It
is obvious to me that more old books were destroyed than are preserved. There is
supposed to have been a book in South America that contained all the wisdom of
antiquity; it is reputed to have been destroyed by the sixty-third Inca ruler,
Pachacuti IV.
In
the
library of Alexandria 500,000 volumes belonging to the learned
Ptolemy Soter contained all the traditions of mankind; the library was
partly destroyed by the Romans, and the rest was burned on the orders of
Caliph Omar centuries later. An incredible thought that invaluable and
irreplaceable manuscripts were used to heat the public baths of Alexandria!
What
became of the library of the
temple of Jerusalem? What became of the
library of Pergamon, which is supposed to have housed 200,000 works?
When
the
Chinese Emperor Chi-Huang ordered the destruction of a mass of
historical, astronomical, and philosophical books for political reasons in 214
B.C., what treasures and secrets went with them?
How many texts did the converted
Paul cause to be destroyed at
Ephesus?
and
we cannot even imagine the enormous wealth
of literature about all branches of knowledge that has been lost to us owing to
religious fanaticism. How many thousands of irretrievable writings
did monks and missionaries burn in South America in their blind religious zeal?
That happened hundreds and thousands of years ago. Has mankind learned anything
as a result? Only half a century ago
Hitler had books burned in the
public squares, and as recently as 1966 the same thing happened in China during
Mao's kindergarten revolution. Thank heavens that today books do not exist
in single copies, as in the past.
The text and fragments still available transmit a great deal of knowledge from
the remote past. In all ages the sages of a nation knew that the future would
always bring wars and revolutions, blood and fire.
Did this knowledge perhaps
lead these sages to hide secrets and traditions from the mob in the colossal
buildings of their period or to preserve them from possible destruction in a
safe place? Have they "hidden" information or accounts in pyramids, temples,
and statues, or bequeathed them in the form of ciphers so that they would
withstand the ravages of time? We certainly ought to test the idea, for
farsighted contemporaries of our own day have acted in this way - for the
future.
And yet, it is happening in our own community, right before our eyes.
We are told to get rid of certain scrolls, not to read certain books, this is
old information, this is the new information. Don't we owe to our future
generation a glimpse of our past so they may know how to handle what is to come
and let not history repeat itself? They are our future, right?
Luckily, there are many of us that do just that, Preserves Our Hall of
Knowledge, and not just make our outformation into mere mirage. Thanks to
countless fellow Nuwabians, YouTube is loaded with videos of Dr. Malachi Z. York
questions and answers class. We even have a brother in Milledgeville, who
have audio recordings of the books. Website such as this,
www.aeoebookstore.com and others have
converted the books into digital formats, preserving the works of Dr. York
definitely. And thanks to
www.NuwaubianFacts.com who have made it possible for the entire world to
have full access to our Holy Tablets and other scrolls.
Although we may have opposition in this monumental labor, with our passion
and hard work we continue everyday helping preserved our library, our Hall of
Knowledge.
