There is one famous document which haunts our modern world - the 'Protocols of the Learned elders of Zion.’ We'll here argue, that it was most likely composed in the 1840s in Paris by a member of the Rothschild banking dynasty. That puts their composition in the first half of the 19th century and not at the end of it, as is widely believed. (1) Its text contains no allusion to Zionism, as you'd expect if it belonged to the end of the 19th century - but rather, it formulates a financial master-plan deriving from an earlier period, when Rothschild and Illuminati plans came together in the wake of the French revolution. A few components were added to the final text, at the end of the 19th century - which has misled people to suppose it was written then. Let's start with a historical perspective.
'No single document has more fully captured the attention of the gentile world, that the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion' - Brother Nathaniel
1. The Bavarian Illuminati
In 1815, Lionel Nathan Rothschild trumped the Bank of England, he crashed it in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. He in effect took over the Bank of England, then in 1816 he did much the same with France, its bank was taken over by the Rothschilds: two national banks.(2) Such a thing was totally unheard-of: that, by speculation, a family gained financial power over nation-states. In 1818 the Rothschilds made loans to European governments, beginning with Prussia and following with issues to England, Austria, Naples and Russia.
As the Protocols observed, Freemasonry was employed as a means of concealing the new movement, formulated by the brilliant mastermind Adam Weishaupt in Bavaria: back in the 1780s a Luciferian ‘Illuminism’ began permeating Western Freemasonic lodges, with a philosophy radically different from that which they had earlier contained. Weishaupt wrote: "The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment, let it never appear, in any place in its own name, but always covered by another name, and another occupation. None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry; the public is accustomed to it, expects little from it, and therefore takes little notice of it."(3) In 1781 the Illuminati hierarchy became added to the first three degrees of Masonry (Masons at the Congress of Wilhelmsbad, 20 December). On returning home, Comte de Virieu, a Mason from the Martiniste lodge at Lyons, reported: "I can only tell you that all this is very much more serious than you think. The conspiracy which is being woven is so well thought-out that it will be impossible for the Monarchy and the Church to escape it."(4)
What was so powerful about the new movement, what was its terrible potency? It was we are here suggesting a spiritual movement, threatening to destroy the entire established order of things, it was Jewish at its core (5) (‘the doctors of Unbelief’) and it was based upon the godlike way in which paper money could be created out of nothing –with interest charged upon it.
The Inception had begun in 1694, two centuries earlier, with a Dutch king put onto the English throne, and Dutch financiers putting up some gold, and thereby acquiring the magical ability to multiply paper money - it was called, the ‘Bank of England’. It’s a well-told story. We are only here concerned with a creative act, maybe a century and a half later: when did one individual compose the awful twenty-four fold ‘Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion? We surmise it was one of the 33rd degree in the Paris Mizraim Lodge, maybe giving them monthly over a couple of years.
2. The Rothschild Dynasty
Clearly, there is an ‘I’ in the text, a single Author, eg: ‘To-day we shall touch upon the financial program, which I put off to the end of my report as being the most difficult, the crowning and the decisive point of our plans’. (Protocol 20)
The 6th Protocol describes the experience of crashing a national currency, whereby ‘we,’ the dreadful secret ‘we,’ have the power to do that. We are here endorsing Henry Makow’s view, that it has to have been a Rothschild who spoke the words: ‘We are creating huge monopolies upon which even the large fortunes of the goyim are dependent so that they will go to the bottom together with the credit of the states on the day after the political smash.’ That phrase has to be anchored in the historical reality of 1815-8, and written from personal experience. (6)
That text came from no book or tradition, but came in the aftermath of seizing control of the French and British banking systems; only in the wake of such shattering and unprecedented events could the new, financial technique for World Domination come to the cruel and heartless intelligence which composed the Protocols. It could not I suggest have happened any earlier, and may have been a decade or so after these acts - when the stupendous significance of their wealth, plus also maybe the success of Weishaupt’s Illuminism (7), blossomed into the evil plot.
If you will look back at every war in Europe during the nineteenth century, you will see that they always ended with the establishment of a "balance of power." With every reshuffling there was a balance of power in a new grouping around the House of Rothschild in England, France, or Austria. They grouped nations so that if any king got out of line, a war would break out and the war would be decided by which way the financing went. Researching the debt positions of the warring nations will usually indicate who was to be punished (Economist Dr Stuart Crane (8)).
- the exact policy described in Protocol 2: ‘It is indispensable for our purpose that wars, so far as possible, should not result in territorial gains: war will thus be brought on to the economic ground, where the nations will not fail to perceive in the assistance we give the strength of our predominance, and this state of things will put both sides at the mercy of our international agentur.’
