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ROYAL ABCH OF ENOCH. 147
thy fathers ; the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of
Jacob. Thus shalt thou say unto the children of
Israel, He who is hath sent me unto you. I am the
Lord, that appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob by my name Al-shedi, but my name
I did not show them."
Moses engraved the ineffable name upon a plate
of gold, and deposited it in the ark of the covenant.
Moses made the name known to Aaron and Joshua,
and afterwards it was made known to the chief
priests. The word being composed of consonants
only, its true pronunciation was soon lost, but the
word still remained in the ark ; and in the time of
Othniel, in a battle against the King of Syria, those
who bore the ark were slain, and the ark fell to the
ground. After the battle, the men of Israel, search-
ing for it, were led to it by the roaring of a lion,
which, crouching by it, had guarded it, holding the
golden key in its mouth. Upon the approach of the
High-priest and Levites, he laid down the key, and
withdrew. Hence, upon the golden key worn by the
treasurer, you see the initials of these words :
" In
arc leonis verbum invert?'— " In the lion's mouth I
found the word." This plate of gold was melted
down, and made into an image of Dagon by the
Philistines, who took it in battle.
David intended to build a temple to God, but be-
queathed the enterprise to Solomon, his son, and
Solomon selected a place near Jerusalem ; but find-
ing overthrown columns of Enoch's temple, and sup-