Teilhard's Biggest Error

Even though he made a valiant attempt to include evolution in Christianity, the biggest error of  Teilhard De Chardin was in confounding involution with evolution. Modern evolutionary theologians make the same mistake.

Christ is not evolved to, Christ is involved to, by way of the Inward Path. The Christ-State, or the Father-Within, is attained inwardly by blocking all material desires, and by arriving at the Soul, which, at least symbolically, exists at the Zenith of the Mind.

Evolution is the work of the Spirit-Will, not the Soul-State, which exists, at least symbolically, at the Zenith of the Soul. The Spirit-Will activates material life to evolve to supermaterial Godhood, by way of the Outward Path.

It is not Christ but Godhood which is reached at the real “Omega Point” of evolution in the entire Kosmos. The Christ-State is a virtual or symbolic state of identification with Godhood, relating to that great time when evolution is fulfilled, not denied. To stop at the Christ-State is to die to the world, as Christ (and Buddha and others) asked us to do. Never-the-less, both Paths are affirmed in the Twofold Path of Evolutionary Christianity.

There can be freedom in the determinism of evolving life, as man cooperates with or harmonizes with the evolutionary process. Research in this process is an ongoing need, as we are transformed through evolution. (see Raymond Cattell regarding preliminary research in sociobiology)

Political philosophy matters, and Teilhard's involutionary and convergent religious view leads to collectivism and centralization, whereas the evolutionary and divergent religious view of Evolutionary Christianity leads to de-centralization and divergence, with only a light federalism to protect the divergence and de-centralization, and most importantly, to protect evolution in its long path to Godhood.