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being discovered by the Lords of the Dog, and then arrested and accused of high treason, the
Bishop of Pamiers sends his report to Boniface VIII who demanded to the King of France his
immediate release. This was not possible without running the risking to expose more details
about the Domini Canis, so he was formally accused of being involved in a seditious plan at the
service of the Crown of Aragon. He was going to be judged by a civil court, which was in total
contradiction with the Canon Law, which prohibited to the Bishops to appear in the secular
court.
The necessity for the Bishop of Pamiers to obtain testimony against Philip the Fair, and
the challenge which meant in that time the civil prosecution of a Bishop, caused the anger of
Boniface VIII. His response would be the bull Ausculta filis, dispatched to France in December
1301, with others of lesser importance. On it, Boniface criticized violently the legal and
administrative reform to the King: «Return, my beloved son, to the path that guides to
God, and from which you have missed, either by your own guilt or by the instigation
of malicious advisors. Above everything, don’t let you to be persuaded that you do not
have a superior and that you are not subjected to the Pope, who is the head of the
ecclesiastical hierarchy. Such opinion is senseless, and who encourages it, is an infidel
already segregated from the flock of the good Shepherd». Those «evil advisors», of
course, would not be other than the Domini Canis. Then Boniface expresses that, with the
finality to consider the disorders caused by the misbehavior of Philip, and to find a fair remedy
to it, he convened all the Bishops to a Council in Rome in November of 1302: during the
same, the King, who is invited to be present, will be prosecuted for his «crimes» and called to
the correction. Philip IV, of course, not only would not present, but he would prohibit to the
Bishops to leave France without his consent.
The «crimes» that were imputed to the King in the Ausculta filis would seem us today
perfectly sovereign: they accused him to «have changed the monetary system»; to «create taxes
unknown until then»; to «tax the rents that the Church of France guided to Rome»; to «impose
national frontiers to their subjects»; etc. Copies of this bull were read and burnt in public in all
France, generating a popular movement of indignation against the theocratic despotism of the
Pope.
As I told you, Dr. Siegnagel, with the Ausculta filis appeared the opportunity to exhibit
the Mystical Nation, with this new structure of the State that was patiently created the Domini
Canis legists. This demonstration was realized exactly the day, April 10 in 1302, at the
Cathedral of Notre Dame Paris, and can be considered as the first Constitution of the modern
French State. There were gathered the representatives of all the French provinces, reason why
that Congress was called «of the General States». But what was really new consisted in the
Three Orders that composed the Assembly; it means, representatives of the Nobility, the
Clergy, and of the Cities. These last ones, present for the first time in a Council chaired by the
King. It must be placed at that time of the XIV century to appreciate on its real dimension the
innovation which meant to include with Noble and Ecclesiastical representatives the plebeian
class; and not as a «democratic right», extorted by force to sanguinary Tyrants or weak Kings,
but by the real recognition that the people participate in the sovereignty, such as affirms
the Hyperborean Wisdom. Naturally, in the third Order, were represented the different strata
that integrated the Mystical Nation: mainly the new and vigorous bourgeoisie, composed by

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