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Over the years, they would contaminate this institution with their own.
During the sixteenth century, the ruling class managed to co-opt a relatively new methodology of truth discernment...science.
However, as antiquity gave way to modern history, this system of control began to lose its effectiveness.
In particular, there was the institution of Sun worship (typified by deities such as Osiris and Set).
In the past, the elite manipulated the population through a more mystical belief system.
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