In Soulstealers：the Chinese sorcery scare of 1768，Philip A. Kuhn attempts to deal with the problem of the dynamics of autocratic rule in Chinese empire. However，he does not notice the dimensions of temporality and of grammar respectively. Based on the new conceptions in this article - the process of state and the time of power， the monarch is regarded as the dual-incarnation of state and politics during the time of arbitrary power，so that the bureaucrats have to be the monarch’s private servants. On the contrary，throughout the time of routine power，the bureaucrats achieve the de-incarnation of the monarch by organizing. From cross-cultural and comparative perspectives, there are common characters and different qualities in the typologies, the mechanisms and the effects, between the incarnations of Hongli and some other cases in Chinese and Western history.