Having seen the Teaching Mission and Magisterial Mission over the years represented by humans speaking on behalf of material applications of these spiritual initiatives in voices often assuming unchallengeable authority reminds me of the relationship between hope and illusion described as:
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Illusions come about when hope is attached to a specific future outcome. Illusion can then dominate hope and cause a person to do whatever it takes to create that illusion in reality. In this way, the ends begin to justify the means, so much so that the greater the utopian nature of the illusion, the more worth its increasingly desperate and even immoral measures become justified by that illusion. - [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2004-09-12-Hope_and_Illusion#Lesson Ham]