“OM, when considered as one letter, uttered by the help of one articulation, is the symbol of the Supreme Spirit. ‘One letter (OM) is the emblem of the Most High, Manu II, 83.’ But when considered as a triliteral word consisting of अ (a), उ (u), म (m), it implies the three _Vedas_, the three _states_ of human nature, the three _divisions_ of the universe, and the three _deities_—Brahma, Vishnu and Siva, agents in the _creation_, _preservation_ and _destruction_ of this world; or, properly speaking, the three principal attributes of the Supreme Being personified in those three deities. In this sense it implies in fact the universe controlled by the Supreme Spirit.” Now we may consider that there is pervading the whole universe a single homogeneous resonance, sound, or tone, which acts, so to speak, as the awakener or vivifying power, stirring all the molecules into action. This is what is represented in all languages by the vowel _a_, which takes precedence of all others. This is the word, the _verbum_, the _Logos_ of St. John of the Christians, who says: “In the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.”[3] This is creation, for without this resonance or motion among the quiescent particles, there would be no visible universe. That is to say, upon sound, or as the Aryans called it, _Nada Brahma_ (divine resonance), depends the evolution of the visible from the invisible. But this sound _a_, being produced, at once alters itself into _au_, so that the second sound _u_, is that one made by the first in continuing its existence. The vowel _u_, which in itself is a compound one, therefore represents preservation. And the idea of preservation is contained also in creation, or evolution, for there could not be anything to preserve, unless it had first come into existence. If these two sounds, so compounded into one, were to proceed indefinitely, there would be of course no destruction of them. But it is not possible to continue the utterance further than the breath, and whether the lips are compressed, or the tongue pressed against the roof of the mouth, or the organs behind that used, there will be in the finishing of the utterance the closure or _m_ sound, which among the Aryans had the meaning of _stoppage_. In this last letter there is found the destruction of the whole word or letter. To reproduce it a slight experiment will show that by no possibility can it be begun with _m_, but that _au_ invariably commences even the utterance of _m_ itself. Without fear of successful contradiction, it can be asserted that all speech begins with _au_, and the ending, or destruction of speech, is in _m_.