... beautiful name of spiritual slavery. A man who is attached to money is a slave. I used to know a man... I have never come across another of the same quality of attachment. He was so money mad that even if you had a one hundred rupee note, he would say, "Just let me touch it." And he would touch it as if he was touching his beloved, with such romance. It was impossible to give him money and to...

... get it back. I inquired about him from all the people who knew him. They said, "He has never returned anybody's money. And people feel full of pity. Nobody is angry about it. They just think he is insane, obsessed with money." Walking on the street on a fullmoon night, he suddenly picked up something and then threw it away and said, "If I meet this man I will kill him. The son of a...

... in the bathroom. He always avoided one old woman in particular. And I had to tell her, "He is not here." But one day I said to her, "What is the matter? Whenever you come you never find him here." She said, "There is nothing the matter. He is afraid of me because he owes me money. And naturally, I will purchase things and I will tell him, 'Deduct it from the money you owe...

... never deceived that woman that you are not in the shop. You owe money to her?" He said, "I owe money to everybody. In this whole area, nobody can say that I don't owe money to them. But you know me; I cannot return money once I get it. It is almost like a heart attack to give the money back." It is verging on insanity. All attachments although different in degree, are a kind of putting...

... yourself down and making something so important that people are ready to die for money; people are ready to die for power. People are ready to do anything to fulfill their ambition. All these attachments destroy your worthiness. They take away all that is beautiful and valuable in you. You become smaller than the things you are attached to and infatuated with. A man who has no attachment has tremendous...

...; They differ on [the question whether] a bond [may] be written for a borrower though the creditor be not with him. Our Tanna40  holds [that] a bond may be written for a borrower although the creditor be not with him. [Consequently it may] sometimes [happen] that one41  would go to a scribe and witnesses and tell them, 'Write for me a bond because I intend borrowing [money] from my friend...

... MISHNAH. IF A MAN LENDS MONEY TO ANOTHER ON A GUARANTOR'S SECURITY,69  HE MUST NOT EXACT PAYMENT FROM THE GUARANTOR.70 To Part b Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files Because it is possible that one of them lost the bond and the other, who presents it at court, accidentally found it. Since, as has been said, loss of the bond is not suspected. That between the Baraitha and...

... acquired by delivery, the holder of the bond is legally entitled to the loan. The Tanna of the Baraitha. The debtor can consequently refuse payment of the bond, pleading that he does not owe the money to the holder of the bond but to the other Joseph; while to the other he can refuse payment on the ground that he has no bond to prove his claim. The authors of the Baraitha under discussion and of our...

... taught [elsewhere]: If [a man] lends [money] to another on a guarantor's security, [payment] shall not be demanded [from the] guarantor [in the] first instance. If, however, [the creditor] said, 'On condition that I may exact payment from whom I will' the guarantor may be called upon first.14 Said R. Huna: Whence [may it be deduced] that a guarantor becomes responsible [for a debt he has guaranteed]?15...

... hand of thy neighbour; go, humble thyself, and urge thy neighbour.25  If he has [a claim of] money upon you,26  open out27  for him the palm of [your] hand;28  and if not,29  get at him through many friends.30 Amemar said: [The question] whether a guarantor is responsible31  [for the payment of the debt he guaranteed, is a matter of] dispute [between] R. Judah and R...

... the proper reading is as follows:43  IF [A MAN] LENDS [MONEY] TO ANOTHER ON A GUARANTOR'S SECURITY HE [MUST] NOT EXACT PAYMENT FROM THE GUARANTOR. IF, HOWEVER, HE SAID 'ON THE CONDITION THAT I MAY EXACT PAYMENT FROM WHOM I WILL', PAYMENT MAY BE EXACTED FROM THE GUARANTOR. This law applies only to the case44  where the debtor has no property, but where the debtor has property, payment from...

... divorce, and the husband having no money, the woman would be enabled to exact the amount of her kethubah from the guarantor. And divide the spoil with her. Why payment may not be exacted from the guarantor. At present it is assumed that so long as the borrower is alive and did not abscond the guarantor cannot be called upon to pay. The debtor; i.e., the creditor has, so to speak, put the debtor in...

