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

on all his posterity, and which, to disappear, awaits nothing less than the concurrence and the complement of the action of all that has received existence.

This great fact is even indicated by the word Aretz Earth, which signifies equally Region or Universe; for it derives from the verb Ratzatz to break, to squeeze, to compress. And one should be all the less suspicious of this idea, because the word Aretz has preserved in most of our modern Languages an obvious similarity to its root, as much for the form as for the sense. The German calls the earth erd, the English, earth; the Latin by inversion, terra, from which the French terre, arrêter to stop, hart. All expressions where the form and the primitive sense are easy to recognize; and that is why the earth is called the theater of expiation.

The laws of Physics are exposed in these Books with complete accuracy; and the sixfold division, under which the Writer presents symbolically by days the work of the formation of temporal things, is in accordance with Nature. It is this law, manifested in the ratio of the radius to the circumference, by which the Writer wished to teach us that it is a number of six actions united which concurred in the