Dīn-i Ilāhī, (Persian: "Divine Faith"), an elite eclectic religious movement, which never numbered more than 19 adherents, formulated by the Mughal emperor Akbar in the late 16th century ad.
Gnostics teach that a spiritual elite possesses "hidden knowledge" of the divine that places their revelations above the revelations found in scripture.
But the 2006 coup failed to bury him politically and only unleashed a wider backlash against an elite that still believes in a divine hierarchy of which they are the agents.
But some question how much divine will the child can introduce into the process after the elite electors have already eliminated candidates with unconventional views.
"By explicitly drawing on this ancient manual of rites, their new capital city used divine numerology and ritual to express the power of the ruling elite in physical space".
In return, the traditionalists, forced to pay homage to the elites will become deeply suspicious of science, longing for divine intervention or a return to the "Golden Age".
Neoreactionaries would replace, or supplement, the "divine right" of kings and the aristocracy with the "genetic right" of elites.
While turning a blind eye to the monarch and his elite's political authoritarianism, financial corruption, and subordination to American diktats, these divine warriors turn their muscle on women instead.
Finally there is the sojourn in the Divine realm, from Truth (ḥaqq) to Truth, a station only few of the spiritual elites may ever experience.
From independence in 1960 until the return of democracy in 1999, Nigeria was ruled almost exclusively by elites (largely military) from the north, who practically believed that they had a divine right to govern.
