{Lies (2)*}[14th December 1987]

[Redbook4:229][19871214:2010h]{Lies (2)*}[14th December 1987]

19871214. 2010

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It is symptomatic of this** universality that I have fairly effortlessly been able to link the diverse points which have occurred to me, generally at separate times, and have been brought forward as brief notes since p221.***

Against this, there is one which I have not been able to link with the others except by this rather doubtful method;**** but then again, the theme is perhaps appropriate: lying.

It is simply a postscript to earlier remarks in the light of #Clifford Longley's article in The Times today. Although I didn't allow for the example of the mad axeman#* when I said that I thought personal lying was more dangerous than institutional lying, I think the underlying test of Separation resolves the difficulty resulting from application of rules.

Of course, rules are necessary for all of us as our Consciences are not sufficiently refined to enable us to be absolutely certain of recognising God and Evil. But I suggest that Rules should be our Guide not our Master: they should be followed rather than obeyed.#** (We can have only one Master, and (as +K says#*** in [2]) all things should be done to please one's Master.)

Lord Denning#**** was never more wrong than when he said (I believe): 'Be you never so high, the Law is above you'.## In point of fact, since each Man has free choice as to whether to obey the Law or not, the truth is the exact opposite: 'Be you never so low, the Law is below you.'##*

*[Presumably numbering refers to [Redbook4:181][19871129:2107f]{The Weight of Sin (1) [continued (3)] – Lies (1)}[29th November 1987].]

**[See last previous entry, final para.]

***[Presumably refer to the untyped marginal ms notes of ideas etc., subsequently crossed out, from [Redbook4:220-221][19871213:2005d]{Walking with the Fair-haired Girl [continued (4)]}[13th December 1987]ff.]

****i.e. as an exception!(?) <930627>

#cf. [[Redbook4:181][19871129:2107f]{The Weight of Sin (1) [continued (3)] – Lies (1)}[29th November 1987],] 181.

#[The Times' religious affairs(?) correspondent.]

#*i.e. tell him the fugitive went the other way....

#**What about [2] Masters? <891005> [sic – see the parenthesis immediately following the footnoted text.]

#***if I recall correctly....

#****[Master of the Rolls (senior appeal court judge).]
[Denning in 1977 appears to have been quoting Thomas Fuller (1654-1734), a physician and collector of aphorisms, although the saying has been attributed directly to Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, to whose words addressing King James I directly in the case of Nicholas Fuller (1607) “Quod Rex non debet esse sub homine, sed sub Deo et Lege” (“The King ought not to be under any man, but under God and the Law”) they are taken to refer. <20170930>]

##(I may have covered this before, but it deserves repetition.) [Yes, previously – see [Redbook3:109-110][19870404:1821d](THE CHURCH AND POLITICS {1} [continued(4)])[4th April 1987] ]

##*This is important, in view of Treblinka.

{But I do not recommend law-breaking!}

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