Book of the Cave of Treasures

Glossary

• byssus a silky fabric
• cassia a tree of shrub used for its aromatic bark
• Cross of our Redeemer the crucifix on which Christ would die
• David Israel’s second king and the founder of the royal line from which Christ descended
• frankincense a sweet-smelling gum resin used chiefly as incense but also in embalming
• Moses a major Hebrew patriarch who led the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt and brought to them God’s law in the form of the Ten Commandments
• myrrh an aromatic resin burned as incense and used in perfume
• Noah the biblical patriarch who survived with his family in an ark during a worldwide flood God sent to punish humankind
• Nodh or Nod (“wandering”), the place east of Eden to which Cain fled after murdering his brother, Abel
• SAINT MAR APHREM that is, Ephraem, the putative author of the text
• stakte a type of incense