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

almost always separated. The Egyptian and Greek Mythological Traditions contain only facts and very little doctrine: the theogonic Books of the Parsis, the Chinese, and all the Peoples who, in an opposite sense, have equally moved away from their primitive root, contain more doctrine than facts; because all these Peoples have neglected the true science of man, which must go astray in its facts when it does not regulate them through morality, and which is reduced to moralizing only when it does not know how to act.

Mahomet, who was born among the descendants of the Hebrews, imitates their Books in this part. In the Koran, doctrine and historical facts appear alternatively; and although this Book, except for a few rays of light, is but an unformed collection, filled with powerless precepts; although it does not bring men back to their true nature, and although it debases the means by which supreme Wisdom prepares their regeneration, it allows it to be sufficiently known that it is the natural child of the natural child of Judaism.

It is even through its emanation from Judaism that it shows us more clearly its illegitimacy; because real things, which tend toward a true goal, perfect themselves through time,