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The Kingdom and the Rebels

By

Ron Cash

 

         Following is a glimpse through history, a survey of some strategic parts of the past. The object of this study was to discover the Truth, which would explain all the mysteries in the past and present. As a natural consequence, it would also provide some interesting possibilities for the future. It turns out these mysteries in the Past, Present, and Future are all part of an elaborate saga in which we are playing a part. So Shakespeare was right; All the world is a stage.

         I thought the key to understanding the past was to identify something present throughout all time as a focal point. I was right. Then, I discovered there was more than one focal point.  It’s like one of those Chinese puzzles when you discover you missed the answer several steps back.  While I did collect enough evidence to make a good case for the existence of the Rebels scattered throughout the centuries from various sources, I missed the best evidence of all.  After learning to read Hebrew and getting a copy of the Leningrad Codex from Russia (the only complete Bible in the world) I discovered the Book of Enoch.  I had not over looked this book in my studies in past years.  I just did not understand the significance of it then and I did not have enough knowledge of the ancient traditions when I read it.  It’s likely that few people nowadays understand enough to believe what is written there.  It contains many of the same ideas and material as the rest of the Bible, not because it was copied from them, but because they were copied from it.  It passed down through Noah and likely made it’s way to Egypt where Moses must have discovered it.  It is quoted so much in the Old and New Testaments by writers that it appears it was copied from them.  So the first focal point was the Rebels and the second turns out to be the rest of the story and the center of a controversy that reaches back long before the earth was established. It focuses on a group of immortal beings so powerful they could create life or take it at their discretion. Now what is revealed is the most marvelous story anyone could possibly imagine.

        The most obvious place to begin would be; Do these Rebels really exist? Who are they and Where did they originate? What effect did they have on our past? But most importantly, Where are they now and What are they doing?

Do these people really exist?

 

         While I don't believe he understood the parameters of what he was pursuing, Eric Von Daniken included evidence in his book that indicated powerful and intelligent people were on earth ages ago. One example was the map discovered during World War I, which made of celluloid, depicts a view of the Arctic Continent without ice from a location about five miles above Cairo. Some obvious questions arise when we think about it, since at that time there were no cameras, celluloid, or ice penetrating radar.

         Another interesting story comes from the New York Herald Tribune on June 11, 1958. A story was written about a series of excavations conducted by archeologists in Mongolia, Scandinavia, and Ceylon, in which similar artifacts were discovered as those found among the Eskimos. The Smithsonian Institute, who sponsored the study, concluded the Eskimos had inhabited Central Asia and specifically the warm tropical paradise of Ceylon. Their question was, Why would a people living in a veritable Garden of Eden go and live in a frozen wasteland that is the North Pole? The Eskimos, however, have an answer passed down in legend, that is; they were deported by a flock of giant metallic birds. How would a primitive people describe aircraft?

         It is common knowledge that at 7:17am local time on June 30, 1908, something occurred in the Tungus area of Central Siberia. A catastrophic mid-air explosion was witnessed, the likes of which had never even been imagined. Witnesses 250 miles away said they saw a fireball crossing the sky that was so bright it made the light of the sun seem dim. The force was so great that horses were thrown down 400 miles away near Kansk. S.B. Semenov was sitting on his steps 40 miles away when the flash and heat came. "My shirt was almost burned on my body" he later said. He was hurled from the steps and left unconscious but alive. Tungus tribesmen told scientists, who reached the site long afterwards, that 1500 reindeer had been wiped out.  Considerable evidence exists to support the theory that it was a nuclear blast. First, the pattern of destruction in the shattered forest is more consistent with the shock waves produced by an atomic bomb than with those of a conventional explosion. Secondly, the earth's magnetic field was disturbed at the time of the explosion, as it would have been by a nuclear blast. There was the extreme intense light generated, and later, tiny green globules of melted dust called 'trinitites', characteristic of a nuclear blast were found. Finally, much later, two men examined the area after nuclear bombs had been dropped on Japan. They reported plant mutations in both areas were similar. Question is; Who set off an atomic blast on earth in 1908, before man had the technology?

         The Egyptian Empire once ruled much of the East. A common symbol depicted with their gods and in the Book of the Dead is a staff with a hook on top. It represented sovereignty and wisdom to the Egyptians. In America, Chief Red Cloud held an identical staff, as did most of the Indian Chiefs, and it has the same meaning! It is the same staff we see associated with the Wise Men in Bethlehem. Imagine the chances of these three different cultures having this same object and associating it with the same abstract idea.

         The Ma-ha-bar-tah, the great epic of ancient India and longer than Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad combined, tells of a race of alien people who came to dominate their land and had a battle with other forces from heaven who eventually won and chased them off. The Rom-my-ana another ancient text of India, further describes the activities of the ‘demana’ flipping about in the sky and going behind clouds and raining destruction upon the people of the land.  A quote from the text says, ‘the earth shook, scorched by the terrible heat of this weapon… Elephants burst into flame and ran to and fro in frenzy...over a vast area other animals crumpled to the ground and died…from all directions the arrows of flame rained continuously and fiercely from the demana…’.

         It’s clear from this evidence that someone with advanced technology has been operating on earth for a long time.  They do not declare themselves. They do not seem to support world peace, in fact, it is reported that Alexander the Great and his army, in 329 B.C.., witnessed several ‘gleaming silver shields’ in the sky and seven years later, while he was attacking the city of Tyre, observers on both sides watched as these craft assisted him by breaching the city wall with a ray of light. 

 

The Ancient World

 

         When considering written material as evidence, we should consider the circumstances of people during the time that evidence came about. In Ancient times, maybe one out of a thousand people could read and write. Having such a valuable skill, Would they write fairy tales, or Would they record history? People with those skills usually held high positions and earned a living using them. So if they were going to speak lightly, they probably would not choose the gods as a topic. One of the most famous writers of Old Times was Homer.

         No one knows who Homer was, but he left some amazing stories behind and in a style to rival the best writers of our day. He describes the Greek gods so clearly they sound like the sons of God. Writing about the time Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus, (about 900 B.C. ) Homer tells of gods with great powers who forced their will upon the poor and rich alike. He writes The Oddessy as if he were describing events that really took place. This was a time in history when people did not write epic fantasies for entertainment. In one part, Calypso speaks with Hermes on an island where she is keeping Odysseus;

          "Goddess to god, you greet me, questioning me? Well, here is truth for you in courtesy. Zeus made me come, and not my inclination. Who cares to cross that tract of desolation, the bitter sea, all mortal towns behind where gods have beef and honors from mankind? But it is not to be thought of, and no use for any god to elude the will of Zeus"...."Oh you vile gods," says Calypso," in jealousy supernal! You hate it when we choose to lie with men - immortal flesh by some dear mortal side.&"

         (Vile gods?) These words contain relevant information. First, only someone who has been at sea would describe it as being 'desolate.' Most people would describe it as beautiful or peaceful. Only a sailor knows the desolation that is the open sea. And how many people would have been both a scholar and a sea traveler in those days? Secondly, there is a distinct bitterness to the speech of Hermes, as if he doesn't really like Zeus and is offended at having to come at all. Calypso is sleeping with a mortal man, and she points out that she knows the other gods hate it when she does that. What kind of attitude is this for gods to have? That seems more like the way children would act. If one were making up this story, surely they would make the gods more perfect.

          Another writing from thousands of years ago that tends to identify this behavior and these gods is called the Pentateuch. The writing is by Moses, who wrote the fist five books of the Bible.

          Gen 6:2, "That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose."  Gen 6:4, "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same were mighty men which were of old, men of renown."

          Homer also writes about giants and gods and men of a renowned nature, and it is not likely he read the Pentateuch. The Hebrews would have killed anyone who entered the temple, much less looked at that book in those days, and it was not published at that time. Homer describes Zeus and Poseidon and the rest as supernatural people with great powers and intelligence far beyond that of men. Strangely enough, he describes them fighting among themselves with proud and arrogant personalities. These may be the same gods the writer of Job is speaking of -

          Job 4:18, " Behold, He (God), put no trust in His servants and His angels He charged with folly..." Folly is defined; "a foolish or ruinous undertaking."  It might be considered foolish or ruinous to attempt to take the kingdom of God by violence, against the One Who created them. Considering the Hebrew religion and the Torah, it does not appear these gods would be allowed to remain in the Kingdom acting like that.

          The Apostle Paul wrote, 2Pet.2,4 "For if God spared not the angels that sinned....", but cast them down to hell, and delivered them to chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment..."

         It is recorded by Jude, a brother of James, Jude 1:6, "...And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto judgment of the great day."          

        Beside all this, a lot of physical evidence was produced in the past.  Consider the enormous temples and statues of the gods of Old Time. This was a time in history when life was not easy, yet the people built great figures of their gods. Some of these temples were later named the Seven Wonders of The Ancient World. They included the Colossus of Rhodes, a bronze statue of a man, only forty-two feet shorter than the Statue of Liberty and very similar. It held one hand raised and had a spiked band around the head, representing light rays, always associated with an immortal. Then there was the temple of Diana at Ephesus, a huge building dedicated to the worship of Diana. Next, there was the statue of Zeus at Olympus, built around 600 B.C.. Previously, there was a statue of Athena, at Athens, that was said to be so tall, the sun could be seen glinting off the tip of her spear forty miles out at sea. Then there are the Pyramids of Egypt. They are among the oldest relics from the Second Age of the world and their construction is still a subject of debate.

      It is suggested the riddle of the Sphinx is a symbol depicting the beginning and end in the Zodiac of the Babylonian Mystery Religion; the face of a woman or Virgo for the beginning, and the body of a lion or Leo, for the end.

 

Who are they and where did they originate?

 

      By whatever name, it appears some very powerful people have been here in the past. Who are they? If we study the ancient writings, we find fascinating stories that rival story themes of today. Egyptian stories include one where Osiris is killed and his body parts are scattered around Egypt by his arch nemesis, Set. His wife/sister then goes about trying to find all the parts so she can put him back together. These Egyptian gods act a lot like the ones Homer wrote about; one god does something then another gets offended and undoes it. The Norse gods act the same way, always fighting with one another and getting offended, exacting revenge, and trying to prove something. Interestingly, all these gods act the same and have the same character faults. It sounds like the folly described by the writer of Job. They all tend toward lubricity, fornication, and murder, so they would not be popular with a creator who demanded perfection. These ancient writings may help us understand what has happened in the distant past.

      Luke 10:18, "Jesus said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven"

      Revelations 12:9, "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 1. And I heard a loud voice (John, the writer speaking), saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the Kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before God day and night. 11. And they overcame him by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto death. 12.Therefore rejoice ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabitors of the earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down into you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time."

      This is about the clearest story we will find describing how powerful people came to be here on earth. It resembles the stories of Homer in recounting a war of the Gods, yet these records do not focus on the violence and brutality like Homer's.

      The only literal account of powerful people in history concerns gods of one culture or another. In the eyes of the ancient people, the gods were immortal people who look like us and have the same character faults, but with longer lives and more power.

      The Bible records scores of contacts with Angels who look just like men. According to the Bible, man is made in the image and likeness of God. What is more, There must be many gods, otherwise, How could there be a Most High God? If we understand what the Bible says, we see a war in a place filled with gods on both sides, and a group who lost a battle, and were marooned on this planet until the end. And if there were not such gods in our midst, why would the Most High make a commandment to Moses to stay away from other gods besides Himself? Throughout their history the Hebrew people were punished repeatedly for following after other gods. It's not likely God would have punished his people for following gods that did not exist.

      We see these legends in every culture relating to a group of gods who seem very similar. We have physical evidence that proves someone with godlike powers has been here in the past.  There may be a reason everything in the Old Days had some religious meaning and pleasing the gods was foremost on people's minds, maybe the gods visited them. The Bible records numerous times The Most High God visited the Hebrews. There is no reason to think the Rebels would not visit people as well.      

 

Babylon, Egypt, and the Law

 

       It appears many things we do may be very, very old and may have come from a source of intelligence that could redefine the term 'alien'. Fairy tales began in the darkness of the past, amid a religion from the beginning of recorded history. Ancient Babylon and Egypt are where many things began in our world. Considering the evidence, it appears we can trace the rituals of many of our religions to the very beginning of civilization, and unfortunately, what we now regard as entertainment may be considered worship by the Creator.

      According to many records, civilization, as we know it began in the walled city of Babylon. The metropolis of the Babylonian Empire was located on each side of the river Euphrates and was originally called Babel. It was said to have been one of the largest, most magnificent cities ever built. About fifty-six miles around, it covered over two hundred square miles. It was founded by Nimrod, son of Cush, son of Ham, son of Noah. Originally built about 2230 B.C., it was taken by the Persians in 538 B.C., and now it is a barren ghost town, and only a small sign marks the location along a public railway. The historian, Herodotus, who traveled extensively and witnessed the Mystery Religion in many countries, wrote that Babylon was the source of all idolatry. Today the name alludes to excess and wickedness. Babylon lasted from 2230 to 538 B.C., that is 1692 years. Rome only lasted about 900 years, and the United States has only been here just over 200 years. As time goes on, the cities and civilizations of the world seem to be falling faster.

      In the Old Days, religion had a very different meaning. People may have had contact with their gods in person. Religious rules would have been the same as law to these early people, in fact, records indicate there was no distinction.

      The oldest written, secular legal code is dated about 2408 to 2391 B.C, written by a Sumerian king named Ur-Nammu. So little remains of that old tablet in the Istanbul Museum, only three or so broken sentences are legible. However they are very similar to the sample from the city of Babylon. The sixth monarch of the empire was a king named Hammurabi (about 1900 B.C.). Naturally, his text is called the Code of Hammurabi. Considering evidence of other contemporaneous writings, there is little doubt some of the ideas came from the Code of Urukagina, dated about eight hundred years before Hammurabi. Some may also have come from another contemporary named Sargon the Great of Chaldea. Interestingly, the Code of Hammurabi is not very similar to the Ten Commandments that were written somewhere around the same time. The Code shows three distinct classes of people and punishment differed according to which class the offender belonged. Following are some examples of the Code of Hammurabi:

      " If a man caused a finger to be pointed at a high-priestess or a married lady and has then not proved (what he charged) they shall flog that man before judges and shave half his head...

If a priestess or a high-priestess, who is not dwelling in a clositer, opens an ale house or enters an ale house for liquor, they shall burn that woman...

If a man has stolen property belonging to a god or a palace, that man shall be put to death and he who has received the stolen property from his hand shall be put to death...

If a woman has procured the death of her husband on account of another man, they shall impale that woman..."

      Burning a Priestess for entering an ale house and death for receiving stolen goods seems a little extreme nowadays, but there were other laws that seem more fair than ones we have today. Under the code of Hammurabi, the state was not an entity to be supported and all fine money for an offense was given directly to the victim. It is also easy to see how serious these people were about their gods.

      Every culture in the world had gods. Most had many gods, and several had the same ones with different names.       

      Isaiah, a Hebrew prophet, writing around 700 B.C. said concerning Babylon, Isa 13:11, "And I will punish the world for their iniquity..." 47:12," Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast labored from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. 13. Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy councils, let now the astrologers, the prognosticators, stand up and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee."

            It is no secret how the Babylonian Mystery Religion spread throughout the world. Moses wrote, Gen.11:9, "Therefore is the name of it is called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth."  No doubt the Babylonians believed in their gods. Evidence abounds in their laws where death penalties protected the temple customs. Astrology and harlotry began as part of the Babylonian worship. All the women had to lay with a stranger at least once in the temple to avoid sterility. Since a stranger was never in the temple, for a price, a priest would take the place. And the temples became centers for commerce and loaned money with up to 20% interest. 

      There are not many records left from Babylon, but education and record keeping were used at least in legal matters. However, the nearby Egyptians were remarkably advanced during the same time period.

 

The Egyptians

 

      Egypt may be the longest standing civilization in the world and it's culture is certainly among the most fascinating. Shrouded in mystery with complex hieroglyphic writings their Religion evokes images in the mind of mummies and unseen powers and evil forces. Since the Rosetta Stone was discovered and the Book of the Dead was deciphered it seems less imposing and more like other religions of the area.

      The famous Egyptian Book of the Dead was a papyrus roll, often over ninety feet long, with prayers, pictures, and incantations to assist the soul or 'ba' in the afterlife. There are four versions of the book for four periods in Egyptian history. M. Maspero, discovered the greater part of the texts are beyond any doubt far older than the first king of Egypt. Some sections appear to be from an indefinitely remote time. Even the earliest texts have proofs within that they were revised and composed long before king Unas, last of the Fifth Dynasty, about 3333 B.C.. It appears the scribes hardly understood the texts they had before them when they were copied. From all accounts this text is contemporaneous with the beginning of civilization around four thousand years before Christ, especially chapter LXIV COMING FOURTH BY DAY. A rubic on the coffin of Queen Mentu-Hetep of the Eleventh Dynasty ascribes chapter LXIV to Hesep-Ti, fifth king of the First Dynasty, about 4266 B.C.. It says, "this chapter was found in the foundations beneath the hennu boat by the foreman of the builders in the time of the king of the North and South Hesep-Ti triumphant". This chapter was found in the First Dynasty; it has not been altered significantly through the years even though it is included in most Books of the Dead buried with the Egyptians. According to the Voyage d'un Egyptian, p 46, by Chabas, this chapter was regarded as very, very ancient and difficult to understand fourteen centuries before our time. So, much of the text must date back to the beginning of the post deluvian world.

      If that is so, who preserved the information? Everyone except Noah and his family died in the flood and he certainly didn't write that. It would have to be people who were able to escape the flood and who lived a very long time.

      It has been said the later interpreters of the book were of two schools of thought; those who credit the Egyptians with a number of abstract ideas about God and the creation of the world and the after life, and those who consider the mind of the Egyptian more of a savage nature, to whom occasional glimpses of spiritual light was given from time to time.  Looking in the book, the last seems much more likely.  

      The Book of the Dead is not written with understanding of the subject matter. What we see in their religion is a set of rules and paraphernalia that is one-dimensional, as if it all came from a book and no one had any real understanding of it. Some conflicting ideas exist like, the idea that fawning at the feet of their gods (while in their presence) will get them sufficient credit to enter heaven where they will be judged for their sincerity. Or that salvation can be purchased with gifts, lies, and supplications. While it occasionally uses phrases and words associated with amazing revelations, there is no development from idea to idea. It sounds very much like the writer does not understand what is being discussed. Often, a book would be written for someone too quickly or by a person who could not read, usually an artist, and the writer would simply fill in the name on a copy already written. Sometimes an entire section may be missing or one chapter repeated. In the Paprus of Ani, one chapter is written from back to front and ends with the title, indicating people simply purchased or hired someone to do their religious duties; reminiscent of an old catholic maxim from the dark ages: High money, high mass; low money low mass; no money, no mass.

      In ancient Egypt, a person was commonly believed to be made up of these nine parts: A 'Khat' includes the other eight parts. This is likely the infamous 'Khat with nine lives'.

1. A natural body..................................Khat

2. a spiritual body.................................Sahu

3. a divine substance........................AKH

4. a double..............................................Ab

5. a soul..................................................Ba

6. a shadow............................................Khabit

7. an eternal intelligence.........................Khu

8. a form..................................................Sekhem

9. and a name.

      Only after the deceased was properly supplied with food and materials for these parts could his trek through the Underworld begin. It is clear that although the Egyptians believed in a resurrection of the soul and body, they also thought the sun (Ra) rose from heaven (Annu) and set in the Netherworld. It appears they had no idea they were on a round planet. Much of their concept of good centered around food and water, while the bad were usually things that could hurt them like snakes and crocodiles from the Nile.

      Following are some examples from the Book of the Dead.

The Paprus of Djed-hor on exhibit in Houston, Texas

(From the Paprus of Ani)

"Chapter CXLVI The first pylon. Words to be spoken when [Ani] cometh unto the First Pylon. Saith Osirus Ani triumphant; Lo the lady of terrors, with lofty walls, the sovereign lady the mistress of destruction and uttereth the words which drive back the destroyers who delivereth from destruction him that traveleth along the way. The name of the door keeper is Neruit.

Picture: the second pylon which is guarded by a lion headed deity seated in a shrine upon the top of which is a serpent.

      Some similarities between the Egyptians Religion and Christian Religions include allusions to a day of judgment, an underground place called the Netherworld, the tree of life, the concept of good and bad behavior affecting the judgment, a lake of fire for sinners, and the presence of a soul, to name a few.

      It appears the origin of these ideas may have been the same in the distant past, like the Rebels were once part of the kingdom of heaven. Interestingly, many personal values must have been the same then as now as evidenced by The Negative Confession:

"...I have not done iniquity.

...I have not robbed with violence.

...I have not made any to suffer pain.

...I have not robbed.

...I have done no murder.

...I have not defrauded offerings.

...I have not done harm.

...I have not robbed God.

...I have told no lies.

...I have not snatched food.

...I have not worked affliction.

...I have not trespassed.

...I have not slaughtered the cattle which are set apart for the gods.

...I have done no evil.

...I have not laid waste to ploughed lands.

Hail Strider, who comest fourth from Bast, I have not been an eavesdropper.

...I have not set my lips in motion against any man.

...I have not been angry without a cause.

...I have not committed adultery with the wife of another man.

...I have not caused terror.

...I have never uttered fiery words.

...I have not stopped my ears against the words of right and truth.

...I have not stirred up strife."

      The Jewish confession near the time of death, called the Vidui, is just opposite this one. They confess how bad they have been in hopes of getting forgiveness from a merciful God. It appears the one this Negative confession is directed toward may not exercise forgiveness.

      To preserve the corpse as a home for the soul, so that it would not wonder forlornly about the earth, mummification was practiced. The entrails and the heart were removed from the corpse, which was then swathed in linen bandages and given an elaborate burial. The dead led a sort of double life, and had to be supplied with food, implements, and most particularly the Book of the Dead.

      The deceased, who was the focus of each book, progresses step by step using many prayers and charms and magical formulae through various levels of the Underworld. After some period of time amid much testing and begging and lying about how he lived his life, the deceased may be admitted to the Judgment Hall of Osiris. There he would be judged and afterwards either thrown into a deep ravine, to be eaten five days a week by snakes with steel teeth and crocodiles with seven heads covered with scorpions, Or, he would be admitted to a nebulous heaven eating and drinking forever. He would then sit beside god on a throne decorated with lions faces and hoofs of bulls. He thirsts not, nor hungers, nor is he sad. He eats and drinks what the gods eat and wears the same type clothing - white linen and sandals. Note the statement that the gods give to him of 'the tree of life', which they themselves do eat. (Many such concepts are common among other religions, as if these things really exist somewhere.) He eats the bread of eternity and drinks the beer of everlastingness.

      Whether the principal religion of Egypt was polytheism or monotheism, and it is not clear, (like nowadays) the rich appear to have tried taking advantage of both - in spite of the conflict.

      So in Egypt, a fully developed writing system and religion is discovered by the people of the first Dynasty, already so old it was hard for them to read. If we assume these people were placed here and given these things, it would not surprise us to see them. But if we try to figure a way these things might have developed, there is a problem with time. Languages may or may not develop at all, but if they did, they would certainly take a long time in the making, and there is just not enough time. It's unlikely the Egyptians developed these ideas, or invented the mathematical equations they are usually credited with, since they are hardly the most inventive people in the world today and they haven't come up with much of anything in all the years since. It is far more likely they were aided in the distant past.

      One reference in the Book of the Dead sounds like visitors called simply 'the shining ones'. It is a short reference and it is not mentioned again and they are never identified. But it appears they had contact with people who glowed or shown brightly, a common characteristic of immortal people.      

      Like nowadays, the Egyptians built huge temples and honored their kings and heroes but gave only lip service to their gods. They were content to let the old religion stand and simply use it like a rubber stamp for thousands of years. They never appear to have reconciled the text they inherited but, instead, they only added to it in the form of fairy tales. 

 

The Bible

 

            If we accept the proofs within material like the Book of the Dead, we must also accept the same kind of proofs within the Bible. It frequently quotes other books within as authoritative, and the records, history, and genealogies are all more or less capable of being verified from outside sources, and no material discrepancy has ever been found or proven.

            One of the principle versions of the Bible is the Targums, a Chaldee word signifying "interpretations." Following the Babylonian captivity, which ended B.C. 536, changes in language necessitated interpretations of the Scriptures.

