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THE MYSTERY LANGUAGE
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and it was to do away with the characterizing work that the Masoretes, or scientific literalizers, through the instrumentality of the vowel-points, grafted a single interpretation for their purpose in vocalizing the text was to excude every significance other than they had approved of and adopted; and to the present day all learned Jews admit that, were the vowel-points abolished, no agreement as to the intended meanings of their scriptures would be possible. And yet even so, it is not lawful publicly to read the printed text in the synagogues, so tenacious is the tradition concerning the mystery of which it is still considered to be the veil.
The most noticeable feature in the Mystery Language, under whatever view it may be regarded, is that it clothes its narratives in the form of fables or parables; and that of these, each ideograph or word-sign is a subjective parable, so to say, speaking in the name of or concerning that which it significatively disignates, while formulating in a multiple silent utterance its leading attributes and characteristics. Thus A-d'm while naming Adam designates man, and at the same time Says of him, "I am like unto, I am ruddy, I am blood," and so on; and in its association with Ada nah (ground ), expresses his affinity to his planetary mother.
Another peculiarity in the construction of the Mystery Language is seen in the narrative torm in which the Elohistic Kosmogony is drawn up: for the individual
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