Le Livre des Secrets Trahis



Le Livre des Secrets Trahis (English: The Book of Betrayed Secrets) is a French language book written by Robert Charroux and published in 1964. It is the second of Charroux's pseudohistorical essays, after Histoire Inconnue des Hommes Depuis Cent Mil Ans (English: One Hundred Thousand Years of Man's Unknown History), published in 1963. The book is divided into twenty-one chapters, each being an unhealthy broth of pseudohistory, willful ignorance, conspiracy theory, shoehorning and Biblical literalism, interspersed with barely understandable ramblings. The first thirteen chapters are covered here.

The book has been translated into English (Legacy of the Gods), German (Verratene Geheimnisse), Spanish (El Libro de los Secretos Descubiertos), Polish (Nieznana Historia Ludzkości: Księga Purpurowa), and Romanian (Cartea Secretelor Ttrădate).

tl;dr: There aren't any actual secrets, just bullshit that he made up

''N.B.: The ideas in each chapter are not presented in the same order that they appear in the book — the reasoning of each chapter is haphazard and interspersed with non sequiturs that make them difficult to understand and summarize. However, the order of chapters and the overall content of each chapter have been retained.''

Chapter VI: Angels and the Books of Enoch
{{sbs|1=The Book of Genesis is strange because of the gap between {{Bible|Genesis|6|2}} and {{Bible|Genesis|6|7}}, as there is no explanation of the reason why God repents and decides to destroy humanity. This should have been thoroughly explained, because the Flood was the most important event in human history.{{efn|Because the Flood actually happened! Haven't you ever read the Bible?}} But first, who were those "Sons of God"? They can't have been actual angels, since angels are bodiless spiritual beings. Therefore they were corporeal, human-like beings, and, as the Bible says that they came from the sky,{{efn|Nowhere in {{Bible|Genesis|6|1|7}} is it said that they came from the sky.}}{{{efn|Charroux even goes on saying "The Bible is positive about it." Bloody liar!}} they must have been astronauts. Moreover, as Adam and Eve had only a few children, they must have come from space, because otherwise they would have been recognized as Adam's offspring, not as the "Sons of God".

Cue the Books of Enoch, which boasts 80 chapters about the Sons of God, while the Bible has only 7 verses; therefore, the Books of Enoch are a trustworthy source and the proof that the Bible has been censored. An attempt is made to link Enoch to King {{wpl|Keyumars}} or Kaiomers. Incidentally, it is asserted that "some erudites" assure that very ancient, now lost manuscripts have been used to write not only the Bible, but also the Vedas, the Laws of Manu, etc. This assertion is vindicated by Biblical verses like {{Bible|Numbers|21|14}}, {{Bible|Joshua|10|13}} and {{Bible|2 Samuel|1|18}}.

Some chapters of the Book of Enoch describe how the Sons of God taught swordsmithing and astronomy to men; as angels in Heaven are unlikely to know about swordsmithing, the Sons of God have to be astronauts.

The remainder of the chapter is some heavy quote mining of the Book of Enoch, with verses mangled and chapters mixed to make it look like an accurate report of past events. Notably, since Heaven in Enoch is located on the North, then he must be writing about Hyperborea. When it is written that Enoch is "lifted" and "moved", that must be because he rode some flying machine. When it is written that Enoch is "brought back to his home", this is proof that he actually traveled (otherwise there would be no need to come back). And so on.
 * 2=Chapter VI is the turning point where the books sheds its veneer of science to plunge into plain stupidity. While doubting science is always acceptable (although spitting conspiracy theories is barely "doubting"), using Biblical exegesis to make his point is just silly.

Charroux goes on some kind of weird biblical fan fiction to fill in for the parts he feels are lacking.

{{Bible|Numbers|21|14}}, {{Bible|Joshua|10|13}} and {{Bible|2 Samuel|1|18}} do deal about some "books", but there is not any mention of these being specially old. It seems that Charroux has a tendency to overinterpret whatever he's reading.

The Books of Enoch were almost lost due to being non-canonical in Judaism and Christianity. The first book (1 Enoch) is however part of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Bibles, and has been translated into English. Aside from the quote-mined parts, there are also chapters about Sheol {{efn|Sheol is real, as Enoch traveled into it. Repent, sinners!}} and how the sun is hot in the summer. Some chapters are also suspiciously close to {{Bible|Genesis|6}}, such as Chapters 6 and 7. }}

Chapter VIII: Venus, Planet of Our Ancestors
The French title of this chapter is Vénus, Planète de nos Ancêtres ("Venus, planet of our ancestors"). If you were expecting sane reasoning, you've been warned.