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Prayer to the Ever-greater Christ
Because, Lord, by every innate impulse and through all the
hazards of my life I have been driven ceaselessly to search for
you and to set you in the heart of the universe of matter, I
shall have the joy, when death comes, of closing my eyes
amidst the splendour of a universal transparency aglow with
fire. . . .
It is as if the fact of bringing together and connecting the
two poles, tangible and intangible, external and internal, of
the world which bears us onwards had caused everything to
burst into flames and set everything free.
In the guise of a tiny baby in its mother's arms, obeying
the great laws of birth and infancy, you came, Lord Jesus,
to swell in my infant soul; and then, as you re-enacted in me
- and in so doing extended the range of - your growth
through the Church, that same humanity which once was
born and dwelt in Palestine began now to spread out gradu-
ally everywhere like an iridescence of unnumbered hues
through which, without destroying anything, your presence
penetrated - and endued with supervitality - every other
presence about me.
And all this took place because, in a universe which was
disclosing itself to me as structurally convergent you, by
right of your resurrection, had assumed the dominating
position of all-inclusive Centre in which everything is
gathered together. (H.U^ p. 150.)
As mankind emerges into consciousness of the movement
that carries it along, it has a continually more urgent need of
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a Direction and a Solution ahead and above, to which it
will at last be able to consecrate itself.
Who, then, is this God, no longer simply the God of
the old Cosmos but the God of the new Cosmogenesis -
so constituted precisely because the effect of a mystical
operation that has been going on for two thousand years has
been to disclose in you, beneath the Child of Bethlehem and
the Crucified, the moving Principle and the all-embracing
Nucleus of the World itself? Who is this God for whom our
generation looks so eagerly? Who but you, Jesus, who re-
present him and bring him to us?
Lord of consistence and union, you whose distinguishing
mark and essence is the power indefinitely to grow greater,
without distortion or loss of continuity, to the measure of
the mysterious Matter whose Heart you fill and all whose
movements you ultimately control - Lord of my childhood
and Lord of my last days - God, complete in relation to
yourself and yet, for us, continually being born - God, who,
because you offer yourself to our worship as 'evolver' and
'evolving*, are henceforth the only being that can satisfy us
- sweep away at last the clouds that still hide you - the
clouds of hostile prejudice and those, too, of false creeds.
Let your universal Presence spring forth in a blaze that is
at once Diaphany and Fire.
O ever-greater Christ!
(From Le Coeur de la Matiere, 1950, unpublished.)
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Bibliography
Works by Teilhard de Chardin
I. The Phenomenon of Man (1938-40), English translation
published by Collins, London, and Harper, New York,
*959> revised edition, 1965.
A scientific treatise setting out the phenomenology of evolu-
tion in the form of a law of recurrence, i.e. the law of com-
plexity-consciousness.
Contents
Introduction by Sir Julian Huxley
Preface
Foreword: Seeing
Book One: Before Life Came
I. The Stuff of the Universe
II. The Within of Things
in. The Earth in its Early Stages
Book Two: Life
I. The Advent of Life
II. The Expansion of Life
in. Demeter
Book Three: Thought
1. The Birth of Thought
n. The Deployment of the Noosphere
in. The Modern Earth
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Book Four: Survival
L The Collective Issue
il Beyond the Collective: the Hyper-Personal
in. The Ultimate Earth
Epilogue: The Christian Phenomenon
Postscript: The Essence of the Phenomenon of Man
Appendix: Some Remarks on the Place and Part of Evil
in a World in Evolution
2. The Appearance of Man, English translation published
by Collins, London, and Harper & Row, New York, 1965.
A collection of scientific articles on this subject.
