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Friar Matthaeus, is that you?

Yes, Abbot Joachim. Am I

Abbot...

...today I would like to ask you...

...what would happen if God had not given free will to men?

You see, Matthaeus.

A Soul without free

will would be the same as a body with no eyes.

Can you tell me about your trip to Jerusalem?

Yes, Friar Matheus.

I will tell you many things today.

Also, about the journey to Mount Tabor.

An experience that left a mark on my very soul...

Arnaldus, please proceed without me.

Are you sure?

Please, think this thoroughly.

The Holy Town is not far.

Yes Jacobus!

This land has been ravaged long enough.

Too many lives have been sacrificed.

Soon I will be on my way to the Holy Town...

...but I will take another direction.

I must be quiet and listen to the spirit of this land.

Good luck!

Take... take it all!

All men should be able to live with dignity!

Why are you doing this for me?

Of what we have, we own nothing.

All our riches are found in our hearts.

You see...

If a man who carries worldly goods sees a brother in need...

...he must offer him a caring hand.

Thank you, thank you! May God bless you!

My brother in Spirit...

...I must find my way to Mount Tabor.

Can you show me the direction?

Yes, yes. Sure!

Over there.

I hear the second coming of the Lord is drawing near.

Thank you...

Thank you!

Let this river quench your thirst.

We must don God’s armor...

...so we can withstand the wiles of evil.

Come forth!

Within the name of the Almighty...

...which cannot be pronounced...

...the past is contained...

...together with the present and the future.

Or, like you, Christian people, prefer to say...

Pater et Filius et Spiritus Sancti...

In the Greek alphabet...

...the Alpha and the Omega, Initium et Finis.

Yahweh...!

The Name of the Lord, may all Benedictiones be in Him...

...cannot be pronounced...

...but we may see...

...see Its characters as we draw them on the page...

...for they hold the secret to a great doctrine.

What would that secret be, rabbi?

It is the power of the Scripture.

Not merely the one of the black inks...

...which we use to write characters...

...and form the words that we read...

...but the one of the white pages that contain it...

...and allow us to see it...

A white and silent as the Holy Name...

...but filled with voices...

...like the wind that blows in the desert outside...

Have faith, my son, have faith!

Prior...

...we have heard that a hermit who went on a pilgrimage...

...from Jerusalem to the Sila is resting at our Monastery.

Indeed, our Abbot Sigismundus has already told me about it.

His name is Joachim.

He is moved by a strong devotion...

...and wishes to meditate with us...

...on the mysteries of the divine.

He will arrive tomorrow and will stay with us for a while.

Very well!

Welcome among us!

Prior...

...please thank you to the Abbot for welcoming me here.

I also had mystical experiences at Sambucina Abbey.

Drink it.

Soon you shall receive the gift of divine knowledge.

You must persevere in your quest and never stop.

That presence, like an Angelic Figure...

...pushed me again to go further.

Joachim!

What’s going on?

My Prior...

I asked to meet you...

...because I intend to inform the Abbot of my departure.

...but the Abbey watches over us.

There’s nothing to worry about.

Prior, I am not worried.

I wish to leave!

...and spend some time in quiet meditation.

Why, Joachim?

Why would you want to leave?

Is this because of what happened...

...with your father the notary Maurus da Celico?

We know that he had hopes you would...

...accept the position of Chancery clerk...

...he had prepared for you...

...before you decided to leave it all.

Prior, precisely because the Abbey watches over us...

I want to leave.

Please go on, son.

My Prior, I appreciated my time here.

Yet, now I wish to speak to the nature...

...and feel the roots of the trees...

...and the blowing wind.

With your help...

...I wish to set on a journey...

...to see Rome...

...and Casamari Abbey.

I understand...

...In this long time that you have spent with us...

...you have studied all of our books...

Now your heart is set to move on...

...whenever you choose to do so...

...we will help you ease your stay...

...at the Monastery of Corazzo...

...hence you will be able to reach...

