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It is not the words of any scripture--be they Latin, Greek, or Sanskrit--which have special power over men: it is what they themselves put into the words. That is to say, it is their faith, imagination, desire, and expectancy which invest the text with such power. But these states of mind are their own.

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 5 : Semantics > # 145