Contents
Preface by Desmond Collins
I. The Progress of Prehistory
II. Fossil Men
in. Palaeontology and the Appearance of Man
IV. Sinanthropus Pekinensis
v. The Prehistoric Excavations of Peking
vl The Pleistocene Fauna and the Age of Man in North
America
vii. The Discovery of Sinanthropus
viii. The Question of Fossil Man
ix. The Australopithecines and the 'Missing Link 9 in Evolu-
tion
x. The Phyletic Structure of the Human Group
xi. Notes on South African Prehistory
xii. Australopithecines, Pithecanthropians and the Phyletic
Structure of the Hominians
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xiii. Observations on the Australopithecines
xiv. On the Probability of an Early Bifurcation of the Human
Phylum in the immediate neighbourhood of its origins,
xv. The Search for the Discovery of Human Origins south of
the Sahara
xvi. Africa and Human Origins
xvn. The Singularities of the Human Species
Appendix: Complementary Remarks on the Nature of
the point Omega
3. The Vision of the Past. English translation published by
Collins, London, and Harper & Row, New York, 1966.
A collection of essays in science and the philosophy of
science dealing with problems raised by Evolution and the
phenomenon of man.
Contents
I. How the Transformist Question Presents itself Today
II. The Face of the Earth
in. On the Law of Irreversibility in Evolution
IV. Hominization
v. The Transformist Paradox
vi. The Natural History of the World
vii. On the Necessarily Discontinuous Appearance of Every
Evolutionary Series
viii. The Basis and Foundations of the Idea of Evolution
ix. The Movements of Life
x. What Should we Think of Transformism?
xi. The Phenomenon of Man
xii. Man's Place in Nature
xiii. The Discovery of the Past
xiv. The Natural Unity of Humanity
xv. Man's Place in the Universe
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xvi. Zoological Evolution and Invention
xvn. The Vision of the Past
xviii. Evolution of the Idea of Evolution
xix. Note on the Present Reality and Evolutionary Significance
of a Human Orthogenesis
xx. Hominization and Speciation
xxi. A Defence of Orthogenesis in the Matter of Patterns of
Speciation
4. Le Milieu Divin (1926-7), English translation published
by Collins, London, and Harper, New York (under the title
The Divine Milieu), i960.
A book of spirituality which at the same time gives an in-
sight into Pere Teilhard's own spiritual life. 'Le Milieu Di-
vin', he wrote in 1934, 'is precisely my own self/
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part One : The Divinization of our Activities
1. The Christian Problem of the Sanctification of Action
2. An Incomplete Solution: Human Action Has no Value other
than the Intention which Directs It.
3. The Final Solution: All Endeavour co-operates to complete
the world in Christo Jesu
4. Communion Through Action
5. The Christian Perfection of Human Endeavour
6. Detachment Through Action.
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Part Two: The Divinization of our Passivities
i. The Extent, Depth and Diverse Forms of Human Passivities
2. The Passivities of Growth and the Two Hands of God
3. The Passivities of Diminishment
Conclusion to the two first parts
Some General Remarks ">n Christian Ascetism
1. Attachment and Detachment
2. The Meaning of the Cross
3. The Spiritual Power of Matter
Part Three: The Divine Milieu
1. The Attributes of the Divine Milieu
2. The Nature of the Divine Milieu. The Universal Christ and the
Great Communion
3. The Growth of the Divine Milieu
Epilogue
In Expectation of the Parousia
5. The Future of Man, English translation published by
Collins, London, and Harper & Row, New York, 1964.
A collection of essays, concrete and closely reasoned, on the
direction followed by Evolution after, in man, becoming
conscious of itself.
Contents
I. A Note on Progress (1920)
II. Social Heredity and Progress (1938)
in. The Grand Option (1939)
iv. Some Reflections on Progress (1941)
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v. The New Spirit (1942)
vi. Life and the Planets (1945)
vii. A Great Event Foreshadowed: The Planetdzation of Man-
kind (1945)
viii. Some Reflections on the Spiritual Repercussions of the
Atom Bomb (1946)
ix. Faith in Peace (1947)
x. The Formation of the Noosphere (1947)
xi. Faith in Man (1947)
xii. Some Reflections on the Rights of Man (1947)
xiii. The Human Rebound of Evolution and its Consequences
(i947)
xiv. Turmoil or Genesis? (1947)
xv. The Directions and Conditions of the Future (1948)
xvi. The Essence of the Democratic Idea (1948)
xvii. Does Mankind Move Biologically upon Itself? (1949)
xviii. The Heart of the Problem (1949)
xix. On the Probable Coming of an 'Ultra-Humanity' (1950)
xx. How may we Conceive and Hope that Human Unani-
mization will be Realized on Earth? (1950)
xxi. From the Pre-Human to the Ultra-Human: the Phases of
a Living Planet (1950)
xxii. The End of the Species (1952)
Conclusion: 1. Extract on the End of the World
2. Last Page of the Journal
6. Human Energy, English translation published by
Collins, London, 1969.
