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‘He to whom it is given... to see Christ as more real than any other of the World's realities, Christ present and burgeoning everywhere, Christ the ultimate determination and plasmatic Principle of the Universe... such a person truly lives in a zone untroubled by any multiplicity, yet where His work of universal accomplishment is most actively pursued.' ‘I believe that the Universe is an Evolution. I believe that this Evolution leads towards the Spirit. I believe that the Spirit concludes in the Personal domain. I believe that the Supreme point of all that is Personal is the Universal Christ' (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.) These two texts by Teilhard show why this palaeontologist prays, why he preaches the Gospel while revealing its truth, why he scrutinizes the interior of things while looking at their exterior effects, and why his greatest interest lies in ‘Before' and ‘On High' - or time in all its dimensions, its horizontality and verticality."