way heroes and demigods.

41. The GOY rulers, whom we once upon a time advised should be distracted from State occupations by representative receptions, observances of etiquette, entertainments, were only screens for our rule. The accounts of favorite courtiers who replaced them in the sphere of affairs were drawn up for them by our agents, and every time gave satisfaction to short-sighted minds by promises that in the future economics and improvements were foreseen …. Economics from what? From new taxes? – were questions that might have been but were not asked by those who read our accounts and projects.

42. You know to what they have been brought by this carelessness, to what pitch of financial disorder they have arrived, notwithstanding the astonishing industry of their peoples.

PROTOCOL No. 21

1. To what I reported to you at the last meeting I shall now add a detailed explanation of internal loans. Of foreign loans I shall say nothing more, because they have fed us with national moneys of the GOYIM, but for our State there will be no foreigners, that is, nothing external.

2. We have taken advantage of the venality of administrators and slackness of rulers to get our moneys twice, thrice and more times over, by lending to the GOY governments moneys which were not at all needed by the States. Could anyone do the like in regard to us? …. Therefore, I shall only deal with the details of internal loans.

3. States announce that such a loan is to be concluded and open subscriptions for their own bills of exchange, that is, for their interest-bearing paper. That they may be within the reach of all the price is determined at from a hundred to a thousand; and a discount is made for the earliest subscribers. Next day by artificial means the price of them goes up, the alleged reason being that everyone is rushing to buy them. In a few days the treasury safes are as they say overflowing and there’s more money than they can do with. The subscription, it is alleged, covers many times over the issue total of the loan; in this lies the whole stage effect – look you, they say, what confidence is shown in the government’s bills of exchange.

4. But when the comedy is played out there emerges the fact that a debit and an exceedingly burdensome debit has been created. For the payment of interest it becomes necessary to have recourse to new loans, which do not swallow up but only add to the capital debt. And when this credit is exhausted it becomes necessary by new taxes to cover, not the loan, BUT ONLY THE INTEREST ON IT. These taxes are a debit employed to cover a debit ….

5. Later comes the time for conversions, but they diminish the payment of interest without covering the debt, and besides they cannot be made without the consent of the lenders; on announcing a conversion a proposal is made to return the money to those who are not willing to convert their paper. If everybody expressed his unwillingness and demanded his money back, the government would be hooked on their own files and would be found insolvent and unable to pay the proposed sums. By good luck the subjects of the GOY governments, knowing nothing about financial affairs, have always preferred losses on exchange and diminution of interest to the risk of new investments of their moneys, and have thereby many a time enabled these governments to throw off their shoulders a debit of several millions.

6. Nowadays, with external loans, these tricks cannot be played by the GOYIM for they know that we shall demand all our moneys back.

7. In this way in acknowledged bankruptcy will best prove to the various countries the absence of any means between the interest of the peoples and of those who rule them.

8. I beg you to concentrate your particular attention upon this point and upon the following: nowadays all internal loans are consolidated by so-called flying loans, that is, such as have terms of payment more or less near. These debts consist of moneys paid into the savings banks and reserve funds. If left for long at the disposition of a government these funds evaporate in the payment of interest on foreign loans, and are placed by the deposit of equivalent amount of RENTS.

9. And these last it is which patch up all the leaks in the State treasuries of the GOYIM.

10. When we ascend the throne of the world all these financial and similar shifts, as being not in accord with our interests, will be swept away so as not to leave a trace, as also will be destroyed all money markets, since we shall not allow the prestige of our power to be shaken by fluctuations of prices set upon our values, which we shall announce by law at the price which represents their full worth without any possibility of lowering or raising. (Raising gives the pretext for lowering, which indeed was where we made a beginning in relation to the values of the GOYIM.)

11. We shall replace the money markets by grandiose government credit institutions, the object of which will be to fix the price of industrial values in accordance with government views. These institutions will be in a position to fling upon the market five hundred millions of industrial paper in one day, or to buy up for the same amount. In this way all industrial undertakings will come into dependence upon us. You may imagine for yourselves what immense power we shall thereby secure for ourselves.

PROTOCOL No. 22

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 noting 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.

PROTOCOL No. 23

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 reestablish 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 breads 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.

PROTOCOL No. 24

1. I pass now to the method of confirming the dynastic roots of King David to the last strata of the earth.

2. This confirmation will first and foremost be included in that which to this day has rested the force of conservatism by our learned elders of the conduct of the affairs of the world, in the directing of the education of thought of all humanity.

3. Certain members of the seed of David will prepare the kings and their heirs, selecting not by right of heritage but by eminent capacities, inducting them into the most secret mysteries of the political, into schemes of government, but providing always that none may come to knowledge of the secrets. The object of this mode of action is that all may know that government cannot be entrusted to those who have not been inducted into the secret places of its art ….

4. To these persons only will be taught the practical application of the aforenamed plans by comparison of the experiences of many centuries, all the observations on the politico-economic moves and social sciences – in a word, all the spirit of laws which have been unshakably established by nature herself for the regulation of the relations of humanity.

5. Direct heirs will often be set aside from ascending the throne if in their time of training they exhibit frivolity, softness and other qualities that are the ruin of authority, which render them incapable of governing and in themselves dangerous for kingly office.

6. Only those who are unconditionally capable for firm, even if it be to cruelty, direct rule will receive the reins of rule from our learned elders.

7. In case of falling sick with weakness of will or other form of incapacity. kings must by law hand over the reins of rule to new and capable hands.

8. The king’s plan of action for the current moment, and all the more so for the future, will be unknown, even to those who are called his closest counselors.

KING OF THE JEWS

9. Only the king and the three who stood sponsor for him will know what is coming.

10. In the person of the king who with unbending will is master of himself and of humanity all will discern as it were fate with its mysterious ways. None will know what the king wishes to attain by his dispositions, and therefore none will dare to stand across an unknown path.

11. It is understood that the brain reservoir of the king must correspond in capacity to the plan of government it has to contain. It is for this reason that he will ascend the throne not otherwise than after examination of his mind by the aforesaid learned elders.

12. That the people may know and love their king, it is indispensable for him to converse in the market-places with his people. This ensures the necessary clinching of the two forces which are now divided one from another by us by the terror.

13. This terror was indispensable for us till the time comes for both these forces separately to fall under our influence.

14. The king of the Jews must not be at the mercy of his passions, and especially of sensuality: on no side of his character must he give brute instincts power over his mind. Sensuality worse than all else disorganizes the capacities of the mind and clearness of views, distracting the thoughts to the worst and most brutal side of human activity.

15. The prop of humanity in the person of the supreme lord of all the world of the holy seed of David must sacrifice to his people all personal inclinations.

16. Our supreme lord must be of an exemplary irreproachable.

1. In applying our principles let attention be paid to the character of the people in whose country you live and act; a general, identical application of them, until such time as the people shall have been re-educated to our pattern, cannot have success. But by approaching their application cautiously you will see that not a decade will pass before the most stubborn character will change and we shall add a new people to the ranks of those already subdued by us.

2. The words of the liberal, which are in effect the words of our masonic watchword, namely, “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” will, when we come into our kingdom, be changed by us into words no longer of a watchword, but only an expression of idealism, namely, into “The right of liberty, the duty of equality, the ideal of brotherhood.” That is how we shall put it, – and so we shall catch the bull by the horns … DE FACTO we have already wiped out every kind of rule except our own, although DE JURE there still remain a good many of them. Nowadays, if any States raise a protest against us it is only PRO FORMA at our discretion and by our direction, for THEIR ANTI-SEMITISM IS INDISPENSABLE TO US FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF OUR LESSER BRETHREN. I will not enter into further explanations, for this matter has formed the subject of repeated discussions amongst us.

JEWISH SUPER-STATE

3. For us there are not checks to limit the range of our activity. Our Super-Government subsists in extra-legal conditions which are described in the accepted terminology by the energetic and forcible word – Dictatorship. I am in a position to tell you with a clear conscience that at the proper time we, the law-givers, shall execute judgment and sentence, we shall slay and we shall spare, we, as head of all our troops, are mounted on the steed of the leader. We rule by force of will, because in our hands are the fragments of a once powerful party, now vanquished by us. AND THE WEAPONS IN OUR HANDS ARE LIMITLESS AMBITIONS, BURNING GREEDINESS, MERCILESS VENGEANCE, HATREDS AND MALICE.

4. IT IS FROM US THAT THE ALL-ENGULFING TERROR PROCEEDS. WE HAVE IN OUR SERVICE PERSONS OF ALL OPINIONS, OF ALL DOCTRINES, RESTORATING MONARCHISTS, DEMAGOGUES, SOCIALISTS, COMMUNISTS, AND UTOPIAN DREAMERS OF EVERY KIND. We have harnessed them all to the task: EACH ONE OF THEM ON HIS OWN ACCOUNT IS BORING AWAY AT THE LAST REMNANTS OF AUTHORITY, IS STRIVING TO OVERTHROW ALL ESTABLISHED FORM OF ORDER. By these acts all States are in torture; they exhort to tranquility, are ready to sacrifice everything for peace: BUT WE WILL NOT GIVE THEM PEACE UNTIL THEY OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE OUR INTERNATIONAL SUPER-GOVERNMENT, AND WITH SUBMISSIVENESS.

5. The people have raised a howl about the necessity of settling the question of Socialism by way of an international agreement. DIVISION INTO FRACTIONAL PARTIES HAS GIVEN THEM INTO OUR HANDS, FOR, IN ORDER TO CARRY ON A CONTESTED STRUGGLE ONE MUST HAVE MONEY, AND THE MONEY IS ALL IN OUR HANDS.

6. We might have reason to apprehend a union between the “clear-sighted” force of the GOY kings on their thrones and the “blind” force of the GOY mobs, but we have taken all the needful measure against any such possibility: between the one and the other force we have erected a bulwark in the shape of a mutual terror between them. In this way the blind force of the people remains our support and we, and we only, shall provide them with a leader and, of course, direct them along the road that leads to our goal.

7. In order that the hand of the blind mob may not free itself from our guiding hand, we must every now and then enter into close communion with it, if not actually in person, at any rate through some of the most trusty of our brethren. When we are acknowledged as the only authority we shall discuss with the people personally on the market, places, and we shall instruct them on questings of the political in such wise as may turn them in the direction that suits us.

8. Who is going to verify what is taught in the village schools? But what an envoy of the government or a king on his throne himself may say cannot but become immediately known to the whole State, for it will be spread abroad by the voice of the people.

9. In order to annihilate the institutions of the GOYIM before it is time we have touched them with craft and delicacy, and have taken hold of the ends of the springs which move their mechanism. These springs lay in a strict but just sense of order; we have replaced them by the chaotic license of liberalism. We have got our hands into the administration of the law, into the conduct of elections, into the press, into liberty of the person, BUT PRINCIPALLY INTO EDUCATION AND TRAINING AS BEING THE CORNERSTONES OF A FREE EXISTENCE.

CHRISTIAN YOUTH DESTROYED

10. WE HAVE FOOLED, BEMUSED AND CORRUPTED THE YOUTH OF THE “GOYIM” BY REARING THEM IN PRINCIPLES AND THEORIES WHICH ARE KNOWN TO US TO BE FALSE ALTHOUGH IT IS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN INCULCATED.

11. Above the existing laws without substantially altering them, and by merely twisting them into contradictions of interpretations, we have erected something grandiose in the way of results. These results found expression in the fact that the INTERPRETATIONS MASKED THE LAW: afterwards they entirely hid them from the eyes of the governments owing to the impossibility of making anything out of the tangled web of legislation.

12. This is the origin of the theory of course of arbitration.

13. You may say that the GOYIM will rise upon us, arms in hand, if they guess what is going on before the time comes; but in the West we have against this a maneuver of such appalling terror that the very stoutest hearts quail – the undergrounds, metropolitans, those subterranean corridors which, before the time comes, will be driven under all the capitals and from whence those capitals will be blown into the air with all their organizations and archives.

PROTOCOL No. 10

1. To-day I begin with a repetition of what I said before, and I BEG YOU TO BEAR IN MIND THAT GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLE ARE CONTENT IN THE POLITICAL WITH OUTSIDE APPEARANCES. And how, indeed, are the GOYIM to perceive the underlying meaning of things when their representatives give the best of their energies to enjoying themselves? For our policy it is of the greatest importance to take cognizance of this detail; it will be of assistance to us when we come to consider the division of authority of property, of the dwelling, of taxation (the idea of concealed taxes), of the reflex force of the laws. All these questions are such as ought not to be touched upon directly and openly before the people. In cases where it is indispensable to touch upon them they must not be categorically named, it must merely be declared without detailed exposition that the principles of contemporary law are acknowledged by us. The reason of keeping silence in this respect is that by not naming a principle we leave ourselves freedom of action, to drop this or that out of it without attracting notice; if they were all categorically named they would all appear to have been already given.

2. The mob cherishes a special affection and respect for the geniuses of political power and accepts all their deeds of violence with the admiring response: “rascally, well, yes, it is rascally, but it’s clever! … a trick, if you like, but how craftily played, how magnificently done, what impudent audacity!” …

OUR GOAL – WORLD POWER

3. We count upon attracting all nations to the task of erecting the new fundamental structure, the project for which has been drawn up by us. This is why, before everything, it is indispensable for us to arm ourselves and to store up in ourselves that absolutely reckless audacity and irresistible might of the spirit which in the person of our active workers will break down all hindrances on our way.

4. WHEN WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED OUR COUP D’ETAT WE SHALL SAY THEN TO THE VARIOUS PEOPLES: “EVERYTHING HAS GONE TERRIBLY BADLY, ALL HAVE BEEN WORN OUT WITH SUFFERING. WE ARE DESTROYING THE CAUSES OF YOUR TORMENT – NATIONALITIES, FRONTIERS, DIFFERENCES OF COINAGES. YOU ARE AT LIBERTY, OF COURSE, TO PRONOUNCE SENTENCE UPON US, BUT CAN IT POSSIBLY BE A JUST ONE IF IT IS CONFIRMED BY YOU BEFORE YOU MAKE ANY TRIAL OF WHAT WE ARE OFFERING YOU.” … THEN WILL THE MOB EXALT US AND BEAR US UP IN THEIR HANDS IN A UNANIMOUS TRIUMPH OF HOPES AND EXPECTATIONS. VOTING, WHICH WE HAVE MADE THE INSTRUMENT WHICH WILL SET US ON THE THRONE OF THE WORLD BY TEACHING EVEN THE VERY SMALLEST UNITS OF MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN RACE TO VOTE BY MEANS OF MEETINGS AND AGREEMENTS BY GROUPS, WILL THEN HAVE SERVED ITS PURPOSES AND WILL PLAY ITS PART THEN FOR THE LAST TIME BY A UNANIMITY OF DESIRE TO MAKE CLOSE ACQUAINTANCE WITH US BEFORE CONDEMNING US.

5. TO SECURE THIS WE MUST HAVE EVERYBODY VOTE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF CLASSES AND QUALIFICATIONS, in order to establish an absolute majority, which cannot be got from the educated propertied classes. In this way, by inculcating in all a sense of self-importance, we shall destroy among the GOYIM the importance of the family and its educational value and remove the possibility of individual minds splitting off, for the mob, handled by us, will not let them come to the front nor even give them a hearing; it is accustomed to listen to us only who pay it for obedience and attention. In this way we shall create a blind, mighty force which will never be in a position to move in any direction without the guidance of our agents set at its head by us as leaders of the mob. The people will submit to this regime because it will know that upon these leaders will depend its earnings, gratifications and the receipt of all kinds of benefits.

6. A scheme of government should come ready made from one brain, because it will never be clinched firmly if it is allowed to be split into fractional parts in the minds of many. It is allowable, therefore, for us to have cognizance of the scheme of action but not to discuss it lest we disturb its artfulness, the interdependence of its component parts, the practical force of the secret meaning of each clause. To discuss and make alterations in a labor of this kind by means of numerous votings is to impress upon it the stamp of all ratiocinations and misunderstandings which have failed to penetrate the depth and nexus of its plotting. We want our schemes to be forcible and suitably concocted. Therefore WE OUGHT NOT TO FLING THE WORK OF GENIUS OF OUR GUIDE to the fangs of the mob or even of a select company.

7. These schemes will not turn existing institutions upside down just yet. They will only effect changes in their economy and consequently in the whole combined movement of their progress, which will thus be directed along the paths laid down in our schemes.

POISON OF LIBERALISM

8. Under various names there exists in all countries approximately one and the same thing. Representation, Ministry, Senate, State Council, Legislative and Executive Corps. I need not explain to you the mechanism of the relation of these institutions to one another, because you are aware of all that; only take note of the fact that each of the above-named institutions corresponds to some important function of the State, and I would beg you to remark that the word “important” I apply not to the institution but to the function, consequently it is not the institutions which are important but their functions. These institutions have divided up among themselves all the functions of government – administrative, legislative, executive, wherefore they have come to operate as do the organs in the human body. If we injure one part in the machinery of State, the State falls sick, like a human body, and … will die.

9. When we introduced into the State organism the poison of Liberalism its whole political complexion underwent a change. States have been seized with a mortal illness – blood poisoning. All that remains is to await the end of their death agony.

10. Liberalism produced Constitutional States, which took the place of what was the only safeguard of the GOYIM, namely, Despotism; and A CONSTITUTION, AS YOU WELL KNOW, IS NOTHING ELSE BUT A SCHOOL OF DISCORDS, misunderstandings, quarrels, disagreements, fruitless party agitations, party whims – in a word, a school of everything that serves to destroy the personality of State activity. THE TRIBUNE OF THE “TALKERICS” HAS, NO LESS EFFECTIVELY THAN THE PRESS, CONDEMNED THE RULERS TO INACTIVITY AND IMPOTENCE, and thereby rendered them useless and superfluous, for which reason indeed they have been in many countries deposed. THEN IT WAS THAT THE ERA OF REPUBLICS BECOME POSSIBLE OF REALIZATION; AND THEN IT WAS THAT WE REPLACED THE RULER BY A CARICATURE OF A GOVERNMENT – BY A PRESIDENT, TAKEN FROM THE MOB, FROM THE MIDST OF OUR PUPPET CREATURES, OR SLAVES. This was the foundation of the mine which we have laid under the GOY people, I should rather say, under the GOY peoples.

WE NAME PRESIDENTS

11. In the near future we shall establish the responsibility of presidents.

12. By that time we shall be in a position to disregard forms in carrying through matters for which our impersonal puppet will be responsible. What do we care if the ranks of those striving for power should be thinned, if there should arise a deadlock from the impossibility of finding presidents, a deadlock which will finally disorganize the country? …

13. In order that our scheme may produce this result we shall arrange elections in favor of such presidents as have in their past some dark, undiscovered stain, some “Panama” or other – then they will be trustworthy agents for the accomplishment of our plans out of fear of revelations and from the natural desire of everyone who has attained power, namely, the retention of the privileges, advantages and honor connected with the office of president. The chamber of deputies will provide cover for, will protect, will elect presidents, but we shall take from it the right to propose new, or make changes in existing laws, for this right will be given by us to the responsible president, a puppet in our hands. Naturally, the authority of the presidents will then become a target for every possible form of attack, but we shall provide him with a means of self-defense in the right of an appeal to the people, for the decision of the people over the heads of their representatives, that is to say, an appeal to that some blind slave of ours – the majority of the mob. Independently of this we shall invest the president with the right of declaring a state of war. We shall justify this last right on the ground that the president as chief of the whole army of the country must have it at his disposal, in case of need for the defense of the new republican constitution, the right to defend which will belong to him as the responsible representative of this constitution.

14. It is easy to understand them in these conditions the key of the shrine will lie in our hands, and no one outside ourselves will any longer direct the force of legislation.

15. Besides this we shall, with the introduction of the new republican constitution, take from the Chamber the right of interpolation on government measures, on the pretext of preserving political secrecy, and, further, we shall by the new constitution reduce the number of representatives to a minimum, thereby proportionately reducing political passions and the passion for politics. If, however, they should, which is hardly to be expected, burst into flame, even in this minimum, we shall nullify them by a stirring appeal and a reference to the majority of the whole people … Upon the president will depend the appointment of presidents and vice-presidents of the Chamber and the Senate. Instead of constant sessions of Parliaments we shall reduce their sittings to a few months. Moreover, the president, as chief of the executive power, will have the right to summon and dissolve Parliament, and, in the latter case, to prolong the time for the appointment of a new parliamentary assembly. But in order that the consequences of all these acts which in substance are illegal, should not, prematurely for our plans, upon the responsibility established by use of the president, WE SHALL INSTIGATE MINISTERS AND OTHER OFFICIALS OF THE HIGHER ADMINISTRATION ABOUT THE PRESIDENT TO EVADE HIS DISPOSITIONS BY TAKING MEASURES OF THEIR OWN, for doing which they will be made the scapegoats in his place … This part we especially recommend to be given to be played by the Senate, the Council of State, or the Council of Ministers, but not to an individual official.

16. The president will, at our discretion, interpret the sense of such of the existing laws as admit of various interpretation; he will further annul them when we indicate to him the necessity to do so, besides this, he will have the right to propose temporary laws, and even new departures in the government constitutional working, the pretext both for the one and the other being the requirements for the supreme welfare of the State.

WE SHALL DESTROY

17. By such measure we shall obtain the power of destroying little by little, step by step, all that at the outset when we enter on our rights, we are compelled to introduce into the constitutions of States to prepare for the transition to an imperceptible abolition of every kind of constitution, and then the time is come to turn every form of government into OUR DESPOTISM.

18. The recognition of our despot may also come before the destruction of the constitution; the moment for this recognition will come when the peoples, utterly wearied by the irregularities and incompetence – a matter which we shall arrange for – of their rulers, will clamor: “Away with them and give us one king over all the earth who will unite us and annihilate the causes of disorders – frontiers, nationalities, religions, State debts – who will give us peace and quiet which we cannot find under our rulers and representatives.”

19. But you yourselves perfectly well know that TO PRODUCE THE POSSIBILITY OF THE EXPRESSION OF SUCH WISHES BY ALL THE NATIONS IT IS INDISPENSABLE TO TROUBLE IN ALL COUNTRIES THE PEOPLE’S RELATIONS WITH THEIR GOVERNMENTS SO AS TO UTTERLY EXHAUST HUMANITY WITH DISSENSION, HATRED, STRUGGLE, ENVY AND EVEN BY THE USE OF TORTURE, BY STARVATION, BY THE INOCULATION OF DISEASES, BY WANT, SO THAT THE “GOYIM” SEE NO OTHER ISSUE THAN TO TAKE REFUGE IN OUR COMPLETE SOVEREIGNTY IN MONEY AND IN ALL ELSE.

20. But if we give the nations of the world a breathing space the moment we long for is hardly likely ever to arrive.

PROTOCOL No. 11

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.

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

PROTOCOL No. 12

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 necessity of censoring it, will be turned by us into a very lucrative source of income to our State: we shall law 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 the part of the press. 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 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, off position, 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 tranquilize 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 No. 13

1. The need for daily 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 seeming 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 disaccustomed 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, 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 No. 14

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 No. 15

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) 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 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 ….

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 educationally 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.

PROTOCOL No. 16

1. In order to effect the destruction of all collective forces except ours we shall emasculate the first stage of collectivism – the UNIVERSITIES, by reeducating them in a new direction. THEIR OFFICIALS AND PROFESSORS WILL BE PREPARED FOR THEIR BUSINESS BY DETAILED SECRET PROGRAMS OF ACTION FROM WHICH THEY WILL NOT WITH IMMUNITY DIVERGE, NOT BY ONE IOTA. THEY WILL BE APPOINTED WITH ESPECIAL PRECAUTION, AND WILL BE SO PLACED AS TO BE WHOLLY DEPENDENT UPON THE GOVERNMENT.

2. We shall exclude from the course of instruction State Law as also all that concerns the political question. These subjects will be taught to a few dozen of persons chosen for their preeminent capacities from among the number of the initiated. THE UNIVERSITIES MUST NO LONGER SEND OUT FROM THEIR HALLS MILK SOPS CONCOCTING PLANS FOR A CONSTITUTION, LIKE A COMEDY OR A TRAGEDY, BUSYING THEMSELVES WITH QUESTIONS OF POLICY IN WHICH EVEN THEIR OWN FATHERS NEVER HAD ANY POWER OF THOUGHT.

3. The ill-guided acquaintance of a large number of persons with questions of polity creates utopian dreamers and bad subjects, as you can see for yourselves from the example of the universal education in this direction of the GOYIM. We must introduce into their education all those principles which have so brilliantly broken up their order. But when we are in power we shall remove every kind of disturbing subject from the course of education and shall make out of the youth obedient children of authority, loving him who rules as the support and hope of peace and quiet.

WE SHALL CHANGE HISTORY

4. Classicism as also any form of study of ancient history, in which there are more bad than good examples, we shall replace with the study of the program of the future. We shall erase from the memory of men all facts of previous centuries which are undesirable to us, and leave only those which depict all the errors of the government of the GOYIM. The study of practical life, of the obligations of order, of the relations of people one to another, of avoiding bad and selfish examples, which spread the infection of evil, and similar questions of an educative nature, will stand in the forefront of the teaching program, which will be drawn up on a separate plan for each calling or state of life, in no wise generalizing the teaching. This treatment of the question has special importance.

5. Each state of life must be trained within strict limits corresponding to its destination and work in life. The OCCASIONAL GENIUS HAS ALWAYS MANAGED AND ALWAYS WILL MANAGE TO SLIP THROUGH INTO OTHER STATES OF LIFE, BUT IT IS THE MOST PERFECT FOLLY FOR THE SAKE OF THIS RARE OCCASIONAL GENIUS TO LET THROUGH INTO RANKS FOREIGN TO THEM THE UNTALENTED WHO THUS ROB OF THEIR PLACES WHO BELONG TO THOSE RANKS BY BIRTH OR EMPLOYMENT. YOU KNOW YOURSELVES IN WHAT ALL THIS HAS ENDED FOR THE “GOYIM” WHO ALLOWED THIS CRYING ABSURDITY.

6. In order that he who rules may be seated firmly in the hearts and minds of his subjects it is necessary for the time of his activity to instruct the whole nation in the schools and on the market places about this meaning and his acts and all his beneficent initiatives.

7. We shall abolish every kind of freedom of instruction. Learners of all ages have the right to assemble together with their parents in the educational establishments as it were in a club: during these assemblies, on holidays, teachers will read what will pass as free lectures on questions of human relations, of the laws of examples, of the philosophy of new theories not yet declared to the world. These theories will be raised by us to the stage of a dogma of faith as a traditional stage towards our faith. On the completion of this exposition of our program of action in the present and the future I will read you the principles of these theories.

