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I, Abraham, was born the son of Terah who was Prime Minister to Nimrod who reigned in Ur of the Chaldees.
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Now this Nimrod was a wicked man and an idolater and my father was led to follow after his abominations.
3
Moreover, Nimrod was a man of mighty power for he was Master Mahan and had in his hands the secrets of the ancients as they had come down from Cain wherein he knew the words of power and the signs for using them and he had the holy garments which had been given unto Adam in the garden in which was great power.
4
All of this power did Nimrod use to get gain after the manner of the secret combination.
5
With his power he had set out to build a tower which would reach to heaven, even the city of my Father Enoch which had been taken up, that he, Nimrod, might depose God from his throne for God had taken up his abode among the people of Enoch.
6
But God frustrated the plans of Nimrod by confounding the language of him and his people that they could no longer remember the sacred words and they scattered forth over the face of the earth.
7
At that time Nimrod came and established the city of Ur which is the City of Light for he yet retained his determination to build a city to rival the city of God that the light and power might center in him.
8
And through the ministration of Satan he did receive again some of the words of power and did reorganize the secret combination among his people but he had not power as at the first for the fullness of the pure language was not restored to him according to the decree of the Most High God.
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Now, in all the wickedness of Nimrod, my father stood by his side for he was deceived by the subtle cunning and power which Nimrod possessed.