THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES
CHAPTER II
THE POWER OF THE WORD
It is the word which creates forms; and forms in their
turn react upon the word, in order to modify it and com-
plete it.
Every word of truth is a beginning of an act of justice.
One asks if man may sometimes be necessarily driven to
evil. Yes, when his judgment is false, and consequently his
word unjust.
But one is responsible for a false judgment as for a bad
action.
What falsifies the judgment is selfishness and its unjust
vanities.
The unjust word, unable to realize itself by creation,
realizes itself by destruction. It must either slay or be
slain.
If it were able to remain without action, it would be the
greatest of all disorders, an abiding blasphemy against
truth.
Such is that idle word of which Christ has said that one
will give account at the Day of Judgment. A jesting word,
a comicality which vecveates and causes laughter, is not an idle
word.
The beauty of the word is a splendour of truth. A true
word is always beautiful, a beautiful word is always true.
For this reason works of art are always holy when they
are beautiful.
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