Episode # 141 The Noble Lie

Noble Lie. "In sociology, social psychology and social philosophy, the concept of a noble lie is a myth or a lie that is prevalent in a society, and that either emerges on its own or is propagated by an elite in order to maintain social order or for the "greater good". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_lie

Noble. c. 1200, "from Old French noble "of noble bearing or birth," from Latin nobilis "well-known, famous, renowned; excellent, superior, splendid; high-born, of superior birth," earlier *gnobilis, literally "knowable," from gnoscere "to come to know" . https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=noble

Gnosis. "esoteric knowledge of spiritual truth held by the ancient Gnostics to be essential to salvation" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gnosis

Noble. "of a person : possessing outstanding qualities (as of dignity or decency)" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/noble

Possess. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/possession

Outstanding. "Remaining undischarged; unpaid; uncollected; as an outstanding debt. Existing as an adverse claim or pretension; not united or with, or merged in, the title or claim of the party; as an outstanding title." - Black's Law 5th Edition

Dignity. "Dignities are a species of incorporial hereditaments; in which a person may have property or estate." - Black's Law 5th Edition

Estates of the Realm. "First Estate of clergy, a Second Estate of titled nobles, and a Third Estate of all other subjects (both peasants and bourgeoisie)." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estates_of_the_realm

Expilatio. "In the civil law, the offense of unlawfully appropriating goods belonging to a succession. It is not technically theft because such property no longer belongs to the decedent, nor to the heir, since the latter has not yet taken possession..." -Black's Law 5th Edition

"A war of succession is a war prompted by a succession crisis in which two or more individuals claim to be the rightful successor to a deceased or deposed monarch." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_succession 

Tertium Quid. "Christ as something neither human nor divine, but a mixture of the two in a mysterious and inseparable way, and therefore a "third thing". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertium_quid