In their method, these are the most fully worked-out of
Teilhard's essays. They include valuable comments on
morality and on love (sexual, human, and religious).
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Contents
i. The Spirit of the Earth (193 1)
2. The Significance and Positive Value of Suffering (1933)
3. Sketch of a Personalistic Universe (1936)
4. The Phenomenon of Spirituality (1937)
5. Human Energy (1937)
6. The Mysticism of Science (1939)
7. The Activation of Energy 1 (L 9 Activation de L'Ener-
gie, Editions du Seuil, Paris).
This deals more particularly with the universality, irreversi-
bility, and unanimization demanded by human action.
Contents
1. The moment of choice (1939)
2. The Atomism of Spirit (1941)
3. The Rise of the Other (1942)
4. Universalization and Union (1942)
5. Centrology (1944)
6. The Analysis of Life (1945)
7. Outline ofa Dialectic of Spirit (1946)
8. The Place of Technology in a General Biology of Mankind
(i947)
9. On the Nature of the Phenomenon of Human Society (1948)
10. The Psychological Conditions of the Unification of Man
(i949)
11. A Phenomenon of Counter-evolution, or the Existential
Fear (1949)
12. The Sense of the Species in Man (1949)
13. The Evolution of Responsibility in the World (1950)
14. A Clarification (1950)
15. The Zest for Living (1951)
1 English translation in preparation.
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16. The Spiritual Energy of Suffering (195 1)
17. A Mental Threshold across our Path: the Transition from
Cosmos to Cosmogenesis (195 1)
18. Reflections on the Scientific Probability and the Religious
Consequences of an Ultra-human (195 1)
19. The Convergence of the Universe (195 1)
20. The Transformation and Continuation in Man of the Mech-
anism of Evolution (195 1)
21. A Major Problem for Anthropology (195 1)
22. The Reflection of Energy (1952)
23. Reflections on the Compression of Mankind (1953)
24. On Looking at a Cyclotron (1953)
25. The Energy of Evolution (1953)
26. The Stuff of the Universe (1953)
27. The Activation of Human Energy (1953)
28. The Death-barrier and Co-reflection (1955)
8. Man's Place in Nature (originally entitled Le Groupe
zoologique humain) (1949), English translation published by
Collins, London, and Harper & Row, New York, 1966.
A complete exposition, didactically presented, of Teilhard's
phenomenology (biological evolution, the appearance of
man, the development of human society), in which the
treatment is more strictly scientific than in The Phenomenon
of Man.
Contents
Introduction
I. The Place and Significance of Life in the Universe
A Self-Involuting World
1. Physics and Biology: the Problem
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2. The Basic Proposition: Different Forms of Arrangement of
Matter: 'True' and 'False' Complexity
3. The Curve of 'Corpusculization': Life and Complexity
4. The Mechanism of Corpusculization: the Transit to Life
5. The Dynamism of Corpusculization: the Expansion of
Consciousness
II. The Deployment of the Biosphere, and the Segregation
of the Anthropoids
Preliminary Remarks. The Launching Platform of Life:
Mono- or Poly-phyletism?
