1634.Axial

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The axial religion." all agree in claiming to disclose what is authentic and therefore what is true and right. Accordingly, each ofthem, by its own claim, not only provides means for understanding oneself authentically and therefore knowing what is true and doing what is right, but itself i:·j such a means. 

The same is true of the explicit primal source by which each of the axial religions is authorized~ it, too, is a means-for the religion in question, indeed, 'he means, the deci....'ive means-of understanding oneself authentically and therefore knowing what is true and doing what is right. 

This explains, then, the threefold classification of all such means as belong to each religion as either !·,'econdaty, in the case ofthe means the religion provides~ prinu.uy, in the case ofthe means the religion itselfis~ and primal, in the case of the means by which the religion itself, together with the means it provides, is explicitly authorized. 

I February 2004; rev. to December 2008