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The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
is a work published all over the world. In this chapter you’ll see
the 1905 Russian version, the first U.S. editions, as well as books
in Arabic, German, French, Polish and other languages.
“It is ... impossible for any intelligent person
... to read ... the Protocols ... without being astounded by their
prophetic insight... In truth, however, we do not need
the Protocols ... to tell us of these things... What interests me
is what I have discerned of the organized use of evil to subvert
Western civilization and bring our traditional values crashing to
the ground so that a totally different, a blood-chilling and hateful
influence may henceforth dominate the world...” A. K. Chesterton, “The
Learned Elders and the BBC”.
THE PLANS IN PROCESS ARE A WORK IN PROGRESS,
CENTURIES OLD.
Part One of my studies on the Protocols is seen
as Chapter 19 in my new 2011 book, From The Temple To The Talmud,
Exploring Judaic Origins, History, Folklore And Tribal Traditions,
published by The Barnes Review. Click to read a review
and to order.
In it, we explore similar documents from medieval
Spain. As we leaf through the pages of history, we discover others.
A PRECURSOR-PROTOCOL FROM 1860.
In the London Morning Post of 06 September
1920, another Protocol-like item was mentioned in regard to Adolphe
Cremieux, founder of the proto-A.D.L., the French Alliance
Israelite. This newspaper did a series of eighteen stories
entitled “The Cause of the World’s Unrest”. Certain parts stand out.
“All Jews for one and one for all. The Union
which we desire will not be a French, English, Irish or German
Union, but a Jewish one, a universal one. ...you must always
consider yourselves members of a Chosen Race. Let us avail ourselves
of all circumstances. Our might is immense -- learn to adopt this
might for our cause. What are you afraid of? Thus we find every
tyrant backed by a Jew, as is every pope by a Jesuit. In truth, the
cravings of oppressors would be hopeless and the practicability of
war out of the question, if there were not an army of Jesuits to
smother thought and a handful of Jews to ransack pockets.” New
York Daily Tribune, 04 January 1856.
MORE PROTO-PROTOCOLS IN 1869.
Foreshadowing the later Protocols is the
discourse of Rabbi Reichhorn at the funeral of Rabbi Simeon
ben-Ihuda in Prague. Notes on this revealing speech were published
in the 10 March 1921 issue of La Vielle France. Similar to
the later Protocols, it is divided into 19 separate entries. Here
are two that seem relevant.
“12. By our mockeries and our attacks upon them
we shall make their priests ridiculous, then odious, and their
religion as ridiculous an as odious as their clergy. Then we shall
be masters of their souls.” This appears to have already happened.
While at first glance it appears the Catholic Church did much of
this to itself, a closer look behind the scenes indicates that they
had some outside help.
“14. But above all let us monopolize education.
By this means we spread ideas that are useful to us, and shape the
children’s brains as suits us.” Now that many “public” schools have
required “Holocaust Education” sessions, this too has come to pass.
Birthing The Phoenix, Vol. 4, a part of The Phoenix
Journals.
AND MORE PROTOCOLS.
In 1889, the Revue des Etudes Juives,
financed by James Rothschild, published two documents putting TheProtocols in perspective, and demonstrating that the Learned
Elders of Zion have been carrying on their plan for centuries. This
featured similar writings from medieval Spain. The historical saga
of how the Protocols reached Russia continues, the documents
surfacing in France in 1884 and 1896. Here is more about the
provenance of these controversial writings, held to be a “forgery”.
“In 1884 the daughter of a Russian general, Mlle.
Justine Glinka, was endeavoring to serve her country in Paris by
obtaining political information, which she communicated to General
Orgevskii (at that time Secretary to the Interior Director, General
Cherevin) in St. Petersburg. For this purpose she employed a Jew,
Joseph Schorst (alias Shapiro, whose father had been sentenced in
London, two years previous, to ten years penal servitude for
counterfeiting), member of the Mizraim Lodge in Paris. One day
Schorst offered to obtain for her a document of great importance in
Russia, on the payment of 2,500 francs. The sum being received from
St. Petersburg was paid over and the document handed to Mlle.
Glinka. Schrost fled to Egypt, where, according to French police
archives, he was murdered.”