...the Cistercian Abbey of Casamari.

My prior...

...will you do this for me?

As you know...

...the Cistercians are the Pope’s most trusted ambassadors...

...and dare I say the only ones that he can trust...

...It is a well-known fact that...

...the Holy See acknowledges the great loyalty of our order.

...we will do everything that is in our power to assist you

...when you will deem the time to be right.

Thank you!

Thank you my Prior...

...I wish to preach among the common folks...

...and share their life and tribulations.

Brothers...

...one does not live by bread alone...

...but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.

All things came to be through Him...

...and without Him nothing came to be.

You bum! You stink like a dead goat!

The light shines in the darkness...

...and the darkness has not overcome it.

And all the trees of the field shall know...

...that I the Lord...

...I have brought down the high tree...

...have exalted the low tree...

...have dried up the green tree...

...and have made the dry tree to flourish...

I, the Lord, have spoken it...

...it shall come to pass...

Sir...

...when is the last time you ate?

My child...

...the purity in your heart makes mine rejoice.

I enter my seventh day of fasting.

Why aren’t you eating?

So that I can dominate my mind.

I want my senses to be better servants to my body.

They are like horses...

...that need to be directed by a charioteer...

...which is the mind.

That’s the only way for us to safely carry the passenger...

...of the chariot, which is the Spirit.

I don't understand.

I don't understand. Are you hungry now?

I am not, my child.

I am not...

I’m not hungry anymore.

Friar Matthaeus...

...sometimes God’s plans are hard...

...to comprehend for the human mind.

But just like He can enumerate the stars...

...so He calls each one with their name.

Welcome among us Joachim!

I am Nīcŏlāus.

Johannes.

May the Lord give you His blessings.

Apologies, my bad.

...don't worry, noble man.

It's my fault... here.

No, I was distracted...

To make it up to you...

How kind!

I have to go now...

My father is waiting for me.

Okay.

Joachim!

Sorry to keep you waiting.

Don't worry about it, Friar Johannes.

Let me introduce you Friar Benedictus

When you are ready, he will take care of your tonsure.

Our Abbot told us about you...

...and entrusted you to our care for the study of the books.

We’ve been informed about your travels to the Holy Land...

...and about your wish to enter the Abbey of Casamari.

I thank you with my whole heart for the opportunity...

...you’re offering to me...

I will dedicate my time here...

...to studying and prayers.

Joachim...

...this is an important moment for us Monks.

The tonsure ennobles us...

...and is a symbol of renunciation of worldly life.

Apologies...

...don't worry noble man.

It's my fault... here.

No, I was distracted

To make it up to you

How kind!

I have to go now.

My father is waiting for me.

This crown that we leave on our head...

...we can wear it like a crown of thorns...

...or like a holy crown...

...that allows us to be in communion with the world of God.

Today...

...you may feel like a new man.

We then decided to make a trip to Rome...

We thus spent at Casamari Abbey about a year and a half.

Joachim! Welcome to Casamari.

Saint Benedict, the man of God...

...shone upon this land with many a miracle.

Likewise, your fame precedes you.

Abbot Giraldus...

...I am just a humble monk.

I am thankful for your kind words...

...and for your kindly welcome.

I have been informed about the gift of knowledge...

...and intelligence hat the Lord has bestowed upon you.

I beg to be of help.

Indeed, that’s what this Abbey was built for.

I thank you.

These are the brethren who accompanied me here.

Friar Johannes.

Friar Benedictus.

We accompanied our Friar Joachim...

...we are sure that he will be in good hands here.

Don't worry.

At his side will be Friar Lucas...

...for as long as he is here with us.

Welcome among us.

The Abbot has asked me to be at your side to help you...

I will take notes on anything you wish.

Thank you Friar Lucas.

Near Easter...

...I was in complete silence...

...as if rapt in ecstasy...

Joachim!

You're wasting your time...

...you'll never be a Notary...

...if you don't let go of these prayers.

