“On the very threshold of the Western Culture we meet the great Joachim of Floris (c. 1145–1202),28 the first thinker of the Hegelian stamp who shattered the dualistic world-form of Augustine, and with his essentially Gothic intellect stated the new Christianity of his time in the form of a third term to the religions of the Old and the New Testaments,”
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Oswald Spengler,
The Decline of the West: Form and Actuality
