In applying our principles, turn your attention to the character of the
people in whose countries you will be resident and among whom you will
act, for a general similar application of them before the reëducation of
a people according to our plan cannot be successful. But by advancing
carefully in their application you will see that before ten years have
passed the most obstinate character will have changed, and we can then
count another people among those who already have submitted to us.
When we are enthroned we will substitute for the liberal words of our
Masonic catchword, “Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity,” another group of
words expressing simply ideas, namely, “the right of Liberty, the duty of
Equality, the ideal of Fraternity.” Thus we will speak and ... we shall
have the goat by the horns.... _De facto_, we have already destroyed all
governments except our own, although _de jure_ there are still many left.
At present, if any of the governments raises a protest against us, it
is done only as a matter of form, and at our desire, and by our order,
because _their anti-Semitism is necessary to enable us to control our
smaller brothers_. I will not further explain this, as it has already
been the object of numerous discussions.
In reality there are no obstacles before us. Our super-government exists
under such extra-legal conditions that it is common to designate it by an
energetic and strong word—a Dictatorship.
I can honestly state that at the present time we are law-makers; we are
the judges and inflict punishment; we execute and pardon; we, as the
chief of all our armies, ride the leader’s horse. We rule by indomitable
will because we hold in our hands the fragments of a once strong party
now subject to us. We possess boundless ambition, burning greed for
merciless revenge, and bitter hatred.
_From us emanates an all-embracing terror. People of all opinions and
of all doctrines are in our service; people who desire to restore
monarchies, demagogues, socialists, communists, and other utopians._ We
have had to put all of them to work; every one of them is undermining the
last remnant of authority, is trying to overthrow all existing order.
All the governments have been tortured by this procedure; they beg for
peace, and for the sake of peace are prepared to make any sacrifice,
but we will not give them peace until they recognize our international
super-government openly and with submission.
The masses have begun to demand the solution of the social problem by
means of an international agreement. _The division into parties has
delivered all of them to us, because in order to conduct a party struggle
money is required, and we have it all._
We might fear the union of the intelligent power of the GOYS’ rulers with
the blind power of the masses, but we have taken all measures against
such a possibility. Between the two powers we have raised a wall in the
form of mutual terror; thus the blind power of the people continues to be
our support, and we alone will act as its leader and, naturally, we will
direct it towards our goal.
To prevent the hand of the blind from freeing itself from our guidance,
we must from time to time keep in close touch with the masses, if not
through personal contact then through our most devoted brethren. When we
become a recognized power we will personally address the masses in open
places, and we will expound political problems in the desired direction.
How verify what is taught in village schools? But whatever the
representative of the government or the ruler himself states will be
immediately known to the entire nation, for it will rapidly spread by the
voice of the people.
In order not prematurely to destroy _Goy_ institutions, we have touched
them with our efficient hands and grasped the ends of the springs of
their mechanism. Formerly these springs were in rigid but just order; we
have changed it to liberal, disorderly, and arbitrary lawlessness.
We have affected legal procedure, electoral law, the press, personal
freedom, and, most important, education, the corner-stone of free
existence.
_We have misled, corrupted, fooled, and demoralised the youth of the GOYS
by education along principles and theories known by us to be false but
which we ourselves have inspired._
Without changing substantially the existing law we have created
stupendous results by distorting the laws through contradictory
interpretations. These results first manifested themselves by the
fact that interpretation has concealed the law itself, and thereafter
has completely hidden it from the eyes of the governments by the
impossibility of understanding such complicated jurisprudence.