The ‘babble’ of infants is the before-state of language. And in it, the power to transform, to shape the foundations of circumstance… is hidden.

When we hear the phrase ‘speaking in tongues’, we are presented with a confused misnomer that, perhaps, we think to mean ‘speaking in the languages unknown to the speaker’, but this is not the implication. It would be better if we said ‘speaking in the tongues before words’.

Wisdom is not native to speaking, though it can be imported into speech. Smuggled in via pun, metaphor, simile, paraphor, and prosody. So, too, the spirit of insight.

The aspects of our Origin, nature and true intelligence… are not native to the linguistic register. They exist before it, as its progenitor. The power of babble is not that the imagination finds free reign within the sounds, forging its own novel interpretations, even though this may be so.

For the nature of insight is brought into the material register by the power of the unspoken, the heart, the soul, Origin, and true relation. And these find only modest expression in speech.

But even before song there was babble. The vocalizations of the deep interiority and nature of mind and spirit still unified, before they divide into structure and recognizable sequence.

The ‘word that kills’ is the same ‘word that resurrects’, and it is not a word at all, but the sound of Origin, vocalized. And it is this we find in the ‘babble’ of infants. A science beyond all possible science, a religion that would obliterate its representations in human culture.

It is hidden in that which is dismissed.

But it lives, whole and true, in the heart of ‘creation’, and the mouth of any who dares adore it…