PROTOCOL 23
Reduction of the manufacture of articles of
luxury. Small master production. Unemployment. Prohibition of drunkenness.
Killing out of the old society and its resurrection in a new form. The chosen
one of God.
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 for defense 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 demoralized 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 organized 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 Him might free us from all the before-mentioned forces and
evils."
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