Toward the Future by pierre teilhard de chardin

Author:pierre teilhard de chardin
Language: eng
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Diagrammatic representation of the two faiths

Oy = Christianity's ascensional force towards a Transcendent.

Faith in God Ox = Human propulsive force towards an Immanent lying ahead.

Faith in man Oz = Resultant: 'Super-humanized' Christian faith P = Parousia-point M = Human maturation-point Oz combines die properties of Ox (influx of human vital energy,

tangibility) and of Oy (irreversibility, warmth) - and makes

a 'love of evolution* possible.

required for such a purpose can operate: it cannot do so without distorting the free elements of which it is composed, nor, what is more, can it release the hidden reserves of their spiritual powers, unless the force applied to it be ajfectivo-unitive in nature. Biologically, in the case of a personalizing totalization - which is what the formation of a noosphere gives us - love (a universal love) is the only conceivable form that can be taken by a truly evolutive energy.

And this leads me to my final remark: in the dual intellectual event (by which I mean the gradual appearance in the field of

TWO PRINCIPLES AND A COROLLARY

human consciousness of a maturation-point, combined with progressive identification, in the field of Christian consciousness, of the 'general reflection-point 9 with the parousia) - in this dual event which makes possible the birth of such a love, we should not see a mere chance encounter. What in fact happens is precisely as though, as a result of this coincidence, life were developing, just at the right moment, the exact environment, the exact spiritual temperature, that are essential to it if it is still to continue its self-involution. 9

Paris, February 1948

•From this point of view, noospheric maturation (being linked to a dynamized form of charity) cannot be effected without the Church's animating action making itself more strongly felt at the heart of mankind. And this amounts to the eminently satisfying proposition that terrestrial progress will attain the 'parousiac flash-point' only on condition of, and through the agency o( its own internal self-Christification.

LETTER FROM p£ltB TBILHARD DE CHARDIN

TO MLLB JEANNE MORTIER CONCERNING

*MY FUNDAMENTAL vision 1

Thank you for your kind letter of the 20th which arrived only yesterday in this remote corner. I think you are probably over-generous in your praise of Comment je Vois ('My Fundamental Vision 9 ); but I am glad, anyway, that you were favourably impressed. As I told you, there can as yet be no question of printing such an essay: it is addressed to the professional. Nevertheless, your comments are justified- at least the majority of them. On p. 26 1 1 see no reason for changing forc&nent ^perforce 9 ) unless you would prefer inSvitablement - which is not quite so strong: I am not saying that God must in any case immerse himself- but only that i£he wishes to create, he must immerse himself And that certainly does not over-step the bounds of classic orthodoxy. Page 2&: here the difficulty is more serious, and so what I had in mind was to indicate certain lines (in the form of the note or elucidation added

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