Contents:

Book one. Before life came. The stuff of the universe: Elemental matter ; Total matter ; The evolution of matter -- The within of things: Existence ; The qualitative laws of growth ; Spiritual energy --The earth in its early stages: The without ; The within --Book Two. Life. The advent of life: The transit to life ; The initial manifestations of life ; The season of life --The expansion of life: The elemental movements of life ; A corollary: the ways of life ; The ramifications of the living mass ; The tree of life --Demeter: Ariadne's thread ; The rise of consciousness ; The approach of time -- Book three. Thought. The birth of thought: The threshold of reflection ; The original forms --The deployment of the Noosphere: The ramifying phase of the pre-hominids ; The group of the Neanderthaloids ; The Homo Sapiens complex ; The Neolithic metamorphosis ; The prolongations of the Neolithic age and the rise of the West --The modern earth: The discovery of evolution ; The problem of action --

Book four. Survival. The collective issue: The confluence of thought ; The spirit of the earth --Beyond the collective: the hyper-personal: The convergence of the person and the Omega point ; Love as energy ; The attributes of the Omega point --The ultimate earth: Prognostics to be set aside ; The approaches ; The ultimate --The Christian phenomenon: Axes of belief ; Existence-value ; Power of growth --The essence of the phenomenon of man: A world in involution ; The first appearance of man ; The social phenomenon -- Appendix. Some remarks on the place and part of evil in a world in evolution.