1. Original Characteristics of the Biosphere
2. The Tree of Life: its General Shape
3. The Tree of Life: Search for the Leading-shoot:
Complexification and Cerebralization
4. The Pliocene 'Anthropoid Patch' on the Biosphere
III. The Appearance of Man, or the Threshold of Reflection
Introduction: the Diptych
i. Hominization: a Mutation, in the External Characteristics of
its Appearance, Similar to All the Others
2. Hominization, a Mutation that, in its Development, differs
from All the Others
IV. The Formation of the Noosphere
1. The Socialization of Expansion: Civilization and Individuation
Introduction: Preliminary Remarks on the Notion of
Noosphere and Planetization
1. The Population of the World
2. Civilization
3. Individuation
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V. The Formation of the Noosphere
2. The Socialization of Compression: Totalization and Personaliza-
tion: Future Tendencies
i. An Accomplished Fact : the Incoercible Totalization of Man
and its Mechanism
2. The Only Coherent Explanation of the Phenomenon: a
Convergent World
3. Effects of, and Forms assumed by, Convergence
4. The Upper Limits of Socialization: How to Picture to Our-
selves the End of a World
5. Final Reflections of the Human Adventure: Conditions and
Chances of Success
9. Science and Christ, English translation published by
Collins, London, and Harper & Row, New York, 1968.
Contains all the essays in which Pere Teilhard set out to
show the relation of Christianity and the fact of religion to
Science and Society, and to indicate in what direction Chris-
tianity must make a deeper impact if it is to be the religion
of tomorrow, 'the message for which the world is waiting'.
Contents
I. What exacdy is the Human Body? (1919)
II. Note on the Universal Christ (1920)
in. Science and Christ or Analysis and Synthesis (1921)
iv. My Universe (1924)
V. The Phenomenon of Man (1928)
vl Christianity in the World (1933)
vii. Modern Unbelief (1933)
viii. Some Reflections on the Conversion of the World (1936)
xiii. Degrees of Scientific Certainty in the Idea of Evolution
(1946)
xiv. Ecumenism (1946)
xv. The Religious Value of Research (1947)
xvi. Note on the Biological Structure of Mankind (1948)
xvii. What is Life? (1950)
xviii. Can Biology, Taken to its Extreme Limit, Enable us to
Emerge into the Transcendent? (195 1)
xix. Research, Work and Worship (1955)
Letter to Emmanuel Mounier (1947)
10. Comment je crois (How I believe), Editions du Seuil,
Paris.
Religious essays written between 1919 and 1953.
Contents
Introduction by N. M. Wildiers
1. Note on the Physical Union of the Humanity of Christ and
the Faithful (1919)
2. On the Notion of Creative Transformation (end 1919 or
beginning 1920)
3. Note on the Modes of Divine Action in the Universe (Janu-
ary 1920)
4. The Fall, Redemption and Geocentricity (20 July 1920)
5. Note on some Historical Representations of Original Sin
(1922)
6. Pantheism and Christianity (1923)
7. Christology and Evolution (Christmas 1933)
8. How I believe (October 1934), English translation published
by Collins, London, 1969.
9. Some General Aspects of the Essence of Christianity (May
1939)
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10. Christ the Evolver (8 October 1942)
11. Introduction to the Christian Life (29 June 1944)
12. Christianity and Evolution (11 November 1945)
13. Some Reflections on Original Sin (November 1947)
14. The Christian Phenomenon (10 May 1950)
15. Monogenism and Monophyletism (end 1950)
16. What the World awaits from the Church of God (14 Septem-
ber 1952)
17. The Contingence of the Universe and Man's Urge to Sur-
vive (1 May 1953)
18. A Sequel to the Problem of the Origin of Man, the Plurality
of Inhabited Worlds (5 June 1953)
19. The God of Evolution (25 October 1953)
20. My Litanies (probably end 1953)
11. Ma perspective du monde (My View of the World -
probable title), Editions du Seuil, Paris.
12. Le Coeur de la Matiere (The Heart of Matter), Editions
du Seuil, Paris (autobiographical papers).
13. Hymn of the Universe, English translation published
by Collins, London, and Harper, New York, 1965.
Religious and lyrical writings which express P£re Teilhard's
vivid awareness of God in all things, and of Christ as the
focus of the world.
