Mankind depends upon wise men to guide them and lead them safely into the future. Yet as each man is mortal, the mantle of responsibility must be continually renewed and handed on to the next generation, and so young shoulders must be tended and nurtured over many years in order to take on this vital role, or society will break down. With one leader, the group of wise men work together to decide the best way in which to mould and develop the consciousness of the general population to work in tandem and to drive the society forward with new ideas, technology, art, science and understanding of the world, allowing more control over that society’s future – at least in the short term.
Another important role of the wise men is to identify the wisest ones in the next generation, and free them to use their minds and bodies together in order to push the envelope of human knowledge and compassion ever further, whilst securing (or at least attempting to secure) the future for their peoples. A range of buildings and tools are then offered and developed to support these wise men in their work, and the intention has also been for the wisest one to rule the civilisation as a King in a line of Kings.
Yet even with a team of wise men guiding him or her and the best of education and training, it soon became clear that the descendants of the wisest ones may not necessarily go on to fulfil their destiny. Apart from the variation implicit in nature, there was something about the privileged life of wealth which tended to fail to fully develop the abilities of the man. As a result, a division was gradually forged between the leader of the society - who guided man’s body and work, and the wisest one - who guided man’s mind and intellectual growth.
