Velikoe v malom i antikhrist
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Velikoe v Malom i Antikhrist (Russian: Великое въ маломъ и Антихристъ, The Great within the Small: The Coming of the Anti-Christ and the Rule of Satan on Earth) is a 1905 book by Serge Nilus that contained the first full printing of the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
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[edit] Description
Velikoe v Malom i Antikhrist, called Velikoe v Malom for short, is a semi-autobiographical book, on the coming of the Antichrist. The first known edition, from 1905, purports to actually be a second edition of the book— the first edition having been published in 1903. Chapter 12 (pp. 305–417) of the book, although listed as, "Antichrist as an Imminent Political Possibility" in the table of contents, is actually entitled in the text as, "протоколы засѣданій сіонскихъ мудрецовъ" (Protocols (minutes?) of the Meeting of the Sages of Zion).
[edit] The author
The author, the self-proclaimed mystic priest Sergei Nilus, claimed that the twelfth chapter was the work of the First Zionist Congress, held eight years earlier in Basel, Switzerland. When it was pointed out that the First Zionist Congress had been open to the public and was attended by many non-Jews, Nilus changed his story, saying the Protocols were the work of the 1902–1903 meetings of the Elders, but contradicting his own prior statement that he had received his copy in 1901:
In 1901, I succeeded through an acquaintance of mine (the late Court Marshal Alexei Nikolayevich Sukotin of Chernigov) in getting a manuscript that exposed with unusual perfection and clarity the course and development of the secret Jewish Freemasonic conspiracy, which would bring this wicked world to its inevitable end. The person who gave me this manuscript guaranteed it to be a faithful translation of the original documents that were stolen by a woman from one of the highest and most influential leaders of the Freemasons at a secret meeting somewhere in France—the beloved nest of Freemasonic conspiracy.[1]
Nilus also had personal motivations for publishing the 12th chapter. At the time he was trying to become the royal couple's confessor and brought his book to the Tsar's attention with the help of the Grand Duchess Elizaveta Fyodorovna. This was part of a faction fight against Papus and Nizier Anthelme Philippe at the Tsarist court. (Indeed, Papus was accused in 1920 of having forged the Protocols to discredit Philippe.)
[edit] Later history
It is an exceedingly rare imprint, and much has been made of the fact that the British Library holds a copy stamped as received in 1906 (when the library was still part of the British Museum). A 1922 copy of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion published by the the antisemitic Britons Publishing Society claimed that Victor E. Marsden (d. October 28, 1920) had translated it from Velikoe v Malom for them while he was sitting in the British Museum.
The full book has not been translated into English. The book's table of contents are translated below.
[edit] Table of Contents
Velikoe v Malom's Table of Contents as they appear at the end of the book:
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| Preface | V-VIII |
| Preface to the Second Edition | IX-X |
| I. How I, an Orthodox Person, Converted to the Christian Orthodox Faith | 1-31 |
| II. A Modern Miracle of Father Sergius of Radonezh? | 33-41 |
| III. A Journey to the Sarov Hermitage (Pustyn') and the Serafimo-Dnievsky Convent | 43-99 |
| IV. Acolyte to the Mother of God and Seraphim of Sarov (Simbirsk Judge of Peace Nikolay Alexandrovich Motovilov) | 101-166 |
| V. The Saintly Spirit Clearly Settles on Saint Seraphim of Sarov in his Discussions with a Simbirsk Landowner and Judge Nikolay Alexandrovich Motovilov | 167-207 |
| VI. Father Seraphim and the Murderer Process (Memoirs of a Lutheran) | 209-221 |
| VII. Commandment from the Life of a Starets from Optina Pustyn Father Amvrosy | 223-231 |
| VIII. Father Egor Cherkessky | 233-269 |
| IX. One of the Mysteries of Godly Home-building | 271-289 |
| X. Heavenly Convents | 281-293 |
| XI. What Awaits Russia (from the Prophesies of Saint Seraphim) | 295-304 |
| XII. Antichrist as an Imminent Political Possibility | 305-417 |
[edit] The Imprint
- British Library Record[1]
[edit] CATNYP Record
The Online Card Catalog record of the Microfilm copy of this 1905 imprint is as follows:
- Call #: *ZP-1545 [Microfilm]
- Author: Nilus, Sergiei, 1862-1930.
- Title: Velikoe v malom i antikhrist, kak blizkaia politicheskaia vozmozhnost [microform].
- Zapiski :pravoslavnago.
- Imprint: TSarskoe Selo, Tip. TSarskoselskago Komiteta Krasnago Kresta, 1905.
- Edition: 2. izd., ispr. i dop.
- URL for this record [b3847373][2]
- LOCATION CALL # STATUS
- *ZP-1545 [Microfilm]
- Descript: 417 p.
- Note: Protokoly sobran¯ii S¯ionskikh mudretsov: str. [325]-417.
- Microfilm. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Library, 19--. l microfilm reel ;35 mm.
- Subject: Prophecies.
- Alt title: Protocols of the wise men of Zion. Russian
[edit] References
- ^ Kominsky, Morris [1970]. The hoaxers: plain liars, fancy liars, and damned liars. Brookline, Massachusetts: Branden Press. ISBN 0828312885.
- Cohn, Norman Rufus Colin [1967] (2006-01-30). Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy And the Protocols of the Elders Of Zion. Interlink Pub Group. ISBN 1897959494.
