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CHAPTER XII
Creative Omnipotence
That sublime passage at the beginning of Genesis is not the history of something which only happened once, it is a revelation of the laws of creation and the successive births of Being.
The six days of Moses are six lights which shine through the seventh. They are the genealogy of ideas which become forms in the order of eternal symbolic numbers.
On the first day, the unity of the prime substance was manifested. This is light and life and emerges from the shadows of the unknown.
On the second day were revealed the two forces which are the firmament, the firm placement of the heavenly bodies.
On the third day, the differentiation and union of the contrasting elements fecundated the earth.
On the fourth day, Moses bound up the quaternary traced in the sky by the four cardinal points with the circular movement of the earth and the stars.
On the fifth day, the power which could command the elements appeared, that is to say the living soui.
On the sixth day man was born with his animal helpers. On the seventh day everything was in working order. Man was active and God appeared to rest.
The so-called days of Moses are the successive rays of light thrown by the Qabalistic numbers on the grand laws of nature, and the number of days are simply those of revelation. It is the Genesis of Science even more than that of the World, and it will repeat itself in every human spirit which searches and thinks. It begins with the affirmation of the invisible Being and, after the successive contributions of science, it ends in that repose of spirit which is faith.
Let us take a man who is in the vacuum of scepticism, or even
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