...' implies unconditional responsibility. Ibid. XLII, 37. [Although this was said by Reuben, it is unlikely that Judah's guarantee involved less responsibility than that of Reuben's which Jacob had rejected (Maharsha).] V. supra, n. 3. By mere verbal undertaking, since no legal agreement is mentioned. Prov. XX, 16. In money matters. By insulting or calumniating. Ibid. VI. 1-3. Lit., 'in thy hand'. Lit...

......? It is perversion! It is... Love has gone into a very poisoned and ill state of affairs. It is pathological. It is uncivilised, uncultured. But this goes on happening. And these people are against materialism. But don't just listen to their words, watch their life and you will find them more materialistic than anybody else. Indians are so obsessed with money: money seems to be their god. No other...

... country worships money; in India it is worshipped. They have a special day in the year when they worship notes and rupees - that day is coming closer - Diwali. No country in the world has ever worshipped rupees and money, yet they worship. And this is not just symbolic, this is very indicative. They cling to money like anything. It is very difficult for them to be non-greedy, to leave a single paise is...

... impossible. And that's why if somebody renounces a little bit of money, he is thought to be a great man. That too is materialism. Why? If somebody has renounced money, what is the point in it? Why should he be praised? But he is praised like anything, the whole country will talk about him! He will be thought to be a great man - he has renounced money! Then money must be the greatest value. One becomes...

... great if one renounces money. If people were really spiritual, renouncing money would be that somebody has renounced his mistake, that's all. There is nothing great in it. Somebody has found that money is valueless, so he has renounced it. But there is nothing to be praised in it; he has corrected his error. He was thinking that two and two are five, now he has come to understand that two and two are...

... four. You don't go declaring that he has become a Buddha because now he knows two and two are four. Before, he was stupid; now he is normal. But in India, it is worshipped if you renounce money, because the people know how much they are clinging to money. And you call India the heart of spiritualism? This is what Indians have been teaching the whole world. Don't be deceived - this is just advertising...

.... They go on claiming all over the world that they are the heart, that they have the greatest secrets of spirituality. And they go on exploiting in the name of spirituality. And they can deceive people, and they can deceive only because, particularly in the West, people are no more materialistic. Let me explain it. In the West there is material affluence. People have much more money, better houses...

... egos. And just because he satisfies their egos, I declare that he is not enlightened, because no enlightened man will ever satisfy anybody's ego. Because to satisfy anybody's ego, is really inimical, it is poisoning him. I say things as they are. I say it is one of the most barbarous countries - ugly, materialistic. money- oriented, sex-obsessed. And I don't deny that Buddha has been here, Mahavir...

... few people are stuck in the world - in the world also there are many powers. A politician has great power, a man who has money has great power. A few people are lost in worldly powers: those powers belong to the body level. Then a few people are lost in mental powers. Then you can have clairaudience, telepathy - things like that - mind reading. But you will be lost, you will never move beyond that...

...!" And this is what he did: he stood on the pulpit where the slaves have to stand so every buyer can see them, go around and look at them, and he shouted, "Listen, all you slaves who are here! For the first time a master is for sale. If any one of you has guts, you can purchase me. And these poor fellows, four fellows you see -- they need money. And it does not matter to me where I am. My...

... individuality cannot be destroyed." There was great silence. The whole marketplace became utterly silent, because he had said, "A master is for sale." One king who had come to look for a few slaves became interested, and he was ready to pay any price. Diogenes asked the thieves, "How much do you want? Don't be shy -- just ask it. Get the money and get lost!" They got the money...

... remain miserable. Nature has no idea of money, otherwise dollars would have been growing on the trees. Nature has no idea of money; money is a pure invention of man -- useful, but dangerous too. You see somebody with much money, and you think perhaps money brings joy: look at that person, how joyous he seems to be, so run after money. Somebody is healthier -- run after health. Somebody is doing...

... not disturb me. I am perfectly happy, perfectly content. I can't think that I could have been otherwise. In any other position I would have been miserable. I don't have a home, I don't have a place to live, I don't have any money. Still, I have something that gives me absolute contentment. I have lived according to my potential, and even if death comes it will not upset me. I have lived my way. The...

