Pillars of Seth's Descendants
- Josephus, Antiquities, 1.2.3
"Seems to mistakenly identify the Great Pyramid with one of these pillars."
- H. Donl Peterson, "The Story of the Book of Abraham: Mummies Manuscripts and Mormonism", pp.128-129
Oliver Cowdery cited as saying "Enoch's" pillars are mentined in the Book of Abraham.
Notes
The idea behind these pillars, according to tradition and extrabiblical writings, is as follows:
Adam had prophecied that the Earth should be covered once by water and once by fire. Seth's descendants, being learned, especially in astronomy, sought to preserve the knowledge they had worked to obtain through these catastrophies. Apparently they had some uncertainty as to the order of the catastrophies, for they built two pillars on which they inscribed much of their knowledge. One was designed to be able to survive through a flood, and the other was designed to survive a great burning.