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The Track of the Jew through the Ages

significantly more numerous than at any time in antiquity. What
Schopenhauer discerned as the blind unconditioned Will 423
constitutes the Jewish character; around this instinct directed to all
worldly things in a one-sided manner are grouped all its capacities
and weaknesses. Endowed with a practical understanding, this
instinct was able to forge all the instruments of its rule. The age-old
myth of gold as the symbol of world-power acquired a form in the
Jewish people; 424 the goal of the Jew was always directed to this
gold as to a means that would serve to satisfy his will to power. He
had to renounce the divine imagination as well as the creation of
the highest art, he was incapable of conceiving a cosmic idea of god
(the Jewish god is even today a national god), he was incapable of
moulding scientific ideas and he was incapable of love. "Only one
who renounces love acquires power", says Wagner. This love he
had to renounce since he set out on subjugation. The basis of his
character: the unchecked instinct, his goal: world-domination, his
means: cunning utilitarian sense and energy.
The Jew is to be understood starting from these three points.
His moral laws, his unscrupulousness, his lack of imagination, his
insatiability, his cunning, his technical expertise, his political
influence, etc., all can be traced back to these.
We have followed this historically in Portugal and France,
and we saw indeed this character of the Jew emerging always and
everywhere, we observed it in the Talmud, we found it up to its
tricks in Freemasonry, and intriguing in the International with its
lunatic revolution and the unleashing of all instincts.
At that moment the Jew rose high among all the peoples;
and this necessarily. I already said earlier: the free principle ofhuman
morality places in all peoples an obstacle in the path of the
unconditioned instinct, the Jew however receives a special power
boost from his moral doctrines, which applaud the exercice of this
instinct with regard to all non-Jews. In times of lawlessness the
most unscrupulous must rise to the top, especially when all the

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[Rosenberg is alluding here to the central symbolic significance of the gold of
the Rhine in Richard Wagner's tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen (1 876).]
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Law and justice live on like an "eternal sickness" says his friend Mephisto.
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