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132 THE SPEECH OF THE GODS and that the Aryan roots were formed with a clear intuitional perception of this fact. It is probable that the process of their formation was instinctive and unconscious, rather than intentional and deliberate.
To make the theory more clear, we may say that it appears to us that the entities on each plane have a spiritual relation to the entities on the other planes. A particular sound, for instance, corresponds to some one colour, to some one taste, to some one odour, and to some one simple figure or form. In order to connect the Aryan roots, or, to speak more correctly, the sounds of the Aryan roots with their values on the other planes ----thus showing their orgin to be spiritual and intutionalit will be necessary to analyse the chief sounds used in this branch of human speech, and to assign to them their spiritual values ; and having discovered these values to apply them to the Aryan roots or to the words of any early language akin to the Aryan, It will be seen that besides the values to be assigned to them intuitionally, a parallel series of values will be discovered arising from physiological reasons, such as the position of the organs of speech while pronouncing them; but it must in all cases be borne in mind that the intuitive is the primary meaning, though reasons for it cannot, from its very nature, be stated argumentatively; in most cases, therefore, physiological reason alone will be given. For the con venience of those unacquainted with Sanskrit phonetics, we shall adhere as far as possible to the English alphabet.
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