*

**The Master tells us that the Queen of
the South came to hear the wisdom of Solo-
mon, and if we turn to I Kings X: 1, we find
that the fame of Solomon's wisdom, which
induced the Queen of Sheba to come to prove
him with hard questions was 'concerning
the Name of the Lord/ This accords with
the immemorial tradition of the Jews that
the knowledge of the secret name of God en-
ables him who possesses it to perform the
most stupendous miracles. This Hidden
Name — the *Schem-hammaphoraseh' — was
revealed, they say, to Moses and taught by
him to Aaron and handed on by him to his
successors ; it was the secret enshrined in the
Holy of Holies, and was scrupulously guarded
by the successive High Priests; it is the su-
preme secret, and its knowledge is the
supreme object of attainment ; thus tradition
and Scripture alike point to *The NAME' as

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the source of Light and Life, and deUverance
from all evil.
'*May we not therefore suppose that this
must be the veiled statement of some great
Truth ? The purpose of a name is to call up,
by a single word, the complete idea of the
thing named, with all those qualities and
relations that make it what it is, instead of
having to describe all this in detail every
time we want to suggest the conception of it.