            The Septuagint, one of the most important versions of the Bible, known as the LXX, is a translation of the Old Testament into the Greek and dates from about 300 years before Christ. According to tradition seventy-two elders at the request of the king of Egypt prepared it. At that time Greek was the language most generally understood, hence the service rendered by this version in making possible the wide circulation and reading of the Old Testament, preserved it in a language more perfect than its original tongue.

            Another fact having important bearing upon the preservation of the Bible is the agreement of the Samaritan Pentateuch with the Septuagint Version. The former dates back to the period following the Babylonian captivity more than 500 years before Christ. It is in perfect agreement with the Jewish version of the Old Testament. The significance of this is more obvious when attention is called to the fact that between the Samaritans and the Jews existed a bitter hatred. This fact would stand against an assumption that the agreement between the two copies was the result of design.

            Assyrian rulers mentioned in the Old Testament have been found engraved on stones and plates of clay recovered from buried libraries, so that now we have a verified and almost complete list of Babylonian and Assyrian monarchs which compare with those listed in the Old Testament.

            In addition, when we consider the attitude of the Jews toward the Scriptures, it is most unlikely the texts could have been altered, since they would sooner have died than condemn their souls by changing one jot or tittle of the text.

            The existence of the New Testament is attested by Christian writers, who give quotations, beginning with the immediate successors of the apostles. Polycarp, who heard John, does not quote the names of sacred writers, but his productions contain many direct references to their writings. Irenaeus, names the writers as well as the books of the New Testament. Clement, an Alexandrian, does the same thing a generation later. Reportedly, about the end of the third century, a persecution was started in which a demand was made that the Scriptures be given up. The questions which arose in the minds of many made it necessary to show what books were to be regarded as apostolic. A lengthy inquiry was carried on, with the result that our New Testament arrangement was placed as it now stands.

 

God

 

            The word God is both singular and plural, used to refer to the Most High God, or the family, race, or kingdom of God; which would include all those who were created, adopted, and begotten. (Begotten means generated by natural birth). He is the father and founder of the kingdom of heaven. He is the Most High God. Of course there are less high Gods as well to include the 'whole host of heaven.' There are also the sons of God, who are His family. Then there are the Rebel gods who fell and now live on Earth but are bound in chains of darkness.

            The Bible is divided into three parts, Enoch, for the first Age, The Old Testament for the second Age and the New Testament for the last, representing all the arrangements between The Most High God and His people.  To summarize the story, the Bible begins with the creation of man and follows the plight of the His people.  The first book is probably the most important because it sets the boundaries of the stage and all the players.   Through many trials and tribulations they trek through the land in search of the country they were previously promised. The same pattern occurs over and over as the Hebrews lose faith and fall away from their God. Each time, they suffer until they are redeemed back into reconciliation with Him. The Hebrews were required to follow rules in addition to the Ten Commandments. Since no one could actually keep these rules, it was required they make regular sacrifices to atone for their transgressions. Every so often a group of priests would kill animals and burn them on an alter to cleanse the people of their sin. But this system became corrupt, as people would often travel many miles to the temple, and it was much easier to carry money than farm animals, and most sacrifice animals had to be raised within a short distance of the Temple. Naturally, the merchandising of animals at the temple became a profitable affair, and the changing of money from neighboring countries turned into a concession at the Temple.

            Apparently, the Rebel gods were doing similar things around the world with people only they often required human sacrifices in large numbers. Also, what occurred in their temples was quite different, and resembled what some nowadays would identify as a party.                          

            Then many things changed. The Most High begot His Son; The Son, then rejected by the chosen people, allowed himself to be killed as a sacrifice for any who believed on him in the future.

            Around this same time, the Bible reports there was a war in heaven and the Rebels were cast out into the earth against their will. Apparently, the war did not last long. It is recorded that many of those who rebelled were locked away in chains of darkness. The Hebrew word for that darkness is translated, ignorance. One warning says they are here in the earth, and the inhabitants of the earth should mourn because they are among us, and they know they only have a short time before they will be punished.

            According to the Bible, the children of the Rebels will be allowed to live here with us and serve as watchers until the last day, when they will be judged and cast into a lake of fire. At that time, the believers will inherit the earth as all the unbelievers will be taken up and killed, and then judged and cast into the lake of fire with the Rebels, which is the second death. In the end, the kingdom will be cleaned of all Rebels, replenished with loyal souls, and will last forever.                    

             After the Son died and rose again many things changed. The chosen people are no longer identified by a racial bloodline, but by one that only God can see in the heart. The main responsibility identified for the believer is to believe on The Son who died as a sacrifice once for everyone. Whatever shortcomings they lack following the rules now are covered by the sacrifice of the Son, instead of an animal sacrifice. The Temple was destroyed and the money stopped coming in. The nearest thing to a temple became know as a Church. Then people began making their own rules about how to live and still be a believer, even though the original rules did not change.  Religious leaders took liberty as a license and changed many of the rules. So those merchandising the gospel were able to make up new ideas in order to get their hands back in the pockets of the people. 

 

Enoch

 

          The best and most complete record of Rebels in the past comes from a writing from the First Age of the world.  Written by the seventh from Adam, Enoch or ‘Ha-no-k’ in Hebrew, this book tells a story that connects all the evidence we have and all the literature including the Bible.  It is a fascinating book.  It is so clear most people who read it cannot believe it.  But within are contained evidences that guarantee its validity so that an unbeliever could not have faked it.  A believer with this knowledge would never have written something false and none of the Rebels themselves would have given away this information, because it is mostly against them.  The book tells the names of twenty Rebels who were commanders of tens and the number of Angels who descended to earth was two hundred.  It tells how these Angels gave forbidden knowledge to man and taught them to fight and the women to wear makeup along with many other things.  This made the Creator so angry that He condemned them to this planet forever.  Then He locked most of them away and changed the life span of their children from eternal to only 500 years.  This life span would limit their generations to only ten before the end of the world.  So, the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children to the tenth generation.  But this would not be the end of their technology sharing because in 1947 they allowed the US government to get hold of two of their ships and some of their bodies from a field outside Roswell New Mexico.  Since then, we have discovered silicon chips, integrated circuits, contact lenses and many more things that would have taken much longer to develop. 

      According to Enoch, Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech and said to him, Go to Noah and tell him in my name, “Hide thyself!” and reveal to him the end that is approaching, that the whole earth will be destroyed and a deluge is about to come upon the whole earth and will destroy all that is on it. And now instruct him that he may escape and his seed may be preserved for all generations of the world. And again the Lord said to Raphael, Bind Azazel hand and foot and cast him into the darkness and make an opening in the desert which is in Dudael and cast him therein,. And place upon him rough and jagged rocks and cover him with darkness and let him abide there forever and cover his face that he may not see light.  And on the day of the great judgment he shall be cast into the fire.  And heal the earth which the angels have corrupted and proclaim the healing of the earth that they may heal the plague and that all the children of men may not perish through all the secret things that the Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons.  And the whole earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azazel; to him ascribe all sin. And to Gabriel said the Lord, Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates and against the children of fornication and destroy the children of fornication and the children of the Watchers from amongst men and cause them to go forth.  Send them one against the other that they may destroy each other in battle, for length of days shall they not have.  And no request that they (their fathers) make of thee shall be granted unto their fathers on their behalf, for they hope to live the eternal life, and that

each one of them will live five hundred years

       And the lord said unto Michael, “Go. Bind Semjaza and his associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves with them in all their uncleanness.  And when their sons have slain one another and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth till the day of their judgment and of their consummation, till the judgment that is forever and ever is consummated. In those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire and the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined forever. And whosoever shall be condemned and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with them to the end of all generations…”

God sent Enoch to go and say to the Watchers of heaven,

     “You should intercede for men and not men for you; Wherefore have ye left the high, holy, and eternal heaven and lain with women and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men and taken to yourselves wives and done like the children of earth and begotten giants as your sons?  And though ye were holy, spiritual, living the eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the blood of women and have begotten children with the blood of flesh and as the children of men have lusted after flesh and blood as those also do who die and perish. Therefore have I given them wives also that they might impregnate them and beget children by them that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth.  But you were formerly spiritual, living the eternal life and immortal for all generations of the world.  And therefore I have not appointed wives for you, for as for the spiritual ones in heaven; in heaven is their dwelling.  And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth and on the earth shall be their dwelling.  Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies because they are born from men and from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin. They shall be evil spirits on the earth and evil spirits shall they be called. As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth shall be their dwelling. And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle and work destruction on the earth and cause trouble.  They take no food but nevertheless hunger and thirst and cause offences. And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women because they have proceeded from them.  From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death of the giants, from the souls of whose flesh the spirits, having gone fourth, shall destroy without incurring judgment – thus shall they destroy until the Day of the consummation, the great judgment in which the Age shall be consummated over the Watchers and the godless, yea, shall be wholly consummated. And now as to the watchers who have sent thee to intercede for them, who had been aforetime in heaven, Say to them, You have been in heaven, but all the mysteries had not been revealed to you, and you knew worthless ones, and these in the hardness of your hearts you have made known to the women and through these mysteries women and men work much evil on earth. Say to them therefore, you have no peace…”

        The Book of Enoch is clearly the first part of a three-part Bible for the Ages.  It is so clear in its explanation of how God wants us to behave; it is no surprise that most people reject it.  Like the Old Testament, it imposes a sober and clear responsibility upon mankind to live according to the will of God except in more general terms.

 

Heaven and Hell

 

       This has always been an interesting subject.  It is described as a lake of fire where all the sinners will burn forever.  The real meaning of hell becomes clear when we read Enoch.  He describes an event just after the Judgment day that explains everything. He says that in about the year 9700, the seventh part of the tenth week, an event will take place over all the universe where all the stars will begin burning seven times as brightly, including our sun.  If our sun did that it would burn away all the atmosphere and water from the earth and the entire surface of the planet would melt into lava. That will be hell and the long lake of fire forecast by the zadakim or those who wrote the scriptures.

       But if we look at the big picture the same event will also make the new earth a nice place.  Jupiter is two and one half times greater in mass than everything else in our solar system except the sun.  It has a magnetosphere that reaches 500 million kilometers away from the planet, almost to earth.  Jupiter is seven times as far from the sun as the earth, so when the sun increases by a factor of seven it will be the beginning of a new day there.  The water from Europa will melt and become part of the atmosphere of the new earth, which is about three hundred times the size of this planet. A recent probe was sent into the atmosphere of Jupiter sent back pictures of a normal looking sky over 150 miles thick.  Earth’s atmosphere is only about 5 miles thick. The Bible describes young men mounting wings and flying there, which would certainly be possible in an atmosphere so viscous.  It is also likely the new atmosphere will consist mostly of hydrogen instead of nitrogen like that of the earth.  The combination of hydrogen and oxygen makes a complete fuel so that people will be able to run and not get weary or need to eat food or possibly even sleep.  The new earth will be an amazing place and the view from the surface will be nothing less than fantastic through all that atmosphere and with all the stars burning seven times as brightly, not to mention all the moons that will be visible.  Resources will abound like mountains of lead, gold and tin along with oceans of hydrocarbons on nearby Titan.  Revelations describes The New Temple as a structure 1500 miles cubed that will travel in space and then descend onto the planet.  It is so large it could not land on any of the other planets in this system without destroying them. Most of it will likely reach out in space and serve as a space dock for ships used to explore the universe and do exploits.    Lifestyle on the new earth will be perfect.  There will be holidays or holy days to celebrate the plan of God very similar to the ones given to the Hebrews of Old Time. There will be children born and people will get houses because of their virtue instead of money.  Wealth nowadays makes evil people appear righteous, but in those days the best people will have the most comfort.

 

What the Rebels did on Earth

 

      To answer the question, what effect did the Rebels have on our past; it is necessary to examine several other cultures and the relationship between them and their gods. The Greek gods are much the same as the Group from Egypt. There are too many to list in a survey of this type but some of the most popular ones are discussed here. The rest can be examined in Bulfinch's Mythology. Nearly every culture we examine is built around one or more gods, and the behavior of the people seems directly affected by what they perceive their gods would approve.

      To the Greeks, the gods were like human beings in form and attributes and possessed of the same weaknesses of character. The chief difference lay in the greater strength and beauty of the gods.

      While preaching in the city of Ephesus, the Apostle Paul recorded this story: Acts 19:24, "For a certain man named Demetrius, a silver smith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsman; 25 Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and he said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. 26 Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone in Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands: 27 So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at naught; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshipeth. 29 and the whole city was filled with confusion:.. 34... all (the whole city) with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians."

      Obviously, two worlds meet in this text, one side from Homers viewpoint, and another from the Bible, yet they describe a common scene.

      In Greece, there developed a number of Mystery Cults. They usually required some kind of initiation of the sensual nature, involving gluttony, drunkenness, and emotionality. These are likely the forerunners of our fraternities and sororities. 

 

The Roman Gods

 

      Probably the most similar ancient culture to our own is that of Rome, the eternal city. We make use of every device, custom, and resource the ancient Romans had in one way or another nowadays. Some differences may be that we do not pay tribute to their gods as they did, or in exactly the same manner, and their lack of technology protected them from the contagious evils spreading quickly in our time.      

      Of course, same as in Greece, the Mystery Cults appeared in Rome. Most noticeable was the Cebele Cult at Vatican Hill, it's festivals were said to have been marked by blood guzzling, self-mutilation, and dancing.

The Norse Gods

      According to legend, the Norse gods lived in Asgard, where the hall of heroes lay, called Valhalla. More can be found at that Website.

Aztec Religion

 

      Four primary gods appear in the Aztec religion. One was a regenerative god like others over the world, who is described as tall, white skinned with black hair and beautiful. Sacrifice seems to pervade the religious practices of the Aztecs. A ceremony was conducted where a dough image was raised on a stick and thrown down for everyone to partake.

      There was the state god, who demanded large numbers of human sacrifices. Temples were numerous over the land. It is said that some cities were well lit by the perpetual fires of the temples. The temple was built in the shape of a pyramid only filled inside and stair stepped outside. There was a walk way around the outside where a procession would go up to the altar on top.

      There was a god who demanded sacrifice, but only one per year. Every year, one man was chosen a year in advance. During that year, he was accorded the highest honors and lived in splendor being attended by four beautiful maids, who would gratify his every whim. When the time came to die, he would be taken to the top of one of the temples before a long procession and witnessed by everyone in town. There, he was stretched out on a concave stone and held by five priests, one on each limb and the last near his head, holding a long knife. At the climax of a ceremony, he was cut open, as he watched, and his heart was torn out and thrown to the feet of the stone Idol. The temples were supported by gifts and donations as well as by the produce from the lands it owned. All surplus was used for charity; this prevented the priesthood from becoming too rich.

 

Inca Religion

 

      The Inca Religion was much the same as the Aztecs. Inca was the name of the ruling family. This family oppressed the people with high taxes and severe laws. The ruler was always chosen from among the ruling family and he had to marry his older sister to insure the bloodline stayed pure. The Incas practiced their religion with perpetual fires and sacrifices including infant sacrifice. They worshipped Pachamac and Viracocha - heat and moisture. Somehow, the Incas maintained a high standard of living rivaling any in the world. They had clean streets with lights, architecture, and law administration more advanced than those in Europe. It is no secret that these advanced civilizations mysteriously disappeared. They fought among themselves, had little identifiable understanding of the nature of their existence, and yet they enjoyed a standard of living to rival any in the world. At the same time and in the same place we find evidence of higher intelligence that cannot be overlooked, like the Nazca Lines in Peru and the picture of a man in a rocket ship carved on a stone. This directly suggests there were once very intelligent people with advanced technology working in that area of the world. 

 

Rebels in recent Times

 

      We have seen evidence that powerful, intelligent people have been here in the past, and we have information that allows us to project what their agenda may be. All that remains to be examined is the question, Where are they now and what are they doing?

      President Carter said if he were elected, he would make public the Blue Book files; he did not. He claimed it was not within his power to do that - after he became President. Since those days, there have been many wonders still not explained.

      According to witnesses, there are some spaceships running about this world that we did not build. People complain they were abducted and molested by the creatures that occupy the ships.

      Some time ago, a TV program entitled 'Encounters' interviewed several people who claimed they had been abducted by aliens. They said something was placed in their bodies, usually their head, that affected them in different ways. One lady said she had something implanted in her brain which sometimes buzzes and gives her messages to stop her car or go outside, so she can be abducted again. Another woman was examined by doctors using a cat-scan who told her she had an unidentified object deep in her brain. They said it was not a tumor and it was much too deep for them to do surgery.

      Richard Price, of New Jersey, said he was abducted and a device was placed under his skin, which could be seen protruding. At some point, he said it worked its way out to the surface. He recovered the object and placed it into a container. Later, he took it to M.I.T. to be examined. They said Dr. David Prichard examined the device. Price said Prichard took several pictures of the object and confirmed wires or appendages, as he put it, sticking from it. Apparently, Price kept half the object and Prichard burned the other half in a mass spectrometer. Prichard reported there were no metal parts or anything that could be considered extraterrestrial.

       'Encounters' said thousands of people are claiming they have been abducted and implanted with something. They also said many people believe that any technology capable of implanting these devices could also make them from undetectable or biological materials.

      Psychologist, David Jacobs, had been studying the abduction phenomena for twelve years. He said the pattern is fairly clear, most people experience an event where something will be inserted in their nose, they will hear a crunching sound, and whatever was on the end of the instrument will no longer be there.

      It is still not resolved to the public what or who these creatures are and why they are using people like guinea pigs. There is only one group of powerful people known that might do these things, and there is no evidence they have left the planet.

      While researching this information, an account surfaced of a witness who claimed to have been part of an operation in the desert of Nevada, examining the spacecraft recovered in the Roswell Incident. He said that he had made his own examination in the company of officials, industrialists, and influential clergymen. He said that people were in a state of complete collapse and confusion as they realized their world had ended with such finality. He said that he saw five separate and distinct types of spacecraft being handled and studied by the Air Force officials - with the assistance and permission of the extraterrestrials. He said he felt a wave of pity as he watched the pathetic bewilderment of their brilliant minds struggling to make some kind of rational explanation that would allow them to retain their familiar theories and concepts.

      There is something about this statement that may add credibility. What would 'influential clergymen' be doing at a 20th century military operation? It's not often scientists invite religious people to visit top secret projects nowadays, or even years ago. It would not be reasonable to foresee such a detail in a story of this kind, and anyone fabricating a story like this would surely not add something so unlikely.

         A film was discovered a few years ago depicting an alleged autopsy of an alien recovered from the Roswell incident. The film aired on national TV and many people ordered copies. It was suggested the film was faked, even though experts could not find any evidence that the film was not genuine 1947 vintage Kodak. The opposition claimed because of the poor camera angles and erratic movements of the camera, it must be a scam. But it appears someone not familiar with filming was operating the camera, like perhaps a second lieutenant with little skill but very trustworthy. Speaking with a physician friend who viewed the film and who has performed many dissections, I learned that the technique used during this exploration was not like an autopsy, but as if they expected to find familiar things as during a dissection. He said the shape of the fingers and hands with six fingers were very natural which would be hard to fabricate. News reports said the alien bodies lay in the hot sun for three days, which would account for the swelling and the distended abdomen. He said the incisions made were done with some knowledge of the anatomy, otherwise they would have made several smaller cuts, instead of the longer ones needed to reveal the strange organs and joints. He noticed they removed a small plastic valve from the heart that is reminiscent of genetic weaknesses inherent in selective breeding.

         After speaking with the doctor, it occurred to me the Rebels may be running a bit thin in their gene pool.  It is noted by Enoch their life is 500 years and they tend to fight against one another, so they may be running out of brothers.  Notice all those bodies recovered from the crash site in Roswell were women.

         Another strange story is that of the Philadelphia Experiment, supposedly conducted by the U.S. Navy in 1941. Reportedly, they were working with Einstein's unified field theory, (that is to unify or align two or more physical forces like electromagnetism and gravity, or some other force) on a ship in the ocean when something went drastically wrong. It seems the project ended in tragedy when several crewmen burst into flame during the test. Other seamen became embedded in the metal of the ship and still others continued to lapse into partial invisibility while at home with their families or while in bars during shore leave. A participant in the early stages of Project Rainbow says that extraterrestrial contact had been made even then by certain of our scientists and government officials.

      Additional information on the Roswell incident concerns the disclosure of the documents known as "MJ-12" revealed the way US Military leaders enforced a lid of secrecy on UFOs in the past. Majestic-12 is a memo written on September 24, 1947, by order of President-elect Dwight Eisenhower on the details of a UFO that had crashed on July 7, 1947, in a remote region of New Mexico, approximately 75 miles northwest of Roswell Army Air Base. Four alien bodies had been recovered. The corpses were of smallish, large eyed beings. MJ-12 went on to describe how all military and civilian eye-witnesses to the downed UFO and it's alien crew had been 'debriefed' and a story of an errant weather balloon had been issued to the press.

      Efforts may have begun to discredit any individual who might later attempt to declare the reality of the crashed 'flying saucer' and it's strange occupants. Attachments to MJ-12 include such artifacts as a letter written by Truman to Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal, cautioning him that the 'ultimate disposition' of all matters related to UFOs should rest with the office of the President. Some information must have reached General McArthur, inspiring his 'war of the worlds' speech.

      More unqualified material says that "about 1954, Majestic-12, representing the Government, made a deal with the aliens which included a wide scale program of human abductions and cattle mutilation in exchange for advanced technology. According to the source, these abductions were explained as physical examinations designed to monitor the development and evolution of man."

      If these were really extraterrestrials, chances are they would not need to make any deals to get what they wanted. But, if they were the Rebel gods, under some kind of rules, they would need authority before they could act.

      A more recent anomaly occurred in Mexico City during a Solar Eclipse. As millions of people were standing, looking up into the sky, many became aware of ships just hanging in the air above their heads. There were three ships clearly visible to many that hung in the air at only a few thousand feet for over half an hour. Lots of people used the cameras, brought for the eclipse, to take pictures and videos of the ships. Fifteen or so were later aired on the Mexican equivalent to 20/20, and several were later aired on some U.S. stations.

      There are several interesting considerations surrounding this event. First, What has changed in our world in the last fifty years that makes it possible for people to stand and watch alien space ships in their presence and do nothing?  Not that long ago, while Orsen Wells was broadcasting a fantasy about men from Mars, thousands of people panicked and several committed suicide at the thought of being captured by the Martians. Yet nowadays, they stand and do nothing? Maybe something serious has already happened and we don't realize it.

      Secondly, there were plasma trails coming from those ships. I have never heard that aliens, or even the Rebels used conventional power systems to push their crafts along. The only explanation would be an alliance, or technology exchange with our government or some other powerful group, with no fear of the public. There is no way to guess what exactly is going on without more information.

      If someone wanted to corrupt and mislead the people, they would need to be in positions of power like, religious leaders, government officials, and so on. And if it is the agenda of the Rebels is to corrupt the earth, they would need to occupy these places, then it would not be surprising to find a conspiracy between government leaders, religious leaders, and the children of the Rebels.

      Other prophetic signs and wonders exist that only the Truth will explain. Thousands of years ago signs appeared in the Nazca Plain that could not have been done by the local residents. Anyone intelligent enough and able to create these things must have some kind of agenda, and anyone who is sincere would share that agenda with us.

            These examples are not the best, only the nearest to hand. Much more and better evidence will be seen on TV and in the media than is included here. It is not my intent to bring all or even new evidence to light here, but to suggest how to interpret what evidence there is in a reasonable manner. I think everything that has happened in our world can be explained within the conflict between the Kingdom and the Rebels.  

 

The use of Science against the Truth

 

      "Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next, they say it has been discovered before. Lastly, they say they have always believed it"

Louis Agassiz 

 

      While researching this material, many interesting things turned up that should be shared with the reader. I guess this chapter is directed to challenging some misconceptions about Science and the Bible that have somehow developed. In addition, the Bible was not part of the material used to discover answers until the very last, when I decided to use the Bible verses to bring another dimension to the report.

      It is strange that science is used to argue against the Bible. Perhaps it's because most people think science is too complex to argue with, so it makes a handy weapon. Fact is, science cannot be in conflict with the Bible, because they do not coincide. Science focuses on the observable quantifiable aspects of the universe and attempts to answer the question, How? While Scripture, on the other hand, deals with matters of faith and gives answers to the question, Why?

      It is recorded in the Book of Daniel that the children of Israel were "children in whom was no blemish, but well favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and understanding science..." It seems the Bible has nothing against science.

Radio Carbon Dating

 

       Radio carbon dating is one of the more popular arguments for the theory of evolution. That theory is used to argue against the Bible extensively; what is revealed here will bring things into a more realistic perspective for the reader.

