It is not only with the brain and the mind that the initiate must take in freemasonry but also with the heart.
Mind speaks to mind with spoken or written words.
Heart speaks to heart with words which cannot be written or spoken. That imagination may see further than eyes and hear sounds fainter than may be caught by ears. To the imagination symbols become as plain as printed words to the eye. Take away from Freemasonry its symbols and but the husk remains, the kernal is gone. He who hears but the words of Freemasonry misses their meaning entirely.