Joachim!

Father...

...but I have always prayed for good people.

You're wasting your time...

...you'll never be a Notary...

...if you don't let go of these prayers.

Father...

...but I have always prayed for good people.

Friar Joachim...

Friar Joachim!

...are you all right?

Friar Lucas...

...I had visions.

Now I see things...

...in a new light, different.

Let's start writing!

Yes...

...of course.

Here I am...

I'm ready.

The New Testament...

...is like a four-sided wheel.

The Old Testament...

...is the main wheel...

...the story to which the four particular ones rejoin.

The story...

...to which...

...the four particular...

...ones rejoin...

...and how does the Old Testament...

...connect with the New Testament?

Corresponding to the four stories...

...we were given four Gospels.

...but then there are different manifestations of the truth?

That's right Lucas!

That's right...

Lucas...

...the first and last evangelists...

...namely...

...namely, Matthaeus and Johannes...

...are direct apostles of Jesus...

...and report on things they saw rather than heard...

...the other two, however Marcus and Lucas...

...are not apostles but disciples of the apostles...

...and tell of things they did not see at all but only heard.

Write.

Yes.

Johannes' book of Revelation...

...was written like an outer wheel...

...stretching out to the end of time...

...and going through the end...

...revealing the depths of the mysteries.

Revealing... the depths... of the mysteries.

Quiet Lucas...

...the spiritual scriptures...

...are like living waters...

...not painted on paper with ink and ink-calamus...

...but traced on the book of the human heart...

...by the virtue of the Holy Spirit.

What then are the mysteries of the Book of Revelation?

The subdivisions of the Book of Revelation are seven...

...and as many are the times of the coming...

...of the Savior until the Final Judgment.

...until the Final Judgment?

Once the five conflicts...

...and the five times are over...

...just before the beginning of the sixth time...

...there can be peace...

...but only when the battle...

...against the Seven-Headed Dragon...

...is over.

Friar Joachim...

...It is truly amazing.

These are not ordinary reflections...

...these are thoughts of the Angels!

Joachim...

...I have called you here...

...to introduce Galfredus de Clairvaux...

...along with Friar Odonis...

...and Friar Guilielmus...

...all of our Cistercian Order.

Abbot Galfredus...

...what an honor...

...I hoped that sooner...

...or later I would have the pleasure of meeting you...

...and thus be able to delve into...

...your writings on numerology.

Thank you!

I was also told about your entrance at Casamari.

Joachim...

...as you well know...

...Galfredus served as secretary to Bernardus for many years.

Friar Galfredus has returned to these parts...

...for the summits of the Order and the Pontifical Curia.

I and my brothers Odonis and Guilielmus...

...must soon reach the Pontifical Curia in Anagni...

...but we will have time to know each other better...

...Friar Joachim.

I considered Galfredus almost as a father...

...since he introduced me to the monastic...

...and intellectual world of the Cistercians.

At first I considered valid some of his main ideas...

...on how to organize my exegetical activity...

...which I later refined with Friar Lucas.

You know...

...Friar Lucas’ help was most precious to me.

He brought me the news that...

...Pope Lucius had agreed to meet me.

« Dominus vobiscum »

« Et cum spiritu tuo »

Monsignor, leave us alone for a moment.

Of course Holy Father.

Joachim...

...come closer.

I have heard that you have been gifted with wisdom...

...and the clarity to read the Holy Scripture.

Your Connexion and Harmony of the Old and New Testament...

...diverges from the tradition of our fathers...

...by the authority of Augustinus, master of us all.

Joachim...

...you are a daring man.

Your Holiness...

...all these years I have meditated...

...on the meaning of the Scripture and the Trinity.

Around Easter time...

...I have experienced some visions.

All at once, my restless mind had a lighting.

«Rapt in ecstasy, in the day of the Lord...

...I heard behind me a loud voice...

...like a trumpet blast» (Revelations 1:10)

Please go on, Joachim.

What was once confused became clear and intelligible to me.

