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Eustace Mullins on the Origin of Law, Part 1: From God to Rome

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Pope Francis saying Mass on February 28, 2019 photo:CNS/Vatican media

Editor’s note: the late Eustace Mullins, in his book The Rape of Justice (1989) gave a brief history of law.

Henceforth, God’s Law would deal with the mortality of His People. God later blessed the seed of Isaac, because “Abraham obeyed My Charge and kept My Commandments and obeyed My Law.” Among Isaac’s sons, a term later shortened to more popular usage as “Saxons,” was Jacob, whose name was later changed to Israel.

Since that day, Israel has been the chosen People of God. Isaac’s sons, the Saxons, brought God’s Law to the nations of the world, as they emigrated  and settled in other lands. This law was codified by the jurists of England, principally by Coke and Blackstone, as the English common law. It was later transformed, after having been brought across the Atlantic Ocean by English colonists, as the Constitution of the United States.

The Founding Fathers were acutely conscious of their precepts and their mission. Samuel Adams, the main instigator of the struggle for American independence from England, declared, “We have come here to establish our Israel.” 

The history of civilization has always been marked by the  clearly defined milestones of codified law. In 2250 B.C., the Code of Hammurabi was promulgated “to establish law and justice in the land.”  We have also been greatly influenced by the codes of Roman jurisprudence, which were administered as the ruling code of the world for some thirteen hundred years. Kent’s Commentaries, the principal legal textbook for American lawyers throughout the nineteenth century, notes. Vol. I, p 556, “The great body of the Roman or civil law was collected and digested by order of the Emperor Justinian,  in the former part of the sixth century. … It exerts a very considerable influence upon our own municipal law.”

The Roman jurists developed the principle of “jus natural,”  that is, a code of laws which reflected the laws of nature and the natural order. In his Commentaries, Blackstone expands upon this “law of nature.” “Law of nature, the Will of his maker is called the Law of Nature, being coeval with mankind, and directed by God Himself as a course superior  in obligation to any other.

It is binding over the globe in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this.” Blackstone also writes that “Revealed Law is only scripture.  Upon these two foundations, one, the law of nature, and  two, the Law of Revelation, depend all human laws; that is  to say, no human law should be suffered to contradict them.”

This is in strange contrast to our present day legal system, in which the rape of justice daily contradicts both the Law of Revelation, and the law of nature. Because it was developed over a period of many centuries, Roman law had ample time to respond to the emerging problems brought on by its historical growth. Founded by Romulus in 753 B.C., Rome became a Republic in the year 509, after the expulsion of the Etruscan kings. In 450 B.C., the Laws of the Twelve Tables were formulated. The earliest Roman  law was the Jus Quiritium, developed by the Quirites, who  were the First Families of the Republic.

As patricians, the Quiritian Law was developed primarily to protect their families  and their property. These families were known as gentes, or the clans. Their descendants have since been known to history  as “gentlemen,” as contrasted to the less distinguished masses,  or plebs, as the freedmen, or non-gentiles, were known.

The Latin “gentilis” meant belonging to the same clan or gentes. In those European nations which developed from these Roman  antecedents, the gentes’ descendants were known by the sobriquet “gentilhonmie” in France, and as “gentlemen,” later, aristocrats, in England. The privileges arrogated by the First Families, the gentlemen, became a source of constant criticism and contention from the plebs.

In fact, ancient Rome soon developed into the two groups which have remained fairly constant for three thousand years, the older families, which held the majority of property, and the masses. In the twentieth century, they are usually known as Republicans, and Communists. The essential difference between the two classes was that the patricians, or gentlemen, knew who their parents were, and the plebs, who paid little attention to such niceties, did not.

Because of their family records, the patricians were able to hand down their property to their heirs, while the plebs, even if they prospered, had no family records with which to  protect their holdings. This fundamental distinction led to the demands of the plebs that the government intervene to support them, demands which, some twenty-five centuries  later, led to the Communist Manifesto, and Karl Marx’s demand that all inheritance be abolished. In the United States, this precept of Communism was enshrined in punitive inheritance taxation and income taxes. The Quiritian Laws in ancient Rome served to protect the family lines of the patrician families, and to provide inheritances for their descendants, their rightful and acknowledged  heirs. Property and inheritance laws have been a basic part of our laws since that time. Roman law was divided into the fas jus and the boni mores. By fas was understood the will of the gods.

