PROTOCOL NO. 23
That the peoples may become accustomed to obedience it is necessary
to inculcate lessons of humility and therefore to reduce the production
of articles of luxury. By this we shall improve morals which
have been debased by emulation in the sphere of luxury. We shall
re-establish small master production which will mean laying a
mine under the private capital of manufacturers. 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.
Unemployment is a most perilous thing for a government. 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 the humanness of man
who is turned into a brute under the influence of alcohol.
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 defence 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.
The supreme lord who will replace all now existing rulers, dragging
on their existence among societies demoralised by us, societies
that have denied even the authority of God, from whose midst breaks
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 organised troops fighting consciously with every
kind of infection that may cover the body of the State with sores.
This Chosen One of God is chosen from above to demolish the senseless
forces moved by instinct and not reason, by brutishness and not
humanness. These forces now triumph in manifestations of robbery
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 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.
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 He might free
us from all the beforementioned forces and evils." .