The Emperor, being by very nature holy, has no need to conform to priestly forms of holiness signalling.
The Emperor, not needing to signal holiness, being by very nature holy, demonstrates for all to see the true nature of holiness. Not to signal such — for his holiness is ever in surfeit — but rather to illustrate and, critically, to bound.
For no priest is more holy than the Emperor — far less one who merely observes the forms — and for any to suggest so invites severe and final censure: the wrath of the Emperor.
And thus holiness spirals come to an end, for punishment falls upon all those who claim — through devotion to the prescribed forms — to possess greater holiness than he who is by nature holy. The form is ever and only an imitation of the nature of those greater than oneself; the form cannot be followed closer than it is set.
I am more convinced everyday that Trump is a spiritual leader. Many cases in biblical history where the imperfect vehicle comes forth to save humanity. It is precisely his imperfections that make him impervious to Leftist attacks. His lacking of shame within the Leftist societal norms and constraints allow him free reign to do and say what needs to be done. Thank God.
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I think this probably applies to Trump:
According to Nietzsche:
It is obvious that everywhere the designations of moral value were at first applied to MEN; and were only derivatively and at a later period applied to ACTIONS; it is a gross mistake, therefore, when historians of morals start with questions like, “Why have sympathetic actions been praised?” The noble type of man regards HIMSELF as a determiner of values; he does not require to be approved of; he passes the judgment: “What is injurious to me is injurious in itself;” he knows that it is he himself only who confers honour on things; he is a CREATOR OF VALUES. (Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 260)
Something to think about
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It is rather like the old notion that a hero did heroic deeds because they were a hero, rather than the more modern interpretation that a doer of heroic deeds is only then a hero.
My thought on the more general point is that a people governed in accordance with a morality will become more moral according to that morality, generation by generation. This of course requires that governance to impose sufficient atrocity that morality is enforced in a manner that is passed on.
Being moral is high status. <- another post in that notion.
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