70 LAWS AND DEVELOPMENTS. 



PRIMARY TRINITY. 



1. Expansion. 



2. Contraction or Attraction. 



3. Circulation. 



SECONDARY TRINITY. 



4. Aggregation. 



5. Segregation. 



6. Sympathetic reciprocation. 



7. Vital complex unity. 



Here, it will be perceived, is a regularly graduated progres- 

 sion in the order o*" elements, ascending from first to last, as 

 it were, through the different stratifications of one complete 

 system. They maintain relations to each other similar to the 

 relations of the different parts of a tree ; viz., the first is the 

 root of the series ; the second is the trunk ; the third is the 

 branches ; the fourth the leaves, and the completion of the 

 organic form of the tree (wherefore, No 4. in any seven-fold 

 series always corresponds to aggregation, organization, or as- 

 sociation) ; No. 5 commences the segregative or reproductive 

 process, and corresponds to the flower buds ; No. 6 corre- 

 sponds to the flowers, and No. 7 always corresponds to the 

 fruit, embodying in itself the sublimated elements of the whole 

 tree, together with the seed or germ of a future and corre- 

 sponding creation. 



The first trinity in the series approximately corresponds to 

 the second, but the correspondence is rather by way of coun- 

 terpart, or antithesis, than in any other way which may be 

 easily defined ; and in the general trinity, comprehending the 

 whole septinity, may be observed a general correspondence 

 with the sub-trinities.* 



These, let it be borne in mind, are claimed simply as the 

 fundamental and all-comprehensive laws of natural and moral 



* These g&neral principles of classification, not only in respect to dynamic agents 

 and laws, but their corresponding forms and developments, are applicable to all natural 

 series or octaves, and by duly comprehending and observing them, with the peculiar 

 and relative characteristics of their parts, we may be able always to distinguish true 

 *rom false classifications. 



