It is a brain virus that is transferred through the mind which operates through a negation of human morality and the natural energy centers and is operating from an alternate dimension that is born out of the creation of that virus within the human race. It’s literally a doppleganger of humanity and subsists as a shadow race that can only interact with this realm via the hijacking of the original inhabitants.

The people following that path were simply following a hidden source of power that they did not realize fully.

Then when the original beginning is out of sight, there is a realization that this power comes from another kind of being, that is sourced in another kind of realm and that this is using the interaction/worship to pull energy from this realm and to sustain the existence there. This is literally the existence and generation of the alternate dimension…