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

a single fact and six agents concurring to produce it; especially since the word Elohim offers six distinct letters in its pronunciation, and since it carries them in characters in the Greek version of Sanchuniathon, although it only carries five in the Hebrew.

It is therefore a weak and false idea that the fear of setting limits to the omnipotence of the universal principle of life, by acknowledging secondary agents that operate perishable things for him, and that keep them in action during the duration he prescribes for them; for this power shines all the more by ordering results that are punctually executed, and there are works that his greatness and his sublime simplicity do not allow him to execute himself.

Those who have wished to cast ridicule on these extraordinary expressions, the Gods created, have only shown that they had little knowledge of natural truths.

They have affected to translate as he made the word Bara, which signifies equally he produced, he created. Let us not be deceived; this expression, he made, would announce a co-eternity of matter with God, which would have had no other work to do than to modify it, while this co-eternity belongs only to the immaterial Principle of matter.