Here are the temples of his words,” I heard, and I saw weird-looking structures. Some were made of slime, while others were like crystalline palaces.
“Words?” I asked.
“Yes, words. Words are living entities. They are given birth through man's mouth and they continue to live in the fourth dimension, becoming his home at the crossover.”
The sight of those structures never left me, even though it was in a dream, a vivid dream. That brief soul journey gave me valuable insight into the power of words and made clearer the meaning of such scriptural references as:
“For I say unto you that for every foolish word which men speak, they will have to answer for it on the day of judgment. For by your words you shall be found guilty” (Matthew 12:34).
Then in my research I found the following statement in Eliphas Levi's The Book of Splendours:
“For in the world to come, all good words spoken in the world at hand will take on living forms, and you are creatures of goodness, you who manifest through the Word that which is true.”
The spoken word is powerful because it brings forth a thought, and a thought is the start of every manifestation: “ . . . for the mouth speaks from the fullness of the heart” (Matthew 12:34). This means that whatever appeals to you is where your consciousness lies, and that level of consciousness is revealed by the words you speak.
According to the Kabbalah, the name of God is found in the vowel sounds because they are the vibrations that form life. If you read this paragraph aloud without the vowel sounds, you will see why they are called “the animating spirit of the word.”
The sound of the spoken word can be measured by its rate of vibration, and that vibration can create pictures visible to us on a device called an eidophone. This is a drum-like instrument with a rubbery material across the top. A mouthpiece extends from it that can be spoken into. Then a crystalline mixture is spread on the top, and as different words are spoken into the mouthpiece, the crystals form various shapes.
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will ruin him.
—Ecclesiastes 10:12
The vibrational effect of the word “butterfly” causes the crystals to take on a beautiful butterfly formation; “snowflake,” the pattern of a snowflake. Such lovely words form lovely pictures. But harsh words do not form beautiful designs at all. Instead, they form haphazard, even grotesque forms as ugly to the eye as to the ear. The invisible takes form before our eyes, based on our words. How important, then, are the words we speak?