To draw real world analogies, albeit from a vastly different culture, there is a reason in the Four Varnas (Castes) of Hinduism, that the Brahmins, who are have religious/magical authority, are not the Kshatriyas, who are the warriors who rule the land.
By necessity, ruling over lands, worrying about the material world, alliances, armies and war, distract one from becoming pure and spiritually educated. There are some cases were kshatriyas have rebelled against this, and wanted both spiritual ascendancy *and* material power, but it usually ends badly.. or you end up like the great sage Vishwamitra, who was born in one caste (warrior) and became acknowledged as a brahmin through epic penance.
-Santo
aum shanti shanti shantih.
"The world is like the impression left by the telling of a story." - from
the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha
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