On 19th June 1815 Nathan Mayer Rothschild crashed the English stock market then on 20-21 June ‘the Rothschild family gained complete control of the British economy and forced England to set up a new bank of England, which Nathan controlled outright. In that year Nathan Mayer Rothschild (9) in effect took over the Bank of England, becoming Nathan Mayer, Baron de Rothschild.’ (10) Then in France on 5 November 1818 Rothschild agents began buying huge amounts of French government bonds, and ‘Rothschilds gained complete control of France’s finances.’ (Ibid) His son Amschel Mayer is known for the saying in 1838 ‘Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who makes its laws.’ The Rothchilds profited immensely from wars, funding both sides in accord with the Protocols advice.
‘It is more likely that Rothschild's grandson, Lionel Nathan Rothschild (1809-1879) or someone like him, is the author,’ Henry Makow conjectured. Lionel Rothschild was cast as the banker "Sidonia" in a novel by Benjamin D'Israeli, Coningsby (1844):
No minister of state had such communication with secret agents and political spies as Sidonia. He held relations with all the clever outcasts of the world. The catalogue of his acquaintances in the shape of Greeks, Armenians, Moors, secret Jews, Tartars, Gypsies, wandering Poles and Carbonari, would throw a curious light on those subterranean agencies of which the world in general knows so little, but which exercise so great an influence on public events. The secret history of the world was his pastime. His great pleasure was to contrast the hidden motive, with the public pretext, of transactions. (11)
James Meyer Rothschild (1792 – 1868) was a 33 degree Scottish Rite Mason, was advisor to two kings of France, and became the most powerful banker in the country following the Napoleonic Wars. He and his sophisticated Viennese wife were at the center of Parisian culture. One could here add, that the text was composed by a teetotaller, from its comments about alcohol and the goyim.
The grand serpent, coiling in its 24-fold dark splendor, threatening to embrace the world, was it born then? The Mind that conceived it was, as Solzhenitsyn observed, of ‘well above normal abilities,’ its plan being ‘more complicated than a nuclear bomb.’ (12) That is not the text we have now, because it was polished up prior to its debut at the First International world Zionist Conference in Basel in 1897.
3. The Warning: Dialogues in Hell
Some readers – or maybe most - will believe that the Protocols were a ‘forgery.’ A forgery of what? We here define this concept, as meaning, that the Protocols were composed around the end of the 19th century. There are several allusions to events at the end of the 19th century in the text, eg the notion of having politicians who can be manipulated through having some stain upon their character: ‘some Panama.’ The Panama crisis happened in 1892. If you believe it’s a forgery, you will believe it was composed after that date, and done by a member of the Russian secret police the ‘Okhrana’ – going to Paris and writing it in French, that’s the story. (13)
In 1864, a book by Maurice Joly was published, Dialogues in Hell,(14) which had clearly overlapping material from the Protocols. One had copied from the other. That fact is the starting-point, upon which everyone is agreed. Henry Makow’s hypothesis is here being explored, whereby Joly copied, having seen the proto-Protocols, and not vice-versa.
Maurice Joly, “a Jew whose real name was Joseph Levy, was a lifelong Mason and member of the ‘Lodge of Mizraim,’” explained Henry Makow, “He was the protegé of Adolph Cremieux (Isaac Moise Cremieux 1796-1880) the head of the lodge and a Minister in the Jewish-backed government of Leon Gambetta.” (15) That connection with the Mizraim Lodge is important.
Joly’s text had been viewed as a polemic against Napoleon III, who arrested him for it. Few would read that text today, unless studying French literature - whereas, millions all around the world are continually reading the Protocols, on account of the doomy, hope-terminating manner in which it seems to be describing how our world is unfolding. No other text seems to have been describing the 20th century - and the 21st. It’s been described as the second most read text after the Bible, (16) as permanently in print around the world, translated into every written language, and as the most profound political text since Plato’s Republic. (17)
Less than one-sixth of the Protocols text overlaps with the Joly text. (18) That degree of overlap may hardly be enough to indicate its derivation. The Joly text is standard Machiavellian philosophy, about how politicians need to cheat and lie, etc: whereas the Protocols are prophetic of what was to develop through the 20th century, they reach into the future, which might have meant little to Joly. For Joly, despotism was to be achieved without violence: "violence plays no role" (p. 174); "I who have taken as final policy, not violence, but self-effacement" (p. 226) - whereas the Protocols describe a program of routinely bumping off enemies in secret.
