The guru, or the supreme initiate, or “the enlightened one,” rules the group from the top of a pyramidal system. This system works on three principles:
x culpabilization of (putting the blame on) those who are at the bottom of the pyramid, far from the Master and the truth and therefore impure;
x the promise of obtaining powers or absolute knowledge by the
observance of the rules;
x elitism and isolation from the external world: the truth belongs
to the elite, and is reserved for beings able to devote themselves to the steeping themselves in the truth.