SHOULDERS: DOMINION THROUGH DOMICILE
Have you ever thought:
Public
A royal has a divine right claim to a throne and it’s publicly acknowledged and the peerage is tracked for everyone to know.
Private
A royal has a divine right (legitimate claim) to a throne, but it's hidden from the public and just a few nefarious and/or legitimate people know, but it remains private, possibly one day to be revealed.
Neither Public nor Private
A royal has a divine right claim to a throne that’s not yet a common knowledge (actual reality) but is being hidden publicly and limited privately.
Sui generis or ne quid nimis?
“If I were to imagine to myself a day-laborer and the mightiest emperor that ever lived, and were to imagine that this mighty Emperor took a notion to send for the poor man, who never had dreamed, “neither had it entered into his heart to believe,” that the Emperor knew of his existence, and who therefore would think himself indescribably fortunate if merely he was permitted once to see the Emperor, and would recount it to children and children’s children as the most important event of his life, but suppose the Emperor sent for him and informed him that he wished to have him for his son-in-law...what then?
“Then the laborer, humanly, would become somewhat or very much puzzled, shame-faced, and embarrassed, and it would seem to him, quite humanly (and this is the human element in it), something exceedingly strange, something quite mad, the last thing in the world about which he would say a word to anybody else, since he himself in his own mind was not far from explaining it by supposing (as his neighbors would be busily doing as soon as possible) that the Emperor wanted to make a fool of him, so that the poor man would be the laughingstock of the whole town, his picture in the papers, the story of his espousal to the Emperor’s daughter the theme of balladmongers.
“This thing, however, of becoming the Emperor’s son-in-law might readily be subjected to the tests of reality, so that the laborer would be able to ascertain how far the Emperor was serious in this matter, or whether he merely wanted to make fun of the poor fellow, render him unhappy for the rest of his life, and help him to find his way to the madhouse; for the ne quid nimis is in evidence, which with such infinite ease can turn into its opposite.
“A small expression of favor the laborer would be able to get through his head; it would be understood in the market-town by “the highly respected cultured public,” by all ballad-mongers [a person(s) who writes and sells music], in short, by the 5 times 100,000 persons who dwelt in that market-town, which with respect to its population was even a very big city, but with respect to possessing understanding of and sense for the extraordinary from a very small market town—but this thing of becoming the Emperor’s son-in-law would then be far too much.
“And suppose now that this was not an external reality but an inward thing, so that factual proofs could not help the laborer to certitude, but faith itself was the facticity, and so it was all left to faith whether he possessed humble courage enough to dare to believe it (for impudent courage cannot help one to believe) [impudent: marked by contemptuous or cocky boldness or disregard of others]—how many laboring men were there likely to be who possessed this courage?
“But he who had not this courage would be offended; the extraordinary would seem to him almost like mockery of him.
“He would then perhaps honestly and plainly admit, “Such a thing is too high for me, I cannot get it into my head; it seems to me, if I may blurt it straight out, foolishness.”
From The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard https://www.religion-online.org/book-chapter/chapter-1-despair-is-sin/
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