      Radio carbon dating uses the radioactive isotope of carbon, of mass 14 with a half-life of about 5570 years. By measuring the emission of radioactivity from this isotope in a substance, and calculating the reduction from it's half life, and measuring the amount of decayed material present, scientists claim they can accurately date an object.

      Isotopes are elements. According to the Readers Digest Encyclopedic Dictionary, "Elements such as carbon... are composed of atoms having an invariant nuclear charge and cannot be decomposed by ordinary chemical means."  Since trees and animals do not have nuclear reactors in them, and digest food by 'ordinary chemical means', they must not affect the elements that pass through them. And if they don't compose or decompose elements, but only use them and the decay material from the food they eat, How do these things relate to any measurement of age?

      Since elements are passed from one living thing to another; say a tree to be eaten by a giraffe, which is then eaten by a lion, and so forth, How would it reflect on the age of any of these things if the element were taken and measured by a scientist somewhere along the way? Elements that were once a dinosaur, and then a rock, and a dozen other things, may now be part of my arm.

       For example: If I take pieces of pottery dated at 50 thousand years of age, smash them to powder, then shape it into a coffee cup, fire it to remove the water, and bring it to a lab, one of two results must occur. The scientists must conclude the cup is 50 thousand years old, or they must use some other standard for dating the cup. If they use different standards, all they say is in error. The same principle applies to everything in the world. We cannot judge the age of the mountain by the age of the dust. 

      Similar problems exist with the Potassium-Argon and Argon-Argon techniques for measuring the age of rocks. Some scientists say we can date rocks by measuring the amount of Argon produced by decaying Potassium, which decays at a steady rate. First we must assume no Argon is present when the potassium begins to decay. Second, we must assume there is no other way for Argon to get into the rock; and Thirdly, we must assume all the Argon present is radiogenic in origin, that is, produced by the Potassium. All these assumptions are false. First, rocks heated to 700-800 degrees can absorb high amounts of Argon from surrounding sources. Second, there is absolutely no way to determine radiogenic Argon from Argon already present, or from another source. Dacite was taken from Mt. St. Helens known to be only 10 years old because people watched while it came out. It was carefully preserved, prepared, then tested over 2 million years of age. Similar results have come from volcanos around the world including Hawai, Mt Etna in Sicily, Mt Lassen plagioclase in California, and Sunset Crater in Arizona.

 

Entropy

 

      The first and second law of thermodynamics have to do with entropy. The first law basically says, you can't get back all the energy you put into something. The second law says you can't even come close to getting back all the energy you put into something. Even the Dictionary defines entropy,

      "The irreversible tendency of a system, including the universe, toward increasing disorder and inert-ness."

      That means the universe is decreasing in complexity; decaying and running down and so is this planet and everything on it. While it may not seem the earth is rotting under our feet, we must remember, this is not a closed system. We get energy from the sun, which keeps the wind blowing and the grass growing. Even so, we do not increase in complexity, we just decrease at a slower rate.

      Three things must be present to increase complexity; information, power, and work. Using these things, we can increase complexity to the limit of our ability. For example, we can take a pile of steel and plastic and other materials and make a car. Now the car is more complex than it was as raw materials, but if it sits long enough, it will revert back to the materials it was made of.

      Creation of life is against the way of nature. It would take a great deal of power and intelligence to organize and compose the basic processes of life in millions of organisms, not to mention them interacting with one another. The idea that all this could have developed from primordial scum is ludicrous. Things decay, they do not become more complex and leap to life. This pattern is clear in nature as plants and animals do not become more complex, they adapt or they die, but they do not form more complex or higher abilities. A gene pool can stay pure or it can weaken, but it cannot ascend to a higher level. Using intelligence and energy and work, we can selectively breed a variety into a stronger variety, but we cannot make one species into another. Left without information and intelligence to guide our civilization, things would degenerate back to the way they began. There can be no crossing the barrier of species as we know it. Charles Darwin never said creatures could cross that line. He said that reproduction was species specific and, "individual variations advantageous to an organism tend to become perpetuated in later generations." In his words, "survival of the fittest" ensues. So, without some powerful force and intelligent work, nothing can be created or ascend to a more complex form. In short, evolution as a general theory, that is that man came from a lower life form, is a most impossible hypothesis. 

The Zebra

 

      Evolutionists claim organisms evolved individually from lesser life forms, yet mutation is almost always degenerative, so that it rarely produces a stronger characteristic.

      Consider the Zebra. The primary defense of the Zebra are it's stripes, which do not function as camouflage, but serve to prevent visual selection of a single animal within the herd. The predator must select a single animal before attacking, and it is common to see a lion rush up and begin to look about in confusion, unable to select a victim. Only when one is outside the visual scope of the heard, can he focus on it for prey.

      Most grass eating beasts live in herds but depend on other types of defense i.e. speed, horns, massive size or sheer number, for their survival.

      Genetically, what inside an organism could design a defense mechanism based upon proximity to its environment and the complex limitations of it's primary predator?

 

Prehistoric Climate

 

      Archaeologists say the average temperature of the earth was much warmer during dinosaur times. Evidence includes fossils of vegetation and dinosaurs found all over the world that could not survive cold weather.

      Anytime a planet gets direct sunlight, and it has an atmosphere, it will also have weather patterns, because of the uneven warming of its surface. There is no evidence of weather patterns during pre-historic times.

      In the beginning of the world, the air would have been thick and the temperature constant. There would have been a thick layer of water surrounding the planet and preventing weather patterns of heat and cold. According to the Bible, it did not rain during the first age of the world. Genesis 2:6, "But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground". It is recorded that God made the 'firmament' and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above it. The thick shroud of water that surrounded the earth in those days would have created a greenhouse effect, and it would also block the Ultraviolet rays from the sun which cause aging. It is recorded that men lived over nine hundred years in that age of the world. It would also explain where the water came from to produce a world-wide flood while simultaneously changing the climate of the world.

      Dinosaurs could not have lived in direct sunlight. They had no sweat glands and could not dissipate heat quickly enough. Consider the amount of heat generated by a 12 ton animal chasing it's prey about 60 miles per hour in the bright sunlight.

      What is more, they could not sit on their eggs like chickens, so, at night when the temperature dropped, the embryos would have died.

      Huge flying dinosaurs could not have flown in a thin viscosity, but need a thick viscous medium to support their weight. Today, the largest creature able to fly is a condor, with a wing span of only about ten feet, and they are barely able to get airborne.

 

Archaeology

 

      Physical evidence extant today from the shaping of the earth by powerful forces leaves a record for all to see. What scientists insist took millions of years to form may have been reformed in very short time. Mysteries like that of a man's foot print inside that of a saber toothed tiger is only a mystery if we accept the evolution theory. According to the Bible, in the First Age of the world, there were 'monsters in the earth in those days'.

      The evidence we have may actually support the creation model better than the evolution model. The following information came from a speech given by Dr. Henry Morris, who was quoting another author, also named Morris, who wrote a little book entitled Science and the Bible. Dr. Morris was an engineer specializing in Hydrodynamics and Archaeology.

      He says that sedimentary rocks of the earth's crust probably provide the most vexing problem we have in correlating science and the Bible. If you really press the people who reject the Bible on any kind of a basis, particularly an intellectual basis, you'll find that fundamentally it boils down to their belief that the first chapters of genesis have been disproved be science. And they use that as a basis for all sorts of other intellectual, philosophical, and scientific arguments that they might have against the Bible. They're so convinced that the earth is billions of years old and that life has been gradually changing over those long ages, and on that account they see that the account in Genesis can't be true. All you have to do is read the first chapter of the Bible to know that it is completely unscientific. It talks about everything being made in six days. Then you add up the numbers in Genesis five and eleven and you get several thousand years. In order to fit the geological age system in, you have to resort to a very strained interpretation such as the Day-Age theory, and so on. Most people recognize that it cannot match and they're so sure that geology and evolution is true they reject the Bible out of hand.

      Even though, as we study the fossil record, we see that no transitional series from one kind to another kind exists. Still, we have some answers that explain what the fossil record does represent.

 First we should ask, Has God been creating things over the long ages? Why would he do that? What basis do we have for believing in the literal Genesis flood? Because that's the key to the interpretation of earth history. It could not be interpreted as a local flood. It was a world-wide cataclysm, according to the Bible, which destroyed the world. But the system of geology which has been in effect for over one hundred fifty years precludes a world-wide cataclysm such as the flood.

Now back in the beginning of the science of geology, back in the seventeen and eighteen centuries, the geologists were flood geologists. They did interpret the geological strata and the rocks and fossils to be the products of the flood of Noah. These were intelligent men, outstanding in their professions. Men like Isaac Newton at Cambridge, believed that and wrote books on flood geology. Steno, the father of stratigrophy believed in the flood; his principles of stratigrophy are still in effect and used today. So these were competent men who founded geology, but with the coming of the nineteenth century, the pendulum shifted away from that idea.

Buthaw and Hutton and Lyell in particular, who was the immediate predecessor and colleague of Darwin, decided that we didn't have to have a flood or any other type of catastrophe to interpret the structure of the earth's crust, but rather we could interpret it in terms of present processes. And so the watch word came to be, 'the present is the key to the past'. And if you're going to explain the great beds of sedimentary rocks and the great canyons and all the other geological features in terms of present processes, which operate slowly, then of course, you have to have long ages of time. And having long ages of time does provide the chronological framework to make evolution and natural selection feasible; and Darwin, of course, briefly acknowledges his debt to Lyell, that he had provided the time needed to make natural selection operative. The key premise then in the interpretation of earth history through the study of geology has been uniformitarianism. The last chapter that the apostle Paul wrote says, he wants to stir up their minds, and this is significant because the context is the last days; and then he says, "There shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own lust and saying where is the promise of His coming, for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."

That's only the doctrine of continuity or uniformity. All things continue as they were not from the end of creation, but from the beginning of creation. In other words, everything that ever was can be explained in terms of processes that still continue. This is the doctrine of uniformity. Paul says, those who hold the doctrine of uniformity are willingly ignorant. The evidence is against them and they won't look at it, and the true framework of history is creation and the flood.

Earth history by the historical geologists has been developed around the concept of the geological column. This is supposed to represent the actual vertical cross-section through the earth's crust from the surface to the crystalline basement on the bottom. This might be anywhere from zero, there are some places where the crystalline basement is practically at the surface, the average might be perhaps a mile, to several thousand feet. At the bottom, you find very old rock identified as Cambrian, in which there are tiny marine vertebrates. Then, as you go up through the Paleozoic Era, you get to the place where there are some vertebrates, fish shark, or lungfish. The higher up Pennsylvanian and Mississippi is where we find the reptiles, and finally as we cross the boundary between the Paleozoic era, which is the era of ancient life, into the Mesozoic era of intermediate life, we reach the age of the reptiles. The age of the reptiles upward comes the great dinosaurs and finally the end of the Crustaeous period about seven million years ago, we get into the age of birds and mammals and find their fossils in the rocks. Finally, toward the top, maybe the Pliocene, certainly the Pleistocene, we find human fossils. The idea is, of course, you find intermediate hominids and hominid in the Tersery leading up to man from some common ancestor with the apes.

One question that might immediately be asked is, Where do we go to actually check this out in the field? The only place this column exists is in a textbook. The local geological column will be vastly different from this. It won't have near all these different ages or formations or anything like that. It'll have a certain portion of them, and of course the geologist will try to fit the local column, as he researches and studies the rocks and fossils in his locality, he'll try to fit that into the standard column. If this were complete, if we had the type locations of all of these, all in one place, it would be a very thick column. Instead of being an average of a mile, it would be over a hundred miles. But by application of the principle of superposition, lithographic identification, recognition of uniformities and reference to fossil succession, both the thick and the thin masses are correlated with other beds at other sites where there is established in detail the stratigraphic succession for all geological ages. So by these principles, this has gradually built up, mostly in England but some in Europe, and New York, until it's been taken for a standard for all other parts of the world.

So, how do you determine the age of a rock? The column isn't out there, so How do you determine where to fit it into the column? How do you get a geological age? Most people think geologists can just tell by looking, old rocks look old and young rocks look young. But is isn't that easy, because nothing about the nature of a rock tells you the age. You can find lime stones and basalts and granites and conglomerates and rocks of every kind in every age. What's more, you can find minerals, metals, and structures of all types in all ages. You would think that the rocks on the bottom would be the oldest, but that isn't always true either. Even superposition doesn't tell you the age of a rock. Boundaries between eras, periods, and epochs generally denote sudden and significant changes in the character of fossil remains. For example, the boundary between the Triassic and the Jurassic periods, of the Mesozoic, about one hundred eighty million years ago, was supposedly marked by a spontaneous appearance of a new species. This did not turn out to be true at all. There are marine invertebrate which lived only a short time in history and throughout history, that scientists have identified and classified and now use as "index fossils". The Trilobite is the index fossil in the Cambrian, the Ammonite in the Jurassic and so on. But how do you know which fossils go in what age?

According to the accepted method, this is accomplished by the only chronometric scale which is furnished by these fossils, and owing to the irreversibility of evolution. In other words, by the stage of life in an assemblage going from simple to complex organisms. That would be OK says Mr. Morris, but How do we date the fossils, by the age of the rocks they are in? And how do we date the rocks? Well, by the fossils that are in them. So here we go round and round dating each by the other and all owing to the irreversibility of evolution based on the arrangement of fossils from simple to complex. Even this might be OK if there were no conflicts or anomalies to explain which tend to upset the theory. But there are.

Since science and geology don't even support the evolution model, these conflicts and anomalies must be a key to understanding the geology, and so, the events of the past. Some of these anomalies include large graveyards or deposits of dinosaur bones all over the world. Not only dinosaurs, but also elephants, tigers, and fish were found fossilized in many different areas. Obviously, fish do not become fossilized by ordinary uniformitarian means. If a fish dies, it floats to the surface and decays or is eaten by other fish. In order for these graveyards to exist, not only did all the fish have to die at once, but they had to be suddenly buried by a huge catastrophe. Otherwise they wouldn't be fossils at all.

Dr. Morris discussed other evidence to do with hydrodynamics of sedimentary deposition. One point he made is the large number of variables that affect the transport and the sedimentary process. Some of the variables include; viscosity of the liquid, diameter of the sediment, depth, velocity, and bed roughness. He said each one of the strata in the earth is deposited by a system with all the above variables. If any one of these variables changed then the deposition of the sediment also changes. What is more, no system lasts more than a few hours or days at most. He says, each formation in the earth represents a rapid deposition represented by the fossils in the formation, the hydraulic nature of the strata and so forth.

      What the evidence does support however, is the flood model where the simple to complex arrangement would be caused by the hydrodynamic process. In addition, if evolution is not true, then you would not be surprised when you find anomalies like the footprint of a man inside that of a saber toothed tiger, or a dinosaur like that seen in the Biloxi river bottom, which proves man lived at the same time as these creatures. The creation model is easier to believe based on the evidence we have.

      Beside the physical evidence, if we examine some of the social behavior of man, there may be patterns that reveal something about our history. Following is an idea from the late professor C.S. Lewis, that implies that the Bible may be more insightful than previously suspected.

 

Psychology

 

      Oxford Don and Cambridge Dean, C.S. Lewis wrote extensively about Bible issues, usually to the end of rendering them into the common speech and understanding.

      He says, when we argue with someone using statements like; 'Give me a bit of your orange, I gave you a bit of mine,' or 'That's my seat, I was there first', or even 'How would you like it if someone did the same to you?' What we are really saying is we have the same values and we expect them to have the same values as we have. Whatever this law of nature or rule of fair play is in our mind, it is in everybody's mind. No matter where we are in the world, or what the circumstance, we share a common understanding with other people. Otherwise, we could not argue in the common sense at all, but we might fight like dogs.

      Who knows how long this common understanding has been in effect, but how could we have evolved such that everybody has the same software? Perhaps this verse from the Bible concerns this idea.

      Hebrews 10:16, "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, Saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them."

 

Summary

 

      Ancient writings from Homer and from the Bible agree there were other gods on earth in the past. Eric Von Daniken provides evidence of objects that were produced by a higher intelligence, which points to someone powerful who does not appear. Evidence exists today of a nuclear blast in Russia before we had the technology. Who did that? Ancient temples and statues all over the world testify to the presence of powerful visitors in our past.

      From this evidence it is reasonable to conclude powerful, intelligent, and very long lived people once lived on this planet in the distant past. Under a series of names like Zeus, Osiris, Apollo, and Ishtar, it is obvious the same gods existed from one culture to another over thousands of years. Symbols exist with the same meaning between cultures that could not have had contact.

      Characterized by their evil lifestyles filled with murder, sexual excesses, and corruption, the Rebels have left a clear trail throughout history. Enoch clearly describes their behavior patterns and their place in the beginning. In Egypt, there is the Book of the Dead and the Pyramids, along with idols and artifacts found in the tombs of the kings, that tell of their gods. In Peru, there are the Inca temples and engraved stones that tell of the human sacrifices to their gods. In Rome, there is literature and statues in abundance that describe their gods and their evil way of life.

      Cleverly mixed with Christianity, it contaminated the first Christian Religion that sprang up in the New Age. While allegiance is the central focus of the Bible, we are corrupted to the point that allegiance to the Rebels is traditional in our culture. For example, the 'Caduceus' or 'staff of Hermes' is our symbol for medicine, while Hermes was he conductor of the dead to hell!

      In order to become a member of many fraternities and professions, it is required to take an ancient oath to one of the Rebel gods.

      Secret organizations exist in almost every city nowadays where, under the guise of a social club, or fraternity of brethren doing good, people ignorantly practice the Mystery Religion of Old.

      The meaning of things is becoming clear as we see that science really has no case against the Bible. Carbon 14, evolution, and the results of archaeology are not at all what we thought they were; they support the Bible more than any other model. Archaeological evidence shows the world was destroyed by a catastrophic flood that lasted about eighteen months.

      People everywhere can examine themselves to find a common moral code imprinted on their conscience. Hebrews 10:16, "Saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them." What we think of as a conscience is common to all people of the world.

      Still more evidence is found in the present. Unidentified flying ships are reported all over the world nowadays. Thousands of people are complaining they have been abducted by the occupants of these ships and molested with needles and probes while being operated on against their will.

      Evidence has surfaced that indicates somebody is covering up vital facts about what they think are extraterrestrials. Simple logic ought to occur in the minds of the government that if the aliens were genuine, Why would they need permission to take what they want? And Why wouldn't they contact us openly and in public?

      After examining writings from ancient times, along with physical evidence still in existence, and the same from different periods since, some amazing conclusions must be reached. First, we are not alone. That is, other kinds of beings are here too. There is too much evidence to deny like; The great Pyramid, the designs on the Nazca plain, ancient writings, even modern phenomena. This should convince anyone, except those who have private reasons to disbelieve.

            According to the Bible, Satan and the sons of God were coming and going from heaven to earth since the beginning until Christ came. Job 1:6, "Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. 7. And the lord said to Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From the earth, and from walking up and down in it."

      The Bible has been accurate in every aspect of this investigation, and it is the only book that explains everything. If it is accurate about the future as well, the end may not be far away.

 

The Book of Enoch

Section I. Chapters I-XXXVI

INTRODUCTION

 

The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect and righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are to be removed. And he took up his parable and said -Enoch a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God, saw the vision of the Holy One in the heavens, which the angels showed me, and from them I heard everything, and from them I understood as I saw, but not for this generation, but for a remote one which is for to come. Concerning the elect I said, and took up my parable concerning them:

The Holy Great One will come forth from His dwelling,
And the eternal God will tread upon the earth, (even) on Mount Sinai,
[And appear from His camp]
And appear in the strength of His might from the heaven of heavens.

And all shall be smitten with fear
And the Watchers shall quake,
And great fear and trembling shall seize them unto the ends of the earth.

And the high mountains shall be shaken,
And the high hills shall be made low,
And shall melt like wax before the flame

And the earth shall be wholly rent in sunder,
And all that is upon the earth shall perish,
And there shall be a judgement upon all (men).

But with the righteous He will make peace.

And will protect the elect,
And mercy shall be upon them.

And they shall all belong to God,
And they shall be prospered,
And they shall all be blessed.

And He will help them all,
And light shall appear unto them,
And He will make peace with them'.

And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones
To execute judgement upon all,
And to destroy all the ungodly:

And to convict all flesh
Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed,
And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

 

Observe ye everything that takes place in the heaven, how they do not change their orbits, and the luminaries which are in the heaven, how they all rise and set in order each in its season, and transgress not against their appointed order. Behold ye the earth, and give heed to the things which take place upon it from first to last, how steadfast they are, how none of the things upon earth change, but all the works of God appear to you. Behold the summer and the winter, how the whole earth is filled with water, and clouds and dew and rain lie upon it.

Observe and see how (in the winter) all the trees seem as though they had withered and shed all their leaves, except fourteen trees, which do not lose their foliage but retain the old foliage from two to three years till the new comes.

 

And again, observe ye the days of summer how the sun is above the earth over against it. And you seek shade and shelter by reason of the heat of the sun, and the earth also burns with growing heat, and so you cannot tread on the earth, or on a rock by reason of its heat.

Observe ye how the trees cover themselves with green leaves and bear fruit: wherefore give ye heed and know with regard to all His works, and recognize how He that liveth for ever hath made them so. And all His works go on thus from year to year for ever, and all the tasks which they accomplish for Him, and their tasks change not, but according as God hath ordained so is it done. And behold how the sea and the rivers in like manner accomplish and change not their tasks from His commandments'.

But ye -ye have not been steadfast, nor done the commandments of the Lord,
But ye have turned away and spoken proud and hard words
With your impure mouths against His greatness.
Oh, ye hard-hearted, ye shall find no peace.

Therefore shall ye execrate your days,
And the years of your life shall perish,
And the years of your destruction shall be multiplied in eternal execration,
And ye shall find no mercy.

In those days ye shall make your names an eternal execration unto all the righteous,
And by you shall all who curse, curse,
And all the sinners and godless shall imprecate by you,
And for you the godless there shall be a curse.

And all the . . . shall rejoice,
And there shall be forgiveness of sins,
And every mercy and peace and forbearance:
There shall be salvation unto them, a goodly light.

And for all of you sinners there shall be no salvation,
But on you all shall abide a curse.
But for the elect there shall be light and joy and peace,
And they shall inherit the earth.

And then there shall be bestowed upon the elect wisdom,
And they shall all live and never again sin,
Either through ungodliness or through pride:
But they who are wise shall be humble.

And they shall not again transgress,
Nor shall they sin all the days of their life,
Nor shall they die of (the divine) anger or wrath,
But they shall complete the number of the days of their life.

And their lives shall be increased in peace,
And the years of their joy shall be multiplied,
In eternal gladness and peace,
All the days of their life.

 

And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.' And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.' And they all answered him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.' Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And these are the names of their leaders: Samlazaz, their leader, Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal, Asael, Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaqel, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel. These are their chiefs of tens.

And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.

And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjaza taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, 'Armaros the resolving of enchantments, Baraqijal (taught) astrology, Kokabel the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiel the signs of the earth, Shamsiel the signs of the sun, and Sariel the course of the moon. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven . . .

And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven and saw much blood being shed upon the earth, and all lawlessness being wrought upon the earth. And they said one to another: 'The earth made without inhabitant cries the voice of their cryingst up to the gates of heaven. And now to you, the holy ones of heaven, the souls of men make their suit, saying, "Bring our cause before the Most High."' And they said to the Lord of the ages: 'Lord of lords, God of gods, King of kings, and God of the ages, the throne of Thy glory (standeth) unto all the generations of the ages, and Thy name holy and glorious and blessed unto all the ages! Thou hast made all things, and power over all things hast Thou: and all things are naked and open in Thy sight, and Thou seest all things, and nothing can hide itself from Thee. Thou seest what Azazel hath done, who hath taught all unrighteousness on earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were (preserved) in heaven, which men were striving to learn: And Semjaza, to whom Thou hast given authority to bear rule over his associates. And they have gone to the daughters of men upon the earth, and have slept with the women, and have defiled themselves, and revealed to them all kinds of sins. And the women have borne giants, and the whole earth has thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness. And now, behold, the souls of those who have died are crying and making their suit to the gates of heaven, and their lamentations have ascended: and cannot cease because of the lawless deeds which are wrought on the earth. And Thou knowest all things before they come to pass, and Thou seest these things and Thou dost suffer them, and Thou dost not say to us what we are to do to them in regard to these.'