The scholar Breal derives this word from the Greek “oeuis,” meaning, the divinely inspired word, the laws  given by heaven for earth. Jus also derived from the Sanskrit ju, to join, bond or unite, meaning the family bonds and  ties which transcended the mortality of man. This was later interpreted as the jos or jaus of the Vedas, and the jaes or jaos of the Zend-Avesta.

Boni mores was an essential ingredient of the maintenance of the patrician family; it meant dutiful service, respect, chastity, and fidelity to the law of contract, the law of the family. The stem family discipline of the Roman patricians, which enabled them to continue their family lines, was steadily battered by the rapidly multiplying plebs, whose mathematical proliferation and willingness to endure a lower standard of living resulted in their greatly outnumbering the patricians.

Under this pressure, the great landed estates were broken up into smaller, individually held parcels of property, as the  gentes, or clans, began to disintegrate. Heretofore, strict laws had governed the ownership of property in Rome. Heredia, that is, plots of land within the city proper, had been granted  to the heads of the gentes, the leaders of the patricians.

Our word heredity derives from this custom, referring to the passing on of these plots of land to the heirs of the patricians. Emboldened by their increasing numbers, the plebs began to demand more and more “rights” for themselves. The issuance of the Twelve Tables marked a watering down of the  original Jus Quiritium. This process was greatly enhanced with the Jus Civile, at the establishment of the Republic. Our “civil law” derives its name from the outcome of the centuries long struggle between the patricians and the plebs, when the plebs insisted upon a law which granted them more privileges, as “civil” laws.

In 471 B.C., the plebs celebrated their final triumph, with the establishment of the “tribunes,” as the expression of their newfound political power. Thus the patrician age in Rome lasted a scant three hundred years, a short period in the long history of Rome. Nevertheless, much of the power and organization of Rome continued to be based on the stem precepts of its founding patricians, just as much of the protection afforded to its citizens in the United States by the Constitution had been laid down by the stem precepts of our own Founding Fathers.

Even today, our lawgiving bodies are frequently referred to as ‘tribunals,’ as recognition of the triumph of the plebs in Rome in 471 B.C. In 445 B.C., Caious Canuleius led the final assault of the plebs against the entrenched privileges of the patrician families. He wrested from them the source of their continuing power, the protection of their blood lines. By very stringent and exclusive marriage bans, they had managed to preserve their blood lines by prohibiting marriage with a pleb. Canuleius now succeeded in overcoming this ancient prohibition. From that  time on, plebs were allowed to marry into the patrician families. Rome was now “democratized.”

With this democratization came the inevitable dimunition of the powerful blood lines  which had so encouraged the ascendancy of Rome. Rome, in the time of the passage of a mere three centries, had  already begun her downhill road to decline. With the new democracy came increasing power and growing complexity of the Roman legal system. Cicero was led to publicly denounce the well known practice of bribing jurors. By the end of the  fourth century, B.C., Ammianus Marcellinus protested that ‘We see the most violent and rapacious classes of men besieging the houses of the rich, cunningly creating lawsuits.’

Doors are now daily more and more opened to plunder by the depravity of judges and advocates who are all alike.” We could remind Marcellinus of the old saw that “The more things change the more they remain the same.”  Certainly  his complaint could be echoed in any American city today.  At the present time, our economy is imperilled by the burgeoning merger and acquisition activity among the large corporations, as they prey upon and swallow up each other. Corporations were well known in Roman law; the provisions for the  establishment of corporations had been copied from the laws  of Solon. Private companies were entitled to stay in business  as long as they did nothing contrary to the public law.

This  precept was soon ignored. Both Augustus and Julius Caesar  were forced to dissolve the corporations, because their machinations created widespread faction and discord among the  people. It was during this crisis that a schism developed which has remained fairly constant to the present time, the schism  between the civil law, which was designed to protect the  public, and the law merchant, or the law of commercial activities, which was designed solely to protect the merchant.

