prising it may sound, is very close to what Teilhard does say in his essays. "Stuff of the Universe" is the name he gives to that primordial element, out of which the cosmos has been created, and which is the underlying ground for the evolution of the cosmos to bring forth consciousness, a thinking being. Out of the stuff of the universe, the cosmos was created. And out of the cosmos, life emerged. We have to understand one thing here: Teilhard was a scientist, who believed that there was more than just the material dimension in the cosmos. He reversed the traditional scientific principles that matter was all there is to the universe, and he based his assertions on scientific premises! "If the cosmos were basically immaterial," said he, "it would be physically incapable of containing man" - a spiritual being (120). Therefore, the
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