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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