 

Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech, and said to him: 'Go to Noah and tell him in my name "Hide thyself!" and reveal to him the end that is approaching: that the whole earth will be destroyed, and a deluge is about to come upon the whole earth, and will destroy all that is on it. And now instruct him that he may escape and his seed may be preserved for all the generations of the world.' And again the Lord said to Raphael: 'Bind Azazel hand and foot, and cast him into the darkness: and make an opening in the desert, which is in Dudael, and cast him therein. And place upon him rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with darkness, and let him abide there for ever, and cover his face that he may , not see light. And on the day of the great judgement he shall be cast into the fire. And heal the earth which the angels have corrupted, and proclaim the healing of the earth, that they may heal the plague, and that all the children of men may not perish through all the secret things that the Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons. And the whole earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azazel: to him ascribe all sin.' And to Gabriel said the Lord: 'Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates, and against the children of fornication: and destroy [the children of fornication and] the children of the Watchers from amongst men [and cause them to go forth]: send them one against the other that they may destroy each other in battle: for length of days shall they not have. And no request that they (i.e. their fathers) make of thee shall be granted unto their fathers on their behalf; for they hope to live an eternal life, and that each one of them will live five hundred years.' And the Lord said unto Michael: 'Go, bind Semjaza and his associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves with them in all their uncleanness. And when their sons have slain one another, and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of their judgement and of their consummation, till the judgement that is for ever and ever is consummated. In those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire: and to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for ever. And whosoever shall be condemned and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with them to the end of all generations. And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and the children of the Watchers, because they have wronged mankind. Destroy all wrong from the face of the earth and let every evil work come to an end: and let the plant of righteousness and truth appear: and it shall prove a blessing; the works of righteousness and truth' shall be planted in truth and joy for evermore.

And then shall all the righteous escape,
And shall live till they beget thousands of children,
And all the days of their youth and their old age
Shall they complete in peace.

And then shall the whole earth be tilled in righteousness, and shall all be planted with trees and be full of blessing. And all desirable trees shall be planted on it, and they shall plant vines on it: and the vine which they plant thereon shall yield wine in abundance, and as for all the seed which is sown thereon each measure (of it) shall bear a thousand, and each measure of olives shall yield ten presses of oil. And cleanse thou the earth from all oppression, and from all unrighteousness, and from all sin, and from all godlessness: and all the uncleanness that is wrought upon the earth destroy from off the earth. And all the children of men shall become righteous, and all nations shall offer adoration and shall praise Me, and all shall worship Me. And the earth shall be cleansed from all defilement, and from all sin, and from all punishment, and from all torment, and I will never again send (them) upon it from generation to generation and for ever.

And in those days I will open the store chambers of blessing which are in the heaven, so as to send them down upon the earth over the work and labour of the children of men. And truth and peace shall be associated together throughout all the days of the world and throughout all the generations of men.'

Before these things Enoch was hidden, and no one of the children of men knew where he was hidden, and where he abode, and what had become of him. And his activities had to do with the Watchers, and his days were with the holy ones. And I Enoch was blessing the Lord of majesty and the King of the ages, and lo! the Watchers called me -Enoch the scribe- and said to me: 'Enoch, thou scribe of righteousness, go, declare to the Watchers of the heaven who have left the high heaven, the holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves with women, and have done as the children of earth do, and have taken unto themselves wives: "Ye have wrought great destruction on the earth: And ye shall have no peace nor forgiveness of sin: and inasmuch as they delight themselves in their children, The murder of their beloved ones shall they see, and over the destruction of their children shall they lament, and shall make supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye not attain."'

And Enoch went and said: 'Azazel, thou shalt have no peace: a severe sentence has gone forth against thee to put thee in bonds: And thou shalt not have toleration nor request granted to thee, because of the unrighteousness which thou hast taught, and because of all the works of godlessness and unrighteousness and sin which thou hast shown to men.' Then I went and spoke to them all together, and they were all afraid, and fear and trembling seized them. And they besought me to draw up a petition for them that they might find forgiveness, and to read their petition in the presence of the Lord of heaven. For from thenceforward they could not speak (with Him) nor lift up their eyes to heaven for shame of their sins for which they had been condemned. Then I wrote out their petition, and the prayer in regard to their spirits and their deeds individually and in regard to their requests that they should have forgiveness and length. And I went off and sat down at the waters of Dan, in the land of Dan, to the south of the west of Hermon: I read their petition till I fell asleep. And behold a dream came to me, and visions fell down upon me, and I saw visions of chastisement, and a voice came bidding (me) I to tell it to the sons of heaven, and reprimand them. And when I awaked, I came unto them, and they were all sitting gathered together, weeping in 'Abelsjail, which is between Lebanon and Seneser, with their faces covered. And I recounted before them all the visions which I had seen in sleep, and I began to speak the words of righteousness, and to reprimand the heavenly Watchers.

The book of the words of righteousness, and of the reprimand of the eternal Watchers in accordance with the command of the Holy Great One in that vision. I saw in my sleep what I will now say with a tongue of flesh and with the breath of my mouth: which the Great One has given to men to converse therewith and understand with the heart. As He has created and given to man the power of understanding the word of wisdom, so hath He created me also and given me the power of reprimanding the Watchers, the children of heaven. I wrote out your petition, and in my vision it appeared thus, that your petition will not be granted unto you throughout all the days of eternity, and that judgement has been finally passed upon you: yea (your petition) will not be granted unto you. And from henceforth you shall not ascend into heaven unto all eternity, and in bonds of the earth the decree has gone forth to bind you for all the days of the world. And (that) previously you shall have seen the destruction of your beloved sons and ye shall have no pleasure in them, but they shall fall before you by the sword. And your petition on their behalf shall not be granted, nor yet on your own: even though you weep and pray and speak all the words contained in the writing which I have written. And the vision was shown to me thus: Behold, in the vision clouds invited me and a mist summoned me, and the course of the stars and the lightnings sped and hastened me, and the winds in the vision caused me to fly and lifted me upward, and bore me into heaven. And I went in till I drew nigh to a wall which is built of crystals and surrounded by tongues of fire: and it began to affright me. And I went into the tongues of fire and drew nigh to a large house which was built of crystals: and the walls of the house were like a tesselated floor (made) of crystals, and its groundwork was of crystal. Its ceiling was like the path of the stars and the lightnings, and between them were fiery cherubim, and their heaven was (clear as) water. A flaming fire surrounded the walls, and its portals blazed with fire. And I entered into that house, and it was hot as fire and cold as ice: there were no delights of life therein: fear covered me, and trembling got hold upon me. And as I quaked and trembled, I fell upon my face. And I beheld a vision, And lo! there was a second house, greater than the former, and the entire portal stood open before me, and it was built of flames of fire. And in every respect it so excelled in splendour and magnificence and extent that I cannot describe to you its splendour and its extent. And its floor was of fire, and above it were lightnings and the path of the stars, and its ceiling also was flaming fire. And I looked and saw therein a lofty throne: its appearance was as crystal, and the wheels thereof as the shining sun, and there was the vision of cherubim. And from underneath the throne came streams of flaming fire so that I could not look thereon. And the Great Glory sat thereon, and His raiment shone more brightly than the sun and was whiter than any snow. None of the angels could enter and could behold His face by reason of the magnificence and glory and no flesh could behold Him. The flaming fire was round about Him, and a great fire stood before Him, and none around could draw nigh Him: ten thousand times ten thousand (stood) before Him, yet He needed no counselor. And the most holy ones who were nigh to Him did not leave by night nor depart from Him. And until then I had been prostrate on my face, trembling: and the Lord called me with His own mouth, and said to me: ' Come hither, Enoch, and hear my word.' And one of the holy ones came to me and waked me, and He made me rise up and approach the door: and I bowed my face downwards.

And He answered and said to me, and I heard His voice: 'Fear not, Enoch, thou righteous man and scribe of righteousness: approach hither and hear my voice. And go, say to the Watchers of heaven, who have sent thee to intercede for them: "You should intercede" for men, and not men for you: Wherefore have ye left the high, holy, and eternal heaven, and lain with women, and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men and taken to yourselves wives, and done like the children of earth, and begotten giants (as your) sons? And though ye were holy, spiritual, living the eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the blood of women, and have begotten (children) with the blood of flesh, and, as the children of men, have lusted after flesh and blood as those also do who die and perish. Therefore have I given them wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget children by them, that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth. But you were formerly spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all generations of the world. And therefore I have not appointed wives for you; for as for the spiritual ones of the heaven, in heaven is their dwelling. And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling. Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men and from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called. [As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth shall be their dwelling.] And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble: they take no food, but nevertheless hunger and thirst, and cause offences. And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them.

From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death of the giants, from the souls of whose flesh the spirits, having gone forth, shall destroy without incurring judgement -thus shall they destroy until the day of the consummation, the great judgement in which the age shall be consummated, over the Watchers and the godless, yea, shall be wholly consummated." And now as to the watchers who have sent thee to intercede for them, who had been aforetime in heaven, (say to them): "You have been in heaven, but all the mysteries had not yet been revealed to you, and you knew worthless ones, and these in the hardness of your hearts you have made known to the women, and through these mysteries women and men work much evil on earth." Say to them therefore: " You have no peace."'

And they took and brought me to a place in which those who were there were like flaming fire, and, when they wished, they appeared as men. And they brought me to the place of darkness, and to a mountain the point of whose summit reached to heaven. And I saw the places of the luminaries and the treasuries of the stars and of the thunder and in the uttermost depths, where were a fiery bow and arrows and their quiver, and a fiery sword and all the lightnings. And they took me to the living waters, and to the fire of the west, which receives every setting of the sun. And I came to a river of fire in which the fire flows like water and discharges itself into the great sea towards the west. I saw the great rivers and came to the great river and to the great darkness, and went to the place where no flesh walks. I saw the mountains of the darkness of winter and the place whence all the waters of the deep flow. I saw the mouths of all the rivers of the earth and the mouth of the deep.

I saw the treasuries of all the winds: I saw how He had furnished with them the whole creation and the firm foundations of the earth. And I saw the corner-stone of the earth: I saw the four winds which bear [the earth and] the firmament of the heaven. And I saw how the winds stretch out the vaults of heaven, and have their station between heaven and earth: these are the pillars of the heaven. I saw the winds of heaven which turn and bring the circumference of the sun and all the stars to their setting. I saw the winds on the earth carrying the clouds: I saw the paths of the angels. I saw at the end of the earth the firmament of the heaven above. And I proceeded and saw a place which burns day and night, where there are seven mountains of magnificent stones, three towards the east, and three towards the south. And as for those towards the east, was of coloured stone, and one of pearl, and one of jacinth, and those towards the south of red stone. But the middle one reached to heaven like the throne of God, of alabaster, and the summit of the , throne was of sapphire. And I saw a flaming fire. And beyond these mountains Is a region the end of the great earth: there the heavens were completed. And I saw a deep abyss, with columns of heavenly fire, and among them I saw columns of fire fall, which were beyond measure alike towards the height and towards the depth. And beyond that abyss I saw a place which had no firmament of the heaven above, and no firmly founded earth beneath it: there was no water upon it, and no birds, but it was a waste and horrible place. I saw there seven stars like great burning mountains, and to me, when I inquired regarding them, The angel said: 'This place is the end of heaven and earth: this has become a prison for the stars and the host of heaven. And the stars which roll over the fire are they which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord in the beginning of their rising, because they did not come forth at their appointed times. And He was wroth with them, and bound them till the time when their guilt should be consummated (even) for ten thousand years.'

And Uriel said to me: 'Here shall stand the angels who have connected themselves with women, and their spirits assuming many different forms are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to demons as gods, (here shall they stand,) till the day of the great judgement in which they shall be judged till they are made an end of. And the women also of the angels who went astray shall become sirens.' And I, Enoch, alone saw the vision, the ends of all things: and no man shall see as I have seen.

, And these are the names of the holy angels who watch. Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is over the world and over Tartarus. Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men. , Raguel, one of the holy angels who takes vengeance on the world of the luminaries. Michael, one of the holy angels, to wit, he that is set over the best part of mankind and over chaos. Saraqael, one of the holy angels, who is set over the spirits, who sin in the spirit. Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who is over Paradise and the serpents and the Cherubim. Remiel, one of the holy angels, whom God set over those who rise.

, And I proceeded to where things were chaotic. And I saw there something horrible: I saw neither a heaven above nor a firmly founded earth, but a place chaotic and horrible. And there I saw seven stars of the heaven bound together in it, like great mountains and burning with fire. Then I said: 'For what sin are they bound, and on what account have they been cast in hither?' Then said Uriel, one of the holy angels, who was with me, and was chief over them, and said: 'Enoch, why dost thou ask, and why art thou eager for the truth? These are of the number of the stars of heaven, which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and are bound here till ten thousand years, the time entailed by their sins, are consummated.' And from thence I went to another place, which was still more horrible than the former, and I saw a horrible thing: a great fire there which burnt and blazed, and the place was cleft as far as the abyss, being full of great descending columns of fire: neither its extent or magnitude could I see, nor could I conjecture. Then I said: 'How fearful is the place and how terrible to look upon!' Then Uriel answered me, one of the holy angels who was with me, and said unto me: 'Enoch, why hast thou such fear and affright?' And I answered: 'Because of this fearful place, and because of the spectacle of the pain.' And he said unto me: 'This place is the prison of the angels, and here they will be imprisoned for ever.'

And thence I went to another place, and he mountain [and] of hard rock. And there was in it four hollow places, deep and wide and very smooth. How smooth are the hollow places and deep and dark to look at. Then Raphael answered, one of the holy angels who was with me, and said unto me: 'These hollow places have been created for this very purpose, that the spirits of the souls of the dead should assemble therein, yea that all the souls of the children of men should assemble here. And these places have been made to receive them till the day of their judgement and till their appointed period [till the period appointed], till the great judgement (comes) upon them.' I saw (the spirit of) a dead man making suit, and his voice went forth to heaven and made suit. And I asked Raphael the angel who was with me, and I said unto him: 'This spirit which maketh suit, whose is it, whose voice goeth forth and maketh suit to heaven ?' And he answered me saying: 'This is the spirit which went forth from Abel, whom his brother Cain slew, and he makes his suit against him till his seed is destroyed from the face of the earth, and his seed is annihilated from amongst the seed of men.' The I asked regarding it, and regarding all the hollow places: 'Why is one separated from the other?' And he answered me and said unto me: 'These three have been made that the spirits of the dead might be separated. And such a division has been make (for) the spirits of the righteous, in which there is the bright spring of water. And such has been made for sinners when they die and are buried in the earth and judgement has not been executed on them in their lifetime. Here their spirits shall be set apart in this great pain till the great day of judgement and punishment and torment of those who curse for ever and retribution for their spirits. There He shall bind them for ever. And such a division has been made for the spirits of those who make their suit, who make disclosures concerning their destruction, when they were slain in the days of the sinners. Such has been made for the spirits of men who were not righteous but sinners, who were complete in transgression, and of the transgressors they shall be companions: but their spirits shall not be slain in the day of judgement nor shall they be raised from thence.' The I blessed the Lord of glory and said: 'Blessed be my Lord, the Lord of righteousness, who ruleth for ever.'

, From thence I went to another place to the west of the ends of the earth. And I saw a burning fire which ran without resting, and paused not from its course day or night but (ran) regularly. And I asked saying: 'What is this which rests not?' Then Raguel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered me and said unto me: 'This course of fire which thou hast seen is the fire in the west which persecutes all the luminaries of heaven.'

And from thence I went to another place of the earth, and he showed me a mountain range of fire which burnt day and night. And I went beyond it and saw seven magnificent mountains all differing each from the other, and the stones (thereof) were magnificent and beautiful, magnificent as a whole, of glorious appearance and fair exterior: three towards the east, one founded on the other, and three towards the south, one upon the other, and deep rough ravines, no one of which joined with any other. And the seventh mountain was in the midst of these, and it excelled them in height, resembling the seat of a throne: and fragrant trees encircled the throne. And amongst them was a tree such as I had never yet smelt, neither was any amongst them nor were others like it: it had a fragrance beyond all fragrance, and its leaves and blooms and wood wither not for ever: and its fruit is beautiful, and its fruit n resembles the dates of a palm. Then I said: 'How beautiful is this tree, and fragrant, and its leaves are fair, and its blooms very delightful in appearance.' Then answered Michael, one of the holy and honoured angels who was with me, and was their leader.

And he said unto me: 'Enoch, why dost thou ask me regarding the fragrance of the tree, and why dost thou wish to learn the truth?' Then I answered him saying: 'I wish to know about everything, but especially about this tree.' And he answered saying: 'This high mountain which thou hast seen, whose summit is like the throne of God, is His throne, where the Holy Great One, the Lord of Glory, the Eternal King, will sit, when He shall come down to visit the earth with goodness. And as for this fragrant tree no mortal is permitted to touch it till the great judgement, when He shall take vengeance on all and bring (everything) to its consummation for ever. It shall then be given to the righteous and holy. Its fruit shall be for food to the elect: it shall be transplanted to the holy place, to the temple of the Lord, the Eternal King.

Then shall they rejoice with joy and be glad,
And into the holy place shall they enter;
And its fragrance shall be in their bones,
And they shall live a long life on earth,
Such as thy fathers lived:

And in their days shall no sorrow or plague
Or torment or calamity touch them.'

Then blessed I the God of Glory, the Eternal King, who hath prepared such things for the righteous, and hath created them and promised to give to them.

And I went from thence to the middle of the earth, and I saw a blessed place in which there were trees with branches abiding and blooming [of a dismembered tree]. And there I saw a holy mountain, and underneath the mountain to the east there was a stream and it flowed towards the south. And I saw towards the east another mountain higher than this, and between them a deep and narrow ravine: in it also ran a stream underneath the mountain. And to the west thereof there was another mountain, lower than the former and of small elevation, and a ravine deep and dry between them: and another deep and dry ravine was at the extremities of the three mountains. And all the ravines were deep rand narrow, (being formed) of hard rock, and trees were not planted upon them. And I marveled at the rocks, and I marveled at the ravine, yea, I marveled very much.

Then said I: 'For what object is this blessed land, which is entirely filled with trees, and this accursed valley between?' Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered and said: 'This accursed valley is for those who are accursed for ever: Here shall all the accursed be gathered together who utter with their lips against the Lord unseemly words and of His glory speak hard things. Here shall they be gathered together, and here shall be their place of judgement. In the last days there shall be upon them the spectacle of righteous judgement in the presence of the righteous for ever: here shall the merciful bless the Lord of glory, the Eternal King. In the days of judgement over the former, they shall bless Him for the mercy in accordance with which He has assigned them (their lot).' Then I blessed the Lord of Glory and set forth His glory and lauded Him gloriously.

And thence I went towards the east, into the midst of the mountain range of the desert, and I saw a wilderness and it was solitary, full of trees and plants. And water gushed forth from above. Rushing like a copious watercourse [which flowed] towards the north-west it caused clouds and dew to ascend on every side.

And thence I went to another place in the desert, and approached to the east of this mountain range. And there I saw aromatic trees exhaling the fragrance of frankincense and myrrh, and the trees also were similar to the almond tree.

, And beyond these, I went afar to the east, and I saw another place, a valley (full) of water. And therein there was a tree, the colour (?) of fragrant trees such as the mastic. And on the sides of those valleys I saw fragrant cinnamon. And beyond these I proceeded to the east.

And I saw other mountains, and amongst them were groves of trees, and there flowed forth from them nectar, which is named sarara and galbanum. And beyond these mountains I saw another mountain to the east of the ends of the earth, whereon were aloe-trees, and all the trees were full of stacte, being like almond-trees. And when one burnt it, it smelt sweeter than any fragrant odour.

And after these fragrant odours, as I looked towards the north over the mountains I saw seven mountains full of choice nard and fragrant trees and cinnamon and pepper. And thence I went over the summits of all these mountains, far towards the east of the earth, and passed above the Erythraean sea and went far from it, and passed over the angel Zotiel. And I came to the Garden of Righteousness, I and from afar off trees more numerous than I these trees and great-two trees there, very great, beautiful, and glorious, and magnificent, and the tree of knowledge, whose holy fruit they eat and know great wisdom. That tree is in height like the fir, and its leaves are like (those of) the Carob tree: and its fruit is like the clusters of the vine, very beautiful: and the fragrance of the tree penetrates afar. Then I said: 'How beautiful is the tree, and how attractive is its look!' Then Raphael the holy angel, who was with me, answered me and said: 'This is the tree of wisdom, of which thy father old (in years) and thy aged mother, who were before thee, have eaten, and they learnt wisdom and their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked and they were driven out of the garden.'

And from thence I went to the ends of the earth and saw there great beasts, and each differed from the other; and (I saw) birds also differing in appearance and beauty and voice, the one differing from the other. And to the east of those beasts I saw the ends of the earth whereon the heaven rests, and the portals of the heaven open. And I saw how the stars of heaven come forth, and I counted the portals out of which they proceed, and wrote down all their outlets, of each individual star by itself, according to their number and their names, their courses and their positions, and their times and their months, as Uriel the holy angel who was with me showed me. He showed all things to me and wrote them down for me: also their names he wrote for me, and their laws and their companies.

And from thence I went towards the north to the ends of the earth, and there I saw a great and glorious device at the ends of the whole earth. And here I saw three portals of heaven open in the heaven: through each of them proceed north winds: when they blow there is cold, hail, frost, snow, dew, and rain. And out of one portal they blow for good: but when they blow through the other two portals, it is with violence and affliction on the earth, and they blow with violence.

And from thence I went towards the west to the ends of the earth, and saw there three portals of the heaven open such as I had seen in the east, the same number of portals, and the same number of outlets.

And from thence I went to the south to the ends of the earth, and saw there three open portals of the heaven: and thence there come dew, rain, and wind. And from thence I went to the east to the ends of the heaven, and saw here the three eastern portals of heaven open and small portals above them. Through each of these small portals pass the stars of heaven and run their course to the west on the path which is shown to them. And as often as I saw I blessed always the Lord of Glory, and I continued to bless the Lord of Glory who has wrought great and glorious wonders, to show the greatness of His work to the angels and to spirits and to men, that they might praise His work and all His creation: that they might see the work of His might and praise the great work of His hands and bless Him for ever.

 

Section II. Chapters XXXVII-LXXI
The Parables

 

The second vision which he saw, the vision of wisdom -which Enoch the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, saw. And this is the beginning of the words of wisdom which I lifted up my voice to speak and say to those which dwell on earth: Hear, ye men of old time, and see, ye that come after, the words of the Holy One which I will speak before the Lord of Spirits. It were better to declare (them only) to the men of old time, but even from those that come after we will not withhold the beginning of wisdom. Till the present day such wisdom has never been given by the Lord of Spirits as I have received according to my insight, according to the good pleasure of the Lord of Spirits by whom the lot of eternal life has been given to me. Now three Parables were imparted to me, and I lifted up my voice and recounted them to those that dwell on the earth.

 

The first Parable.

When the congregation of the righteous shall appear,
And sinners shall be judged for their sins,
And shall be driven from the face of the earth:

And when the Righteous One shall appear before the eyes of the righteous,
Whose elect works hang upon the Lord of Spirits,
And light shall appear to the righteous and the elect who dwell on the earth,

Where then will be the dwelling of the sinners,

And where the resting-place of those who have denied the Lord of Spirits?
It had been good for them if they had not been born.

When the secrets of the righteous shall be revealed and the sinners judged,
And the godless driven from the presence of the righteous and elect,
From that time those that possess the earth shall no longer be powerful and exalted:
And they shall not be able to behold the face of the holy,
For the Lord of Spirits has caused His light to appear
On the face of the holy, righteous, and elect.

Then shall the kings and the mighty perish
And be given into the hands of the righteous and holy.
And thenceforward none shall seek for themselves mercy from the Lord of Spirits
For their life is at an end.

[And it shall come to pass in those days that elect and holy children will descend from the high heaven, and their seed will become one with the children of men. And in those days Enoch received books of zeal and wrath, and books of disquiet and expulsion.]

And mercy shall not be accorded to them, saith the Lord of Spirits.
And in those days a whirlwind carried me off from the earth,
And set me down at the end of the heavens.

And there I saw another vision, the dwelling-places of the holy,
And the resting-places of the righteous.

Here mine eyes saw their dwellings with His righteous angels,
And their resting-places with the holy.

