The Axial Age

Fallacies of New Age Evolution

In that context, we see the interconnection of ‘evolution’ and religious issues, but in an abstract and indirect way, and there is no easy or simple way to connect this to the activity of individuals. The eonic effect shows an action on two levels, and the level of system evolution is not the same as the level of individual realization. There is no other way to analyze the question, and we can see in the Old Testament the confusing difference: the historical interval of Israelite history that intersects with the Axial interval shows, remarkably, correlation with ‘eonic evolution’, but the actual realization is that of individuals, and this includes the actual formation of the Biblical corpus, which now seems to secularists as myth, which is true up to a point, but these materials do reflect the remarkable evolutionary moment of the Axial period. It is a complex issue requiring a thorough understanding of the eonic effect.