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THE GEOLOGIST. 
be divided, re-united, caused to become mouocentral or spherical, bicentral or elliptical, 
or polycentral, having varieties of outline ; but the abnegation of its being, as an abi- 
dance and voluminous property, involves a reductio ad absurdum termination. A space 
appears as if you cau do anything with it but nullify its existence ; an atom, as if you 
can only combine or separate its units, — an individual existence without variety." .... 
"The Genetic record also implies the existence of life before light as in the commence- 
nieat or in the beginning, before the exertion of such, — thought and capability before 
the exhibition of geometric realities — the existence of the Creator before the creature. 
From the first institution of antagonislic influence or force, although the indications 
of formative abidance would be various, the rule in the long run would be subdoniiuaut 
to requirements depending upon the numerical ratio of the prime forces, whether one, 
two, three, four, five or six, and to the intermutual balance of these powers, and the 
static ability of their forces. Although the prime powers evolved would be the distin- 
guishing exterior characteristics of this era, yet the internal exhibition of antagonistic 
force confliction would develope inferior, medial, and superior organisms according to 
the ratios, multiplying in intensity of contradiction and confluence. 
" The sixth day being also an animal life era, it becomes consonant to the purpose of 
our theme to speak of them and treat them as one, only with this difference, the fifth 
era opens unto us all appertaining to curvilinear, circular, and hemispherical jjurchase 
becoming ovoid combiuation and pointed repulsion, or the advancement of life into 
death. The sixth era, on the other hand, opens and explains the limit of death and the 
retrocession of death unto life eternal. The wording of the sixth day is: — 'And God 
said. Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping 
thing, and beast of the earth after his kind. And God made the beast of the earth after 
his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his 
kind : and God saw that it was good.' 
"The main distinction between the fifth and sixth day is, that water is the vehicidous 
medium of the fifth ; earth of the sixth. The fifth day tells the story of wave or un- 
dulaut cohesive advancement with a tendency towards rest and parallel plane deca- 
dence. The sixth as the beginning of arrest and retrocession, that of continuous regular 
gradation and comprehension. It encloses all that has been done prior to its institution, 
balances it, and struggles to lead it back — condense, and confine the volumes of space 
within an harmonic boundary, and balance such upon an equidistant centre. As the 
former eras were but the lustrous eviction of a life evading and relapsing into rigidity or 
death, so this is the toned regular balance of progressional static requirements, leading 
nuto au eternal state of enduring stability, its oneness of volume harmonized throughout 
its entirety. If the times of the six points had been simultaneously taken and originated, 
the numerical relations of the inter nal harmony would have been equal, similar, and equi- 
balanced ; therefore an octaedron of regular tension would only have been attained. 
The Genetic record, however, tells us, and nature bears testimony to the fact, that time 
elapsed between the institution of each of the six points, therefore we understand bow- 
that although all must continually tend towards the true geometric centre of the universe, 
such point is not the electric status of never ending rigidity, but the focal realization of 
eternal abidance, a referential gradation of harmonic rest ?nd stability. This likewise 
discloses the appropriateness of the idea of God resting upon the seventh, because the 
seventh point being once attained, and such point centrifugally varied, the inevitable 
conclusion is the exterior exhibition of eight balanced points as cubic comprehension, 
when the six points of prime institution become as it were extinguished and null or 
centre of each square, and become again balanced and developed at the points of each 
square. AVhen tho last trumpet is sounded, and the new heaven and the new earth be- 
come perceptible, then will eternal perfection have been attained, and the eighth or ever- 
lasting era be inducted. Ceutrifugal and centripetal force will then have been truly har- 
monized, and solidity, vacuity, and space influence concordantly appropriated. It may 
be that those who are possessed of, and have cultivated their superior intellects, may be 
enabled to travel through the universe under the guiding protection of the Deity, if their 
intellects are attuned consonant to His will ; whilst the inferior and non-consonant in- 
tellects must have more restricted range. The inferior intellects, happy in their restricted 
sphere, the non-consonant superior intellects, cropt of indulgences, tlieir state, therefore, 
what I — will it be that of an unsatisfied, envious yearning, or a pruning and reduction of 
