First come gentle paranoiacs who install themselves close to a village, then withdraw into the desert where they invent astonishing ascetic machines expressing their struggle against the old alliances and filiations (the Saint Anthony stage); next, communities of disciples are formed, monasteries where one of the main activities is to write the life of the founding saint: celibate machines with a military discipline where the monk reconstructs around him, in the form of ascetic and collective constraints, the aggressive universe of the old persecutions (the Saint Pachomius stage); and finally, the return to the city or the village; armed groups of perverts who assign themselves,hetask of struggling against the dying paganism (the Schnoudi stage).