To teach the people obedience they must be taught modesty, and to
accomplish this the production of luxuries must be limited. We will thus
improve customs, demoralized by rivalry, resulting from luxury.
We will restore handicraft, which will undermine the private capital
of manufacturers. This is necessary, because big manufacturers often
influence, although not always consciously, the thoughts of the people
against the government.
A people, practicing handicraft, does not know what unemployment means,
and this makes them cling to existing conditions and consequently to the
power of authority. Unemployment is most dangerous for a government. It
will have finished its work for us as soon as authority falls into our
hands.
Drunkenness will also be forbidden by law and will be punishable as a
crime against human decency, for man becomes bestial under the influence
of alcohol.
Once more I state, that people obey blindly only the hand that is
strong and entirely independent of them, in which they see a sword of
defense and a stronghold against the blows of social misfortune. Why
should the sovereign have an angel’s heart? They want to see in him the
personification of might and power.
The sovereign who will replace the present existing governments, dragging
along their existence in the midst of a society demoralized by us,
which denies even the power of God and from whose midst rises on all
sides the flames of anarchy, must primarily undertake to extinguish
this all-consuming fire. Therefore, he must destroy such a society,
if necessary drown it in its own blood, in order to resurrect it as a
well-organized army, which consciously struggles against the infection of
any anarchy affecting the state organism.
He, God’s elect, is chosen from above for the purpose of crushing the
insane forces that are moved by instinct and not by intellect, by
bestiality and not by humanitarianism. These forces are now triumphant,
and assume the form of robberies and all kinds of violence exercised in
the name of liberty and of right. They have destroyed all social order,
so as to establish the throne of the King of Israel; but their rôle will
be ended with his coming into power. Then it will be necessary to sweep
them from his path, on which not a twig or an impediment shall remain.
Then we will say to the peoples: Pray to God and bow before him who bears
the mark of predestination, to whom God Himself showed His Star, so that
none but He Himself should free you from all sinful forces and from evil.