“She (Mlle Glinka) forwarded the French original,
accompanied by a Russian translation to Orgevskii, who in turn
handed it to his chief, General Cherevin, for transmission to the
Tsar. But Cherevin, under obligation to wealthy Jews, refused to
transmit it, merely filing it in the archives. On his death in 1896,
he willed a copy of his memoirs containing the Protocols to Nicholas
II.”
Here we learn facts usually not seen about the
Protocols. First, the original document from the spy was in French,
with a Russian translation. Most accounts date them only to Nilus,
and do not speak of a French version. Nor do other sources
demonstrate that suppression attempts went into play immediately
when it was received in St. Petersburg. The saga continues, with the
Protocols surfacing 1901-1906.
“In Germany, Anti-Semites were virtually a
majority in the lower Diet, and in Vienna, Austrian Nationalist
leader Karl Lueger had 56 seats against 71 liberals. And on 19 July
1896, Edmund de Rothschild who ran nine small show colonies in
Palestine, granted an audience to Zionist Theodore Herzl,
essentially telling him that his plans were unrealizable, and a
possible threat to progress that had already been made. Baron
Rothschild, however, failed to convince the nineteenth century
Jewish zealot.” From a book called The Protocols, as quoted
in Birthing The Phoenix, Vol. II, #223 of The Phoenix
Journals.
“The public does not realize that in all the
conflicts within nations and in the conflicts between nations there
are, besides the people apparently responsible for them, hidden
agitators who with their selfish plans make these conflicts
unavoidable.... Everything that happens in the confused evolution of
peoples is secretly prepared in order to ensure the dominion of
certain people: it is these people, known and unknown, that we must
find behind every public event.” Benjamin Disraeli.
THE PROTOCOLS ARE ACTIVE AND EFFECTIVE OCCULT WAR TACTICS AND
STRATEGIES.
Julius Evola has many informative and
illuminating things to say on the matter of the Protocols,
beginnings with who is responsible for them, addressing among other
things, the matter of those who source the Protocols to the writings
of Maurice Joly. I have underlined some of his keynote points, and
my occasional comments are in [brackets].
[Begin quoting from “The Occult War”, Chapter 13
in Men Among the Ruins.]
In this order of ideas, there is an interesting
document known as The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
I have discussed the nature and scope of this document in the
introduction to its last Italian edition (Rome, 1937). Here I will
only mention some fundamental points.
This document was purported to be a protocol
stolen from a secret Judeo-Masonic organization and allegedly
reveals a plan that was devised and implemented with the subversion
and the destruction of traditional Europe in mind. Regarding the
authenticity of the Protocols a rabid and complex debate has
erupted, which can be dismissed, however, by [Rene] Guenon's
correct observation that a truly occult organization, no matter what
its nature, never leaves behind written documents or "protocols."
Thus, in the most favorable hypothesis, the
Protocols could have been the work of someone who had contacts
with some representatives of this alleged organization. However, we
cannot agree either with those who wish to dismiss this document as
a vulgar mystification, forgery, and work of plagiarism. The main
argument adduced by the latter is that the Protocols
reproduce and paraphrase in many parts the ideas found in a short
book written by a certain Maurice Joly during the period of
Napoleon's Second Empires. Allegedly, mysterious provocateurs of the
Czar's secret police were responsible for writing the
Protocols. This argument is truly irrelevant: those who decry
plagiarism should keep in mind that this is not a matter of a
literary work or of copyright. For example, when a general writes a
plan, he could employ previous materials and writings as long as
they contain ideas fit for his purpose.
[“PLAGIARISM” VIS-À-VIS REALITY.]
This would be a case of plagiarism, but it would
not affect at all the question of whether or not this plan has
really been conceived and carried out. Cutting short all this—that
is, leaving aside the issue of the "authenticity" of the document in
terms of real protocols stolen from an international secret
organization—the only important and essential point is the
following: this writing is part of a group of texts that in various
ways (more or less fantastic and at times even fictional) have
expressed the feeling that the disorder of recent times is not
accidental, since it corresponds to a plan, the phases and
fundamental instruments of which are accurately described in the
Protocols. …
In a sense, we can speak of a prophetic
premonition. In any event, the value of the document as a working
hypothesis is undeniable: it presents the various aspects of global
subversion (among them, some aspects that were destined to be
outlined and accomplished only many years after the publication of
the Protocols) in terms of a whole, in which they find their
sufficient reason and logical combination. …
[THE PROTOCOLS AND “ANTI-SEMITISM – “PLAYING INTO
THE HANDS OF THE ENEMYY”?]
