{[4,000 Years BC[E] – Commentary (1) [continued (4)]] … And Worldwide Rev’l’tion?}[15th October 1990]

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Add to this* the well-known phenomenon of the Axial Age,** c800-200bce, when Judaism, Mazdeism, Buddhism and Confucianism developed almost simultaneously in four ‘core areas’ of the World, laying the foundations for all later forms of ‘higher’ religion, – and it is hard to reject the possibility of an integrated cycle along the lines set out earlier*** (even if the borderline between culture and religion,**** particularly in those days, does seem rather blurred).

*[See last previous entry]

**E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 22:103

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***VII? [] … (late)

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