Since the pivotal events of the Magna Carta and the resulting protection of the peasantry, the concept of “natural law” arose. The whole notion of “natural law” and “inalienable rights” recognizes a sovereign, and in fact DIVINE status of the individual person. At this time in the middle ages, the law was little more than custom, and mostly unwritten. In most locales, only the Catholic clergy was literate and educated. As a result, judges taking up positions after the Magna Carta were mostly RELIGIOUS MEN. How much was the concept of “inalienable rights” becoming the foundation of our modern legal system in Western-style democracies circumstantial, and how much was the result of divine intervention in response to human prayer?

Here again, you are tracing the divine footprints of our influence on human culture—always invited to take part in some way or another through human yearnings indirectly but in a lofty way in alignment with the love vibration of the divine, or more directly through conscious prayer in seeking divine assistance. The growing power of the individual in legal standing is a testament to the influence of the divine on one hand and the inner stirrings of divinity within the human culture at that time. After all, each human being has a very short lifespan compared to the vast reaches of history and each incarnated human is coming down fresh from a sojourn with Creator in the light, so even though cut off from direct memory of this, there is an inner intuitive awareness of divine principles and a kind of feel for what is in divine alignment and what may not be. That has guided humans all along to find a better path and when assisted to adopt a spiritual perspective of partnership with the divine that resulted in human formation of religion, its adherents were more likely than not in a good position to bring divine assistance for the betterment of humanity and these changes to the strengthening of law for individual sovereignty are a direct result of divine human partnership for the betterment of all.