Wittgenstein is remarking on this passage in Frazer’s Golden Bough:

“At a certain stage of early society the king or priest is often thought to be endowed with supernatural powers or to be an incarnation of a deity, and consistently with this belief the course of nature is supposed to be more or less under his control’ (Frazer, Golden Bough, 168 [iii, 1]); Ludwig Wittgentstein, “Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough,” I, 1931 (MS 110), and II, ca. 1948 (MS 143), in Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951.