IV PREFACE. 



aid of some more enlarged, systematic, and interior exposition than any 

 which was yet generally extant, of the great realm of being without, 

 which serves to the former as a natural counterpart and exponent. 



Feeling, therefore, an embarrassment at the thought of writing upon 

 the interior constitution, laws, and susceptibilities of man, without the 

 comprehensive basis of a general material philosophy so universally 

 harmonized and compacted, as to bring nature without into the ob- 

 vious analogy of a single human being, and thus into an aspect in 

 which it might be constantly drawn upon for comparisons and illustra- 

 tions, I accordingly determined to precede my proposed anthropological 

 Treatise by a general disquisition upon the realm of exterior being, 

 which I have called the " MACROCOSM," in contradistinction to the 

 human physical and psychical constitution, which I have called the 

 " MICROCOSM." Both Treatises were, at first, designed to be submitted 

 in one volume ; but as it was perceived that each would embrace a sub- 

 ject which is complete in itself, though intimately connected with the 

 other, it was finally determined to issue them separately. 



In speaking briefly of the further objects and general plan of the pres- 

 ent work, I will premise that the whole realm of created being, natural, 

 psychological, and even spiritual, forms (at least in the general sense) 

 one perfectly united System, consistent and harmonious in all its parts 

 and interactivities. To this proposition the reason and intuition of every 

 well-constituted human mind responds an instant assent. But a reli- 

 able conception of the universal ptan of this complex unity of created 

 being, has hitherto undeniably been a grand desideratum of philos- 

 ophy ; and, reasoning superficially only from the objects which come 

 within the scope of the five exterior senses, and without the aid of any 

 grand fundamental and interior Principle to connect and harmonize all 

 things, in serial and graduated orders, from the common primary cause 

 to ultimate effects men have cherished theories ever conflicting, ever 

 varying, and necessarily ever disfigured, more or less, with essential 

 errors and imperfections. I have ventured to hope that this defect in 

 the mode of philosophizing might prove to be in some good degree sup- 

 plied by a discovery, the fundamental principles of which came into 

 my mind some four years ago, in a manner quite extraordinary, but of 

 which I need not now speak particularly. This discovery, which I have 

 called "the law of the seven-fold correspond 'ential series," or "the 

 harmonial scale of creation," is, to some extent, unfolded and 