Contents
The Mass on the World
Introduction by N. M. Wildiers, s.t.d.
The Offering
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Fire over the Earth
Communion
Prayer
Christ in the World of Matter
The Picture
The Monstrance
The Pyx
The Spiritual Power of Matter
Hymn to Matter
Pensees selected by Fernande Tardivel
The Presence of God in the World
Humanity in Progress
The Meaning of Human Endeavour
In the Total Christ
14. Writings in Time of War, English translation pub-
lished by Collins, London, and Harper & Row, New York,
1968.
A collection of essays written during the war of 1914-18,
which P£re Teilhard discussed in letters to his cousin (The
Making of a Mind: see below).
Contents
1. Cosmic Life (1916)
2. Mastery of the World, and the Kingdom of God (1916)
3. The Struggle against the Multitude (19 17)
4. The Mystical Milieu (1917)
5. Creative Union (1917)
6. The Soul of the World (191 8)
7. The Eternal Feminine (191 8)
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8. The Priest (1918)
9. Operative Faith (191 8)
10. Forma Christi (1918)
11. Note on the 'Universal Element* in the World (191 8)
12. The Promised Land (1919)
13. The Universal Element (1919)
LETTERS
These arc indispensable for an understanding of the inner
evolution of P&re Teilhard's thought. The style is most
attractive and they make easy reading.
15. Letters from Egypt (1905-8), Editions Aubier, Paris.
16. Letters from Hastings and Paris (1908-14), Editions
Aubier, Paris.
17. The Making of a Mind, letters from a soldier-priest
(1914-18), English translation published by Collins, London,
and Harper & Row, New York, 1965.
18. Letters from a Traveller (1923-55) (which includes the
valuable Teilhard: The Man, by Pierre Leroy, s.j.), English
translation published by Collins, London, and Harper & Row,
New York, 1962.
19. Letters to Leontine Zanta (1923-39), English translation
published by Collins, London, and Harper & Row, New
York, 1969.
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Suggestions for Further Study
For TeilharcTs method (Chapter i), see in particular:
P. M., pp. 31-40
H.E., pp. 19-24, 53-4, 113-H
S.C., pp. 21-36
For The Vision of the Past and The Phenomenon of Man:
P. M., pp. 43-57
A.M., pp. 33-57, 132-65, 208-68
V.P., pp. 51-79, 143-50, 161-233
F.M., pp. 61-70, 97-120
M.P.N., pp. 13-95
S.C., pp. 86-97, 192-6
For The Fuiure of Man
P.M., pp. 261-78
A.M., pp. 165-71, 244-70
The whole of F.M.
H.E., pp. 38-43, 61-5
A.E., pp. 293-332
M.P.N., pp. 79-121
For Human Energy and its activation by Omega Point:
P.M., pp. 279-318
A.M., pp. 244-70
The whole of H.E.
The whole of A.E., and in particular, pp. 83, 175, 237, 333,
379, 407, 417
S.C., pp. 128-50
For Part 2 (Apologetics) :
P.M., pp. 319-27
F.M., pp. 89-96
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H.E., pp. 43-7, 89-92, i37-<5o
A.E., pp. 147-58
S.C., pp. 14-20, 98-112, 118-27, 187-91
For Part 3 (Morality and Mysticism) :
H.E., pp. 145-55
The whole of M.D. and H.U.
