It is here argued that ‘the Protocols of the Learned elders of Zion’ was mainly composed between 1818 and 1864. We here explore the thesis propounded by Henry Makow, that they were composed in Paris by a member of the Rothschild banking dynasty.[1] Some of the ‘forgery’ claims will also be reviewed.
A Brief Background Sketch
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, who maybe gave them monthly over a couple of years.
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