8. In a word, knowing by the experience of many centuries that people live and are guided by ideas, that these ideas are imbibed by people only by the aid of education provided with equal success for all ages of growth, but of course by varying methods, we shall swallow up and confiscate to our own use the last scintilla of independence of thought, which we have for long past been directing towards subjects and ideas useful for us. The system of bridling thought is already at work in the so-called system of teaching by OBJECT LESSONS, the purpose of which is to turn the GOYIM into unthinking submissive brutes waiting for things to be presented before their eyes in order to form an idea of them …. In France, one of our best agents, Bourgeois, has already made public a new program of teaching by object lessons.

1. ….Putting aside fine phrases we shall speak of the significance of each thought: by comparisons and deductions we shall throw light upon surrounding facts.

2. What I am about to set forth, then, is our system from the two points of view, that of ourselves and that of the GOYIM [i.e., non- Jews].

3. It must be noted that men with bad instincts are more in number than the good, and therefore the best results in governing them are attained by violence and terrorisation, and not by academic discussions. Every man aims at power, everyone would like to become a dictator if only he could, and rare indeed are the men who would not be willing to sacrifice the welfare of all for the sake of securing their own welfare.

4. What has restrained the beasts of prey who are called men? What has served for their guidance hitherto?

5. In the beginnings of the structure of society, they were subjected to brutal and blind force; after words – to Law, which is the same force, only disguised. I draw the conclusion that by the law of nature right lies in force.

6. Political freedom is an idea but not a fact. This idea one must know how to apply whenever it appears necessary with this bait of an idea to attract the masses of the people to one’s party for the purpose of crushing another who is in authority. This task is rendered easier of the opponent has himself been infected with the idea of freedom, SO-CALLED LIBERALISM, and, for the sake of an idea, is willing to yield some of his power. It is precisely here that the triumph of our theory appears; the slackened reins of government are immediately, by the law of life, caught up and gathered together by a new hand, because the blind might of the nation cannot for one single day exist without guidance, and the new authority merely fits into the place of the old already weakened by liberalism.

GOLD

7. In our day the power which has replaced that of the rulers who were liberal is the power of Gold. Time was when Faith ruled. The idea of freedom is impossible of realization because no one knows how to use it with moderation. It is enough to hand over a people to self-government for a certain length of time for that people to be turned into a disorganized mob. From that moment on we get internecine strife which soon develops into battles between classes, in the midst of which States burn down and their importance is reduced to that of a heap of ashes.

8. Whether a State exhausts itself in its own convulsions, whether its internal discord brings it under the power of external foes – in any case it can be accounted irretrievable lost: IT IS IN OUR POWER. The despotism of Capital, which is entirely in our hands, reaches out to it a straw that the State, willy-nilly, must take hold of: if not – it goes to the bottom.

9. Should anyone of a liberal mind say that such reflections as the above are immoral, I would put the following questions: If every State has two foes and if in regard to the external foe it is allowed and not considered immoral to use every manner and art of conflict, as for example to keep the enemy in ignorance of plans of attack and defense, to attack him by night or in superior numbers, then in what way can the same means in regard to a worse foe, the destroyer of the structure of society and the commonweal, be called immoral and not permissible?

10. Is it possible for any sound logical mind to hope with any success to guide crowds by the aid of reasonable counsels and arguments, when any objection or contradiction, senseless though it may be, can be made and when such objection may find more favor with the people, whose powers of reasoning are superficial? Men in masses and the men of the masses, being guided solely by petty passions, paltry beliefs, traditions and sentimental theorems, fall a prey to party dissension, which hinders any kind of agreement even on the basis of a perfectly reasonable argument. Every resolution of a crowd depends upon a chance or packed majority, which, in its ignorance of political secrets, puts forth some ridiculous resolution that lays in the administration a seed of anarchy.

11. The political has nothing in common with the moral. The ruler who is governed by the moral is not a skilled politician, and is therefore unstable on his throne. He who wishes to rule must have recourse both to cunning and to make-believe. Great national qualities, like frankness and honesty, are vices in politics, for they bring down rulers from their thrones more effectively and more certainly than the most powerful enemy. Such qualities must be the attributes of the kingdoms of the GOYIM, but we must in no wise be guided by them.

MIGHT IS RIGHT

12. Our right lies in force. The word “right” is an abstract thought and proved by nothing. The word means no more than: Give me what I want in order that thereby I may have a proof that I am stronger than you.

13. Where does right begin? Where does it end?

14. In any State in which there is a bad organization of authority, an impersonality of laws and of the rulers who have lost their personality amid the flood of rights ever multiplying out of liberalism, I find a new right – to attack by the right of the strong, and to scatter to the winds all existing forces of order and regulation, to reconstruct all institutions and to become the sovereign lord of those who have left to us the rights of their power by laying them down voluntarily in their liberalism.

15. Our power in the present tottering condition of all forms of power will be more invincible than any other, because it will remain invisible until the moment when it has gained such strength that no cunning can any longer undermine it.

16. Out of the temporary evil we are now compelled to commit will emerge the good of an unshakable rule, which will restore the regular course of the machinery of the national life, brought to naught by liberalism. The result justifies the means. Let us, however, in our plans, direct our attention not so much to what is good and moral as to what is necessary and useful.

17. Before us is a plan in which is laid down strategically the line from which we cannot deviate without running the risk of seeing the labor of many centuries brought to naught.

18. In order to elaborate satisfactory forms of action it is necessary to have regard to the rascality, the slackness, the instability of the mob, its lack of capacity to understand and respect the conditions of its own life, or its own welfare. It must be understood that the might of a mob is blind, senseless and unreasoning force ever at the mercy of a suggestion from any side. The blind cannot lead the blind without bringing them into the abyss; consequently, members of the mob, upstarts from the people even though they should be as a genius for wisdom, yet having no understanding of the political, cannot come forward as leaders of the mob without bringing the whole nation to ruin.

19. Only one trained from childhood for independent rule can have understanding of the words that can be made up of the political alphabet.

20. A people left to itself, i.e., to upstarts from its midst, brings itself to ruin by party dissensions excited by the pursuit of power and honors and the disorders arising therefrom. Is it possible for the masses of the people calmly and without petty jealousies to form judgment, to deal with the affairs of the country, which cannot be mixed up with personal interest? Can they defend themselves from an external foe? It is unthinkable; for a plan broken up into as many parts as there are heads in the mob, loses all homogeneity, and thereby becomes unintelligible and impossible of execution.

WE ARE DESPOTS

21. It is only with a despotic ruler that plans can be elaborated extensively and clearly in such a way as to distribute the whole properly among the several parts of the machinery of the State: from this the conclusion is inevitable that a satisfactory form of government for any country is one that concentrates in the hands of one responsible person. Without an absolute despotism there can be no existence for civilization which is carried on not by the masses but by their guide, whosoever that person may be. The mob is savage, and displays its savagery at every opportunity. The moment the mob seizes freedom in its hands it quickly turns to anarchy, which in itself is the highest degree of savagery.

22. Behold the alcoholic animals, bemused with drink, the right to an immoderate use of which comes along with freedom. It is not for us and ours to walk that road. The peoples of the GOYIM are bemused with alcoholic liquors; their youth has grown stupid on classicism and from early immorality, into which it has been inducted by our special agents – by tutors, lackeys, governesses in the houses of the wealthy, by clerks and others, by our women in the places of dissipation frequented by the GOYIM. In the number of these last I count also the so-called “society ladies,” voluntary followers of the others in corruption and luxury.

23. Our countersign is – Force and Make-believe. Only force conquers in political affairs, especially if it be concealed in the talents essential to statesmen. Violence must be the principle, and cunning and make-believe the rule for governments which do not want to lay down their crowns at the feet of agents of some new power. This evil is the one and only means to attain the end, the good. Therefore we must not stop at bribery, deceit and treachery when they should serve towards the attainment of our end. In politics one must know how to seize the property of others without hesitation if by it we secure submission and sovereignty.

24. Our State, marching along the path of peaceful conquest, has the right to replace the horrors of war by less noticeable and more satisfactory sentences of death, necessary to maintain the terror which tends to produce blind submission. Just but merciless severity is the greatest factor of strength in the State: not only for the sake of gain but also in the name of duty, for the sake of victory, we must keep to the programme of violence and make-believe. The doctrine of squaring accounts is precisely as strong as the means of which it makes use. Therefore it is not so much by the means themselves as by the doctrine of severity that we shall triumph and bring all governments into subjection to our super-government. It is enough for them to know that we are too merciless for all disobedience to cease.

WE SHALL END LIBERTY

25. Far back in ancient times we were the first to cry among the masses of the people the words “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” words many times repeated since these days by stupid poll- parrots who, from all sides around, flew down upon these baits and with them carried away the well-being of the world, true freedom of the individual, formerly so well guarded against the pressure of the mob. The would-be wise men of the GOYIM, the intellectuals, could not make anything out of the uttered words in their abstractedness; did not see that in nature there is no equality, cannot be freedom: that Nature herself has established inequality of minds, of characters, and capacities, just as immutably as she has established subordination to her laws: never stopped to think that the mob is a blind thing, that upstarts elected from among it to bear rule are, in regard to the political, the same blind men as the mob itself, that the adept, though he be a fool, can yet rule, whereas the non-adept, even if he were a genius, understands nothing in the political – to all those things the GOYIM paid no regard; yet all the time it was based upon these things that dynastic rule rested: the father passed on to the son a knowledge of the course of political affairs in such wise that none should know it but members of the dynasty and none could betray it to the governed. As time went on, the meaning of the dynastic transference of the true position of affairs in the political was lost, and this aided the success of our cause.

26. In all corners of the earth the words “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” brought to our ranks, thanks to our blind agents, whole legions who bore our banners with enthusiasm. And all the time these words were canker-worms at work boring into the well-being of the GOYIM, putting an end everywhere to peace, quiet, solidarity and destroying all the foundations of the GOYA States. As you will see later, this helped us to our triumph: it gave us the possibility, among other things, of getting into our hands the master card – the destruction of the privileges, or in other words of the very existence of the aristocracy of the GOYIM, that class which was the only defense peoples and countries had against us. On the ruins of the eternal and genealogical aristocracy of the GOYIM we have set up the aristocracy of our educated class headed by the aristocracy of money. The qualifications for this aristocracy we have established in wealth, which is dependent upon us, and in knowledge, for which our learned elders provide the motive force.

27. Our triumph has been rendered easier by the fact that in our relations with the men, whom we wanted, we have always worked upon the most sensitive chords of the human mind, upon the cash account, upon the cupidity, upon the insatiability for material needs of man; and each one of these human weaknesses, taken alone, is sufficient to paralyze initiative, for it hands over the will of men to the disposition of him who has bought their activities.

28. The abstraction of freedom has enabled us to persuade the mob in all countries that their government is nothing but the steward of the people who are the owners of the country, and that the steward may be replaced like a worn-out glove.

29. It is this possibility of replacing the representatives of the people which has placed at our disposal, and, as it were, given us the power of appointment.

PROTOCOL No. 2

1. It is indispensable for our purpose that wars, so far as possible, should not result in territorial gains: war will thus be brought on to the economic ground, where the nations will not fail to perceive in the assistance we give the strength of our predominance, and this state of things will put both sides at the mercy of our international AGENTUR; which possesses millions of eyes ever on the watch and unhampered by any limitations whatsoever. Our international rights will then wipe out national rights, in the proper sense of right, and will rule the nations precisely as the civil law of States rules the relations of their subjects among themselves.

2. The administrators, whom we shall choose from among the public, with strict regard to their capacities for servile obedience, will not be persons trained in the arts of government, and will therefore easily become pawns in our game in the hands of men of learning and genius who will be their advisers, specialists bred and reared from early childhood to rule the affairs of the whole world. As is well known to you, these specialists of ours have been drawing to fit them for rule the information they need from our political plans from the lessons of history, from observations made of the events of every moment as it passes. The GOYIM are not guided by practical use of unprejudiced historical observation, but by theoretical routine without any critical regard for consequent results. We need not, therefore, take any account of them – let them amuse themselves until the hour strikes, or live on hopes of new forms of enterprising pastime, or on the memories of all they have enjoyed. For them let that play the principal part which we have persuaded them to accept as the dictates of science (theory). It is with this object in view that we are constantly, by means of our press, arousing a blind confidence in these theories. The intellectuals of the GOYIM will puff themselves up with their knowledge and without any logical verification of them will put into effect all the information available from science, which our AGENTUR specialists have cunningly pieced together for the purpose of educating their minds in the direction we want.

DESTRUCTIVE EDUCATION

3. Do not suppose for a moment that these statements are empty words: think carefully of the successes we arranged for Darwinism, Marxism, Nietzsche-ism. To us Jews, at any rate, it should be plain to see what a disintegrating importance these directives have had upon the minds of the GOYIM.

4. It is indispensable for us to take account of the thoughts, characters, tendencies of the nations in order to avoid making slips in the political and in the direction of administrative affairs. The triumph of our system of which the component parts of the machinery may be variously disposed according to the temperament of the peoples met on our way, will fail of success if the practical application of it be not based upon a summing up of the lessons of the past in the light of the present.

5. In the hands of the States of to-day there is a great force that creates the movement of thought in the people, and that is the Press. The part played by the Press is to keep pointing our requirements supposed to be indispensable, to give voice to the complaints of the people, to express and to create discontent. It is in the Press that the triumph of freedom of speech finds its incarnation. But the GOYIM States have not known how to make use of this force; and it has fallen into our hands. Through the Press we have gained the power to influence while remaining ourselves in the shade; thanks to the Press we have got the GOLD in our hands, notwithstanding that we have had to gather it out of the oceans of blood and tears. But it has paid us, though we have sacrificed many of our people. Each victim on our side is worth in the sight of God a thousand GOYIM.

PROTOCOL No. 3

1. To-day I may tell you that our goal is now only a few steps off. There remains a small space to cross and the whole long path we have trodden is ready now to close its cycle of the Symbolic Snake, by which we symbolize our people. When this ring closes, all the States of Europe will be locked in its coil as in a powerful vice.

2. The constitution scales of these days will shortly break down, for we have established them with a certain lack of accurate balance in order that they may oscillate incessantly until they wear through the pivot on which they turn. The GOYIM are under the impression that they have welded them sufficiently strong and they have all along kept on expecting that the scales would come into equilibrium. But the pivots – the kings on their thrones – are hemmed in by their representatives, who play the fool, distraught with their own uncontrolled and irresponsible power. This power they owe to the terror which has been breathed into the palaces. As they have no means of getting at their people, into their very midst, the kings on their thrones are no longer able to come to terms with them and so strengthen themselves against seekers after power. We have made a gulf between the far-seeing Sovereign Power and the blind force of the people so that both have lost all meaning, for like the blind man and his stick, both are powerless apart.

3. In order to incite seekers after power to a misuse of power we have set all forces in opposition one to another, breaking up their liberal tendencies towards independence. To this end we have stirred up every form of enterprise, we have armed all parties, we have set up authority as a target for every ambition. Of States we have made gladiatorial arenas where a lot of confused issues contend …. A little more, and disorders and bankruptcy will be universal ….

4. Babblers, inexhaustible, have turned into oratorical contests the sittings of Parliament and Administrative Boards. Bold journalists and unscrupulous pamphleteers daily fall upon executive officials. Abuses of power will put the final touch in preparing all institutions for their overthrow and everything will fly skyward under the blows of the maddened mob.

POVERTY OUR WEAPON

5. All people are chained down to heavy toil by poverty more firmly than ever. They were chained by slavery and serfdom; from these, one way and another, they might free themselves. These could be settled with, but from want they will never get away. We have included in the constitution such rights as to the masses appear fictitious and not actual rights. All these so-called “Peoples Rights” can exist only in idea, an idea which can never be realized in practical life. What is it to the proletariat laborer, bowed double over his heavy toil, crushed by his lot in life, if talkers get the right to babble, if journalists get the right to scribble any nonsense side by side with good stuff, once the proletariat has no other profit out of the constitution save only those pitiful crumbs which we fling them from our table in return for their voting in favor of what we dictate, in favor of the men we place in power, the servants of our AGENTUR … Republican rights for a poor man are no more than a bitter piece of irony, for the necessity he is under of toiling almost all day gives him no present use of them, but the other hand robs him of all guarantee of regular and certain earnings by making him dependent on strikes by his comrades or lockouts by his masters.

WE SUPPORT COMMUNISM

6. The people, under our guidance, have annihilated the aristocracy, who were their one and only defense and foster- mother for the sake of their own advantage which is inseparably bound up with the well-being of the people. Nowadays, with the destruction of the aristocracy, the people have fallen into the grips of merciless money-grinding scoundrels who have laid a pitiless and cruel yoke upon the necks of the workers.

7. We appear on the scene as alleged saviours of the worker from this oppression when we propose to him to enter the ranks of our fighting forces – Socialists, Anarchists, Communists – to whom we always give support in accordance with an alleged brotherly rule (of the solidarity of all humanity) of our SOCIAL MASONRY. The aristocracy, which enjoyed by law the labor of the workers, was interested in seeing that the workers were well fed, healthy, and strong. We are interested in just the opposite – in the diminution, the KILLING OUT OF THE GOYIM. Our power is in the chronic shortness of food and physical weakness of the worker because by all that this implies he is made the slave of our will, and he will not find in his own authorities either strength or energy to set against our will. Hunger creates the right of capital to rule the worker more surely than it was given to the aristocracy by the legal authority of kings.

8. By want and the envy and hatred which it engenders we shall move the mobs and with their hands we shall wipe out all those who hinder us on our way.

9. WHEN THE HOUR STRIKES FOR OUR SOVEREIGN LORD OF ALL THE WORLD TO BE CROWNED IT IS THESE SAME HANDS WHICH WILL SWEEP AWAY EVERYTHING THAT MIGHT BE A HINDRANCE THERETO.

10. The GOYIM have lost the habit of thinking unless prompted by the suggestions of our specialists. Therefore they do not see the urgent necessity of what we, when our kingdom comes, shall adopt at once, namely this, that IT IS ESSENTIAL TO TEACH IN NATIONAL SCHOOLS ONE SIMPLE, TRUE PIECE OF KNOWLEDGE, THE BASIS OF ALL KNOWLEDGE – THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE STRUCTURE OF HUMAN LIFE, OF SOCIAL EXISTENCE, WHICH REQUIRES DIVISION OF LABOR, AND, CONSEQUENTLY, THE DIVISION OF MEN INTO CLASSES AND CONDITIONS. It is essential for all to know that OWING TO DIFFERENCE IN THE OBJECTS OF HUMAN ACTIVITY THERE CANNOT BE ANY EQUALITY, that he, who by any act of his compromises a whole class, cannot be equally responsible before the law with him who affects no one but only his own honor. The true knowledge of the structure of society, into the secrets of which we do not admit the GOYIM, would demonstrate to all men that the positions and work must be kept within a certain circle, that they may not become a source of human suffering, arising from an education which does not correspond with the work which individuals are called upon to do. After a thorough study of this knowledge, the peoples will voluntarily submit to authority and accept such position as is appointed them in the State. In the present state of knowledge and the direction we have given to its development of the people, blindly believing things in print – cherishes – thanks to promptings intended to mislead and to its own ignorance – a blind hatred towards all conditions which it considers above itself, for it has no understanding of the meaning of class and condition.

JEWS WILL BE SAFE

11. THIS HATRED WILL BE STILL FURTHER MAGNIFIED BY THE EFFECTS of an ECONOMIC CRISES, which will stop dealing on the exchanges and bring industry to a standstill. We shall create by all the secret subterranean methods open to us and with the aid of gold, which is all in our hands, A UNIVERSAL ECONOMIC CRISES WHEREBY WE SHALL THROW UPON THE STREETS WHOLE MOBS OF WORKERS SIMULTANEOUSLY IN ALL THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE. These mobs will rush delightedly to shed the blood of those whom, in the simplicity of their ignorance, they have envied from their cradles, and whose property they will then be able to loot.

12. “OURS” THEY WILL NOT TOUCH, BECAUSE THE MOMENT OF ATTACK WILL BE KNOWN TO US AND WE SHALL TAKE MEASURES TO PROTECT OUR OWN.

13. We have demonstrated that progress will bring all the GOYIM to the sovereignty of reason. Our despotism will be precisely that; for it will know how, by wise severities, to pacificate all unrest, to cauterize liberalism out of all institutions.

14. When the populace has seen that all sorts of concessions and indulgences are yielded it, in the same name of freedom it has imagined itself to be sovereign lord and has stormed its way to power, but, naturally like every other blind man, it has come upon a host of stumbling blocks. IT HAS RUSHED TO FIND A GUIDE, IT HAS NEVER HAD THE SENSE TO RETURN TO THE FORMER STATE and it has laid down its plenipotentiary powers at OUR feet. Remember the French Revolution, to which it was we who gave the name of “Great”: the secrets of its preparations are well known to us for it was wholly the work of our hands.

15 Ever since that time we have been leading the peoples from one disenchantment to another, so that in the end they should turn also from us in favor of that KING-DESPOT OF THE BLOOD OF ZION, WHOM WE ARE PREPARING FOR THE WORLD.

16. At the present day we are, as an international force, invincible, because if attacked by some we are supported by other States. It is the bottomless rascality of the GOYIM peoples, who crawl on their bellies to force, but are merciless towards weakness, unsparing to faults and indulgent to crimes, unwilling to bear the contradictions of a free social system but patient unto martyrdom under the violence of a bold despotism – it is those qualities which are aiding us to independence. From the premier- dictators of the present day, the GOYIM peoples suffer patiently and bear such abuses as for the least of them they would have beheaded twenty kings.

17. What is the explanation of this phenomenon, this curious inconsequence of the masses of the peoples in their attitude towards what would appear to be events of the same order?

18. It is explained by the fact that these dictators whisper to the peoples through their agents that through these abuses they are inflicting injury on the States with the highest purpose – to secure the welfare of the peoples, the international brotherhood of them all, their solidarity and equality of rights. Naturally they do not tell the peoples that this unification must be accomplished only under our sovereign rule.

19. And thus the people condemn the upright and acquit the guilty, persuaded ever more and more that it can do whatsoever it wishes. Thanks to this state of things, the people are destroying every kind of stability and creating disorders at every step.

20. The word “freedom” brings out the communities of men to fight against every kind of force, against every kind of authority even against God and the laws of nature. For this reason we, when we come into our kingdom, shall have to erase this word from the lexicon of life as implying a principle of brute force which turns mobs into bloodthirsty beasts.

21. These beasts, it is true, fall asleep again every time when they have drunk their fill of blood, and at such time can easily be riveted into their chains. But if they be not given blood they will not sleep and continue to struggle

PROTOCOL No. 4

1. Every republic passes through several stages. The first of these is comprised in the early days of mad raging by the blind mob, tossed hither and thither, right and left: the second is demagogy from which is born anarchy, and that leads inevitably to despotism – not any longer legal and overt, and therefore responsible despotism, but to unseen and secretly hidden, yet nevertheless sensibly felt despotism in the hands of some secret organization or other, whose acts are the more unscrupulous inasmuch as it works behind a screen, behind the backs of all sorts of agents, the changing of whom not only does not injuriously affect but actually aids the secret force by saving it, thanks to continual changes, from the necessity of expanding its resources on the rewarding of long services.

2. Who and what is in a position to overthrow an invisible force? And this is precisely what our force is. GENTILE masonry blindly serves as a screen for us and our objects, but the plan of action of our force, even its very abiding-place, remains for the whole people an unknown mystery.

WE SHALL DESTROY GOD

3. But even freedom might be harmless and have its place in the State economy without injury to the well-being of the peoples if it rested upon the foundation of faith in God, upon the brotherhood of humanity, unconnected with the conception of equality, which is negatived by the very laws of creation, for they have established subordination. With such a faith as this a people might be governed by a wardship of parishes, and would walk contentedly and humbly under the guiding hand of its spiritual pastor submitting to the dispositions of God upon earth. This is the reason why IT IS INDISPENSABLE FOR US TO UNDERMINE ALL FAITH, TO TEAR OUT OF THE MIND OF THE “GOYIM” THE VERY PRINCIPLE OF GOD-HEAD AND THE SPIRIT, AND TO PUT IN ITS PLACE ARITHMETICAL CALCULATIONS AND MATERIAL NEEDS.

4. In order to give the GOYIM no time to think and take note, their minds must be diverted towards industry and trade. Thus, all the nations will be swallowed up in the pursuit of gain and in the race for it will not take note of their common foe. But again, in order that freedom may once for all disintegrate and ruin the communities of the GOYIM, we must put industry on a speculative basis: the result of this will be that what is withdrawn from the land by industry will slip through the hands and pass into speculation, that is, to our classes.

5. The intensified struggle for superiority and shocks delivered to economic life will create, nay, have already created, disenchanted, cold and heartless communities. Such communities will foster a strong aversion towards the higher political and towards religion. Their only guide is gain, that is Gold, which they will erect into a veritable cult, for the sake of those material delights which it can give. Then will the hour strike when, not for the sake of attaining the good, not even to win wealth, but solely out of hatred towards the privileged, the lower classes of the GOYIM will follow our lead against our rivals for power, the intellectuals of the GOYIM.

PROTOCOL No. 5

1. What form of administrative rule can be given to communities in which corruption has penetrated everywhere, communities where riches are attained only by the clever surprise tactics of semi-swindling tricks; where looseness reigns: where morality is maintained by penal measures and harsh laws but not by voluntarily accepted principles: where the feelings towards faith and country are obligated by cosmopolitan convictions? What form of rule is to be given to these communities if not that despotism which I shall describe to you later? We shall create an intensified centralization of government in order to grip in our hands all the forces of the community. We shall regulate mechanically all the actions of the political life of our subjects by new laws. These laws will withdraw one by one all the indulgences and liberties which have been permitted by the GOYIM, and our kingdom will be distinguished by a despotism of such magnificent proportions as to be at any moment and in every place in a position to wipe out any GOYIM who oppose us by deed or word.

2. We shall be told that such a despotism as I speak of is not consistent with the progress of these days, but I will prove to you that is is.

3. In the times when the peoples looked upon kings on their thrones as on a pure manifestation of the will of God, they submitted without a murmur to the despotic power of kings: but from the day when we insinuated into their minds the conception of their own rights they began to regard the occupants of thrones as mere ordinary mortals. The holy unction of the Lord’s Anointed has fallen from the heads of kings in the eyes of the people, and when we also robbed them of their faith in God the might of power was flung upon the streets into the place of public proprietorship and was seized by us.

MASSES LED BY LIES

4. Moreover, the art of directing masses and individuals by means of cleverly manipulated theory and verbitage, by regulations of life in common and all sorts of other quirks, in all which the GOYIM understand nothing, belongs likewise to the specialists of our administrative brain. Reared on analysis, observation, on delicacies of fine calculation, in this species of skill we have no rivals, any more than we have either in the drawing up of plans of political actions and solidarity. In this respect the Jesuits alone might have compared with us, but we have contrived to discredit them in the eyes of the unthinking mob as an overt organization, while we ourselves all the while have kept our secret organization in the shade. However, it is probably all the same to the world who is its sovereign lord, whether the head of Catholicism or our despot of the blood of Zion! But to us, the Chosen People, it is very far from being a matter of indifference.

