Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.
Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language. Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: “In the beginning was the Word.
