ATTRACTIONS PROPORTIONAL TO DESTINIES. 293 
our hearts without being forced to it^ is a being supremely insidi- 
ous and wicked ; in truth, I can assure you that thousands of vol- 
umes have been written in favor of the immortality of the soul, 
which do not teach so much on this consoling subject as the im- 
mortal formula of Attractions Proportional to Destinies — literal 
translation of the three Words — God is good ! 
Thus the passional movement is the pivotal movement of the 
celestial mechanics, and those who have suppressed it are Van- 
dals, who have understood nothing of science. Besides Passion, 
the motive principle, breath of God, two other principles are in 
play in the system of nature, the passive and moved principle. 
Matter — the neuter and arbitral principle. Mathematics ; and the 
assemblage of these principles constitutes the famous principle of 
the Divine Trinity, of the primordial trinity which is found again 
at the basis of all the religions of Asia. To each of these princi- 
ples corresponds an order of passional developments ; to the mo- 
tive principle, the spiritual developments, the passions called af~ 
fections, cardinal or central passions \ to the passive and moved 
principle are related the inferior or material passions called sensu- 
ous ; to the neuter and distributive principle, the intellectual de- 
velopments, the passions called distributive. These developments, 
as a whole, constitute the series or passional gamut. The series 
is the mode employed by the Supreme Author to distribute the 
harmonies of the universe. Numeri regunt mundum. 
There is the gamut of sounds as there is that of colors, of 
odors, of savors ; as there is the gamut of planets. 
Every term of the series or every note of the gamut has its 
passional title, which determines its grade and gives it its number 
in order ; but every series is cast upon the passional series. 
Every creation is a manifestation of the generative power of a 
planet, tending to complete its animal, vegetable, or mineral ap- 
paratus conformably to the laws of the series. The planets, 
which are beings superior to man, have great duties to fulfill, 
first, as members of the solar system, then as mothers of families. 
Thus the attentive study of their actions and procedures shows 
them incessantly busied with modifying, perfecting, and complet- 
ing their several casts of creatures. The planets (in the words 
