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§.2. Universal Jurisprudence
(3) Conclusion
Language alone universal
Pay an Astrologer — he will
tell what will happen to
you — Pay a Common Lawyer
he will tell what his Goddess
has determined. Astrologer
produces Stars, Lawyers can
not produce Goddess — talk
of substituting real for his
Sham Law — he is frantic
Astrologer modest — compared
to Anti Codifiers
Ask an Astrologer — paying him at the same time
for his answers — he will tell you, what will happen to you
in a twenty years henceforward, he will tell you what the
stars have determined. Ask. Common Lawyers — not forgetting
the like tale of respect and confidence, he will tell you
what the Goddess of his Idolatry to the Goddess whom he serves — and assuredly and for nought
has in relation to what you ask him about, determined.
The Astrologer is able to produce his stars: for the stars
you see are his, he points to them and says with unquestionable
truth says there they are. The Common Lawyer
is not able to produce his Goddess: no one ever will be
Yet still he says Thus saith the Common Law. and
propo Tell him then this is but sham law, and propose to
him to substitute to it the only real law; he becomes
frantic; and instead of a rational answer, tells every
body that will have been that you are in ,
and that to establish real law would be to subvert
all law. But by it, yes: provided always that the process
state now be at and end. But of establishing the
entire fabrick, and all at once; then it is that establishment
and subversion are the same process thing
So comparison of the Anti-Codifying Common Layer
what a modest man how modest a man is the Astrologer!
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