... become aware of it. But fear is the very foundation of unconscious life. All your actions arise out of it. You want money, you want power, you want prestige. What are all your ambitions, except to cover up your deep hidden fear? Perhaps money may be a security, perhaps power may make you more protected, secure, safe. Your respectability, in society, your religion, God ... all these are by-products of...

... you when you feel you are falling into an abysmal abyss. God is your concentrated fear. And there are lesser gods. Money is a lesser god - more visible, hence more people cling to money. But they don't want to take any chances, so they also go on donating to the church, just to keep a bank balance in God's bank. And here they go on clinging to the money, because in life it seems money gives a...

... there is no question of fear. Have you ever thought about it - that death is the only certainty in life? Everything else may fail. Love may fail, money - you know what is happening in America. Nothing is certain. Just a few days ago the dollar was on top, the biggest and the strongest currency in the world. It will never be again. It has gone down the drain. There is no possibility for it to rise...

... have a sneeze just in the middle of the rope. You cannot say - anything is possible. And you cannot prevent a sneeze. Money is more visible. People believe in money more than in God. They may pretend that they believe in God more, but their actual life shows something else. But the reason is the same. Whether it is money or power or prestige or God or religion, the reason is the same. You are living...

... important seat of the archbishop of Cologne. The family had gradually extended its offshoots from Cividale del Friuli, where Maruccio (Mordekhai) and Fays -- Salamone’s father and grandfather respectively -- had operated in the local money market, to Padua, where, in the mid-15th century, the same Salomone managed the bank of San Lorenzo in the city district of the same name [30]. Salomone and his...

... economic weight, whose members came mostly from Nuremberg and the adjacent areas. In 1382, a few Jews from Mestre obtained authorization to move to Venice to practice money-lending, but were expelled a few years later, in 1397, for failing to comply with the conditions under which the government of Venice had admitted them to the city [33]. Policy of refusing to grant permanent residence to Jews The...

... nation’s laws, and dissented from their religious orthodoxy, which they considered exaggerated and depressing. Sometimes, rightly or wrongly, they feared them. The Italian Jewish koinè, i.e, of distant Roman origin (Jews active in the money trade only moved from Rome to seek permanent residence in the municipalities of central and northern Italy starting in the second half of the 13th century...

... seats in the Patrimonio of San Pietro, in Umbria, in the Marca d'Ancona, in the Lazio and in Campagna to carry on the authorized money trade, i.e., regulated by permits, did not reach these regions simultaneously with the arrival in those regions of the German transalpine Jews, active in the same profession. They in fact preceded them by several decades. The first Jewish money lenders at Padua and...

... potentially hostile. Almost obsessively, the chapters of the permits repeatedly mention the exemplary punishments to be threatened to anyone causing damaging or injury to the Jews, or subjecting them to trouble or vexations. The permit granted by the municipality of Venzone to the money lender Benedetto of Regensburg in 1444 contained the condition that wet nurses and Christian personnel in the service of...

... municipalities of Lombardy and Triveneto with the Ashkenazi Jews were characterized by a constant concern that they be guaranteed the freedom to observe their religious ritual and ceremonial standards with zealous scrupulousness. The religious clauses inserted in the chapters were more detailed in this sense than those found in the contemporary permits granted to Jewish money lenders of Italian origin...

... tricks to drag them to the baptismal font. That this possibility was anything but remote seemed obvious to anyone having experienced this type of traumatic experience at first hand on the banks of the Rhine or the Main. Permits issued in Friulia, Lombardy and Veneto granted to German money lenders, as early as the end of the 14th century, explicitly prohibited friars and priests of any order from...

... distinguished and of higher rank. Italian Jews are pushed away by German Jews - Ashkenazi The chronology is relatively precise. In 1455, all Italian Jews active in the money trade were expelled from Padua and compelled to shut down their banks, while the "Teutonic" Jews, divided from, and now entirely separate from, the Italian Jews, gained the upper hand in the local money market [Padua], the most important...

... district [49]. The forced and almost simultaneous dismantling of the Jewish banks of Padua, Verona and Vicenza led, as an immediate consequence, to the almost total extinction of the Hebraic community of Roman origin, which was compelled, for the most part, to flow into the centers on the nearer side of the Po; on the other hand, however, it allowed other money lenders, from Treviso and the territories...

