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THE MYSTERY LANGUAGE adapted schemes of vowel points. But so to treat such fragments of the Mystery writings as survived, and have been imbedded and preserved in an artfully constructed context, was, however unintentionally, to overlook and conceal their true character and occult their original teachings--so to occult those teachings as to render them almost irrecoverable,
The ideograms of the Mystery Language--perhaps I should say of that forin of the Mystery Language which has been entombed in the Hebrew Scriptures, for I do not assume that this is the only survival of that language, though it is the only one with which I am familiar--have, as I have already noticed, distinctive characteristics and capabilities which cause them to be divisible into classes. This is evident even in its present subverted form in the Masoretic or conventionally received text. And yet even so the divisions accruing to them in their original character were not those followed by grammarians, who base their distinctions on linguistic differences attributable to the several letters into which, under their system, the ideograms have been transformed. The limits of space, however, and consideration for the general reader, call on me to forbear from grammatical or quasi-grammatical disquisitions which could not but be wearisome to those not versed in the Semitic dialects. Hence I will only observe on the present occasion that, as far as the Hebrew Language is concerned, the original ideograms are no longer in use; and, though the Samaritan alphabet may represent them, it is much more probable
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