The Way of Namesדרך השמות

The oldest technology in the corpus: divine and angelic names recited, visualized, inscribed, worn — as passwords of ascent (Hekhalot seals), as invocation (Sefer ha-Razim's hour-by-hour rosters), as the adjuration of the Prince of Torah for perfect memory. The premise beneath all of it: a name is not a label but a handle — the graspable end of the thing itself.