# The Cross

Source: https://enocharchive.com/symbols/the-cross (Enoch Archive).

The Cave of Treasures links the Cross to the wood of the Sanctuary and places it at the centre of the earth, where the four quarters meet and where Melchisedek ministered and Abraham offered Isaac. There the earth opened in the form of a cross to hold Adam's body at Golgotha. At the sixth hour Christ ascended this Tree of Life, hung naked for three hours like Adam, received vinegar and gall, and from His right side baptism went forth.

The Kebra Nagast tells that Moses struck the rock in the form of the Cross, yielding twelve streams. The rock is Christ, the streams the Apostles, and the rod the wood of the Cross by which Christ slew Death.

**category:** Allegorical

**symbol:** Redemption and the Tree of Life