What is the source of the following words by Teilhard DeChardin: 
"Everything in the universe is made by union and generation--by the
coming together of elements that seek out one another, melt together
two by two, and are born again in a third."  I know it's from
DeChardin Teilhard 1973. The Prayer of the Universe; The eternal
feminine pages 143 & 144, but I can't find it in the only The Eternal
Feminine:  A Study of the Poem by Teilhard de Chardin by Henri de
Lubac (the only The eternal feminine I can find).  I must have the
full bibliographical data of the source.

Hello.

The quotation comes from an essay called "The Eternal Feminine" that
Teilhard de Chardin wrote during World War I.  It was not published
until many decades later. It first appeared in French in a volume
entitled "Écrits du temps de la guerre (1916-1919)" published by
Editions Bernard Grasset in 1965. Here is the bibliographic
information from the Library of Congress for that volume:
http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v3=1&DB=local&CMD=010a+65081267&CNT=10+records+per+page

The source for the English quotation that you cite is the translated
version that was published in 1968. The translation was published
under the title "Writings in the Time of War" by Harper & Row.  The
translator was René Hague.
Here is the bibliographic data for that volume from the Library of
Congress:
http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v3=1&DB=local&CMD=010a+68017597
&CNT=10+records+per+page

I paid a visit to a library this morning and actually looked at the
Harper & Row 1968 edition of the book.  The essay "The Eternal
Feminine" starts on page 192 of the book. Your quotation appears as
the second sentence of the essay. Here is the beginning of the essay:

  "When the world was born, I came into being. Before the centuries
were made, I issued from the hand of God--half-formed, yet destined to
grow in beauty from age to age, the handmaid of his work.
  Everything in the universe is made by union and generation--by the
coming together of elements that seek out one another, melt together
two by two, and are born again in a third.
  God instilled me into the initial multiple as a force of
condensation and concentration.
  In me is seen that side of beings by which they are joined as one,
in me the fragrance that makes them hasten together and leads them,
freely and passionately, along their road of unity.
  Through me, all things have their movement and are made to work as
one."
source:
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre. Writings in time of war. Translated by
René Hague.
[Ecrits du temps de la guerre. English. Selections. 1st U.S. ed.] New
York, Harper & Row [1968], page 192.
http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v3=1&DB=local&CMD=010a+68017597
&CNT=10+records+per+page

search strategy:
"de chardin", "eternal feminine"
"de chardin", "Ecrits du temps de la guerre"

I hope this helps.

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Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 05 Sep 2003 11:21 PDT

There seems to be a break in those links to the Library of Congress
entry for the 1968 Harper & Row edition of the book.  Let me try
again:
http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v3=1&DB=local&CMD=010a+68017597&CNT=10+records+per+page

Great answer.  Thank you very much!

The original version, however abbreviated, can be found here:

http://rmitte.free.fr/suivre/teilhard/feminin.htm