It is necessary, indeed, to know how to name one's gods. All civilizations, all esoteric doctrines postulate an omnipotence of the "Word".
Everything is created and destroyed with Names and Letters - Hindu (OM) and medieval (AUM) Mantras, Egyptian Words of Power, or Kabbalist Sepher Yetzirah...
In modern language, let's say that they are vibrations, or oscillations of energies that constitute our universe. "The force of a thing is hidden in the very structure of the sounds that designate it and enclosed in a certain number of articulated sounds", as Henri-Cornelius Agrippa of Nethelseim says.
In short, and this is the basis of all Magic: the Name of the God or Goddess that one invokes - or "vibrates" - IS this God or this Goddess, here's why we use Keenings.
That is to say that it is not presented in a mundane or rational form : TEUTATES, the Name of the tutelary God of my Celtic ancestors, puts into action a certain force, relative to the lineage of the Arvernian emperors, working for the protection of the country and particularly attached to the warrior caste, instead of the word "Christian" only reflecting, by association of ideas, a certain lowly image.
The Divine Names are incomprehensible, just as one cannot understand the sound of lightning or the song of birds: or, more exactly, they are comprehensible, but unknowable - they are beyond any cognitive function: it is a cosmic and divine language.
Everything is created and destroyed with Names and Letters - Hindu (OM) and medieval (AUM) Mantras, Egyptian Words of Power, or Kabbalist Sepher Yetzirah...
In modern language, let's say that they are vibrations, or oscillations of energies that constitute our universe. "The force of a thing is hidden in the very structure of the sounds that designate it and enclosed in a certain number of articulated sounds", as Henri-Cornelius Agrippa of Nethelseim says.
In short, and this is the basis of all Magic: the Name of the God or Goddess that one invokes - or "vibrates" - IS this God or this Goddess, here's why we use Keenings.
That is to say that it is not presented in a mundane or rational form : TEUTATES, the Name of the tutelary God of my Celtic ancestors, puts into action a certain force, relative to the lineage of the Arvernian emperors, working for the protection of the country and particularly attached to the warrior caste, instead of the word "Christian" only reflecting, by association of ideas, a certain lowly image.
The Divine Names are incomprehensible, just as one cannot understand the sound of lightning or the song of birds: or, more exactly, they are comprehensible, but unknowable - they are beyond any cognitive function: it is a cosmic and divine language.