VOIR: to see 

Dear Friends,

In the prologue to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s magnum opus, The Human Phenomenon, the French priest, theologian, and paleontologist writes,

“These pages represent an effort to see and to show what the human being becomes, what the human being requires, if placed wholly and completely in the context of appearance.

Seeing. One could say that the whole of life lies in seeing.

To try to see more and to see better is not, therefore, just a fantasy, curiosity, or a luxury. See or perish. This is the situation imposed on every element of the universe by the mysterious gift of existence. And thus, to a higher degree, this is the human condition.”

Voir ou périr: See or perish

Welcome to VOIR — An Origin Quarterly. VOIR is an offering in seeing. A time-capsule of vision. An experiment in contemplating our proximity to Origin. Each edition will have an Aim — a thematic invitation for writers and artists to “lift the veil of repose” and see a little more clearly. The first Aim is simply Seeing.

The eye of the heart is the lamp of the body. When this eye can see, the whole body is illuminated.

VOIR exists to see the whole. “This is the situation imposed,” Teilhard wrote. If perception reaches its ceiling at our level of consciousness, how do we remember ourselves?

Show us what you see.

VOIR is accepting submissions for our 2027 edition.

Yours, Benjamin Thomas, Editor-in-Chief