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II. THE PLACE OF THE HUMAN PERSON IN THIS
JOURNEY
• All creatures are drawn
implicitly back toward union
with the Infinite Good from
which they originated, which
is at once the Alpha and
Omega.
But we human beings play a unique role
in this Great Circle of Being.
Only beings
endowed with
spiritual intellects
and wills, like
ourselves, can
actually achieve
direct union with
God, since they
alone can self-
consciously know
and freely choose
to love God.
It needs a mediator that can take it up into itself and
somehow carry it back Home with itself.
MICROCOSMS
St. Thomas calls
us- able, with
God’s help, to
know, love, and
be personally
united to the
supreme Source
of all being.
(TAKE) WHOLE MATERIAL WORLD WITH US
JOURNEY HOME TO THE SOURCE WAY
BACK HOME NOT BE LEFT IN THE
DARKNESS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Human persons, therefore, are the sole
mediators between the material universe
and God, the source of both, and this is a
fundamental part of our mission, our
vocation as humans on this earth, to
respond to this God-given call, not just to
focus exclusively on our individualistic
journeys to God.
ADAM CALLS ALL THE ANIMALS BEFORE HIM AND
GIVES THEM ALL NAMES, CORRESPONDING TO
THEIR NATURE
THE ROLE OF SCIENCE HERE TAKES ON ITS FULL INTELLIGIBILITY, DIGNITY, AND INDISPENSABLE ROLE WITHIN OUR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AS
MEDIATORS FOR THE MATERIAL WORLD.
Which really means we are striving to
rethink in our own human way, as
images of God, the original creative
thoughts of God himself, “striving to
know the mind of God”
For those who understand its full meaning for the human
person, therefore, human science is an enterprise that is
both humanistic and potentially religious.
-Stephen Hawking-
Stephen Hawking- the great physicist
Art, too, has both a humanistic and a
potentially religious finality.
This is part of the essential work of Religion, too
( which means the binding of humans to God )
i.e., to bind ourselves and the whole human race, together with the whole material world, to their Source and ultimate Goal with-
This God-with-us now becomes
the great, perfect Mediator and
High Priest ( the Pontifex
Maximus= supreme Bridge-
Builder) between the entire created
world and its Ultimate Source and
Goal.
CONCLUSION:
To be a human being is to be a traveller, each one on his
or her own unique journey, but also an inseparable part of
the journey of the whole cosmos, with responsibility not
only for our individual selves but also for each other and
for the whole world beneath us, in our common journey in
and through the world of matter, a journey from eternity,
from the lowliness of matter to the fullness of spirit in
transformed matter. A whole basic philosophy and
theology of ecology contained in germ here.
“To be a human being is to be a traveller”
“THE GREAT CIRCLE OF BEING, THE UNIVERSE AS JOURNEY, IS FINALLY WHAT THE WHOLE METAPHYSICAL
QUEST IS ABOUT”
The message of the book: The One and the Many by William Norris Clarke, S.J.-
“GET ON WITH THE JOURNEY, AS A FULL-CONSCIOUS TRAVELLER!”
Homo Viator!
TRIVIA:
“Homo Viator – “Homo Viator – or as Marcel
calls him, ‘itinerate man’ – is an outstanding
example of the philosophy concerned, not
with technical problems, but with the urgent
problems of man. Marcel talks to our
condition, emphasizing our urgent need of
hope, thus discovering beyond the lack of
stability the values on which we may
depend.
Thank
You!!! -filbert