Ensenar a traves del silencio es un proceso tradicional en la Iniciacion Masonica. No hay en ella palabras que de alguna manera puedan atraer la verdad, sino actos que se inducen a una investigacion consciente y esmerada. Esta obra no es un tratado en el sentidfo literal, sino una invitacion a desarrollar inquietudes que nos acerquen al descubrimiento de la verdadera iniciacion.
Joseph Paul Oswald Wirth was a Swiss occultist, artist and author. He studied esotericism and symbolism with Stanislas De Guaita and in 1889 he created, under the guidance of de Guaita, a cartomantic Tarot consisting only of the twenty-two Major Arcana. Known as "Les 22 Arcanes du Tarot Kabbalistique", it followed the designs of the Tarot de Marseille closely but introduced several alterations, incorporating extant occult symbolism into the cards. The Wirth/de Guaita deck is significant in the history of the tarot for being the first in a long line of occult, cartomantic, and initiatory decks. His interests also included freemasonry and astrology. He wrote many books in French regarding freemasonry, most importantly a set of three volumes explaining freemasonry's first three degrees. Wirth is best known as the author of Le Tarot des imagiers du Moyen-Age, translated and published in English as The Tarot of the Magicians. On January 28, 1884, Wirth was initiated in the regular Scottish Rite Masonic Lodge La Bienfaisance Châlonnaise affiliated to the Grand Orient of France. In 1889, he joined the Scottish Rite Travail et les Vrais Amis Fidèles where he became Grand Master . In 1898, the latter lodge was admitted to the Grand Lodge of France.
El ideal iniciatico es una obra indispensable en la biblioteca de cualquier inciado. Oswald Wirth recorre en diecinueve capítulos todos los temas que hacen y atraviesan la Iniciación y la labor del Iniciado. La define de maner profunda y concisa "La iniciación verdadera no quiere deslumbrar a la gente con un brillo ficticio; es austera y nadie la puede lograr sin haberla buscado en La pureza de su corazón".