..., whom he sent with his own money" [58]. Even before that, we know that the Venetian authorities had been glad to avail themselves of the services of a Jewish barber-surgeon, Jacob da Gaeta, the Sultan’s personal physician, an expert spy and double agent, greedy for gain and treacherous, with whom Mavrogonato had maintained frequent contacts [59]. It also appears that Maestro Jacob had reached...

..., whose first-born son Marcuccio had married one of his brother Angelo’s daughters [66]. Manno was to meet Salomone da Piove at fairly frequent intervals at Venice, where he had more or less officially opened a money lending shop, of secondary importance compared to the great bank at Padua but still of strategic importance [67]. p. 34] [IMAGE] [Letter in Hebrew sent by the banker Manno (Mandele...

... Quattrocento, Florence, 2005, p. 106. [47] The processes and events which, in the mid-Fifteenth Century, led to the forced transfer of money lending in this zone from Italian Jews to German Jews have been studied in many precise research papers. See, among others, Braunstein, Le prêt sur gage a Padoue, cit., pp. 651- 669; G.M. Varanini, Appunti per la storia del prestito de dell'insediamento ebraico a Verona...

... the formal coverage of the banks of Piove di Sacco, Monselice and Este, the Jewish money lenders continued to operate illegally on the market at Padua, charging interest at rates over 40% ("contra Statuta nonnulli Iudei per quamdam viam indirectam fenerari incipient in civitate Padue hoc modo, videlicit quod in Padua accipiunt pignora et mutuant pecunias et postea fieri faciunt bulletinem per Iudeos...

... collateral in Padua and lend money at usury and then fabricate vouchers from Jewish money lenders at Piove or Montesselice or Este, pretending that it is those Jews who are actually lending the money in Padua, thus making a profit of forty percent or more"]. The rulers of Padua protested before the Doge of Venice, objecting to the fact that Jewish money lenders had been granted the right to operate in this...

... letters granted to the above mentioned Jews, because, being in the possession of such letters, these Jews are enabled to lend money at usury; while if they did so publicly and openly as they usually do, they would not even earn 15 percent"] ASP, Consiglio del Comune, Atti, 7., cc. Cv-6r). [50] Salomone, in 1441, when he was still called "da Cividale " and not yet "da Piove di Sacco", had set up banks at...

..., a loan of 100 ducats to Mavrogonato ("David hebreo de Candia"). The money was to be used by the Candian government to pay the captain of the galleys of Alexandria (ASV, Collegio, Notatorio, reg. 11, 68r). Venice's intention was therefore that Mavrogonato should reach Candia, a location to which he never returned -- probably for good reason -- after the first mission. [56] Salomone da Piove's plan...

... friends; we meet every day on the morning walk. He has nothing to do and he enjoys talking. So he was talking to me one day and he said, 'He has become vice-chancellor but he has no guts. He was in love with a girl and still he didn't say it. We arranged his marriage with another woman because she was bringing much money, diamonds, ornaments, gold, a bungalow, and a car as her dowry.' "So it is not...

... course he is representative of all those people - will create a bridge. And a loving bridge will create more friendship. I would like men and women to be different, equal, and yet in immensely deep love and friendship. Question 9: MONEY IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE GREATEST INVENTIONS TO LIBERATE MAN, AND AS A MEANS IT HAS A GOOD FUNCTION. DON'T YOU THINK THAT ELIMINATING THE USE OF MONEY WILL LEAD TO...

... ANOTHER BARBAROUS WORLD? WHAT IN YOUR VISION CAN BE SUBSTITUTED FOR MONEY IN THE WORLD AT LARGE? Money is certainly one of the greatest inventions of man, and it has helped tremendously in the past. But there is a negative side of it too: money has created poverty and richness, the classes and the class struggle; money has created capitalism, money has created communism. Money has helped in many ways in...

... the exchange of things - as a means of exchange - but now its function can be taken by better means which can avoid its negative part. For example, in my perspective, instead of money as currency every society should become a commune. We can make a limit, five thousand or ten thousand... If the town is bigger then it can have two communes, three communes. But instead of a family, a commune takes...

