Hymn of the Universe
by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Prefatory Letter, from H.M. Queen Marie-Jose (Belgium)

Pere Teilliard de Chardin, a figure-head in the unfolding of a new cycle in the life of mankind, moves us profoundly not only by the amazing lucidity of his scientific vision but also by his love, his immense love, of God, which enabled him to see, everywhere throughout the created world, what the majority of men are blind to: the constant presence of the Creator. Pere Teilhard was far from being a pantheist; but he saw God, the First Cause, present everywhere, and, filled as he was with reverence for the material world, he lived always in direct awareness of the spiritual. The most convincing proof of what some have called the ‘saintliness of Pere Teilhard’ is his humility; and his humility is the pledge of the greatness of his love.