The images allowed me to grasp with my eyes...

...what reason couldn’t define.

I then understood...

...the concept of the Trinity...

...which can be represented as a triangle...

...with a truncated vertex...

...like the shape...

...of the musical instrument called Psaltery...

...which was made to accompany the chant of the Psalms.

I see.

I achieved a deeper understanding of...

...the Revelations of Joannes...

...and of the deeper meanings they conceal...

...so that you may believe what I say...

...let this be a sign to you...

Your Holiness...

...Jerusalem will soon be taken by the Saracens.

Joachim...

...if the will of the Lord is that...

...His divine message shall be understood...

...then you must write.

«What you see, write in a book.» (Revelations 1:11)

All the sacramental symbols...

...found in the pages of God’s Revelations...

...point out the certainty of three states...

...of three states...

Friar Joachim...

...should we explain which states or times are these?

Of course...

...keep writing.

The first state...

is the one in which we found ourselves under the law of man.

The second...

...in which we were under the grace of God.

And in the third, which is about to come...

...we will be under a greater grace.

This is truly fascinating.

But...

...understanding the subdivisions...

...of the three times is a most demanding task.

I know.

But what we might not be able to express...

...adequately in words...

...certainly...

...we can explain in figures.

Figures...?

Yes...

Imagine...

...three circles.

One is green...

...the color of nature.

It symbolizes the Father, creator of the Sky...

...of the Universe...

...and of the Earth.

A blue circle...

The blue circle is the sky.

It symbolizes the Son.

And one red.

The third circle is flame-red...

...a symbol of the Holy Spirit...

...that manifested itself as a flame during the Pentecost.

As you can see...

...these three circles are different...

...and at the same time they are the same.

Like the Trinity...

...one in three and three in one.

It is not so hard to understand, if you think of time.

There is a past, a present, and a future.

There are three circles, indeed...

...but each one of them touches the others.

Indeed, each one intersects, crosses the other two.

Because, the mystery of the Trinity...

...is the same as the mystery of time.

That is true.

The mind understands the figures immediately.

Keep writing.

Yes.

First was...

...First was the Age of Science.

Second...

...came the one of Wisdom.

Third will be the Age of Full Understanding.

The first Age...

...represents Submissive Obedience.

The second Age...

...Filial Servitude.

The third will be the one of Freedom...

Friar Joachim...

I will always be close to you.

Thank you Friar Lucas.

However...

...the General Chapter of the Cistercian order...

...will hardly accept the notion...

...of freedom that you are introducing.

I respect the Cistercian Monks...

...but they don’t Represent the Lord.

Dear Friars...

...we the Chapter Fathers...

...are hereby gathered...

...in the General Chapter in the year 1192...

...in the General Chapter...

...in the presence of all the Abbots of our Order...

...for signs of great concern...

...and discontent have been manifested...

...toward these two Friars.

Friar Regnerus...

...and Friar Joachim.

Their behavior cannot be tolerated.

But Joachim has only receded...

...from our community for a short time...

...of course, his reading of the holy books...

...is quite different from ours...

Silence!!!

The Chapter has agreed on the call.

Summon Joachim and Regnerus.

If not, they shall be declared fugitives...

...and therefore removed from our Cistercian Order.

Remember the words of Johannes...

«The wind blows wherever it pleases» (John 3,8)

We are free in the Spirit...

...and that is why the third state refers to the Holy Spirit.

In fact, he also says...

“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom”

The Pope?

The Pope will protect us?

Yes...

Yes...

Sure...

He will support us...

We must keep writing.

The first...

...was Testimony.

The second...

...was Action.

The third...

...shall be Contemplation.

The first time...

...was Fear.

The second, Faith.

The third shall be Love.

The first time...

...was the Age of the Old.

The second...

...the Age of the Young.

The third Lucas...

...the Age of the Children.

No!

All those who disobey...

...all the heretics end up here!

...to taste the pain of my whip!!

