 According to Moréas, it is an attempt to connect the object and phenomena of the world to "esoteric primordial truths" that cannot ever be directly approached.Decadence, on the other hand, is an accumulation of signs or descriptions acting as detailed catalogs of human material riches as well as artifice.It was Oscar Wilde who perhaps laid this out most clearly in "The Decay of Lying" with the suggestion of three doctrines on art, here excerpted into a list