Now that we have invoked the ancient names day after day, we can no longer hold off the forces they contain.
From a Gershom Sholom letter to Franz Rosenzweig nearly one hundred years later. The letter was discovered in 1985
Language is name. The power of language is enclosed in the name; the abyss of language is sealed within it. Now that we have invoked the ancient names day after day, we can no longer hold off the forces they contain. Once awakened, they will appear, for we have summoned them with terrible violence. Indeed, we speak a vestigial, ghosty language.