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Gershom Scholem once wrote his work, "Book of Creation" of the linkage of linguistics and human form that was derived from the second to sixth century, an idea that the demiurge power is hidden in the speech and the letters. Letters are a creative source. They make the words which define our reality and beyond reality. We could enliven them and say they have a living way about them. They begin the process of bringing meaning into our existence. It is not something adults consider on a regular basis. After we learn the alphabet, the letters generally become inanimate tools. We take them for granted as childhood rote learning. We use them and cast them aside, prefering the finished product over the process. Letters rarely get any recognition unless we are discussing those philosophies and schools of thought which seek to keep the brilliance of their memory alive. That is what this article is about, the "Living Letters."

All languages are equally sacred and powerful when looked at from the position of how letters make things. All letters have sound and intonation that escapes human lips to speak feelings, ideas, and commands. Some languages go a step further and give their letter systems numerical equivalents and then attempt to understand the mathematical makings of the Universe. One holy writ might postulate that the Word made flesh, another tells us that the universe was created from twenty-two letters. Some people believe there is more power in Egyptian Heiroglyphs, the Ge'ez alphasyllabary script of the High Priests in Ethiopia, or pictographical calligraphy of the Orient. Others will say it is the Sanskrit or Hebrew source code that is more important for their investigations in sacred study. Then there is the Aramaic of the Essenses, the Germanic Runes and Kharosthi of ancient India. Each native born speaker and esoteric practioner submerged in their traditional cultural lore or, others by choice of spiritual study from a country other than their own, might say that a certain language has more power when it comes to the element of creating. (...letters make things...) Do all letters divinely embroider the universe?

R.J. Stewart, in his book, The Miracle Tree, attempts to balance the argument suggesting that the most powerful spiritual language that we have is the one we learned as infants, because it is deeply rooted in the foundations of our consciousness, thus no language is more powerful than another. William Mistle writes at his website: "Almost every major esoteric tradition offers its own version of the way in which the spoken word, the holy sounds, are the source sustaining all that exists and from which everything arises."

What has happened to the human relationship with the letters has to do with the competition of the image and human perception. The letter looses its recognition when the image speaks to perceptions rather than root understandings for those who are not scholars of etymological disciplines or sacred seekers. This is a matter of thinning out the original idea. For example, as a story gets passed from one person to another, perceptions of individuals change the tale. It is not kept in its original form due to perception. In the modern mainstream image oriented media, words are thought to enhance the image, or mock it, even, rather than there being any understanding of the letters and words which made the image in the first place. This is the furthest extreme of the original intent of a creation being lost to the altering by perceptions. Leonora Leet touches on this topic in her book, The Secret Doctrine of the Kabbalah, giving explanation as to how metaphoric transfer develops our vocabulary, later suggesting by extended examples that we have made letters and words serve our feelings of familiarity instead of maintaining or questing for the origin and essential core. The point in this is to draw a picture of how we have forgotten the power of letters and words and what they are doing to our everyday lives. What words do we speak in accord with our perceptions and what perception do we utilize in defining our experiences, is the import. It is a matter of being conscious of our power of creativity, which has a deeper root. What have we created or maintained today with our use of language, letters and words? What things did our letters make?

"Symbolism is a primary and unavoidable requirement," says Giulio Busi in the introduction to his book La Mistica Ebraica. "The special nature of symbolic communication is that it is open to differing levels of interpretation, depending on the level of the reader himself." We can surmise here that perception and symbols were intended to have a relationship. How do we keep it in proper perspective? There are schools of thought which maintain a focus on this awareness, of a science of letters and their symbolic aspect. It looks at the science of sound causing vibrational currents in this world we live in and how symbols can resonate with our internal levels of consciousness, speaking silently to parts of our understanding which will enhance the human experience rather than dilute it. Busi goes on to say that symbolism "is the only thought system capable of intuitively penetrating the veil of the deepest mystery and which at the same time is a means of communication which allows for the message to be adapted to the level of knowledge of the recipient." To begin at levels where all can participate, one needs but start with the intention of having a relationship with letters and symbols.

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