object:2.06 - Revelation and the Christian Phenomenon
book class:Let Me Explain
author class:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
subject class:Christianity
subject class:Science
class:chapter
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.
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