Abstract
Modern history is a self-fulfilling prophecy of J. da Fiore´s Spiritual Age heralded by the Franciscan movement turned universities into its spiritual Church eventually establishing geom. cosmology to the spiritual religion based on rational knowledge
Keywords
modern time Joachim da Fiore Third Age of the Holy Ghost Eternal Gospel birth of history St. Francis poverty and kenosis practice mimics and imitation eschatology universities Franciscans spiritual religion Oxford school Roger Bacon light cosmology geometrical figuration perspective painting experimental science of nature