Kingship

What do we know about Kings?

• [AL 2.21]
  • Compassion is a vice. [See Liber Had (8) for "stamp down the wretched & the weak" aspect.]
  • Kings do not die.
  • Even the essence of royalty never dies so that even in dissolution, there is that which remains.
• [AL 2.24]
  • At rule.
  • At victorious armies.
  • At all the joy.
• … and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this.
  • Hermits and Kings share at least identity if not actually identical.
  • Everything between Kings is about consensual acts—but fuck’em if they mess with you!
  • Love is at the core of the King (Love is the law, after all).
• [AL 2.58-59]
  • Everyone has always been a King—but they may not remember it.
  • Kingship can have a mask of a beggar.
    • (Yes, sometimes people can get that mask stuck and never recover from it)
  • It is not up to us to judge other’s Kingship. We can only focus on our own and treat others like Kings anyway.
• [AL 2.74]
  • Those who take the time to work through the veils of the Khu ("lives long & desires death much") are those who will rise to the top of the heap even as Kings among Kings.

Brotherhood of Kings Defined

• [AL 3.58]
  • The keen: those whose Will is as a sword sharp and straight, tempered and ground and polished its flawless steel; with a Wrist and an Eye behind it.
  • The proud: those who know themselves to be stars, and bend the knee to none. True pride prevents one from doing that which is unworthy of themselves.
  • The royal: those whose nature is kingly, the men who 'can.' They know themselves born rulers, whether their halidom be Art, or Science, or aught else soever.
  • The lofty: those who, being themselves high-hearted, endure not any baseness.
  • Attributes
    • Keen = To Know
    • Proud = To Dare
    • Royal = To Will
    • Lofty = To Keep Silent
• [AL 3.59]
  • "As brothers fight ye!"

Moral Foundations of Kingship

• Accountability [AL 1.41d]
• Compassion [AL 2.21d]
• Consent-Oriented [AL 2.24d]
• Courage [AL 3.59]
• Dignity [AL 3.58]
• Discernment [AL 2.58g,h]
• Introspection [AL 2.74]
• Loyalty [AL 3.59]
• Noble-of-Nature [AL 3.58]
• Pride [AL 3.58]
• Willfulness [AL 3.58]

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