This religion is not the last, but rather the first in a succession of self-conscious religions. No other religion understood what is religion, and every previous religion operated while unconscious of its essence. Previous religions fell into trappings: inventing of a religious vocabulary, establishing religious authorities and believing in a “true meaning” of the Sacred Texts that is not given to the reader, but rather revealed by said authority. These happen when the religion isn’t self-conscious as they undermine it to the benefit of the religious authorities who then struggle to get new converts.