Readers of the scriptures have long marveled at the account of the translation (or removal heavenward) of the city of Enoch. Why were the people of this city so blessed? What was their society like? What kind of man was Enoch himself?
Beyond the modest information found in scripture and secular sources, nothing else is known about the city of Enoch. But suppose ancient records had been kept and were made available to us today. What lessons might they contain? Elder Neal A. Maxwell helps answer that question and others in The Enoch Letters.
Through imaginary communications from a man called Mahijah to his imaginary friend Omner, Elder Maxwell probes the reasons for the glory of the city of Enoch, whose inhabitants were called by the Lord Zion, “because they were of one heart, and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness” (Moses 7:18).
Elder Maxwell writes: “In our own time of increasing perplexity among nations and individual despair, it is important to realize that thousands of people ages ago successfully applied the commandments of God and thereby had great and unparalleled happiness.”
The Enoch Letters provides a fascinating account of what might have happened in that ancient city and the lessons and applications we might make in our present-day world.
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