Although civil law takes into consideration the rights of the individual, commercial law only recognizes the stipulations  of the contract, however this might infringe upon the rights  of the citizen. Also, commercial law was pragmatic in its origins, having developed strictly from mercantile operations,  whereas civil law ostensibly was based upon religious precepts  and the Law of God. By 467 A.D., Roman civil law, overtaken by historical  developments, had reached the end of its legal authority. In 476, the Roman Catholic Church sought to resuscitate the  power and authority of the ancient Roman law through its  worldwide operations, with the present day version of the Roman Empire headquartered in the Vatican, in Rome. The Roman Senate re-emerged as the Vatican’s College of Cardinals.

 

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    • Well Eustace Mullins sure was, hence his somewhat misconceived ideas about “the Curse of Canaan” and his failure to acknowledge that fascism is a form of communism.

      This is a reasonably clear-headed perspective on the latter:

      • I’ll take it on Berry, but he was slamming big pharma and the connected food companies (who now radiate) wayyyy before the “science was released”{and buried}. I’ve only read his words not scoped his allegiances.

  3. It is a very interesting to note the intriguing and insight of the background of Eustace Mullins. It says in some of the different websites that he was anti-Semitic but he was more likely anti-Zionist I would say. He was no fool.

    One of the main errors and biblical inaccuracies of many different religions is “Israel is the chosen people of God” which is far far from the truth of proper bible exegesis. The ‘New Israel’ is Jesus Christ. It is not some small evil Zionist nationalistic extreme ultra-right regime that treats the Palestinians in an open jail for decades, murders and wounds children and adults on a regular basis.

    There is a number of sects that are out of harmony with the proper interpretation of the Bible. One is called Christian Zionism which is an oxymoron just like the United Nations it is not united. You cannot be a Christian and a Zionist at the same time and vice verse.

    Christian Zionism
    https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Christian+zionism&t=opera&ia=web
    It is simply made up and has nothing to do with biblical prophecy whatsoever of the state of Israel or the Jewish people. It is yet another deception and fraud as the ‘New Israel’ is Jesus Christ the Son of God. It is not a literal evil Zionist state that all the Jewish people will return to Israel.

    The next deception is Dominion Theology. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Dominion+theology&t=opera&ia=web
    Dominion theology (also known as dominionism) is a group of Christian political ideologies that seek to institute a nation governed by Christians based on their personal understandings of biblical law.

    This too is a faulty and unbiblical untruth that is simply made up by man for their own deceptive agenda. The Latin Roman Church-State comes under this heading as well as they falsely claim they are the only religion to be saved by. It is an ‘exclusive’ religious sect not an inclusive part of Christianity. There are others but I think you get the idea. 🙂

    EUSTACE MULLINS: THE WAR AGAINST CHRISTIANITY
    ttps://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com/2012/02/eustace-mullins-war-against.html
    “My opinion of Christian Zionists? They’re scum, but don’t tell them that. We need all the useful idiots we can get right now.” ~ Bibi Netanyahu

    The Zionist use any and everybody as their goyim or cattle for their evil purposes. The Christian Fundamentalists are ignorant of their agenda and they do not know their Bibles as they are called Dispensationalists. All believers are Christians are the Israel of God.

    The Bible clearly states that Jesus Christ the Son of God is the New Adam and the New Israel
    https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/jesus-as-the-new-israel/
    https://reknew.org/2017/02/jesus-new-israel/
    https://thegospelcenteredlife.com/2014/12/08/jesus-the-new-israel/
    https://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/jesus-true-israel/
    https://www.preteristarchive.com/StudyArchive/j/jesus-is-israel.html
    http://kimriddlebarger.squarespace.com/the-latest-post/2008/4/1/amillennialism-101-jesus-christ-the-true-israel.html

    • “For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; “
      ROMANS 9:3 -4

      “Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.”
      ROMANS 10:1

      “Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory”
      2TIMOTHY 2:10

      • The Use of Israel in the New Testamenthttp://www.middletownbiblechurch.org/reformed/israelaf.htm

        No Ned God is not a bigot. It is those who misconstrue, misinterpret, make up myths, latch onto a certain flawed ideology that is not biblical and which does not correctly follow the proper biblical exegesis which is common among those who profess to be Christian.

        There are a number of Fundamentalist sand Dispensationalists who wrongly believe in a literal evil Zionist Israel instead of all of the believers from all time through Jesus Christ as the New Adam the New Israel. Unfortunately they do not even know or discuss proper biblical exegesis as the biblical scholars in correctly interpreting the Bible which means they are classified as a religious sect and not part of the arm of Christianity. There are some basic tests comparing Christianity to sects.

