beria who
was so positive in his statement that Nilus was in Irkutsk is also
concealed. And Serge Nilus to whom Saint Sergei "appeared twice in a
vision" "is said to have written articles in the Russian press" of which
nobody has knowledge.

In Germany, Nilus is described as follows:

"Sergius Nilus was an employee of the Russian secret police department,
of the _okhrana_, connected with the Church, especially relating to
'foreign religions.' He lived for some time at the Optina Pustina
monastery. In 1901 he published a book entitled 'The Great in the Small
and the Anti-Christ.' According to the Lutsch Sveta, Nilus claims to
have received in 1901 a copy of the text of the Protocols from the
secret archives of the Main Zionist organization in France, but he
published the 'protocols' only in 1905. A second edition appeared in
1911, and finally another edition was brought out in the beginning of
1917, but all copies are said to have been destroyed."

"The Cause of the World Unrest," an anonymous book published in England
and reprinted in this country, speaks of Nilus and the "Protocols" as
follows:

"In the year 1903 a Russian, Serge Nilus, published a book entitled _The
Great in Little_. The second edition, which was published at Tsarskoye
Selo in 1905, had an additional chapter, the twelfth, under the heading
'Anti-Christ as a Near Political Possibility.' This chapter consisted of
some twenty pages of introduction followed by the text of twenty-four
'Protocols of Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion,' and the book ends
with some twenty pages of commentaries on these protocols by Nilus.

"Directly after the protocols, comes a statement by Nilus that they are
'signed by representatives of Zion of the thirty-third degree.' These
protocols were secretly extracted or were stolen from a whole volume of
protocols. All this was got by my correspondent out of the secret
depositories of the Head Chancellery of Zion. This Chancellery is at
present on French territory."

In the edition of 1917 Sergius Nilus wrote:

"My book has already reached the fourth edition, but it is only
definitely known to me now and in a manner worthy of belief, and
that through Jewish sources, that these protocols are nothing other
than the strategic plans for the conquest of the world under the
heel of Israel, and worked out by the leaders of the Jewish
people--and read by the 'Prince of Exile,' Theodor Herzl, durin