The Power of Godliness · the attribute of God
Companionate
Bunratty Castle
A castle remembered for its table — companions are the point of the hall.
The attribute of God
Companionate
The way it moves
Enliven
The estate it increases
Optimums
The geography lesson
It stands where the Owenogarney meets the Shannon estuary in the west of Ireland, at the head of Atlantic navigation. Ships could come this far inland and no further.
- Where
- County Clare, Munster, Ireland
- Continent
- Europe
- Built
- 1425 by the MacNamaras
- Style
- tower house famous for its Great Hall and long tables
- Coordinates
- 52.6994°, -8.8117°
The real castle · photographs
Bunratty Castle as it actually stands in County Clare, Munster — photographs from Wikimedia Commons. Look long enough at the stone, the roofline and the land it was set on to know why this kingdom reads as companionate.
The mirror reading · Companionate
One word, two kingdoms. On the earth side companionate is a stone she carries and studies — geology, substance, the thing in her hand. Behind the Door the same word is a castle standing somewhere real — geography, dominion, the place she lives from.
Earth · The Sovereign CEO
Pink Tourmaline (Rubellite)
The crystal that carries a charge when warmed — nearness that actually does something.
The stone of Companionate →Heaven · The Power of Godliness
Bunratty Castle
A castle remembered for its table — companions are the point of the hall.
County Clare, Munster, Ireland
What you build in your castle
Bunratty Castle is four works, and so is yours: a moat that decides what may cross, walls that hold what has been gathered, furnishings that make the inside livable, and beauty that makes it worth defending. Keeping companionate — here behind the Door and on the earth side in the planner — raises all four.
What may cross
Moat
A queen's moat is not defence, it is jurisdiction. Companionate decides the terms on which anything enters your optimums — and because you rule from inside, the crossing is granted, never taken.
What is held
Walls
These walls hold other people. A sovereign's companionate is wide enough that a household, a company and a lineage shelter behind it — and optimums increases inside the enclosure because it is safe there.
What makes it livable
Furnishings
The great hall is furnished for guests. Optimums is no longer only kept, it is served — and what you set on the table is the proof that companionate became substance and not sentiment.
What makes it worth defending
Beauty
A queen's beauty is her kingdom's morale. Companionate at full power makes optimums lovely as well as large, and people travel to see it — the way they still travel to County Clare, Munster.
Read in heaven · The Power of Godliness
Companionate means bread-sharing. To enliven is to make the room alive because you walked in. Optimums are reached at tables, not desks.
“Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
Galatians 6:7
Build your castle today
Eat with someone today. Set the table properly.
The other castles of Day 18 · The Law of the Positivity