XLIV
THE WORD

The key to Being: in the beginning was the Word
through which all that is made was made
and the Word is the link which God uses
to connect the separate parts of His creation.

Because of this man ceases to be a slave
and is able to use it in his rigorous battle;
it allows him to rest when his soul sweats
like a deer by a fountain after he is pursued.

Hallowed be the name of God
which is also God, since it was with the Word
that He created the world in the beginning.

With the Word, like God, man
labors to forge the reality of his ideas:
never profane it with idle thoughts.