[xxxvi. 124]

1822 July 2

Constitut Code

Supreme Operative

I. Monarch

Instruments

3. Priest

3. Now as to the Priest. /In his sinister operations likewise/ Delusion is the instrument most in use in the sinister operations of the Priest. /In him may be seen another of the Monarchs corporeal instruments, of whom delusion is the principally employed incorporeal instrument./ Force, physical force belongs not to his province. Intimidation, yes. But it is by delusion that the intimidation is produced. The God /Divinity/ sprung from the brain of the Lawyer is Common Law. The Divinity sprung from the brain of the Priest is Religion. The business of the Lawyer is to do in the first place the will of the Monarch, in the next place his own: these are the two ends of action the principal and the subordinate. In this the business of the Lawyer and that of the Priest agree. The /What/ difference has place between them lies in the means: in the different forms and degrees of the intimidation they employ. By The Lawyer as such the scene of the terrors he holds out is confined to the present life: the Priest provides a life of his own invention a life which he fills with instruments of /an all comprehensive instrument of/ intimidation - a life composed of /filled with/ torments in intensity and duration infinite. The lawyer in the bitterest of his inflictions left the sufferer /victim/ unbereft of hope: hope of seeing the termination of them in death: this last consolation is torn from him by the Priest: the tyranny of the lawyer is taken in hand by him improved upon to the highest degree - and from finite the suffering and the despair are rendered infinite.

A life filled with torments in comparison of which the most excruciating torments known by any man's experience would be consummate pleasure is by one general positive rule declared to be the lot of every thing in the shape of man But to this general in some indeterminate small number exceptions may perhaps /peradventure/ be found. To take a /his/ chance for constituting one of these exceptions the first thing a man has to do is to do in all things as far as lies in his power the will of the Monarch, to the production of human misery in what quantity soever it may come /chance to be/ /happen to it/ to be directed.