" 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, "

― Oswald Spengler , The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality