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THE MYSTERY LANGUAGE
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Xosmogony prefixed to the book of Ganesis. I fonnd on analyzing the word-sign Aur (light) that it primarily sigoified "combustion" and this in its more vehement form"volcanic action,” On making this discovery I reconsidered the preceding statement of the antecedent condition of the carth through a similar soalysis of the word-signs by which that condition was expressed. From this I learnt that T (0) hu (thou-causing to be) signified "action,” and B(0) hu (against causing to be) ' reaction." That Kb (o) sb (e) c (hath deprived thee) represented "inertia"- ot in the inertia of persistence of modern scientists, but the inertia of inaction or resistance to activity. That T,ho-m (Thou-'causing them to be'') pointed to an internal generative action perparatory to a coming activity. That A-leim (Elohim) designated the operating forces; and at the same time when referred to and read through the root l'e'm, of which it is the first person imperfect of the derived conjugation Hiphil--combined and unified them in the formula“I acted mysteriously''cause in oracular, . veiled activity; and that Ru (a) kh, Energy, was the inducing cause of the veiled activity. Then I discovered that A-rts (Eretsmearth) signified “I run-run roundrevolve;" and this was properly speaking my starting point: for I saw that those who had so called the earth were not ignorant of its motion, and that a scientific teaching was comprised in the statement I was examining.
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