Vos daemones!!! (You are devils!!!)

Soon the thunder will sound...

...and the Abyss will open to swallow you!!!

No!

Friar Joachim.

Pope Lucius is now with our Lord in Heaven.

Have you heard?

The papal curia is under threat...

...from Fridericus Barbarossa...

...a majority of the cardinals...

...are siding with Pope Urbanus, as am I.

You were like a father to Joachim...

...how dare he contradict you!

We have expressed our intention to maintain...

...a rigid position against the Emperor.

This is a uncompromising position...

...but Joachim...

This simple Monk, he dares to deviate...

...from the position of the Pope...

...the Cardinals and his own Order...

...and to put it in writing to boot.

Yes...

You were his mentor, he cannot betray you like this!

Stop your fretting!

We will show him what it means to go against us!

Well!

We shall proceed with caution!

We must stir the waters to ensure...

...that they reach the General Chapter of the Order...

...surely it would be useful to conduct an...

...an investigation of this Joachim’s thought...

...and of his way of interpreting the Holy Scriptures.

Let's go!

Friars no...

In that direction there is no exit.

That is where the Monks who receive punishment...

...for the punishments committed are taken.

It is not convenient for you.

In this direction, follow me...

How’s this for fire!

Noo!!!

«Vestre transmigrationis obliti.»

I fear that today you...

...should rather say: you men...

...why do you not wonder at the sky?

For there has fallen from heaven a fourth Cato...

Has been educated for many years in Judaism...

...and seems not yet to have vomited it up enough...

No less authority gives him his barbaric name.

He is...

...in fact called...

Joachim!

Even if we encounter obstacles...

...we must continue toward our goal...

...sooner or later a sign will be sent to us from heaven.

That was how we chose the place to build our Monastery.

Perhaps it was the spirit of nature that showed us the way

Friar Joachim...

...this is Ahàron.

He knows these mountains better than anyone.

Yes...

The missions must all be done...

...for this may be the very last one.

Welcome among us, Ahàron.

One need not wear a monk’s robes to be close to the Lord.

Clothing...

...is for the eyes of the world, not of God.

It will be a pleasure to guide you on this mission.

I guide everyone!

Let's go!

Ahàron!

Ahàron!

They are building a Monastery.

Right where we pasture our sheep.

Yes, but...

...I heard that...

...the King’s court gave Joachim the permission...

...to build his Abbey on this side of the Sila.

Pope Clemens sustains him, too!

They've already taken our lands!

Who knows what else they'll take from us!

We must do something.

You’re right!

It is a most serious matter.

We must react promptly.

Joachim’s authority grows stronger by the day.

We must stand up to him!

And if that’s not enough...

...we must spread words of blasphemy...

...and circulate anonymous books...

...until he’ll be kicked out of these lands!

Our Brother Aháron...

...has been by our side...

...now we are by his side on this new journey.

«Sed dicet aliquis.»

How do the dead rise?

With what body shall they come?

What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be...

...but a simple grain of wheat.

But God gives it a body as he has determined...

...and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.

Not all flesh is the same.

What will we do now?

We will go up these mountains...

We will build our Abbey...

...and call it "Fiore" (flower).

Here...

...today...

...we have sown a physical body...

...a flower...

...but Ahàron...

...will rise with a spiritual body.

We will lay the foundation...

...for a new tolerant and free Church.

No longer material, but Spiritual.

"Fiore" (flower) is not yet fruit...

...but it is the hope of fruit.

Have you heard?

Soon the Apocalypse will come!

The Antichrist will come.

Joachim said so.

He is the one who is announcing the Antichrist!!!

But is it the truth what you say?

Yes, he confided it to us himself...

...soon the Antichrist will come to Rome...

...and it will be the Pope himself.

But where is this Joachim?

He's up there... in the mountains!

Master...

Why do we have to work so hard, if the end is near?

It is true!

Soon the time for rest shall come.

Since we grief and suffer so much on this earth...

...before the end...

