Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Protocol 24

Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion

Protocol Number 24 : Qualities Of The Ruler

PROTOCOL NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR

1. I pass now to the method of confirming the dynastic roots
of King David to the last strata of the earth.

2. This confirmation will first and foremost be included in
that which to this day has rested the force of conservatism
by our learned elders of the conduct of the affairs of the
world, in the directing of the education of thought of all
humanity.

3. Certain members of the seed of David will prepare the
kings and their heirs, selecting not by right of heritage
but by eminent capacities, inducting them into the most
secret mysteries of the political, into schemes of
government, but providing always that none may come to
knowledge of the secrets. The object of this mode of action
is that all may know that government cannot be entrusted to
those who have not been inducted into the secret places of
its art ....

4. To these persons only will be taught the practical
application of the aforenamed plans by comparison of the
experiences of many centuries, all the observations on the
politico-economic moves and social sciences - in a word, all
the spirit of laws which have been unshakably established by
nature herself for the regulation of the relations of
humanity.

5. Direct heirs will often be set aside from ascending the
throne if in their time of training they exhibit frivolity,
softness and other qualities that are the ruin of authority,
which render them incapable of governing and in themselves
dangerous for kingly office.

6. Only those who are unconditionally capable for firm, even
if it be to cruelty, direct rule will receive the reins of
rule from our learned elders.

7. In case of falling sick with weakness of will or other
form of incapacity. kings must by law hand over the reins of
rule to new and capable hands.

8. The king's plan of action for the current moment, and all
the more so for the future, will be unknown, even to those
who are called his closest counselors.

KING OF THE JEWS:

9. Only the king and the three who stood sponsor for him
will know what is coming.

10. In the person of the king who with unbending will is
master of himself and of humanity all will discern as it
were fate with its mysterious ways. None will know what the
king wishes to attain by his dispositions, and therefore
none will dare to stand across an unknown path.

11. It is understood that the brain reservoir of the king
must correspond in capacity to the plan of government it has
to contain. It is for this reason that he will ascend the
throne not otherwise than after examination of his mind by
the aforesaid learned elders.

12. That the people may know and love their king, it is
indispensable for him to converse in the market-places with
his people. This ensures the necessary clinching of the two
forces which are now divided one from another by us by the
terror.

13. This terror was indispensable for us till the time comes
for both these forces separately to fall under our
influence.

14. The king of the Jews must not be at the mercy of his
passions, and especially of sensuality: on no side of his
character must he give brute instincts power over his mind.
Sensuality worse than all else disorganizes the capacities
of the mind and clearness of views, distracting the thoughts
to the worst and most brutal side of human activity.

15. The prop of humanity in the person of the supreme lord
of all the world of the holy seed of David must sacrifice to
his people all personal inclinations.

16. Our supreme lord must be of an exemplary irreproachable.