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If you are in power then everyone must know you are in command or, simply, you are not. If you maintain control in this manner, all the people will think they are deriving advantage and enjoying your personal guarantee. If you do not act in such a manner, you may be considered weakminded, and it will cause your downfall. Everyone, myself included, should be used as a tool for the realization of your greatness.

There are many things to know, and there are many things to learn. It is a never-ending process.

CHAPTER TWO

Private and Public Domains

It is easier to maintain private control than to supervise a public undertaking. If the controller of the private enterprise does nothing except keep the status quo of the hereditary hierarchy, nothing will make the people rebel against him. If change is made in a private domain the members of the clan will seek to assist the leader in an endeavor to maintain their own prosperity based on the leader’s new vision.

Maintaining private control takes two factors of acquisition into consideration. One is by ascension through normal inheritance. Changes in leadership are maintained as private affairs throughout the domain that they are directly concerned with. The other is through outside negotiation such as marriages and mergers under any guise. You accomplished one type when you took the Lady Reiki as your consort. Her father was honored by your choice of his daughter and gave you extensive lands as a gift to celebrate the arrangement.