...we shall receive something.

Like an earthly Sabbath.

Son...

Imagine a world without powerful men...

...we shall all be equal, like brothers and sisters.

The earth shall bear wonderous fruits...

...and us Monks shall not need to study any more...

...for the meaning of the Scripture shall be clear to all...

...men and women.

They are organizing to take over our farms.

We must all stand together.

That way they will see our strength!

We must send them away from here!

Call people and let's go there with the gallows!

Come now, for now you must work and study.

We have so much to do yet...

You have our blessing!

Go away!!!

Get out!

Go away!!!

Go away from our farms!!!

Go away!

Joachim...

If you don't leave...

...if you all don't get out of here...

...we'll burn everything!

Why are you do..ing... this?

Go away!!!

Abbot Joachim...

...we must do something!

The Chapter of the Cistercian order...

...might step up and attack us again.

Friar Lucas...

Whenever one builds, another tries to destroy.

I will appeal directly to the Pope Caelestinus.

Friars...

...we have received a letter from Pope Caelestinus.

We must take notice that the Pope...

...has approved the Rule of the Florensis Order...

...founded by Joachim of Fiore.

Firar Joachim...

...the Empress Constantia wishes for you...

...to hear her confession.

Abbot Joachim...

...welcome.

Your Majesty...

How can I help you?

Abbot, I have heard of your troubles in the last few years.

Abbot Joachim...

I bestow my greatest admiration on you.

Your Majesty.

When the wind rises...

...it swipes up all the dust...

...dimming the eyes of the foolish.

As I understand...

...all that concerns the salvation of the chosen happens...

...by virtue of the Lord’s mercy.

On the contrary...

...all that concerns the judgement of the unjust...

...depends on the bad use they make of their free will.

Our Lord shall not spare them...

...but he will throw them into the darkest pit...

...where they will wait for Universal Judgement.

In the Age of the Holy Spirit, a man may find salvation.

Abbot, my son Fridericus is still a child...

...and I would like to instill in him...

...all the spiritual strength that I can.

Your Majesty.

Have no worries, as your Frederic will be the...

...'stupor mundi – the wonder of the world.'

Abbot, I required your presence...

...because my heart obliges me to confess to you.

Could you do this for me?

I can, my Empress.

Now, since I represent here the Christ...

...and you the penitent Magdalene...

...first you shall descend from your throne...

...and kneel down...

...so that the burden on your soul may be released...

...and you shall humbly confess.

Otherwise, I could not listen to you.

Before the Eternal...

...we must bare our soul, for we are all the same.

The Lord...

...gazes into our minds...

...and probes our hearts...

...giving to each and every one of us what is due...

...according to our conduct.

«Ego te absolvo a peccatis tuis...

...in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti.»

Amen.

King Ricardus (Richard the Lionheart)...

...however, was obsessed with a Dragon.

So, when he wanted to meet me...

...I brought with me a seven-headed Dragon.

Abbot Joachim, at last!

I present Rogerius of Howden, born to a clerical family.

He is good at writing and will be my diplomatic assistant...

...in the Holy Land for the Third Crusade.

Abbot, I am pleased to meet you.

As I did with Henry II...

...shall ink an ever-lasting memory of this meeting...

...with King Richard I of England.

King Ricardus...

...how can I help you?

Abbot, as you might have heard...

...the third Crusade has started and...

...we are waiting to sail for the Holy Land.

Philippus King of France, is already with us...

...waiting for a more favorable weather.

I couldn’t bring myself to depart ...

...for such a strenuous endeavor...

...without hearing first what...

...Abbot Joachim foresees with his prophecies.

Abbot there is something...

...that has been troubling me, for quite some time.

The seven-headed Dragon!

I wish you could interpret this apocalyptic symbol for me.

As you can see...

...the Dragon...

...is the symbol of the devil.

His seven heads...

...with their seven diadems...

...are the seven Kings...

The first six...

...are persecutors of the Church, from Herodes to Saladinus.