... over. The commune takes care of the children, the commune fulfills the needs of people, and the people don't have to use money. Whatever they need, the commune fulfills the needs. Money can be used between one commune and another as a means of exchange, but not between individuals. That will destroy the distinction between the poor and the rich. And instead of currency... which is something ugly...

... exchanged; the computer can keep the accounts. And within the commune there is no need for any money or any credit cards; whatever you need the commune supplies you with. There will be different needs - there is no harm in it, all are our people - and if somebody needs cigarettes he gets cigarettes, if somebody needs beer he gets beer. Certainly nobody gets anything which is harmful to him or to the...

... purchase from another commune; whatever extra they produce they exchange with another commune - so there is no need for anybody to be poor, there is no need for anybody to live in scarcity. Money has lost its value, it is no longer needed. It has done something good, but it has also done something very bad. Question 10: A CHILD WILL ALWAYS BE HELPLESS. IT SEEMS TO BE IMPOSSIBLE TO AVOID THE CONDITIONING...

... he immediately felt himself a nonentity, while Diogenes was an authentic being. Still he tried to laugh it away. Diogenes said, "Stop laughing! Don't try to befool yourself! You can see the fact that you are missing life." And Alexander said, "Yes, sir, I can feel it. For the first time I have seen a really alive person. What can I do for you? I have enough money, I can do anything...

.... Just you say and it will be done." Diogenes said, "I don't need anything. You may have all the money in the world, but I don't have any desire, so all your money is absolutely irrelevant. But one thing you can do is stand aside, because you are blocking the sun. That's all that I can ask from you and you will be kind enough if you can stand aside." He didn't ask for anything. Alexander...

... working on yourself, you are not using the opportunity, you are not transforming yourself. And you go on finding excuses: "How can we do it? We have so many children and the wife and the husband and the parents. And we have to work in the world and we have to earn money and a livelihood." You go on making excuses. That's why my insistence is that none of my sannyasins are to leave the ordinary...

... trembling. You may keep yourself occupied in a thousand and one things and you may forget about your inner trembling, but it is there. Soren Kierkegaard is one of the most important thinkers of the Western hemisphere. What he is saying he must be saying from his own personal experience; he was very much afraid of death. He was afraid only of two things: death and money. He never earned anything. His...

... father had left a certain bank balance for him; he lived on it. Each month, on the first day, he would go to the bank and withdraw a certain amount and live on it. He lived in a very very economical way, but he was very much afraid: sooner or later the money was going to be finished - that was his constant worry. People had seen him in Copenhagen going to the bank and coming home always in a state of...

... trembling. And then death... and death is certainly related to money. People who are very much afraid of death start accumulating money as a protection - as if money can protect! People who are not afraid of death don't care much about money; they use money, but they don't care. And one strange thing happened: Soren Kierkegaard died on the road the day he withdrew the last amount of money from the bank...

.... He was coming home from the bank; this was the last amount, the bank balance was finished. The manager had said, "Next month you need not come - all the money is finished." He fell in the middle of the road - he didn't reach home - and died then and there. If money is finished, life is finished! He must have been a man of tremendous fear. When he was young he loved a woman, a very...

... is regarded as non-existent when the vow is made. Tractate List / Glossary / / Bible Reference Nedarim 47b or perhaps since what is taken in exchange is the same as what grows from its seed, there is no difference between oneself and his neighbour?1  — Said R. Aha b. Manyumi, Come and hear: If a man says to his wife, 'Konam, if I benefit thee,' she may borrow [money], and the creditors...

... betroths her with the money thereof, she is betrothed!5  — [No.] Here too it may be forbidden in the first place only, but if done it is valid. MISHNAH. [IF A MAN SAYS TO HIS NEIGHBOUR.] 'I AM HEREM TO YOU,' THE MUDDAR IS FORBIDDEN [TO DERIVE BENEFIT]. 'YOU ARE HEREM TO ME,' THE MADDIR IS FORBIDDEN. I AM [HEREM] TO YOU, AND YOU ARE [HEREM] TO ME, BOTH ARE PROHIBITED. BOTH ARE PERMITTED [TO...