5. FOR A TIME PERHAPS WE MIGHT BE SUCCESSFULLY DEALT WITH BY A COALITION OF THE “GOYIM” OF ALL THE WORLD: but from this danger we are secured by the discord existing among them whose roots are so deeply seated that they can never now be plucked up. We have set one against another the personal and national reckonings of the GOYIM, religious and race hatreds, which we have fostered into a huge growth in the course of the past twenty centuries. This is the reason why there is not one State which would anywhere receive support if it were to raise its arm, for every one of them must bear in mind that any agreement against us would be unprofitable to itself. We are too strong – there is no evading our power. THE NATIONS CANNOT COME TO EVEN AN INCONSIDERABLE PRIVATE AGREEMENT WITHOUT OUR SECRETLY HAVING A HAND IN IT.

6. PER ME REGES REGNANT. “It is through me that Kings reign.” And it was said by the prophets that we were chosen by God Himself to rule over the whole earth. God has endowed us with genius that we may be equal to our task. Were genius in the opposite camp it would still struggle against us, but even so, a newcomer is no match for the old-established settler: the struggle would be merciless between us, such a fight as the world has never seen. Aye, and the genius on their side would have arrived too late. All the wheels of the machinery of all States go by the force of the engine, which is in our hands, and that engine of the machinery of States is – Gold. The science of political economy invented by our learned elders has for long past been giving royal prestige to capital.

MONOPOLY CAPITAL

7. Capital, if it is to co-operate untrammeled, must be free to establish a monopoly of industry and trade: this is already being put in execution by an unseen hand in all quarters of the world. This freedom will give political force to those engaged in industry, and that will help to oppress the people. Nowadays it is more important to disarm the peoples than to lead them into war: more important to use for our advantage the passions which have burst into flames than to quench their fire: more important to eradicate them. THE PRINCIPLE OBJECT OF OUR DIRECTORATE CONSISTS IN THIS: TO DEBILITATE THE PUBLIC MIND BY CRITICISM; TO LEAD IT AWAY FROM SERIOUS REFLECTIONS CALCULATED TO AROUSE RESISTANCE; TO DISTRACT THE FORCES OF THE MIND TOWARDS A SHAM FIGHT OF EMPTY ELOQUENCE.

8. In all ages the people of the world, equally with individuals, have accepted words for deeds, for THEY ARE CONTENT WITH A SHOW and rarely pause to note, in the public arena, whether promises are followed by performance. Therefore we shall establish show institutions which will give eloquent proof of their benefit to progress.

9. We shall assume to ourselves the liberal physiognomy of all parties, of all directions, and we shall give that physiognomy a VOICE IN ORATORS WHO WILL SPEAK SO MUCH THAT THEY WILL EXHAUST THE PATIENCE OF THEIR HEARERS AND PRODUCE AN ABHORRENCE OF ORATORY.

10. IN ORDER TO PUT PUBLIC OPINION INTO OUR HANDS WE MUST BRING IT INTO A STATE OF BEWILDERMENT BY GIVING EXPRESSION FROM ALL SIDES TO SO MANY CONTRADICTORY OPINIONS AND FOR SUCH LENGTH OF TIME AS WILL SUFFICE TO MAKE THE “GOYIM” LOSE THEIR HEADS IN THE LABYRINTH AND COME TO SEE THAT THE BEST THING IS TO HAVE NO OPINION OF ANY KIND IN MATTERS POLITICAL, which it is not given to the public to understand, because they are understood only by him who guides the public. This is the first secret.

11. The second secret requisite for the success of our government is comprised in the following: To multiply to such an extent national failings, habits, passions, conditions of civil life, that it will be impossible for anyone to know where he is in the resulting chaos, so that the people in consequence will fail to understand one another. This measure will also serve us in another way, namely, to sow discord in all parties, to dislocate all collective forces which are still unwilling to submit to us, and to discourage any kind of personal initiative which might in any degree hinder our affair. THERE IS NOTHING MORE DANGEROUS THAN PERSONAL INITIATIVE: if it has genius behind it, such initiative can do more than can be done by millions of people among whom we have sown discord. We must so direct the education of the GOYIM communities that whenever they come upon a matter requiring initiative they may drop their hands in despairing impotence. The strain which results from freedom of actions saps the forces when it meets with the freedom of another. From this collision arise grave moral shocks, disenchantments, failures. BY ALL THESE MEANS WE SHALL SO WEAR DOWN THE “GOYIM” THAT THEY WILL BE COMPELLED TO OFFER US INTERNATIONAL POWER OF A NATURE THAT BY ITS POSITION WILL ENABLE US WITHOUT ANY VIOLENCE GRADUALLY TO ABSORB ALL THE STATE FORCES OF THE WORLD AND TO FORM A SUPER-GOVERNMENT.

In place of the rulers of to-day we shall set up a bogey which will be called the Super-Government Administration. Its hands will reach out in all directions like nippers and its organization will be of such colossal dimensions that it cannot fail to subdue all the nations of the world.

PROTOCOL No. 6

1. We shall soon begin to establish huge monopolies, reservoirs of colossal riches, upon which even, large fortunes of the GOYIM will depend to such an extent that they will go to the bottom together with the credit of the States on the day after the political smash …

2. You gentlemen here present who are economists, just strike an estimate of the significance of this combination! …

3. In every possible way we must develop the significance of our Super-Government by representing it as the Protector and Benefactor of all those who voluntarily submit to us.

4. The aristocracy of the GOYIM as a political force, is dead – We need not take it into account; but as landed proprietors they can still be harmful to us from the fact that they are self-sufficing in the resources upon which they live. It is essential therefore for us at whatever cost to deprive them of their land. This object will be best attained by increasing the burdens upon landed property – in loading lands with debts. These measures will check land- holding and keep it in a state of humble and unconditional submission.

5. The aristocrats of the GOYIM, being hereditarily incapable of contenting themselves with little, will rapidly burn up and fizzle out.

WE SHALL ENSLAVE GENTILES

6. At the same time we must intensively patronize trade and industry, but, first and foremost, speculation, the part played by which is to provide a counterpoise to industry: the absence of speculative industry will multiply capital in private hands and will serve to restore agriculture by freeing the land from indebtedness to the land banks. What we want is that industry should drain off from the land both labor and capital and by means of speculation transfer into our hands all the money of the world, and thereby throw all the GOYIM into the ranks of the proletariat. Then the GOYIM will bow down before us, if for no other reason but to get the right to exist.

7. To complete the ruin of the industry of the GOYIM we shall bring to the assistance of speculation the luxury which we have developed among the GOYIM, that greedy demand for luxury which is swallowing up everything. WE SHALL RAISE THE RATE OF WAGES WHICH, HOWEVER, WILL NOT BRING ANY ADVANTAGE TO THE WORKERS, FOR, AT THE SAME TIME, WE SHALL PRODUCE A RISE IN PRICES OF THE FIRST NECESSARIES OF LIFE, ALLEGING THAT IT ARISES FROM THE DECLINE OF AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING: WE SHALL FURTHER UNDERMINE ARTFULLY AND DEEPLY SOURCES OF PRODUCTION, BY ACCUSTOMING THE WORKERS TO ANARCHY AND TO DRUNKENNESS AND SIDE BY SIDE THEREWITH TAKING ALL MEASURE TO EXTIRPATE FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH ALL THE EDUCATED FORCES OF THE “GOYIM.”

8. IN ORDER THAT THE TRUE MEANING OF THINGS MAY NOT STRIKE THE “GOYIM” BEFORE THE PROPER TIME WE SHALL MASK IT UNDER AN ALLEGED ARDENT DESIRE TO SERVE THE WORKING CLASSES AND THE GREAT PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY ABOUT WHICH OUR ECONOMIC THEORIES ARE CARRYING ON AN ENERGETIC PROPAGANDA

PROTOCOL No. 7

1. The intensification of armaments, the increase of police forces – are all essential for the completion of the aforementioned plans. What we have to get at is that there should be in all the States of the world, besides ourselves, only the masses of the proletariat, a few millionaires devoted to our interests, police and soldiers.

2. Throughout all Europe, and by means of relations with Europe, in other continents also, we must create ferments, discords and hostility. Therein we gain a double advantage. In the first place we keep in check all countries, for they will know that we have the power whenever we like to create disorders or to restore order. All these countries are accustomed to see in us an indispensable force of coercion. In the second place, by our intrigues we shall tangle up all the threads which we have stretched into the cabinets of all States by means of the political, by economic treaties, or loan obligations. In order to succeed in this we must use great cunning and penetration during negotiations and agreements, but, as regards what is called the “official language,” we shall keep to the opposite tactics and assume the mask of honesty and complacency. In this way the peoples and governments of the GOYIM, whom we have taught to look only at the outside whatever we present to their notice, will still continue to accept us as the benefactors and saviours of the human race.

UNIVERSAL WAR

3. We must be in a position to respond to every act of opposition by war with the neighbors of that country which dares to oppose us: but if these neighbors should also venture to stand collectively together against us, then we must offer resistance by a universal war.

4. The principal factor of success in the political is the secrecy of its undertakings: the word should not agree with the deeds of the diplomat.

5. We must compel the governments of the GOYIM to take action in the direction favored by our widely conceived plan, already approaching the desired consummation, by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly promoted by us through the means of that so-called “Great Power” – THE PRESS, WHICH, WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS THAT MAY BE DISREGARDED, IS ALREADY ENTIRELY IN OUR HANDS.

In a word, to sum up our system of keeping the governments of the goyim in Europe in check, we shall show our strength to one of them by terrorist attempts and to all, if we allow the possibility of a general rising against us, we shall respond with the guns of America or China or Japan.

PROTOCOL No. 8

1. We must arm ourselves with all the weapons which our opponents might employ against us. We must search out in the very finest shades of expression and the knotty points of the lexicon of law justification for those cases where we shall have to pronounce judgments that might appear abnormally audacious and unjust, for it is important that these resolutions should be set forth in expressions that shall seem to be the most exalted moral principles cast into legal form. Our directorate must surround itself with all these forces of civilization among which it will have to work. It will surround itself with publicists, practical jurists, administrators, diplomats and, finally, with persons prepared by a special super-educational training IN OUR SPECIAL SCHOOLS. These persons will have consonance of all the secrets of the social structure, they will know all the languages that can be made up by political alphabets and words; they will be made acquainted with the whole underside of human nature, with all its sensitive chords on which they will have to play. These chords are the cast of mind of the GOYIM, their tendencies, short-comings, vices and qualities, the particularities of classes and conditions. Needless to say that the talented assistants of authority, of whom I speak, will be taken not from among the GOYIM, who are accustomed to perform their administrative work without giving themselves the trouble to think what its aim is, and never consider what it is needed for. The administrators of the GOYIM sign papers without reading them, and they serve either for mercenary reasons or from ambition.

2. We shall surround our government with a whole world of economists. That is the reason why economic sciences form the principal subject of the teaching given to the Jews. Around us again will be a whole constellation of bankers, industrialists, capitalists and – THE MAIN THING – MILLIONAIRES, BECAUSE IN SUBSTANCE EVERYTHING WILL BE SETTLED BY THE QUESTION OF FIGURES.

3. For a time, until there will no longer be any risk in entrusting responsible posts in our State to our brother-Jews, we shall put them in the hands of persons whose past and reputation are such that between them and the people lies an abyss, persons who, in case of disobedience to our instructions, must face criminal charges or disappear – this in order to make them defend our interests to their last gasp.

Preface
Introduction
Who are the Elders?

Protocol I The Basic Doctrine                                
Protocol II Economic Wars                                      
Protocol III Methods of Conquest                       
Protocol IV Materialism Replace Religion     
Protocol V Despotism and Modern Progress
Protocol VI Take-Over Technique                      
Protocol VII World-Wide Wars                               
Protocol VIII Provisional Government           
Protocol IX Re-education                                           
Protocol X Preparing for Power                              
Protocol XI The Totalitarian State                      
Protocol XII Control of the Press                          
Protocol XIII Distractions                                         
Protocol XIV Assault on Religion                         
Protocol XV Ruthless Suppression                      
Protocol XVI Brainwashing                                      
Protocol XVII Abuse of Authority                       
Protocol XVIII Arrest of Opponents                   
Protocol XIX Rulers and People                             
Protocol XX Financial Programme                      
Protocol XXI Loans and Credit                               
Protocol XXII Power of Gold                                     
Protocol XXIII Instilling Obedience                  
Protocol XXIV Qualities of the Ruler                  

PREFACE

(Translated by Victor E. Marsden)

    The author of this translation of the famous Protocols was himself a victim of the Revolution. He had lived for many years in Russia and was married to a Russian lady. Among his other activities in Russia he had been for a number of years a Russian Correspondent of the MORNING POST, a position which he occupied when the Revolution broke out, and his vivid descriptions of events in Russia will still be in the recollection of many of the readers of that Journal. Naturally he was singled out for the anger of the Soviet.

    On the day that Captain Cromie was murdered by Jews, Victor Marsden was arrested and thrown into the Peter-Paul Prison, expecting every day to have his name called out for execution. This, however, he escaped, and eventually he was allowed to return to England very much of a wreck in bodily health. However, he recovered under treatment and the devoted care of his wife and friends. One of the first things he undertook, as soon as he was able, was this translation of the Protocols.

    Mr. Marsden was eminently well qualified for the work. His intimate acquaintance with Russia, Russian life and the Russian language on the one hand, and his mastery of a terse literary English style on the other, placed him in a position of advantage which few others could claim. The consequence is that we have in his version an eminently readable work, and though the subject-matter is somewhat formless, Mr. Marsden’s literary touch reveals the thread running through the twenty-four Protocols. It may be said with truth that this work was carried out at the cost of Mr. Marsden’s own life’s blood.

    He told the writer of this Preface that he could not stand more than an hour at a time of his work on it in the British Museum, as the diabolical spirit of the matter which he was obliged to turn into English made him positively ill.

    Mr. Marsden’s connection with the MORNING POST was not severed by his return to England, and he was well enough to accept the post of special correspondent of that journal in the suite of H.R.H., the Prince of Wales on his Empire tour. From this he returned with the Prince, apparently in much better health, but within a few days of his landing he was taken suddenly ill, and died after a very brief illness.

    May this work be his crowning monument! In it he has performed an immense service to the English-speaking world, and there can be little doubt that it will take its place in the first rank of the English versions of “THE PROTOCOLS of the Meetings of the LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION.”

INTRODUCTION

    Of the Protocols themselves little need be said in the way of introduction. The book in which they are embodied was published by Sergyei Nilus in Russia in 1905. A copy of this is in the British Museum bearing the date of its reception, August 10, 1906. All copies that were known to exist in Russia were destroyed in the Kerensky regime, and under his successors the possession of a copy by anyone in Soviet land was a crime sufficient to ensure the owner’s of being shot on sight. The fact is in itself sufficient proof of the genuineness of the Protocols. The Jewish journals, of course, say that they are a forgery, leaving it to be understood that Professor Nilus, who embodied them in a work of his own, had concocted them for his own purposes.

    Mr. Henry Ford, in an interview published in the New York WORLD, February 17th, 1921, put the case for Nilus tersely and convincingly thus: “The only statement I care to make about the PROTOCOLS is that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old, and they have fitted the world situation up to this time. THEY FIT IT NOW.” Indeed they do!

    The word “Protocol” signifies a precis gummed on to the front of a document, a draft of a document, minutes of proceedings. In this instance, “Protocol” means minutes of the proceedings of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion. These Protocols give the substance of addresses delivered to the innermost circle of the Rulers of Zion. They reveal the converted plan of action of the Jewish Nation developed through the ages and edited by the Elders themselves up to date. Parts and summaries of the plan have been published from time to time during the centuries as the secrets of the Elders have leaked out.

    The claim of the Jews that the Protocols are forgeries is in itself an admission of their genuineness, for they NEVER ATTEMPT TO ANSWER THE FACTS corresponding to the THREATS which the Protocols contain, and, indeed, the correspondence between prophecy and fulfillment is too glaring to be set aside or obscured. This the Jews well know and therefore evade.

    The presumption is strong that the Protocols were issued, or reissued, at the First Zionist Congress held at Basle in 1897 under the presidency of the Father of Modern Zionism, the late Theodore Herzl. There has been recently published a volume of Herzl’s “Diaries,” a translation of some passages which appeared in the JEWISH CHRONICLE of July 14, 1922.

    Herzl gives an account of his first visit to England in 1895, and his conversation with Colonel Goldsmid, a Jew brought up as a Christian, an officer in the English Army, and at heart a Jew Nationalist all the time. Goldsmid suggested to Herzl that the best way of expropriating the English aristocracy, and so destroying their power to protect the people of England against Jew domination, was to put excessive taxes on the land. Herzl thought this an excellent idea, and it is now to be found definitely embodied in Protocol VI!

    The above extract from Herzl’s DIARY is an extremely significant bit of evidence bearing on the existence of the Jew World Plot and authenticity of the Protocols, but any reader of intelligence will be able from his own knowledge of recent history and from his own experience to confirm the genuineness of every line of them, and it is in the light of this LIVING comment that all readers are invited to study Mr. Marsden’s translation of this terribly inhuman document. And here is another very significant circumstance.

    The present successor of Herzl, as leader of the Zionist movement, Dr. Weizmann, quoted one of these sayings at the send-off banquet given to Chief Rabbi Hertz on October 6, 1920. The Chief Rabbi was on the point of leaving for HIS Empire tour of H.R.H., the Prince of Wales. And this is the “saying” of the Sages which Dr. Weizmann quoted: “A beneficent protection which God has instituted in the life of the Jew is that He has dispersed him all over the world.” (JEWISH GUARDIAN, Oct. 8, 1920.) Now compare this with the last clause of but one of Protocol XI. “God has granted to us, His Chosen People, the gift of dispersion, and from this, which appears to 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.”

    The remarkable correspondence between these passages proves several things. It proves that the Learned Elders exist. It proves that Dr. Weizmann knows all about them. It proves that the desire for a “National Home” in Palestine is only camouflage and an infinitesimal part of the Jew’s real object. It proves that the Jews of the world have no intention of settling in Palestine or any separate country, and that their annual prayer that they may all meet “Next Year in Jerusalem” is merely a piece of their characteristic make-believe. It also demonstrates that the Jews are now a world menace, and that the Aryan races will have to domicile them permanently out of Europe…

WHO ARE THE ELDERS?

    This is a secret which has not been revealed. They are the Hidden hand. They are not the “Board of Deputies” (the Jewish Parliament in England) or the “Universal Israelite Alliance” which sits in Paris. But the late Walter Rathenau of the Allgemeiner Electricitaets Gesellschaft has thrown a little light on the subject and doubtless he was in possession of their names, being, in all likelihood, one of the chief leaders himself. Writing in the WIENER FREIE PRESSE, December 24, 1912, he said: “Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the others, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage.”

    In the year 1844, on the eve of the Jewish Revolution of 1848, Benjamin Disraeli, whose real name was Israel, and who was a “damped,” or baptized Jew, published his novel, CONINGSBY, in which occurs this ominous passage: “The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.” And he went on to show that these personages were all Jews.

    Now that Providence has brought to the light of day these secret Protocols all men may clearly see the hidden personages specified by Disraeli at work “behind the scenes” of all the Governments. This revelation entails on all white peoples the grave responsibility of examining and revising AU FOND their attitude towards the Race and Nation which boasts of its survival over all Empires.

    Notes I. – “Agentur” and “The Political.” There are two words in this translation which are unusual, the word “AGENTUR” and “political” used as a substantive, AGENTUR appears to be a word adopted from the original and it means the whole body of agents and agencies made use of by the Elders, whether members of the tribe or their Gentile tools. By “the Political” Mr. Marsden means, not exactly the “body politic” but the entire machinery of politics.

    Notes II – The Symbolic Snake of Judaism. Protocol III opens with a reference to the Symbolic Snake of Judaism. In his Epilogue to the 1905 Edition of the Protocols, Nilus gives the following interesting account of this symbol: “According to the records of secret Jewish Zionism, Solomon and other Jewish learned men already, in 929 B.C., thought out a scheme in theory for a peaceful conquest of the whole universe by Zion.

    As history developed, this scheme was worked out in detail and completed by men who were subsequently initiated in this question. These learned men decided by peaceful means to conquer the world for Zion with the slyness of the Symbolic Snake, whose head was to represent those who have been initiated into the plans of the Jewish administration, and the body of the Snake to represent the Jewish people – the administration was always kept secret, EVEN FROM THE JEWISH NATION ITSELF. As this Snake penetrated into the hearts of the nations which it encountered it undermined and devoured all the non-Jewish power of these States.

    It is foretold that the Snake has still to finish its work, strictly adhering to the designed plan, until the course which it has to run is closed by the return of its head to Zion and until, by this means, the Snake has completed its round of Europe and has encircled it – and until, by dint of enchaining Europe, it has encompassed the whole world. This it is to accomplish by using every endeavor to subdue the other countries by an ECONOMICAL CONQUEST.

    The return of the head of the Snake to Zion can only be accomplished after the power of all the Sovereign of Europe has been laid low, that is to say, when by means of economic crises and wholesale destruction effected everywhere, there shall have been brought about a spiritual demoralization and a moral corruption, chiefly with the assistance of Jewish women masquerading as French, Italians, etc.. These are the surest spreaders of licentiousness into the lives of the leading men at the heads of nations.

    A map of the course of the Symbolic Snake is shown as follows: – Its first stage in Europe was in 429 B.C. in Greece, where, about the time of Pericles, the Snake first started eating into the power of that country. The second stage was in Rome in the time of Augustus, about 69 B.C.. The third in Madrid in the time of Charles V, in A.D. 1552. The fourth in Paris about 1790, in the time of Louis XVI. The fifth in London from 1814 onwards (after the downfall of Napoleon). The sixth in Berlin in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian war. The seventh in St. Petersburg, over which is drawn the head of the Snake under the date of 1881. [This "Snake" is now being drawn through the Americas and in the United States of America, it is been partially identified as the "Counsel on Foreign Relations" (C.F.R.) and the "Tri-Lateral Commission"].

    All these States which the Snake traversed have had the foundations of their constitutions shaken, Germany, with its apparent power, forming no exception to the rule. In economic conditions, England and Germany are spared, but only till the conquest of Russia is accomplished by the Snake, on which at present [i.e., 1905] all its efforts are concentrated. The further course of the Snake is not shown on this map, but arrows indicate its next movement towards Moscow, Kieft and Odessa. It is now well known to us to what extent the latter cities form the centuries of the militant Jewish race. Constantinople is shown as the last stage of the Snake’s course before it reaches Jerusalem. (This map was drawn years before the occurrence of the “Young Turk” – i.e., Jewish – Revolution in Turkey). den.

    Notes III. – The term “Goyim,” meaning Gentile or non-Jews, is used throughout the Protocols and is retained by Mr. Mars.

