The nature of that language has not been disclosed along with other teaching concerning the evolution of the race, but like many other secrets the details of which are still preserved by the Initiates, it is implied in what has already been revealed.  The application to speech of the abstract formula of evolution which they have put forward should result in its discovery, for the clue lies in correspondences; know the nature of any one thing perfectly, learn its genesis, development and consummation, and you have the key to all the mysteries of nature.  The microcosm mirrors the macrocosm.  But, before applying this key, it is well to glean whatever hints have been given, so that there may be less chance of going astray in our application.  First, we gather from the Secret Doctrine that the sounds of the human voice are correlated with the forces, colours, numbers and forms.  “Every letter has its occult meaning, the vowels especially contain the most occult and formidable potencies.”  (S.D., I, 94) and again it is said “The magic of the ancient priests consisted in those days in addressing their gods in their own language.  The speech of the men of earth cannot reach the Lords, each must be addressed in the language of his respective element”—–­is a sentence which will be shown pregnant with meaning.  “The book of rules” cited adds as an explanation of the nature of that element-language:  “It is composed of Sounds, not words; of sounds, numbers and figures.  He who knows how to blend the three, will call forth the response of the superintending Power” (the regent-god of the specific element needed).  Thus this “language is that of incantations or of Mantras, as they are called in India, sound being the most potent and effectual magic agent, and the first of the keys which opens the door of communication between mortals and immortals.”  (S.D.  I, 464)

From these quotations it will be seen that the occult teachings as to speech are directly at variance with the theories of many philologists and evolutionists.  A first speech which was like song—­ another and more developed speech which is held sacred—­an esoteric side to speech in which the elements of our conventional languages (i.e. the letters) are so arranged that speech becomes potent enough to guide the elements, and human speech becomes the speech of the gods—­there is no kinship between this ideal language and the ejaculations and mimicry which so many hold to be the root and beginning of it.  Yet those who wish to defend their right to hold the occult teaching have little to fear from the champions of these theories; they need not at all possess any deep scholarship or linguistic attainment; the most cursory view of the roots of primitive speech, so far as they have been collected, will show that they contain few or no sounds of a character which would bear out either the onomatopoetic or interjectional theories.  The vast majority of the roots of the Aryan language