This situation as described would have created a relatively small group of people who in their day could accurately say 'we have everything' and that allowed them 'magical' superiority that translated to 'gods on earth' to the ignorant ('profane'). This developed into 'secret societies' that tied into the huge Gordian Knot that exists today, through intermarriage, business and trade connections and so on......until they had a virtually global (western globe) network in a pyramidal hierarchy with rules and rule books and standards to complete degrees that vetted and determined the amount of secrets, aka 'truths' to divulge. This translated after one (there have been a couple) as The Sea People who used the chaos to advantage and attacked Egypt (at least twice in two major battles).
This situation as described would have created a relatively small group of people who in their day could accurately say 'we have everything' and that allowed them 'magical' superiority that translated to 'gods on earth' to the ignorant ('profane'). This developed into 'secret societies' that tied into the huge Gordian Knot that exists today, through intermarriage, business and trade connections and so on......until they had a virtually global (western globe) network in a pyramidal hierarchy with rules and rule books and standards to complete degrees that vetted and determined the amount of secrets, aka 'truths' to divulge. This translated after one (there have been a couple) as The Sea People who used the chaos to advantage and attacked Egypt (at least twice in two major battles).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot
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