权力滥用

1辩护这一惯例制造出很多冷淡、残忍、固执、无耻的人。他们无论在何种情况下都持有一种没有人情味的、纯粹法律性的观点。他们有着固执的习惯，总是从是否有利于辩护的价值，而非出于公众利益的角度看待任何事物。通常，他们倾向于不能承受任何抗辩，总是不惜一切代价追逐宣告无罪的结果。对于法律体系的任何细小问题吹毛求疵，因此败坏了司法正义。鉴于此种原因，我们必须将此种职业纳入比较窄小的框架之中。这将使它处于实施公共服务的氛围中。辩护律师和法官们一样，被剥夺与诉讼当事人沟通的权利；他们只是通过法庭获得业务，并通过报告、记录和文件研究案例，在他们的客户被法庭审讯后为他们辩护。无论辩护质量如何，他们都会收到一笔酬金。这将使他们成为为司法正义服务的庭审事务报告人，并且也可以作为那些为了起诉人的利益服务的代诉人的平衡力量。这样一来，就大大缩短了庭审程序。通过此种方式，可以建立诚实公平的辩护，这种公平辩护兼顾了个人利益与公平判决。这样做，也顺便去除了目前存在于辩护上的腐败行为，即仅仅让付钱最多的那一方胜诉。

必须摧毁教士

2我们长久以来都极其小心地败坏非犹太人教士的名声，并且以此毁坏他们在地球上的使命。那一使命在当时对我们仍然是个很大的障碍。日复一日，它对世界各地人民的影响已经衰落了。信仰自由已在世界各地被传播，所以现在基督教的完全覆没只是时间问题了。面对于其他宗教，我们和他们打交道就没有那么困难了，但现在就确认这一点还为时尚早。我们必须将教权主义及传教士们置于一个狭小的范围内，以使他们的影响以他们之前扩展的同样速度倒退回去。

3当最终摧毁教廷的时刻来临时，将会有一只看不见的手引导各国指向它。但如果各国自己攻击它时，我们必须伪装成它的捍卫者出现，好像为了拯救这一过度的杀戮。通过这种声东击西，我们潜入它的权力最深处，并确保在我们已经将其权势全部吞噬尽后才重新出现。

4犹太人之王将是全世界的真正教皇，全世界教堂的尊贵长老。

5但在我们改造受传统宗教影响的年轻一代，继而改造我们自己的年轻人时，必须不公开染指现存的教堂，但必须通过对它们精心算计好的批评以导致其分裂。

6于是，我们的现代媒体通常会继续谴责非犹太人人的政府事务、宗教，一般是使用最无耻的表达方式来降低他们的优越性。这种方式只有我们族群中最具智能的天才才会使用。

7我们的王国将是护持神性的显露，在其中可以发现它的化身——我们的上百只手将是社会生活运作机制的源泉。我们将不在官方警察的帮助下看待一切。它的权力范围已经精心设计为非犹太人使用，阻碍政府看清楚任何事务。在我们的计划中，三分之一的臣民将出于一种责任感，以一种自愿服务的原则将其他的三分之二置于监视之下。做一名间谍和告密者不是可趾的，而是一种荣耀：但毫无根据的告发却将受到严惩，以避免此种权利的滥用。

8我们的秘密代理人将从社会各阶层中选出，从娱乐界人士、编辑、印刷和出版、书商、教士、推销员、工匠、教练、仆人等中间选择。这一机构没有任何权利，也不能被授权为个人利益采取行动。作为一个没有任何权力的警察，只能目击观察并汇报：对于他们报告的审核以及逮捕将由一个警察事务控制小组来负实，但实际的逮捕行为必须由宪兵警察或市政警察来执行。任何对于所看到或听到的有关政治秘密不揭发的人将受到起诉。如果被证实的确有罪，将为这一隐瞒行为而负责。

9我们的兄弟们有责任承担风险向总部揭发自己家庭成员中的叛徒，一旦家庭成员曾做过任何反对长老会的事情，同样，在我们的王国中，所有臣民必须履行这一对国家服务监督的职责。

10这样一种组织将铲除所有对于权力、武力、贿赂的滥用，所有这一切实际上已经通过我的顾问的意识形态灌输到非犹太人的习俗中了。反过来，我们又如何使这种可以在他们的统治中引起骚乱的因素滋长呢？最重要的是将恢复秩序的秘密代理人安插进去，使他们有机会在分裂活动中发展并呈现邪恶倾向——固执的自欺欺人，权威的滥用，以及以权谋私、甘受贿赂。

【纪要十八】

1当必须要加强严厉的秘密防御措施时（这是对权威的最致命的毒药），我们必须安排一些伪造的骚乱或不满的表达。这些不满将通过一些和我们会作的优秀演说家表达出来。围绕这些演说家将会聚集所有同情其观点的人。这一点将预先给予我们对户籍进行审查的借口。这一角色可以由我们安插在非犹太人警察中的人来完成。

2因为大多数的阴谋家出于对此项游戏的喜好，或为了炫耀他们的演说能力，所以在他们作出一些公开行动之前，我们不必碰他们，仅仅对其加入一些监督的因素。但必须牢记，如果官方权威频频发现针对自己的阴谋时，它的权威将被削弱：因为这点暗示着对于他们弱点的清醒认识，或者，更糟糕的，是对于他们不公正的推测。你们很清楚，我们是通过秘密机构——我们盲目的跟随者；频频染指非犹太人的生活，才粉碎了他们君王的特权。这些追随者很容易为仅仅几句被涂抹上政治色彩的自由辞藻而感动，从而导致犯罪。我们通过大力宣传那些秘密防御活动的公开手段，迫使统治者承认他们的弱点，因而将他们的权威和公权力毁于一日。

3我们的统治者将仅仅由那些最不引人注目的保镖们秘密保护起来。因为我们绝不允许这样的一个想法存在，即可以存在任何我们的君王不足于抵御的暴乱，使他被迫躲藏起来。

4如果我们允许这种想法存在，就像非犹太人曾经做的和正在做的那样，那我们就如同为我们的君王，或至少为他的王朝，在行将不远的死刑审判书上签了字。

恐怖统治

5根据被严格赋予强大力量的外表，我们的统治者将只是为了民族利益才使用权力，而绝不是为了其自身或王朝的利益。因而，严格遵守此种纪律，他的权力会受到臣民的拥戴和捍卫。正是它维系着国家每一公民的福利，并是国民生活正常秩序赖以维持的基础。这一点得到了国民承认，并因此被赋予一种神圣的光环。

6公开的防御不过是为掩饰自身的弱点。

7我们的统治者通常将被包围在人民中，被一群表面怪异的暴民包围。这些人将站在最前线。不过看起来是碰巧使其余人保持被尊重的状态，因为看起来处于良好的秩序中。这会为其他人树立约束的榜样。如果人群中的一个请愿者试图提交一份请愿书，必须穿过层层包围。最外沿的人必须在请愿者面前将其传递给君王，这样所有人都会知道手中的请愿书达到了目的地。这样的后果是为统治者获得了控制权。权力的光环需要这样一个人存在，人们会说，「如果国王知道了这一切，」或「国王会听说的」。

8一旦建立官方的防卫措施，权威的神秘性特权就消失了。比如某个特定鲁莽行为被每个人都知道，那些专事骚乱的人就会意识到他的力量。当合适的机会出现时，就会伺机挑战权威。对于非犹太人，我们已经鼓吹了其他东西。但通过这一事实，可以使我们看到公开的防卫措施将他们带到了何处。

9罪犯应该，或多或少，在第一次有足够的根据受到怀疑时就实施逮捕：宁可错杀三千，也不能使一人漏网。因为对于政治错误必须是赤裸裸的残酷无情。如果可能的情况下，破例让步，容许再考虑那些较轻罪行的动机。但对于那些干涉我们政府事务的人而言，是绝没有原谅可能性的。况且，并非所有的政府都理解真正的政策。

【纪要十九】

1如果不允许任何独立的政治意识灌输，我们必须从另一方面鼓励向政府提出具倡议性的报告或请愿书，以对那些旨在改进人民生活条件的所有项目进行检查。这一点会向我们透露臣民的缺点或幻想。对于这些，我们要么通过实现它们来回应，要么通过机智的反驳以证明那些错误判断的短视。

2制造骚乱不过像哈巴狗冲着大象狂吠。对一个组织完善的政府而言，从公众的角度而非警察的观点看来，狗冲大象狂吠完全是不自量力。只举一例就可以看出而者的重要性了，哈巴狗一看到大象就停止吠叫，并立刻摇头摆尾了。

3为了摧毁那些导致政治罪行的优势，我们必须将其审判，按偷盗、谋杀以及任何一种令人憎恶和肮脏的罪行送审。公众观点将会把这类罪行的概念杂揉于政治罪行中，并对其不耻，表示同样的蔑视。

4我们已经竭尽全力了，并且我希望已经成功达到这样一个结果，即非犹太人绝不会想到以此等方式与骚乱做斗争。正是由于此种原因，通过媒体、演说，间接地通过那些被聪明地编辑的学校历史教科书，我们已经对那种为了公共利益而殉难的行为做了广泛宣传。这种行为已被骚乱制造者们确信。这种宣传已经扩大了自由主义者的队伍，并将成千上万的非犹太人带入我们的奴役阶层（使成千上万的非犹太人成为我们的猪狗牲畜）。

【纪要二十】

财政计划

1今天我们将谈一谈财政计划，这一点作为最难的一点，放在我报告的最后，将是我们伟大计划的王冠，是最有决定性的部分。在仔细讲解之前，我将提醒你们，其实之前我已经暗示过了，当说到我们所有行动都是由数字问题解决的时候。

2当我们进入到专制统治王国时，出于自我保护的原则，牢记自己作为父亲和保护者的角色，将避免通过重税加重人民的负担。但作为国家政体而言，花费是巨大的，所以必须获得它所需要的财力。因此，必须高度谨慎地平衡处理这一问题。

3在我们的统治王国中，君王享有法定的虚拟权力，即他的政权内的一切归其所有（这点可以很容易变为现实），能够诉诸法律，没收所有金钱以调整规定其流通。为了这个目的，征收累进制财产税是最佳的课税方式。这种征税方式是以支付一定的财产比率，没有使任何人穷困或破产。富人们必须认识到，将他们过剩财富中的一部分归于国家分配是他们的义务，既然国家保证了他们其余财产的安全以及合法所得的权利。凭心而论，我认为对于财产的控制将在法律的基础上废除抢劫。

4社会改革必须来自上述的方面，因为时机已经成熟。这一点对于和平的保证是必不可分的。

摧毁资本

5向穷人征税是种下革命暴乱的种子，是捡了芝麻丢了西瓜而损害政权的行为。相反，向资本家征税则削减了私人手中的财富，而我们一直将这些财富集中起来，以作为和非犹太人国家财力的抗衡。

6向资本提高征税比例将比现有的个人所得税和财产税带来更多的财政收入。这点对我们是很有用的，可以激起非犹太人政权中的骚乱与不满。

7我们的统治君王的力量在于平衡这一切力量并保证和平。为了这一目的，那些资本家必须缴纳一部分财产，以确保政权的正常运行，是不可或缺的。政权的需求必须由那些不感到压力或有能力的人买单。

8这样一种措施可以消除穷人对富人的憎恨。他会明白富人对于国家财政的必要支持，会明白他们是国家和平与福利的组织者，如果他能看到所有这一切的获得是由富人在买单。

9为了使那些受过良好教育的阶层不为这些新税项的支付感到苦恼，将为他们提供所有这些上缴税项的账目明细以及去向，除了那些用以拨付给王权和公共行政管理机构的开销。

10执政的君王不能拥有自己的任何财产，一旦国家的一切成为他的世袭财产，否则会自相矛盾；拥有私人财产将破坏拥有所有财产的权力。

11执政君王的亲属们，除了其继承人将由国家的资源奉养，必须成为政权的仆人，或者必须以劳动获取财富；不能利用皇室的特权挥霍国家的财富。

12购物、接受金钱捐赠或继承都必须支付累进制印花税。任何财产的转让，无论金钱或其他，没有缴纳印花税的证明（此证明将严格根据实名登记），前任持有人将有义务支付自转让之日起到发现他撤销这一转让声明期间的利息。转让文件必须每周递交至当地财政部门并注明转移人和新的财产持有人的姓名以及永久往址。这种登记在册的转让数额必须超出日常所需开销，并且取决于盖有印花标志的一定比例税额的缴纳。

13估计一下，此类赋税将相当于非犹太人政府国库收入的多少倍？

制造经济衰退

14政府国库必须维持一个固定数额的国税收入完成上缴，超出此数额的部分必须退还到流通领域。公共机构的运作就靠这些上缴税入完成。这种国家财务工作的首创性，将使工人阶层和国家以及统治者的命运紧密结合起来。同样，这部分国库收入的一部分将用于对创造性和生产力的奖励。

15国库税收绝不可以越出上述的固定数额或任意估计，因为货币的存在是为了流通。货币的任何停滞状态对于国家政权的正常运转部是毁灭性的，因为货币流通是润滑剂；润滑剂的停滞也将使国家的正常运转陷入停滞。

16用有息票据作为交易凭证就恰恰制造了此种停滞。这种情况的影响已经非常显著了。

17我们也将建立审计署。通过它，君主就可以随时检查政府支出的账目，除了当月还未作出的账目以及上个月的账目（因为还未被公布）。

18对于打劫政府唯一没有兴趣的那个人就是它的所有者，也即统治者本人。这就是他的亲自干预将消除财富流失或过于铺张浪费的原因。

19为了使君王有充分的时间去控制全局和思考，将废除那些为了礼仪起见而占用君王大量宝贵时间的接待事务。他的权力也将不会在那些宠臣中分裂成几派。那些宠臣不过因皇位的宏伟与浮华围烧在他身边，只是为了自己的利益，而绝非为了国家的利益。

20我们将通过减少流通中的货币在非犹太人社会中制造经济危机。大资本停止了流动，并将钱从国家收回，而政府正是一直靠它们的贷款运作的。这些贷款以及高额利息沉重地压在政府财政头上，使政府成为大资本的奴隶。大资本将工业集中在手中，将榨干所有人和所有国家。

21目前的货币发行量普遍跟不上人均需求，因而不能满足所有工人的需要。货币发行量应该和人口的增长同步，因而儿童们从其出生之日起也绝对必须被视为消费者。调整货币发行量对全世界而言都是一个重要问题。

22你们都明白黄金标准是那些采取金本位的国家毁灭的根源；因为它未能满足货币的需求，因而我们更要尽可能将黄金从货币流通中驱除。

非犹太政权破产

23我们要采取的标准是必须考虑工人的消费力，无论是一纸还是一木。我们必须根据每个国民的正常需求，加上出生的人口数量和减掉死亡的人口数量后，来发行货币。

24各行各业各部门都必须管理好账目。

25为了不使国家财政税收的缴纳被延误，缴纳金额与期限必须由统治者颁布法令固定下来；这样就避免了因部门间的包庇而损害了其他国民的利益。

26财政收入与支出的预算必须同步进行，以免时间间隔太久而相互混淆。

27由我们在非犹太人政府内发动的财政制度及原则上的改革，将被披上伪装，以免被人觉察。我们必须指出改革的必要性，因为他们的违例操作已将本国财政掷入混乱无序的黑暗状态。正如我指出的，他们的第一个错误在于最初起草了一个唯一的预算，并且年复一年根据以下原因扩大：这一预算是半年制，于是他们要求一个可以解决问题的预算，但这一预算三个月就花完了，之后，他们又要求一个补充预算。这一切都以预算破产而告终。由于下一年度的预算根据增加的总额来规划，这样每年的预算起点都增加一半，年度预算在十年内翻了三倍。由于这些方法因非犹太人政府的粗心大意而被通过，他们的国库就空了。贷款就随之而来。这样就会吞掉所有的剩余，并使所有非犹太人政权走向破产。

28你们应该充分懂得，这种被我们推荐给非犹太人政府的经济措施安排，是不会被我们自己实施执行的。

29每种形式的贷款都证明政权的衰弱与对政权权利理解的欠缺。贷款就像悬在统治者头上的达摩克斯利剑，无法向自己的臣民征收税收，却伸出手向我们的银行家们乞讨。国际债务就像蚂蝗一样，无法从政权本身驱除，直到它们自己脱落或政权把它们甩掉。但非犹太人国家没有甩掉它们，继续往自己身上增加更多借款，以至于最终被这些吸血鬼榨干而毁灭。

高利贷专制

30贷款，尤其是外债，从本质上究竟是什么呢？债券是一种政府发行的含有占款本金一定比例的债务的可换票据。如果借款利率是5%，如果贷款以5%的利率计，二十年后利息将与本金持平，四十年后则超过一倍，六十年后超过三倍，而此时债务仍然没有被清偿。

31通过这样的计算，很明显，利用所有形式的人头税，政府私图搜刮出贫穷纳税人的最后一分钱，以偿还富裕外国佬的债务。从这些外国人手中大把借款，而不是在没有支付额外利息的情况下，为了实际所需而征收税收。

32如果是内债，非犹太人不过是把搜刮穷人的钱来还给富人。但当我们收买贿赂了一些关键人物，将债务转移到海外，那么这些国家的所有财富就会落入我们囊中。所有非犹太人政府就开始将臣民的供奉支付给我们。

33非犹太人的在位君王们对于政务肤浅无知，大臣们唯利是图、贪污受贿，其他担任财务管理角色的掌权人对于财政事务一知半解，使他们的国家变成我们的债务人，借了无法偿还的债务金额。于是，从我们的角度而言，他们还会有沉重的金钱与支出方面的麻烦。

34货币的停滞是我们所不允许的，因而在我们的政权内将没有有息票据。这样就不存在需支付其利息，并将国家金钱吸干的蚂蝗们了。发行有息票据的权利仅仅赋予那些实业公司，这些公司从其利润所得中支付利息是没有困难的，但政权则不能够像这些公司那样产生利息，因为政府借贷只是用以花费支出，而不是用于运营。

35工业票据也可以被政府认购，这些票据现在作为贷款运作的贡赋票证，可以被转变为赢取利润的贷方。这一方法可以终止货币的停滞、寄生利润以及懒惰，所有这一切都曾经对我们在非犹太人政府中有用，只要他们还是独立的，就不是我们的统治所需要的。

36非犹太人那不开化大脑思维的愚钝是多么一目了然啊！从下面事实中就可以充分表现出来：他们一直向我们大量借款，并要支付我们利息，却从来没有考虑过为了要偿付我们必须从自己臣民的口袋里掏出这些借款和附加利息。还有什么比从自己的人民那儿掏钱更简单的事情呢？

37这也是我们作为上帝选民具有天才头脑的一个证明：我们竭力使贷款以这样的方式呈现给他们，让他们觉得这居然是对自己有利的事情。

38当时机来临时，我们的账目就会公布于众。在数个世纪非犹太政府试验中获得的经验将是引人瞩目，并将向人类呈现我们的创新一面。它们将终结那些我们精通财务要归功于非犹太人的污蔑之词。这在我们的统治中是决不允许的。

39必须限制我们的会计制度。无论是统治者，或最重要的公仆，都不能未经监督将哪怕最小金额的公款挪作他用，除非在一个特定执行方案中确定下来。

40没有特定的计划与方案就不能掌控全局。在没有确定的方向与资源的道路上前进，将因英雄主义或盲目崇拜而毁灭。

41我们曾经一度建议非犹太人统治者应该致力于那些象征性外事接待、礼仪娱乐等等。这不过是我们统治的幌子。那些在具体事务方面代行君王职责的弄臣们的账目，是由我们的代理人起草的。这些账目每次部会令那些目光短线的君王们满意，因为它们承诺未来的经济改善是可以预见的。从哪儿取得经济改善呢？从新的税收吗？问题是可能存在的，但这一切从未被那些阅读我们账目的人质疑过。

42你们知道，他们这种粗心大意带来的是什么？他们的金融混乱到了什么程度？尽管他们的工业令人惊讶。

【纪要二十一】

贷款与政府信贷

1对于上次我给你们讲述的，现在再补充一些关于国内贷款的说明。对于国际贷款我就不再多说什么了，因为非犹太人已经用他们的钱喂刨了我们。但对于我们政权内部而言，就没有外国人了，也就是说，没有什么外来因素了。

2我们已经利用执政者的唯利是图与懒散，通过贷款给非犹太人政府。这使我们的钱翻了两倍、三倍；甚至更多。而事实上这些政府根本就不需要这些钱。还有其他人能够作出我们做的事情吗？因而，我只准备花口舌在国内贷款问题上了。

3政府公布这样的贷款马上就要到期，可以公关认购他们自己的票据了，也就是说那些有息票据。他们可以操纵所有的价格，从一百到一千；对于那些最早认购者可以有一定的折扣。第二天通过虚假手段，票据的价格攀升了，公开的理由是每个人都在抢购。几天之后，如他们所言，国库收入就溢出了，也就是货币过剩了。他们宣称，这种认购的结果可以达到借贷本金的几倍。这一切产生了整个舞台效果——你们看，他们说政府的借贷票据体现出强大的自信心。

4但当闹剧结束时，就会造成一个超大的财政赤字。为了偿付利息必须求助于新的贷款。这非但没有消除反而增加了赤字。当这一贷款耗尽时，就必须征收新税填补，不是贷款本金，而是偿付其利息。这些税收是用来填补另一个赤字的新赤字。

5稍后就到了兑换的时间。在没有解决债务的情况下，他们缩减了利息的支付，并且没有出借人的同意也不能这么做；在公布兑换的同时，也给出对于不想兑换者返还金额的倡议。如果每个人都表示不愿兑换，并要求返还金额，政府就会搬起石头砸自己的脚，发现自己破产，从而支付不起这笔金额。幸运的是，非犹太人政府的臣民对财政事务一无所知，宁可选择兑换利息的减少，也不愿承担重新投资的风险。如此这般，一次次使政府甩掉成千上百万的赤字。

6对于外债，非犹太人对我们要此类伎俩是行不通的，因为他们知道我们一定会将借出的钱要回的。

7通过此种公开宣称的破产方式，可以证明这些国家的统治者与他们的臣民之间没有任何共同利益。

8我请求你们注意此点以及以下现象：如今所有的国内借贷都被所谓的活期贷款强化，也就是有或多或少较短的还款期。这些债务包括银行储蓄和准备金。如果存储时间稍长，这些资金就会因为支付对外贷款利息而蒸发，被相同数量的抵押替换。

9这些最终会修补所有非犹太人的财政漏洞。

10当我们登上世界的王位时，所有这些或类似的金融转移，均不符合我们的利益，都将被一扫而空，所有的金融市场将被摧毁。既然绝不容许我们的特权被价格波动所撼动，我们将通过法律宣布物价，绝不允许任意抬高或降低物价。

11我们将用庞大的政府信贷机构替代金融市场。这么做的宗旨就是根据政府的观点来固定物价。这些机构将能够在一天内向市场投放五亿工业票据，或购空同样的数量。通过这样的方式，所有的工业项目将依赖我们。你可以想象我们的权力是多么强大？

【纪要二十二】

黄金的力量

1在所有向你们通报的信息中，我已经努力将过去已经发生和现在正在发生，在不远的将来即将发生的大事的趋势，以及我们与非犹太人之间的秘密关系，财务金融运作，都仔细描述了。就这一问题，我还要补充一点。

2在我们手中有当今最有力量的东西——金钱：在两天之内：我们就可以从库存中获取想要的任何数额。

3那么，难道就没必要去寻求更进一步的证据说明我们的统治是由上帝决定的？当然，我们必须骄做地证明，在这么多世纪以来我们不得不犯下的罪恶，是为了达到全人类最终的福利——将一切归于良好的统治，这一最终目的。尽管会制造一些暴力和罪行，但同样也建立起了秩序（自由纲要箴言：治出于乱）。我们应该竭力证明：我们是安定一切，为全世界带来真正的福祉和自由的施恩者。我们会使这个世界享受和平、和谐与安宁。当然，是在人人严格遵守我们创立的法律的基础之上。我们必须明白：自由并不存在于放纵以及无拘无束，而是存在于自尊自爱。并非人人都有权推动那些破坏自由意识、平等等原则的。自由也绝非是在暴民面前通过恐怖的言论煽动他人，真正的自由存在于对人类生活中共同准则的崇敬与严格遵守。对于权利以及权利缺席的清醒意识是人类尊严的应有之义，而绝对不是仅仅对于个体自我的疯狂想象。

4一个权威将是伟大的，因为他是全副武装，强有力的。他也不是胡涂地跟在那些所谓的领袖和演讲家门后面，像他们一样声嘶力竭，沙哑地说着那些毫无意义地伟大原则。实际上，他们什么都不是。老实说，不过是乌托邦。我们的君王将是统治之王。在他们的统治中蕴涵了人类的幸福。这种威权的光环会激励人民虔诚地臣服与敬畏。真正的力量不与任何权利诉求讨价还价，甚至与上帝也如此：没有人敢靠近它，只是与其保持一定距离。

【纪要二十三】

灌输服从

1人民也许可以习惯服从，有必要灌输羞耻观，以便减少奢侈品的生产。通过这些我们可以提升在对奢侈品的追逐中被败坏了的道德。我们可以重建那些小规模的匠人生产作坊。这将意味看为当今的制造业资本埋下了一颗地雷。这也是大规模产业通常，尽管不是有意识地，推动了大众产生反政府的思想意识的必然原因。一个小作坊工人对于失业一无所知，这使他和现有秩序紧密地捆绑在一起，因而也服从官方权威。对于我们来说，一旦权力在握时，这种角色就必须实行。酗酒也将被法律制止，并作为可以将人性变得粗鲁野蛮的行为被立罪。

2我再重复一遍，臣民们仅仅向最强大、完全独立于他们的力量臣服。因为从中可以感受到抵御的武器，以及反对社会迫害的支待。从一个具有天使般精神的君王那里，能期望什么呢？从他身上看到的必须是武力和力量的化身。

3现存的统治者在被我们削弱了士气的社会各阶层中蹒跚，而这些阶层甚至否定了上帝的权威。从这些混乱中点燃了无政府主义的大火。即将替代所有现存统治者的最高君王首先必须去扑灭这吞噬一切的大火。然后，必须斩杀所有这些现存的阶层。然而，他不得不用自身的鲜血去浇灭大火。有意识地和每一种给政权肌体带来灾难的疾病做斗争，以此方式将它们复活。

4这位上帝选择的君王被选出来，去粉碎那些被本能、粗鲁和非人性所驱动的非理性力量。这些力量正以抢劫和各种以自由和权利为名的暴力形式体现。他们已经推翻了各种形式的社会秩序，在一片废墟上竖立起了犹太人之王。但一旦君王大权在握，这些角色就会立即被清除干净。在他的道路上，扫除这些是非常必要的。并且，必须做得非常干净利素，不留任何余孽。

5我们于是可以对全世界人民说：「感谢上帝，向那个额头印着人类命运的人鞠躬吧！为他，上帝亲自印上了自己的光辉。他将把我们从之前所述的所有暴力和邪恶中解放出来。」

【纪要二十四】

统治者的品质

1我现在向全世界传达可以确认戴维王王朝根基的方法。

2这项确认首先就包含在我们的长老们在处理世界事务的保守主义里，在指导人类思想教育的保守性里面。

3戴维王后裔的几个特定成员会准备他们的君王及继承人，不是通过世袭来选，而是根据显著的能力，引诱他们进入政界最隐秘的核心；进入政府的阴谋，但又使得任何人对这些秘密一无所知。这一行为方式的目的，就是政府绝不会交给那些从来不语阴谋之艺术的人。

4对于这些人，只能教授上述计划的实际运用。通过比较几个世纪对于政治——经济运动以及社会科学的经验观察。总之，通过所有由自然规律本身稳固建立起来的法则精神，来规定并调节人类间的关系。

5直接继承人将通常会被搁置一边，如果他们在位时展现出轻浮、软弱以及其他导致其权威毁灭的质量。这些将表明他们没有足够的能力统治。从他们自身而言，对于王权也是种成胁。

6只有那些无比强硬坚定、乃至于冷酷的人，才可以从我们的长老手里接过统治之缰。

7为了避免意志薄弱以及其他情形的不胜任，君王必须根据法律将统治权交给有能力的新手。

8君王的当前行动计划，包括将来更多的计划，是绝密的，甚至他那些最亲近的顾问也不知情。

犹太人之王

9只有君王及其身边的三个辅佐可以知道未来的具体计划。

10我们的君王具有宁折不弯的意志，本身就是一个人性的大师，会洞察一切，像命运有其神秘的方式一样。没有人知道君王通过他的部署想获得什么，因而也没有人胆敢站在未知的道路上。

11当然，君王头脑的知识储备必须和其想要达到的统治蓝图相匹配。正是由于此种原因他才上升至王位，而非经过上述长老们的考察。

12君王在市场上和他的臣民交谈是绝对必要的。这样人民可以了解并爱戴他们的君王。这确保了两种力量的团结；而目前却由于恐怖统治被分成两派。

13这种恐怖统治对我们来说是绝对必要的，直到这两种力量分别落入我们的影响之下。

14犹太王必须不能被情感所支配，恃别是情欲。他不应使性格的任何一部分受到低级的本能支配。情欲是所有扰乱理智、引发人类野蛮本性的恶德中之最恶者。

15将来统治世界的最高君王必须为了他的臣民们牺牲其所有的私欲与个人爱好。

16我们的最高君王必须是无懈可击、无人企及的榜样！

锡安第三十三次大会所有代表签字

再教育

1在应用我们的原则时，需注意那些你所生活和采取行动的国家的国民性格：除非当地的人民根据我们的模式被重新教育，同化的普及不会成功。但通过谨慎地潜移默化，你将发现不超过十年，最顽固的性格也会改变。这样，我们将在那些已被我们征服的民族里新增一个民族。

2当进入我们的权力王国时，关于自由的词汇，实际上这些词汇是我们共同的口号；也即「自由、平等、博爱」，将会被改变为不再是一种口号，而是一种理想主义的表达，也就是改变成「自由的权利、平等的职责，博爱的理想」。这就是我们如何来发挥它们作用，——我们就可以通过掰住牛角而制服牛。事实上，我们已经除掉了除我们之外的所有统治力量，尽管法理上还有很多。现在，如果有国家反对我们，那只是在我们的控制下的一种形式，因为我们需要他们的反犹运动以帮助我们获取对整个犹太民族的控制权。我不想对此作进一步说明，因为这个问题在我们内部也引起了反复争论。

