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Eighteen centuries apart, the identical engineering claim: the primal record was written on media deliberately hardened against the same two named destroyers, water and fire · and both authors insist the artifact is still physically extant and inspectable ('remains... to this day' / 'before the writer's eye'). The preservation claim always comes with a present-tense custody claim.
Against Adam's prediction of destruction 'at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water,' the Sethites inscribe their astronomy on TWO pillars, 'the one of brick, the other of stone,' so that if the flood destroys the brick, the stone 'might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind.' 'Now this remains in the land of Siriad to this day.'
set against The Secret Doctrine vol. 1, Proem
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