Tell me what you see!

Your Majesty, if that is what you wish to know...

...the sixth head...

...belongs to Saladinus.

According to my visions...

...he shall fall after the seventh year...

...of the siege on Jerusalem.

My Sultan Saladin.

A letter arrived from King Ricardus.

Read it.

While the sea can still be crossed...

...I shall agree to make peace and return to Europe.

If you choose to reject my conditions...

...I will spend the winter in Syria and continue the war...

And as they have faith in the Gospel...

...we Muslims place our in the Quran.

We shall therefore place our faith in this agreement, too.

We will sign a treaty.

What about the Seventh head?

What does it represent?

The seventh head has no name.

That’s the Antichrist.

The Church...

...shall fight against him in the time that precedes...

...the next Age of the Holy Spirit.

But the Antichrist may be definitely defeated...

...at the end of the Third Age...

...soon after the Resurrection and the Last Judgement...

The New Jerusalem shall descend...

...upon the earth and its gates shall open...

...and there shall be mysteries no more.

Joachim...

Truly...

I am surprised at you!

Not only for what you have prophesized...

...but also because you have come here today...

...with a single drawing...

...which represents the exact same thing...

How did you know...

...what I was going to ask you?

King Ricardus...

...the Prophet Isaiah says...

«They are created now, and not a long ago...

...You have not heard of them before today...

...so you cannot say...

...Yes, I knew of them.» (Isaiah 48:7)

We all have to struggle against our inner Dragon.

As a young man I did not get carried away by events...

...but I communicated to Prior that I wanted...

...to follow my heart and fortify myself within.

Because the Abbey watches over us, I wish to leave...

I wish to speak to the nature...

...feel the roots of the trees...

Snow falling from the sky...

...and falling white on the Earth.

Only in this way my Prior...

...can I feel what is stirring...

...in people's hearts.

It was that day, perhaps...

...that I decided to change my destiny.

Everything slept on a white veil...

...while I was walking in solitude...

Thank you, Abbot.

Today you have made me travel with my mind and heart...

Abbot!

Abbot!

Abbot!!

Are you unwell?

Abbot!!

Dear brother...

...this is the end of my journey.

Do not be anxious about the first death...

...that of the body...

...for this happens to everyone...

...to everyone.

It is from the second...

...that of the Spirit...

...that we must defend ourselves.

This is the my testament.

I leave to you.

So you can give witness to it.

Never forget...

God is Love.

To all those who will read these writings...

Friar Joachim, known as ‘Abbatis Florensis’...

...wishes perpetual blessings in the name of the Lord.

Under the mandate of Pope Lucius and Pope Urbanus...

I strived to write a few things... and so far...

...I have not omitted what may subserve the glory of God.

Thanks to a divine inspiration and my own intelligence...

I have completed the my writings.

I have no will to defend any opinion...

...that is contrary to the Holy Faith.

I, Abbot Joachim, have written and...

...signed this paper with my own hand...

...in the year of the Incarnation of the Lord, 1200.

Ego Frater Joachim...

...Abbatis Florensis.

Even nature meditates and awaits an inner transformation.

We can only announce a New Day...

...a New Era in Human History.

This is the prophecy!

Each of us can allow it to come true.

And here is our religious man...

...beyond the Purgatory of Life...

...on the bridge of the...

...Last Judgment that distinguishes and purifies...

...in view of Hell and Heaven...

...linked together like the Mountain and the Valley.

The instant he is loosed from the bonds of the body...

...he sees a steaming torrent of fire and boiling sulfur...

...surmounted by a narrow bridge in the middle...

...by which the Souls of the wretched pass reluctantly...

...because, in going along the narrow way, coming down...

...precipitously from the sharp top of the bridge...

...they are swallowed up by the river.

Now therefore...

...passing there our man in Spirit saw...

...the multitudes of the blessed divided in three by degrees.

A wide plateau looms here...

...a splendid and charming view opens up to the eye.