Introducing the HIDDEN WISDOM Audiobook Series

"The term 'APOCRYPHA', a Greek word meaning 'hidden (things)', was early used in different senses. It was applied to writings which were regarded as so important and precious that they must be hidden from the general public and reserved for the initiates, the inner circle of believers....”
THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE
WITH THE APOCRYPHA
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1970

In the forty days, ninety-four books were written. At the end of the forty days the Most High spoke to me. 'Make public the books you wrote first,' he said, 'to be read by good and bad alike. But the last seventy books are to be kept back, and given to none but the wise among your people. They contain a stream of understanding, a fountain of wisdom, a flood of knowledge.'
2 Esdras 14:44-47