[For de Chardin, evolutionary history reflects this nested form. “The potential of God of recognizing Himself” corresponds to the “very structure of Nothingness”.]

God starts at the beginning, with a multitude of elements, immense, effectively infinite in number, simple and hardly conscious.

These elements organize themselves, yielding complex forms.

Then de Chardin makes a gigantic jump to the present, where some of these complex forms are capable of recognizing themselves. They are capable of reflection.

[Like all good poets, de Chardin passes over what he does not quite comprehend in one gigantic jump.  He senses, but does not understand “spontaneous order”.

With that note, we can look at the nested forms in de Chardin’s poetic prose.]