From the book Thy Kingdom Comes
Chapter 6. Joshua’s Altar
Section 4. The Commander in chiefs
Eventually, the power of Consuls and Tribunes, the restrictions of the Twelve Tablets of Law and a multitude of offices were added to serve the peoples needs. The number and influence of statutes rather than common law and custom expanded as the people became comfortable and perverse. At first this servant bureaucracy would attend to the needs and desires of the people and eventually eat out their substance in service to the beast of Rome.
Power begets Power. The power, prestige and popularity of Julius Caesar obtained great wealth for Rome, and for Caesar. If one man had all the responsibility and power, then liberty was dead. The Libera Res Publica had steadily changed from a free society of untaxed land owners ruled by individual responsibility and the elders of the family units, to a culture of affluent self-indulgence, apathy, avarice and amour propre. 1
Idolism supplanted idealism. The first charismatic character who told the people what they wanted to hear became both victimizer and victim. Caesar was a master of popular opinion but not a master of his own greed for power.
Conservative senators murdered Caesar on the Ides of March in order to reestablish the old “libera res publica”, e.g. the Roman republic, where men were free from things public. Caesar died, but the republic also gasped its last breath. It was lost through the apathy of the people and replaced by the rule of Augustus. He was elected by the electoral college of the Senate to three offices of this new social democracy; the President of Rome called Principas Civitas or Princeps (elected annually), the commander in chief called Emperator or Emperor (ten year term of office) and the Appointor of gods called Apo Theos, who appointed the judges and magistrates throughout the courts of the Empire.
“Accustomed to trampling on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.”2
The character of Rome had changed as a result of moral decay. It had now mutated through greed, indifference and civil war. The victory of Octavius, the “Savior”3 of Rome, now called Caesar Augustus, began the spiraling decent of the Roman people into bondage.
Caesar ruled over the civil powers of a nation once composed of rugged individuals bound together by a common brotherhood. His bountiful benevolence offering free bread in the form of a massive welfare system of entitlements eventually turned Romans into the bread for Caesar’s own table at which his vast bureaucracy now fed.
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1Amour-propre or Self-love is French. A regarding of oneself with undue favor.
2Abraham Lincoln September 11, 1858.
3Augustus was hailed as the Savior of Rome and promptly elected by the electoral college of the Senate to a ten year term of office as commander in chief.
