In an age of "belief", where the entire terrestrial human psyche was maintained solely through a kind of hypnosis or suggestion, one could not possibly at all be aware that in reality one had no real knowledge of all the said phenomena. One was of course completely controlled by the suggestion or belief that one certainly possessed a great knowledge of the said subjects. Had not the king, the high priest and the clergymen explained what was needful and satisfactory in this regard? And was it not indeed sinful against God and the law to think or believe something other than what these beings had authorised? And who could surely doubt or contradict these authorised traditions other than heretics or the children of the devil or Satan himself? No, the absolute tactfulness and good manners, the absolute good form in society's culture was not based on a heretical or diabolical contrivance. The knowledge of the universe was not the lot or occupation of the man in the street; it was in the very highest degree very much something that was reserved only for those beings that were chosen or initiated by God, with the king, the son of the Godhead himself or "heavenly descendent" on earth, at the head.
      That the man on the street himself should be able to investigate life and wrest from the universe its secrets was a thought that had still not stirred in the minds of the general public. "God's ways were past understanding" for the ordinary common person. And consequently the pronouncements of the king and his clergy had to be, accordingly, absolutely satisfactory, absolutely and entirely pleasantly satiating. And the people had therefore absolutely no religious craving or hunger. They were in reality in this way tremendously well-fed, indeed almost corpulent or overfed. How could such beings as these, snorting and groaning in their religious repleteness or fatness, surely get the urge to cry out for a more spiritual knowledge or nourishment? They certainly did have everything that their hearts and minds were able to desire of religious satisfaction. They had the king and his entire great clergy and all other wise men, and they had the temples, with all the miraculous, divine forces or higher powers or whatever they were in a position to imagine as religious blessings pertaining to these.
      The automatically functioning hypnotic or suggestive force emanating from the king or the high priest and his religious staff or occult resources covered immeasurably much more than could possibly arise as questions or mysterious problems in the minds of this general public. So existence and its structure had for this public not yet become any problem, any question about life. This public was, from a religious point of view, satisfied, happy and carefree. The divine suggestion or the religious power radiating from the king and the wise men held society's individuals in its embrace and made each one give to the Godhead (the king) the very highest respect, submissiveness and goodwill. They followed invariably the prescribed rituals, laws and traditions with the same single-minded security and energy as the modern materialistic businessman of today employs in his desire to outdo competitors and in that way grab customers. For the religious believer there is nothing higher than the king's command (the word of God), just as for the materialistic businessman there is nothing higher or better than to earn the greatest possible profit and possess the greatest possible number of customers. What profit and the number of customers are for the materialistic merchant, "divine revelation" through the king and the priests is for the religiously believing being. The believing beings' daily lives were thus at one with their worship of God.