Hell ya! Because once you've been a cultist, you cant help but connect the pieces missing from all the others. I've found no religion that can delve deep enough into the unknown of the "bad guy" they have for their religion. Which is half the battle lol.
All religions wanna scare you with tales of their "Bad Guy" & how they "THEY" have the info you need to defeat him lol. But they can never cover the range of possibilities your imagination can come up with for a true adversary.
To bad for them, some of us want to know.
Our "bad guy" has to make sense for us to just fall inline.
But ya, whats more important is that you learn more from these other groups so that you can share the intel. The Cult does not say this is it & this is all you need. In fact I understand that the Cult would want quit the contrary. It would want you to constantly seek new information & new techniques for ascension. The Fourth Way its self seems to encourage this with its view of constant learning, constant progression, constant observation.
Just remember what claws at you from within. We all want ascension here, but we all also have something that eats at us from within, something that might take our whole lives to discover.
Cthulhu is it, plane as daylight
As for a theocracy. Well, history has proven that the greatest organization to have ever existed on this planet for human beings is just that, a theocracy.
And Im talking population totals.
Sure a few groups here & there have lived just fine with their secluded beliefs. But we must keep in mind that the same prejudice & elitism that exists in to days religions. Existed then. The only difference is they didn't have 6 billion people to compete with.
It would be cool to imagine a druid from England & Native American getting along. But its more probable they'd find something to argue about. As we humans love to do.
Im down with a Theocracy because its an institution that works. Im trying to think as piratically as possible considering we need a united front against "something". Ya it sucks that images of the guy from Brave Heart saying "the prisoner wish's to say a word" comes to mind or "Goya s Ghost", but think of what the dark ages would have been with out the church.
There would have been no Charlemagne or Charles Martel to defeat the Muslims at the battle of tours. This probably isn't the place to pay props, but a lot of bad ass's came out of an era of darkness. And it wasn't the church that gets the credit. Its the foundation.
Its pure conviction. Its an ideal. Hell you could call it a fantasy if nothing else. But It drew in, I think? half the worlds population at the time. That can not be ignored. Just think if the Cult had that power within our hands. The power to make hero's & change the destiny of the world. What the Catholic Church used to keep humanity asleep for ages, the Cult would use to Awaken! I like the Irony:)
For us to matter, we would have to have some form of organization.
If not a Theocracy, What? And by the way. Its still early in the Cults history. No need to see such extremes. But one day.
Killer question by the way.
Awake! `