The Ancient Tradition: Audio Writ

In 1805, the British Museum acquired one of its first...and most important,
ancient Egyptian artifacts, the Shabaka Stone, an unassuming green breccia millstone. The inscription on the stone sat untranslated in the museum for nearly 100 years before American Egyptologist James Henry Breasted translated it into English in 1901. It was only then that Egyptologists realized the profound significance of what they had in their possession- a copy of the world's earliest (arguably) surviving creation story.
The stone’s inscription begins with a list of King Shabaka’s royal names followed by a dramatic account of the unification of Upper and lower Egypt. The inscription concludes with a description of the Supreme God Ptah’s creation of the gods, the cosmos, and the earth.

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The Book of the Holy Secrets of Enoch, a Jewish apocalyptic writing, is one of the most compelling ancient texts to survive to the present day. Although knowledge of the book was unknown in the West until 1892, Slavonic manuscripts of the book survived in Russia for more than 1200 years. Although not part of the Biblical canon today, R.H. Charles, editor of the first English translation (1896), noted that it was "much used...by Christian[s]...in the early centuries". Considering its status as a Jewish book, it's intriguing that early Christians and not Jews were the ones known to have preserved it. The preservation of the text, coupled with references to the text in early Christian writings and among early Church theologians and ecclesiastical leaders, suggests the text may have constituted part of the sanctioned canon of the early Church. The book is included here for its exceptional preservation of many elements of The Ancient Tradition.
In this audio recording of The Book of the Holy Secrets of Enoch , Chapters 61-73, Enoch teaches his children to make offerings with a pure heart. He encourages them to look to God and love one another. Enoch is taken to heaven and darkness covers the land. Enoch's son, Methuselah, erects an altar and makes offerings to God. The Lord appears to Methuselah in a dream and appoints him High Priest. The elders of the people dress Methuselah in priestly clothes and place a crown on his head. When Methuselah is close to death, the Lord commands him to give his priestly clothes to Nir, his grandson. Nir's wife, Sopanim, immaculately conceives a child. Noah and Nir dress the child in priestly clothes and name him Melchizedek. Melchizedek reigns as the first priest and king of Salem (Jerusalem).

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The Book of the Holy Secrets of Enoch, a Jewish apocalyptic writing, is one of the most compelling ancient texts to survive to the present day. Although knowledge of the book was unknown in the West until 1892, Slavonic manuscripts of the book survived in Russia for more than 1200 years. Although not part of the Biblical canon today, R.H. Charles, editor of the first English translation (1896), noted that it was "much used...by Christian[s]...in the early centuries". Considering its status as a Jewish book, it's intriguing that early Christians and not Jews were the ones known to have preserved it. The preservation of the text, coupled with references to the text in early Christian writings and among early Church theologians and ecclesiastical leaders, suggests the text may have constituted part of the sanctioned canon of the early Church. The book is included here for its exceptional preservation of many elements of The Ancient Tradition.
In this audio recording of The Book of the Holy Secrets of Enoch, Chapters 41-60, Enoch shares with his children what he saw in the heavens. He declares God has a face like man's, he speaks of the scales of the end-time judgment, and teaches his children to make offerings with a pure heart. Enoch encourages his children to make copies of the books he's written and "love them more than any sweet food on earth, and read them and follow them". Enoch gathers his son Methuselah's family, along with the elders of the people, to bless them. He testifies the Lord "came down to the earth" in the days of Adam and appointed Adam a King over all the peoples and creatures on the earth.

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The Book of the Holy Secrets of Enoch, a Jewish apocalyptic writing, is one of the most compelling ancient texts to survive to the present day. Although knowledge of the book was unknown in the West until 1892, Slavonic manuscripts of the book survived in Russia for more than 1200 years. Although not part of the Biblical canon today, R.H. Charles, editor of the first English translation (1896), noted that it was "much used...by Christian[s]...in the early centuries". Considering its status as a Jewish book, it's intriguing that early Christians and not Jews were the ones known to have preserved it. The preservation of the text, coupled with references to the text in early Christian writings and among early Church theologians and ecclesiastical leaders, suggests the text may have constituted part of the sanctioned canon of the early Church. The book is included here for its exceptional preservation of many elements of The Ancient Tradition.
In this audio recording of The Book of the Holy Secrets of Enoch, Chapters 21-40, Enoch ascends to the highest heaven where he sees the Lord's glorious face. The Lord commands Michael to anoint Enoch with oil and robe him in clothes of glory. The Lord tutors Enoch "like a man talks to his neighbor" in the holy secrets of creation, the fall of the archangel Satanail, the prisoners in Hades anxiously awaiting the judgment, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the history of the world, and "all things that it is fitting to learn". The Lord commands Enoch to write the holy secrets down in books and share them with his children.

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