Comparing two of the Protocols texts (with thanks to Henry Makow): Joly’s Dialogues say: "Everywhere might precedes right. Political liberty is merely a relative idea. The need to live is what dominates states as it does individuals," which is compared to the First Protocol: "From the law of nature right lies in might. Political freedom is an idea but not a fact, and one must know how to use it [political freedom] as a bait whenever it appears necessary to attract the masses ... to one's party for the purpose of crushing another who is in authority." (Protocols 1) The difference here could hardly be more striking: Joly is reflecting on matters as a political theorist, while in contrast we can hardly doubt that the Protocols author is describing actual practice, what has been and is being accomplished.
Joly’s Dialogues say: "Revolutionary ferment which is suppressed in one's own country should be incited throughout Europe" expressing a standard Machiavellian tactic for a nation-state (much practiced from London we may note during the heyday of the British empire), and this is comparable to the 7th Protocol: "Throughout all Europe ... we must create ferments, discords, hostilities." But, there is no reference to suppressing these in one's own country. The Author does not have a nation-state to promote, all European states have to submit!
There is nothing anti-Semitic in the Joly text, it contains no hint of a Jewish plot. Whereas, the Protocols are about nothing else. Had the Russian Okhrana wanted to incite anti-semitism – supposedly, we are told, the reason for the ‘forgery’ - why on earth would they have wanted to allude to this text?
Maurice Joly knew something terrible. He had to picture in 1864 a descent into Hell to describe it - and was jailed for his efforts. It was said of him, ‘It is his lasting achievement to have uncovered in the analysis of his own times the vulnerabilities of modern politics to a new form of tyranny.’(19) What new tyranny was that? The sole and precise goal of his Dialogue, he affirmed in the opening words, was to describe: ‘… one political system in particular that has not varied in its methods for a single day since the unfortunate and, alas, already too far away date of its inauguration…The supernatural duration of certain successes [in this field] is furthermore intended to corrupt honesty itself; but the public conscience yet remains, and the heavens will one day interfere in the games being played against it.’
Whatever could he have meant? He is here claiming, that he wrote his book to warn about a terrible political scheme, which had already begun, which he saw as never deviating from its aim since it was conceived, which appeared to have a supernatural ability to corrupt ‘honesty itself’ – and, it would require heaven to intercede in order to put a stop to it! His message was, he averred, applicable to all governments, not to one in particular. Bear in mind that Joly was under a Masonic oath of secrecy and so cannot say anything more direct.
I suggest that these very important words of Joly are compatible with a composition date in the 1840s for the Protocols: it was a ‘far away’ date and yet clearly within his personal memory. That was the time of Marx and of the great revolutionary ferment in Europe.
4. They Appear in Russia
Mr Sergius Alexandrovich Nilus published the Protocols in 1905. (20) He had served in Tsar Nicholas II’s court as its Minister of Foreign Religions and had commanded a detachment of Don Cossacks, being decorated for heroism. He averred: ‘It is nearly four years since the Protocols of the Elders of Zion came into my possession.’ (21) His Russian text derived from a French original, (22) there is very wide agreement on this point.
Figure: Sergei Nilus and his son in 1900
In 1884 the daughter of a Russian general, Justine Glinka, was in Paris to obtain political information on behalf of the Tzar, which she was communicating to General Orgevskii in St. Petersburg. She employed Joseph Schorst, (23) a member of the Jewish Freemasonic Mizraim Lodge in Paris, (24) who one day offered to obtain for her a document of great importance to Russia, on payment of 2,500 francs. This sum was duly sent from St. Petersburg, paid over and the document handed to her. She translated it into Russian and then handed it over to Orgevskii, who in turn handed it to his chief, General Cherevin, for transmission to the Tsar. Cherevin, being under certain financial obligations, may have been pressured not to transmit it and instead filed it away.
Justine Glinka on her return to Russia dwelt in a place called Orel, where she gave a copy of the Protocols to the marechal de noblesse of this district, Alexis Sukhotin, who showed it to two of his friends, Stepanov and Nilus. That was in the year 1895, and we have a signed and witnessed testimony to this effect, which there seems no reason to doubt. (25)That could be the earliest date for the definite existence of this document. (26)
Nilus’ son testified at the Berne trial (of 1935, concerning the Protocols) that he had seen Stepanov hand over a manuscript in French of the Protocols to his Father in June of 1901. (27) As we’ll see in the next section, there are various bits of the Protocols which could only have been composed in the 1890s. Stepanov printed and circulated a text privately in 1897, while Nilus published it in 1905 as a chapter in his book The Great Within the Small, a copy of which was deposited in the British Library.
The Protocols were first published in September 1903 in ten issues of the St. Petersburg periodical Znamya as ‘Protocols of the Sessions of the World Freemasons’ Alliance and of the Sages of Zion,’ no copies remain.(28)
5. The Birth of Zionism
The year 1897 is ‘considered the start of practical Zionism’ (29), i.e the quest for a Jewish homeland. Theodore Hertzl’s book came out the year before. It is unthinkable that the Protocols could have been composed around that time, but not allude to it. The complete absence of this theme from the Protocols strongly indicates that they were composed much earlier, before Zionism had blossomed. The ‘learned elders’ did not dare to add in Zionic plans to the hallowed Protocols, that would have been too massive an adjustment.
