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

instead of deteriorating; and the older they grow, the more they must manifest their beauty, their greatness, their simplicity, or to put it better, their relationship with the pure and living laws of that first type, which all Beings are tasked to manifest, each in their own class.

Far from Mahometanism presenting itself under this aspect, and being more perfect than Ishmaelism and Judaism, it is infinitely below both one and the other. It has neither the divine sciences of the Hebrews nor the natural sciences of Ishmael; and having separated itself from strength and intelligence, it has been able to put in their place only the rights of the sword and the reign of the senses.

If the Books of the Hebrews, despite their obscure expressions, despite the singularity, or even the atrocity of most of their accounts, announce to us other rights, other powers; if they reunite facts with dogmas more relative to our Being, and more proper to remind us of the Virtues of our Principle; if they present to us tables more expressive of what man seeks and of what he can obtain; finally, if these Books do not offer a single material speaking Idol, and if they put into action only living animals, men, or superior Beings, one must give them a distinguished rank