The end of illusion is terrifying, because it is the end of you. The whole idea that maybe earlier people didn't think so much in a cartesian separation,. but rather understood this far more intuitively than we moderns do to day. Even then, they were trying to figure out who should have access to stuff. That tension was already happening in ancient greece, and along comes jesus s not just democratizing like dionysus, was this access to the mysteries?