Think carefully of the successes we arranged for Darwinism, Marxism, Nietzeism. To us Jews, at any rate, it should be plain to see what a disintegrating effect these directives have had upon the minds of the goyim’ (Protocol 2)
We may doubt whether the banker dynasties did arrange such successes – maybe for Marxist-Leninism, for Stalinism and for Bolshevism, but not these intellectuals as such. However, the authors (plural) wanted to claim such for the Zionist conference at Basel. Also the use of ‘to us Jews’ is not generally characteristic of the main text, written (as Henry Makow has argued) by one individual. Only at the end of the 19th century not its middle could the success of such intellectual ‘anti-Christ’ movements have been averred. The ‘us Jews’ suggests a plural authorship, as the learned ‘elders of Zion’ handled and prepared the final manuscript.
There is almost something satirical about such a claim, which in turn fuels claims of these texts being a ‘forgery.’ (30) Likewise, the text extols the misleading of Youth with nihilism via Leon Bourgeois, the French Minister of Education around 1990: ‘one of our best agents, Bourgeois’ (Protocol 16). Was that comic satire? Let’s just say, it was an add-on. Or, they threaten to blow up cities with the Metro-underground, which was constructed at a similar time. Was that a joke? If these fin-de-siècle touches were added by ‘Elders of Zion’ with a Talmudic dislike of Christian culture, then they were but adding glitter to the main deep and terrible argument, formulated much earlier in the century.
We here concur with Peter Myers: ‘My argument is that Joly did not create these parallel passages ex nihilo, but modified an existing revolutionary text (precursor of the Protocols), reworking parts of it to suit his attack on Napoleon III’. Thus, Leon Bourgeois, French Prime Minister in 1895-6, frequently spoke in favor of a system of teaching, and in 1897 these speeches were published in a book, L'Education de la democratie francaise. Then, a passage in Protocol 10 has the Elders recommend the election of presidents with some 'Panama' in their past. This refers almost certainly to Emile Loubet, Prime Minister of France when the Panama scandal reached its climax in 1892.
As for the Paris underground, the Metro, plans for it were announced in 1894, but it was only in 1897 that the municipal council granted the concession: in view of the threat in the Protocols to blow up capital cities from the underground railways. In 1896 the Russian Minister of Finance Sergey Witte proposed the introduction of the gold-standard in Russia, in place of the gold-and-silver standard then in force; and in 1897 it was in fact introduced. This too figures in the Protocols - in Protocol 19 there is the observation that the gold standard has ruined every state that has adopted it. But, above all, there is the title of the forgery itself. One would normally expect the mysterious rulers to be called Elders of Jewry or Elders of Israel - as we have seen, the first Zionist congress [was] at Basel. (31)
But we’re not going all the way with Mr Meyers:
The year of the congress was 1897. All in all it is practically certain that the Protocols were fabricated sometime between 1894 and 1899 and highly probable that it was in 1897 or 1898. The country was undoubtedly France, as is shown by the many references to French affairs. (32)
He has shown some impressive final text adjustments in 1897, the very year of the Congress – but, we should not confuse this with the composition of the masterpiece itself. That year is when they were finished, not composed.
References
3. Makow, ibid, p.82; John Robison, Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe , 1798. Robison, a Mason and philosophy professor at Edinburgh, was invited to join the Illuminati in the late 18th century. Dr. Adam Weishaupt, Professor of Canon Law in the university of Ingolstadt, was a member of the The Lodge Theodore of Good Counsel, established in Bavaria in 1775. After being expelled from Bavaria in 1785 he fled to Switzerland. See David Rivera, Final Warning History of the New world Order, 1994, p.24-27.
4. Juri Lina Under the sign of the Scorpion 1998, p.27: ‘Baron Bassus’ (Hannibal’s castle) in Sandersdorf was also searched and the police confiscated even more papers concerning the Illuminat’s conspiracy against the whole world. In these documents, which I carefully studied in 1986 in the Ingolstadt archives, plans for a global revolution were laid out and these papers clearly stated that this destructive operation was to be the work of secret societies.’ The Illuminati courier Jacob Lanze was struck by lightning and killed on 20.7.1785, on his way to Prague: ‘Local police found at his home ‘documents giving detailed instructions for the planned French Revolution. Some of these documents were addressed to the Grand Master of the Grand Orient Lodge in Paris.’ (Juri Lina p.27)’ Some noted that the timetable for the 1789 French Revolution appeared to be carried out exactly as planned in those captured documents. Of that French revolution, Protocol 7 stated: ‘the secrets of its preparation are well known to us, for it was wholly the work of our hands.’
