1. The need for daily bread 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 securing 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 unaccustomed
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, for truth is one, and in it
there is no place for progress. Progress, 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?
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 tranquillity, though it be a tranquillity 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 tranquillity 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.
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, like Waco? Randy Weaver? Port Arthur? Oklahoma?) 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 high conceit of
themselves to which it gives birth, for that insensibly disposes them
to assimulate our suggestions without being on their guard against
them in the fullness of their confidence that it is their own
infallibility which is giving utterance to their own thoughts and that
it is impossible for them to borrow those of others .... You cannot
imagine to what extent the wisest of the GOYIM can be brought to a
state of unconscious naivete in the presence of this condition of high
conceit of themselves, and at the same time how easy it is to take the
heart out of them by the slightest ill-success, though it be nothing
more than the stoppage of the applause they had, and to reduce them to
a slavish submission for the sake of winning a renewal of success ....
BY SO MUCH AS OURS DISREGARD SUCCESS IF ONLY THEY CAN CARRY THROUGH
THEIR PLANS, BY SO MUCH THE "GOYIM" ARE WILLING TO SACRIFICE
ANY PLANS ONLY TO HAVE SUCCESS. This psychology of theirs materially
facilitates for us the task of setting them in the required direction.
These tigers in appearance have the souls of sheep and the wind blows
freely through their heads. We have set them on the hobby-horse of an
idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of
COLLECTIVISM .... They have never yet and they never will have the
sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the
most important law of nature, which has established from the very
creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the
purpose of instituting individuality ....
7. If we have been able to bring them to such a pitch of stupid
blindness is it not a proof, and an amazingly clear proof, of the
degree to which the mind of the GOYIM is undeveloped in comparison
with our mind? This it is, mainly, which guarantees our success.
GENTILES ARE CATTLE
8. And how far-seeing were our learned elders in ancient times when
they said that to attain a serious end it behooves not to stop at any
means or to count the victims sacrificed for the sake of that end ....
We have not counted the victims of the seed of the GOY cattle, though
we have sacrificed many of our own, but for that we have now already
given them such a position on the earth as they could not even have
dreamed of. The comparatively small numbers of the victims from the
number of ours have preserved our nationality from destruction.
9. Death is the inevitable end for all. It is better to bring that
end nearer to those who hinder our affairs than to ourselves, to the
founders of this affair. WE EXECUTE MASONS IN SUCH WISE THAT NONE SAVE
THE BROTHERHOOD CAN EVER HAVE A SUSPICION OF IT, NOT EVEN THE VICTIMS
THEMSELVES OF OUR DEATH SENTENCE, THEY ALL DIE WHEN REQUIRED AS IF
FROM A NORMAL KIND OF ILLNESS ..... Knowing this, even the brotherhood
in its turn dare not protest. By such methods we have plucked out of
the midst of MASONRY the very root of protest against our disposition.
While preaching liberalism to the GOY we at the same time keep our own
people and our agents in a state of unquestioning 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 interests
of authority, principle and law, which do not permit that any of those
who hold the reins of the public coach should turn aside from the
public highway to their own private paths. FOR EXAMPLES OUR JUDGES
WILL KNOW THAT WHENEVER THEY FEEL DISPOSED TO PLUME THEMSELVES ON
FOOLISH CLEMENCY THEY ARE VIOLATING THE LAW OF JUSTICE WHICH IS
INSTITUTED FOR THE EXEMPLARY EDIFICATION OF MEN BY PENALTIES FOR
LAPSES AND NOT FOR DISPLAY OF THE SPIRITUAL QUALITIES OF THE JUDGES
.... Such qualities it is proper to show in private life, but not in a
public square which is the educational basis of human life.
14. Our legal staff will serve not beyond the age of 55, firstly
because old men more obstinately hold to prejudiced opinions, and are
less capable of submitting to new directions, and secondly because
this will give us the possibility by this measure of securing
elasticity in the changing of staff, which will thus the more easily
bend under our pressure: he who wishes to keep his place will have to
give blind obedience to deserve it. In general, our judges will be
elected by us only from among those who thoroughly understand that the
part they have to play is to punish and apply laws and not to dream
about the manifestations of liberalism at the expense of the
educational scheme of the State, as the GOYIM in these days imagine it
to be .... This method of shuffling the staff will serve also to
explode any collective solidarity of those in the same service and
will bind all to the interests of the government upon which their fate
will depend. The young generation of judges will be trained in certain
views regarding the inadmissibility of any abuses that might disturb
the established order of our subjects among themselves.
15. In these days the judges of the GOYIM create indulgences to
every kind of crimes, not having a just understanding of their office,
because the rulers of the present age in appointing judges to office
take no care to inculcate in them a sense of duty and consciousness of
the matter which is demanded of them. As a brute beast lets out its
young in search of prey, so do the GOYIM give to them for what purpose
such place was created. This is the reason why their governments are
being ruined by their own forces through the acts of their own
administration.
16. Let us borrow from the example of the results of these actions
yet another lesson for our government.
17. We shall root out liberalism from all the important strategic
posts of our government on which depends the training of subordinates
for our State structure. Such posts will fall exclusively to those who
have been trained by us for administrative rule. To the possible
objection that the retirement of old servants will cost the Treasury
heavily, I reply, firstly, they will be provided with some private
service in place of what they lose, and, secondly, I have to remark
that all the money in the world will be concentrated in our hands,
consequently it is not our government that has to fear expense.
WE SHALL BE CRUEL
18. Our absolutism will in all things be logically consecutive and
therefore in each one of its decrees our supreme will must 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 appeal, 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 quash 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 interrelation 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.
1. In order to effect the destruction of all collective forces
except ours we shall emasculate the first stage of collectivism - the
UNIVERSITIES, by re-educating 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 pre-eminent
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 THOSE 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.
