We shall be saved by the Word'. In the parallel Hermetic view, words are divine hieroglyphs to be properly understood only by the adept, just as the items of physical nature are palpable symbols of a non-material truth, similarly to be interpreted. Sir Walter Raleigh and Thomas Browne both treat nature as a book of hieroglyphs. In Humanist hands, these theories of language coalesce in syncretic fashion. Words mediate between two orders of existence, the Platonic realm of conceptual entities and our realm of experiential actualities.
Words bind the two together.
I offer it to save you some time and effort, but I cannot vouch for its throroughness.