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Three historical figures, form a perfect symbol for these patterns pointed out above: Plato, Aristotle and Alexander the Great, they were three men that deeply affected history and believes. This is not the place nor the time to make a complete biography and analysis of the work of these three geniuses, but at least we would try to give some fundamental keys:

About Plato, someone pointed out that the history of Western though is only what Plato wrote and the posterior comments to his works, against or in favor. Perhaps this is an exaggeration, but in any case illustrates very well the role of Plato in the history of philosophy. He was initiated in the mysteries of Eleusis, which had very important Egyptian roots, therefore he was the inheritor of very old initiatic traditions, and at the same time he was the disciple of the moral teachings of Socrates. Plato combines in himself the tasks of a thinker, a politician, and an untiring searcher for wisdom. It is well known that he spent a huge fortune to get ancient texts from Pythagoras and to travel to Egypt, where he received the fundamentals of the wisdom of Ancient Egypt. He represents the essential Tradition of the classical world.

Aristotle, student of Plato, though not his disciple, since he received many of his teachings but never was up to the genius of Plato, was a brilliant man, as few can be found in the world history, but he lacked the spiritual level of his master, he throwed himself into the exploration of the world, using philosophy as a tool to dissect and analyze the material world, opening in this way the path for the scientific exploration, in fact its influence in posterior Science was enormous. He was the teacher of Alexander, but again his blindness for the great and universal ideas, deprived him of sharing the glorious project of Alexander. Aristotle felt a deep disgust in front of the idea of joining the Greek culture to other "barbarians" cultures.

Alexander, many things can be said against or in favor, but probably any criticism would be made from the point of view of the dwarfs, because Alexander is the Great, the Giant and the genius. He came to this world with a clear idea from the very beginning: to search the glory carrying on his own destiny and vocation, the search for an ideal universal civilization through joining West an East. In Alexander incarnate the wind of history, he is the mere agent of something superior, unknown, that was to change the world for ever. He was a man endowed with the quality of true Action, and with intuition that allowed him to penetrate the essence of the things, not to contemplate them, but to modify them. Vision, Analysis and Action, three ways of existence and three experiences joined in history.

They represent also three successive states in the true human task. And these experiences, amplified, are mirrored in three historical epochs: the classical world, the modern world, and the world of the future.

Daily news bring to us images of destruction, convulsions and wars, but he we take distance, if we see the things with the adequate perspective, all that is only the pains of a difficult childbirth. The civilizations are becoming mixed, they are interchanging through fighting their values, and at the end none of them will be victorious, for from their encounter something new will emerge, something possessing a little of the one and the other, as a child that reflects in his face the features of his mother and his father.

After the classical world, whose end we can place around the fall of the Roman Empire, it came an intermediate period, the so called Middle Age. Afterward it came the epoch of Aristotle (symbolically speaking), in other words that epoch in which the analysis and reason were the prime values. These ideas modeled the modern world, step by step, until reaching the picks of scientific and materialist knowledge.

Now, everything is entering into a process of disintegration, for a long period our world will show the characteristics of a New Middle Age, but at the end of this period, it will appear a new world in the horizon, the world of Alexander. This will be the world of synthesis, of the intuition that overcomes the analysis, of the great enterprises that will fructify in a new world where East and West, North and South will contribute with the best of themselves. This time will not be a regional and limited Renaissance, but a worldwide one.

In our hands is the choice: to work for yesterday, which is useless, to work for today, which is sinking down like and old boat, o to work for tomorrow, though still is very far away, but inexorably advancing. We have to fight against the dark forces that divides and scatters humankind, against the hatred, the intolerance, and the infinite dividing analysis of the rationalists, in order to reach an intuitional synthesis, and to accept the others without renouncing to our own characteristics. We cannot lose our time patching up an old house which is crumbling down day after day, but to build the foundations of a New an Better World. This is the true task of the idealists of all the world.