犹太超级政权

3对于我们而言、没有力量可以遏制约束我们的活动范围。我们的超级政府存在于超法律的状况下。这一状况可以用充满活力、强有力但可以接受的词汇来描绘，即专制主义。我有机会能够很清醒地告诉你们，在恰当的时机，我们作为法律的制定者将实施判决。我们会毁灭也会宽恕。我们作为所有人的首领将登上领袖的战马。我们通过意志的力量来统治。因为在我们手中是一个曾经强有力的执政党的碎片。现在这个党已经被我们打败征服。我们手中的武器是无限的野心、燃烧的贪欲、残酷无情的报复，憎恨与邪恶。

4那些吞噬一切的、盛行的恐怖活动正是出自我们之手。我们的智囊库中包含了持各种观点、各种主义的人；像保皇派、煽勋政治家、社会主义者、共产主义者和乌托邦幻想者等等。我们已经将他们全部收编，以实现我们的任务：每一个人站在自己的立场上，都厌倦了当权者最后一丝残余威权，全都致力于推翻所有现存的社会秩序。这些活动使所有国家都备受煎熬与折磨。他们敦促宁静，准侑牺牲一切来换取和平。但在这些国家没向我们臣服，并公开承认我们的超级政府之前，我们不会给予他们和平。

5人民已经为解决社会主义问题的必要性而通过国际协议掀起了怒吼。党派的四分五裂已经使他们落人我们的手中。为了开展一场竞争，必需金钱，而金钱已经被掌控在我们手中。

6我们也许有理由担心「头脑清楚」的非犹太人国王与非犹太人暴民之间的联盟，但我们已经采取必需措施反对这样的可能性：在而种势力之间已经树立了一互相恐惧的堡垒。通过这种方式，人民盲目的暴力成为了我们的支持力量，而我们仅仅是为他们提供一个领袖。并且，在引向我们目标的道路上指导他们前进。

7为了避免暴民的力量脱离我们的指导之手：我们必须时常和他们亲密交流。即使我们不是真正地亲力亲为，也可以在任何程度上通过某些最信得过的兄弟。当我们被承认为唯一的权威时，我们可以亲自和人民在集市、街道上讨论，并且可以很睿智地教导他们探索政治问题，以至于使他们朝看符合我们指引的方向走。

8谁来监察乡村学校传授的内容？一个政府或国王特使的话会被立即传遍全国，因为它将被人民的声音广泛传播。

9为了铲除非犹太人的机构与体制，我们已经用诡计和机敏接触他们；已经掌握了推动机制运行的源泉。这些源泉本处于严格而公平的秩序中；我们已经用骚乱的自由主义牌照替代了他们。我们已经将手入法治、选举、媒体以及个体自由，尤其是伸入到教育领域，教育已经成为一个自由社会存在的基石。

基督教青年己被摧毁

10通过用我们所知的虚假的理论和原则来培养，我们已经愚弄、迷惑和腐化了非犹太人的青年。

11我们对现有法律并未进行充分的修改，而只是通过歪曲其含义将它们变为自相矛盾的种种阐释。我们已经通过只求结果的方式树立起了法律崇高的形象。繁琐的阐释掩盖了法律的真实含义。这一事实正是这些结果的体现：于是这些阐释完全将法律从政府的视线中隐藏起来了。因为从盘根错节的立法中真正理解法律意义是非常困难的。这就是仲裁理论的起源。

12也许你会说，在我们的时机来临之前，非犹太人猜到了发生的一切。他们的武装力量会强大起来遏制我们；但在西方，我们已经反击了这些——一种让最强悍的人都会感到胆战心寒的恐怖策略——那些地下组织、宗主国、秘密势力，在我们统治的时刻到来之际，都会被驱赶到所有的资本背后。从那时起，这些资本将会随着它们的所有机构和档案灰飞烟灭。

【纪要十】

为登上统治之位做准备

1今天我就之前曾经说过的再重复一次。我请求你们记住：各国政府和人民只是对于政治的表像满意。事实上，如果非犹太人的代表们竭尽所能享乐，他们又如何能洞察到事物表面下的真相呢？对于我们的政策而言，察知这一细节具有重要的意义。考虑到财产、住宅、税收对于权威的分化是非常重要的。（隐形税收的概念也即法律的折射力量）。所有这些问题都不应该在人民之前直接并公开提及。为了避免被提及，它们必须不被分门别类地定义；只有在我们知晓当代法律的基础之上，在不透露细节基础上宣布。保持沉默的原因，是不去定义一个原则，我们就可以留有余地，在不引人注意的情祝下删除这一点或抹掉那一点；如果都被分门别类地清楚定义的话，在他们看起来就是理所当然的事情了。

2暴民对政治精英的力量情有独钟，并以崇敬的态度接受他们的暴力行为：「哦，无耻。是的，的确无耻，但做得多英明啊！一个阴谋，如果你愿意这么认为的话，但手段玩得多法高明，多么高超！多么大胆无耻的野心。」

我们的目标——世界权力

3吸引所有国家致力于建立新的社会结构，这是我们一直以来谋划的项目。这是我们为什么把武装自己、储备力量作为首要的事情。这样一来，我们的工人积极分子中的极端厚颜无耻和不可阻挡的精神力量会清除我们道路上的障碍。

4当我们建立了自己的国家之后，就必须告诉各族人民：所有一切都很糟，一切都经历了艰难和病苦。我们已经摧毁了你们痛苦的根源——国籍、战争前线、文化差异。现在你们可以自由地对我们评判。但如果在我们提供的一切面前作出任何评判，那会是个公平的评判吗？暴民们会推崇赞扬我们，并因希望与愿望的实现而支持我们。选举，我们发明的工具，将使我们坐上世界的王位。我们要教育世界上哪怕最小的团体都以集会投票的方式决定问题。这将帮助我们达到目的。

5为此，我们必须确保所有人不分阶级和身份的选举权。这样就可以建立远超过少数有较好修养和思考能力的富裕阶层的绝对多数优势。通过这种方式，通过反复灌输一种个体重要性的意识，我们摧毁非犹太人家庭观念以及教育价值观，去除个体意识分裂的可能性。因为对于暴民而言，因受我们操纵而不会被带到前台，也不会被给予倾听的机会。他们已经习惯听从我们，只要我们为他们的驯服和注意力付出了代价。通过这种方式，我们就创造了一个盲目、强大的力量。这种力量在没有我们指派的领袖指导之下将不能动弹。人民会向这种政权臣服，因为他们知道是这些政权的领抽决定了他们的收入、奖金以及各种各样的福利。

6统治大纲需来自于一个头脑，因为如果允许其落入分裂的几派手中，就不会被紧握手中。对于行动计划有清醒的认识是允许的，但并不去讨论它，以免干扰其艺术性、各部分之间的相互依赖性以及每一句话秘密含义的实际力量。通过选举等这类耗费气力的方式去讨论和更改是给它加上逻辑推理和误解的印记。这些将使人无法联想到其出自密谋的事实。我们旨在使我们的计划强有力并合时宜。因而我们不应将天才指导大师的杰作抛掷到暴民的毒牙中，哪怕给一个我们自己挑选的公司。

7这些阴谋将不能推翻现有的体制；只是影响他们的经济生活，随之影响他们整个活动进程。这些将会被引导至我们计划中的道路上来。

自由主义的毒药

8所有政权都存在看似各种名称命名的相似的东西。代表、内合、议会、国务院、司法机构等等。我不必向你们解释这些机构之间关系的机制，因为你们都清楚这一点。只是注意上述的每一机构都相应地担负着国家的某一重要的功能。我请求你们注意我所说的「重要」一词，是用于修饰「功能」而不是「机构」。所以不是这些机构，而是他们的功能更重要。这些机构在内部已经分割政府所有功能——行政、立法、司法，这些功能就像人体的器官一样运转。如果我们伤害国家机器的一个部位，国家就会家人一样生病，并将会死亡。

9当我们把自由主义的毒药引入一个集权国家的有机体时，它的整个政治结构就会经历一次变化。政权就会被致命的疾病——血液病——缠绕。等待它的只有死亡。

10自由主义产生了宪政国家。这些国家取代了非犹太人的唯一保镖——即专制主义。而宪政除了是一个大杂烩——误解、争吵、异议、无用的党派挑衅，攻击的杂烩外什么也不是，只是一个消耗国家力量的集会体。这些「夸夸其谈」者的讲坛，一点也不比媒体差，已经不遗余力地将统治者们谴责得无能又无力，并因而使他们显得无用又多余。事实上，这也是很多国家君王们被废黜，实行共和体制的原因。正是出于这种原因，我们用一个临时政府替换了原来的统治者。用一个从暴民中选出来，从我们的傀儡、奴隶中选出来的总统作为政府首脑。这就是我们埋在非犹太人民中的地雷。我更愿意说，是埋在非犹太各民族中的地雷。

我们任命总统

11在不远的将来。我们将确立总统的职责。到那时，我们必须能够在让傀儡们履行职言时不拘泥于形式。如果那些争先恐后争夺权力的人的圈子被削弱缩小，如果出现难以找到合适的总统人选的僵局——这种僵局会最终解散这个国家，当这些情形出现时，我们还担心什么呢？

12为了使我们的计划达到这一结果，必须安排选举，支持那些在过去有不光彩历史、隐藏的瑕疵或其它问题的人作为总统——这样，在完成我们计划的过程中，这些担心秘密被揭露，或想保持特权、优势与荣棹的总统候选人就成了有利用价位的工具。职能内阁将会选举、保护总统，并为总统作出掩饰，但我们可以获得推出新法或更改现有法律的权利，因为这项权利将被赋予我们的傀儡。自然地，总统的权威就会这受各种形式的攻击，但我们会通过赋予其吸引大众的权利来提供一种自卫方式。除了这些，我们也必须赋予总统宣战的权力，必须捍卫这一最高的权力，理由是总统作为国家所有军队的统帅，出于捍卫新的共和宪法的需要，必须可以自由支配军队。而这一权力也恰恰是其作为宪政的合格代表的体现。

13神龛的钥匙掌握在我们手中，除了我们自己，再没有别人可以指导立法，这种情形是很容易理解的。

14除了这些，我们应该在新共和宪法的指导下，从内阁中取得执政措施、保守政治机密、安插秘密代理人的权力。并且，我们必须通过新宪法，将代表数减至最低，继而相应分批地减少政治热情。如果对政治的激情仍熊熊燃烧，尽管这是最不希望出现的，我们必须通过煽动大众的吸引力而使他们无能为力。通过总统，我们可以任命内阁和议会的首长。我们可以将议会周期缩短至几个月，而不是连续的会议周期。并且，总统作为执行权力的国家元首将拥有召集和解散议会的权利。但为了避免这些行动——对于我们的计划来说是不成熟的——的后果在本质上是非法的，这些行为不应该由我们所安置的总统们来行使。我们应该唆使大臣们和其它政府高级官员用他们自己的方式来取消那些安排。通过这些作为，他们将变成我们的替罪羊。这一角色要通过专门推荐议会、内阁或首相来演，而不是通过某个官员。

15总统会在我们的支配之下阐释现存法律的意义。在我们认为必要的时候进一步使其无效。除了这些，他有权提议临时法令，甚至在政府宪政工作中启动新的立法，这都是以整个国家的最高福利为出发点的。

16利用这些手段，我们即可获得蚕食、破坏的力量。当我们大权在握时，就不得不被介绍至这些国家的宪法中，为神不知鬼不觉废除每一种宪法做准备，接下来就是将每种政府形式变为专制主义。

17在宪法被扯摧之前，我们的专制君主将被认可；这种认可将在各国人民对胡作非为感到痛苦厌倦和无能为力时来临——我们可以为他们的统治者作出安排，这一安排可以大声宣告：他们被赶走了，赋予我们的将是一个统治全球的君王。他将我们团结起来，摧毁一切混乱的根源——边境、民族、宗教、国债——将带给我们和平与安宁。而这一切，我们从自己的统治者和议员们那儿是找不到的。

18你们熟知的是，为了使所有国家表达这些愿望，必须挑拨这些国家政府和人民之间的关系，用分歧、憎恨、斗争、妒忌乃至刑律、饥饿、疾病和欲望彻底耗尽人性，以至于这些非犹太人感觉没有别的出路，唯有躲入我们用金钱以及其它的一切所塑造的避难所中。

19如果我们予以这些国家喘息的机会，那我们一直渴望的时刻就很难有机会来临。

【纪要十一】

极权主义国家

1国务院一直都被作为统治者权威的强有力表达。作为立法机构「做秀」的角色，它亦可以被称为统治者法律法令的阐释委员会。

2新宪法的建立过程中，我们应该（l）用向立法机构提议的掩饰方式来制定法律，树立公平与正义，（2）用一般规定、议会程序和国务院决法案的方式来设立总统令，（3）用政权内变革的形式促使一个合适的时机出现。

3通过建立这种的一个流程样本，我们将拥有这些组合手段的所有细节，通过它们，我们将在那些国家按照我们的方向利用国家机器完成革命。通过这些组合，言论、集会结社、正义自由与选举权，还有其它所谓的自由和权利必须从人们的记亿中消失，或在新宪法颁布之后经历根本的改变。只有此时才是立即宣布我们的规则的最佳时机。因为滞后的话，每一引人注目的改变都是危险的。理由如下：如果这种改变是以严苛的形式，并带有严厉与限制的意味推出的话，会导致对新变化的恐惧而产生的绝望感。另一方面，如果推出了被认为进一步纵容的措施后，将会有人认为我们已经承认了错误，这会破坏我们的权威绝无谬误的优越性，或者认为我们张皇失措，被迫摆出投降的姿态，且对于这一点，我们得不到任何感谢，因为会被假设成义务性的举措。两种方式都将有损新宪法的声誉。我们想要的效果，是在新宪法颁布的那一刻，当全世界人民还在为革命的后果瞠目结舌时，还处于恐惧与不确定的状态时，他们必须立即意识到我们是如此强大，如此不可阻挡，权力无限，以至于我们根本就不会把他们当一回事，更不可能去关注他们的观点或愿望。我们已经准备好，并且有势不可挡之权力，随时随地粉碎所有的愿望或宣言。我们已经掌控想要的一切，绝对不可能用它们分裂我们的力量──于是，在恐惧和战栗中，他们会对一切闭上双目，坐等世界未日的来临。

我们是狼

4非犹太人是一群绵羊，而我们则是要干掉他们的狼群。你知道当狼群控制住羊群的时候，将发生什么？

5还有一个令他们闭上双眼的原因：因为我们将保持这样一个承诺，一旦赶走了和平的敌人并驯服各派后会还给他们所有的自由。

6而他们将被迫期待多久才可以等到归还自由？这点不值一提。

7那么出于何种原因，我们发明了这整个策略，并将它们灌输到非犹太人的头脑中，同时又不冷他们去审视潜在意义的机会？如果不是为了迂回曲折，又到底出于什么目的，让我们这些分散的同胞不是直接找到到达目的地的道路？正是这点构成了我们创建秘密共济会组织的基础。它们不为非犹太人所知，甚至也没有受到他们的怀疑。这些非犹太人的羔羊受我们的吸引，进入到共济会的「表演」场所，目的就是为了迷惑他们的同胞。

8上帝赋予我们，即他的选民们，分散在世界各地的天性。而这一在所有人眼中看起来是我们弱点的特性，却释放出我们所有的力量。而这力量已将我们带到统治全世界的权力门坎中。

9现在对于我们来说，在业已建立的基础之上还有很多事情要做。

【纪要十二】

控制媒体

1「自由」，这个可以以很多方式阐释的词汇，被我们定义如下：自由是去做法律所允许的事情的权利。这种阐释将在适当的时机服务于我们，因为所有的自由将被掌控在我们手中。既然法律将根据我们的伟大计划废除我们不想要的，或创造我们所需要的东西。

2我们将以如下方式来和媒体打交道：今天的媒体所扮演的角色是什么呢？它在必要的时候，为激起并煽动我们所需要的激情而服务。或者，它为党派的最终私利而服务。它通常是歪曲、不公和虚假的。大多数公众并不清楚媒体到底为谁服务。我们可以用一根很紧的缰绳来控制它：可以利用所有媒体产品来做同样的事情，因为如果我们沦为宣传册和书籍的攻击目标的话，将有一种清除所有媒体攻击的愿望。在当今，由于审查的必需性，宣传品的生产变成了一种需要昂贵花费的资源。我们可以将其变成我们政权一项丰盛的收入来源：可以征收一种特殊的印花税，并在任何媒体机构或出版印刷机构获批之前，要求他们缴纳保证金。这将保证我们的统治不会这受任何来自媒体方面的攻击。任何意攻击我们的企图，除了上述措施之外也极有可能发生，我们必须毫不留情地罚款。诸如印花税、保证金和罚款会给政府带来巨额收入。党派机器将不遗余力将大笔花费用于宣传，但如果面对第二轮攻击时，我们就保持缄默了，没有人因为指责我们政府而受惩罚，那么停止干顶一切出版物的呼吁就没有机会和理由煽动大众。我请求你们注意，那些进行攻击者也是由我们建立的机构，但它们所攻击的都是那些早就被我们决定要彻底进行改变的方面。

3任何不受我们控制的宣传都不会传给公众，现在这点已经被我们实现。因此，所有新闻也只有被少数光个机构接收，由这些机构在世界各地集中起来。这些机构将被我们完全掌握，只按照我们的授意进行宣传。

4如果我们已经对非犹太人熟悉到如此程度，即他们都通过我们加在他们鼻梁上的有色眼镜来看世界上发生的大事，如果再也没有一个国家为我们获准注入这些非犹太傻瓜所称的国家秘密而铺设障碍时，到那时，即我们代表我们的全球之君被公认为世界超级君主之时，我们的地位又是如何呢？

5让我们重新回到「出版印刷的未来」这个话题上。任何一个想成为出版者、图书馆长或印刷商的人，都必须有义务提供许可执照，一旦犯有任何错误，就立即被没收。利用这些措施，思想这一工具将成为被我们的统治指导教育的手段，我们的统治将绝不允许有关进步福扯的偏门思想与幻想分裂误导大众。我们还有谁不明白这样一个事实：这些关于进步福祉的幽灵将是直接引向那些可以在人类自身以及对抗统治权威的无政府主义倾向的愚蠢幻想，因为进步，或有关进步的念头，会产生关于任何一种有关解放的概念，但没有建立对其的限制。所有这些所谓的自由派都是无政府主义者，不是行动上的，就是思想上的。他们其中的任何一个都在追逐自由的幽灵，但却没有获得许可，即他们陷入了为抗议而抗议的无政府主义。

摧毁自由媒体

6现在我们再来看期刊媒体。我们也必须像对其他出版物一样，每页加印花税和保证金，少于三十页的双倍征收。一方面是为了减少杂志的数量，谁志是印刷毒药中最恶劣的一种。另一方面，采取此种方式可以强迫作者的作品很短，以至于很少有人阅读这些杂志，尤其是当这些杂志价格不菲时。同时可以出版我们自己的杂志，按照有利于我们的方向来影响大众意识形态的发展。因为我们的出版物价格会很低，会拥有广大的受众。印花税会使从事文学写作的野心处于可控状态，容易遭受处罚可能使那些作家们依赖我们。如果任何人被发现胆敢写文章反对我们，将再也没有任何人愿意出版他们的作品。因为在接受他们的作品出版之前，那些出版商或印刷商必须向我们的权威机构申请获得批准。这样，我们就可以提前知道那些试图反对我们的所有诡计，并根据之前发表 的相关规定使他们无效。

7文学与新闻出版业是两种最重要的教育力量，因此我们的政府将成为大部分刊物的所有者。这会中和那些私营媒体的有害影响，使我们可以掌控公众的思想，并对其施加重大影响。如果我们允许十种刊物，我们自己应该创立三十种，或者同样的比例。但这一点绝不能被公众怀疑。因为此种原因，所有我们自己出版的刊物在表面上看，其倾向和观点都是和我们对立的。这为我们建立自信，并为我们带来没有怀疑心的反对者，这些反对者最后都落入我们的陷阱，变为无害。

8在最前沿，总会站着一位官方的喉舌。他们一直屹立前沿，捍卫我们的利益，因而他们的影响相对会无关紧要。

9第二层将是半官方机构，其角色是去攻击那些不温不火的人或冷漠者。

10在第三层的核心圈，我们将建立自己的，但表面上看起来反对我们的机构。至少，其中的机构之一将呈现出和我们截然相反的一面。真正的反对者会接受这种伪装的反对派阵地，并视为己有，向我们亮出他们的底牌。

11只要宪法存在，我们所有的报纸都是混合体——贵族的、共和的、革命的，甚至无政府主义的。就像印度的守护神一样拥有一百只手。每一只都按我们的要求染指一种公共观点。但某根脉搏加速时，这些手会按照我们的目标引导公众观点，因为一个兴奋的病人会丧失所有的判断力，进而会容易向建议屈服。这些认为重复着他们自己阵营观点的傻瓜们将会重复我们的观点或任何我们需要的观点。在以为跟随自己党派喉舌的信仰中，他们实际上跟随在我们为他们悬挂的大旗下。

12为了达到上述目的，更好地指导我们这支报纸后备军，必须小心翼翼地组织这件事。在中央媒体的名义下，应该召集文学性的集会。在集会上我们的代表将不知不觉地公布当前的方针和口号。通过讨论和辩论，但通常是肤浅的，不触及事物本质的讨论和辩论，我们的喉舌会向官方报纸开展一连串虚假的、猛烈的攻击，只是仅仅为了给予我们适合的时机充分地表达自己的立场。这样做的效果会比只是通过官方声明与公告的途径更好。当然，无论何时这么做都是对我们有利的。

13这些对我们的攻击也会服务于另外一个目的，即我们的臣民会被说服去相信言论自由的存在，并给我们的代表一个机会去确定所有反对我们的机构都仅仅是空洞的喋喋不休的胡言乱语者，因为他们没有能力去发现任何有实际价值的反对我们统治秩序的东西。

仅仅谎言得以出版

14如上所述的组织方法，公众的眼睛几乎看不出来，但绝对能够被精心算计或应用，成功获取公众对我们政府的注意力和信心。由于这些方法，我们可以经常根据实际所需，根据它们被接受的良性或恶性，激起或平息公众对政治问题的思考，或劝说、或迷惑，时而出版真相，时而谎言，事实或它们的反面。在这样操作之前，都非常小心谨慎地让他们感知我们的立场。既然我们的反对者们，由于上述我们利用媒体的方式，没有安置代理以充分表达他们的观点，我们将确保对他们的大获全胜。我们甚至不必对他们进行争论或驳斥，除了一些表面上的需要。

15这类尝试性的攻击由我们的第三媒体发动，出于必要，经常会遭到我们的半官方的第二媒体的激烈驳斥。

16甚至时至今日，拿法国媒体为例，就针对口号的作为上，也有展现同为共济的团结性的形式：所有媒体组织通过职业秘密捆绑在一起；就如旧时的占卜者没有一个会泄露信息资源中的秘密，除非通过发布公告来解决。没有一个新闻记者会冒泄露这个秘密的风险，因为他们中每一个人的过去都有一些丢脸的污点或其它问题，才会被允许从事写作。一旦他们泄露了秘密，这些污点会立即被揭露出来。只要他们保守这些秘密为少数人所知，作为记者的特权就可以攻击这个国家的大多数人——暴民就会怀着极大的热情追逐他们。

17我们的处心积虑也扩展到各省。我们必须也在当地煽起希望与冲动，利用这些我们可以随时依赖当地政府。我们必须向这些政府表明这些表达是独立的愿望与冲动。很自然地，他们的资源也就同样成为我们的。我们所想要的是，在完全掌握权力之机，这些政府会发现他们被国家，即被我们的秘密机构安徘的大多数观念钳制了。我们需要的是，在这样一个心理冲突的时刻，这些政府再也没有能力去讨论一个既成的事实，仅仅是因为这一事实已经被这些省的占大多数的公共观点所接受。

18当我们的新政权向最高权力过渡的时候，绝对不能够承认任何形式的公共媒体所透露的不实揭露。新政权必须被认为如此让人满意，乃至于犯罪行为都消失了，这一点是非常必要的。展示罪行的案子应该只让那些受言者和现场目击者知道——不再更多公开。

【纪要十三】

离散人心

1为谋求温饱，非犹太人被迫保持沉默，成为我们卑微的仆人。从非犹太人中争取过来的媒体机构会听从我们的指令，讨论任何我们不便于在官方文件中发行的问题。而在引起的一片嘈杂中，我们悄悄采取希望的手段，从而向公众们提供这些既成事实。没有人胆敢要求废除这已经定下来的事情。并且，所有这些解决方案将被作为改进的方案而呈现。媒体会立刻分散当前的思想潮流，进而转向新的问题（我们不是经常培养人们要追求新事物吗？）。这些讨论会使那些没有头脑的管理者们投入大量财富，而他们根本就不清楚，对于要讨论的问题没有一了点的概念。对于政治问题的讨论，任何人都是摸不着边的，除了那些多年来这些问题的引导者们。

2从上述一切，你会明白为了控制暴民的观点，我们只有促进政治机器的工作。也许你会说我们不是通过行动，而仅仅是利用我们就获取了认可。我们不断地制造公共声明，表明所有的事业是由希望和信心来指导的，为人类的共同幸福服务。

蒙蔽劳动者

3为了分散那些在政治讨论中特别麻烦的人的注意力，我们现在提出新的政治问题，即工业问题。在这一领域，让他们愚喜地讨论吧。大众们一致同意保持不高的积极性，从他们自认为的政治问题中脱身休息（我们以前培养他们这一点，以利用他们作为对抗非犹太人的方式），剩下那些可以从中发现新就业机会的问题可以引起他们的兴趣，这一问题我们也描述成与政治类似的问题。为了使大众不去猜测这些问题的原因，我们进一步用娱乐、游戏、休闲、激情来分散他们的注意力。很快，我们将通过媒体推动艺衍、体育等各方面的竞争：这些兴趣最终会把他们从与不得不与我们冲突的问题中引开。逐渐地，他们越来越不愿意反映并形成自己的观点，将开始用和我们同样的语调讨论问题，因为只有我们提供给他们新的思考方向。当然，人们也不会被怀疑与我们的步调不一致。

4那些由自由主义者、乌托邦梦想者所扮演的角色，会在我们的统治被认可时终止。然后，我们会继续将他们的思想引向空洞的理论概念。这些概念是新的，表面上又体现了进步，直到没有任何一个非犹太人可以洞察到，在进步一词的下面不过是远离真理的开端。它无论什么时候都不是一个可以变为实际的发明。因为共理只有一个，既在真理的内涵里没有进步的余地。直到此时，我们才可以完全成功地给愚蠢的非犹太人的大脑中塞入进步的概念。进步，就像一个谬误，旨在蒙蔽真理，以至于除了我们，上帝的选民们，没有人懂得它。