... money she receives is not the same that is repaid. I.e., it can be maintained that the problem regarding what is exchanged for them, is whether one may deliberately exchange these fruits for something else, so that it shall be permitted to the muddar. But if they were exchanged, they certainly are permitted. Hence, in this case, since the wife receives the money before the creditors exact it from her...

... International Financial International deny and do not recognize anything national Communistic super-state Marxist must be an internationalist Money is power Money - the magical talisman Revolutions - slavery more cruel than the King The real privilege of coining money Circulating money - a purely imaginary fiction Money is fiction Usury, a Fraud - false moneys given a legal standing - a crime Interest...

... received invents and falsifies the non-existent capital Credit moneys - false, fabricated ones Anarchical, moral and social influence - revolutionary one A miracle of transforming a wooden bench into a temple The god of money The religion of power Finances were the most powerful instrument of revolution Revolutionaries - Idiots to whom today the whole world is subjected Will to power Global Power...

... Adolph Hitler Proletarization of Germany "They" send their ambassador - Warburg to Germany "They" finance the National-Socialist Party Hitler and WWII were created to remove Stalin Trotzky will take power into his hands Prepare to observe WWII and liquidation of Stalin within a year Plot to fool Hitler Provoke war between the bourgeois States Hitler took over the privilege of manufacturing money "They...

... we used to have: "Perhaps the worst aspect of the adoption of protectionism as a policy for fighting unemployment is that it is seen as a substitute for a class-struggle approach" (Socialism or Nationalism, p. 29): The booklet called Hitler's Secret Backers, by "Sidney Warburg", like the statements attributed to Ravoksky in Red Symphony, attests that Western bankers gave money to Hitler to help him...

... could be argued - if the booklet be genuine in some way - that this is merely the excuse the bankers told to their courier, "Sidney Warburg". Hitler's Secret Backers is available at http://www.omnicbc.com. In Red Symphony, Rakovsky states that Jewish Bankers gave money to Hitler to help him get into power (p. 36), knowing that he would attack the Soviet Union (as laid out in Mein Kampf). These...

... original "plan" for the revolution has become their main enemy and the main hindrance to their agenda in Russia and the world for that matter. Russian revolution is the centerpiece of the NWO agenda. Rothschild alone gave 100 million dollars for its cause. Jacob Schiff contributed 20 million dollars for that cause. This kind of money, in todays terms, translates into billions, if not trillions. It was...

... Stalin and bring back Trotsky to Russia and make him the man number one in Russia. Trotsky was Rothschild's favorite to the point that Trotsky, financed by the Western bankers, was the one who was able to produce any money for the revolutionary cause. Trotsky was the main figurehead in the plot of Russian revolution, even above Lenin, who was disposed of once his main job - to organize the revolution...

... earlier. G. - And for what purpose? With the aim of giving Germany victory and some Russian territories? R. - No, in no case. G. - Therefore as ordinary spies, for money? R. - For money? Nobody received a single Mark from Germany. Hitler has not enough money to buy, for example, the Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR, who has at his disposal freely a budget which is greater than the total wealth...

... of Morgan and Vanderbilt, and who does not have to account for his use of the money. G. - Well, then for what reason? R. - May I speak quite freely? G. - Yes, I ask you to do so; for that reason you have been invited. R. - Did not Lenin have higher aims when he received help from Germany in order to enter Russia? And is it necessary to accept as true those libellous inventions which had been...

... bourgeois orthodoxy when studying the question of money. In the problem of money there do not appear with him his famous contradictions. Finances do not exist for him as a thing of importance in itself; trade and the circulation of moneys are the results of the cursed system of Capitalistic production, which subjects them to itself and fully determines them. In the question of money Marx is a reactionary...

... revolutionary - was already then extraordinarily important. G. - An unconscious coincidence, but not an alliance which presupposes intelligence, will and agreement ... R. - Let us leave this point of view if you like. Now let us better go over to the subjective analysis of finances and even more: let us see what sort of people personally are at work there. The international essence of money is well known...

... anarchical if it - the denier of any national State - were not itself, by necessity, a State in its own basic essence. The State as such is only power. And money is exclusively power. Communistic super-state This communistic super-state, which we are creating already during a whole century, and the scheme of which is the International of Marx. Analyze it and you will see its essence. The scheme of the...