5. ‘Bernard Lazar, a well-known Jewish author, wrote in his L’antisémitisme (1894) that Weishaupt was surrounded exclusively by Cabbalistic jews. Confiscated documents show that of 39 illuminati holding lesser leading positions, 17 were Jews (ie 40%). The higher one looked in ranks, the larger was the percentage of Jews.’ Juri Lina op cit p.24. Adam Weishaupt, whose father was a Jewish rabbi, was supported by the House of Rothchild in Frankfurt.
6. See the video, http://nworesearch.org/rothschilds.html
7. For what didn’t happen - the ‘academic’ view that, after the Bavarian illuminati were extinguished in 1785, that was the end of the story - see eg The European Illuminati by Dr Vernon Stauffer, Chapter 3 alleging that Professor Robison’s Proofs of a Conspiracy,1797 was greatly exaggerated. Against this see e.g. US President George Washington’s letter 24.10.1798 expressing concern about the spread of the ‘doctrines of the Illuminati’ with its ‘diabolical tenets’ via freemasonry; or the Boston committee set up a few years later to inquire how far Freemasonry and ‘French Illuminism’ were connected. This suggests that it was alive and well: Rivera, op.cit. pp.55,61.
8. Quoted without reference, but see here.
9. Benjamin Disraeli’s novel, Coningsby describes him as: “the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions.” He was ”a man without affection.” (pp.294, 299 1927 Edn)
18. “The word-count of the parallel-passages from the Protocols, as listed by Bernstein (at bernstein.zip), is 4,361, while the word-count of the Protocols is 26, 496. That is, the parallel passages comprise 16.45% of the Protocols; this is substantial, but still less than one sixth of the total.” – Peter Meyers, http://mailstar.net/toolkit.html
19. This evaluation continues, ‘Napoleon's police immediately confiscated what were probably thought to be all extant copies of the Dialogue. But the text, surprisingly enough, later somehow found its way to Istanbul’ - not, N.B., to Paris’ main library. http://www.naderlibrary.com/lit.dialoguehellintro.htm
20. There is a fine account of these matters in Metapedia, which contrasts greatly with the Wikipedia site: the latter proceeds entirely by incantation: of course it’s a forgery…we know it’s a forgery .. well-known to be a forgery… You do believe it’s a forgery, don’t you?
21. Sergius Nilus wrote his ‘Antichrist’ essay in 1901, or so it was dated in his 1905 book The Great within the Small. He was inspired firstly, by the Russian mystic Vladimir Solovieff, who published in 1900, the last year of his life (in a book War and the End of History), his vision of the Antichrist – who posed as a benefactor of humanity, and worked through international Masonry (all rather reminiscent of Weishaupt’s Illuminism); and secondly, Nilus’ getting to see the Protocols, at around the same time. In his Foreword he explained: ‘Soloviev gives us the canvas, the embroidery will be worked by the proposed manuscript.’ He wrote other mystical treatises, mere possession of which could earn up to ten years’ imprisonment in the Soviet Union, e.g. The Force of God and Human Weakness; 1908; By the Side of the River of God, 1911, none ever translated into English. An English translation of both ‘Antichrist’ essays would be of some interest. Dostoevsky’s Legend of the Grand Inquisitor of 1880 was an earlier Russian ‘Antichrist’ vision.
24. Henry Makow has alleged that ‘most Israeli politicians and supreme court judges’ are members of the Mizraim Lodge, i.e. of Israeli lodges using the Mizraim rite. (quoting a 2003 article by Israeli citizen Jerry Golden) The Mizraim Lodge was founded in 1805 (in Italy) and then in Paris in 1815. ‘The documents emanate from the Masonic Lodge of the Egyptian Rite (Mizraim),’ Georgi Butmi wrote in the Intro to his 1906 Russian version of the Protocols (B. Segal, A Lie and a Libel, History of the Protocols, 1995, p.74).