5当进入我们的统治王国时，将阐释所有将人性完全颠倒的重大问题，以便在我们仁慈的统治之下，将它们带到终结。

6届时，谁将会怀疑，这些人民是被我们根据一个历经数世纪的政治计划幕后操纵的呢？

【纪要十四】

攻击宗教

1当进入我们的统治王国时，任何除了我们的唯一之神外的宗教都是不合时宜，不受欢迎的。因为只有在我们的上帝的眷顾下，我们的命运才被赋予选民的地位，并和世界的命运紧密联结起来。因此我们必须清除所有其它的信仰形式。如果这样会产生我们今天看到的无神论者，它亦不会干扰我们的观点。对于那些愿意倾听我们摩西教的一代人，它可以作为一种警告。摩西教利用它那稳定而又精致的系统已经带领全世界所有的民族臣服于我们。在这一点上，我们必须强调它的神秘权利，正如我们所说，它的教育力量正是基于此种权利的基础之上。于是，我们必须在任何可能的机会，出版一些将我们的仁政与过去时代统治作比较的文章。和平与宁静的福祉，尽管这一和平与宁静是经过数个世纪的武力骚乱带来的，能够使我们所指向的福利更加鲜明突出。我们将竭尽所能生动描绘那些非犹太人政府所犯的种种错误。我们必须牢固树立它们令人深恶痛绝的形象，以至于人民宁可选择奴役状态下的宁静，也不去选择那些被吹嘘的自由权利。这些被吹嘘的自由已经将人性深深折磨，并耗尽了人类生存的所有资源。这些资源已被一帮厚颜无耻的，不知天高地厚的冒险者组成的暴民盘剥殆尽。当我们破坏非犹太人的政权结构时，我们通常煽动他们进行毫无意义的政府形式的更替。这些政府形式的更迭也将会使人民感到厌倦。到那时，他们宁可忍受在我们统治下的任何痛苦，也不愿冒险再一次经受他们曾经经历过的所有骚乱和痛苦。

禁止基督教

2同时，我们也绝不能省略强调非犹太人政府所犯的历史性错误。这些由于对组成真正美好人性的要素缺乏真正理解所犯的错误，教个世纪以来已经将人性深深折磨。在追逐社会福祉的荒谬计划中，他们从未注意到这些计划持续地产生一个更加糟糕，对于构成人类生活基础的普遍关系没有改善的社会状态。

3我们原则与方法的全部力量在于必须向人民呈现并阐释一个与已经死亡、腐烂掉的社会秩序的鲜明对比。

4我们的哲学家将会讨论非犹太人各种信仰的所有缺点，但没有人会真正讨论我们的信仰。因为除了我们自己，没有人完全了解它的内容。我们中的任何人绝不敢出卖有关它的秘密。

5在那些被公认为进步和光明的国家，我们已经创造了一种毫无意义、肮脏的、令人憎恶的文学样式。在我们进入权力王国后的一个阶段，我们必须继续鼓励它的存在，目的是为了提供一种显著的对比，与我们的高贵的人物所发布的演说形成鲜明对比。我们的智者受训成为非犹太人的领袖，将创作演讲、宣言、回忆录、文章，这些将为我们所用，向非犹太人施加意识形态影响，引导他们按照我们决定的方式来理解事物以及各种知识形式。

【纪要十五】

残酷领压

1在准备好的各地同时发生政变的帮助下，最终确定无疑地进入我们的统治王国。在被正式认可之后，我们必须将清除企图反对我们的阴谋作为一项重大任务。我们必须残酷无情地铲除那些意图用武力来反对我们登上王位的人。任何一个类似于秘密组织的成立都将被置于死地；那些我们所知道的现存的组织，曾服务于或现在仍服务于我们的，必须将它们解散，并把那些成员流放到远离欧洲以外的大陆去。在这一过程中，我们可能会出于某种原因放过那些非犹太人的内阁成员。因为他们知道得太多，我们会让他们保持在一种持续的，担心有可能被流放的恐惧之中。我们会颁布一项法律，使所有秘密组织前成员都极易遭受被流放至欧洲大陆以外的命运，这一点要作为该法律的核心。

2我们的各项决议都是最终决议，没有上诉之权利。

3在我们已经深深植入动乱与新教思想的非犹太人社会里，恢复社会秩序的唯一方式就是采取残酷措施，以证明权威的直接而强大：落水狗必须痛打，绝不能给予任何同情，他们是为未来的幸福遭受痛苦。幸福的获得甚至要以牺牲为代价，是任何统治政府的职责。这样的统治政府不仅承认其特权，也承认其义务，作为其存在根据。确保统治稳定性的根本保证是加强统治力量的神圣光环。这一光环只有通过贴在统治者额头上的、象征神圣事业——上为的选择——不可侵犯的徽章所散发的宏伟壮丽、坚毅不拔的力量才能显示出来。比如，近代俄国贵族是除了教皇之外，我们唯一重要的敌人。请牢记这个例子，当意大利被鲜血浸染的时代，从未碰过苏拉的一根毫毛，尽管苏拉是那场血腥屠杀的始作俑者：苏拉因其内在的力量羸得了尊崇，但他英勇无畏地重返意大利为他披上了神圣不可侵犯的光环。深深着迷于他的勇敢和智慧，人民没有动他一根毫毛。

秘密社团组织

4尽管如此，然而在我们没有登上王位之前，必须采取相反的手段：我们将在世界范围建立和扩大共济会组织，将各国精英纳入其中，并通过其发挥我们的影响力。所有这些共济会分支部将由一个中心机构管理，这只有我们才知逍，也是由我们的长老组成。我们通过共济会组识将所有自由和革命因素结合起来。我们的政治密谋将通过它们付诸实施。我们还要将国际和国内的警察系统代理人纳入共济会。在这些会所的成员中，警察的作用是不可替代的，因为他们既能够利用专业手段对付那些不顺从者，也能够掩饰我们的活动，并为不满提供借口。

5最乐意加入秘密组织的那类人往往是头脑机智并以此为生的人以及野心家。在普通人中往往是那些容易轻信的人。我们和这些人打交道轻而易举。利用他们，可以为我们设计的机器正常运转拧紧链条。如果这个世界变得骚乱不安，那就意味着我们已经搅动了它，并打破了那过于强大的团结。在混乱中产生了一个阴谋，在那阴谋的最深处不是别人，就是我们最信任的仆人之一。除了我们，没有其它人可以领导共济会的活动，因为无论在哪里领导，我们都知晓每一种活动的最终目标，而非犹太人对此却一无所知，更不用说每一行动的直接影响。他们置于自身面前的，通常是自己的思想实现后，对于自我观点得以表达的满意感的昙花一现。而这一思想恰恰从来就不属于他们的首创，而是由于我们对他们思想的煽动而引发。对于这一点，他们却不置一词。

异教徒是愚蠢的

6非犹太人加入社团，要么出于好奇，要么希望通过他们的方式分得公共利益的一杯羹，还有一些是为了可以让公众倾听他们不切实际和毫无根基的幻想。他们渴望成功和掌声。对于这些，我们是毫不吝惜的。所以给予他们这种成功是为了利用这种产生于其之上的高度欺骗性，因为那种成功的渴望可以不知不觉地，驱使他们吸收我们的建议，而未抱有任何警惕性。因为他们非常自信：他们是绝对不可能借用他人的思想的。你不能够想象那些非犹太人中最智慧的，在这种高度自欺欺人面前，被带到一个无意识的天真幼稚状态到了何等程度？并且，轻易地用最轻微的挫败就可以使他们变得沮丧。尽管那不过是停止了曾经拥有的掌声，就可以使他们为了赢得再一次成功，屈尊对我们表示奴性的服从。如果非犹太人可以实施某个方案，仅仅因为我们表现也对于他们成功的蔑视，他们就会愿意牺牲任何计划，以求再次获得掌声。这种心理很大程度上帮助完成将他们置于我们需要的方向的任务。这些纸老虎外强中干，经不起任何风吹草动。我们已经向他们老调重弹这一观点，即集体主义会吞没个性。他们还从未，且永远也不会理解这一老调重弹显然是对自然界最重要法则的破坏。这一法则从创世初，为了准确地形成个体特性，树立了个体皆不同的含义。

7如果我们已经能够将这些非犹太人带入这样一种，愚蠢的盲目性，难道不是一种证明，一种令人目瞪口呆的证明。证明他们的大脑和我们的相比，不发达到何种程度呢？正是这一点，保证了我们的成功。

异教徒是畜生

8远古时代，我们的长老们说，为了达到一个严肃的结果，不惜采用任何手段，不计任何牺牲是值得。那时候，他们是多么的富有远见啊！我们没有计算过有多少非犹太人牺牲品，但我们已忍牺牲了很多自己人。但现在我们已经给予他们在这个地球上从未梦想过的地位。我们这些牺牲者已经从毁灭中保护了我们的种族。

9死亡是每个人无可避免的结局。但让这一结局接近那些阻碍我们事业的人更好些。我们以如此聪明的方式来处决共济会成员，以至于除了我们的兄弟外，没有人产生怀疑。甚至那些死刑下的牺牲品自己也不会怀疑。在我们需要的时候，他们就像得了一种正常的疾病一样死掉。知道了这点，甚至我们那些兄弟们自身也不敢抗议。通过这些方法，我们从共济会中拔掉了那些反对我们的根基。当向非犹太人鼓吹自由主义的时候，我们同时使自己的人民和代理人处于一种不加疑问、无限信任的屈从状态。

10在我们的影响之下，非犹太人法律的实施已经被降至最低限度。法律的优势地位已经被引入到这一领域的自由主义的繁琐阐释所推翻。在最重要最根本的事务上，法官们按照我们的指示来决定，从有利于我们管理非犹太人的角度看问题。当然，这样做完全是通过我们的工具，尽管我们看起来和这些人毫无共同之处——通过报纸上的观点或其它方式，甚至议员和更高的行政长官都接受我们的建议。非犹太人那些粗鲁的头脑没有能力使用分析和观察，并且也更不会在处理一个特定问题的时候具有远识卓见。

11这种非犹太人与我们在思想能力上的差异，彰显了我们作为上帝选民的地位，以及更高的人性素质，与非犹太人的粗鲁大脑形成了鲜明的对照。他们的双眼是睁着的，但却眼中无物，更不会有所发明（也许除了物质的东西）。从这一点而言，大自然本身指定我们去指导和统治全世界是明白无误的。

我们需要服从

12当我们公开统治的时刻来临时，就到了展示它的福祉的时刻，我们必须重新制定所有的法律。我们的法律必须是简洁、明了、稳定，没有任何其它的阐释，通俗易懂。贯穿我们法律的特点就是对于秩序的服从，这一原则将被置于宏伟的高度，任何对法律的滥用都由于所有人在最高权威面前低头的职责而消失。任何对于权力的滥用将要到严惩，这样就没有人去以身试法。我们必须严密跟踪国家机器赖以自由运行的每一管理措施，因为一旦松懈就会引起所有方面的瓦解；任何违法以及滥用权力的行为都将受到杀一儆百的警戒性惩罚。

13隐瞒或默许公共管理服务中所犯的罪行——所有这些罪恶都将在首例的严惩后消失。为了我们最高特权的光环，需要合适的严惩，哪怕是对最轻微的违法。那些受惩者，尽管对于他的惩罚会超过他的错误，但将会被看做为了官方利益牺牲在战场上的士兵。原则与法律将不会允许任何那些驾驭公共马车的人偏离了公共方向而驶向私人轨道。例如，一旦我们的法官倾向于表示出对罪行的仁慈时，他们就破坏了正义的法则，正义法则是为了通过惩戒人类的堕落而对人性进行示范性教诲而创立的。这样的质量展示在私人生活中是合适的，但在身为人类生活教育基础的公共领域展示出来却不合时宜。

14我们的法律人员的服务任职年限将不超过五十五岁，首先是因为年长的人更容易固执地持有偏见，并不容易向新事务屈服。其次，因为采取这种任用方式能够确保更换人员的弹性，会使一切都服从于我们的压力之下：那些想保住自己位置的人必须付出能够抵得上其价值的盲从。一般而言，法官是由我们从那些彻底理解他们必须要扮演的角色是应用法律去惩罚，而不是梦想以牺牲国家意识形态的代价来表达自由主义，后者是非犹太人坦去幻想要达到的。这种更换人员的方法也会以同样的方式来打破他们之间的集体性团结，并使所有政府利益和他们赖以生存的利益捆绑在一起。年轻一代的法官将被训练深谙以下规则：绝不允许滥用任何权力，扰乱我们现在业已建立的臣民间的秩序。

15非犹太人统治时代的法官们制造了对所有罪行的纵容，对于他们的诚实没有正确的理解，因为当代的统治者在任命法官时，根本不重视向他们灌输这一职位所要求的责任感及正义感。就像一个粗鲁野蛮的野兽释放出它的幼子去寻找猎物，非犹太人君主就是这样给予他们的法官这一职位之所以被创立的理由。这就是为什么他们的统治被自己的力量，那些自己选择的执法者的作为所毁掉的原因。

16让我们从上述行为结果的一个例子中为我们的统治吸取另外一个教训。我们必须从我们的政府所有重要岗位中根除自由主义。正是依赖这些重要岗位，我们的政体才能够培训臣服的下级。这些岗位必须只能由那些经受过我们的管理规则培训的人担任。对于那些可能反对年老公务员的退休会极大的浪费财政的观点，我的答复是，首先，可以用其它的私人服务来替代他们的损失。第二点，我必须提一下，全世界的金钱都将集中在我们手中，因而我们的政府是不害怕花钱的。

必须残酷无情

17我们的专制主义在所有事务中在逻辑上将是连贯的，因而在它的每一项法令中，我们的超级意志必须受到尊重，并毫无质疑地充分体现出来：它将忽略所有的牢骚抱怨、所有形式的不满，并通过杀一儆百摧毁所有可能产生这些牢骚与不满的苗头。

18我们必须废除上诉的权利，所有的上诉将毫无例外地转给我们处理——让最高统治知晓，因为我们不能容忍人民有丝毫的想法，认为存在可以不由我们任命的法官来决定的事情。如果这样的事情还是发生了，我们必须废除这一决定，以法官未能尽责为由而惩戒这位法官。对于他的这一惩戒也是为了避免同样的案例再犯。我要重复的是，必须牢记，必须了解我们统治措施的每一步，这些措施只需要拥戴我们的人民的监督，因为他们有权利向一个好的政府要求一个好官员。

19作为统治者的角色，我们的统治君王表面上看起来就像是德高望重的家长一样的监护人。我们的民族和子民从他身上会看到一个父亲的影子，关心他们的每一需求、每一行为，人际关系以及他们与自己的关系。他们将被全面灌输这一意识：即离开这一监护和指导是不可能享有和平与安宁的。他们将以崇敬的态度认可我们的专制统治，尤其是当他们相信我们所树立的那些人不会用自身利益替代权威，只是盲从于我们的命令。当看到我们就像智慧的父母教育孩子恪守职责和服从一样去调整他们生活中的一切时，他们将无比欢欣雀跃。从我们的政体秘密的角度而言，世界上的各族人民，数个世纪以来都和他们的政府一样，是未成年的孩子。

20正如你们所见，我发现我们的专制主义是权利义务兼顾的：促使实施诚实是一个统治者作为父亲对其臣民的最直接的义务。它拥有强者的权利，所以它可以使用它指导人类遵守大自然规定的秩序——即服从。世界上的一切皆为服从的状态，不是屈服于人，就是屈服于自身环境，抑或自身的性格，无论如何，都是屈服于比自己强大的人。为了人类的一切福利，我们必须要比所有其它人强大。

21我们必须毫不犹豫地牺牲那些破坏现有秩序的个体，因为对于邪恶的惩罚存在很大的教育问题。

22当以色列王把整个欧洲赋予他的王冠戴上他那神圣的头颅上时，他将变成全世界的家长。为此而出现的牺牲品远远少于几个世纪以来非犹太人政府间因狂热追逐虚荣而引起的竞争所造成的牺牲品。

23我们的君王将和他的人民经常保持亲密接触，在论坛上向他们发表那些可以点燃他们意愿，并同一时间传播至全世界的演说。

【纪要十六】

洗脑运动

1为了实施对那些除我们之外的所有集体性势力的破坏，必须在最初阶段削弱集体主义的起始阶段——大学，通过再教育使它们改变方向。我们将为他们的官员和教授们安排一些秘密活动。这些活动将使他们并非毫无瑕疵、无懈可击。当然这些安排是在极度谨慎的情况下作出的，将使他们完全依赖于我们的统治。

2我们必须在普及宪法时将所有政治问题排除在外。这些问题只交给那些我们从宪法发起人中所选出的，少数几个才华横溢的人去解释。大学再也不能够从它的高墙内染指宪法的制定了。他们只是忙碌于一些政策问题，而这些问题连他们的前辈们也早就没有任何思考的权力了。这真的既像一个喜剧，又像悲剧。

3那种被误导的大众与政治问题的亲密接触，制造出无数乌托邦幻想者以及坏的民众。从非犹太人的大学教育导向中，你们自己就可以明白这一点。必须在他们的教育中引进所有可以破坏他们秩序的原则。但当我们权力在握时，必须从教育过程中根除任何形式的破坏因子，并从小培育服从权威的意识，拥戴统治者，将他作为精神支柱以及带来和平和安宁的希望。

我们必须改写历史

4作为研究古代历史的任何形式，复古研究都可以从中看到，坏的例子远远超过好的，我们将用对未来的研究替代它。我们必须从人类的记信中抹掉所有过去世纪的回忆，因为这些过去的历史不是我们所需要的，我们仅仅留下那些描述非犹太人统治错误的东西就可以了。对于实际生活、遵守秩序的义务和人际关系的研究，以及对于避免恶劣又自私的榜样的研究，正是这些本性播撒了邪恶的种子。对于教育本质问题的研究，应该站在教育战线的前沿。这些将为作为对于生活状态或需求的必需而被单独详细规划，而绝不仅仅是泛泛而论。对于教育问题的这种处理将具有特殊重要性。

5每种社会生活状态必需根据其生活目标作出严格限制。但那些昙花一现的天才一直试图并也倾向于将社会滑向其它的状态。对于这些稍纵即逝的天才人物而言，将那些蒙昧的民众引向他们原本陌生的阶层中是一个彻头彻尾的错误。因为那些愚民们会夺走原阶层中因世袭或功勋而拥有其位的人的位置。你们自己很清楚，这就是那些允许这些极端荒唐存在的非犹太人统治之所以终结的原因。

6为了更牢固地统治民心，有必要在学校、集市等地向全民宣传统治者活动安排及其善举的意义。

7我们必须根除任何对于自由的宣传与鼓吹。各年龄段的学习者都有权利和父母们一起在教育机构里集会：就像在一个俱乐部里一样，在节假日里，在这些集会上，教师们会宣读什么可以作为关于人际关系、法律案例、还未公布于众的新哲学理论的自由表达。这些理论将由我们提出并被拔高到作为信仰教义的高度，就像我们以前对待自己的信仰一样。当我们当前以及将来的伟大行动纲领完全实现并大白于天下之时，我会将这些理论原则宣读给你们听。

8总而言之，从数个世纪的经验中获知，人民是通过思想的指导而生存的。这些思想只能通过教育的帮助——即为所有人成长提供平等成功机会的手段，而被民众吸收的。我们必须吞没并封杀独立思想的最后一颗火花，并将其为我所用。我们长久以来一直指导臣民的思想为我所用。制约思想的系统已经通过所谓的公民教育课体系起作用了。这一目的就是将非犹太人变成无思想的，驯服的野兽，只等着将现成的事物放在眼前而形成自己的思想。在法国，我们的最好的代理人之一，资产阶级已经通过公民教育课的形式，使公众成为新的教学对象。

1将华丽辞藻搁置一边，我们应该论述每一种思想的重要性：去繁就简并加以比较，我们应该阐明周边事实。

2我即将从两种角度，即我们自身的，以及非犹太人的角度阐明我们的体系。

3需要注意的是，本性恶的人的数量要远比本性善的人多，所以统治他们的最佳方式是通过暴力和恐吓，而不是学术讨论。每个人都瞄住权力，如果可能，每个人都会成为独裁者。事实上，不愿为了追求个人利益，而去牺牲大众福利的人是罕见的。

4是什么遏制了那些被称之为人类的食肉野兽？又是谁在一直教导他们？

5在原始社会，他们屈从于野蛮和暴力之后，屈从于法律，后者也同样是暴力，不过是伪饰的暴力。我得出的结论是：根据大自然的法则，暴力即正义。

6政治自由只是一种理想而非现实。在必需的时候，人们必须懂得如何去运用这种理想，用此种理想作为诱饵去吸引大众追随一党，去粉碎执政党的权力。如果对手本身就深受自由这种观念──也即所谓的自由主义思想的浸染，这项任务就会变得很容易了。为了一种理想，他们愿意交出部分权力。这就是我们理论的大获全胜之处；被削弱了的政府统治之缰，立刻，通过自然规律，被一只新手掌控，因为愚民不可一日无君。新权力只是替代了已被自由主义削弱了的旧政权。

黄金

7在我们的时代，替代那些自由统治者权力的是金钱的权力。忠诚才使时间有意义。只冥思无行动无法实现政治自由的理想。实行人民自治仅能短期维持，之后将演变为乌合之众。自那时起人们将陷入自相残杀，阶级冲突，在混乱中政权轰然倒塌，权威化为灰烬。

8无论一个政权因内乱而衰竭，还是因内乱招来外敌并受治于其──无论如何，它都可被视为不可挽回地失守了：它现在置于我们的掌控之下了。完全掌控于我们之手的金钱专政，向它伸出了一根稻草，无论情愿与否，它必须接纳：如果不愿意，它将万劫不复。

9如果任何一个拥有自由主义意识的人认为上述想法是不道德的，那么我将提出以下问题：如果每个国家有两个敌人，如果对于外来之敌，它可以无所不用其极，使用各种伎俩和挑拨离间，比如出奇不意偷袭、夜袭或以多胜少，那么对一个更糟糕的敌人。一个破坏社会既有统治基础和大众福利的敌人，该采用什么手段才可以被称作为不道德或不被允许的呢？

10对于那些有健全逻辑思维的人士而言，难道能够希望通过合理商议和辩论来指导大众吗？大众与理论的力量是如此强大，他们往往会提出各种反对或对立的意见，尤其是当这些反对意见对大众有利的时候。尽管这些异议或反对愚蠢而荒谬。群众或某一群体中的成员往往只是被卑微的激情、不值一提的信仰和传统、或情感用事的公理所引导。这会妨碍任何一致意见的达成，即使是在一个很完美的合理辩论基础之上。要想成功地驾驭大众在于机遇，或在多数压倒少敦的基础之上。少数人往往不顾各种政治隐秘而提出一些荒谬议题。这些议题往往导致无政府主义的后果。

11政治与道德毫无共同之处。被道德俘虏的统治者不是一个有经验的政治家，因而其地位也不会稳固。那些有统治野心的人必须借助于狡诈与虚伪。那些伟大的民族品格，例如坦率和诚实，是弄政的大敌，因为它们可能会比最强大的敌人更有效，更必然把统治者拉下马。这些质量肯定是非犹太王国民众的美德，但我们绝不能愚蠢地受其指导。

权力即正义

12我们的正义在于暴力。「正义」一词是一抽象的思想，并不具任何意义。该词的意义不过是：给予我所有我想要的，以证明我比你强大。

13正义从哪儿开始？又于哪儿结束？

14在一个具有糟糕的统治机构、毫无人性的法律以及在滥用权利中丧失了人性的统治者的政权里，我发现了新的正义──即通过强势的权力去摧毁所有现存势力与秩序，重建所有制度。通过使那些自由主义者自愿放弃自由主义的方式，成为那些曾经将权力施加于我们的统治者的主人。

15在各种摇摇欲坠的势力面前，我们的力量将会越来越战无不胜，因为它是隐而不见的，直到它的力量累积得足够强大，以至于任何狡诈与阴谋都不能将其摧毁。

16我们目前迫不得已犯下的暂时恶行终将产生一个不可摧毁的好政权。它将恢复曾被自由主义化为乌有的国民生活的正常秩序。结果将证明手段的有效。我们在计划实施中不必拘泥于原则与道德，而是利用必需和有用的原则与道德。

17在我们面前的是一个精心设计，绝不可背离的伟大计划。我们绝对不能冒任何风险，使数个世纪来殚精竭虑的计划付之东流。

18为了更好地阐释我们的行为，有必要注意暴民的无赖、懈怠与不稳定性，他们不能理解与尊重自己的生活与福利。必须懂得，暴民的力量是盲目、愚蠢以及不可理喻的，往往会受到任何一方的挑唆。暴民只会将自己引向深渊，因此，他们的成员，尤其是那些自命不凡者，或许他们中有人本来可能成为智者，但由于不懂政治，也只能将整个国家带向毁灭。

19只有那些自幼受过自我控制训练的人才真正懂得政治的要义。

20一个民族将其置于自命不凡者的手中，将自己带入由政党分裂而导致的毁灭之途。而政党之争是由于人们追求权力和荣誉，并由此带来的骚乱而引起的。对于一个国家而言，其大众可能心平气和、毫无嫉妒之心地作出公正判断吗？可能由大众毫无私心杂念地处理国家事务吗？这决不可能。任何计划会因暴民有众多首领而四分五裂，因而将丧失一致性，于是也变得难以实行。

我们就是暴君

21只有在绝对专制的统治者的统治下，计划才可以精心设计并恰如其分地向政权的各个权力机构清楚传达。由此可以得出这样的必然结论：一个国家令人满意地统治方式是那种可以将统治权集中在一个责任人身上的统治。没有绝对的专制，将没有文明的存在，其延续不是经由大众，而是统治者的指导，无论那个人将是谁。暴民是野蛮的，将会在任何可能的机会展示他们的野蛮。一旦暴民将自由握在他们的手中，自由将迅述变为无政府主义，而无政府主义自身是野蛮的最高表现形式。

22那些酗酒动物受惑于杯中之物，狂饮滥用也与所谓的自由同行。那不是我们所走的道路。那些非犹太民众受惑于酒精，他们年轻时受所谓「古典主义」的愚蠢教导，此后却被败坏的道德所引诱—是被我们的代理人，即教师、走狗、豪宅中的管家、牧师、以及那些非犹太人经常光顾的淫荡场所的女人们所引诱。在上述提及的人中，我最后数到的就是那些自愿拜倒在腐败与奢华脚下的所谓「交际花」们。

