Human Energy by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: human energy, conscious evolution, omega point, law of complexity/consciousness, teilhard de chardin, spirit, noosphere

HUMAN ENERGY

Totalization of total human energy in a total love.

The ideal glimpsed in their dreams by the world technicians.

This, psychologically, is what love can do if carried to a universal degree.

But is this miracle really moving towards realization?

If it is, some traces of this prodigious transformation must be perceptible in history. Can we recognize them? This is what I have still to seek and show.

B Love, the Historical Product of Human Evolution

The above analysis of the synthesizing power of love over the inner life was not made, and indeed could not be made, without some visible model.

Where then in nature today does a first sketch, a first approach to the total act of which we were apparently dreaming exist ? Nowhere more clearly, I think, than in the act of Christian love as it can be performed by a modern believer for whom the creation has come to be expressed in terms of evolution. In such a man's eyes, the world's history bears the form of a vast cosmo-genesis, in the course of which all the threads of reality converge without fusing in a Christ who is at the same time personal and universal. Strictly and unmetaphorically, the Christian who understands both the essence of his creed and nature's linkages in time and space finds himself in the fortunate position of being by all his various activities and in union with the crowd of his fellows, capable of surrendering to a unique act of communion. Whether he lives or dies, by his life and by his death, he in some sense completes his God 1 , and is at the same time mastered by Him. In short, comparable in every way to the Omega point which our theory led us to foresee, Christ (provided He reveals Himself in the full realism of His incarnation) tends to produce exactly the spiritual totalization that we expected. x The mystical body of Christ: 'May they all be one. Father, may they be one in us as you are in me and I am in you (John 17, 21). (Ed.)

HUMAN ENERGY

In itself the existence, even in detachment, of a state of consciousness endowed with such riches would bring, if fully established, a substantial verification of the views that we have set out on the ultimate nature of human energy. But it is possible to push the demonstration very much further by observing that the appearance in man of the love of God, understood in the fullness that we give it here, is not a simple sporadic accident, but appears as the regular product of a long evolution.

Let us try, before defining the profound significance of the fact, to sketch in broad outline the human history of universal love.

a The Phenomenon of Christianity. Central to the process leading to the recent establishment of an affective relationship of a personal order between man and the universe, we must inevitably place the influence of Christianity (whether we believe or not in its transcendent value).

The phenomenon of Christianity

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