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

the production of the Universe; the second, the number of agents, or the active plan of its execution; the third, the means by which this execution is realized; and we will recognize in these three agents a natural relationship with the three intellectual faculties whose existence I have previously demonstrated in man.

Regarding the sensible development of these universal productions, one sees in these Books that it operated by a means similar to that which man employs for the execution of his will; for if he does not speak, in one way or another, to those he wishes to make act, this will remain null and without effect.

Finally, these universal productions are represented there as separating the lower waters elemental or material states from the upper waters celestial or spiritual states, the darkness from the light. Consequently, such is the goal of their existence, since such is their law; because even today, the smallest corporeal vegetations only acquire life and preserve it by occupying an intermediary place between the dark abode of their formation and the region from which the elemental light descends. A sensible picture of a more important separation, which was operated by the origin of the Universe, and which was repeated upon the prevaricating man,