Language is any form of expression from intelligence to intelligence that conveys to a small or great extent the ideas that have forced themselves from within the Soul (intelligence) and have sought expression.

There can be no doubt that language written and spoken is the highest form of human expression.

The "Spoken Word," the magnetism of personal presence, the gestures, of form and face, may be considered the one best material method of conveying thought from mind to mind; hence the power and value of oratory and oral teaching among the Greeks and Romans and even more ancient nations.

Nearly all valuable teachings by messengers, sages, priests, initiates, and, indeed, all communication of inner and sacred truths, were by "word of mouth," from "lip to ear;" hence the mysteries of the sacred and secret orders could never be known except to those actually initiated and instructed in them. Such inscriptions and records upon tablets or papyrus as existed, together with the Ideographic symbols, were preserved in the cloisters and archives of the various "Orders" or of Holy Men. In Greece and Rome and wherever oratory became a means of inducing councils or assemblies to adopt measures for the benefit of the people through the betterment of the government, oratory was cultivated; even to the arduous overcoming of natural impediments, as in the case of Demosthenes. The language and delivery of these scholars in oratory were above criticism and form (as recorded) almost the perfect model in simplicity, directness and power for modern oratory.

The Romans, during the period of Progress and comparative "Freedom," excelled in oratory. The leaders and founders of the "Rome" that made it an "honor to be a Roman citizen," were orators as well as statesmen, and one also turns to Athens and other centers for perfection in Grecian oratory, as to Art in other forms, with wonder and admiration.

Seeking and requiring a form of expression that would make ideas and their co-related principles permanent for the use and instruction of mankind caused the invention of the Ideographs and Cuneiform inscriptions, resulting in the preservation of the learning of Babylon (Chaldeans, Assyrians, Accadians). While the hieroglyphic language of China and all the Orient, the Egyptian and Grecian alphabets, led at last to the preservation on stone, entablature and papyrus of the primal Truths of the Ages that had been taught orally.