25. Fry’s book reproduced a facsimile of a hand-written sworn and witnessed statement by by Stepanov, made in 1927 (in Russian): "In 1895, my neighbour in the district of Toula, Major (retired) Alexis Sukhotin, gave me a manuscript copy of the Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion. He told me that a lady of his acquaintance, whose name he did not mention, residing in Paris, had found it at the house of a friend, a Jew. Before leaving Paris, she had secretly translated it and had brought this one copy to Russia and given it to Sukhotin.” This testimony was signed, ‘Philip Petrovitch Stepanov, former Procurator of the Moscow Synod Office; Chamberlain, Privy Councillor, and at the time of the publication of that edition, Chief of the district railway service of the Moscow-Kursk railway (in Orel)’ – and it was also witnessed: "This is the signature of a member of the colony of Russian refugees at Stary and Novy Futog, Witnessed by me, April 17, 1927, Chairman of the Administration of the Colony, Prince Vladimir Galitzin." (Seal) This text was also given in Norman Cohn’s learned Warrant for Genocide 1967 p.108. Cohn concluded that ‘Stepanov was probably trying to tell the truth as he remembered it,’ adding that a copy of this early text was shown at the Berne trial of 1934. Only a German translation remains, but ‘This shows that the text must have been practically identical with that edited by Nilus.’ That rather knocks on the head the theory about Nilus receiving his text from the secret police.
27. Source: Michael Hagemeister, Die Fiktion von der jüdischen Weltverschwörung 2012 p.172. The testimony of Nilus’ son given at the Berne trial had never been published, he explained, but ‘A copy of the original French text is in the Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven.’
28. Cesare de Michelis claims to have seen a copy (in his book The non-Existent Manuscript 2004, Jerusalem), giving no hint how he came by it. In his view the Protocols were composed in 1902-3 in Russian, without any French source. He gives no clue who the Author might be. Freemasonry was banned in Russia in 1823, which is why sensible authors don’t go down this road: the Protocols describe a Masonic plot. This book represents a kind of lunatic fringe of Protocols conspiracy-theory, according to which the text just popped out of nowhere.
29. Eg, The 1845 conference of rabbis, at Frankfurt am Main deleted from the ritual all prayers for a return to Zion and a restoration of a Jewish state (Wiki).
31. Quotes here come from Cohn, p.112. Also, it seems likely that the word ‘protocols’ was copied from the Protokoll er Verhandlungendes Zionis ten-Congresses in Basel, the German title of the 1897 Congress.
32. It cannot have originated in Russia, where it first appeared, because Freemasonry was banned in Russia in 1822: the Protocols ‘plot’ is all about Masonry.
1. See Makow’s essay, ‘Protocols “Forgery Claim is Flawed” in Illuminati, The Cult that Hijacked the World, 2008, 108-112; or web-essays eg Makow-Protocols Forgery Claim is Flawed’ NB his web-essays are not the same as the book chapters, and the book is recommended for anyone wishing to grapple with this topic.
2. Rothschild Timeline: ‘This [crash] gave the Rothschild family complete control of the British economy, now the financial centre of the world following Napolean’s defeat, and forced England to set up a new Bank of England, which Nathan Mayer Rothschild controlled.’ See also Frederick Morton, The Rothschilds A Family portrait 1962, pp.53,56.
3. Makow, ibid, p.82; John Robison, Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe , 1798. Robison, a Mason and philosophy professor at Edinburgh, was invited to join the Illuminati in the late 18th century. Dr. Adam Weishaupt, Professor of Canon Law in the university of Ingolstadt, was a member of the The Lodge Theodore of Good Counsel, established in Bavaria in 1775. After being expelled from Bavaria in 1785 he fled to Switzerland. See David Rivera, Final Warning History of the New world Order, 1994, p.24-27.
4. Juri Lina Under the sign of the Scorpion 1998, p.27: ‘Baron Bassus’ (Hannibal’s castle) in Sandersdorf was also searched and the police confiscated even more papers concerning the Illuminat’s conspiracy against the whole world. In these documents, which I carefully studied in 1986 in the Ingolstadt archives, plans for a global revolution were laid out and these papers clearly stated that this destructive operation was to be the work of secret societies.’ The Illuminati courier Jacob Lanze was struck by lightning and killed on 20.7.1785, on his way to Prague: ‘Local police found at his home ‘documents giving detailed instructions for the planned French Revolution. Some of these documents were addressed to the Grand Master of the Grand Orient Lodge in Paris.’ (Juri Lina p.27)’ Some noted that the timetable for the 1789 French Revolution appeared to be carried out exactly as planned in those captured documents. Of that French revolution, Protocol 7 stated: ‘the secrets of its preparation are well known to us, for it was wholly the work of our hands.’
5. ‘Bernard Lazar, a well-known Jewish author, wrote in his L’antisémitisme (1894) that Weishaupt was surrounded exclusively by Cabbalistic jews. Confiscated documents show that of 39 illuminati holding lesser leading positions, 17 were Jews (ie 40%). The higher one looked in ranks, the larger was the percentage of Jews.’ Juri Lina op cit p.24. Adam Weishaupt, whose father was a Jewish rabbi, was supported by the House of Rothchild in Frankfurt.
