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 re-establish 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 m***** 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 the 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 sup****t 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 rulers, dragging in
their existence among societies demoralized by us, societies that have
denied even the authority of God, from whose midst breeds 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 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.
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".
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