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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin [pjɛʁ tejaʁ də ʃaʁdɛ̃] war ein französischer Jesuit, Paläontologe, Anthropologe und Philosoph. Er war Teilnehmer mehrerer Forschungsreisen nach Asien und Afrika und beteiligte sich in China an der Ausgrabung und Auswertung des Peking-Menschen. In seinem philosophischen Hauptwerk Der Mensch im Kosmos unternahm er den Versuch einer Synthese von naturwissenschaftlicher Evolutionstheorie und christlicher Heilsgeschichte. Er sah die göttliche Schöpfung, den Kosmos, als evolutionären Prozess an, in dessen Verlauf sich Materie und Geist von Beginn an als zwei Zustände des einen „Weltenstoffes“ in wechselseitiger Beziehung gegenüberstünden, um schließlich im Omegapunkt Identität zu erlangen, indem sich die Materie im Menschen ihrer selbst bewusst wird.

Nach seinem Tod wurde das bis dahin größtenteils ungedruckte Gesamtwerk, das von der Kirche lange Zeit abgelehnt wurde, herausgegeben. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Mai 1881 – 10. April 1955
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“The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.”

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“Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.”

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“He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.”

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Quelle: Hymn of the Universe

“Christ has a cosmic body that extends throughout the universe.”

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Cosmic Life (1916)

“A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.”

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Pierre Teilhard De Chardin buch The Phenomenon of Man

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

“Through the incarnation God descended into nature in order to super-animate and take it back to him.”

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Mysticism of Science (1939)

“In its most general form and from the point of view of physics, love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world, centre to centre. This is how it has been understood by the great philosophers from Plato, the poet, to Nicolas of Cusa and other representatives of frigid scholasticism. Once this definition has been accepted, it gives rise to a series of important consequences. Love is power of producing inter-centric relationship. It is present, therefore (at least in a rudimentary state), in all the natural centres, living and pre-living, which make up the world; and it represents, too, the most profound, most direct, and most creative form of inter-action that it is possible to conceive between those centres. Love, in fact, is the expression and the agent of universal synthesis.”

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pp. 70–71 https://archive.org/stream/ActivationOfEnergy/Activation_of_Energy#page/n65/mode/2up <br class="br">Activation of Energy (1976)

“To the cosmic corpuscles we should find it natural to attribute an individual radius of action as limited as their dimensions. We find, on the contrary, that each of them can only be defined by virtue of its influence on all around it. Whatever space we suppose it to be in, each cosmic element radiates in it and entirely fills it. However narrowly the heart of an atom may be circumscribed, its realm is co-extensive, at least potentially, with that of every other atom. This strange property we will come across again, even in the human molecule.”

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Pierre Teilhard De Chardin buch The Phenomenon of Man

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

“At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.”

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The Divinisation of Our Activities, p. 56
The Divine Milieu (1960)

“Above all I feel that you must resign yourself to taking me as I am, that is, with the congenital quality (or weakness) which ever since my childhood has caused my spiritual life to be completely dominated by a sort of profound 'feeling' for the organic realness of the World. At first it was an ill-defined feeling in my mind and heart, but as the years have gone by it has gradually become a precise, compelling sense of the Universe's general convergence upon itself; a convergence which coincides with, and culminates at its zenith in, him in quo omina constant, and whom the Society has taught me to love.”

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Letter from Cape Town to Father General, Jean-Baptiste Janssens (12 October 1951)

“The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.”

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Letter (5 September 1919), in The Making of a Mind: Letters from a Soldier-Priest 1914–1919

“We are like soldiers who fall during the assault which leads to peace.”

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The Divinisation of Our Activities, p. 85
The Divine Milieu (1960)

“Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.”

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The Divinisation of Our Activities, p. 72
The Divine Milieu (1960)

“Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.”

