This New Age of the Eternal Gospel meant, among other things, that the rule of the Church hierarchy was to be replaced with that “of a monastic community of saints in the succession of St. Benedict, destined to cure, by an ultimate effort, a disintegrating world.”54 Some of the triads that Joachim associated with each of the three Ages include: childhood, youth, and maturity; law, grace, and greater grace;* starlight, moonlight, and daylight; fear, faith, and love. Anticipating two of the three ideals (liberté, égalité, fraternité) associated with the French Revolution, there is: bondage,
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