And they petitioned and interceded and prayed for the children of men,
And righteousness flowed before them as water,

And mercy like dew upon the earth:
Thus it is amongst them for ever and ever.

a And in that place mine eyes saw the Elect One of righteousness and of faith,
a And I saw his dwelling-place under the wings of the Lord of Spirits.
b And righteousness shall prevail in his days,
And the righteous and elect shall be without number before Him for ever and ever.
b And all the righteous and elect before Him shall be strong as fiery lights,
And their mouth shall be full of blessing,

And their lips extol the name of the Lord of Spirits,
And righteousness before Him shall never fail,
[And uprightness shall never fail before Him.]
There I wished to dwell,
And my spirit longed for that dwelling-place:

And there heretofore hath been my portion,
For so has it been established concerning me before the Lord of Spirits.
In those days I praised and extolled the name of the Lord of Spirits with blessings and praises, because He hath destined me for blessing and glory according to the good pleasure of the Lord of Spirits. For a long time my eyes regarded that place, and I blessed Him and praised Him, saying: 'Blessed is He, and may He be blessed from the beginning and for evermore. And before Him there is no ceasing. He knows before the world was created what is for ever and what will be from generation unto generation. Those who sleep not bless Thee: they stand before Thy glory and bless, praise, and extol, saying: "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Spirits: He filleth the earth with spirits."' And here my eyes saw all those who sleep not: they stand before Him and bless and say: 'Blessed be Thou, and blessed be the name of the Lord for ever and ever.' And my face was changed; for I could no longer behold.

And after that I saw thousands of thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand, I saw a multitude beyond number and reckoning, who stood before the Lord of Spirits. And on the four sides of the Lord of Spirits I saw four presences, different from those that sleep not, and I learnt their names: for the angel that went with me made known to me their names, and showed me all the hidden things. And I heard the voices of those four presences as they uttered praises before the Lord of glory. , The first voice blesses the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever. And the second voice I heard blessing the Elect One and the elect ones who hang upon the Lord of Spirits. And the third voice I heard pray and intercede for those who dwell on the earth and supplicate in the name of the Lord of Spirits. And I heard the fourth voice fending off the Satans and forbidding them to come before the Lord of Spirits to accuse them who dwell on the earth. After that I asked the angel of peace who went with me, who showed me everything that is hidden: 'Who are these four presences which I have seen and whose words I have heard and written down?' And he said to me: 'This first is Michael, the merciful and long-suffering: and the second, who is set over all the diseases and all the wounds of the children of men, is Raphael: and the third, who is set over all the powers, is Gabriel: and the fourth, who is set over the repentance unto hope of those who inherit eternal life, is named Phanuel.' And these are the four angels of the Lord of Spirits and the four voices I heard in those days.

And after that I saw all the secrets of the heavens, and how the kingdom is divided, and how the actions of men are weighed in the balance. And there I saw the mansions of the elect and the mansions of the holy, and mine eyes saw there all the sinners being driven from thence which deny the name of the Lord of Spirits, and being dragged off: and they could not abide because of the punishment which proceeds from the Lord of Spirits. And there mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightning and of the thunder, and the secrets of the winds, how they are divided to blow over the earth, and the secrets of the clouds and dew, and there I saw from whence they proceed in that place and from whence they saturate the dusty earth. And there I saw closed chambers out of which the winds are divided, the chamber of the hail and winds, the chamber of the mist, and of the clouds, and the cloud thereof hovers over the earth from the beginning of the world. And I saw the chambers of the sun and moon, whence they proceed and whither they come again, and their glorious return, and how one is superior to the other, and their stately orbit, and how they do not leave their orbit, and they add nothing to their orbit and they take nothing from it, and they keep faith with each other, in accordance with the oath by which they are bound together. And first the sun goes forth and traverses his path according to the commandment of the Lord of Spirits, and mighty is His name for ever and ever. And after that I saw the hidden and the visible path of the moon, and she accomplishes the course of her path in that place by day and by night-the one holding a position opposite to the other before the Lord of Spirits.

And they give thanks and praise and rest not;
For unto them is their thanksgiving rest.
For the sun changes oft for a blessing or a curse,
And the course of the path of the moon is light to the righteous
And darkness to the sinners in the name of the Lord,
Who made a separation between the light and the darkness,
And divided the spirits of men,
And strengthened the spirits of the righteous,
In the name of His righteousness.

For no angel hinders and no power is able to hinder; for He appoints a judge for them all and He judges them all before Him.

Wisdom found no place where she might dwell;
Then a dwelling-place was assigned her in the heavens.

Wisdom went forth to make her dwelling among the children of men,
And found no dwelling-place:

Wisdom returned to her place,
And took her seat among the angels.

And unrighteousness went forth from her chambers:
Whom she sought not she found,
And dwelt with them,

As rain in a desert
And dew on a thirsty land.

And I saw other lightnings and the stars of heaven, and I saw how He called them all by their names and they hearkened unto Him. And I saw how they are weighed in a righteous balance according to their proportions of light: (I saw) the width of their spaces and the day of their appearing, and how their revolution produces lightning: and (I saw) their revolution according to the number of the angels, and (how) they keep faith with each other. And I asked the angel who went with me who showed me what was hidden: 'What are these?' And he said to me: 'The Lord of Spirits hath showed thee their parabolic meaning (lit. 'their parable'): these are the names of the holy who dwell on the earth and believe in the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.'

Also another phenomenon I saw in regard to the lightnings: how some of the stars arise and become lightnings and cannot part with their new form.

 

 

And this is the second Parable concerning those who deny the name of the dwelling of the holy ones and the Lord of Spirits.

 

And into the heaven they shall not ascend,
And on the earth they shall not come:
Such shall be the lot of the sinners
Who have denied the name of the Lord of Spirits,
Who are thus preserved for the day of suffering and tribulation.

On that day Mine Elect One shall sit on the throne of glory
And shall try their works,
And their places of rest shall be innumerable.

And their souls shall grow strong within them when they see Mine Elect Ones,
And those who have called upon My glorious name:
Then will I cause Mine Elect One to dwell among them.

And I will transform the heaven and make it an eternal blessing and light
And I will transform the earth and make it a blessing:

And I will cause Mine elect ones to dwell upon it:
But the sinners and evil-doers shall not set foot thereon.

For I have provided and satisfied with peace My righteous ones
And have caused them to dwell before Me:

But for the sinners there is judgement impending with Me,
So that I shall destroy them from the face of the earth.

And there I saw One who had a head of days,
And His head was white like wool,
And with Him was another being whose countenance had the appearance of a man,
And his face was full of graciousness, like one of the holy angels.
And I asked the angel who went with me and showed me all the hidden things, concerning that Son of Man, who he was, and whence he was, (and) why he went with the Head of Days? And he answered and said unto me:
This is the son of Man who hath righteousness,
With whom dwelleth righteousness,
And who revealeth all the treasures of that which is hidden,

Because the Lord of Spirits hath chosen him,
And whose lot hath the pre-eminence before the Lord of Spirits in uprightness for ever.

And this Son of Man whom thou hast seen
Shall raise up the kings and the mighty from their seats,
[And the strong from their thrones]
And shall loosen the reins of the strong,
And break the teeth of the sinners.

[And he shall put down the kings from their thrones and kingdoms]
Because they do not extol and praise Him,
Nor humbly acknowledge whence the kingdom was bestowed upon them.
And he shall put down the countenance of the strong,
And shall fill them with shame.

And darkness shall be their dwelling,
And worms shall be their bed,
And they shall have no hope of rising from their beds,
Because they do not extol the name of the Lord of Spirits.

And these are they who judge the stars of heaven,
[And raise their hands against the Most High],
And tread upon the earth and dwell upon it.
And all their deeds manifest unrighteousness,
And their power rests upon their riches,
And their faith is in the gods which they have made with their hands,
And they deny the name of the Lord of Spirits,

And they persecute the houses of His congregations,
And the faithful who hang upon the name of the Lord of Spirits.

And in those days shall have ascended the prayer of the righteous,
And the blood of the righteous from the earth before the Lord of Spirits.

In those days the holy ones who dwell above in the heavens
Shall unite with one voice
And supplicate and pray [and praise,
And give thanks and bless the name of the Lord of Spirits
On behalf of the blood of the righteous which has been shed,
And that the prayer of the righteous may not be in vain before the Lord of Spirits,
That judgement may be done unto them,
And that they may not have to suffer for ever.

In those days I saw the Head of Days when He seated himself upon the throne of His glory,
And the books of the living were opened before Him:
And all His host which is in heaven above and His counselors stood before Him,

And the hearts of the holy were filled with joy;
Because the number of the righteous had been offered,
And the prayer of the righteous had been heard,
And the blood of the righteous been required before the Lord of Spirits.

And in that place I saw the fountain of righteousness
Which was inexhaustible:
And around it were many fountains of wisdom:
And all the thirsty drank of them,
And were filled with wisdom,
And their dwellings were with the righteous and holy and elect.
And at that hour that Son of Man was named In the presence of the Lord of Spirits,
And his name before the Head of Days.

Yea, before the sun and the signs were created,
Before the stars of the heaven were made,
His name was named before the Lord of Spirits.

He shall be a staff to the righteous whereon to stay themselves and not fall,
And he shall be the light of the Gentiles,
And the hope of those who are troubled of heart.

All who dwell on earth shall fall down and worship before him,
And will praise and bless and celebrate with song the Lord of Spirits.

And for this reason hath he been chosen and hidden before Him,
Before the creation of the world and for evermore.

And the wisdom of the Lord of Spirits hath revealed him to the holy and righteous;
For he hath preserved the lot of the righteous,
Because they have hated and despised this world of unrighteousness,
And have hated all its works and ways in the name of the Lord of Spirits:
For in his name they are saved,
And according to his good pleasure hath it been in regard to their life.

In these days downcast in countenance shall the kings of the earth have become,
And the strong who possess the land because of the works of their hands,
For on the day of their anguish and affliction they shall not (be able to) save themselves.
And I will give them over into the hands of Mine elect:
As straw in the fire so shall they burn before the face of the holy:
As lead in the water shall they sink before the face of the righteous,
And no trace of them shall any more be found.

And on the day of their affliction there shall be rest on the earth,
And before them they shall fall and not rise again:
And there shall be no one to take them with his hands and raise them:
For they have denied the Lord of Spirits and His Anointed.
The name of the Lord of Spirits be blessed.

l For wisdom is poured out like water,
And glory faileth not before him for evermore.

For he is mighty in all the secrets of righteousness,
And unrighteousness shall disappear as a shadow,
And have no continuance;
Because the Elect One standeth before the Lord of Spirits,
And his glory is for ever and ever,
And his might unto all generations.

And in him dwells the spirit of wisdom,
And the spirit which gives insight,
And the spirit of understanding and of might,
And the spirit of those who have fallen asleep in righteousness.

And he shall judge the secret things,
And none shall be able to utter a lying word before him;
For he is the Elect One before the Lord of Spirits according to His good pleasure.

And in those days a change shall take place for the holy and elect,
And the light of days shall abide upon them,
And glory and honour shall turn to the holy,
On the day of affliction on which evil shall have been treasured up against the sinners.

And the righteous shall be victorious in the name of the Lord of Spirits:
And He will cause the others to witness (this)
That they may repent
And forgo the works of their hands.

They shall have no honour through the name of the Lord of Spirits,
Yet through His name shall they be saved,
And the Lord of Spirits will have compassion on them,
For His compassion is great.

And He is righteous also in His judgement,
And in the presence of His glory unrighteousness also shall not maintain itself:
At His judgement the unrepentant shall perish before Him.
And from henceforth I will have no mercy on them, saith the Lord of Spirits.

And in those days shall the earth also give back that which has been entrusted to it,
And Sheol also shall give back that which it has received,
And hell shall give back that which it owes.

a For in those days the Elect One shall arise,
And he shall choose the righteous and holy from among them:
For the day has drawn nigh that they should be saved.

And the Elect One shall in those days sit on My throne,
And his mouth shall pour forth all the secrets of wisdom and counsel:
For the Lord of Spirits hath given (them) to him and hath glorified him.

And in those days shall the mountains leap like rams,
And the hills also shall skip like lambs satisfied with milk,
And the faces of [all] the angels in heaven shall be lighted up with joy.

b And the earth shall rejoice,
c And the righteous shall dwell upon it,
d And the elect shall walk thereon.

l And after those days in that place where I had seen all the visions of that which is hidden -for I had been carried off in a whirlwind and they had borne me towards the west-There mine eyes saw all the secret things of heaven that shall be, a mountain of iron, and a mountain of copper, and a mountain of silver, and a mountain of gold, and a mountain of soft metal, and a mountain of lead. And I asked the angel who went with me, saying, 'What things are these which I have seen in secret?' And he said unto me: 'All these things which thou hast seen shall serve the dominion of His Anointed that he may be potent and mighty on the earth.' And that angel of peace answered, saying unto me: 'Wait a little, and there shall be revealed unto thee all the secret things which surround the Lord of Spirits.
And these mountains which thine eyes have seen,
The mountain of iron, and the mountain of copper, and the mountain of silver,
And the mountain of gold, and the mountain of soft metal, and the mountain of lead,
All these shall be in the presence of the Elect One
As wax: before the fire,
And like the water which streams down from above [upon those mountains],
And they shall become powerless before his feet.
And it shall come to pass in those days that none shall be saved,
Either by gold or by silver,
And none be able to escape.
And there shall be no iron for war,
Nor shall one clothe oneself with a breastplate.
Bronze shall be of no service,
And tin [shall be of no service and] shall not be esteemed,
And lead shall not be desired.
And all these things shall be [denied and] destroyed from the surface of the earth,
When the Elect One shall appear before the face of the Lord of Spirits.'

There mine eyes saw a deep valley with open mouths, and all who dwell on the earth and sea and islands shall bring to him gifts and presents and tokens of homage, but that deep valley shall not become full.
And their hands commit lawless deeds,
And the sinners devour all whom they lawlessly oppress:
Yet the sinners shall be destroyed before the face of the Lord of Spirits,
And they shall be banished from off the face of His earth,
And they shall perish for ever and ever.
For I saw all the angels of punishment abiding (there) and preparing all the instruments of Satan. And I asked the angel of peace who went with me: ' For whom are they preparing these Instruments?' And he said unto me: ' They prepare these for the kings and the mighty of this earth, that they may thereby be destroyed. And after this the Righteous and Elect One shall cause the house of his congregation to appear: henceforth they shall be no more hindered in the name of the Lord of Spirits.
And these mountains shall not stand as the earth before his righteousness,
But the hills shall be as a fountain of water,
And the righteous shall have rest from the oppression of sinners.'

And I looked and turned to another part of the earth, and saw there a deep valley with burning fire. And they brought the kings and the mighty, and began to cast them into this deep valley. And there mine eyes saw how they made these their instruments, iron chains of immeasurable weight. And I asked the angel of peace who went with me, saying: ' For whom are these chains being prepared ? ' And he said unto me: ' These are being prepared for the hosts of Azazel, so that they may take them and cast them into the abyss of complete condemnation, and they shall cover their jaws with rough stones as the Lord of Spirits commanded. And Michael, and Gabriel, and Raphael, and Phanuel shall take hold of them on that great day, and cast them on that day into the burning furnace, that the Lord of Spirits may take vengeance on them for their unrighteousness in becoming subject to Satan and leading astray those who dwell on the earth.' And in those days shall punishment come from the Lord of Spirits, and he will open all the chambers of waters which are above the heavens, and of the fountains which are beneath the earth. And all the waters shall be joined with the waters: that which is above the heavens is the masculine, and the water which is beneath the earth is the feminine. And they shall destroy all who dwell on the earth and those who dwell under the ends of the heaven. And when they have recognized their unrighteousness which they have wrought on the earth, then by these shall they perish.

And after that the Head of Days repented and said: ' In vain have I destroyed all who dwell on the earth.' And He sware by His great name: ' Henceforth I will not do so to all who dwell on the earth, and I will set a sign in the heaven: and this shall be a pledge of good faith between Me and them for ever, so long as heaven is above the earth. And this is in accordance with My command. When I have desired to take hold of them by the hand of the angels on the day of tribulation and pain because of this, I will cause My chastisement and My wrath to abide upon them, saith God, the Lord of Spirits. Ye mighty kings who dwell on the earth, ye shall have to behold Mine Elect One, how he sits on the throne of glory and judges Azazel, and all his associates, and all his hosts in the name of the Lord of Spirits.'

And I saw there the hosts of the angels of punishment going, and they held scourges and chains of iron and bronze. And I asked the angel of peace who went with me, saying: ' To whom are these who hold the scourges going ? ' And he said unto me: ' To their elect and beloved ones, that they may be cast into the chasm of the abyss of the valley.

And then that valley shall be filled with their elect and beloved,
And the days of their lives shall be at an end,
And the days of their leading astray shall not thenceforward be reckoned.

And in those days the angels shall return
And hurl themselves to the east upon the Parthians and Medes:

They shall stir up the kings, so that a spirit of unrest shall come upon them,
And they shall rouse them from their thrones,

That they may break forth as lions from their lairs,
And as hungry wolves among their flocks.

And they shall go up and tread under foot the land of His elect ones
[And the land of His elect ones shall be before them a threshing-floor and a highway :]
But the city of my righteous shall be a hindrance to their horses.

And they shall begin to fight among themselves,
And their right hand shall be strong against themselves,

And a man shall not know his brother,
Nor a son his father or his mother,

Till there be no number of the corpses through their slaughter,
And their punishment be not in vain.

In those days Sheol shall open its jaws,
And they shall be swallowed up therein

And their destruction shall be at an end;
Sheol shall devour the sinners in the presence of the elect.'

And it came to pass after this that I saw another host of wagons, and men riding thereon, and coming on the winds from the east, and from the west to the south. And the noise of their wagons was heard, and when this turmoil took place the holy ones from heaven remarked it, and the pillars of the earth were moved from their place, and the sound thereof was heard from the one end of heaven to the other, in one day. And they shall all fall down and worship the Lord of Spirits. And this is the end of the second Parable.

 

And I began to speak the third Parable concerning the righteous and elect.

 

Blessed are ye, ye righteous and elect,
For glorious shall be your lot.

And the righteous shall be in the light of the sun.
And the elect in the light of eternal life:
The days of their life shall be unending,
And the days of the holy without number.

And they shall seek the light and find righteousness with the Lord of Spirits:
There shall be peace to the righteous in the name of the Eternal Lord.

And after this it shall be said to the holy in heaven
That they should seek out the secrets of righteousness, the heritage of faith:
For it has become bright as the sun upon earth,
And the darkness is past.

And there shall be a light that never endeth,
And to a limit (lit. ' number ') of days they shall not come,
For the darkness shall first have been destroyed,
[And the light established before the Lord of Spirits]
And the light of uprightness established for ever before the Lord of Spirits.

[In those days mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightnings, and of the lights, and the judgements they execute (lit. ' their judgement '): and they lighten for a blessing or a curse as the Lord of Spirits willeth. And there I saw the secrets of the thunder, and how when it resounds above in the heaven, the sound thereof is heard, and he caused me to see the judgements executed on the earth, whether they be for well-being and blessing, or for a curse according to the word of the Lord of Spirits. And after that all the secrets of the lights and lightnings were shown to me, and they lighten for blessing and for satisfying.]

In the year , in the seventh month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the life of Enoch. In that Parable I saw how a mighty quaking made the heaven of heavens to quake, and the host of the Most High, and the angels, a thousand thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand, were disquieted with a great disquiet. And the Head of Days sat on the throne of His glory, and the angels and the righteous stood around Him.

And a great trembling seized me,
And fear took hold of me,
And my loins gave way,
And dissolved were my reins,
And I fell upon my face.

And Michael sent another angel from among the holy ones and he raised me up, and when he had raised me up my spirit returned; for I had not been able to endure the look of this host, and the commotion and the quaking of the heaven. And Michael said unto me: ' Why art thou disquieted with such a vision ? Until this day lasted the day of His mercy; and He hath been merciful and long-suffering towards those who dwell on the earth. And when the day, and the power, and the punishment, and the judgement come, which the Lord of Spirits hath prepared for those who worship not the righteous law, and for those who deny the righteous judgement, and for those who take His name in vain-that day is prepared, for the elect a covenant, but for sinners an inquisition. When the punishment of the Lord of Spirits shall rest upon them, it shall rest in order that the punishment of the Lord of Spirits may not come, in vain, and it shall slay the children with their mothers and the children with their fathers. Afterwards the judgement shall take place according to His mercy and His patience.' And on that day were two monsters parted, a female monster named Leviathan, to dwell in the abysses of the ocean over the fountains of the waters. But the male is named Behemoth, who occupied with his breast a waste wilderness named Duidain, on the east of the garden where the elect and righteous dwell, where my grandfather was taken up, the seventh from Adam, the first man whom the Lord of Spirits created. And I besought the other angel that he should show me the might of those monsters, how they were parted on one day and cast, the one into the abysses of the sea, and the other unto the dry land of the wilderness. And he said to me: ' Thou son of man, herein thou dost seek to know what is hidden.' And the other angel who went with me and showed me what was hidden told me what is first and last in the heaven in the height, and beneath the earth in the depth, and at the ends of the heaven, and on the foundation of the heaven. And the chambers of the winds, and how the winds are divided, and how they are weighed, and (how) the portals of the winds are reckoned, each according to the power of the wind, and the power of the lights of the moon, and according to the power that is fitting: and the divisions of the stars according to their names, and how all the divisions are divided. And the thunders according to the places where they fall, and all the divisions that are made among the lightnings that it may lighten, and their host that they may at once obey. For the thunder has places of rest (which) are assigned (to it) while it is waiting for its peal; and the thunder and lightning are inseparable, and although not one and undivided, they both go together through the spirit and separate not. For when the lightning lightens, the thunder utters its voice, and the spirit enforces a pause during the peal, and divides equally between them; for the treasury of their peals is like the sand, and each one of them as it peals is held in with a bridle, and turned back by the power of the spirit, and pushed forward according to the many quarters of the earth. And the spirit of the sea is masculine and strong, and according to the might of his strength he draws it back with a rein, and in like manner it is driven forward and disperses amid all the mountains of the earth. And the spirit of the hoar-frost is his own angel, and the spirit of the hail is a good angel. And the spirit of the snow has forsaken his chambers on account of his strength -There is a special spirit therein, and that which ascends from it is like smoke, and its name is frost. And the spirit of the mist is not united with them in their chambers, but it has a special chamber; for its course is glorious both in light and in darkness, and in winter and in summer, and in its chamber is an angel. And the spirit of the dew has its dwelling at the ends of the heaven, and is connected with the chambers of the rain, and its course is in winter and summer: and its clouds and the clouds of the mist are connected, and the one gives to the other. And when the spirit of the rain goes forth from its chamber, the angels come and open the chamber and lead it out, and when it is diffused over the whole earth it unites with the water on the earth. And whensoever it unites with the water on the earth . . . For the waters are for those who dwell on the earth; for they are nourishment for the earth from the Most High who is in heaven: therefore there is a measure for the rain, , and the angels take it in charge. And these things I saw towards the Garden of the Righteous. And the angel of peace who was with me said to me: ' These two monsters, prepared conformably to the greatness of God, shall feed . . .

And I saw in those days how long cords were given to those angels, and they took to themselves wings and flew, and they went towards the north. And I asked the angel, saying unto him: ' Why have those (angels) taken these cords and gone off ? ' And he said unto me: ' They have gone to measure.'

And the angel who went with me said unto me:
' These shall bring the measures of the righteous,
And the ropes of the righteous to the righteous,
That they may stay themselves on the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.

The elect shall begin to dwell with the elect,
And those are the measures which shall be given to faith
And which shall strengthen righteousness.

And these measures shall reveal all the secrets of the depths of the earth,
And those who have been destroyed by the desert,
And those who have been devoured by the beasts,
And those who have been devoured by the fish of the sea,
That they may return and stay themselves
On the day of the Elect One;
For none shall be destroyed before the Lord of Spirits,
And none can be destroyed.

And all who dwell above in the heaven received a command and power and one voice and one light like unto fire.

And that One (with) their first words they blessed,
And extolled and lauded with wisdom,
And they were wise in utterance and in the spirit of life.

And the Lord of Spirits placed the Elect one on the throne of glory.
And he shall judge all the works of the holy above in the heaven,
And in the balance shall their deeds be weighed

And when he shall lift up his countenance
To judge their secret ways according to the word of the name of the Lord of Spirits,
And their path according to the way of the righteous judgement of the Lord of Spirits,
Then shall they all with one voice speak and bless,
And glorify and extol and sanctify the name of the Lord of Spirits.

