PROTOCOL NO. 15
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
the worthlessness of all existing forms of government has been
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 centre of our rule.
Resolutions of our government will be final, without appeal.
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 the eyes
of the people, though they had been torn in pieces by 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.
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 in
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 programme. In these lodges we shall tie together the knot
which binds together all revolutionary and liberal elements.
Their competition will be made up of all strata of society. The
most secret political plot will be known to us and will 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 insubordinite, but also to
screen our activities and provide pretexts for discontents, ET
CETERA.
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 it 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....
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 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....
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.
And how far-seeing were our learned elders in ancient times when
they said that to attain a serious end it behoves 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.
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 goyim we at the same time keep our own people and our agents
in a state of unquestioning submission.
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.
In this difference in capacity for thought between the goyim
and ourselves may be clearly discerned the seal of our position
on the Chosen People and of our higher quality of humaness, 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. When comes
the time of our overt rule, the time to manifest its blessings,
we shall remake all legislatures, all our laws will be brief,
plain, stable, without any kind of interpretations, so that anyone
will he 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.
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 EXAMPLE: 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 JUDGE.... Such qualities it is proper to show
in private life, but not in a public square which is the educationary
basis of human life.
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 second
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 educationary 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.
In these days the judges of the goyim create indulgences to every
kind of crime, not having a just understanding of their office,
because the rulers of the present age in appointing judges to
office tale 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 their subjects
places of profit without thinking to make clear 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.
Let us borrow from the example of the results these actions yet
another lesson for our government.
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. Our absolutism will in all things be logically
consecutive and therefore in each one of its decrees our supreme
will 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.
We shall abolish the right of cassation, which will be transferred
exclusively to our disposal - to the cognisance 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 borne
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.
OUR GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE THE APPEARANCE OF A PATRIARCHAL PATERNAL
GUARDIANSHIP ON THE PART OF OUR RULER. Our own nation and our
own 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 his 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 their 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 their governments.
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.
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.
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.
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 all over the world.