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This book would translate Beyond-Reason into the words of Reason.

Explain thou snow to them of Andaman.

The slaves of reason call this book Abuse-of-Language : they are right.

Language was made for men to eat and drink, make love, do barter, die. The wealth of a language consists in its Abstracts ; the poorest tongues have wealth of Concretes.

Therefore have Adepts praised silence ; at least it does not mislead as speech does.

Also, Speech is a symptom of Thought.

Yet, silence is but the negative side of Truth ; the positive side is beyond even silence.

Nevertheless, One True God crieth hriliu ! And the laughter of the Death-rattle is akin.