Weber (1978 [1914]) notes that those attributed charismatic authority are considered “extraordinary and endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities … regarded as divine in origin or as exemplary, and on the basis of them [these qualities] the individual concerned is treated as a leader” (p. 241). In this sense, the social relationships directly involved with charismatic authority are strictly personal and irrational in character. Weber points out, however, that, if these relationships are not to remain a transitory phenomenon, then they and the charismatic authority they are involved with “cannot remain stable; they will become either traditionalized or rationalized, or a combination of both” (p. 246). What Weber means is that, over time, the charismatic leader will be superseded by either a bureaucracy vested with rational legal authority or by institutionalized structures into which the charismatic impetus will become incorporated. This rationalization or institutionalization process is what Weber refers to as the routinization of charisma.