S.C., pp. 199-205, 214-20
For a comprehensive view of Pere Teilhard's thought, see:
P.M. (method, the phenomenon of man, the vision of the past,
the future of man, apologetics)
Cosmic Life, in W.T.W., pp. 13-71
Creative Union, ibid., pp. 151-76
My Universe, in S.C., pp. 37-85
Super-humanity, Super-Christ, Super-Charity, ibid., pp. 151-73
Comment je vols, to be published in Oeuvres XII
Le Christique 9 to be published in Oeuvres XII
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Index
Index
action, human; new Christianity
animator of, 106; problem of,
59, 60-1, in
activity, human; divinization of,
124-5; value of, 151
agnosticism, 79, 89
albuminoids, 39
All, 67, 116, 117
altruism, 79, 80
amorization, 74, 105; of activities,
Catholicism, 104-5
cell, 31, 36, 38, 46, 47, 48, 50
centration, 43, 73, 84, 103
centre, living element as, 35
centredness, 43
centro-complexity, 38-9
cephalization, 18, 30, 101
cerebralization, 19, 30
cerebration, 19, 71
charity; primacy, 104; pure, 92;
traditional Christian, 121 ;
universal, 157; universalized,
energized and synthesized, 119-
21. See love
chastity, 130, 136, 153
Christ; alpha and omega, 99;
body of, 152; and communion
of saints, 138; and creative
union, 129; and detachment,
126-7, 128; faith in, 74, 94;
fulfilment of universe in, 151 ;
historical, 93, 94, 139; and
human action and effort, 124-5 1
incarnate God, 94; incorpora-
tion in, 94; as man, 93, 94, 160,
161 ; prayer to the ever-
greater, 1 60-1 ; primacy of, 104;
risen, 154, 155 ; T.'s faith in, 155 ;
traditional picture, 120;
'universalization' of, 154
Christ the evolver, 102, 119, 121,
122, 161
Christ the King, 100
Christ-Omega, 100-1, 102, 104,
120, 122, 123
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Christian phenomenon, 74, 77, 93-
5, 98, 108, 146
Christianity, 77, 92-3 ; essence of,
99; extension to cosmic dimen-
sions, 155; and Islam, 89;
phylum, 93, 104; 'phylum of
love', 69; renaissance of, 93, 99-
100, 103-5, 106-7; strength of
love in, 95
Christie, TVs vision of the, 156-9
Christification, 132
Christogenesis, 18, 19, 120, 121
Church; building up of, 94; and
Eucharist, 139; faith in reality
of -phylum, 94; focus of love in,
95 ; growth of Christ through,
160; living, 98; reflection of
divine thought in, 96
coherence ; argument of, 3 8 ; and
concordism, 77, 147; introduced
by divine milieu, 157; test of,
44, 47, 51
collectivization, 50, 51
communion, 139-42, 151
complexity; idea of, 38-40;
increase of, 71, 84; theory of,
65. See complexity-conscious-
ness
complexity, infinite of, 40-2, 43, 71
complexity-consciousness; ascent
of evolution towards, 145-6;
axis of, 72; completion of
process, 74; criterion of, 72; law
of, 31, 42-4, 48, 69, 71, 145
compression, 50, 53-4
concordism, 77, 146-7
concretion of mankind, 49
concupiscence, threefold, 152-3
Confucianism, 89
consciousness; deepest currents of
human, 65; emergence, 71;
higher, 112; and organic matter,
41, 42-3, 44; planetary, 63; rise
of, 29, 30-2, 34, 40, 46, 47. See
complexity-consciousness
consistence, 74, 96, 101
controlled energy, 57
convergence, 69-70, 117; of
hominization, 49, 145 ; of
noogenesis, 56; term of
universal, 70, 82, 91 ; of universe,
depth, sense of, 24, 27, 30
Descartes, Rene\ 28
detachment, 121, 153; active and
passive, 125-8
dialectic, 16, 77
diaphany, 156, 161
dissipation of energy, 19-20. See
entropy
divine milieu, 135, 156; ambience
and centre, 129-32; person and
presence of Christ, 132-3;
prayer and, 134-5; total, 137-8
divinization; of cosmos, 151, 153;
of human activity, 124-5
dogmas, new, 104
duty; basis of, 112; question of, 59
earth; end of, 65; sense of the, 118
East, road of the, 1 16-17, 118