And He will summon all the host of the heavens, and all the holy ones above, and the host of God, the Cherubic, Seraphin and Ophannin, and all the angels of power, and all the angels of principalities, and the Elect One, and the other powers on the earth (and) over the water On that day shall raise one voice, and bless and glorify and exalt in the spirit of faith, and in the spirit of wisdom, and in the spirit of patience, and in the spirit of mercy, and in the spirit of judgement and of peace, and in the spirit of goodness, and shall all say with one voice: " Blessed is He, and may the name of the Lord of Spirits be blessed for ever and ever."

All who sleep not above in heaven shall bless Him:
All the holy ones who are in heaven shall bless Him,
And all the elect who dwell in the garden of life:

And every spirit of light who is able to bless, and glorify, and extol, and hallow Thy blessed name,
And all flesh shall beyond measure glorify and bless Thy name for ever and ever.

For great is the mercy of the Lord of Spirits, and He is long-suffering,
And all His works and all that He has created He has revealed to the righteous and elect
In the name of the Lord of Spirits.

And thus the Lord commanded the kings and the mighty and the exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, and said:

' Open your eyes and lift up your horns if ye are able to recognize the Elect One.'
And the Lord of Spirits seated him on the throne of His glory,
And the spirit of righteousness was poured out upon him,
And the word of his mouth slays all the sinners,
And all the unrighteous are destroyed from before his face.
And there shall stand up in that day all the kings and the mighty,
And the exalted and those who hold the earth,
And they shall see and recognize How he sits on the throne of his glory,
And righteousness is judged before him,
And no lying word is spoken before him.

Then shall pain come upon them as on a woman in travail,
[And she has pain in bringing forth]
When her child enters the mouth of the womb,
And she has pain in bringing forth.

And one portion of them shall look on the other,
And they shall be terrified,
And they shall be downcast of countenance,
And pain shall seize them,
When they see that Son of Man Sitting on the throne of his glory.

And the kings and the mighty and all who possess the earth shall bless and glorify and extol him who rules over all, who was hidden.

For from the beginning the Son of Man was hidden,
And the Most High preserved him in the presence of His might,
And revealed him to the elect.

And the congregation of the elect and holy shall be sown,
And all the elect shall stand before him on that day.

And all the kings and the mighty and the exalted and those who rule the earth
Shall fall down before him on their faces,
And worship and set their hope upon that Son of Man,
And petition him and supplicate for mercy at his hands.

Nevertheless that Lord of Spirits will so press them
That they shall hastily go forth from His presence,
And their faces shall be filled with shame,
And the darkness grow deeper on their faces.

And He will deliver them to the angels for punishment,
To execute vengeance on them because they have oppressed His children and His elect
And they shall be a spectacle for the righteous and for His elect:
They shall rejoice over them,
Because the wrath of the Lord of Spirits resteth upon them,
And His sword is drunk with their blood.

And the righteous and elect shall be saved on that day,
And they shall never thenceforward see the face of the sinners and unrighteous.

And the Lord of Spirits will abide over them,
And with that Son of Man shall they eat
And lie down and rise up for ever and ever.

And the righteous and elect shall have risen from the earth,
And ceased to be of downcast countenance.
And they shall have been clothed with garments of glory,

And these shall be the garments of life from the Lord of Spirits:

And your garments shall not grow old,
Nor your glory pass away before the Lord of Spirits.

In those days shall the mighty and the kings who possess the earth implore (Him) to grant them a little respite from His angels of punishment to whom they were delivered, that they might fall down and worship before the Lord of Spirits, and confess their sins before Him. And they shall bless and glorify the Lord of Spirits, and say:

' Blessed is the Lord of Spirits and the Lord of kings,
And the Lord of the mighty and the Lord of the rich,
And the Lord of glory and the Lord of wisdom,

And splendid in every secret thing is Thy power from generation to generation,
And Thy glory for ever and ever:

Deep are all Thy secrets and innumerable,
And Thy righteousness is beyond reckoning.

We have now learnt that we should glorify
And bless the Lord of kings and Him who is king over all kings.'
And they shall say:
' Would that we had rest to glorify and give thanks
And confess our faith before His glory !

And now we long for a little rest but find it not:
We follow hard upon and obtain (it) not:

And light has vanished from before us,
And darkness is our dwelling-place for ever and ever:

For we have not believed before Him
Nor glorified the name of the Lord of Spirits, [nor glorified our Lord]

But our hope was in the sceptre of our kingdom,
And in our glory.

And in the day of our suffering and tribulation He saves us not,
And we find no respite for confession

That our Lord is true in all His works, and in His judgements and His justice,
And His judgements have no respect of persons.

And we pass away from before His face on account of our works,
And all our sins are reckoned up in righteousness.'

Now they shall say unto themselves: ' Our souls are full of unrighteous gain, but it does not prevent us from descending from the midst thereof into the burden of Sheol.'

And after that their faces shall be filled with darkness
And shame before that Son of Man,
And they shall be driven from his presence,
And the sword shall abide before his face in their midst.

Thus spake the Lord of Spirits: ' This is the ordinance and judgement with respect to the mighty and the kings and the exalted and those who possess the earth before the Lord of Spirits.'

, And other forms I saw hidden in that place. I heard the voice of the angel saying: ' These are the angels who descended to the earth, and revealed what was hidden to the children of men and seduced the children of men into committing sin.'

, And in those days Noah saw the earth that it had sunk down and its destruction was nigh. And he arose from thence and went to the ends of the earth, and cried aloud to his grandfather Enoch: and Noah said three times with an embittered voice: Hear me, hear me, hear me.' And I said unto him: ' Tell me what it is that is falling out on the earth that the earth is in such evil plight and shaken, lest perchance I shall perish with it ? ' And thereupon there was a great commotion , on the earth, and a voice was heard from heaven, and I fell on my face. And Enoch my grandfather came and stood by me, and said unto me: ' Why hast thou cried unto me with a bitter cry and weeping And a command has gone forth from the presence of the Lord concerning those who dwell on the earth that their ruin is accomplished because they have learnt all the secrets of the angels, and all the violence of the Satans, and all their powers -the most secret ones- and all the power of those who practice sorcery, and the power of witchcraft, and the power of those who make molten images for the whole earth: And how silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and how soft metal originates in the earth. For lead and tin are not produced from the earth like the first: it is a fountain that produces them, and an angel stands therein, and that angel is pre-eminent.' And after that my grandfather Enoch took hold of me by my hand and raised me up, and said unto me: ' Go, for I have asked the Lord of Spirits as touching this commotion on the earth. And He said unto me: " Because of their unrighteousness their judgement has been determined upon and shall not be withheld by Me for ever. Because of the sorceries which they have searched out and learnt, the earth and those who dwell upon it shall be destroyed." And these-they have no place of repentance for ever, because they have shown them what was hidden, and they are the damned: but as for thee, my son, the Lord of Spirits knows that thou art pure, and guiltless of this reproach concerning the secrets.

And He has destined thy name to be among the holy,
And will preserve thee amongst those who dwell on the earth,
And has destined thy righteous seed both for kingship and for great honours,
And from thy seed shall proceed a fountain of the righteous and holy without number for ever.

And after that he showed me the angels of punishment who are prepared to come and let loose all the powers of the waters which are beneath in the earth in order to bring judgement and destruction on all who [abide and] dwell on the earth. And the Lord of Spirits gave commandment to the angels who were going forth, that they should not cause the waters to rise but should hold them in check; for those angels were over the powers of the waters. And I went away from the presence of Enoch.

And in those days the word of God came unto me, and He said unto me: ' Noah, thy lot has come Up before Me, a lot without blame, a lot of love and uprightness. And now the angels are making a wooden (building), and when they have completed that task I will place My hand upon it and preserve it, and there shall come forth from it the seed of life, and a change shall set in so that the earth will not remain without inhabitant. And I will make fast thy sed before me for ever and ever, and I will spread abroad those who dwell with thee: it shall not be unfruitful on the face of the earth, but it shall be blessed and multiply on the earth in the name of the Lord.' And He will imprison those angels, who have shown unrighteousness, in that burning valley which my grandfather Enoch had formerly shown to me in the west among the mountains of gold and silver and iron and soft metal and tin. And I saw that valley in which there was a great convulsion and a convulsion of the waters. And when all this took place, from that fiery molten metal and from the convulsion thereof in that place, there was produced a smell of sulphur, and it was connected with those waters, and that valley of the angels who had led astray (mankind) burned beneath that land. And through its valleys proceed streams of fire, where these angels are punished who had led astray those who dwell upon the earth. But those waters shall in those days serve for the kings and the mighty and the exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, for the healing of the body, but for the punishment of the spirit; now their spirit is full of lust, that they may be punished in their body, for they have denied the Lord of Spirits and see their punishment daily, and yet believe not in His name. And in proportion as the burning of their bodies becomes severe, a corresponding change shall take place in their spirit for ever and ever; for before the Lord of Spirits none shall utter an idle word. For the judgement shall come upon them, because they believe in the lust of their body and deny the Spirit of the Lord. And those same waters will undergo a change in those days; for when those angels are punished in these waters, these water-springs shall change their temperature, and when the angels ascend, this water of the springs shall change and become cold. And I heard Michael answering and saying: ' This judgement wherewith the angels are judged is a testimony for the kings and the mighty who possess the earth.' Because these waters of judgement minister to the healing of the body of the kings and the lust of their body; therefore they will not see and will not believe that those waters will change and become a fire which burns for ever.

And after that my grandfather Enoch gave me the teaching of all the secrets in the book in the Parables which had been given to him, and he put them together for me in the words of the book of the Parables. And on that day Michael answered Raphael and said: ' The power of the spirit transports and makes me to tremble because of the severity of the judgement of the secrets, the judgement of the angels: who can endure the severe judgement which has been executed, and before which they melt away ? ' And Michael answered again, and said to Raphael: ' Who is he whose heart is not softened concerning it, and whose reins are not troubled by this word of judgement (that) has gone forth upon them because of those who have thus led them out ? ' And it came to pass when he stood before the Lord of Spirits, Michael said thus to Raphael: ' I will not take their part under the eye of the Lord; for the Lord of Spirits has been angry with them because they do as if they were the Lord. Therefore all that is hidden shall come upon them for ever and ever; for neither angel nor man shall have his portion (in it), but alone they have received their judgement for ever and ever.

And after this judgement they shall terrify and make them to tremble because they have shown this to those who dwell on the earth. And behold the names of those angels [and these are their names: the first of them is Samjaza, the second Artaqifa, and the third Armen, the fourth Kokabel, the fifth Turael, the sixth Rumjal, the seventh Danjal, the eighth Neqael, the ninth Baraqel, the tenth Azazel, the eleventh Armaros, the twelfth Batarjal, the thirteenth Busasejal, the fourteenth Hananel, the fifteenth Turel, and the sixteenth Simapesiel, the seventeenth Jetrel, the eighteenth Tumael, the nineteenth Turel, the twentieth Rumael, the twenty-first Azazel. And these are the chiefs of their angels and their names, and their chief ones over hundreds and over fifties and over tens]. The name of the first Jeqon: that is, the one who led astray [all] the sons of God, and brought them down to the earth, and led them astray through the daughters of men. And the second was named Asbeel: he imparted to the holy sons of God evil counsel, and led them astray so that they defiled their bodies with the daughters of men. And the third was named Gadreel: he it is who showed the children of men all the blows of death, and he led astray Eve, and showed [the weapons of death to the sons of men] the shield and the coat of mail, and the sword for battle, and all the weapons of death to the children of men. And from his hand they have proceeded against those who dwell on the earth from that day and for evermore. And the fourth was named Penemue: he taught the children of men the bitter and the sweet, and he taught them all the secrets of their wisdom. And he instructed mankind in writing with ink and paper, and thereby many sinned from eternity to eternity and until this day. For men were not created for such a purpose, to give confirmation to their good faith with pen and ink. For men were created exactly like the angels, to the intent that they should continue pure and righteous, and death, which destroys everything, could not have taken hold of them, but through this their knowledge they are perishing, and through this power it is consuming me. And the fifth was named Kasdeja: this is he who showed the children of men all the wicked smitings of spirits and demons, and the smitings of the embryo in the womb, that it may pass away, and [the smitings of the soul] the bites of the serpent, and the smitings which befall through the noontide heat, the son of the serpent named Taba'et. And this is the task of Kasbeel, the chief of the oath which he showed to the holy ones when he dwelt high above in glory, and its name is Biqa. This (angel) requested Michael to show him the hidden name, that he might enunciate it in the oath, so that those might quake before that name and oath who revealed all that was in secret to the children of men. And this is the power of this oath, for it is powerful and strong, and he placed this oath Akae in the hand of Michael.

And these are the secrets of this oath . . .
And they are strong through his oath:
And the heaven was suspended before the world was created,
And for ever.

And through it the earth was founded upon the water,
And from the secret recesses of the mountains come beautiful waters,
From the creation of the world and unto eternity.

And through that oath the sea was created,
And as its foundation He set for it the sand against the time of (its) anger,
And it dare not pass beyond it from the creation of the world unto eternity.

And through that oath are the depths made fast,
And abide and stir not from their place from eternity to eternity.

And through that oath the sun and moon complete their course,
And deviate not from their ordinance from eternity to eternity.

And through that oath the stars complete their course,
And He calls them by their names,
And they answer Him from eternity to eternity.

[And in like manner the spirits of the water, and of the winds, and of all zephyrs, and (their) paths from all the quarters of the winds. And there are preserved the voices of the thunder and the light of the lightnings: and there are preserved the chambers of the hail and the chambers of the hoarfrost, and the chambers of the mist, and the chambers of the rain and the dew. And all these believe and give thanks before the Lord of Spirits, and glorify (Him) with all their power, and their food is in every act of thanksgiving: they thank and glorify and extol the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.]

And this oath is mighty over them
And through it [they are preserved and] their paths are preserved,
And their course is not destroyed.

And there was great joy amongst them,
And they blessed and glorified and extolled
Because the name of that Son of Man had been revealed unto them.

And he sat on the throne of his glory,
And the sum of judgement was given unto the Son of Man,
And he caused the sinners to pass away and be destroyed from off the face of the earth,
And those who have led the world astray.

With chains shall they be bound,
And in their assemblage-place of destruction shall they be imprisoned,
And all their works vanish from the face of the earth.

And from henceforth there shall be nothing corruptible;
For that Son of Man has appeared,
And has seated himself on the throne of his glory,
And all evil shall pass away before his face,
And the word of that Son of Man shall go forth

And be strong before the Lord of Spirits.

And it came to pass after this that his name during his lifetime was raised aloft to that Son of Man and to the Lord of Spirits from amongst those who dwell on the earth. And he was raised aloft on the chariots of the spirit and his name vanished among them. And from that day I was no longer numbered amongst them: and he set me between the two winds, between the North and the West, where the angels took the cords to measure for me the place for the elect and righteous. And there I saw the first fathers and the righteous who from the beginning dwell in that place.

And it came to pass after this that my spirit was translated
And it ascended into the heavens:
And I saw the holy sons of God.
They were stepping on flames of fire:
Their garments were white [and their raiment],
And their faces shone like snow.

And I saw two streams of fire,
And the light of that fire shone like hyacinth,
And I fell on my face before the Lord of Spirits.

And the angel Michael [one of the archangels] seized me by my right hand,
And lifted me up and led me forth into all the secrets,
And he showed me all the secrets of righteousness.

And he showed me all the secrets of the ends of the heaven,
And all the chambers of all the stars, and all the luminaries,
Whence they proceed before the face of the holy ones.

And he translated my spirit into the heaven of heavens,
And I saw there as it were a structure built of crystals,
And between those crystals tongues of living fire.

And my spirit saw the girdle which girt that house of fire,
And on its four sides were streams full of living fire,
And they girt that house.

And round about were Seraphin, Cherubic, and Ophannin:
And these are they who sleep not
And guard the throne of His glory.

And I saw angels who could not be counted,
A thousand thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand,
Encircling that house.

And Michael, and Raphael, and Gabriel, and Phanuel,
And the holy angels who are above the heavens,
Go in and out of that house.

And they came forth from that house,
And Michael and Gabriel, Raphael and Phanuel,
And many holy angels without number.

And with them the Head of Days,
His head white and pure as wool,
And His raiment indescribable.

And I fell on my face,
And my whole body became relaxed,
And my spirit was transfigured;

And I cried with a loud voice, . . .
with the spirit of power,
And blessed and glorified and extolled.

And these blessings which went forth out of my mouth were well pleasing before that Head of Days. And that Head of Days came with Michael and Gabriel, Raphael and Phanuel, thousands and ten thousands of angels without number.

[Lost passage wherein the Son of Man was described as accompanying the Head of Days, and Enoch asked one of the angels (as in xlvi. ) concerning the Son of Man as to who he was.]

And he (i.e. the angel) came to me and greeted me with His voice, and said unto me '
This is the Son of Man who is born unto righteousness,
And righteousness abides over him,
And the righteousness of the Head of Days forsakes him not.'
And he said unto me:
' He proclaims unto thee peace in the name of the world to come;
For from hence has proceeded peace since the creation of the world,
And so shall it be unto thee for ever and for ever and ever.

And all shall walk in his ways since righteousness never forsaketh him:
With him will be their dwelling-places, and with him their heritage,
And they shall not be separated from him for ever and ever and ever.

And so there shall be length of days with that Son of Man,
And the righteous shall have peace and an upright way
In the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.'

 

Section I I I. Chapters LXXII-LXXXII
The Book of the Heavenly Luminaries

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The book of the courses of the luminaries of the heaven, the relations of each, according to their classes, their dominion and their seasons, according to their names and places of origin, and according to their months, which Uriel, the holy angel, who was with me, who is their guide, showed me; and he showed me all their laws exactly as they are, and how it is with regard to all the years of the world and unto eternity, till the new creation is accomplished which dureth till eternity. And this is the first law of the luminaries: the luminary the Sun has its rising in the eastern portals of the heaven, and its setting in the western portals of the heaven. And I saw six portals in which the sun rises, and six portals in which the sun sets and the moon rises and sets in these portals, and the leaders of the stars and those whom they lead: six in the east and six in the west, and all following each other in accurately corresponding order: also many windows to the right and left of these portals. And first there goes forth the great luminary, named the Sun, and his circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and he is quite filled with illuminating and heating fire. The chariot on which he ascends, the wind drives, and the sun goes down from the heaven and returns through the north in order to reach the east, and is so guided that he comes to the appropriate (lit. ' that ') portal and shines in the face of the heaven. In this way he rises in the first month in the great portal, which is the fourth [those six portals in the cast]. And in that fourth portal from which the sun rises in the first month are twelve window-openings, from which proceed a flame when they are opened in their season. When the sun rises in the heaven, he comes forth through that fourth portal thirty, mornings in succession, and sets accurately in the fourth portal in the west of the heaven. And during this period the day becomes daily longer and the night nightly shorter to the thirtieth morning. On that day the day is longer than the night by a ninth part, and the day amounts exactly to ten parts and the night to eight parts. And the sun rises from that fourth portal, and sets in the fourth and returns to the fifth portal of the east thirty mornings, and rises from it and sets in the fifth portal. And then the day becomes longer by two parts and amounts to eleven parts, and the night becomes shorter and amounts to seven parts. And it returns to the east and enters into the sixth portal, and rises and sets in the sixth portal one-and-thirty mornings on account of its sign. On that day the day becomes longer than the night, and the day becomes double the night, and the day becomes twelve parts, and the night is shortened and becomes six parts. And the sun mounts up to make the day shorter and the night longer, and the sun returns to the east and enters into the sixth portal, and rises from it and sets thirty mornings. And when thirty mornings are accomplished, the day decreases by exactly one part, and becomes eleven parts, and the night seven. And the sun goes forth from that sixth portal in the west, and goes to the east and rises in the fifth portal for thirty mornings, and sets in the west again in the fifth western portal. On that day the day decreases by two parts, and amounts to ten parts and the night to eight parts. And the sun goes forth from that fifth portal and sets in the fifth portal of the west, and rises in the fourth portal for one- and-thirty mornings on account of its sign, and sets in the west. On that day the day is equalized with the night, [and becomes of equal length], and the night amounts to nine parts and the day to nine parts. And the sun rises from that portal and sets in the west, and returns to the east and rises thirty mornings in the third portal and sets in the west in the third portal. And on that day the night becomes longer than the day, and night becomes longer than night, and day shorter than day till the thirtieth morning, and the night amounts exactly to ten parts and the day to eight parts. And the sun rises from that third portal and sets in the third portal in the west and returns to the east, and for thirty mornings rises in the second portal in the east, and in like manner sets in the second portal in the west of the heaven. And on that day the night amounts to eleven parts and the day to seven parts. And the sun rises on that day from that second portal and sets in the west in the second portal, and returns to the east into the first portal for one-and-thirty mornings, and sets in the first portal in the west of the heaven. And on that day the night becomes longer and amounts to the double of the day: and the night amounts exactly to twelve parts and the day to six. And the sun has (therewith) traversed the divisions of his orbit and turns again on those divisions of his orbit, and enters that portal thirty mornings and sets also in the west opposite to it. And on that night has the night decreased in length by a ninth part, and the night has become eleven parts and the day seven parts. And the sun has returned and entered into the second portal in the east, and returns on those his divisions of his orbit for thirty mornings, rising and setting. And on that day the night decreases in length, and the night amounts to ten parts and the day to eight. And on that day the sun rises from that portal, and sets in the west, and returns to the east, and rises in the third portal for one-and-thirty mornings, and sets in the west of the heaven. On that day the night decreases and amounts to nine parts, and the day to nine parts, and the night is equal to the day and the year is exactly as to its days three hundred and sixty-four. And the length of the day and of the night, and the shortness of the day and of the night arise-through the course of the sun these distinctions are made (lit. ' they are separated '). So it comes that its course becomes daily longer, and its course nightly shorter. And this is the law and the course of the sun, and his return as often as he returns sixty times and rises, i.e. the great luminary which is named the sun, for ever and ever. And that which (thus) rises is the great luminary, and is so named according to its appearance, according as the Lord commanded. As he rises, so he sets and decreases not, and rests not, but runs day and night, and his light is sevenfold brighter than that of the moon; but as regards size they are both equal.

 

And after this law I saw another law dealing with the smaller luminary, which is named the Moon. And her circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and her chariot in which she rides is driven by the wind, and light is given to her in (definite) measure. And her rising and setting change every month: and her days are like the days of the sun, and when her light is uniform (i.e. full) it amounts to the seventh part of the light of the sun. And thus she rises. And her first phase in the east comes forth on the thirtieth morning: and on that day she becomes visible, and constitutes for you the first phase of the moon on the thirtieth day together with the sun in the portal where the sun rises. And the one half of her goes forth by a seventh part, and her whole circumference is empty, without light, with the exception of one-seventh part of it, (and) the fourteenth part of her light. And when she receives one-seventh part of the half of her light, her light amounts to one-seventh part and the half thereof. And she sets with the sun, and when the sun rises the moon rises with him and receives the half of one part of light, and in that night in the beginning of her morning [in the commencement of the lunar day] the moon sets with the sun, and is invisible that night with the fourteen parts and the half of one of them. And she rises on that day with exactly a seventh part, and comes forth and recedes from the rising of the sun, and in her remaining days she becomes bright in the (remaining) thirteen parts.

 

And I saw another course, a law for her, (and) how according to that law she performs her monthly revolution. And all these Uriel, the holy angel who is the leader of them all, showed to me, and their positions, and I wrote down their positions as he showed them to me, and I wrote down their months as they were, and the appearance of their lights till fifteen days were accomplished. In single seventh parts she accomplishes all her light in the east, and in single seventh parts accomplishes all her darkness in the west. And in certain months she alters her settings, and in certain months she pursues her own peculiar course. In two months the moon sets with the sun: in those two middle portals the third and the fourth. She goes forth for seven days, and turns about and returns again through the portal where the sun rises, and accomplishes all her light: and she recedes from the sun, and in eight days enters the sixth portal from which the sun goes forth. And when the sun goes forth from the fourth portal she goes forth seven days, until she goes forth from the fifth and turns back again in seven days into the fourth portal and accomplishes all her light: and she recedes and enters into the first portal in eight days. And she returns again in seven days into the fourth portal from which the , sun goes forth. Thus I saw their position -how the moons rose and the sun set in those days. And if five years are added together the sun has an overplus of thirty days, and all the days which accrue to it for one of those five years, when they are full, amount to days. And the overplus of the sun and of the stars amounts to six days: in years days every year come to days: and the moon falls behind the sun and stars to the number of days. And the sun and the stars bring in all the years exactly, so that they do not advance or delay their position by a single day unto eternity; but complete the years with perfect justice in days. In years there are , days, and in years , days, so that in years there are , days. For the moon alone the days amount in years to , days, and in years she falls days behind: [i.e. to the sum (of ,) there is to be added (, and) days.] And in years there are , days, so that for the moon the days in years amount to , days. [For in years she falls behind to the amount of days], all the days she falls behind in years are . And the year is accurately completed in conformity with their world-stations and the stations of the sun, which rise from the portals through which it (the sun) rises and sets days.

