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

The Peoples of the Orient, through whom all Sciences were communicated throughout the Universe, offer us facts that support the principle we are advancing: in all their measures of time, in all their periods, they proceed by the number six, or by its multiples; and the famous period of six hundred years, known from all antiquity by these primitive Nations, is above all the periods that Astronomers have subsequently discovered and employed in different places on Earth.

Finally, the Peoples of America had the persuasion that the Universe had been formed by six men who, before there was an earth, were carried in the air at the will of the winds. From which one may infer that such exact relationships, known to these Nations so distant and so strange to one another, would not exist if, in following the sixfold division of the circumference by the radius, they had not followed the true natural measure of created things. From which one may equally conclude that the Hebrew Writer has transmitted nothing imaginary to us by representing the formation of the Universe to us by the laws of this same number.

This number of six days, which can only be symbolic, since God acting at the summit of the angle knows no time; since our days