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were the mysteries not always off limits to the "profane?" you make it sound as if with the coming of the state religion of Christianity that all of a sudden the people were in darkness . . . as if the priesthood of the older pagan religions did not employ a similar method of maintaining the knowledge of the mysteries/esoteric aspects of the religion from the mass of people who were given stories in which to follow.
one could argue that even in Kemet we find this same method.
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