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Thirty-Seventh Day


                      We  are  getting  closer,  Estimated  Dr.  Siegnagel,  to  the  denouement  of  the  history  of
               Philip  IV,  that’s  to  say,  the  moment  in  which  the  plans  of  the  White  Fraternity  failed,
               developed during the previous seven hundred years by the Golems.
                      I  already  indicated  from  where  would  begin  the  Strategy  of  the  Initiated  King:
               Occupation of the real space and Enclosure. Then, the internal Enemy should be eliminated
               to safeguard the national Mystic, which is the effective action field of the Regal Function. The
               concepts  of  the  Hyperborean  Wisdom  that  I  exposed  the  last  Days,  and  that  in  analogous
               manner were assimilated by Philip IV in the XIII century, permitted to access to a different
               strategic point of view, from where the acts of his reign were acquiring its real sense. Philip IV
               receives the Crown of France in 1285: he inherited from Philip III, in that moment, the military
               disaster of the Crusade against Aragon and the obligation contracted by the Realm to vest his
               brother  Charles  with  the  Crowns  of  Peter  III.  But  Philip  IV  was  interested  to  continue  the
               struggle and he limited to stop the hits of audacity of the Aragonese that, emboldened by their
               triumphs, realized periodic incursions and disembarkations in French territory. The peace of
               Tarascon,  concerted  in  1291,  and  the  Treaty  of  Anagni  of  1295.  With  free  hands,  the  King
               would undertake the enterprise to expel the English from the French territory.
                      Guyenne was the most extensive province of France after the Laguedoc; from its capital,
               Bordeaux, came Bertrand de Got, a Lord of the Dog who was Pope under the name of Clement
               V and from whom I will talk later. But that huge Duchy was in power of Edward I Plantagenet
               since 1252, although surrounded by the French Counties of Poitou, Guyenne and Gascony, and
               the Kingdom of Navarre, which King was also Philip IV. The opportunity to occupy the English
               areas of Guyenne would be given by a conflict between English and Normand marines in the
               port of Bayonne in 1292. The English Corsairs seized of a French squadron and they ransacked
               the La Rochelle: nothing else needed the French to take numerous strongholds and castles and
               try to close the enclosure. Two years later, England and France were mired in sanguinary naval
               war.
                      The war against the English exterior Enemy not only meant the change of front of the
               French policy but also contributed a great pretext to initiate the administrative reform of the
               Kingdom. This reform, largely planned by the Domini Canis legists, had to start necessarily
               with the financial separation of Church and the State: essentially, was necessary to control
               the ecclesiastic rents that usually were retired to Rome out of any audit. In parallel, would be
               sanctioned a tax system that assured the continuity of the real rents. The pretext consisted in
               the authorization that the Popes had granted to Philip III and Philip IV to tax with a tithe the
               rents of the Church of France with the finality to afford the Crusade against Aragon: if in 1295
               the peace with Aragon was concerted, one year before exploded the war with England giving
               occasion  to  Philip  to  prosecute  with  the  exactions.  That  was  not  legal;  nevertheless  soon  it
               would be thanks to the real law at the ends of 1295 that imposed to the clergy of France the
               forced contribution of a «war tax» over their rents.
                      Before  it,  they  see  that  the  reaction  of  the  Golem  Church,  deserves  a  separate
               commentary, the attitude that the Golem Pope Martin IV had assumed when he questioned the
               Realms of Peter III: on it is clearly appreciated the enormous hate that he felt against the House

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