Eastern religions, 90-1
ego, 74, 142
electrons, 36, 38, 48
emergence, 17
energetics, 16, 77; of evolution,
74; of man, 57
energy of the universe, 60
entropy, 19-20, 44, 54, 71
Eucharist, 139-42
evil, problem of, 146
evolution,27,29-30, 32, 34, 87, 158 ;
Christianity religion of, 107;
consciousness of, 29; irreversi-
bility, 62, 69-70, 79-81;
problem of impetus, 57; process
of union with God, 115, 146;
God; 'all in all', 92, 94; attributes
of true, 88; belief in G. and in
the world, 107, 154-5;
communion with G. through
the world, 106, 120; conven-
tional picture of, 99; evolution
union with, 115, 146; Islam and
idea of, 89; love for, 95, 114,
120, 121, 156; love for G. and
faith in the world, 158-9; love
of and for, 94-5; of new
Cosmogenesis, 161 ; personality,
8 1-2 ; prime psychological
mover, 86; union in and with,
94, 136, 141, 142; and Western
mysticism, 91. See Christ,
Omega
Gospel; and conception of God,
99; new Christianity true
application of, 106; teaching of,
95
life; appearance of, 43-4, 45, 69;
ascending movement of, 29-32;
central phenomenon in universe,
98; and matter, 41-2; saving of
essence of, 146
love; and detachment, 153; as
energy, 66-8, 83, 123; for God,
95, 114, 156; of and for God,
94-5 ; of God and faith in the
world, 158-9; for God and our
neighbour, 120, 121; of heaven
and of the earth, 106; of man for
woman, 67-8; new universal,
64; for others, 137; particularist
and extrinsic Christian, 120;
and personality, 81; for
Super-Christ, 121, 122-3; for
universe and evolution, 119,
156. See charity, super-
charity
mammals, 31
man; discovery by man, 23, 24-6;
as element in higher synthesis,
47-8; leading shoot of universe,
47; place in forefront of life,
32-3 ; reflective, 145 ; science of,
3 7 ; sense of, 1 1 8 ; significance of,
46-7
matter; death of, 20; 'heart of,
161; and life, 41-2; linked with
consciousness, 42-3, 44, 45; man
most highly synthesized form,
37; and spirit, 32, 103
metaphysics, 16, 26; of union,
146
molecule, 17, 31, 38, 39, 46, 48
moleculization, 18, 50; curve of,
46, 47, 48. 63
monad, 17, 60, 88, 137, 142
morality; and agnosticism, 89; of
balance and of movement, 112-
14; origin and definition, in
phenomenon, 93, 98
novelty, sense o£, 24
number, sense of, 24
obedience, 153
Omega Point, 56, 63, 64-5, 66,
69» 70, 73-4» 81, 146; centre of
irreversibility, 84-5; and the
Church, 98; divine personal
centre, 82-3,85,88;
identical with Christ, 77, 100,
146; reaction on the human, 73,
108 ; revelation of, 85 ; transcend-
ence, 84
organic, sense of the, 25
palaeontology, 29-30, 32
pantheism, 20; of differentiation,
92; humanitarian, 91, 92; of
identification, 1 16-17; of union,
117
Parousia, 20, 74, 133, 139
Pascal, Blaise, 28
passivity; detachment by, 126-8,
153; 'of growth', 134
past, study of earth's, 27
Paul, St, 94, 100, 126, 129, 138, 155
person, 59
personality, 59, 64; faith in, 94;
religion; birth of, 86; criterion
for distinguishing true, 88 ; of the
future, 155; and science, 77, 87;
and uneasiness and expectancy
of world, 155. See Christianity,
Eastern religions
religious phenomenon, 87-8
research, 52, 118; absolute duty of,
152
Resurrection, 105
revelation, 73-7, 96, 104, 108
reversal, 142
science and religion, 77, 87
'senses' of man, 24-5
Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott, 48
social phenomenon, 49, 51, 55, 98,
West, road of the, 93, 117, 118, 119
Whole, philosophy of the, 93
Word incarnate, 96, 151
work, sacred character, 152
world; belief in God and in, 106-7,
154-5 ; and communion with
God, 120; conquest of and
detachment from, 124-8; love
of God and faith in, 158-9;
unification of, 123-4
189
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