CREATIONAL PROGRESS. 365 



define how, what, or where God is, I assume the general fact to be an eternal 

 fact; and therefore the "laws of nature," so-called, are simply the mode of God's 

 direct and directing energies in creation and providence. A few of those laws of 

 nature man has already learned something about ; vastly more of them still " move 

 in a mysterious way, their wonders to perform ; " but none of God's laws are too 

 secret or too sacred for man's reverent and most searching inquiry. 



I next present the Synoptic Calendar of Creation, which is a companion 

 piece to the Psychic Calendar, given in the Review of September, page 264, and 

 also of the Zoic Calendar, given in the Review for July, page 138. The object 

 of these calendars is to show in a plain, perspicuous, and easily comprehended 

 way, how naturally the discoveries, the deductions and the logical sequences of 

 modern science do supplement and confirm what has been revealed in the Hebrew 

 and Christian Bible for thousands of years. 



THE SYNOPTIC CALENDAR OF CREATION. 



{ God, angels, "ministering spirits," and " the spir- 



TRT? QPTTJTTTTAT I ^'^^'^ man" of the Bible — that is, those endowed with 



T^ T TV7 f^ P) f) jlf ^ that faculty or spiritual sense (the "sixth sense " of 



I my Psychic Calendar) whereby they discern God as 



1^ a spirit, and " worship him in spirit and in truth." 



AMTMAT C ^^' forms and conditions of animal tissue or ani- 



^ _ J mal product, including animal man, or '"the carnal 



KUMLrDUM. [nia-n" of the Bible. 



THE VEGETABLE 

 KINGDOAl. 



\ All vegetable growths, substances and products. 



THE MINERAL j Every solid and fluvial substance that is not or 

 KINGDOM. [has not been a vitalized part of any vivific structure. 



[ Preterrestrial elements, or nebulous and gasiform 

 THE ELEMENTAL J matter which ultimately condensed and formed the 

 KINGDOM. \ gaseous, fluviatile and solid substances composing 



(^ our world. 



The above schedule, followed from the bottom upward, shows the order of 

 creational progress, each "kingdom" being evolved or created out of not only 

 the last preceding one, but doubtless in some measure from all the preceding — 

 not that " the spiritual kingdom " is thus produced, in all that it comprehends, 

 but that the "spiritual man," after he has become cognizant of God and spiritual 

 things, still dwells in the flesh for a time, and is therefore a " connecting link" 

 between the animal kingdom and the spiritual kingdom* ; or, the animal form of 

 man walking the earth, but the angel consciousness more or less developed with- 

 in his soul. This is the natural philosophy of that sentiment, 



" I want to be an angel, and with the angels stand," 

 and others like it, so common in our church and Sunday school hymn books. 



* See a very remarkable article bearing on this subject, written by Rev. F. H. Hedge, D.D., of Harvard 

 University, and entitled " Ghost Seeing," in the JS'orth American Review for September, 1881. 



