Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 10802

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10802. Monarchy consists in government exercised in keeping with the laws of the kingdom and in judicial decisions made in keeping with those laws and from a sense of what is just. The monarch who considers the laws to be superior to himself, consequently himself to be subject to them, is wise; but the one who considers himself to be superior to the laws, consequently the laws to be subject to himself, is stupid.


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