The History of a Lie/Chapter 5

by Herman Bernstein

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CHAPTER FIVE

FORGERS DISAGREE

The Butmi Protocols—“Representatives of Zion” Not to be Confounded with “Zionists”—Butmi Contradicts Nilus—Plan for World Conquest Conceived 929 B. C. E.—The “Symbolic Snake”—Universal Suffrage a Jewish Device—Every Jew Familiar with Plot.

In the book issued by G. Butmi to which reference has been made, and which contains the “Rabbi’s Speech” already considered, there is to be found still another version of the protocols. Butmi was a Black Hundred writer. It appeared in 1907 and was dedicated to the Black Hundred organization. Appropriately enough it was published by the Society of Deaf and Dumb, as will be seen from the facsimile reproduction of the title page. With exceeding naïveté Butmi published the forged speech attributed by Retcliffe-Goedsche to a Jewish Rabbi as proof of the genuineness of the protocols, and side by side with the fabricated speech appears the Butmi version of the protocols which had undergone further changes subsequent to the publication in 1905 of “the documents” by Serge Nilus.

The headlines over the protocols in the Butmi 1907 version read as follows:

“PROTOCOLS TAKEN OUT OF THE SECRET DEPOSITORIES OF THE MAIN OFFICE OF ZION.

“‘(Extracts from ancient and modern protocols of the Sages of Zion of the Universal Organization of Freemasons.)’

Thus the Protocols were in 1907 presented by G. Butmi, dedicated to the Black Hundreds, as Masonic, not as Jewish documents. In his introduction the author says, in part, as follows:

“‘These secret protocols were secured with great difficulty in fragmentary form, and were translated into Russian in December, 1901. It is almost impossible to get at the secret depositories again where they are hidden, and therefore they cannot be reinforced by definite information as to the place, day, month, year, where and when they were composed.

“‘The reader who is more or less familiar with the secrets of Freemasonry will draw from the general character of the criminal plot, outlined in the protocols, the conclusion as to their authenticity, and from several details he will suppose with great certainty that the mentioned protocols were taken from the documents of the Masonic lodge of Egyptian ritual, or Mizraim, which is joined mostly by Jews. . . .

“‘But the above-mentioned failure to mention the time and place where the protocols were composed might call forth in the reader, who is entirely unfamiliar with the abominations of Masonic doctrines, doubts as to the authenticity of these documents.’”

At the end of the “protocols” published in this edition by Butmi, in 1907, there appears a note by the man who declares that he had secured and translated the documents from the French, on December 9, 1901, and in the very first two lines of his note, he states that the representatives of Zion mentioned in the documents are not to be confounded with the representatives of the Zionist movement. The Russian mystic Serge Nilus, in his later editions, connected the documents with the Zionist Congress in Basle and with the head of the Zionist movement, Dr. Theodore Herzl.

The translator, as do Nilus and Lutostansky, also gives a version of “the political plan devised by the Wise Men of Zion.” This translator, however, states that the “political plan was conceived 929 years before the birth of Christ. It was invented by Solomon and Judean sages in theory.”

Here follow extracts from the so-called Translator’s Note:

Translator’s Note.

“The expounded protocols are signed the representatives of Zion (do not confound them with the representative of the Zionist movement). They were taken out of a whole book of protocols, the entire contents of which it was impossible to copy because of the short time allowed the translator for reading these protocols. A small appendix was attached to them and a plan of conquering the world by the Jews by peaceful means. These protocols and the Sketch were taken from the secret depositories of the Main Office of Zion, now located on French territory.

“The above-mentioned sketch contained the entire political plan of Zion with regard to the stages to be passed through by this movement and to the means of passing from one to another. The aforesaid political plan was conceived 929 years before the birth of Christ. It was invented by Solomon and the Judean Sages in theory; according to historical events, it was elaborated and enlarged by their followers initiated in this plan.

“These sages decided to conquer the world peacefully for Zion, with the cunning of the Symbolic Snake, whose head should be composed of the Jewish Government initiated in the plans of the Wise Men (always masked even to their people), and the body—the Jewish nation.

“Crawling into the bosom of governments, this snake has undermined or eaten away all non-Jewish governmental powers, according to their growth, in various continents, but particularly in Europe, which he should do also in the future, following exactly the outlines of the plan until the cycle of the road travelled by it will close by the return of the head of the Snake to Zion,—that is, until this snake will include in the sphere of its circle all Europe, and through Europe the whole world, utilizing all forces conquered by economic means in order to draw the other continents into the sphere of its cycle. . . .

“For instance, the economic theory of the ballot system has made it possible to carry out everything that was desirable in the interests of the elevation of Zion. The Jewish authorities commenced to act by means of bribing or by instigating the majority of votes as soon as they succeeded to manage so that the decisions of that majority became the determining factor in questions of national life. The crowd always in need, or the greedy intelligent class, short-sighted liberals and other blind people have also rendered good service to Zion. Therefore the republican is the most desirable and convenient form of government for Zion because it gives full sway for the activities of the armies of Zion—for anarchists of thought and action, called socialists.

“All that which is outlined above is the work of the hands of the nation without a territory, constituting but a drop in the ocean of humanity, but possessing the most ideal Government, every member of which is familiarized with the plan of action worked out in the course of centuries, from which he cannot deviate. The politics of the goyim is the politics of accidental circumstances, engineered by the Jews, and tends not towards perfecting the affairs of the state, but towards struggle for the sake of greed, or more often for the personal aggrandizement of the administrators.

“From this it is clear, on whose side there must be victory and the guidance of the world.

“Translation from the French, December 9, 1901.”