The Power of Godliness · the attribute of God
Complimentary
Alcázar of Segovia
Two rivers, two cultures, one crowned prow — a castle made of things that flatter each other.
The attribute of God
Complimentary
The way it moves
Elevate
The estate it increases
Ownerships
The geography lesson
It stands on a rock at the confluence of the Eresma and Clamores rivers, shaped like the bow of a ship. Two waters cut the plateau on both sides; the castle is what the meeting left standing.
- Where
- Segovia, Castile and León, Spain
- Continent
- Europe
- Built
- 12th century, rebuilt after the fire of 1862
- Style
- Mudéjar and Gothic, slate spires over Moorish plasterwork
- Coordinates
- 40.9529°, -4.1327°
The real castle · photographs
Alcázar of Segovia as it actually stands in Segovia, Castile and León — 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 complimentary.
The mirror reading · Complimentary
One word, two kingdoms. On the earth side complimentary 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
Kunzite
A gem that gives light back — it takes the room's glow and returns it warmer and pink.
The stone of Complimentary →Heaven · The Power of Godliness
Alcázar of Segovia
Two rivers, two cultures, one crowned prow — a castle made of things that flatter each other.
Segovia, Castile and León, Spain
What you build in your castle
Alcázar of Segovia 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 complimentary — 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. Complimentary decides the terms on which anything enters your ownerships — and because you rule from inside, the crossing is granted, never taken.
What is held
Walls
These walls hold other people. A sovereign's complimentary is wide enough that a household, a company and a lineage shelter behind it — and ownerships increases inside the enclosure because it is safe there.
What makes it livable
Furnishings
The great hall is furnished for guests. Ownerships is no longer only kept, it is served — and what you set on the table is the proof that complimentary became substance and not sentiment.
What makes it worth defending
Beauty
A queen's beauty is her kingdom's morale. Complimentary at full power makes ownerships lovely as well as large, and people travel to see it — the way they still travel to Segovia, Castile and León.
Read in heaven · The Power of Godliness
The Power of Godliness elevates whatever it touches. To be complimentary is to make the other thing greater by standing beside it. Estates multiply when they are not in competition.
“Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost?”
Luke 14:28
Build your castle today
Raise someone else's work today by name, in public.
The other castles of Day 2 · The Law of the Prototype