ops in the neighbourhood of the Lion Monument at Lucerne.
In these last two instances we see that the greater is made the pattern
of the less; and it is important for us to remember this; we are not to
suppose that God showed to Moses a diminutive tabernacle, a sort of
doll's house, in accordance with which he was to construct his house of
skins, or that He impressed upon him the nature of the priestly and
sacrificial worship by altars and offerings of a lower degree, of small
quantities. It is more like what Philo explained it to be, that the
outer world is fashioned upon the model of the World of Ideas whose
centre is the Divine Word; or like Swedenborg's Doctrine of
Correspondence, by which we may learn

Cup, column, candlestick,
All temporal things related royally,
And patterns of what shall be in the Mount.

But, to get a more simple and exact idea, let us observe the means
which those who have studied the heavens have taken to illustrate
astronomical facts. There is an astronomical toy called the orrery,
which can be made, by proper mechanism, to represent, with tolerable
accuracy, the actual motions of the planets in their orbits, and which
can serve to illustrate the phenomena which from time to time occur in
the heavens. Now the tabernacle of Moses is precisely like this; it is
a religious orrery, a means of representing religious truths and
bringing home religious facts to the consciousness of those who are
unable to study the skies and the lunar and planetary theories for
themselves. But no one who wishes to be a real astronomer would be
content with winding up the orrery and watching the balls go round; he
would know that the heavens must be studied for themselves, if one was
ever to understand them accurately: and no one who wishes to be more
than moderately religious can remain satisfied with the meagre
assistance obtained by ritual and externalism.

We observe, too, that no one who wished to chronicle fresh facts would
go to the orrery to learn them. He would, for instance, turn his
spectroscope on the sun, and not on the great ball which represents it
in the mechanism, if he wanted to determine the constituents of that
great luminary. And let us remember that we shall never get at any
fresh religious truth by means of ritual; the proper destination of all
orreries, religious or otherwise, is the museum. But meanwhile the
heavens still go round, which are the work of Thy fingers; a