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at the disposition of all. And it was so constituted that each proficient in reproducing its teachings in vocal form, or interpreting them linguistically, might read them in his own language.
It will be evident froin this that the ideograms (or Hebrew alphabetic letters) had no proper sound of vocalization of their own; and this is why in the Semitic tongues--whose written systems were derived from, and modelled on that of the Mystery Languagevowels were wanting and had to be supplied by the reader, and to be ultimately perpetuated by the severally 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 then almost irrecoverable.
The ideograms of the Mystery Language--perhaps I should say of that form 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 iuto classes. This is evident even in its present subverted form in the Masoretic or conventionally received text. And yet even so the divisions
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