6. See the video, http://nworesearch.org/rothschilds.html
7. For what didn’t happen - the ‘academic’ view that, after the Bavarian illuminati were extinguished in 1785, that was the end of the story - see eg The European Illuminati by Dr Vernon Stauffer, Chapter 3 alleging that Professor Robison’s Proofs of a Conspiracy,1797 was greatly exaggerated. Against this see e.g. US President George Washington’s letter 24.10.1798 expressing concern about the spread of the ‘doctrines of the Illuminati’ with its ‘diabolical tenets’ via freemasonry; or the Boston committee set up a few years later to inquire how far Freemasonry and ‘French Illuminism’ were connected. This suggests that it was alive and well: Rivera, op.cit. pp.55,61.
8. Quoted without reference, but see here.
9. Benjamin Disraeli’s novel, Coningsby describes him as: “the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions.” He was ”a man without affection.” (pp.294, 299 1927 Edn)
10. Greg Hallett, Hitler was a British Agent, NZ 2005, p.471
11. Disraeli, Coningsby, 1844, p.301 (Disraeli became Britain’s Prime Minister in 1868).
13. According to The Lie that Wouldn’t Die by Hadassa Ben-Itto, 2005 (an Israeli lawyer), p.81, in 1884 the head of the Russian police sent agents to Paris ‘to prepare the fake documents’ i.e. some police bureaucrats wrote them. He then tried to get the document to the Tsar via General Cherevin, head of the Okhrana – but he wouldn’t collude, and just archived it. Then, years later, ‘at the beginning of the first Russian revolution’ i.e 1905 the Okhrana again decided to send agents to Paris to develop and enlarge the document, to make it look more modern. Thus the Protocols appeared. Just about everything is wrong with this story. This tale has the forgery happen in the same year 1884 that Justine Glinka was (‘actually’) in Paris obtaining her copy of the Protocols.
14. It was published anonymously as a set of Dialogues in the Underworld between Machiavelli and Montesquieu. In his anonymous Preface Joly did not as such claim authorship: “One will not ask where is the hand that traced out these pages: a work such as this is, in a certain way, impersonal. It responds to an appeal to consciousness; everyone has conceived it; it is executed; the author effaces himself, because he is only the editor of a thought that is in the general sense; he is only a more or less obscure accomplice of the coalition for good.” Joly took his life in 1878 (But, see his brief autobiography, written in jail, where he claims the notion of the Dialogues came to him while walking one evening by the Seine …). For complete text of the Dialogues in English, see Bernstein The Truth about the Protocols of Zion, NY 1935, pp.75-258; or download it from Peter Meyers, http://mailstar.net/toolkit.html.
15. There was a close association between Joly and Adolphe Cremaux, the French Minister of Justice, founder of Alliance Israelite Universalle, prominent member of the Mizraim Lodge, a Grand Master of the 33rd degree and member of the Supreme Council of the Order of Mizraim. In 1860 Joly founded a Paris newspaper Le Palais, for lawyers and attorneys, with various Masons backing it. Colonel Fleischhauer testified at the 1935 Berne trial that Joly was Jewish and that his name had been Joseph Levy. A eulogy was delivered at Joly’s funeral by a deputy of Leon Gambetta’s party. Kerry Bolton, The Protocols of the Learned elders of Zion in Context, 2005 Part I, pp.31-4)
16. Makow, Ref 1. The translation by Victor Marsden was published in 1923, then in 1958 its 81st edition appeared.
17. Dr Lasha Darkmoon, America Vanquished, 2011, Part II.
18. “The word-count of the parallel-passages from the Protocols, as listed by Bernstein (at bernstein.zip), is 4,361, while the word-count of the Protocols is 26, 496. That is, the parallel passages comprise 16.45% of the Protocols; this is substantial, but still less than one sixth of the total.” – Peter Meyers, http://mailstar.net/toolkit.html
19. This evaluation continues, ‘Napoleon's police immediately confiscated what were probably thought to be all extant copies of the Dialogue. But the text, surprisingly enough, later somehow found its way to Istanbul’ - not, N.B., to Paris’ main library. http://www.naderlibrary.com/lit.dialoguehellintro.htm
20. There is a fine account of these matters in Metapedia, which contrasts greatly with the Wikipedia site: the latter proceeds entirely by incantation: of course it’s a forgery…we know it’s a forgery .. well-known to be a forgery… You do believe it’s a forgery, don’t you?