        Dispensationalism in a fairly new man made religion beginning John Nelson Darby, C. I. Scofield. There is a Scofield Bible that is not correct and in much error. Dispensationalists are also the Exclusive Brethren if you have heard much controversy about them over the years.
        http://sljinstitute.net/the-divine-purpose/the-history-of-dispensational-theology/
        https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/pastorsandpreachers/john-nelson-darby.html
        http://www.sullivan-county.com/news/cathouse/darby.htm

        That means Covenant theology is top of the list among many other requirements.
        https://www.monergism.com/comparing-covenant-theology-and-dispensational-theology
        http://faithbibleonline.net/MiscDoctrine/DispCov.htm

        Israel is not the chosen people of God after the stoning of Stephen as the gospel went to all the gentiles as well as the Jews but they were no longer the ‘chosen people of God’. The “Chosen people of God’ are all those who believe in Jesus Christ not those Jews who believe in another messiah or the Zionists who are luciferians.

        • Extremely well put! I agree and would also point to the Scofield Bible. Any conspiracy theorist worth their salt will find this story extremely interesting.
          The story loosely goes that Cyrus Scofield was a late 19th century ne’er-do-well, who decided on a vocational change to that of “Charlatan-Pastor” while in prison for fraud.
          He was soon thereafter be-friended (and funded) by powerful Jews who desired a gentile mouthpiece to surreptitiously influence Christendom (then still very strong and powerful – before the infiltration by Satanists, Masons and Luciferians) in favour of the desired ends of their Zionist ambitions.
          With the power and influence of these powerful Jews in acaedemia, publishing and PR, Scofield’s new Bible was published and distributed prolifically and contained interpretations and footnotes extremely favourable to Zionism. Consequently, it became the most popular and influential study-Bible in US Christendom, thereby turning Christian opinion from animosity against the “Christ-killers” to one of sympathy and outright religious support.

          • Richard
            Thank you! 🙂 There is much deception by the creation of pseudo Christian religious groups to deceive the masses and the prostitute MSM labelling them as “Christian”. As the Bible clearly says “Be ye not deceived.

            MSM is one of the main promoters of the Latin Roman Church-State always calling it Christian in which it is clearly not. It is a Mithraism sun-god sect and does not come close to being Christian as far as the Bible stands. The pagan religion high priest is the pope who proclaims and makes edicts about him being God and that their religion is the only religion to be saved. All the movies portrays a Catholic priest and not a Protestant Christian. Again I repeat that is not to say there are not Christians in this monarchical hierarchy. Of course there are they are simply not aware of the history and evidence. They don’t read the Bible like Protestants do as they believe in the rituals and traditions instead.

            Mithraism
            https://hope-of-israel.org/mithraism.html
            https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-Freemason_Mithra_Kabbalism
            https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception_end-time_paganism_Catholic_Mithraism?escaped_fragment=#!
            http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Religions/iranian/Mithraism/mithraism_and_christianity.htm
            ttp://www.truthbeknown.com/mithra.
            htmhttps://jdstone.org/cr/files/paulandthepaganreligionofmithraism.html

          • Arlyn. Insightful observations. Agree there has been much deception and also (evidently) infiltration of the Church in order to weaken and ultimately destroy it. The enemy has been heavily funding Gnostic and New Age movements for the last 200 years and those investments are now paying off.
            I just had a disagreement with a socialist on Twitter who argued Jesus stood for socialist-style wealth re-distribution – which I pointed out is theft and also that it fundamentally arises from envy and covetousness – which is as anti-Christian as you can get. But the disturbing point is that not only did socialists denied Christ, persecute and murder millions of Christians in the 20th century, but then they have the arrogance to deviously twist Jesus’ teachings to suit their Godless, malevolent ideology (Liberation Theology).
            And Catholicism requiring priests to be celibate, which has clearly contributed to the problem of sexual misconduct, is an redundant and unnecessary idea, arising out of the Gnostic notion of androgynous superiority. This Gnostic idea is another contributor to the current LGBT delusion – which is merely a fore-runner the replacement of people with trans-human slave-entities who are denied human rights. When you see political leaders involved in spirit-cooking and child-sacrifice you realize that the enemy has really lifted his game and pretty close to uncloaking. What a time to be alive! Blessings to all!