The Protocols at times even encourage the
spread of anti-Semitism, while in other cases mention is made of the
secret monopoly of the press and of the media in democratic
countries as well as the power to paralyze or destroy the most
prestigious banks. This power concentrates the rootless, financial
wealth in a few hands, and through it controls peoples, parties, and
governments. One of the most important objectives is to remove the
support of spiritual and traditional values from the human
personality, knowing that when this is accomplished it is not
difficult to turn man into a passive instrument of the secret
front's direct forces and influences. The counterpart of the action
of cultural demoralization, materialization, and disorganization
causes unavoidable social crises to grow increasingly worse and
collective situations to grow increasingly desperate and unbearable;
in this way, a final conflict will eventually be considered as the
means to finally sweep away the last residual resistance.
It is difficult to deny that such a "fiction"
exposed at the beginning of this century has indeed reflected and
anticipated much of what has taken place in the modern world, not to
mention the predictions of what is in store for us. It is therefore
no surprise that the Protocols received so much attention
from those movements of the past that intended to react against and
stem the currents of national, social, and moral dissolution in
their own day and age. However, these movements often upheld
dangerously unilateral positions, due to the lack of adequate
discernment; this was a weakness that, again, has played into the
enemy's hands.
In relation to this, we must deal with the issue
raised by this document concerning the leaders of the occult war.
According to the Protocols, the leaders of the global plot
are Jews who planned and undertook the destruction of the
traditional and Christian European civilization in order to achieve
the universal rule of Israel, or God's "chosen people." This is
obviously an exaggeration. At this point we may even wonder whether
a fanatical anti-Semitism, which always sees the Jew as a deus ex
machina, is not unwittingly playing into the hands of the enemy.
One of the means employed by the occult forces to
protect themselves consists of directing their opponents' attention
toward those who are only partially responsible for certain
upheavals, thus concealing the rest of the story, namely a wider
sequence of causes. It could be shown that even if the Protocols
were a forgery perpetrated by provocateurs, nonetheless they
reflect ideas very congenial to the Law and spirit of Israel.
Second, it is true that many Jews have been and still are among the
promoters of modern disorder in its more radical cultural
expressions, whether political or social. This, however, should not
prevent a deeper analysis, capable of exposing forces that may have
employed modern Judaism merely as an instrument. After all, despite
the fact that many Jews are among the apostles of the main
ideologies regarded by the Protocols as instruments of global
subversion (i.e., liberalism, socialism, scientism, and
rationalism), it is also evident that these ideas would have never
arisen and triumphed without historical antecedents, such as the
Reformation, Humanism, the naturalism and individualism of the
Renaissance, and the philosophy of Descartes. Such phenomena cannot
be attributed to Judaism, but rather point to a wider web of
influences.
In the Protocols the concepts of Judaism
and Masonry are interwoven; there-fore, in the literature that this
text spawned, mention is often made in careless terms of a
Jewish-Masonic plot. Here caution must be exercised. While
recognizing the Jewish predominance in many sectors of modern
Masonry, as well as the Jewish origin of several elements in the
Masonic symbolism and rituals, the anti-Semitic thesis, according to
which Masonry has been the creation and tool of Israel, must be
rejected. Modern Masonry (with this designation I allude essentially
to the Freemasonry that developed since the creation of London's
Grand Lodge in 1717) has undoubtedly been one of the societies that
promoted the modern political subversions, and especially their
ideological background. However, here too the danger is to be
distracted by explaining everything with the action of ordinary
Masonry.
Among those who regard the Protocols as a
forgery, there are some who have noticed that various ideas in this
text are similar to those that have been implemented by centralizing
and dictatorial regimes, so much so that the Protocols can be
an excellent manual for those who wish to install a new Bonapartism
or totalitarianism. This view is partially correct. This amounts
to saying that the "occult war" should be conceived, from a positive
point of view, within a wide and elastic context, and we should
expose the part played in it by phenomena that are apparently
contradictory and hardly reducible to the simplistic formula of a
Jewish-Masonic global plot.
