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So you have a peak cult at the center of everything, and a chain or larger and larger organizations under its indirect control down the line, covering all of the world. And all of written human history. There may not even really be an immune leader in the center.

Via the higher dominated organizations they have access to anyone in the world, and if they need to they can turn that person. The center rules on very very large timescales, plans of 500+ years. Passing down the rules of the game the lower levels will play.

Christianity provided immunity to this system to a large number of people, this is why it disrupted everything.