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In occultism, capital importance is attributed to the twenty-two Arcana or Keys or Triumphs of the Tarot, which together constitute a treatise on high philosophy presented in Books of this kind, in which the text is reduced, at the most, to the designation of the chapters, remain silent to anyone who has not acquired the faculty of making them speak. On the contrary, they speak, and with marvelous eloquence, to those who know how to question them sagaciously. Unfortunately, we have lost the habit of immersing ourselves in fruitful reflections, suggested by the mere appearance of things. The book of nature remains, for us, closed by seven seals; his images baffle us, since we only understand the words, whose sonority, unfortunately, completely stuns us. But that wasn't always the case. Human language has only recently become philosophical and precise. Originally, it did not lend itself to expressing any abstract idea. The early thinkers were therefore condemned to silence; for lack of words, they drew pictures to which they connected their dreams. Then, to communicate their conceptions, they created a language incomprehensible to the vulgar, not by inventing new terms, but by diverting the current vocabulary from its gross meaning, to give it a mysterious meaning, intelligible to the wise. Thus was born the allegorism which all the revelators made use of. But this language evolved, becoming more precise little by little, to better respond to the needs of dialectics. Talkative peoples fell in love with the sport of speaking, and ended up creating the empire of verbalism, which reached its apogee in the scholastic era. The excesses of a sterile polemical verbalism then had to provoke, as a reaction, a return to silent meditation, founded not on words and sentences, on definitions and arguments, but on the unique evocative magic of symbols. Weary of vain discussions, certain imaginative thinkers drew aside to indulge in dreams, the suggestive influence of which was to g