Natural Table of the Correspondences Existing Between God, Man, and the Universe

against the holiness of these Books, cannot convince one another, nor can they convince themselves, because they do not give their opinions a natural and common basis. Thus, all their objections are reciprocally insoluble to them.

If the principles that have been exposed until now did not rest on a solid support, it would be doing little for the advancement of science to give them, as a foundation, Books whose sanction, not being generally established, would always leave doubts regarding the authenticity required to be guarantors of the truth. But having established these principles on unshakeable foundations, I believe myself authorized to put to use everything that can extend or confirm their certainty; and the Hebrew Books seem to suit this goal.

The traditions of the Hebrews, both historical and allegorical, offer us the same truths as those of other Peoples. They announce equally the degradation of man; the efforts he must make to erase his ignominy; and the assistance that the supreme order grants him, without respite, in order to accelerate his return to the light.

One finds therein the same signs of the relationships of man to the Divinity; and of the Earth to all the