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No reality is more essential to our self-awareness than history. It shows us the broadest horizon of humanity, brings us the tradition upon which our life is built, shows us standards by which to measure the present, frees us from unconscious bondage to our own age and teaches us to see ourselves in the highest potentialities and our imperishable creations. Karl Jaspers identifies history in that text as essential to truly understanding humanity as a whole. It is his perception of history that holds a parallel with Bede Griffiths view of mixing and relating different religions. It is the comparison of ideas found in “The history of Mankind” by Karl Jaspers and “Universal Wisdom” by Bede Griffiths that creates a unified concept of human potential. Jaspers separates history in four developmental stages, each identified by the union of humanity. The fir