Let Me Explain by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: cephalization, cerebration, atomism, parousia, omega point, phenomenology, hominization, transcendence, conscious evolution, moleculization, entropy, planetization, cosmogenesis, emergence, Teilhard de chardin, noosphere

This double transformation is something more than a speculation of my own. Throughout the world at this moment, without distinction of country, class, calling or creed, men are appearing who have begun to reason, to act and to pray, in terms of the limidess and organic dimensions of Space-time. To the outside observer, such men may still seem isolated. But they are aware of one another among themselves, they recognize each other whenever their paths cross. They know that tomorrow, rejecting old concepts, divisions and forms, the whole world will see what they see and think as they do. (F.M., p. 96.)

Let there be revealed to us the possibility of believing at the same time and wholly in God and the world, the one through the other: let this belief burst forth, as it is ineluctably in process of doing under the pressure of those seemingly opposed forces, and then, we may be sure of it, a great flame will illumine all things: for a Faith will have been born (or reborn) containing and embracing all others - and inevitably it is the strongest Faith which sooner or later must possess the earth. (F.M., pp. 268-9.)

6. Revelation and the Christian Phenomenon

The likelihood of a reaction (or reflection) of Omega on the Human as

the latter advances towards co-reflexion (Revelation and the Christian

Phenomenon).

The more we consider the indispensability of an Omega to

maintain and animate the continued progress of hominized

Evolution, the more clearly can we see two things.

The first is that a purely conjectural Omega - one that was arrived at simply by 'calculation' - would be powerless to keep active in man's heart a passion strong enough to make him continue the process of hominization to the very end.

The second is that if Omega does really exist, it is difficult not to accept that its supreme 'Ego* in some way makes itself felt as such by all the imperfect Egos (that is to say all the reflective elements) of the Universe.

From this point of view the ancient and traditional idea of 'Revelation' reappears and again finds a place in Cosmo-genesis - entering it, this time, through biology and the energetics of evolution.

From this point of view, again, the Christian mystical current takes on an extraordinary significance and actuality: and this because, while it is true that, by the logic of energetics, the heart of some intense faith is absolutely indispensable to the completion of the process of complexity-consciousness, at the same time it is equally true (how true, you have only to look around the world to realize) that at the present moment no faith can be distinguished that is capable of fully taking over (by 'amorizing' it) a convergent Cosmo-genesis, except faith in a Christ, a Christ of the Pleroma and Parousia, in quo omnia constant, in whom all things find their consistence.

Part Three Morality and Mysticism

i. Natural Morality

I. MORALITY

One of the most important aspects of hominization, from the point of view of the history of life, is the accession of biological realities (or values) to the domain of moral realities (or values).

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