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Handout #280 |
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The panchristism of Teilhard de Chardin |
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The writings of Teilhard de Chardin (1881 -
1955), which circulated underground for along period, were published only
after his death.
With the origin of things, there began an advent of recollection and work in the course of which the forces of determinism, obediently and lovingly, lent themselves in the preparation of a fruit which exceeded all hope and yet was awaited. The world's energies and substances -so harmoniously adapted and controlled that the supreme Transcendent would seem to germinate entirely from their immanence - concentrated and were purified in the stock of Jesse; from their accumulated and distilled treasures they produced the glittering gem of matter, the Pearl of the Cosmos, and the link with the incarnate personal Absolute - the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother of all things, the true Demeter... and when the day of he Virgin came to pass, then the final purpose of the universe, deep-rooted and gratuitous, was suddenly made clear: since the days when the first breath of individualization passed over the expanse of the Supreme Center here below so that in it could be seen the ripple of the smile of the original monads, all things were moving towards the Child born of Woman. And since Christ was born, and ceased to grow, and died, everything has continued in motion because he has not yet attained the fullness of his form. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Future of Man Fount Paperbacks 1982, 319f. |
