Nietzsche suggests that "peering into the abyss" is a frightening exercise, but a clear-eyed grasp of the near-infinite universe can yield not only a better understanding of it, but one in which we ourselves can be seen as more relevant to it. The priest and scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin offers a lens that enables such a vision and, in doing so, permits us to see how the great human enterprises of science and religion can harmonize into a grand vision of reality.