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from those who don’t have the spiritual capacity to judge the acts of the Pope: only God can do
it. And to believe the opposite is manifested heresy: «Therefore, whoever resists to this
power ordained by God, also resists to the law of God, unless that he pretends the
existence of two principles, as the Manichaean… So we declare, we say and define
that is entirely necessary for the salvation, that all the human creatures be subjected
to the High Roman Pontiff» («Porro Subesse Romano Pontifici, omni humanae craturae
declaramus, decimus et diffinimus omnino esse, de necessitate salutis»). The glove has been
thrown to the King of France; and was clearly adverted, in the words of the bull, the intention
to excommunicate him.
In the next four months, Philip the Fair and the Domini Canis celebrated many secret
meetings. The prestige of Boniface VIII has fell lower than ever in France, after the bull Unam
Sanctam: is the moment, proposed the Lords of the Dog, to depose the Pope; once beheaded
the Golem Dragon, will be easier to disband the body. However, the argument of the
illegitimacy of his investiture doesn’t have the unanimous support of the University of Paris,
necessary request to substantiate the claim or imposition of a new papal election. Gains
strength, instead, the idea to present an accusation of heresy: the heresy, according to the
Canon Law, is causal of demission of the Pope and is supported with historical antecedents. Of
course, that to prove such accusation, and to derive from it the substitution of the Pope, was
necessary the scheme of a general Council. Philip IV is then disposed to force the recall to a
Council to judge the «heretic» behavior of the Pope: he entrusts to enforce there, the number of
his national Bishops. The Lords of the Dog will accompany him orchestrating a campaign of
denunciations of heresy against Boniface VIII, as a manner to morally influence over the
Bishops and also over the Nobles and the Cities. Guillaume of Nogaret and Guillaume of
Plasian, offered to officiate as accusers, being the first elected to perform a secret mission in
Italy, what would not avoid to initiate the campaign of accusations «begging in public to the
King to defend the Christians from the evil of Boniface VIII», and the second to accuse openly
to the Pope.
In March 12 of 1303, Guillaume the Nogaret, before the Council of Ministers of the
King, reads and sign a manifest, which is immediately copied and published in the whole
Kingdom. It said: «The glorious Prince of the apostles, the Blessed Peter, talking in the
name of the Spirit, said us that, as in past times, as in coming times, would emerge
false prophets that will besmirch the path of the truth, and those who, in their greed,
and through misleading words, will traffic with us, following the example of that
Balaam who satisfied with the prize of the iniquity. To impose the punishments and
to utter his threats, Balaam had a beastly creature that, gifted with human speech,
proclaimed the nonsenses of a false prophet… these things, which were announced by
the Father and Patriarch of the Church, we see now with our own eyes realized letter
by letter. In rigor to the truth, there is seated in the chair of Blessed Peter that
master of lies, who notwithstanding of being Maleficent (Malfaisant) in every
possible form, is called Beneficent (Boniface). He didn’t enter through the door, in
the flock of Our Lord as shepherd and cottager, but as raider and thief… Even being
alive the real husband of the Church, Celestine V, he dared to injure the wife by
means of illegitimate embraces. The real husband had no participation in this

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