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

the higher Powers. One finds there the same subdivision of these Powers in relation to man. Everything therein is equally vengeance, rigor; everything presents only the severity of a Justice that relaxes none of its rights.

Thus, although these Traditions offer only sensible and corporal objects, although they show, in a way, only terrestrial virtues, and although they seem to promise hope only for fleeting goods and temporal rewards; one must believe that they have the same goal and contain the same doctrine as mythological Traditions.

One will think this with all the more foundation, given that in our days, striking correspondences have been discovered between several personages of Egyptian Mythology and those of the Hebrew Traditions, of which the latter, consequently, would seem to be the primary source. And if we have perceived the history of man in the principal mythological Traditions, we must recognize it all the more in facts that appear to have been the type and the germ of the most famous of these Traditions.

Moreover, one sees therein the facts united with the dogmas, and action with doctrine; while in all the Traditions, these two things are