Posted by:
Makurosu
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Date: July 07, 2011 10:56AM
I used to hear about the "Adamic" language a lot when I was a Mormon, that it is the language of God, Adam, animals, the "pure" language, etc. The Adamic language is the language from which all the languages of the world are descended as mere corruptions of that pure language.
Looks like Smith must have gotten that idea from John Dee, a practitioner of Enochian magic. Dee made use of seers or scryers in the 16th century to talk with angels in the Enochian language and he produced a number of texts in this language. It's also called "Adamical."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enochian"According to Dee's journals,[3] Angelical was supposed to have been the language God used to create the world, and which was later used by Adam to speak with God and the angels, and to name all things in existence. After his Fall from Paradise, Adam lost the language and constructed a form of proto-Hebrew based upon his vague memory of Angelical. This proto-Hebrew, then, was the universal human language until the time of the Confusion of Tongues at the Tower of Babel. After this, all the various human languages were developed, including an even more modified Hebrew (which we know as "Biblical Hebrew"). From the time of Adam to the time of Dee and Kelley, Angelical was hidden from humans with the single exception of the patriarch Enoch who, according to the angels, recorded the "Book of Loagaeth" (Speech From God) for humanity. The book was then lost again in the Deluge of Noah."
The article also says that the idea of an "Angelic" or antediluvian language was common in those days.