Let the Learned understand; Secret Words hid from the profane:

In the 'beginning' was a Word.

And that primordial Word came from a Before-Word, before the Creation of that lowly, secondary Word-producer.

And the First Word (which canst be meaningfully described) was like a Sweet, Peaceful Whisper. He was named Logos: the before of 'befores'.

And those words that came from that Word grew louder and yet louder; ultimately to a shout, a roar.

And that roar did Man call 'the beginning', when, in truth, it was naught and a fish in a Divine Sea.

Hence is the Secret to Magic.

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