What is absolutism's relationship to tradition?

There's no need to assume that in an absolutist order the sovereign is constantly deciding about everything afresh and constantly remaking the social order. If traditions continue, it's because the ruler tacitly allows them to, or gives them his own stamp of approval. The sovereign should always lean toward tradition, and should ground his own rule in tradition as much as possible, but of course he is always assessing it and making needed changes, sometimes very openly, sometimes more subtlely, with day to day decisions. We can always work under the assumption that the traditions have been transmitted to him by the previous sovereign, so there has never been a time when tradition ruled or served as a kind of imperium in imperio.