21. Sergius Nilus wrote his ‘Antichrist’ essay in 1901, or so it was dated in his 1905 book The Great within the Small. He was inspired firstly, by the Russian mystic Vladimir Solovieff, who published in 1900, the last year of his life (in a book War and the End of History), his vision of the Antichrist – who posed as a benefactor of humanity, and worked through international Masonry (all rather reminiscent of Weishaupt’s Illuminism); and secondly, Nilus’ getting to see the Protocols, at around the same time. In his Foreword he explained: ‘Soloviev gives us the canvas, the embroidery will be worked by the proposed manuscript.’ He wrote other mystical treatises, mere possession of which could earn up to ten years’ imprisonment in the Soviet Union, e.g. The Force of God and Human Weakness; 1908; By the Side of the River of God, 1911, none ever translated into English. An English translation of both ‘Antichrist’ essays would be of some interest. Dostoevsky’s Legend of the Grand Inquisitor of 1880 was an earlier Russian ‘Antichrist’ vision.
22. There were two Russian translations from the French original: one by Justine Glinka, published by Nilus in 1905, the other by George Butmi published in 1906. Mrs Leslie Fry, Waters Flowing Eastward 1933, p.87. (‘Leslie Fry’ was born in Paris as Louise Chandor then married a Russian aristocrat.)
23. “Schorst fled to Egypt where, according to French police archives, he was murdered.” Leslie Fry, Waters Flowing Eastwards.
24. Henry Makow has alleged that ‘most Israeli politicians and supreme court judges’ are members of the Mizraim Lodge, i.e. of Israeli lodges using the Mizraim rite. (quoting a 2003 article by Israeli citizen Jerry Golden) The Mizraim Lodge was founded in 1805 (in Italy) and then in Paris in 1815. ‘The documents emanate from the Masonic Lodge of the Egyptian Rite (Mizraim),’ Georgi Butmi wrote in the Intro to his 1906 Russian version of the Protocols (B. Segal, A Lie and a Libel, History of the Protocols, 1995, p.74).
25. Fry’s book reproduced a facsimile of a hand-written sworn and witnessed statement by by Stepanov, made in 1927 (in Russian): "In 1895, my neighbour in the district of Toula, Major (retired) Alexis Sukhotin, gave me a manuscript copy of the Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion. He told me that a lady of his acquaintance, whose name he did not mention, residing in Paris, had found it at the house of a friend, a Jew. Before leaving Paris, she had secretly translated it and had brought this one copy to Russia and given it to Sukhotin.” This testimony was signed, ‘Philip Petrovitch Stepanov, former Procurator of the Moscow Synod Office; Chamberlain, Privy Councillor, and at the time of the publication of that edition, Chief of the district railway service of the Moscow-Kursk railway (in Orel)’ – and it was also witnessed: "This is the signature of a member of the colony of Russian refugees at Stary and Novy Futog, Witnessed by me, April 17, 1927, Chairman of the Administration of the Colony, Prince Vladimir Galitzin." (Seal) This text was also given in Norman Cohn’s learned Warrant for Genocide 1967 p.108. Cohn concluded that ‘Stepanov was probably trying to tell the truth as he remembered it,’ adding that a copy of this early text was shown at the Berne trial of 1934. Only a German translation remains, but ‘This shows that the text must have been practically identical with that edited by Nilus.’ That rather knocks on the head the theory about Nilus receiving his text from the secret police.
26. Corroboration of this story comes from a female cousin of Alexay Sukhotin: around 1895 she visited him and saw the manuscript of the Protocols being copied out by Sukhotin’s sister and by another young lady, who is named: a copy of her statement exists in the Weiner library (Cohn, p.110 note 28).
27. Source: Michael Hagemeister, Die Fiktion von der jüdischen Weltverschwörung 2012 p.172. The testimony of Nilus’ son given at the Berne trial had never been published, he explained, but ‘A copy of the original French text is in the Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven.’
28. Cesare de Michelis claims to have seen a copy (in his book The non-Existent Manuscript 2004, Jerusalem), giving no hint how he came by it. In his view the Protocols were composed in 1902-3 in Russian, without any French source. He gives no clue who the Author might be. Freemasonry was banned in Russia in 1823, which is why sensible authors don’t go down this road: the Protocols describe a Masonic plot. This book represents a kind of lunatic fringe of Protocols conspiracy-theory, according to which the text just popped out of nowhere.
29. Eg, The 1845 conference of rabbis, at Frankfurt am Main deleted from the ritual all prayers for a return to Zion and a restoration of a Jewish state (Wiki).
30. Professor Revilo Oliver commented upon this problematic sentence, ‘This may seem like Christian propaganda, such as a "fundamentalist" holy man might have inserted in a forged document.’(Liberty Bell magazine 1991, ‘Those Awful Protocols’)
31. Quotes here come from Cohn, p.112. Also, it seems likely that the word ‘protocols’ was copied from the Protokoll er Verhandlungendes Zionis ten-Congresses in Basel, the German title of the 1897 Congress.
32. It cannot have originated in Russia, where it first appeared, because Freemasonry was banned in Russia in 1822: the Protocols ‘plot’ is all about Masonry.
