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GEOLOGY AND MOSES. 



unavoidable deductions of scientific facts ; and partly for the 

 purpose of further unfolding that remarkable law of the three- 

 fold and seven-fold correspondential series, which runs through 

 all complete systems of truth, and of which the Mosaic gene- 

 ralization, properly understood, affords a conspicuous example. 

 That the seven-fold series of creative operations here spoken 

 of by the sacred writer, exactly conforms to the natural and 

 Divine law of sereal arrangement which we have heretofore 

 unfolded, is obvious from the correspondences between the 

 respective members of its Primary and Secondary Trinities, 

 which will be perceived by an inspection of the following 

 juxtaposed columns, and from the characteristics of the rela- 

 tions which each member of the series, from first to last, ex- 

 hibits toward the others, which will be found to be the same 

 which the same members in other serieses respectively bear 

 toward their associates. 



PRIMARY TRINITY. 

 1st Day. Diffused and rudimental 

 Light: ("God said, Let there 



be light.") 



2nd Day. Atmospneric and terres- 

 trial distinctions, or more defin- 

 ite line of demarcation between 

 condensed and vapory water. 

 (" Firmament.") 



3rd Day. Appearance of dry land 

 terrestrial vegetation. 



SECONDARY TRINITY. 

 4th Day. Definite solar Light (by 

 the sun becoming visible.) 



5th Day. Higher and first impor- 

 tant forms of oceanic, terres- 

 trial, and atmospheric life. 

 (" Great whales" or aquat- 

 ic monsters saurians and 

 fowls.") 



6th Day. Ultimate Tenants of 

 dry land. (Mammalial quadru- 

 peds and Man.) 



7th Day. REST, and Divine habitation in the Ultimate of the creative 



labor. 



Here the correspondence between the works of the first and 

 fourth days, or periods, is perceptible at a glance, in that they 

 consisted of different degrees of illumination of the earth's 



