ABSTRACT
Perennial philosophy, theatre and magic participated in the complex mutations and the tensions that accompanied them by contributing to the awareness that words do not only signify reality, but also transform it. These domains are structurally founded on the power of the word. In perennial philosophy, the power of the logos was a basic assumption: God externalized himself first into speech, creating time, space, vibration, rhythm and number. Both Renaissance perennial philosophy and the Reformation focused on the priority of the logos inspired by the inception of St. John's Gospel, but this translated mainly as reinforcing the book culture. Apart from the conceptual shift produced by the Reformation, the new unpredictable arrangements of sounds and meanings the Elizabethans were exposed to presented them with an immeasurable realm of conjectures, where each thing could be called and predicated in as many ways as languages on the globe.
