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