Local groups are not to be formed until the author¬ ity of the central leadership in Munich has received absolute recognition.
For leadership not only will-power is required, but also the capability from which energy receives greater weight than from pure genius by itself. A combina¬ tion of the three qualities is best of all.
The future of a Movement is dependent on the fanaticism, the intolerance even, with which its adher¬ ents defend it as the one right course and carry it through in opposition to schemes of similar character.
It is a very great error to think that a Movement becomes stronger by linking itself with other ones, though they may have similar aims. I admit that any increase of size means an increase of scope, and—in the eyes of superficial observers—of power as well ; in reality, however, a Movement merely admits the seed of weakness within itself which makes itself felt later on.
The greatness of any active organization, which is the embodiment of an idea, lies in the spirit of religious fanaticism and intolerance in which it attacks all others, being fanatically convinced that it alone is right. If an idea is right in itself and, being armed with such weapons, wages warfare on this earth, it is invincible, and persecution only increases its internal strength.
The greatness of Christendom lay not in any attempts to reconcile itself with the philosophical opinions of the ancients, which had some similarity with its own, but in unrelenting and fanatical pro¬ clamation and defence of its own doctrines.
The members of the Movement must not be frightened by the hatred of the enemy of our nation and by his theories of government or by his words :