Why Symbols?

This is why it requires constant effort of thought
and imagination combined in order to think, meditate
and contemplate in symbols -- symbolism being the
sole means of rendering thought and imagination
capable of not being suspended when the will submits
to revelation from above and enabling them to unite
with it in its act of receptive obedience, so that
the soul not only has a revelation of faith but also
participates in this revelation with its
understanding and memory.

Meditations on the Tarot,
Arcana "Hanged Man", pg. 319-20