23我们的暗号是：武力和欺骗。只有武力才可以在政治斗争中取胜，尤其是当它隐藏在政治家的智慧中时。暴力是政权维护其统治的基本原则，而狡诈与欺骗则是其不向新的势力低头让位的根本。这一邪恶手段是一个，并且是唯一能够获得好的结果的手段。因而，为了达到我们的最终目的，我们必须不能停止贿赂、欺骗与背叛。在政治斗争中，我们必须懂得如何毫不犹豫地夺取别人的财产，如果它能移确保我们的统治。

24我们的政权，沿着和平侵略之路，有权用不太引人注目、更让人满意的死刑来替代战争的恐怖。而后者又足以维持可以导致盲从的畏惧之心。只有残酷无情的严苛才是政权最强有力的因素：不只是为了结果，也是为了胜利，我们必须坚持暴力与欺骗的策略。与其说那些清算的手段，不如说严苛这一原则本身，使我们大获全胜，使所有其它政权畏惧并屈服于我们的超级政府。只要这一点就足以使得他们明白：对于那些不驯服者，我们是绝不手软，绝不善罢罢休的。

我们应该终结自由

25追溯到远古时代，我们是人群中最早喊出「自由、平等、博爱」的人。自那时起，这些口号就被那些来自各方的、愚套的鹦鹉学舌之人所重复。他们被这些鱼饵引诱，然后将世上真正的福利—─个体自由放弃。而在此之前，个体自由是如此得到坚决捍卫，抵御了暴民的施压。那些非犹太民族中自称智者的人，知识分子们，不能理解这些词汇的抽象意义。他们不懂得：事实上，世界上根本就不存在平等，也没有所谓的自由。大自然本身就造就了头脑、性格的差异以及能力的不平等。也同样无声地，创造了对于自然法则的遵从。毫无疑问，暴民是盲目的，而从中选出的维护规则的新贵们，就政治意义而言，也和那些暴民们一样，是盲目的。那些精通政治的人，尽管本身是个傻瓜，也能统治他人。而那些不擅长此道的，纵然是个天才，也会对政治事务一窍不通。对于这些政治技巧非犹太人毫不重视，但一直以来，恰恰是这些成为一个王朝统治的根本：父亲传授给儿子政治事务的课程，并保证除了王朝成员知道之外，没有其它人知道，也保证不会有人透露给被统治者。随首时间的推移，统治中的王朝更替意义逐步丧失了，这对于我们伟大事业的成功起了很大的帮助作用。

26由于我们那些无知盲目的代理人摇旗吶喊，「自由、平等，博爱」被带到了世界各地。一直以来，这些口号是滋生于非犹太人的蛀虫。其所到之处，终结了当地的和平、安宁和团结，摧毁了这些非犹太国家的政权基础。这一切你们以后会明白，将帮助我们大获全胜：给予我们一个可能，将王牌握在我们的手中—摧毁那些特权阶级。换言之，消灭那些非犹太国家中的贵族阶层。这一阶层是那些国家中唯一能够抵抗我们的力量。一旦摧毁了这些非犹太国家的世袭贵族阶层，我们就能够建立由金钱为主导的，受过良好教育的新贵族阶层。这一新贵族阶层的资格将以财富和教育水平衡量，而财富和教育则掌握在我们的长老手中。

27我们的获胜因这一事实而变得更加简单容易：在和所有我们所需要的人发生关系时，我们一直倚重能触动人类最敏感神经的东西，即金钱，还有人类的贪婪、对于物质的无穷欲望。单单使用这些人性弱点中的某一点都足以破坏任何首创精神，因为它能够摧毁人类的行动意志。

28自由的抽象意义能够使我们说服所有国家的暴民：他们的政府不过是人民的仆人，而人民才是国家的真正主人。而仆人是可以像被用旧的手套一样替换掉。在这些国家中，正是这种可以替换掉人民代表的可能性，赋予我们任命他们的权力。

【纪要二】

经济战争

1迄今为止，对于我们要达到的目的而言，必须不能使战争产生领土侵占性质的结果的：故我们可以发动经济上的全面战争，这样所有的国家都会看到我们在给予他们资助时所展现的主导实力与地位。这种状态将使双方受我们的国际事务计划的支配：我们的计划吸引了数百万双眼睛的关注，并不受任何限制与阻挠，畅行无阻。我们在国际事务上的权利，将以正义的名义，取消各国民族权利，并会恰恰像这些国家的民法统治他们的民众一样统治这些国家。

2我们将严格根据卑屈服从的能力，从大众中选出这些国家的管理者。但他们并不是受过统治艺术专门训练的人，所以将很容易成为我们所玩的游戏中的爪牙。他们被我们那些为数众多，自幼就被培养成为统治世界的智者贤达们玩弄于股掌之上。这些长老智者将成为他们的顾问、专家。众所周知，这些顾问与专家们已经根据我们伟大计划的需要，从历史教训中，选择那些适合这些管理者的信息灌输给他们。那些非犹太人并没有受过客观的历史观察指导，而只是通过因循的理论来统治，而不是严格关注那些随之而来的结果。我们不必在乎他们——让他们自娱自乐吧，直到历史性时光来临：或让他们永远活在对昔日快乐时光的回忆里。只有用这一目标，才可以持续地通过我们的媒体，掀起他们对于这些理论的盲目自信。非犹太人的知识分子们会因自己掌握的知识而自我膨胀。不经任何逻辑上的论证，他们就会将所有从理论中获取的信息付诸实践，而这些知识、信息都是我们政治代理机构中的专家们匠心独运拼凑而成的，目的就是为了向他们灌输，使他们倒向我们所需要的思路方向。

破坏性教育

3不要假设上述论断仅仅为空话：仔细想想在我们安排下成功的例子：达尔文主义、马克思主义以及纳粹主义。对我们犹太人而言，无论如何，都可以很清楚地看到这些指导方向对于非犹太人的思想起了不可磨灭的重要意义。

4对于我们而言，高度重视各个国家民族中的思想、性格以及潮流，以避免产生政治与管理事务中的分裂是必须的。我们整个统治体系的各组成部分，是在前进道路上达到的不同禀性的人组成，所以整个组织成员缤纷各异。如果在实际应用中，不立足现实，总结过去的教训与经验，我们这个体系将会溃不成军，无法取得我们想要达到的胜利。

5当今国家，在推动人们的思想运动方面，有一种很伟大的力量，那就是媒体。媒体起的作用就是持续地提出我们必不可少的要求，给予人们发出抱怨声音的机会以及表达和制造不满。正是在媒体上，自由言论才会找到自己的化身。但是非犹太政府还不懂得如何利用这股力量，它已被掌控在我们手中。通过媒体，我们已经获得了影响他人的能力，并使自己隐藏在幕后。通过媒体，我们将「黄金」掌握在手中。我们是历经无数血汗和泪水后获得，我们已经牺牲了很多自己人。在上帝的眼中，我们的每一位受害者都抵得上一千个非犹太人。但它已经回报了我们。

【纪要三】

侵略的方法与手段

1今天我要宣布，我们的目标现在距离实现还有几步之遥。现在只剩下几小步去跨越：我们长途跋涉的远征马上就要划上它的「象征大蛇」之圆了。我们用「象征大蛇」来象征我们的人民。当这个圆圈结束时，欧洲的所有国家将被锁在它的邪恶之孔里。

2当今国家的宪政天枰会很快坍塌。因为我们在建设之初就已经设计好了，没有给予这座天枰很好的平衡，目的就是为了让它不停震荡，直到穿坏用以环绕的中轴。非犹太人一直深信，他们已将这个天平的各个部分焊接得非常结实，一直期望天平能够达到最后的平衡。但这个天枰的轴心——那些国王们都被他们的代理人们包围了。这些人像小丑一样在国王身边胡作非为，被难以自控以及不负责任的权力欲弄得发狂。他们将这些欲望归咎于笼罩宫廷的恐怖气氛。因为没有办法接近人民，来到人民中间，向人民妥协让步，所以这些宝座上的君王们不能加强自身力量，来抗衡那些追逐权力的人。我们已经在那些有远见卓识的最高权力与民众的盲目力量之问制造了一道深深的鸿沟，以至于双方都丧失了自身存在的意义。就像盲人和他的拐杖，一旦被分开就谁也派不上用场。

3为了激起追逐权力者滥用权力，我们塑造了互相对立的各方势力，粉碎他们朝向独立的自由倾向。为了达此目的，我们激起了各种形式的冒险精神，武装了所有的政党，为每一种野心树立权威作为目标。在这些政府中，我们已经建立了一个竞技场，各种混乱的、令人迷惑的议题在此辩论。而混乱与破产却是普遍的。

4那些不知疲倦的喋喋不休，已经使议会和政府的诸多会议变成了口才表演比赛。厚颜无耻的记者和传单小报发放者每天扑向执政的官员。权力的滥用将是使所有机构走向覆亡的最后助推器。在疯狂的暴民打击下，所有的一切都将灰飞烟灭！

让我们的斗争工具更穷

5各国的民众都将前所未有地被贫穷牢牢禁锢。他们过去被奴隶制和奴役禁锢。他们也许能够通过某种方式摆脱但这些禁锢，但对于饥饿和贫困却永远无法摆脱。我们在宪法里包含了给于大众虚幻却不切实际的权利。所有这些所谓的「人民权利」只是存在于一种理想中，一种在实际生活中永远都无法实现的理想中。

6尽管记者们一齐用好听的话胡乱涂抹；但无产者在宪法中一无所获，而仅仅得到那些俗套的同情。而这些不过是我们堆积在文稿里的漂亮辞藻，用于换取对我们专政的投票支持，或是为了换取支持那些被我们安置在权力位置上的人，我们政治机器的仆人。那些被沉重的苦难压弯了腰的无产者劳工们，权利对他们而言又是什么呢？共和主义对于穷人权利的争取不过是一抹讽刺，因为他们必须整日无休的劳作，并没有给他们任何使用这些权利的现实机会。相反，是给了另外一些势力剥夺他们固定收入保证的机会，因为这些势力使他们被迫依赖于由同志们煽动的罢工，或是因他们的主人关闭工厂而被驱逐。

支持共产主义

7在我们指导下的人民已经废除了贵族阶层，而这一阶层曾经是对他们自身优势起到保护的唯一力量。这种优势曾紧密地与人民的福利维系在一起。但如今，随着贵族阶层的废除，人民已经落入那些残酷无情、嗜金如命的流氓手中。这些流氓为工人的脖子上套上了冷酷无情的沉重伽锁。

8而我们是作为宣称将工人阶级从这种压迫中解放出来的大救星而出现的。我们建议他们加入我们的战壕——社会主义者，无政府主义者，共产主义者。对于他们，我们通常是根据我们的社会纲领给予同盟兄弟般的支持和帮助(根据国际主义这一原则)。根据法律享用工人劳动的贵族阶级，很高兴看到工人们吃饱、健康和强壮。但我们却对这一反面感到兴趣——即非犹太人的逐渐减少，直至灭绝。我们的权力在于制造慢性食物匮乏、体力衰弱。因为只有这样，才表明他们不过是我们意志的奴隶，将永远既无体力又无精力来反抗我们的意志。饥饿创造了资本统治工人阶级的权利，这一权利远比国王赋予贵族的法定权利更有保障。

9通过饥饿贫困引起的嫉妒和憎恨，我们可以动员暴民，并借他们之手来铲除一切挡住我们道路的人。当我们统治全世界的君王即将登上宝座的时刻，同样是借他们之手将那些所有将成为我们障碍的人清除掉（圣经里的反基督者）。

10除非由我们的专家们所提供的建议推动，非犹太人已经丧失了思考的能力。因而他们意识不到：当我们的统治王国来临时，会立即采纳一个迫切又必需的方案，即在各国学校教授这样一个简单的真理：人类生活与存在的结构本身需要劳动分工，因而也和应有了阶层和地位等级的划分。人所共知的根本常识，正是由于人类活动的目标不同，所以根本不可能存在任何平等。那些损害整个阶层的行为，是不可能与那种除了损害自己声誉以外、没有损害其它人的行为，在法律面前担负相同责任的。这一没有容许非犹太人详细了解的真理会向全人类表明：社会地位与工作是必须被限制在一个特定的圈子里的。这一点将不会成为人类痛苦的根源。痛苦只会起源于个体被号召去做的工作与其所受的教育不相匹配。通过对这一真理的认真研究，人们会自顺屈从于权威，并接受政府对他们职位的安排。而在目前，由于那些误导性的鼓动以及人民自身的愚昧无知，他们只是盲目地相信媒体所说的一切，开始推崇一种对于所有高于自身阶层的地位身份的盲目憎恨。人们对于阶层与地位的真正合义一无所知。

犹太人将是安全的

11这种憎恨将被一种经济危机所带来的负面影响强化。这种影响会使贸易停止、工业停滞。我们将通过所有的秘密手段，并借助于掌控在我们手中的黄金，创造一种普遍的经济危机。其所及之处，将自发地把欧洲所有国家的工人组成的暴民赶上街头。这些暴民将会兴奋地杀死那些他们自幼嫉妒憎恨的人，并掠夺他们的财产。

12我们的人将不会被触及。因为我们清楚攻击的时辰，因此将采取措施保护自己人。

13我们已经表明那一进程会把所有的非犹太人引向理性自治。我们的专制主义将会是精确无误的。因为它知道，通过睿智的惩罚就会平复暴乱，使所有机构体制下的自由主义麻木。

14大众一旦看到各种对它的退让、妥协以及纵容，就会同样以自由的名义想象自己也成了统治的君王，并通过血而腥风获得权力。但它很自然地像其它盲人一样，也将遭遇一系列障碍。大众急切地想找到一个「导师」，再也没有返回从前状态的念头了。他们将全权代表的权力置于我们的脚下。记得法国大革命吗？是我们赋予其「伟大」之名：它的所有秘密准备，我们都洞晓尽知，因为它是完全出自于我们之手的供作。

15自那时起，我们就引导人民从一个觉醒到另一个觉醒，因此，最终他们将转而拥戴「锡安之血」的「专制之君」——我们一直为统治全世界而准备的君王。目前，作为一种国际力量，我们是战无不胜的。因为一旦受到攻击，我们就会受到其它政府的支持和帮助。正是非犹太人的厚颜无耻，恃强凌弱，对于错误毫不留情，对罪行沉溺其中，不愿意承担一个自由社会体制内的冲突，但对于专横强悍的专制主义暴力下的殉难却极为慷慨——这些质量帮助我们取得独立。非犹太人民如此默默地遭受痛苦，并忍受如此之多的凌辱与虐待，他们之中受苦最轻的也会想要砍掉二十个君主的脑袋了。

16什么可以对这种现象作出解释？大众对于被统治下发生的同类事件奇怪的前后不一致的矛盾态度。

17可以由下面的事实解释：这些独裁者通过他们的代理人向民众们暗示：通过这些权力的滥用，对政府施加侮辱与伤害——这么做是为了最高统治目的，为了保证人民福利，确保国际兄弟间的友谊、团结和权利平等。当然：他们不会告诉人民这种联合只有在我们的统治下才会实现。

18于是人民开始谴责正义，为罪行开脱，并试图说服自己可以随心所欲、任意妄为。由于这种事态，人们开始破坏任何一种社会稳定，在每一阶段制造骚乱。「自由」一词将产生这样的社群：人们公开反对任何形式的武力，反对任何权威，甚至反对上帝和自然法则。由于此种原因，当我们形成统治王国时，必须从日常生活中的词典中将这一词汇抹去，因为它意味着一种野蛮暴力的准则，而这将把暴民们变成嗜血的野兽。

19当然，这些野兽，在每次喝饱了鲜血的时候就会再次陷入昏唾。在这种时候，它们是很容易被钉上枷锁的。但如果不再喂鲜血时，他们将不再入睡，会继续挣扎反抗。

【纪要四】

现实主义替代宗教

1每个共和政体都经历了几个阶段。最初的阶段往往充满了早期的、由盲目的暴民掀起的疯狂。这些疯狂情绪被撒落得遍地皆是。第二阶段是蛊惑人心的煽动，从中产生了无政府主义，也不可避免地导致专制主义——不再是合法和公开的、负责任的专制主义，而是隐蔽的、又可以明显感觉的、掌控在几个秘密组织手中的专制主义。这些秘密组织的行为更加无耻，因为它们躲在幕后，在各种各样代理人的背后操纵。变革不仅不能对其施加有害影响，实际上通过这些持续的变革反而拯救了它，助长了秘密势力。为了获得长期服务的回报需要不断扩大资源，从而不断对其进行改变。

2谁将推翻一种看不见的力量？准确地说，这种力量就是我们。非犹太人共济会只是盲目地作为我们目标的屏障，但我们的行动计划，甚至它的辅助力量，对于全世界的人来说都将是个未知的谜。

我们将摧毁上帝

3但自由也许是无害的，并在国家经济中占有一席之地，如果它对人民的福利并无损害，如果它是建立在对于上帝的信仰以及对于人类的兄弟情谊之上，并和平等的概念没任何关联。平等总是被造物主的自然法则否定，因为这些法则创造了服从的概念。带有这种信仰的人民可以被一种祈祷的信仰所统治，可以自愿顺从并麻木地听从精神大师的指引，听从自然之神对世问不平等地位的安排。这就是我们一定要摧毁所有信仰的必然理由。摧毁非犹太人共有「上帝——思维」倾向的原则与精神，并在他们的大脑中植入数理分析和物质需求。

4为了使非犹太人无暇思考以及重视宗教，必须将他们的注意力引向工业和贸易。这样，所有的国家都将被追求利润的欲望而吞没。在对利润追求的竞争中，他们将忽略共同的敌人。同样，为了使自由一劳永逸地彻底瓦解，并摧毁非犹太人族群的力量，我们必须将工业置于投机的基础之上：即使所有工业制造出来的东西必须流通，并为投机所用。也就是为我们所用。

5对于优越性的激烈竞争以及散布到经济生活中的恐慌将会创造一个清醒、冷漠、又残酷无情的族群。这样的族群将孕育一种强烈的对上层政治和宗教的厌恶情绪。他们唯一的目标是利润，也就是黄金。他们将成为名副其实的拜金教信徒；因为黄金将为他们带来物质上的愉悦。于是那一时刻便会到来：不是因为获得了好处，甚至不是为了赢得财富，仅仅出于对上层特权人士的憎恨，非犹太人中的下等阶层将追随我们的领导：反对我们的权力竞争对手，即非犹太人中的知识分子。

【纪要五】

专制主义与现代化进程

1在一个腐败到处蔓延；财富只是被一小部分运用聪明狡诈欺骗手段的人获得；散漫盛行：道德仅仅靠严厉的惩罚以及法律来维持，而不是通过自愿接受的原则：对于信仰及国家的情感仅仅是被强迫遵守的社群；应该采用什么形式的管理制度呢？如果不是采取我稍后将描述的专制主义，还能用什么形式来统治这样的社群呢？我们必须创造一种高度集中的政治以将社群中的所有力量牢牢抓在手中。我们必须用新的法律来全面控制臣民们的所有政治生活。这些法律将逐步收回非犹太人所容许的纵容以及自由。我们的统治王国将以这样一种强有力的专制主义而著称，即随时随地把那些在言行上反对我们的非犹太人干掉。

2你们也许被告知，我所提及的这样一种专制主义不符合现代社会的进程，但我会证明它符合这一进程。

3当人民把王位上的君主纯粹看作是上帝的意旨安排时，他们毫无怨言地臣服于君王的专制权力：但自从我们将关于自身权利的概念潜移默化引入他们的大脑后，他们便开始将这些王位上的占据者视为普通的生物了。在他们的眼中，这些所谓的上帝选民额头上神圣的油膏开始脱落下来了。同样，当我们清除掉他们对上帝的信仰时，国王们的权力开始被抛掷到大街上，落入公共权力的手中，而这一切已经被我们掌控。

被谎言领导的大众

4通过智慧地运用理论和措辞，巧妙地调整与规范大众的共同生活以及各种奇思怪想。这一指导大众和个体生活的艺术——非犹太人一无所知，同样只属于我们智囊库的专家。我们一直致力于培养专家们的分析、观察以及细致入微、工于算计的能力。在这些技能方面，我们是没有对手的。在政治行动谋划与团结方面，也同样无人能及。耶稣会也许能和我们媲美，但我们已经设法使他们在没有思考能力的大众眼里成为一个公开组织，我们自身却一直将组织藏在幕后。对于所有的世界统治者，无论是天主教皇，或我们的锡安之王，都是这么做的。但对于我们，上帝的选民而言，这远非一个可以漠不关心的事情。

5我们也许一度成功地和全世界的非犹太人达成了妥协。但从这一危险中，我们通过存在于这些非犹太人之间的不和稳固了自身地位。这些不和的根基是如此之深，以至于永远也不能够被彻底清除。我们已经挑拨他们为了私人或国家的恩怨而彼此争斗。比如，在过去的二十个世纪的进程里培养起来的宗教或种族间的相互憎恨已经有了巨大的增长。这就是为什么单独一个国家如要扩张武力，在任何地方都得不到支持的原因。因为他们之中的每一个必须牢记，任何反对我们的和约或协议对自己都毫无裨益。我们太强大了——我们的力量无法回拉。没有我们的秘密插手，任何国家之间连一个微不足道的协议部不可以私下达成。

6「正是通过我，国王才可以坐稳他的王位」。我们是上帝亲自挑选的来统治全世界的人，这一点早已经被大师预言。上帝已经赋予我们与这一重任和匹配的天智。尽管身处敌对阵营的天才们仍在反对我们。但即使如此，后来者是与前任所无法比拟的：我们之间的斗争会无比残酷，这场斗争是史无前例的。唉，他们阵营的天才来得太晚了。所有国家的统治机器是由引擎来推动的，这一引擎就在我们的手中。这些国家机器的引擎就是——黄金。由我们长老发明的政治经济学很早就将桂冠授予了资本。

垄断资本

7资本，如果是用来自由合作，必须能够自由垄断工业和商业的：这一点已经在世界的每一角落被一只看不见的手付诸实施了。这一自由将给予工业界的人政治力量，并能帮助他们压迫人民。如今，卸掉人民的武装远比引领他们发动战争重要得多：利用迸发火苗的民众激情为我所用远比扑灭他们更重要。我们作为指导者的宗旨在于：通过批评来削弱公众的思想；将他们从严肃谨慎的、可以产生反抗的思考中引开；将他们的思维力量分散，引向一场空洞虚假的舌战！

8世界上各年龄的人民都喜欢花哨的辞藻。对于他们来说：对于一场场上演的「秀」很满意，却很少暂停下来去思考：在公共领域，诺言是否得到了履行。因而我们应该建立表演机构：并证明它们对于我们的计划将带来裨益。

9我们应该给各党派、各势力贴上「自由主义」的虚假外貌，应该赋予这一假象一个「自由辩论者的声音」的特征——他们说得太多了以至耗尽了听众的耐心，并产生了对于辩论的厌恶与憎恨。

10为了使公众的意见站在我们这边，我们必须表达各方的观点，以至于有太多互相冲突对立的观点使他们感到困惑，并且对于这些观点的讨论持续了如此长的时间，足以使非犹太人在这样复杂的迷宫里不知所措，并逐渐明白最好的事情就是在政治须域没有任何观点，因为这些政治事务都不是公众有能力理解的，这些只有指导公众的人才可以理解得了。这是第一个秘密。

11我们统治成功的第二个秘密要素包含以下内容：从生活习惯、激情、国民生活等各方面大幅度增加民族挫折感，以至于他们在相应的混乱中迷失方向。这一措施还可以从另一方面服务我们，即在各党派中种下不和谐的种子，解散各种仍不愿意屈服于我们的集体势力，并打击各种可能以任何程度阻挡我们事业的个体创造性。没有任何东西比个体创造性更具危险性的了：如果其背后隐藏着天才，这种创造性可以胜过我们已经撒下不和谐种子的成千上万人的能量。我们必须如此指导非犹太人种群的教育，以便无论何时他们需要创造性时就无可奈何地放弃。产生于自由行为的张力，当遇到另外一种自由时会削弱。从这种冲突中，产生了严重的震惊、清醒与挫败感。通过所有这些手段，我们必须解除非犹太人的武装，乃至他们被迫提供给我们国际力量。这种力量可以使我们不使用任何武力，逐渐吸收世界各国的武力，并建立一个超级政府。我们必须建立一个可以称之为怪胎的超级政府以替代当今各国统治者。它的手像蟹螫一样无所不及，它的组织如此庞大，以至于征服任何一个国家时都绝不会失手。

【纪要六】

征服技巧

1我们必须迅速着手建立庞大的垄断机构；储蓄巨大的财富；甚至非犹太人的巨额财富也依赖于其，以至于一旦所属国家的信誉在遭受政治打击后跌到低谷，他们的财富也随之同归于尽。

2你们在座的各位都是经济学家，请对这种垄断的重要性给予评估！

3我们必须用每一可能的方式；成为所有自愿臣服我们的人的保护者和施惠者；来发展我们的超级政府的重要性。

4非犹太人的贵族们作为一种政治势力已经消亡了。我们不必再把他们当一回事；但是作为土地的所有者，他们仍会对我们有害，从下面这一事实可以看出：他们可以靠赖以生存的资源自给自足。因而不惜任何手段剥夺他们的土地是必须的。这一目标可以通过提高他们土地财产的税赋来达到。这些措施检查土地拥有的情况，使他们处于一种卑微的状态并可以达到无条件的服从。

5这些世袭的非犹太人贵族，自幼就不能够接受他们所得比别人少，会立刻愤怒并继而自取灭亡。

必须奴役非犹太人

6在我们必须大规模主导商业和工业的同时，首要并迫切的是控制投机。投机是与工业唱反调的角色：投机业的缺失会增加私人手里的资本并通过解放那些欠上地债的人而恢复农业。我们想要的是，工业应该从土地里既榨干劳动力又可以榨干金钱，于是将所有的非犹太人投入无产者的境地。非犹太人将仅仅为了生存权利而向我们低头臣服。

7为了完成对非犹太人工业的毁坏，我们应该发展对于奢侈品的投机行为，推动那种可以吞噬一切的对于奢侈品的贪婪需求。我们应该提高工资水平，但这不会给工人们带来任何好处，因为我们时也借农业和畜牧业的衰退为由，提高生活必需品的物价水平：我们必须进一步有技巧地削弱生产数据来源，通过使工人们习惯于无政府主义和沉溺于酗酒；齐心协力采取所有手段从地球上灭绝所有非犹太人中受过教育的那部分人的势力。

8为了避免在恰当的时机之前，让那些非犹太人醒悟过来，了解事情的真相，我们必须将上述行为掩藏在服务于工人阶级的热情与政治经济学伟大原理的面具之下。那些经济学原理都蕴含着激情四射的宣传。

【纪要七】

世界范围的战争

1军事设备的强化，警察力量的增加——都是完成上述伟大计划的必需。我们必须要达到的目的，是在全世界的各个国家；除了我们自己，就剩下无产阶级民众、少数忠诚于我们的百万富翁以及警察和士兵。

