Very often there is more in it than the profane is prepared to understand or the learned mystic to explain. It is an invisible, secret, but very potential influence that every name carries about with it and “leaveth wherever it goeth.” Thomas Carlyle thought that “there is much, nay, almost all, in names. Could I unfold the influence of names, which are the most important of all clothings, I were a second great [Hermes] Trismegistus,” he writes.