For millennia, artists and mystics have pondered the question of how to represent that which, by definition, cannot or must not be represented.

Before Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion in the 4th Century, 'mystery religions,' organized around a central canon of secret knowledge, were widespread. Membership in such religions was limited to people who had passed through secret initiation rituals and had begun to learn a body of hidden knowledge.

Religions have always adopted rich symbolic languages to signify the different aspects of their respective forms of faith and mythology.

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