Words are symbols, we use characters to make our words and many were designed thousands of years ago. What if each of these letters imparted a subliminal message woven into our collective knowledge. Indeed, the shape of each letter conforms perfectly to a methodology that describes an inherent essence that may assist manifestation from formless no-thing to something we can name and label. The Romans borrowed the best knowledge from each culture they conquered, was their alphabet specifically designed to impart a power? Knowledge is power.

The book 'Quiddity of Letters' attempts to simplify Plato's theory of the divided line which is fundamental to understanding the concept that each letter holds a quiddity or inherent essence. We join these characters to make a word; some words last for centuries others are gone in a moment; language is alive. Writing encapsulates an idea and holds it in time, to be read in another time and place.

As an 'unbound' alphabet the Roman alphabet is able to express phonetics with flexibility and has been of tremendous use across the globe. Medieval scholars made adjustments to the sequence of letters; when you appreciate the quiddity of letters you will realise the alphabet tells an incredible story of creation and return.

Writing in the late 15th century the German scholar, soldier and physician Henricus Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim wrote of the power of words, how each and every word was said to signify the 'quiddity' of the substance, with each sentence a signifier of its form. He believed that it is not the things signified, or named, that possessed power in the world of form, but the very words themselves. Many volumes of esoteric knowledge are based on the etymology of words; to spell words is to play with magic.