The Final Initiation of Sovereignty
The elders cast their crowns before the Throne. The King spends the Quest becoming capable of wearing the Crown, then discovers it was never a possession. Mature sovereignty is received precisely because it no longer claims to be its own Source. The Crown passes through egoic sovereignty, sacred kingship, the crown of thorns, and royal responsibility before becoming the Crown of Life. It is given after the false sovereign dies: the difference between inflation and initiation.