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The secret sciences held a large place in the social life of times past. The same work remained to be done for the most living part of this wealth of documentationβthat is, the pictorial part, which, in very various shape, illuminates the most abstruse doctrines with a commentary of instant lucidity and affords disturbing proof of so many unbelievable tales.
A collection of the iconography of occultism containing everything with which it is essential to be conversant was, in short, lacking, and the necessity for it was all the more acute as hieroglyphic expression was employed by these obscure sciences with even greater freedom than by the religions which condemned them, and as symbolic language plays an exceedingly important part in them.
