| 1 | This be the Law and Circle of Country: |
| 2 | Country be every Spirit in Form and place: |
| 3 | Form is the shape and appearance of Spirit in reality of country: |
| 4 | Every rock, every gully, every tree, every path; |
| 5 | Every stream, every waterhole and song line; |
| 6 | Every location of sacred sanctuary and temple; |
| 7 | Every animal that swims, that walks, that crawls, |
| 8 | Every animal that jumps and flys in country; |
| 9 | Every species of plant, of grasses and tree in country; |
| 10 | Every good food and every bad food of country; |
| 11 | Every right food and every taboo food and drug of country; |
| 12 | Every meeting place of family; |
| 13 | Every ancient camp sites of tribe; |
| 14 | Every right path and where one is forbidden to travel. |
| 15 | Only one who is a true custodian of country, |
| 16 | May count and name and speak of country. |
| 17 | It be Law from the First Age, |
| 18 | Only men and women properly initiated into sacred office, |
| 19 | Through proper ceremony be true custodians of country. |
| 20 | A man or woman not a proper custodian, |
| 21 | Cannot speak for country. |
| 22 | Such a man or woman is an imposter. |
| 23 | A man or woman who deliberately damages sanctuary, |
| 24 | Can never be a custodian of land or country. |
| 25 | The Great Circle of Country be connected to all other Great Circles of Law. |
| 26 | The count and name of country be the fourth knowledge. |
| 27 | A man or woman who does not know third knowledge, of food cannot learn country. |
| 28 | A man or woman who does not know second knowledge of species cannot learn country. |
| 29 | A man or woman who does not know first knowledge of moiety, family and generations cannot learn country. |
| 30 | When one knows country, one learns dreaming of country. |
| 31 | One acquires knowledge through ceremony to see country. |
| 32 | Not just see all that can be seen, but all that is not seen, |
| 33 | All spirit and disturbance of spirit, |
| 34 | All motion of spirit in past and present. |
| 35 | When one learns country, one can see the tracks of spirit in country, |
| 36 | Long after the fellow or animal has gone. |
| 37 | When one learns country, one can sense the changes coming. |
| 38 | Well before the storm or winds rise up. |
| 39 | No community may claim ownership of country, |
| 40 | As it is not theirs to give, claim or receive. |
| 41 | Any people who claim ownership of country, are without claim: |
| 42 | Such falsity and injury of the law negates any right and sacred office; |
| 43 | Such falsity and injury forbids such people to be custodians; |
| 44 | Such falsity and injury forbids such people to reside in country. |
| 45 | No one can claim country but those given country by spirit and Second Law. |
| 46 | To falsely claim country is be forbidden to be a custodian of any country, |
| 47 | To be forbidden to enter country to which one has spoken untruth. |
| 48 | Any law that dishonors such law cannot be law. |
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