There has been the persistent individualization, at the centre of my own small ego, of an ultra-Centre of Thought and Action: in the depths of my consciousness, the rise, which nothing can stop, of a sort of Other who could be even more I than I am myself.
I saw the Universe becoming amorized and personalized in the very dynamism of its own evolution.
Evolution may be compared, broadly speaking, to a river made up of amorphous streams (Entropy) within which countless eddies are individualized by a counter-current. “Phenomenally” speaking, we see the World not merely as a system that is simply in movement, but as one that is in a state of genesis—a very different matter. Across the metamorphoses of Matter something is being made (and at the same time being unmade) in accordance with a particular global orientation—and this irreversibly and cumulatively.
Because we are born and live in the very heart of this thing that is happening, we still find it quite natural not only to think with ourselves but also, inevitably, to think with all other persons at the same time: in other words, we cannot move a finger without finding ourselves involved in the construction of a total human act that includes what we see and what we make.
It is Evolution itself—in that aspect of it which is orientated towards the Improbable—that is extending itself with increasing speed beyond our own insignificant individual centres in the direction of a Complexity-Consciousness of planetary dimensions.
The World is not simply a place in which a Life can breathe because its power to look into the future has been aroused; we can now see its evolutive summit and so feel its absorbing magnetic attraction.
It is Christ, in very truth, who saves—but should we not immediately add that at the same time it is Christ who is saved by Evolution?
A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and “super-live,.”
Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human. These two components are everywhere “in the air.”