HI Gerald:

There's a passage in The Imitation of Christ, in the opening of the 3rd section, which might be helpful in understanding the fundamental importance of the Divine Name.

In the first 2 sections, the writer is speaking TO Christ. The 3rd section opens with Christ saying, "Behold all things as they are in Truth, arising through my Name" (or it was Word, or something like that)

In a trivial sense, we know from neuroscience that the infant's preverbal experience of the "material" world is dramatically different from the verbal child or adult. You can see this in Oliver Sach's story of Virgil, who lost his sight at age 6 and regained it through surgery in his late 40s.

When the operation was over and he first opened his eyes, all he saw was a blur. Finally through much effort, that "blur" came together and he realized it was his surgeon.

But it took months of effort to see the so-called purely 'Objective" world. His dog confused him as every time the dog turned sideways he experienced it as a completely different animal.

Steps were terribly confusing before he learned to see in 3 dimensions again. Almost everything, all day, for weeks and months, required the same effort.

As Sachs put it, we think the world is "given" to us when we wake up in the morning but what we see is a "construction."

In the way that language constructs the world of our experience, the Divine Name is a way for the infinite unbounded Intelligence that is both immanent and transcendent to bring into form the planets, stars and galaxies.

When the mind is completely silent and Consciousness transcends the mind-body complex, this can be seen directly. Scientists like Michel Bitbot and Neil Theise are starting to glimpse this; the ancient Egyptian, Vedic and other sages and seers knew this thousands of years ago.