by Van Stone vspfoundation@yahoo.com
Above: Official symbol of the Courtfighter
organization. Scales of Law in the State of
PA. The Two Dragons are reflecting the
Human Scale. And the Dragon Face on the
ledge reflects the Holy Book that are common
symbols for court justice for all.
Americans amongst others believed that the court or a courthouse was fair, so they created their courthouse symbol to reflect this, laid out in regular patterns, with a human scale or a statue of Lady Justice with or without a blindfold, atop of the courthouse in a town. This divided the courts into men or women supposed to see clearly and guarantee their impartiality, known as judges.
The symbol of the court or a courthouse, the Scales of Justice, the Lady Justice sculpture of the Power of Law, or replacing the two with a Holy book, also reflected that Americans believed that judges were marked. They were marked by the symbol and/or disposed to doing good. Judges were organized for the purpose of doing good not bad.
The symbol of the courthouse also reflected that Americans believed that judges are sometimes wrong. Today, Americans amongst others believe that judges are sometimes wrong.
The symbol of a courthouse should remind the judge that he or she could be wrong.
They should do their utmost to do good otherwise remove themselves from the court or else be removed. Although judges can see clearly and must be impartial, the outcome of their decision could be wrong still.
Americans believed that a tribunal is established for the administration of justice and not for having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred, productive of harm or evil.
It is the measure of the symbol of equality, written or visual, that helped Americans believe in the system of the court.
Scales held by Lady Justice or the Holy Book symbolizes the measure of a case's support and opposition in a law court. This means that a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes might make decisions that do not altogether add up to the measure of a case’s support or opposition. And the person in power in judicial systems no matter how hard he or she tries to be the embodiment of divine order, fair law, and civility custom, in his or her aspect as the personification of the rightness of law, do make errors.
Therefore individuals who participate, willfully or unwillfully in any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical expect to see clearly the power of reason and justice, which may be wielded either for or against any party, to be the personification of the rightness of law.
Any person should see clearly that the symbol reflecting the personification of the rightness of law is also supposed to represent fun and excitement. Therefore, going to court was never meant to mean experiencing a face to face meeting with the monstrous, a person in power to terrify or a person not being in accordance with normal human feelings or behavior.
Americans were not the only ones to use symbols of law to represent a courthouse where judges were marked by the symbol, organized for the purpose of doing good.
From Europeans, Asians, and Africans they created their symbol to reflect a courthouse and justice. Europeans, Asians, and Africans at one time or another used the dragon top of the courthouse in a town or country.
Above: Official symbol of the
Courtfighter organization.
Scales of Law in the State of PA.
The woman represents Lady Justice,
without the blindfold. The Dragon
is reflecting the Human Scale,
and/or the Holy Book that are
common symbols for court
justice for all.
In this case, a Dragon, the symbol, is not to be confused with a monster as many often confuse the two. A Dragon is no more a monster than a human scale, a statue of Lady Justice, or the Holy Book is. Some modern pseudo-biological accounts of dragons give them the generic name Draco, although the generic name Draco is used in real-world biology for a genus of small gliding agamid lizard.
European dragons are more often winged, while Oriental versions of the dragon resemble large snakes in water, but mostly in or near the sea.
Dragons were sometimes portrayed as having especially large eyes for watching treasure very diligently. The treasure is equivalent to symbolizing the measure of a case's support and opposition in a law court. Also, the treasure that the dragon is the equivalent to seeing clearly the power of reason and justice, which may be wielded either for or against any party, to be the personification of the rightness of law.
In many Asian cultures dragons were, and in some cultures still are, associated with wisdom—often said to being wiser than humans—and with greater longevity.
The Greek and Latin term, dragon, (symbol) referred to any great serpent (in water) with a human of equality, written or visual, with a human voice, not necessarily mythological, and this usage was also current in English up to the 18th century.
People would dress up in dragon costumes, this too reflected fun and excitement, the purpose of doing good, because dragons represented essential virtues: charity, trustworthiness, courage, wisdom, and fairness.
Interestingly, in early African, Chinese, Grecian, and Indian ancient text and culture, despite having wings, the dragon is generally depicted as having an underground lair or cave, (the equivalent to a courthouse or court), making it an ancient creature of the earth element.
