The Protocols of the Wise Elders of Zion: Protocol Four

PROTOCOL NUMBER FOUR

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this will be that what is withdrawn from the land by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.

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