I don't think I'm ill-placed to satisfy your curiosity, so begins Plato's Banquet through the mouth of Apollodorus. I don't think I'm up to the task of bringing you new knowledge on secret societies, but as a writer and a young person dedicated to the search for truth, even the most obscure and obscurantist, I believe I'm well placed to contribute to the common destiny of the world and humanity. That's why I agreed to preface this book at the request of my Senegalese colleague and writer Al Amine dit Lamine Diouf. They are occult and reserved for the initiated. But what about all these secret...