 

And the leaders of the heads of the thousands, who are placed over the whole creation and over all the stars, have also to do with the four intercalary days, being inseparable from their office, according to the reckoning of the year, and these render service on the four days which are not reckoned in the reckoning of the year. And owing to them men go wrong therein, for those luminaries truly render service on the world-stations, one in the first portal, one in the third portal of the heaven, one in the fourth portal, and one in the sixth portal, and the exactness of the year is accomplished through its separate three hundred and sixty-four stations. For the signs and the times and the years and the days the angel Uriel showed to me, whom the Lord of glory hath set for ever over all the luminaries of the heaven, in the heaven and in the world, that they should rule on the face of the heaven and be seen on the earth, and be leaders for the day and the night, i.e. the sun, moon, and stars, and all the ministering creatures which make their revolution in all the chariots of the heaven. In like manner twelve doors Uriel showed me, open in the circumference of the sun's chariot in the heaven, through which the rays of the sun break forth: and from them is warmth diffused over the earth, when they are opened at their appointed seasons. [And for the winds and the spirit of the dew when they are opened, standing open in the heavens at the ends.] As for the twelve portals in the heaven, at the ends of the earth, out of which go forth the sun, moon, and stars, and all the works of heaven in the east and in the west, There are many windows open to the left and right of them, and one window at its (appointed) season produces warmth, corresponding (as these do) to those doors from which the stars come forth according as He has commanded them, and wherein they set corresponding to their number. And I saw chariots in the heaven, running in the world, above those portals in which revolve the stars that never set. And one is larger than all the rest, and it is that that makes its course through the entire world.

 

And at the ends of the earth I saw twelve portals open to all the quarters (of the heaven), from which the winds go forth and blow over the earth. Three of them are open on the face (i.e. the east) of the heavens, and three in the west, and three on the right (i.e. the south) of the heaven, and three on the left (i.e. the north). And the three first are those of the east, and three are of the north, and three [after those on the left] of the south, and three of the west. Through four of these come winds of blessing and prosperity, and from those eight come hurtful winds: when they are sent, they bring destruction on all the earth and on the water upon it, and on all who dwell thereon, and on everything which is in the water and on the land. And the first wind from those portals, called the east wind, comes forth through the first portal which is in the east, inclining towards the south: from it come forth desolation, drought, heat, and destruction. And through the second portal in the middle comes what is fitting, and from it there come rain and fruitfulness and prosperity and dew; and through the third portal which lies toward the north come cold and drought. And after these come forth the south winds through three portals: through the first portal of them inclining to the east comes forth a hot wind. And through the middle portal next to it there come forth fragrant smells, and dew and rain, and prosperity and health. And through the third portal lying to the west come forth dew and rain, locusts and desolation. And after these the north winds: from the seventh portal in the east come dew and rain, locusts and desolation. And from the middle portal come in a direct direction health and rain and dew and prosperity; and through the third portal in the west come cloud and hoar-frost, and snow and rain, and dew and locusts. And after these [four] are the west winds: through the first portal adjoining the north come forth dew and hoar-frost, and cold and snow and frost. And from the middle portal come forth dew and rain, and prosperity and blessing; and through the last portal which adjoins the south come forth drought and desolation, and burning and destruction. And the twelve portals of the four quarters of the heaven are therewith completed, and all their laws and all their plagues and all their benefactions have I shown to thee, my son Methuselah.

 

And the first quarter is called the east, because it is the first: and the second, the south, because the Most High will descend there, yea, there in quite a special sense will He who is blessed for ever descend. And the west quarter is named the diminished, because there all the luminaries of the heaven wane and go down. And the fourth quarter, named the north, is divided into three parts: the first of them is for the dwelling of men: and the second contains seas of water, and the abysses and forests and rivers, and darkness and clouds; and the third part contains the garden of righteousness. I saw seven high mountains, higher than all the mountains which are on the earth: and thence comes forth hoar-frost, and days, seasons, and years pass away. I saw seven rivers on the earth larger than all the rivers: one of them coming from the west pours its waters into the Great Sea. And these two come from the north to the sea and pour their waters into the Erythraean Sea in the east. And the remaining, four come forth on the side of the north to their own sea, two of them to the Erythraean Sea, and two into the Great Sea and discharge themselves there [and some say: into the desert]. Seven great islands I saw in the sea and in the mainland: two in the mainland and five in the Great Sea.

 

, And the names of the sun are the following: the first Orjares, and the second Tomas. And the moon has four names: the first name is Asonja, the second Ebla, the third Benase, and the fourth Erae. These are the two great luminaries: their circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and the size of the circumference of both is alike. In the circumference of the sun there are seven portions of light which are added to it more than to the moon, and in definite measures it is s transferred till the seventh portion of the sun is exhausted. And they set and enter the portals of the west, and make their revolution by the north, and come forth through the eastern portals on the face of the heaven. And when the moon rises one-fourteenth part appears in the heaven: [the light becomes full in her]: on the fourteenth day she accomplishes her light. And fifteen parts of light are transferred to her till the fifteenth day (when) her light is accomplished, according to the sign of the year, and she becomes fifteen parts, and the moon grows by (the addition of) fourteenth parts. And in her waning (the moon) decreases on the first day to fourteen parts of her light, on the second to thirteen parts of light, on the third to twelve, on the fourth to eleven, on the fifth to ten, on the sixth to nine, on the seventh to eight, on the eighth to seven, on the ninth to six, on the tenth to five, on the eleventh to four, on the twelfth to three, on the thirteenth to two, on the fourteenth to the half of a seventh, and all her remaining light disappears wholly on the fifteenth. And in certain months the month has twenty-nine days and once twenty-eight. And Uriel showed me another law: when light is transferred to the moon, and on which side it is transferred to her by the sun. During all the period during which the moon is growing in her light, she is transferring it to herself when opposite to the sun during fourteen days [her light is accomplished in the heaven, and when she is illumined throughout, her light is accomplished full in the heaven. And on the first day she is called the new moon, for on that day the light rises upon her. She becomes full moon exactly on the day when the sun sets in the west, and from the east she rises at night, and the moon shines the whole night through till the sun rises over against her and the moon is seen over against the sun. On the side whence the light of the moon comes forth, there again she wanes till all the light vanishes and all the days of the month are at an end, and her circumference is empty, void of light. And three months she makes of thirty days, and at her time she makes three months of twenty- nine days each, in which she accomplishes her waning in the first period of time, and in the first portal for one hundred and seventy-seven days. And in the time of her going out she appears for three months (of) thirty days each, and for three months she appears (of) twenty-nine each. At night she appears like a man for twenty days each time, and by day she appears like the heaven, and there is nothing else in her save her light.

 

And now, my son, I have shown thee everything, and the law of all the stars of the heaven is completed. And he showed me all the laws of these for every day, and for every season of bearing rule, and for every year, and for its going forth, and for the order prescribed to it every month and every week: And the waning of the moon which takes place in the sixth portal: for in this sixth portal her light is accomplished, and after that there is the beginning of the waning: (And the waning) which takes place in the first portal in its season, till one hundred and seventy-seven days are accomplished: reckoned according to weeks, twenty-five (weeks) and two days. She falls behind the sun and the order of the stars exactly five days in the course of one period, and when this place which thou seest has been traversed. Such is the picture and sketch of every luminary which Uriel the archangel, who is their leader, showed unto me.

 

And in those days the angel Uriel answered and said to me: ' Behold, I have shown thee everything, Enoch, and I have revealed everything to thee that thou shouldst see this sun and this moon, and the leaders of the stars of the heaven and all those who turn them, their tasks and times and departures.

And in the days of the sinners the years shall be shortened,
And their seed shall be tardy on their lands and fields,
And all things on the earth shall alter,
And shall not appear in their time:
And the rain shall be kept back
And the heaven shall withhold (it).
And in those times the fruits of the earth shall be backward,
And shall not grow in their time,
And the fruits of the trees shall be withheld in their time.
And the moon shall alter her order,
And not appear at her time.
[And in those days the sun shall be seen and he shall journey in the evening on the extremity of the great chariot in the west]
And shall shine more brightly than accords with the order of light.
And many chiefs of the stars shall transgress the order (prescribed).
And these shall alter their orbits and tasks,
And not appear at the seasons prescribed to them.
And the whole order of the stars shall be concealed from the sinners,
And the thoughts of those on the earth shall err concerning them,
[And they shall be altered from all their ways],
Yea, they shall err and take them to be gods.
And evil shall be multiplied upon them,
And punishment shall come upon them So as to destroy all.'

 

And he said unto me:
' Observe, Enoch, these heavenly tablets,
And read what is written thereon,
And mark every individual fact.'

And I observed the heavenly tablets, and read everything which was written (thereon) and understood everything, and read the book of all the deeds of mankind, and of all the children of flesh that shall be upon the earth to the remotest generations. And forthwith I blessed the great Lord the King of glory for ever, in that He has made all the works of the world,

And I extolled the Lord because of His patience,
And blessed Him because of the children of men.

And after that I said:
' Blessed is the man who dies in righteousness and goodness,
Concerning whom there is no book of unrighteousness written,
And against whom no day of judgement shall be found.'

And those seven holy ones brought me and placed me on the earth before the door of my house, and said to me: ' Declare everything to thy son Methuselah, and show to all thy children that no flesh is righteous in the sight of the Lord, for He is their Creator. One year we will leave thee with thy son, till thou givest thy (last) commands, that thou mayest teach thy children and record (it) for them, and testify to all thy children; and in the second year they shall take thee from their midst.

Let thy heart be strong,
For the good shall announce righteousness to the good;

The righteous with the righteous shall rejoice,
And shall offer congratulation to one another.

But the sinners shall die with the sinners,
And the apostate go down with the apostate.

And those who practice righteousness shall die on account of the deeds of men,
And be taken away on account of the doings of the godless.'

And in those days they ceased to speak to me, and I came to my people, blessing the Lord of the world.

 

And now, my son Methuselah, all these things I am recounting to thee and writing down for thee! and I have revealed to thee everything, and given thee books concerning all these: so preserve, my son Methuselah, the books from thy father's hand, and (see) that thou deliver them to the generations of the world.

I have given Wisdom to thee and to thy children,
[And thy children that shall be to thee],
That they may give it to their children for generations,
This wisdom (namely) that passeth their thought.

And those who understand it shall not sleep,
But shall listen with the ear that they may learn this wisdom,
And it shall please those that eat thereof better than good food.

Blessed are all the righteous, blessed are all those who walk In the way of righteousness and sin not as the sinners, in the reckoning of all their days in which the sun traverses the heaven, entering into and departing from the portals for thirty days with the heads of thousands of the order of the stars, together with the four which are intercalated which divide the four portions of the year, which lead them and enter with them four days. Owing to them men shall be at fault and not reckon them in the whole reckoning of the year: yea, men shall be at fault, and not recognize them accurately. For they belong to the reckoning of the year and are truly recorded (thereon) for ever, one in the first portal and one in the third, and one in the fourth and one in the sixth, and the year is completed in three hundred and sixty-four days. And the account thereof is accurate and the recorded reckoning thereof exact; for the luminaries, and months and festivals, and years and days, has Uriel shown and revealed to me, to whom the Lord of the whole creation of the world hath subjected the host of heaven. And he has power over night and day in the heaven to cause the light to give light to men -sun, moon, and stars, and all the powers of the heaven which revolve in their circular chariots. And these are the orders of the stars, which set in their places, and in their seasons and festivals and months. And these are the names of those who lead them, who watch that they enter at their times, in their orders, in their seasons, in their months, in their periods of dominion, and in their positions. Their four leaders who divide the four parts of the year enter first; and after them the twelve leaders of the orders who divide the months; and for the three hundred and sixty (days) there are heads over thousands who divide the days; and for the four intercalary days there are the leaders which sunder the four parts of the year. And these heads over thousands are intercalated between leader and leader, each behind a station, but their leaders make the division. And these are the names of the leaders who divide the four parts of the year which are ordained: Milki'el, Hel'emmelek, and Mel'ejal, and Narel. And the names of those who lead them: Adnar'el, and Ijasusa'el, and 'Elome'el- these three follow the leaders of the orders, and there is one that follows the three leaders of the orders which follow those leaders of stations that divide the four parts of the year. In the beginning of the year Melkejal rises first and rules, who is named Tam'aini and sun, and all the days of his dominion whilst he bears rule are ninety-one days. And these are the signs of the days which are to be seen on earth in the days of his dominion: sweat, and heat, and calms; and all the trees bear fruit, and leaves are produced on all the trees, and the harvest of wheat, and the rose-flowers, and all the flowers which come forth in the field, but the trees of the winter season become withered. And these are the names of the leaders which are under them: Berka'el, Zelebs'el, and another who is added a head of a thousand, called Hilujaseph: and the days of the dominion of this (leader) are at an end. The next leader after him is Hel'emmelek, whom one names the shining sun, and all the days of his light are ninety-one days. And these are the signs of (his) days on the earth: glowing heat and dryness, and the trees ripen their fruits and produce all their fruits ripe and ready, and the sheep pair and become pregnant, and all the fruits of the earth are gathered in, and everything that is in the fields, and the winepress: these things take place in the days of his dominion. These are the names, and the orders, and the leaders of those heads of thousands: Gida'ljal, Ke'el, and He'el, and the name of the head of a thousand which is added to them, Asfa'el: and the days of his dominion are at an end.

 

Section IV. Chapters LXXXIII-XC.
The Dream-Visions.

 

And now, my son Methuselah, I will show thee all my visions which I have seen, recounting them before thee. Two visions I saw before I took a wife, and the one was quite unlike the other: the first when I was learning to write: the second before I took thy mother, (when) I saw a terrible vision. And regarding them I prayed to the Lord. I had laid me down in the house of my grandfather Mahalalel, (when) I saw in a vision how the heaven collapsed and was borne off and fell to the earth. And when it fell to the earth I saw how the earth was swallowed up in a great abyss, and mountains were suspended on mountains, and hills sank down on hills, and high trees were rent from their stems, and hurled down and sunk in the abyss. And thereupon a word fell into my mouth, and I lifted up (my voice) to cry aloud, and said: ' The earth is destroyed.' And my grandfather Mahalalel waked me as I lay near him, and said unto me: ' Why dost thou cry so, my son, and why dost thou make such lamentation?' And I recounted to him the whole vision which I had seen, and he said unto me: ' A terrible thing hast thou seen, my son, and of grave moment is thy dream- vision as to the secrets of all the sin of the earth: it must sink into the abyss and be destroyed with a great destruction. And now, my son, arise and make petition to the Lord of glory, since thou art a believer, that a remnant may remain on the earth, and that He may not destroy the whole earth. My son, from heaven all this will come upon the earth, and upon the earth there will be great destruction. After that I arose and prayed and implored and besought, and wrote down my prayer for the generations of the world, and I will show everything to thee, my son Methuselah. And when I had gone forth below and seen the heaven, and the sun rising in the east, and the moon setting in the west, and a few stars, and the whole earth, and everything as He had known it in the beginning, then I blessed the Lord of judgement and extolled Him because He had made the sun to go forth from the windows of the east, and he ascended and rose on the face of the heaven, and set out and kept traversing the path shown unto him.

 

And I lifted up my hands in righteousness and blessed the Holy and Great One, and spake with the breath of my mouth, and with the tongue of flesh, which God has made for the children of the flesh of men, that they should speak therewith, and He gave them breath and a tongue and a mouth that they should speak therewith:

Blessed be Thou, O Lord, King,
Great and mighty in Thy greatness,
Lord of the whole creation of the heaven,
King of kings and God of the whole world.

And Thy power and kingship and greatness abide for ever and ever,
And throughout all generations Thy dominion;
And all the heavens are Thy throne for ever,
And the whole earth Thy footstool for ever and ever.

For Thou hast made and Thou rulest all things,
And nothing is too hard for Thee,
Wisdom departs not from the place of Thy throne,
Nor turns away from Thy presence.
And Thou knowest and seest and hearest everything,
And there is nothing hidden from Thee [for Thou seest everything].
And now the angels of Thy heavens are guilty of trespass,
And upon the flesh of men abideth Thy wrath until the great day of judgement.
And now, O God and Lord and Great King,
I implore and beseech Thee to fulfil my prayer,
To leave me a posterity on earth,
And not destroy all the flesh of man,
And make the earth without inhabitant,
So that there should be an eternal destruction.
And now, my Lord, destroy from the earth the flesh which has aroused Thy wrath,
But the flesh of righteousness and uprightness establish as a plant of the eternal seed,
And hide not Thy face from the prayer of Thy servant, O Lord.'

 

, And after this I saw another dream, and I will show the whole dream to thee, my son. And Enoch lifted up (his voice) and spake to his son Methuselah: ' To thee, my son, will I speak: hear my words-incline thine ear to the dream-vision of thy father. Before I took thy mother Edna, I saw in a vision on my bed, and behold a bull came forth from the earth, and that bull was white; and after it came forth a heifer, and along with this (latter) came forth two bulls, one of them black and the other red. And that black bull gored the red one and pursued him over the earth, and thereupon I could no longer see that red bull. But that black bull grew and that heifer went with him, and I saw that many oxen proceeded from him which resembled and followed him. And that cow, that first one, went from the presence of that first bull in order to seek that red one, but found him not, and lamented with a great lamentation over him and sought him. And I looked till that first bull came to her and quieted her, and from that time onward she cried no more. And after that she bore another white bull, and after him she bore many bulls and black cows. And I saw in my sleep that white bull likewise grow and become a great white bull, and from Him proceeded many white bulls, and they resembled him. And they began to beget many white bulls, which resembled them, one following the other, (even) many.

 

And again I saw with mine eyes as I slept, and I saw the heaven above, and behold a star fell from heaven, and it arose and eat and pastured amongst those oxen. And after that I saw the large and the black oxen, and behold they all changed their stalls and pastures and their cattle, and began to live with each other. And again I saw in the vision, and looked towards the heaven, and behold I saw many stars descend and cast themselves down from heaven to that first star, and they became bulls amongst those cattle and pastured with them [amongst them]. And I looked at them and saw, and behold they all let out their privy members, like horses, and began to cover the cows of the oxen, and they all became pregnant and bare elephants, camels, and asses. And all the oxen feared them and were affrighted at them, and began to bite with their teeth and to devour, and to gore with their horns. And they began, moreover, to devour those oxen; and behold all the children of the earth began to tremble and quake before them and to flee from them.

 

And again I saw how they began to gore each other and to devour each other, and the earth began to cry aloud. And I raised mine eyes again to heaven, and I saw in the vision, and behold there came forth from heaven beings who were like white men: and four went forth from that place and three with them. And those three that had last come forth grasped me by my hand and took me up, away from the generations of the earth, and raised me up to a lofty place, and showed me a tower raised high above the earth, and all the hills were lower. And one said unto me: ' Remain here till thou seest everything that befalls those elephants, camels, and asses, and the stars and the oxen, and all of them.'

 

And I saw one of those four who had come forth first, and he seized that first star which had fallen from the heaven, and bound it hand and foot and cast it into an abyss: now that abyss was narrow and deep, and horrible and dark. And one of them drew a sword, and gave it to those elephants and camels and asses: then they began to smite each other, and the whole earth quaked because of them. And as I was beholding in the vision, lo, one of those four who had come forth stoned (them) from heaven, and gathered and took all the great stars whose privy members were like those of horses, and bound them all hand and foot, and cast them in an abyss of the earth.

 