2在整个欧洲，以及通过和欧洲的关系，在其它大陆也一样，我们必须创造敌人、不和谐以及敌意。这样我们就获得了双倍的优势。首先，我们和所有国家保持联系，因为他们将知道我们有那种力量，想什么时候制造混乱就制造混乱；想什么时候恢复秩序就恢复秩序。所有这些国家都习惯于将我们视为必不可少的遏制力量。第二，通过我们的阴谋，应将所有我们触及到各国内阁中的线索经经济条约或债权纠缠在一起。为了成功地做到这一点，我们必须在谈判和签署协议时运用高度的狡猾与渗透功夫。但要避免被视为所谓「官方语言」，我们必须使用相反的策略，戴上诚实与自我满足的面具。通过这种方式，一直受我们教导、只关注事物表面现象的非犹太人国家的人民和政府，将继续将我们视为人类的施恩者和大救星。

世界大战

3如果有国家反对我们，我们就发动战争。如果他们敢联合起来对抗，我们就发动世界大战。

4政治斗争胜利的根本因素是其计划的秘密性：外交家们永远是言行不一的。

5我们必须驱使非犹太人政府按照有利于我们严密设计的、已经接近终点的计划，通过由我们代表的「公众意见」并通过所谓「伟大力量」——媒体的推动，采取行动。这些媒体，除了少数几个还没有和我们达成一致意见，已经完全掌控在我们手中。

6总而言之，为了总结我们钳制欧洲非犹太人政府的庞大体系，我们必须向他们其中的一个实施恐怖行为以展示实力。并且，如果他们联合起来反对我们，我们必须借美国、中国或日本的武装力量。

【纪要八】

临时政府

1我们必须利用所有反对者可能雇佣的力量来武装自己。必须从法律词典表达的任何一个角落以及棘手的问题搜寻证据。因为通过那些案例，我们可以渲染那些看起来极端无耻和不公正的判决，这些判决结果将被用来将最高道德原则嵌入法律的形式。我们的指导委员会必须将与之打交道的各种文明力量环绕在自己周围，必须将政论家、法学家、管理者、外交家，和那些在我们的专门学校里接受超级教育培训的人环绕在自己身边，他们熟知社会背后运作的秘密规则，知道自己应该扮演的角色；熟谙人性的所有阴暗面：所有非犹太人的倾向、缺点、邪恶以及品性，各阶层的状况与特性。勿需再提那些权威们的才华横溢的助理们了。他们将不会从非犹太人中选出，因为非犹太人的助理们已经习惯于不加思考地执行任务，从来不思考任务的目的是什么，更不会考虑这些任务是为了什么。他们的服务要么出于唯利是图，要么为了实现个人野心。

2我们必须把全世界的经济学家们环绕在我们政府的周围。这也是为什么经济科学形成了犹太人教育的主要目标。在我们周围将是所有银行家、工业家和资本家的荟萃——最王要的是百万富翁，因为从本质上而言，所有事情都是由金钱的数额说了算的。

3在一定时期内，我们可以将权力置于那些过去的名声如此不堪、以至于和人民之间有道鸿沟的人手中。直到没有任何风险时，才将管理职责赋予我们的犹太同胞们。为了杜绝他们不服从我们的可能性，必须使那些人受到刑事番判或消失——这样是为了使他们在最后一息都在捍卫我们的利益。

此外，近代西方史上著名的阴谋论也是源自对共济会阴谋的指控。1786年，在德国出现了一本书，名叫《世界政治体系揭秘》（《Enthüllungen des Systems der Weltbürger-Politik》），书的作者（Ernst August von Göchhausen）〈1740–1824〉是魏玛市政府官员，他声称共济会（Free-Masons）、光明会（Illuminati）和耶稣会士（Jesuits）在秘密策划世界范围内的革命，以建立世界政府。三年后，法国大革命爆发，法国王室被推翻，国王被处死，似乎验证了书中的预言。1797年，大革命中逃到英国的法国耶稣会士奥古斯丁·巴朗（Augustin Barruel）出版了《雅各宾主义历史回忆录》（《Mémoires pour servir à l’Histoire du Jacobinisme》），提到秘密的地下社团组织对大革命的操纵，以及对教会的打击。同年苏格兰物理学家约翰·罗伯逊（John Robison）也发表了《共济会、光明会和读书会阴谋推翻欧洲政府和教会的证据》（《Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in the secret meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati and Reading Societies》），提出了大革命源自共济会的计划。此后这种理论广泛传播，尤其为教会大力宣传，认为共济会阴谋推翻教会和各国皇室，取而代之以民主、自由和宗教宽容的社会体制。这些在当时看作阴谋的东西，在今天看来不过是简单的历史事实。

到了19世纪中期，摩根事件（Morgan affair）引发了美国的反共济会运动（Anti-Masonry）。威廉·摩根（William Morgan）是一名砖瓦匠，他在纽约加入了共济会，然而由于不能升级心怀怨恨，他宣称要在当地报纸上将共济会的秘仪公开。这种背叛行为激怒了共济会，不久当地报社被纵火，摩根也因被告拖欠大笔债务而被捕入狱。1826年11月11日，一个声称是摩根朋友的人到警察局将摩根保释，并将他带走，从此他便杳无踪迹。摩根的失踪使得事件迅速激化，越来越多的人加入到抗议共济会的运动中来。由于大多数银行家、法官、富商和政客都是共济会成员，这加重了底层民众的不安和忧虑。纽约民众开始集会号召禁止共济会员进入政府系统，运动很快与反杰克逊总统（anti-Jackson）政治运动结合起来，因为他也是共济会员。他们建立了反共济会党（Anti-Masonic political party），并在1828和1832年推选了总统候选人。由于缺乏支持，这个政党不久就消亡了。

最早将共济会与犹太人联系在一起的是20世纪初俄国出版的《锡安长老会纪要》（《Протоколы сионских мудрецов》）。内容是一群所谓的犹太锡安长老阴谋夺取世界政权控制全人类的秘密会议纪要。这是至今为止反共济会和反犹运动中最为重要的文献，是当今几乎所有阴谋理论的始祖文件。

1903年8月27到9月7日圣彼得堡的旗帜报（Знамя）〈Znamya〉连载了一系列文章，题目叫做《犹太人控制世界的计划》。而报中称这份文件的原题叫做《共济会与锡安长老会世界联盟会议纪要》（《The Protocols of the Sessions of the World Alliance of Freemasons and of the Sages of Zion》）。

1905年，俄国神学家瑟尔基·尼路斯（Sergei Alexandrovich Nilus）的《渺小中的伟大，即将到来的反基督政治可能性。一个东正教信徒的笔记》（《The Great within the Small and Antichrist, an Imminent Political Possibility. Notes of an Orthodox Believer》）一书中，将其编入最后一章作为该书的第二版发表，并宣称这本草案来自1897年瑞士巴塞尔召开的第一次锡安主义者大会（First Zionist Congress）。新上任的俄国首相斯托雷平（Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin）为此成立了一个秘密调查委员会，认为文件内容最早来自1897至1898年巴黎的反犹团体。然而至今并未发现原稿。由于材料来源不明，沙皇尼古拉斯二世查禁了这本书。然而1906年锡安长老草案的单行本在圣彼得堡被俄罗斯人民联盟（Union of the Russian People）以《人类的敌人》为题出版，并且迅速在俄国传播开。1912年版包含《锡安长老会纪要》的《渺小中的伟大》封面，画着各种犹太秘仪标志。
 
1917年俄国十月革命的爆发似乎验证了《纪要》的预言，尤其是领导革命的布尔什维克高层领导人中，犹太人占了大多数，最著名的如托洛斯基（Leon Trotsky）。之后的俄国内战中，白军也将其作为反对布尔什维克的重要宣传工具。在此时《纪要》被翻译成各种文字传遍欧洲。最早的英语版出现在1919年美国费城的《公众纪录报》（《Public Ledger》）上，美国记者（Carl William Ackerman）在10月27日和10月28日两篇文章中摘录了《锡安长老会纪要》的部分章节，然而题目换成了“红色圣经”，草案中所有出现犹太人的地方全部被布尔什维克代替，变成了俄国布尔什维克夺取世界的计划。

1920年，伦敦出版了第一版《犹太威胁,锡安长老会纪要》（《The Jewish Peril. Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion》）。而传播最广的英文版本则是英国早报（The Morning Post）在俄罗斯的派出记者维克多·马斯登（Victor Emile Marsden）的译本。

在此期间，美国福特汽车公司创始人亨利·福特（Henry Ford）对《锡安长老会纪要》传播起到了巨大作用，1920年就在美国发行了50万本。在他的《得堡独立报》（《The Dearborn Independent》）报上，以《国际犹太势力：世界的首要问题》（《The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem》）为题，发表了包括《纪要》在内的揭露犹太金融势力对各国进行控制的一系列文章。1921年2月，福特在接受纽约世界报（New York World）采访时表示，“对这部《纪要》我只是想说，它符合正在发生的一切。”（”The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on.”） 系列文章结集出版后，在德国受到极大欢迎，福特也成为希特勒的偶像。希特勒表示要将福特的理论付诸实践，并仿照福特的T型车，为人民制造汽车。这也是德国大众汽车的由来。

1927年《得堡独立报》由于受到犹太团体起诉停刊，福特开始撇清与反犹文章的关系，表示他对报纸内容并不知情。此后福特车厂在三十年代至五十年代间持续十五年亏本，市场占有率由一战后的百分之六十跌至百分之二十。

随着20世纪二三十年代《锡安长老会纪要》在欧洲大陆的广泛传播，反共济会与反犹主义（Antisemitism）也结合起来。德国国家社会主义运动兴起后，纳粹党将共济会看作犹太人阴谋统治世界的秘密组织，二战时德国占领区的所有共济会所都被取缔，成员遭到逮捕并被作为政治犯送往集中营，据称有将近十万共济会员在此时被消灭。同时纳粹德国在占领区开始大规模宣传共济会和犹太人的阴谋，如1941年10月22日在塞尔维亚首都贝尔格莱德举行的反共济会大型展览（Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition），主题是“揭开犹太人的共济会和共产主义阴谋，以及隐藏在社会后的一切疾病”（”unmask the Jewish freemason and communist conspiracy that is behind all the society’s ills”）。共济会的恶名也在此时达到顶点。

虽然1921年纽约《时代》杂志刊出（Philip Graves）的一系列文章，具体分析了《锡安长老会纪要》，指出其中一些片断来自1864年法国讽刺小说家（Maurice Joly）创作的讽刺小说《马基雅维利与孟德斯鸠对话录》（《Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu》），而此后也有众多专家学者将其鉴定为伪作，但是并未阻止它在世界范围内的广泛传播，尤其是它似乎成功预言了世界范围的革命浪潮、经济危机和世界大战。

20世纪五六十年代，随着锡安主义的逐步实施和以色列开始夺取巴勒斯坦领土，中东的伊斯兰国家也开始大规模刊行《锡安长老会纪要》，并且作为历史材料在学校中讲授。直到今天，《纪要》仍然在穆斯林国家中不断再版。而共济会也在绝大多数穆斯林国家被禁止。

最近的反共济会运动发生在英国。1997年在英国内政大臣杰克·斯特劳（Jack Straw）的倡导下，一些政府官员提议颁布一条法令，规定进入公安和司法部门工作的共济会成员必须在任职前向社会公开自己的身份。到1999年，只有威尔士地方议会通过了这条法令。而英国议会则采取自愿原则，不做强制要求。

全书篇幅不长，包括24篇锡安长老会的秘密会议纪要。尽管此书刚问世，犹太人就一直申明说它们是伪作。但100多年过去的人类历史发生的一切都在在证明：此书披露的锡安长老会征服世界的密谋绝非空穴来风。长老们在这些纪要中密谋「用金钱控制媒体」、「实用主义替代宗」、「支持共产主义者建立政权」、「挑动世界大战」等一一变成现实，这难道只是一种巧合吗？24篇秘密纪要涉及最多的是经济。锡安长老们声称，犹太人「要达到统治世界的目的，无法靠发动侵占领土的战争，但可以发动经济上的全面战争。」「我们必须使全世界的经济学家们环绕在我们的周围。这也是为什麼经济学成为犹太人育的主要目标。在我们周围的将是所有银行家、企业家和资本家的荟萃——最主要的是百万富翁。因为从本质上说，所有事情都是由金钱的数额说了算的。」「我们必须迅速著手建立庞大的垄断机构，储蓄巨大的财富，甚至使非犹太人的巨额财富也依赖我们的机构。」一旦「在我们手中有了当今最有力量的东西——金钱」，所有国家「都将置於完全由我们之手掌控的金钱专政之下。」那么如何才能完成这个以金钱统治世界的谋略呢？一方面，「必须将非犹太人的注意力引向工业和贸易……剧烈竞争以及散布在经济生活中的恐慌将会创造一个冷漠又残酷无情的族群。这样的族群将孕育一种对政治和宗强烈的厌恶情绪。他们唯一的目标是利润，也就是黄金。因为黄金为他们带来物质上的愉悦。」另一方面，「我们控制的国际大资本鼓励非犹太人政府大把借款」，「这使我们的钱翻了两倍、三倍，甚至更多。」而「这些贷款以及高额利息沉重地压在政府财政头上，使政府成为大资本的奴隶」。「货币的存在就是为了流通。货币的任何停滞状态，对於国家的正常运转都是毁灭性的。」

《锡安长老会纪要》用第一人称书写，以一个锡安长老的身份在长老会议上向新成员介绍如何掌控世界的具体计划。全书并无严整结构，章节内容并不统一，前后章节也不存在严格顺序，似乎是以时间作划分，每一章内容来自一次会议的记录。

《锡安长老会纪要》 共分24章，包括的具体话题有：

1、用自由主义消灭非集权制政府。
2、用经济集权取代政治集权。
3、传播达尔文主义、马克思主义、尼采主义、社会主义、共产主义、无政府主义以制造社会矛盾，国家对立。
4、建立世界政府，迫使各国让权。
5、引发世界大战，消灭敌对集团。
6、推广普选权，培养愚民群体，以对抗各国精英阶层。
7、通过共济会招笼各国精英，成为代理人。
8、安插民主政府领导人。
9、控制媒体，加大对言论自由、出版自由、人权和民主的宣传，使其破坏原有社会秩序，同时使其成为新统治方式的迷雾。
10、控制教育。
11、用娱乐、色情等分散人们注意。
12、消灭基督教、伊斯兰教以及其他一切宗教，宣传唯物主义，以无神论作为过渡，最后代之以犹太教。
13、通过政府徵税削弱各国资本家实力。
14、通过贷款控制各国财政。
15、消灭金本位，通过控制货币发行量制造经济危机。
16、长老会通过能力推选国王，在全面统治世界之前，国王不会露面，只是在暗中操纵世界。

关于“纪要”本身在简介当中就无需多费笔墨了。最早涵盖其内容的书籍由菲利普·斯捷潘诺父于1897年第一次印刷出版，其时只是在他私密的朋友圈中私下流传。尼路斯在1901年以《渺小中的伟大》为书名第一次印刷出版该纪要，并在1905年重印。大英博物馆收藏了该书的复印件，上面有“1906年8月10日取得”的签字字样。据人们所知，所有存在于俄国的副本皆在柯林斯基执政期间被销毁。在其继任者执政期间，在苏联版图内的任何地方拥有该书被视为重罪，拥有者一旦被发现会被就地枪决。这一事实本身就充分证实了该“纪要”的真实性。当然，犹太人的刊物一直申明说它们是伪作，并使人们相信，尼路斯教授将它们编入自己的作品当中，并为达到他个人的目的而篡改了它们。
　
亨利.福特先生在《纽约时报》于1921年2月17日出版的一则访谈中，为尼路斯先生做了简洁有力但又令人信服的辩护：“我本人对于‘纪要’的唯一论断是：它们符合当前世界发生的一切，是真实的。它们已经十六岁了，一直符合这个世界的事实，直到今天，仍然如此！事实的确如此！”

“Protocol”一词的词义是指一份文件前面的“摘要”，或底稿，或备忘录。在这种情况下，“Protocol”的意思是锡安长老会的会议记录。这些“纪要”透露了锡安统治者发布给其核心圈子演讲的宗旨。它们透露了犹太民族数代以来竭力发展并不断被长老们亲自修订更新的计划。数个世纪以来，随着关于长老们的秘密不断被泄露，这一计划的细枝末节和摘要也不断被出版。犹太人宣传“纪要”为伪造，本身也是其真实性的明证，因为他们从未试图就“纪要”中提及的威胁性事实作为任何回应，事实上，这些预言与所发生的事实的高度一致性是如此令人震惊，以至于不能让人置之不顾或视而不见。而这一点恰恰是犹太人深悉却又无法回避的。

A·H·M·拉姆齐上尉在经典著作《无名战争》中记载道：“根据《通俗英语》（一份由北英出版公司出版，由劳德·奥尔弗莱德·道格拉斯主编的周刊）在1921年9月3日发布的一封信显示：长老会的存在，比他们被猜测的时间还要长。我的朋友，阿姆斯特丹的L·D·凡·凡尔克特先生，最近寄给我一封信，信里有来自于米尔海姆的犹太教堂的两份摘录。包含它们的文卷在拿破仑战争期间丢失了，但最近到了L·D·凡·凡尔克特先生手中。它们用德文写就，里面包含了来自米尔海姆犹太教堂高层权威之间来往的信件节录。他寄给我的第一封所收到的信件如下：　　

1647年6月16日
来自于O·C·（奥利弗·克伦威尔）　　
由埃比尼泽·普拉特转
作为对获得财政支持的回报，对允许犹太人进入英格兰做大肆宣传；但查理在世时这点不可能做到的。　
未经审判，不能处死查理，因为目前未具充分理由。因为建议暗杀查理，但要看起来并未做任何导致谋杀发生的安排，并很愿意帮助他逃脱。　　

回信如下：　　

1647年7月12日
致奥利弗·克伦威尔
由埃比尼泽·普拉特转
一旦查理被除掉，犹太人被接纳，财政援助即有了保证。暗杀太过危险。应该给予查理逃脱的机会：他的重新被捉会使审判和处死成为可能。资助将非常慷慨大方，但要知道审判开始以及条件达成后才会给予。”
　　
拉姆齐上尉引用了本杰明的父亲，肯斯菲尔德伯爵艾萨克·迪斯莱里，英国第一位犹太裔首相在其1851年出版的两卷本《查理一世生平》的描述：“查理一世期间的英国革命不同于之前任何一次。自那个时代和那次事件起，我们预言了历史上革命的每个阶段”。有更多著名事件步其后尘，尤其在法国发生的大事。在1897年，所有这些神秘事件的重要线索落入以“锡安长老会纪要”为形式的非犹太人之手。在那份文件中人们读到了这样著名的一句“请记住，法国大革命，它的所有发起秘密我们都洞悉明了，因为完全是出自我们之手的杰作（见第十四条纪要的第3条要义）。”
　　
1865年，一个叫瑞泽豪恩的犹太传教士在布拉格发表了一篇演说。这是一篇对于“锡安长老会纪要”的非常全面而又准确的概括，而纪要是在几十年之后才大白于天下，并在11年后被约翰·莱德克里夫爵士出版，而出版后不就莱德克里夫爵士就遭暗杀。自那时起，由整个犹太人核心精英层组成的秘密组织的庞大势力就被这一暗杀行为充分证实了。

一个强有力的假设是：锡安长老会议纪要是在现在犹太复国主义之父，即后来的西奥多·赫茨尔主持期间，在1897年巴塞尔召开的首次犹太复国主义大会上形成的。最近曾出版了赫茨尔的一份“日记”卷宗。其中一部分出现在1922年7月14日的《犹太人纪年》上。在这些章节中，赫茨尔描述了他于1895年的首次英格兰之行，以及他与格德斯密德上校之间的对话。格德斯密德上校是个犹太人，自幼作为基督徒被养大，是英国军队的一名军官，但骨子里一直是个彻头彻尾的犹太民族主义者。格德斯密德上校向赫茨尔建议，剥夺英国贵族，也即摧毁英格兰人反对犹太人统治的保护力量的最好办法，就是向这个国家的人民苛以重税。赫茨尔认为这是个极好的主意。这一点最近被发现在第六条纪要中完全体现出来了。这是一个极其显著的明证，证明犹太世界阴谋的确存在和该纪要的真实性。任何有头脑的读者都会从其对于近代历史的常识中，并以其自身经历，确定这些纪要中的每一句都是真实的。正是这一活生生的评论的，使得所有读者都会研究马斯登先生翻译的这份没有人性的、令人恐怖的文件。

下面是瑞典的犹太主教厄仁普瑞斯博士于1924年对“纪要”所作的评论：“我很早以来就对纪要的内容非常熟悉了。事实上，早在它们在基督教媒体上发表之前我就尽知了。锡安长老会纪要事实上并不是最早最原始的那份，只不过是一些类似章节的合并本。在传说的70位锡安长老中，就纪要的原始性及真实性而言，全世界知道的只有10个人。我和赫茨尔博士一起参加了1897年在巴塞尔召开的第一次锡安大会。赫茨尔是这次犹太人世界大会最重要的角色。20年之前，赫茨尔就预见了我们要经历的事情，引发第一次世界大战的革命。他为我们准备好了将要发生的事情。他预见了土耳其的分裂，英国会控制巴勒斯坦。我们可以预期世界上所有重要的大事。”
　　
下面是又一个非常重要的史实。赫茨尔的现任继任人，犹太复国主义运动的领袖维曼博士，引用了1920年10月6日为赫茨尔主教举行的欢送晚宴上的一句名言。其时，赫茨尔主教正要去参加威尔士王子登基之旅。维曼博士引用的圣人名言称，“上帝施与犹太人的最有益的保护，即是已将他们撒遍全球。”（《犹太卫报》），1920年10月8日）现在请将此与第十一条纪要倒数第2句对照一下：“上帝赋予我们，即他的选民们，分散在世界各地的天性，而这一在所有人眼中看起来是我们弱点的特性，却释放出我们所有的力量。而这力量已将我们带到统治全世界的权力门槛中。”这些篇章中的显著一致性，证明了锡安长老们的存在；证明了维曼博士全都知道，证明了对于巴勒斯坦这个“民族家园”的渴望不过是掩人耳目，是犹太人真实目标的极小环节，证明了世界上的犹太人根本就没有定居在巴勒斯坦或其他任何单一国家的打算。所谓“他们或许可以全部明年相聚耶路撒冷”的年度祈祷不过是他们善于欺骗这一特征的显示。它们也表明犹太人现在是全世界的威胁，亚利安人将不得不将他们永久驱赶出欧洲。

谁是锡安长老？这是一个至今未曾透露的秘密。他们是幕后操纵者。他们不是“代表委员会”（英国的犹太议会），也不是位于巴黎的“以色列统一联盟”。后来德国AEG电气工程公司的瓦尔特·拉特瑙为这个秘密撕开了一个裂口，毫无疑问，他掌握了他们的名字。并且，他自己很有可能也是其中一个主要领导角色。在1912年12月24日的“维也纳自由报”发表的文章中，他写道：“三百个人，他们互相认识，统治着整个欧洲大陆的命运，并从他们的追随者中选出继任者。”1844年，也就是1848年犹太革命的前夜，本杰明·迪斯莱里，其真名是伊斯雷尔，一个曾经“受洗”的犹太人，出版了小说《科宁斯比》。书中出现了一段预言性的文字：“这个世界是由那些与非幕后人士所想象的大相径庭的人所统治的。”他接着说明这些统治者全部是犹太人。
　　
既然天意已将这些秘密“纪要”大白于天下，所有人应清楚地看到迪斯莱里在其作品中所强调的隐藏在各国政府中的秘密“幕后”人物。这一揭露将使所有人有责任彻底审视和校正他们对于那些自夸可以牺牲其他国家命运的种族和民族的态度。　
　
犹太教的蛇形象征

纪要三以介绍犹太教的蛇形象征开篇。在其1905年对于纪要的编辑后记中，尼路斯就这一象征进行了下面有趣的描述：

根据秘密犹太教的记录，所罗门和其他犹太长老们早在公元前929年，就设想出了一个锡安山将以和平方式征服整个宇宙的阴谋框架。随着历史的发展，这一阴谋计划逐步在细节上成形，并逐步由那些发动此计划的人完成。这些长老们决定用象征狡猾之蛇，用和平手段征服世界。蛇头代表那些发动此计划的犹太高层，蛇的身体代表犹太人民—高层永远是机密的，即使是来自犹太本族的那些人。

当这条大蛇钻入它所遇到的国家核心层时，它就会摧毁并吞掉这些国家政权中的所有非犹太势力。有预言说，这条蛇还没有完成它的任务，仍紧密执行着最初的计划，直到它的行动路线回到它的头部，锡安山。通过此种手段，这条蛇已经完成了它对欧洲的行程并包围了它。这样，通过锁住整个欧洲，它就囊括了整个世界。为达到这一目的，它用尽各种手段，用一种“经济侵略”的手段削弱其他国家。

只有在将欧洲的所有主权国家的力量削弱，也就是说，通过经济危机以及随之而来的全面破坏，并由之带来的精神崩溃及主要由犹太女人伪装成法国人、意大利人而带来的道德衰败的帮助下，将这些国家的力量削弱之后，蛇头才会返回锡安山。这些女人是将这些国家领导人物拖入淫荡生活的法宝。象征之蛇的行程图如下所示：它在欧洲的第一步是在公元前429年的希腊。在那儿，在伯里克利执政时期，这条蛇首先吃掉了这个国家的权力。第二步是在奥古斯都时代的罗马，大约是公元前69年。第三步是在公元1552年查理五世时代的马德里。第四步是在1790年，路易十六时期的巴黎。第五步是在1814年以后（拿破仑倒台之后）的伦敦。第六步是在波法战争之后1871年的柏林。第七步是在1881年，在那年，蛇头钻进了圣彼得堡。[现在这条蛇已经被画到了美洲和美国。现在它的部分身份可以识别为“外交关系委员会”（CFR）与“三边委员会”]。这条蛇所穿越经过的所有政权的宪政基础都被动摇了。德国，尽管实力赫然，也毫无例外，没有逃出厄运。就经济状况而言，英国和德国似乎被忽略了，但也就持续到大蛇吞没沙俄时。在那时，也就是1905年，它集中其所有的力量将其征服。大蛇的下一步路线在这张图上没有显示，但箭头表明它的下一步动向是莫斯科、基埔与奥德赛。现在对于我们而言已经明确知道那些后来的城市将成为好战的犹太种族的中心。君士坦丁堡显示成为大蛇到达耶路撒冷前的最后一站。（这张图在“青年土耳其人”即土耳其的犹太人起义发生之前就被画好了）。