THE LAW'S SACERDOTAL GLORY
Law is a great discipline to have, a great degree to acquire, even if one has no desire to practice law. It is a bold quiver of many arrows, and an adornment to any bonnet. Before law schools became an institution, persons read for the law, in the law office of another lawyer or judge.
Law is ancient. Predating the great symbolic pyramids of ancient Egypt (Kemet), the assiduousness of the "law," its piquant precision, based upon a geodetic and mathematical orientation, as combined with law's spiritual potency, vitality, origins and essence is a divine priesthood.
Plato writes in the "Timaeus" that Solon, the Greek "lawgiver" --the first Greek lawyer--learned of that discipline from Egyptian priests. These sable savants, deemed the Greeks to be like children due to a lack of wisdom, and understanding.
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From Greece to Rome; from Rome to Europe; from Europe to America, came the law, losing at each stage of its legal devolution important attributes, until but traces remain.
The architecture of the United States Supreme Court has boldly embedded images of the history of the law from "Maat," the ancient Egyptian goddess of law, order, balance , beauty, recast to us as an anglicized, "gentrified" version of her; coming down to us as "Lady Justice" a gowned, blindfolded, female bearing a sword and scales.
Sculptor James Earl Fraser, in "Contemplation of Law " gives a mixed nod to "Maat" at the court's main entrance, installed in 1935.
Given law's philosophical, spiritual, ritual bases, ethics are central to its authority. Thus, codes of ethics and discipline govern each state, although none but "good behavior" bind the nine justices themselves.
Law has been used for good and bad, just like religion, education, philosophy, ethics, history; in short all things. Yet the knowledge of the sacerdotal origins of law may help us to restore her to primeval glory.