Saturday, January 26, 2019

The Seventeen Basic Teilhardian Principles

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
1 John (KJV)

(Excerpt from the New Spiritual Exercises by Louis M. Savary

"Principle 1:  The discoveries of modern science must form an important foundation to any contemporary spirituality if it is to be true, relevant, and inspiring.
Principle 2:  Evolution is happening continually on every level of being and has a direction.
Principle 3:  The Law of Attraction-Connection-Complexity-Consciousness is the law that is giving evolution its direction.
Principle 4:  Evolution is based primarily on spirit, not on matter.
Principle 5:  We all live and move and have our being in the divine milieu.
Principle 6:  Everything has a "within" as well as a "without."
Principle 7: The principle of self convergence is now operating.
Principle 8:  At present, evolution is focused in the "noosphere."
Principle 9:  The success of God's plan for creation depends on your conscious and creative activity to keep the divine plan evolving and developing in the direction God wants for creation.
Principle 10:  Any true spirituality today must be a collective spirituality.
Principle 11:  Today even an individual spirituality, is a private exclusive redemptive relationship between God and me, must include all other human beings and the rest of creation.
Principle 12:  To know, love, and serve the universe with a passion.
Principle 13:  To love the "invisible."
Principle 14:  To love the "not yet."
Principle 15:  An evolutionary spirituality is focused primarily on grace, not on sin.
Principle 16:  To recognize that union differentiates.
Principle 17: To synthesize all things in the Universal Christ."


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