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Pierre Teilhard De Chardin buch The Phenomenon of Man

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

“However convergent it be, evolution cannot attain to fulfilment on earth except through a point of dissociation. With this we are introduced to a fantastic and inevitable event which now begins to take shape in our perspective, the event which comes nearer with every day that passes: the end of all life on our globe, the death of the planet, the ultimate phase of the phenomenon of man. …
Now when sufficient elements have sufficiently agglomerated, this essentially convergent movement will attain such intensity and such quality that mankind, taken as a whole, will be obliged—as happened to the individual forces of instinct—to reflect upon itself at a single point; that is to say, in this case, to abandon its organo-planetary foothold so as to shift its centre on to the transcendent centre of its increasing concentration. This will be the end and the fulfilment of the spirit of the earth.
The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of its complexity and its centrality.
The end of the world: the overthrow of equilibrium, detaching the mind, fulfilled at last, from its material matrix, so that it will henceforth rest with all its weight on God-Omega. …
Are we to foresee man seeking to fulfil himself collectively upon himself, or personally on a greater than himself? Refusal or acceptance of Omega? … Universal love would only vivify and detach finally a fraction of the noosphere so as to consummate it—the part which decided to "cross the threshold", to get outside itself into the other. …
The death of the materially exhausted planet; the split of the noosphere, divided on the form to be given to its unity; and simultaneously (endowing the event with all its significance and with all its value) the liberation of that percentage of the universe which, across time, space and evil, will have succeeded in laboriously synthesising itself to the very end. Not an indefinite progress, which is an hypothesis contradicted by the convergent nature of noogenesis, but an ecstasy transcending the dimensions and the framework of the visible universe.”

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Pierre Teilhard De Chardin buch The Phenomenon of Man

pp. 273, 287–289 https://archive.org/stream/ThePhenomenonOfMan/phenomenon-of-man-pierre-teilhard-de-chardin#page/n137/mode/1up/, <br class="br">The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

“In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.”

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On Christian Asceticism, p. 100
The Divine Milieu (1960)

“The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.”

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Epilogue, In Expectation of the Parousia, p. 154
The Divine Milieu (1960)

“I can truly say — and this in virtue of the whole structure of my thought — that I now feel more indissolubly bound to the hierarchical Church and to the Christ of the Gospel than ever before in my life. Never has Christ seemed to me more real, more personal or more immense.”

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Letter from Cape Town to Father General, Jean-Baptiste Janssens (12 October 1951)

“As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the "christian religious ideal."”

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Preface, p. 43
The Divine Milieu (1960)

“Is evolution a theory, a system or a hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.”

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Pierre Teilhard De Chardin buch The Phenomenon of Man

The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

“Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation”

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Man&#x27;s Place in Nature https://archive.org/stream/MansPlaceInNature/Mans_Place_in_Nature#page/n101/mode/2up (1966), p. 100

“The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.”

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A Sketch of a Personalistic Universe (1936)

“All the communions of a life-time are one communion.
All the communions of all men now living are one communion.
All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.”

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Quelle: The Divine Milieu (1960), p. 124

“God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.”

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The Divinisation of Our Activities, p. 63
The Divine Milieu (1960)

“In the "Alexandrian" explanation described above, the multiple from which evolution emerges is both secondary and sinful from its origin: it represents in fact (an idea that smacks of Manicheanism and the Hindu metaphysical systems) broken and pulverized unity. Starting from a very much more modern and completely different point of view, let us assert, as our original postulate, that, the multiple (that is, non-being, if taken in the pure state) being the only rational form of a creatable (creabile) nothingness, the creative act is comprehensible only as a gradual process of arrangement and unification, which amounts to accepting that to create is to unite. And, indeed, there is nothing to prevent our holding that union creates. To the objection that union presupposes already existing elements, I shall answer that physics has just shown us (in the case of mass) that experientially (and for all the protests of "common sense") the moving object exists only as the product of its motion.”

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pp. 193–195 https://archive.org/stream/ChristianityAndEvolution/Christianity_and_Evolution#page/n191/mode/2up <br class="br">Christianity and Evolution (1969)

“Science will, in all probability, be increasingly impregnated by mysticism.”

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My Universe (1924)

“A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.”

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The Divine Milieu, p. 128
The Divine Milieu (1960)

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