Occult-influenced Human Potential Movement. Current leading exponent of the evolutionary ideas of the transhumanists is the radical Jesuit priest, Teilhard de Chardin. Teilhard’s reading of The Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson was, he said, the “catalyst of a fire which devoured already its heart and its spirit.” In the 1930’s it was not the Vatican but his own order, the Jesuits, who forbade Teilhard from publishing and lecturing during his lifetime. However, soon after becoming Pope, Pius XII persuaded the Jesuits to lift the ban so that a series of Teilhard lectures could take place in German-occupied Paris during the latter years of the war. Writing the introduction to de Chardin’s The Phenomenon of Man was Julian Huxley, according to whom, “evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself.” Teilhard de Chardin is known for his attempt to synthesize Christianity and the theory of evolution.
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