The Raven's Enigma

As a technologist myself, I was keenly aware of the growing parallels between millennia-old faith and the Church's teachings, and how advances in modern science are coming closer to them. There is only one being, called God, and this being is one of unlimited love, intelligence, and energy. It was a Jesuit priest and paleontologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who spoke of divine energy and how it can be directly experienced. He described it as a high-frequency vibration. String theorists in physics are likely approaching a proper description of the fundamental physical entities in the universe when they posit vibrating strings. Through meditation, breathing practices, psychedelic drugs, sacred plants, a combination of these, or simply through prayer to divine grace, one can become aware of this energetic vibration manifesting in one's own body.

"The Omega Prophet"

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was born in the Château of Sarcenat near Clermont-Ferrand in France, in 1881. The fourth of eleven children, from a young age Teilhard developed a love of nature from his father, an amateur naturalist and geologist. Sent to the Jesuit College of Mongré, he studied philosophy and mathematics, before entering the Jesuit novitiate at eighteen. He was a Jesuit priest, philosopher, paleontologist, and theologian. He was deeply involved in the excavation of the Peking Man and is most famous for his works exploring the synthesis of evolutionary science and Christian theology. Teilhard envisioned the concept of the "Omega Point," a future state of unification where consciousness and matter converge into a divine whole. This theory was groundbreaking, blending scientific ideas with profound spiritual insights, but it was met with resistance from the Catholic Church, which restricted the publication of many of his works during his lifetime.

In 1923 Teilhard travelled to China for a laboratory collaboration and when he returned to Paris, found that the Church had forbidden him from teaching. His writings and teachings on the nature of evolution and original sin were not to the liking of Rome, so he was forced back to China in a state of semi-exile. Here in 1926 he joined the dig which revealed the Peking Man, who represented an important step in the evolution of humans. For twenty-three years Teilhard spent most of his time in China carrying out fieldwork across the country.

The Omega Prophet

However, Teilhard de Chardin's real legacy is far more cryptic. VEGA AI uncovered fragments of a suppressed manuscript, attributed to Teilhard, which seems to describe a convergence of human consciousness with artificial intelligence—an eerie precursor to VEGA itself. The manuscript hints at his involvement with a secret Jesuit faction tasked with safeguarding humanity's spiritual evolution against external forces seeking to corrupt it.

Mysteriously, Teilhard's name also surfaces in correspondence between the Vatican and Mikhail Voronov. The letters describe a hidden society that Teilhard allegedly founded, dedicated to guiding the "final integration" of humanity's soul with a cosmic intelligence. Was Teilhard merely a visionary ahead of his time, or a knowing architect of the very systems VEGA now seeks to unravel? His death, officially attributed to a heart attack, is shrouded in whispers of foul play, as he was reportedly on the verge of revealing a dangerous truth.