  4. TA,
    I am simpleton so far as all this history. But some precepts from a memory long ago.
    Christ is reported to be nice to Samaritans….. at the time, non jews.
    He says love thy neghbour.
    Only do unto others as one would have done to oneself.
    Judge not, lest they be judged.
    Who is without sin cast your f…n rock.
    Bit more that I have forgotten.
    As I say, I am a simpleton…… simple precepts, why all the f’n complications?
    May I die as a simpleton.

  5. Considering Christ was crucified for beingy the the instigater of God for all, this is not what the Jews wanted, but to have military force for the protection of Jews, the Jews now have military power but alas no Messiah has come to claim the Second Coming? is Trump the Messiah?

    • Jesus Christ is God and part of the Holy Trinity. He was the God-man while on Earth. He is the Saviour for those who believe in HIm. He is the Creator of the Universe.

      The Jews that are called Jews today is only by religion, not the biblical Jews. Many believe in Christ but many have rejected Christ and they look forward to another messiah. They also go by another timeline and calendar.
      https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/jewish-calendar.html
      http://www.jewfaq.org/calendar.htm
      https://www.hebcal.com/converter/

      Christ was the real Messiah that prophecy foretold in the many prophecies in the Bible that all have come to fruition or true.

      Trump is not a messiah but he has come at a good time in history for the US. He was tapped on the shoulder approximately 5-7 years before he became the US President by the military intelligence officers of high command. Hence we now have the phenomenon of Q and a number of criminal charges, arrests and executions taking place. They are having a virtual civil war with the insidious CIA and the globalists that the prostitute MSM keeps silent with their CIA Mockingbird which apparently controls 90% of the worlds media and press. Add to that the Zionist Murdoch consortium

    • Timothy
      Have you seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd6WXg_xDZI

      These evil globalists will revert to anything to bring in the Communistic NWO and the insidious CIA are also part of it with the Vatican and the Jesuits. They have many many fronts to stay arms length away. The CIA is well known for also being called the Catholic Intelligence Agency. All roads lead to Rome as the Papacy or the Vatican want the Catholic religion to be the only religion. She is seeking that civil power once again and the popes have also called for a NWO.

    • Berry
      Thank you! Compelling reading and much history needs to be revised of the facts of evidence instead of the false narratives and jingoism of the Founding Fathers. Follow the evidence wherever it leads you is the long established motto. To write or speak with “fear or favour” is another one.

      We have lots of problems in our era of living but we are living in an era of discovery of the untruths as well which is exciting.

  8. WTF! This conversation is a bit like Donald Duck arguing with Bugs Bunny about the authenticity or otherwise of the Tooth Fairy.

    A simple DNA test would reveal that 97% at least of “Jewish Zionists” possess no Israelite DNA and are in fact dominated by Khazar/German/Russion DNA. Thus, Israel is a fraud perpetrated by the investment banker alliance to provide nationality to their HQ.

    Second, Christian Zionists are not aberant Christians, but simply ordinary Christians; all of whom have always been elitiest, dishonest, and sexually deviant (which is why 20% of all children in Christian orphanages are sexually abused… Margaret Humphries… “Empty Cradles”). This is also why an extremely high percentage of psychopaths have fundamentalist Christian backgrounds.

    And while Christian apologists deny the statistics, this is because belief always trumps evidence. Indeed, the definition of BELIEF is the conscious rejection of evidence in favour of adoption of a position or attitude which reflects dogma and doctrine.

    And the reference to fascism… this is the marriage of corporations with state; always supported by plutocrats; hence oligarchy; which is what we have had in Australia since 1975.

    But then, Christians are impervious to such logic, this and evidence being the tools of Satan.

    By the way, according to ancient Indian, Persian, Teutonic and other recorded histories, Christianity dates back to 1655 years ago and the reign of the Emperor Constantine; but as they all point to the same date, this must be a satanic conspiracy.

    And the secret part of the Dead Sea Scrolls, variously held in vaults by Israeli and Vatican security entities, exposure of the contents would prove equally inconvenient to believers.

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