Some day after we have mastered the wind
the waves, the tides, and gravity
we shall harness for God the energies of love.
Then for the second time in history of the world
man will have discovered fire.
We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience
We are spiritual beings immersed in a human experience
Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.
We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately must we believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more human arms.
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. . . . Does not love every instant achieve all around us, in the couple or the team, the magic feat . . . of "personalizing" by totalizing? And if that is what it can achieve daily on a small scale, why should it not repeat this one day on world-wide dimensions?
To love is to approach each other center to center.
If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level-indeed in the molecule itself - it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in "hominized'' form. . . . Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.
Some say, after we have mastered the wind, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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 overthrow of equilibrium, detaching the mind, furfilled at last, from its material matrix, so that it will henceforth rest with all its weight on God-Omega . . . critical point simultaneously of emergence and emersion, of maturation and evasion.
