"To learn anything well, one must forget it several times. 

 

The sign expresses the thing,  

 

the thing is the virtue of the sign 

 

There is an analogical correspondence between the sign, and 

 

the thing signified.  

 

The more perfect is the sign, the more entire the correspondence.  

 

To say a word is to evoke a thought and make it present,  

 

to name God is to manifest God.  

 

Words act upon souls, and souls react upon bodies; 

 

Consequently, one can frighten, console, cause to fall ill, even 

 

Kill, and raise from the dead by means of words. 

 

In the name is contained the verbal or spiritual doctrine of the being itself. 

 

When the soul evokes a thought, the sign of that thought 

 

Is written automatically in the light. 

 

To invoke is to adjure. That is to say, to swear by a name. It 

 

Is to perform an act of faith in that name, and to 

 

Communicate in the virtue which it represents. 

 

Words in themselves are, then, Good or Evil, poisonous or wholesome. 

 

The most dangerous words are vain and lightly uttered 

 

Words, because they are voluntary abortions of thought. 

 

A useless word is a crime against the spirit of intelligence. It  

 

Is an intellectual infanticide. 

 

Things are for everyone what he makes of them by naming them. 

 

The word of everyone is an impression or a habitual prayer. 

 

To speak well is to live well. 

 

A fine style in an aureole of Holiness."     

 

                                                                      -Robert Nye-