Cavendish writes, “(In magical theory) the name of a thing is a miniature image of it, which can be used as a substitute for the thing itself.” Cavendish further writes, “(In the Bible) The angel who visited Manoah, that father of Samson, refused to reveal his name – ‘Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?’ The angel wrestled with Jacob also to tell his name, presumably because he thought Jacob could use it to defeat him.” Cavendish further writes, “In Jewish tradition, still frequently observed, a child should never be named for a relative who is alive, because the relative will die if his name is taken for the child.” What is Creator’s perspective?

These cultural traditions have arisen because of real phenomena regarding identity and the fact that it confers a potential risk from would-be attackers who can use a name to focus their attack most precisely. Hence the need for confidentiality. So an intention to strike back or add to the defenses when a certain being is near may not be mounted in time because there will only be uncertainty and not a way to identify who is friend or foe. Consciousness has its power through intention, and that is what focuses it and launches it forth, and directs it to a target, it is all based on intention. There must be enough specificity for intention to be focused effectively to address an individual recipient for whatever purpose there might be. Consciousness is not so different than modern technology that is a way of directing a conscious intention, through technologic means, to make a connection. This is why to use a telephone to reach someone you need to know their number and without it the phone is useless. To reach a person with nonlocal conscious intention, for good or for ill, you need something linked to that person to focus the intention. So a stranger who does not identify themselves can come and go with relative impunity, except in the case of eyewitnesses or victims who are present and were able to have a perception in consciousness of that being, and that they, and they alone, can use to connect to them from a distance if they know how, but another person simply hearing there was a stranger present for a time will have a more difficult task to go after that being and reach them with certainty to, for example, carry out a reprisal. So it is the nature of the physics involved here that the need for specificity was recognized along the way with names becoming a powerful label that could be referenced intuitively and serve dark aims as well as lofty ones. The idea of naming a child after someone in the living being a danger is a carryover from familiarity with the fact that naming and knowledge of names provides a means of bringing harm to bear and is therefore risky. To do so will not truly jinx them or hex them. As a practical matter, there is the issue of people who will be unsure about who is being referred to, simply hearing a name discussed about a family member, but that is not a true danger only an inconvenience. So traditions are traditions for a variety of reasons and not matters of life and death, necessarily.