... significance and that which is most radical and existing in reality. Money is power R. - Allow me not to reply just now, so as not to interrupt the logical sequence ... I only want to decipher the basic axiom: money is power. Money is today the centre of global gravity. I hope you agree with me? G. - Continue, Rakovsky, I beg of you. Money - the magical talisman R. - The understanding of how the financial...

... International has gradually, right up to our epoch, become the master of money, this magical talisman, which has become for people that which God and the nation had been formerly, is something which exceeds in scientific interest even the art of revolutionary strategy, since this is also an art and also a revolution. I shall explain it to you. Historiographers and the masses, blinded by the shouts and the...

... to use it. It is clear that this were people who had never been Christians, but cosmopolitans. G. - What is that for a mythical power which they had obtained? The real privilege of coining money R. - They had acquired for themselves the real privilege of coining money ... Do not smile, otherwise I shall have to believe that you do not know what moneys are ... I ask you to put yourself in my place...

... correspond to real and exact conceptions. I say: money. It is clear that in your imagination there immediately appeared pictures of real money of metal and paper. But that is not so. Circulating money - a purely imaginary fiction Money is now not that; real circulating coin is a true anachronism. If it still exists and circulates, then it is only thanks to atavism, only because it is convenient to maintain...

... the illusion, a purely imaginary fiction for the present day. G. - This is a brilliant paradox, risky and even poetical. R. - If you like, this is perhaps brilliant, but it is not a paradox. I know - and that is why you smiled - that States still coin money on pieces of metal or paper with Royal busts or national crests; well, so what? A great part of the money circulating, money for big affairs, as...

... representative of all national wealth, money, yes money - it was being issued by those few people about whom I had hinted. Titles, figures, cheques, promissory notes, endorsements, discount, quotations, figures without end flooded States like a waterfall. What are in comparison with these the metallic and paper moneys? ... Something devoid of influence, some kind of minimum in the face of the growing flood of...

... the all-flooding financial money. They, being the most subtle psychologists, were able to gain even more without trouble, thanks to a lack of understanding. Money is fiction In addition to the immensely varied different forms of financial moneys, they created credit-money with a view to making its volume close to infinite. And to give it the speed of sound ... it is an abstraction, a being of...

... Aristotle's expression; to force money to produce money - that is something that if it is a crime in economics, then in relations to finances it is a crime against the criminal code, since it is usury. I do not know by what arguments all this is justified: by the proposition that they receive legal interest ... Interest received invents and falsifies the non-existent capital Even accepting that, and even...

... that admission is more than is necessary, we see that usury still exists, since even if the interest received is legal, then it invents and falsifies the non-existent capital. Banks have always by way of deposits or moneys in productive movement a certain quantity of money which is five or perhaps even a hundred times greater than there are physically coined moneys of metal or paper. Credit moneys...

... - revolutionary one Bear in mind that this system, which I am describing in detail, is one of the most innocent among those used for the fabrication of false money. Imagine to yourself, if you can, a small number of people, having unlimited power through the possession of real wealth, and you will see that they are the absolute dictators of the stock-exchange; and as a result of this also the dictators of...

..., miracle. Is it not a miracle that a wooden bench has been transformed into a temple? And yet such a miracle has been seen by people a thousand times, and they did not bat an eyelid, during a whole century. The god of money Since this was an extraordinary miracle that the benches on which sat the greasy usurers to trade in their moneys, have now been converted into temples, which stand magnificently at...

... every corner of contemporary big towns with their heathen [Ed: irreligious, barbaric idolaters] colonnades, and crowds go there with a faith which they are already not given by heavenly gods, in order to bring assiduously their deposits of all their possessions to the god of money, who, they imagine, lives in the steel safes of the bankers, and who is preordained, thanks to his divine mission to...

... alone had been for him a serious reason, and in addition he knew that Trotzky provided money and helped to get a colossal international assistance, a proof of this was the sealed train. [Ed: Lenin travelled to Russia to conduct the revolution in a sealed train, not be stopped or examined while passing through several countries.] Furthermore it was the result of Trotzky's work, and not of the iron...

