Seeing the man, God and the world: the awakening of cosmotheandric consciousness in Teilhard de Chardin, in dialogue with the bucolic thought of Alberto Caeiro

Abstract

This paper’s aim is to relate the mystic of Teilhard de Chardin and the bucolic perspective of Alberto Caeiro. The human being and the reality that surrounds him have something more than that can be caught by a first sight. And this reality is constituted by man, world and God, which form the cosmotheandric – or theo-anthropo-cosmic – triad. But the relation and the presence of this triad aren’t always seen, in spite of being so real. Thus the verb “to see” has a special meaning in this paper, for the two poles of the relation bear this verb as something that points to something else that is beyond the vision sense. Besides that, this work maintains the poetic cadence, proper to both Chardin’s and Caeiro’s works.