108 AN ILLUSTRATION. 



by the more occult philosophy, that ho means man, 

 that bo means body, ma mass, etc. 



149. But from this point onward and outward the 

 process of Word-Building becomes simple and delight- 

 ful. Taking our departure from the Two-Letter-Roots 

 as a basis, of which there are nearly two thousand 

 more than the number of actual root-words now 

 extant in the whole Indo-European family of lan- 

 guages (including those of five, six, and even seven 

 sounds) the compounding of these, as syllables, 

 into longer words, with corresponding compound 

 meanings, is a process which will be instinctually and 

 easily acquired by the common, and even by the 

 wholly uneducated mind. This process corresponds 

 with the Confection of Proximate Elements, as of the 

 albumen of the egg, the starch of the flour, and the 

 sugar, by the cook, in the domestic economy of the 

 kitchen ; not necessarily demanding any previous 

 chemical education. 



150. To illustrate : the meanings of ho,bo, and ma, 

 being known, or accepted on authority for man or 

 humanity, body, and mass, respectively, it requires no 

 special genius or learning to combine them into 

 hobo, for the human body, hoboma, for the mass or 

 bulk of the human body ; homa for human mass, society, 

 or folks, (as we say the masses, for the people), honiabo, 

 for the body of society, etc. It is in this manner that 

 (not a few thousands of words, all that we have now 

 in any existing language) but milhons on millions of 

 words will be spontaneously formed, so simple in 

 their structure as to be self-defining, dispensing with 



