OF THE MACROCOSMIC HARMONY

The infinite multiplication of Unity.

[God] created, and will create in the future until the end of the World. In this matter, Divine Omnipotence, surpassing all wonder, reveals its admirable and stupendous Majesty and power. It leads Unity, expanded by infinite multiplication, into an incredible multitude. This number is known and finite to God, but to us it is unknown and infinite. Unity is the principle of every number and the origin of infinite multitude. It brings forth innumerable numbers from itself and can proceed into infinity through multiplication without any end. Thus, no number can exist without Unity, nor can it truly be a number or undergo counting.

Of the point also.

The Point is the beginning of all mathematical figures and of all continuous quantity. From it, infinite quantities of figures flow, arise, and are derived. None of these would exist if they did not have this principle. Indeed, if we consider the Point, which is indivisible in its nature, throughout the entire Universe of all things, we will see in reality that among so many infinite things, none can be found that does not owe its origin to the point. Just as a number is gathered from many unities, so too has it grown into one body from many points. Certainly, the Divine Mystery of Unity and the Point, which is higher than all human reasoning, would teach us many things and open incredible things to us if we could examine and investigate it in the proper way.

Examples of multiplication.

Vegetation.

On the third day of creation, at the command of the Divine Word, Let it be, infinite trees, shrubs without number, and herbs arose from the earth. Their multitude exceeds human calculation. They provided an incredible ornament to the entire surface of the earth with an admirable variety of beauty, and they will continue to do so until the end.

Stars.

By the operation of the fourth day, we understand that an army of stars, rejecting all counting, came into existence in the one heaven through the word Let it be.

Fish.

In the work of this present day, we have heard that infinite fish came forth from a single water.

Birds.

We have also perceived that flocks of birds without number arose from the air.

Animals.

How the multitude of animals that followed in the operation of the Fifth Day, surpassing all human belief, filled the Terrestrial Globe!

Humans.

What should be said of the ineffable abundance of humans, who draw their origin from one man created on the Sixth Day? Who will deny that innumerable thousands of them have existed on earth through Divine Multiplication and Blessing? God promised the multiplication of seed to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob so many times. He used various comparisons. After He first promised it in Genesis chapter 12, verse 2, He said in chapter 13, verse 16 that the most abundant propagation of future offspring would equal the incredible abundance of the dust of the earth in an innumerable multitude. In chapter 15, verse 5, He said it would correspond to the ineffable multitude of the stars. In chapter 22, verse 17, He said it would correspond to those same stars and the infinite number of sand that lacks a count. The outcome proved the truth of the often repeated promise. Within the span of about two hundred years, which passed between Jacob’s arrival in Egypt and the departure of the Israelites from the same, that Israelite lineage grew into such a great multitude...

The multitude of the Israelites who went out of Egypt.

...that more than six hundred thousand men were counted who had exceeded the twentieth year of age and were fit for handling arms. This multitude certainly indicates that the number of the others, whom the calculation of counting passed over, namely the Tribe of Levi, the women both married and virgin, and the boys and girls, and all those who had not yet completed their twentieth year, was far greater. It likely exceeded those six hundred thousand by a triple, quadruple, or perhaps even greater number. These things are commonly known and well worn from the Sacred Scriptures. Indeed, the effects of this admirable multiplication are placed before the eyes of the whole world every day. They attract less wonder from the stupidity sticking to blind mortals the more frequently they come into sight.

The blindness of the human mind.

But the most hidden mystery of these same things, alas, lies hidden and entirely escapes the human mind, which is immersed in Cimmerian darkness. In ancient mythology, the Cimmerians lived in a land of perpetual mist and darkness. The phrase refers to profound ignorance or obscurity. We must confess that the mind is so blind in the investigation of such great mysteries that it hardly perceives their effects, much less is it able to search out their innermost secrets. If examples of such great multiplication and blessing from secular histories were to be brought forward here, we would have to step far and wide outside the boundaries of our undertaking, which limits our dissertation with brevity.

Xerxes’ army.

Let the single army of Xerxes suffice. That wretched mortal is said to have led ten hundred thousand men across a bridge built over the Hellespont from Asia into Europe. He returned to Asia with difficulty in a small boat, having abused the Divine Blessing with abominable pride for a deplorable shedding of blood.

The innumerable number of humans living in the world at one and the same time.

But why is there a need for many examples, when the infinite and innumerable multitude of humans living at one and the same time in the whole Circle of the lands argues enough and more for the admirable effect of this multiplication? This number can never be recalled to calculations by any human, just as the stars in heaven, the sand in the sea, the grass in the pastures, and the trees in the forests cannot be counted.

THE OPERATION OF THE SIXTH DAY

THE SIXTH DAY.

Terrestrial animals.

With the production of terrestrial things endowed with sensitive life, [God] brought the admirable work of Creation to an end. He opened the sensual life on earth, which on the previous day had been revealed in the air and water, and He created terrestrial animals of every kind.

Man.

The goal of the entire Creation, however, was Man. He is that admirable Creature in whom the most Wise Creator joined eternity and time, immortality and mortality, light and darkness, in a Creation surpassing all human understanding. He proposed the type and image of the invisible eternal Divinity in a visible creature, saying:

Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.

Moses adds his own words to these: And so, he says, God created man in his own image: in the image of God he created him. Male and female he created them. Soon, in the following chapter 2, verse 7, he describes the very matter and form of man, saying: And the Lord God formed man...

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