The need to explain ideas and meanings which our daily language fails to convey is an ancient problem. Certain truths and secrets were preserved in stories, apparently very simple, but with deeply symbolic content, and that was for two reasons: first, the need to protect that knowledge from those alien to a certain circle of students, the unprepared, so to say; but mainly, because their meaning was of such a nature, that it could not be expressed by normal language. Thus great sages used stories, fables, allegories which were meant to hide some deep truths which could only be understood by a developed intuition, or with the possession of certain keys.
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