Words cannot contain wisdom, any more than the form of man can confine his spirit, for all bodies are limitations.
Words are lines tangent to the perfect circles of thought.
At the point of tangency, the mind can contact both word and idea, line and circle. The earnest student of Theosophy struggles with the recorded Message, trying to fix meanings, to clarify enigmatical phrases, and to resolve paradoxical statements. At times it seems as if the more he studies, the more do words deceive him. He recognizes the myth of Proteus in a new association. Proteus, a water deity, had the gift of prophecy and also the power of changing his form at will.