... unheard-of financial anarchy. "They" took advantage of it on the pretext of helping it with the aid of another and still greater anarchy: the inflation of the official money (cash) and the a hundred times greater inflation of their own money, credit money, i.e. false money. Remember how systematically there came devaluation in many countries; the destruction of the value of money in Germany, the...

... USSR, the private and international capital. Hitler took over the privilege of manufacturing money That means that he took over for himself the privilege of manufacturing money, and not only physical moneys, but also financial ones; he took over the untouched machinery of falsification and put it to work for the benefit of the State. "They" created crude apparatus called State Capitalism in Russia He...

... care less about, since their main absolutist prerogative is power, absolute power via control of value - money, which, as of necessity, would require surrendering of all moral and ethical principles. Western civilization's only guiding principle is morality, even though it is a phony one, artificial one, no one really cares about, and yet, all talk about as the final determinant.] Christianity...

... won't be removed. This is the most fundamental issue. It is a matter of principle, the very source of existence. No matter who one is, it is inherent in life as such, that the highest value is not of "money" or "power", but of morality and truth. Unless there is good, something pure, something life giving and life affirming, there is no incentive to be on the deepest level. No "power", no "money" is...

... capable of satisfying that most fundamental need for sustainment of life. No money and no power, even if it is absolute, can replace love, love towards life as such. Thus, Christianity or not, but the HIGHEST value that remains is that of spiritual, religiousness and pursuit of Truth, which is a purely intuitive aspect of existence. The Ever Expanding Infinite Intelligence can not possibly be satisfied...

... "Comintern, " but the "Capintern" on Wall Street. Who other that he could have been able to impose on Europe such an obvious and absolute contradiction? What force can lead it towards complete suicide? Only one force is able to do this: money. Money is power and the sole power. G. - I shall be frank with you, Rakovsky. I admit in you an exceptional gift of talent. You possess brilliant dialectic...

... and in the economic respect enslaved by Wall Street. It is well known that any impoverishment in economics, be it in relation to societies or animals, gives a flourishing of parasitism, and capital is a large parasite. But this American revolution pursued not only the one aim of increasing the power of money for those who had the right to use it, it pretended to even more. Although the power of...

... money is political power, but before that it had only been used indirectly, but now the power of money was to be transformed into direct power. Franklin Roosevelt The man through whom they made use of such power was Franklin Roosevelt. Have you understood? Take note of the following: In that year 1929, the first year of the American revolution, in February Trotzky leaves Russia; the crash takes place...

... understand that the Anglo American elite was (and still is) intimately connected with international (i.e. Rothschild) finance. Anglo American imperialism is in fact a front for the families that own the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve. These Jewish and non-Jewish families are connected by money, marriage and Lucifer worship (i.e. Freemasonry). Both Roosevelt and Churchill were their flunkies. (All...

.... and also the financing of the elections..." Unfortunately for the bankers, Hitler also proved intractable. He started to print his own money! ... The book "Financial Origins of National Socialism" (1933) by "Sydney Warburg" provides another glimpse of how the Illuminist clique supported Hitler. This 70-page booklet was suppressed for many years but was republished in 1983 as "Hitler's Secret Backers...

...." "Warburg" describes a July 1929 meeting with "Carter," the President of J.P. Morgan's Guarantee Trust, the Presidents of the Federal Reserve Banks, "the young Rockefeller" and "Glean from Royal Dutch." These are all Rothschild dominated. It was determined that Warburg who spoke German should travel to Germany and ask Hitler how much money he needed to overthrow the state. The only stipulation was that...

... anecdote suggests otherwise. ... {end} Henry Makow on Illuminati involvement Comment (Peter M.): Henry Makow interprets Red Symphony, and Hitler's Secret Backers, as meaning that the Illuminati gave money to help Hitler gain power, once they had completely lost control of Russia to Stalin, the intention being to restore Trotsky once Stalin had fallen. You can obtain a copy of Hitler's Secret Backers for...

... is the result of a painstaking translation of several copybooks found on the body of Dr. Landowsky in a hut on the Petrograd front by a Spanish volunteer"), or Knupffer himself. I think I will stick with Anthony Sutton, actually, though I do enjoy the dialectical elegance of "Red Symphony" and I am only indulging in sour grapes about it because I have wasted money trying to get the full English...