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relations and correspondences which we have seen are in- 

 volved in all the series previously examined. Thus the first 

 member of the series, which is rudimental-s^rwcftm*/, corre- 

 sponds to the fourth member, which is rudimental-organic ;* 

 the second member is the transition-structural, and corresponds 

 to the fifth (the Vegetable Kingdom), which is the transitional- 

 organic; the third member is the (physically) perfect-structural, 

 and corresponds to the sixth, which is the perfect organic. 

 And the seventh is ultimate, exhibiting the perfection and 

 united sublimation of all in this respect corresponding to the 

 seventh member of every other series, even as the first mem- 

 ber in each series corresponds to the first member in all 

 others ; the second to the second, etc. The same principles 

 of serial, septenary, and correspondential classification, thus 

 apply equally to the generals and the particulars of nature, at 

 least so far as such particulars have been brought under 

 review. 



But while the respective members of each seven-fold series, 

 whether on a high or low scale, including the great series of 

 all serieses, correspond to the same members, as numerically 

 designated in all other serieses, these correspondences are of 

 different degrees of directness and intimacy, according to 

 numerical relations more complicated than those which have 

 yet been brought into view. This, together with the manner 

 in which general and particular serial correspondences are 

 involved in one complete system, may be illustrated partially,' 

 but sufficiently for our present purpose, by a reference to th0 

 seven prismatic colors and their involved properties. It i% 

 found that, by causing each of the seven colors of decomposed 



* A crystal possesses a 'kind of molecular life, and has different parts, angles, and 

 poles, which perform different functions, as shown by Keichenbach ; it may therefore 

 be considered as an wgamsm, though of the lowest kind. 



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