Regardless of the role played by Jews and Masonry
in the modern subversion, it is necessary to recognize clearly the
real historical context of their influence, as well as the limit
beyond which the occult war is destined to develop by employing
forces that not only are no longer those of Judaism and of Masonry,
but that could even totally turn against them. To realize this,
consider the law of the regression of the castes, which I
have employed as a hermeneutic tool in my Revolt Against the
Modern World in order to assess the effective meaning of
history. From a civilization led by spiritual leaders and by a
sacred regality, a shift occurred to civilizations led by mere
warrior aristocracies; the latter were eventually replaced by the
civilization of the Third Estate.
The last stage is the collectivist civilization
of the Fourth Estate. When we reflect carefully on things, modern
Judaism as a power (quite apart from the concomitant,
widespread, and instinctive action of individual Jewish thinkers and
writers) is inseparable from capitalism and finance, which fall
within the civilization of the Third Estate. The same applies to
modern Masonry, which prepared ideologically for and supported
the advent of the Third Estate. Masonry still presents itself today
as the custodian of the principles of the Enlightenment and the
French Revolution, its doctrines acting as a kind of secular
religion of modern democracy; its militant action has revealed and
continues to reveal itself along this line, openly or in semisecret
ways. All this falls within the penultimate phase; this phase, the
overall cycle of democratic and capitalist civilization of the Third
Estate, will eventually usher in the last collectivist phase, to
which it has inadvertently opened the way. It is therefore
logical that the role of a central guiding force of global
subversion in this last period will no longer be played by Judaism
or Masonry and that the main current may turn against both of these
groups, as if they were residues to be liquidated once and for all;
after all, this can be seen in countries in which regimes controlled
by the Fourth Estate (i.e., Marxist regimes) are beginning to be
consolidated, even though Jews and Masons contributed to their
advent.
But then again, as far as the general radical
Jewish-Masonic conspiracy thesis upheld in some milieus is
concerned, the actual situation shows its inconsistency. It would be
a real abandonment to fantasy to suppose that the leaders of the
great conflicting powers—the United States, the USSR, and Red
China—receive orders from an international center of Jews and Masons
(almost nonexistent in China), and act accordingly in view of the
same goal. Again, it is necessary to refer to a wider horizon of
influences and to look elsewhere. [End quoting. Molte grazie,
Barone Evola.]
REFLECTIONS.
While Evola is surely correct about ” a wider
horizon of influences” pointing to more than a few other globalist
cults and sects, it is difficult to ignore and overlook the
pervasive and ill-intentioned efforts of anti-Western Talmudic
Judaism and especially its political manifestation known as Zionism.
Of course, the Zionists now have their independent nation state,
so-called and self-styled as Israel, from which to launch and
conceal its ever ongoing criminal crusade against western culture
and civilization. Nonetheless, it has more than a few allies and
co-conspirators. Regardless of where you look, the Protocols of Zion
are a very basic text for a host of subversive plots and plans.
Well, it’s hard to bring this provocative topic
to a close, but certain conclusions present themselves to discerning
readers.
·
The
Protocols are a real and genuine plan in process by several
secret societies and related plotters and provocateurs.
·
One
may use various and sundry names such as Globalists, One-Worlders,
Illuminati, Freemasons, Jews, Zionists, various Mafias,
Marxists, Bolsheviks, etc., et al. In reality, it makes
little difference. Their intentions and aims are identical,
seeking complete world domination. This is acted out in the
political, governmental, cultural, racial, religious and
spiritual spheres of human activity.
·
Some of this is very much in a subterranean sphere, hidden
from most of the largely nonobservant humans. Hence, Julius
Evola, myself and others call this the Occult War.
·
Nonetheless, the Protocols and plans at work in this
conflict are not really all that hidden and hard to
discover, especially once you know what to look for.
·
So
I challenge you. Become “occult detectives”. Now that you
have the basic facts of the case for and against the
Protocols, begin detecting and see what other clues you can
discover.