And one of those four went to that white bull and instructed him in a secret, without his being terrified: he was born a bull and became a man, and built for himself a great vessel and dwelt thereon; and three bulls dwelt with him in that vessel and they were covered in. And again I raised mine eyes towards heaven and saw a lofty roof, with seven water torrents thereon, and those torrents flowed with much water into an enclosure. And I saw again, and behold fountains were opened on the surface of that great enclosure, and that water began to swell and rise upon the surface, and I saw that enclosure till all its surface was covered with water. And the water, the darkness, and mist increased upon it; and as I looked at the height of that water, that water had risen above the height of that enclosure, and was streaming over that enclosure, and it stood upon the earth. And all the cattle of that enclosure were gathered together until I saw how they sank and were swallowed up and perished in that water. But that vessel floated on the water, while all the oxen and elephants and camels and asses sank to the bottom with all the animals, so that I could no longer see them, and they were not able to escape, (but) perished and sank into the depths. And again I saw in the vision till those water torrents were removed from that high roof, and the chasms of the earth were leveled up and other abysses were opened. Then the water began to run down into these, till the earth became visible; but that vessel settled on the earth, and the darkness retired and light appeared. But that white bull which had become a man came out of that vessel, and the three bulls with him, and one of those three was white like that bull, and one of them was red as blood, and one black: and that white bull departed from them. And they began to bring forth beasts of the field and birds, so that there arose different genera: lions, tigers, wolves, dogs, hyenas, wild boars, foxes, squirrels, swine, falcons, vultures, kites, eagles, and ravens; and among them was born a white bull. And they began to bite one another; but that white bull which was born amongst them begat a wild ass and a white bull with it, and the wild asses multiplied. But that bull which was born from him begat a black wild boar and a white sheep; and the former begat many boars, but that sheep begat twelve sheep. And when those twelve sheep had grown, they gave up one of them to the asses, and those asses again gave up that sheep to the wolves, and that sheep grew up among the wolves. And the Lord brought the eleven sheep to live with it and to pasture with it among the wolves: and they multiplied and became many flocks of sheep. And the wolves began to fear them, and they oppressed them until they destroyed their little ones, and they cast their young into a river of much water: but those sheep began to cry aloud on account of their little ones, and to complain unto their Lord. And a sheep which had been saved from the wolves fled and escaped to the wild asses; and I saw the sheep how they lamented and cried, and besought their Lord with all their might, till that Lord of the sheep descended at the voice of the sheep from a lofty abode, and came to them and pastured them. And He called that sheep which had escaped the wolves, and spake with it concerning the wolves that it should admonish them not to touch the sheep. And the sheep went to the wolves according to the word of the Lord, and another sheep met it and went with it, and the two went and entered together into the assembly of those wolves, and spake with them and admonished them not to touch the sheep from henceforth. And thereupon I saw the wolves, and how they oppressed the sheep exceedingly with all their power; and the sheep cried aloud. And the Lord came to the sheep and they began to smite those wolves: and the wolves began to make lamentation; but the sheep became quiet and forthwith ceased to cry out. And I saw the sheep till they departed from amongst the wolves; but the eyes of the wolves were blinded, and those wolves departed in pursuit of the sheep with all their power. And the Lord of the sheep went with them, as their leader, and all His sheep followed Him: and his face was dazzling and glorious and terrible to behold. But the wolves began to pursue those sheep till they reached a sea of water. And that sea was divided, and the water stood on this side and on that before their face, and their Lord led them and placed Himself between them and the wolves. And as those wolves did not yet see the sheep, they proceeded into the midst of that sea, and the wolves followed the sheep, and [those wolves] ran after them into that sea. And when they saw the Lord of the sheep, they turned to flee before His face, but that sea gathered itself together, and became as it had been created, and the water swelled and rose till it covered those wolves. And I saw till all the wolves who pursued those sheep perished and were drowned. But the sheep escaped from that water and went forth into a wilderness, where there was no water and no grass; and they began to open their eyes and to see; and I saw the Lord of the sheep pasturing them and giving them water and grass, and that sheep going and leading them. And that sheep ascended to the summit of that lofty rock, and the Lord of the sheep sent it to them. And after that I saw the Lord of the sheep who stood before them, and His appearance was great and terrible and majestic, and all those sheep saw Him and were afraid before His face. And they all feared and trembled because of Him, and they cried to that sheep with them [which was amongst them]: ' We are not able to stand before our Lord or to behold Him.' And that sheep which led them again ascended to the summit of that rock, but the sheep began to be blinded and to wander from the way which he had showed them, but that sheep wot not thereof. And the Lord of the sheep was wrathful exceedingly against them, and that sheep discovered it, and went down from the summit of the rock, and came to the sheep, and found the greatest part of them blinded and fallen away. And when they saw it they feared and trembled at its presence, and desired to return to their folds. And that sheep took other sheep with it, and came to those sheep which had fallen away, and began to slay them; and the sheep feared its presence, and thus that sheep brought back those sheep that had fallen away, and they returned to their folds. And I saw in this vision till that sheep became a man and built a house for the Lord of the sheep, and placed all the sheep in that house. And I saw till this sheep which had met that sheep which led them fell asleep: and I saw till all the great sheep perished and little ones arose in their place, and they came to a pasture, and approached a stream of water. Then that sheep, their leader which had become a man, withdrew from them and fell asleep, and all the sheep sought it and cried over it with a great crying. And I saw till they left off crying for that sheep and crossed that stream of water, and there arose the two sheep as leaders in the place of those which had led them and fallen asleep (lit. ' had fallen asleep and led them '). And I saw till the sheep came to a goodly place, and a pleasant and glorious land, and I saw till those sheep were satisfied; and that house stood amongst them in the pleasant land. And sometimes their eyes were opened, and sometimes blinded, till another sheep arose and led them and brought them all back, and their eyes were opened. And the dogs and the foxes and the wild boars began to devour those sheep till the Lord of the sheep raised up [another sheep] a ram from their midst, which led them. And that ram began to butt on either side those dogs, foxes, and wild boars till he had destroyed them all. And that sheep whose eyes were opened saw that ram, which was amongst the sheep, till it forsook its glory and began to butt those sheep, and trampled upon them, and behaved itself unseemly. And the Lord of the sheep sent the lamb to another lamb and raised it to being a ram and leader of the sheep instead of that ram which had forsaken its glory. And it went to it and spake to it alone, and raised it to being a ram, and made it the prince and leader of the sheep; but during all these things those dogs oppressed the sheep. And the first ram pursued that second ram, and that second ram arose and fled before it; and I saw till those dogs pulled down the first ram. And that second ram arose and led the [little] sheep. And those sheep grew and multiplied; but all the dogs, and foxes, and wild boars feared and fled before it, and that ram butted and killed the wild beasts, and those wild beasts had no longer any power among the b sheep and robbed them no more of ought. And that ram begat many sheep and fell asleep; and a little sheep became ram in its stead, and became prince and leader of those sheep. And that house became great and broad, and it was built for those sheep: (and) a tower lofty and great was built on the house for the Lord of the sheep, and that house was low, but the tower was elevated and lofty, and the Lord of the sheep stood on that tower and they offered a full table before Him. And again I saw those sheep that they again erred and went many ways, and forsook that their house, and the Lord of the sheep called some from amongst the sheep and sent them to the sheep, but the sheep began to slay them. And one of them was saved and was not slain, and it sped away and cried aloud over the sheep; and they sought to slay it, but the Lord of the sheep saved it from the sheep, and brought it up to me, and caused it to dwell there. And many other sheep He sent to those sheep to testify unto them and lament over them. And after that I saw that when they forsook the house of the Lord and His tower they fell away entirely, and their eyes were blinded; and I saw the Lord of the sheep how He wrought much slaughter amongst them in their herds until those sheep invited that slaughter and betrayed His place. And He gave them over into the hands of the lions and tigers, and wolves and hyenas, and into the hand of the foxes, and to all the wild beasts, and those wild beasts began to tear in pieces those sheep. And I saw that He forsook that their house and their tower and gave them all into the hand of the lions, to tear and devour them, into the hand of all the wild beasts. And I began to cry aloud with all my power, and to appeal to the Lord of the sheep, and to represent to Him in regard to the sheep that they were devoured by all the wild beasts. But He remained unmoved, though He saw it, and rejoiced that they were devoured and swallowed and robbed, and left them to be devoured in the hand of all the beasts. And He called seventy shepherds, and cast those sheep to them that they might pasture them, and He spake to the shepherds and their companions: ' Let each individual of you pasture the sheep henceforward, and everything that I shall command you that do ye. And I will deliver them over unto you duly numbered, and tell you which of them are to be destroyed-and them destroy ye.' And He gave over unto them those sheep. And He called another and spake unto him: ' Observe and mark everything that the shepherds will do to those sheep; for they will destroy more of them than I have commanded them. And every excess and the destruction which will be wrought through the shepherds, record (namely) how many they destroy according to my command, and how many according to their own caprice: record against every individual shepherd all the destruction he effects. And read out before me by number how many they destroy, and how many they deliver over for destruction, that I may have this as a testimony against them, and know every deed of the shepherds, that I may comprehend and see what they do, whether or not they abide by my command which I have commanded them. But they shall not know it, and thou shalt not declare it to them, nor admonish them, but only record against each individual all the destruction which the shepherds effect each in his time and lay it all before me.' And I saw till those shepherds pastured in their season, and they began to slay and to destroy more than they were bidden, and they delivered those sheep into the hand of the lions. And the lions and tigers eat and devoured the greater part of those sheep, and the wild boars eat along with them; and they burnt that tower and demolished that house. And I became exceedingly sorrowful over that tower because that house of the sheep was demolished, and afterwards I was unable to see if those sheep entered that house. And the shepherds and their associates delivered over those sheep to all the wild beasts, to devour them, and each one of them received in his time a definite number: it was written by the other in a book how many each one of them destroyed of them. And each one slew and destroyed many more than was prescribed; and I began to weep and lament on account of those sheep. And thus in the vision I saw that one who wrote, how he wrote down every one that was destroyed by those shepherds, day by day, and carried up and laid down and showed actually the whole book to the Lord of the sheep-(even) everything that they had done, and all that each one of them had made away with, and all that they had given over to destruction. And the book was read before the Lord of the sheep, and He took the book from his hand and read it and sealed it and laid it down. And forthwith I saw how the shepherds pastured for twelve hours, and behold three of those sheep turned back and came and entered and began to build up all that had fallen down of that house; but the wild boars tried to hinder them, but they were not able. And they began again to build as before, and they reared up that tower, and it was named the high tower; and they began again to place a table before the tower, but all the bread on it was polluted and not pure. And as touching all this the eyes of those sheep were blinded so that they saw not, and (the eyes of) their shepherds likewise; and they delivered them in large numbers to their shepherds for destruction, and they trampled the sheep with their feet and devoured them. And the Lord of the sheep remained unmoved till all the sheep were dispersed over the field and mingled with them (i.e. the beasts), and they (i.e. the shepherds) did not save them out of the hand of the beasts. And this one who wrote the book carried it up, and showed it and read it before the Lord of the sheep, and implored Him on their account, and besought Him on their account as he showed Him all the doings of the shepherds, and gave testimony before Him against all the shepherds. And he took the actual book and laid it down beside Him and departed.

 

And I saw till that in this manner thirty-five shepherds undertook the pasturing (of the sheep), and they severally completed their periods as did the first; and others received them into their hands, to pasture them for their period, each shepherd in his own period. And after that I saw in my vision all the birds of heaven coming, the eagles, the vultures, the kites, the ravens; but the eagles led all the birds; and they began to devour those sheep, and to pick out their eyes and to devour their flesh. And the sheep cried out because their flesh was being devoured by the birds, and as for me I looked and lamented in my sleep over that shepherd who pastured the sheep. And I saw until those sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites, and they left neither flesh nor skin nor sinew remaining on them till only their bones stood there: and their bones too fell to the earth and the sheep became few. And I saw until that twenty-three had undertaken the pasturing and completed in their several periods fifty-eight times. But behold lambs were borne by those white sheep, and they began to open their eyes and to see, and to cry to the sheep. Yea, they cried to them, but they did not hearken to what they said to them, but were exceedingly deaf, and their eyes were very exceedingly blinded. And I saw in the vision how the ravens flew upon those lambs and took one of those lambs, and dashed the sheep in pieces and devoured them. And I saw till horns grew upon those lambs, and the ravens cast down their horns; and I saw till there sprouted a great horn of one of those sheep, and their eyes were opened. And it looked at them [and their eyes opened], and it cried to the sheep, and the rams saw it and all ran to it. And notwithstanding all this those eagles and vultures and ravens and kites still kept tearing the sheep and swooping down upon them and devouring them: still the sheep remained silent, but the rams lamented and cried out. And those ravens fought and battled with it and sought to lay low its horn, but they had no power over it. All the eagles and vultures and ravens and kites were gathered together, and there came with them all the sheep of the field, yea, they all came together, and helped each other to break that horn of the ram. And I saw till a great sword was given to the sheep, and the sheep proceeded against all the beasts of the field to slay them, and all the beasts and the birds of the heaven fled before their face. And I saw that man, who wrote the book according to the command of the Lord, till he opened that book concerning the destruction which those twelve last shepherds had wrought, and showed that they had destroyed much more than their predecessors, before the Lord of the sheep. And I saw till the Lord of the sheep came unto them and took in His hand the staff of His wrath, and smote the earth, and the earth clave asunder, and all the beasts and all the birds of the heaven fell from among those sheep, and were swallowed up in the earth and it covered them. And I saw till a throne was erected in the pleasant land, and the Lord of the sheep sat Himself thereon, and the other took the sealed books and opened those books before the Lord of the sheep. And the Lord called those men the seven first white ones, and commanded that they should bring before Him, beginning with the first star which led the way, all the stars whose privy members were like those of horses, and they brought them all before Him. And He said to that man who wrote before Him, being one of those seven white ones, and said unto him: ' Take those seventy shepherds to whom I delivered the sheep, and who taking them on their own authority slew more than I commanded them.' And behold they were all bound, I saw, and they all stood before Him. And the judgement was held first over the stars, and they were judged and found guilty, and went to the place of condemnation, and they were cast into an abyss, full of fire and flaming, and full of pillars of fire. And those seventy shepherds were judged and found guilty, and they were cast into that fiery abyss. And I saw at that time how a like abyss was opened in the midst of the earth, full of fire, and they brought those blinded sheep, and they were all judged and found guilty and cast into this fiery abyss, and they burned; now this abyss was to the right of that house. And I saw those sheep burning and their bones burning. And I stood up to see till they folded up that old house; and carried off all the pillars, and all the beams and ornaments of the house were at the same time folded up with it, and they carried it off and laid it in a place in the south of the land. And I saw till the Lord of the sheep brought a new house greater and loftier than that first, and set it up in the place of the first which had beer folded up: all its pillars were new, and its ornaments were new and larger than those of the first, the old one which He had taken away, and all the sheep were within it. And I saw all the sheep which had been left, and all the beasts on the earth, and all the birds of the heaven, falling down and doing homage to those sheep and making petition to and obeying them in every thing. And thereafter those three who were clothed in white and had seized me by my hand [who had taken me up before], and the hand of that ram also seizing hold of me, they took me up and set me down in the midst of those sheep before the judgement took place. And those sheep were all white, and their wool was abundant and clean. And all that had been destroyed and dispersed, and all the beasts of the field, and all the birds of the heaven, assembled in that house, and the Lord of the sheep rejoiced with great joy because they were all good and had returned to His house. And I saw till they laid down that sword, which had been given to the sheep, and they brought it back into the house, and it was sealed before the presence of the Lord, and all the sheep were invited into that house, but it held them not. And the eyes of them all were opened, and they saw the good, and there was not one among them that did not see. And I saw that that house was large and broad and very full. And I saw that a white bull was born, with large horns and all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air feared him and made petition to him all the time. And I saw till all their generations were transformed, and they all became white bulls; and the first among them became a lamb, and that lamb became a great animal and had great black horns on its head; and the Lord of the sheep rejoiced over it and over all the oxen. And I slept in their midst: and I awoke and saw everything. This is the vision which I saw while I slept, and I awoke and blessed the Lord of righteousness and gave Him glory. Then I wept with a great weeping and my tears stayed not till I could no longer endure it: when I saw, they flowed on account of what I had seen; for everything shall come and be fulfilled, and all the deeds of men in their order were shown to me. On that night I remembered the first dream, and because of it I wept and was troubled-because I had seen that vision.

Section V. XCI-CIV (i.e. XCII, XCI. -O, -, XCIII. -O, XCI. -, XCIV-CIV.).
A Book of Exhortation and Promised Blessing for the Righteous and of Malediction and Woe for the Sinners.

 

The book written by Enoch-[Enoch indeed wrote this complete doctrine of wisdom, (which is) praised of all men and a judge of all the earth] for all my children who shall dwell on the earth. And for the future generations who shall observe uprightness and peace.

Let not your spirit be troubled on account of the times;
For the Holy and Great One has appointed days for all things.

And the righteous one shall arise from sleep,
[Shall arise] and walk in the paths of righteousness,
And all his path and conversation shall be in eternal goodness and grace.

He will be gracious to the righteous and give him eternal uprightness,
And He will give him power so that he shall be (endowed) with goodness and righteousness.
And he shall walk in eternal light.

And sin shall perish in darkness for ever,
And shall no more be seen from that day for evermore.

 

And now, my son Methuselah, call to me all thy brothers
And gather together to me all the sons of thy mother;
For the word calls me,
And the spirit is poured out upon me,
That I may show you everything
That shall befall you for ever.'

And there upon Methuselah went and summoned to him all his brothers and assembled his relatives.
And he spake unto all the children of righteousness and said:

'Hear, ye sons of Enoch, all the words of your father,
And hearken aright to the voice of my mouth;
For I exhort you and say unto you, beloved:

Love uprightness and walk therein.
And draw not nigh to uprightness with a double heart,
And associate not with those of a double heart,

But walk in righteousness, my sons.
And it shall guide you on good paths,
And righteousness shall be your companion.

For I know that violence must increase on the earth,
And a great chastisement be executed on the earth,
And all unrighteousness come to an end:

Yea, it shall be cut off from its roots,
And its whole structure be destroyed.

And unrighteousness shall again be consummated on the earth,
And all the deeds of unrighteousness and of violence
And transgression shall prevail in a twofold degree.

And when sin and unrighteousness and blasphemy
And violence in all kinds of deeds increase,
And apostasy and transgression and uncleanness increase,

A great chastisement shall come from heaven upon all these,
And the holy Lord will come forth with wrath and chastisement
To execute judgement on earth.

In those days violence shall be cut off from its roots,
And the roots of unrighteousness together with deceit,
And they shall be destroyed from under heaven.

And all the idols of the heathen shall be abandoned,
And the temples burned with fire,
And they shall remove them from the whole earth,

And they (i.e. the heathen) shall be cast into the judgement of fire,
And shall perish in wrath and in grievous judgement for ever.

And the righteous shall arise from their sleep,
And wisdom shall arise and be given unto them.

[And after that the roots of unrighteousness shall be cut off, and the sinners shall be destroyed by the sword . . . shall be cut off from the blasphemers in every place, and those who plan violence and those who commit blasphemy shall perish by the sword.]

And now I tell you, my sons, and show you
The paths of righteousness and the paths of violence.
Yea, I will show them to you again
That ye may know what will come to pass.
And now, hearken unto me, my sons,
And walk in the paths of righteousness,
And walk not in the paths of violence;
For all who walk in the paths of unrighteousness shall perish for ever.'

 

, And after that Enoch both gave and began to recount from the books. And Enoch said:

' Concerning the children of righteousness and concerning the elect of the world,
And concerning the plant of uprightness, I will speak these things,
Yea, I Enoch will declare (them) unto you, my sons:

According to that which appeared to me in the heavenly vision,
And which I have known through the word of the holy angels,
And have learnt from the heavenly tablets.'

And Enoch began to recount from the books and said:
' I was born the seventh in the first week,
While judgement and righteousness still endured.

And after me there shall arise in the second week great wickedness,
And deceit shall have sprung up;
And in it there shall be the first end.

And in it a man shall be saved;
And after it is ended unrighteousness shall grow up,
And a law shall be made for the sinners.

And after that in the third week at its close
A man shall be elected as the plant of righteous judgement,
And his posterity shall become the plant of righteousness for evermore.

And after that in the fourth week, at its close,
Visions of the holy and righteous shall be seen,
And a law for all generations and an enclosure shall be made for them.

And after that in the fifth week, at its close,
The house of glory and dominion shall be built for ever.

And after that in the sixth week all who live in it shall be blinded,
And the hearts of all of them shall godlessly forsake wisdom.

And in it a man shall ascend;
And at its close the house of dominion shall be burnt with fire,
And the whole race of the chosen root shall be dispersed.

And after that in the seventh week shall an apostate generation arise,
And many shall be its deeds,
And all its deeds shall be apostate.

And at its close shall be elected
The elect righteous of the eternal plant of righteousness,
To receive sevenfold instruction concerning all His creation.

[For who is there of all the children of men that is able to hear the voice of the Holy One without being troubled ? And who can think His thoughts ? and who is there that can behold all the works of heaven ? And how should there be one who could behold the heaven, and who is there that could understand the things of heaven and see a soul or a spirit and could tell thereof, or ascend and see all their ends and think them or do like them ? And who is there of all men that could know what is the breadth and the length of the earth, and to whom has been shown the measure of all of them ? Or is there any one who could discern the length of the heaven and how great is its height, and upon what it is founded, and how great is the number of the stars, and where all the luminaries rest ?]

 

And after that there shall be another, the eighth week, that of righteousness,
And a sword shall be given to it that a righteous judgement may be executed on the oppressors,
And sinners shall be delivered into the hands of the righteous.

And at its close they shall acquire houses through their righteousness,
And a house shall be built for the Great King in glory for evermore,
d And all mankind shall look to the path of uprightness.

a And after that, in the ninth week, the righteous judgement shall be revealed to the whole world,
b And all the works of the godless shall vanish from all the earth,
c And the world shall be written down for destruction.

And after this, in the tenth week in the seventh part,
There shall be the great eternal judgement,
In which He will execute vengeance amongst the angels.

And the first heaven shall depart and pass away,
And a new heaven shall appear,
And all the powers of the heavens shall give sevenfold light.

And after that there will be many weeks without number for ever,
And all shall be in goodness and righteousness,
And sin shall no more be mentioned for ever.

 

And now I say unto you, my sons, love righteousness and walk therein;
For the paths of righteousness are worthy of acceptation,
But the paths of unrighteousness shall suddenly be destroyed and vanish.

And to certain men of a generation shall the paths of violence and of death be revealed,
And they shall hold themselves afar from them,
And shall not follow them.

And now I say unto you the righteous:
Walk not in the paths of wickedness, nor in the paths of death,
And draw not nigh to them, lest ye be destroyed.

But seek and choose for yourselves righteousness and an elect life,
And walk in the paths of peace,
And ye shall live and prosper.

And hold fast my words in the thoughts of your hearts,
And suffer them not to be effaced from your hearts;

For I know that sinners will tempt men to evilly-entreat wisdom,
So that no place may be found for her,
And no manner of temptation may minish.

Woe to those who build unrighteousness and oppression
And lay deceit as a foundation;
For they shall be suddenly overthrown,
And they shall have no peace.

Woe to those who build their houses with sin;
For from all their foundations shall they be overthrown,
And by the sword shall they fall.
[And those who acquire gold and silver in judgement suddenly shall perish.]

Woe to you, ye rich, for ye have trusted in your riches,
And from your riches shall ye depart,
Because ye have not remembered the Most High in the days of your riches.

Ye have committed blasphemy and unrighteousness,
And have become ready for the day of slaughter,
And the day of darkness and the day of the great judgement.

Thus I speak and declare unto you:
He who hath created you will overthrow you,
And for your fall there shall be no compassion,
And your Creator will rejoice at your destruction.

And your righteous ones in those days shall be
A reproach to the sinners and the godless.

 

Oh that mine eyes were [a cloud of] waters
] That I might weep over you,
And pour down my tears as a cloud of waters:
That so I might rest from my trouble of heart!

who has permitted you to practice reproaches and wickedness ?
And so judgement shall overtake you, sinners.

Fear not the sinners, ye righteous;
For again will the Lord deliver them into your hands,
That ye may execute judgement upon them according to your desires.

Woe to you who fulminate anathemas which cannot be reversed:
Healing shall therefore be far from you because of your sins.

Woe to you who requite your neighbour with evil;
For ye shall be requited according to your works.

Woe to you, lying witnesses,
And to those who weigh out injustice,
For suddenly shall ye perish.

Woe to you, sinners, for ye persecute the righteous;
For ye shall be delivered up and persecuted because of injustice,
And heavy shall its yoke be upon you.

 

Be hopeful, ye righteous; for suddenly shall the sinners perish before you,
And ye shall have lordship over them according to your desires.

[And in the day of the tribulation of the sinners,
Your children shall mount and rise as eagles,
And higher than the vultures will be your nest,
And ye shall ascend and enter the crevices of the earth,
And the clefts of the rock for ever as coneys before the unrighteous,
And the sirens shall sigh because of you-and weep.]

Wherefore fear not, ye that have suffered;
For healing shall be your portion,
And a bright light shall enlighten you,
And the voice of rest ye shall hear from heaven.

Woe unto you, ye sinners, for your riches make you appear like the righteous,
But your hearts convict you of being sinners,
And this fact shall be a testimony against you for a memorial of (your) evil deeds.

Woe to you who devour the finest of the wheat,
And drink wine in large bowls,
And tread under foot the lowly with your might.

Woe to you who drink water from every fountain,
For suddenly shall ye be consumed and wither away,
Because ye have forsaken the fountain of life.

Woe to you who work unrighteousness
And deceit and blasphemy:
It shall be a memorial against you for evil.

Woe to you, ye mighty,
Who with might oppress the righteous;
For the day of your destruction is coming.

In those days many and good days shall come to the righteous-in the day of your judgement.

 

Believe, ye righteous, that the sinners will become a shame
And perish in the day of unrighteousness.
Be it known unto you (ye sinners) that the Most High is mindful of your destruction,
And the angels of heaven rejoice over your destruction.

What will ye do, ye sinners,
And whither will ye flee on that day of judgement,
When ye hear the voice of the prayer of the righteous ?

Yea, ye shall fare like unto them,
Against whom this word shall be a testimony:
" Ye have been companions of sinners."

And in those days the prayer of the righteous shall reach unto the Lord,
And for you the days of your judgement shall come.

And all the words of your unrighteousness shall be read out before the Great Holy One,
And your faces shall be covered with shame,
And He will reject every work which is grounded on unrighteousness.

Woe to you, ye sinners, who live on the mid ocean and on the dry land,
Whose remembrance is evil against you.

Woe to you who acquire silver and gold in unrighteousness and say:
" We have become rich with riches and have possessions;
And have acquired everything we have desired.

And now let us do what we purposed:
For we have gathered silver,
c And many are the husbandmen in our houses."
d And our granaries are (brim) full as with water,
Yea and like water your lies shall flow away;
For your riches shall not abide
But speedily ascend from you;

For ye have acquired it all in unrighteousness,
And ye shall be given over to a great curse.

 

And now I swear unto you, to the wise and to the foolish,
For ye shall have manifold experiences on the earth.

For ye men shall put on more adornments than a woman,
And coloured garments more than a virgin:
In royalty and in grandeur and in power,
And in silver and in gold and in purple,
And in splendour and in food they shall be poured out as water.

Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom,
And they shall perish thereby together with their possessions;
And with all their glory and their splendour,
And in shame and in slaughter and in great destitution,
Their spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire.

I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, as a mountain has not become a slave,
And a hill does not become the handmaid of a woman,
Even so sin has not been sent upon the earth,
But man of himself has created it,
And under a great curse shall they fall who commit it.

And barrenness has not been given to the woman,
But on account of the deeds of her own hands she dies without children.

I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, by the Holy Great One,
That all your evil deeds are revealed in the heavens,
And that none of your deeds of oppression are covered and hidden.

And do not think in your spirit nor say in your heart that ye do not know and that ye do not see that every sin is every day recorded in heaven in the presence of the Most High. From henceforth ye know that all your oppression wherewith ye oppress is written down every day till the day of your judgement. Woe to you, ye fools, for through your folly shall ye perish: and ye transgress against the wise, and so good hap shall not be your portion. And now, know ye that ye are prepared for the day of destruction: wherefore do not hope to live, ye sinners, but ye shall depart and die; for ye know no ransom; for ye are prepared for the day of the great judgement, for the day of tribulation and great shame for your spirits. Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart, who work wickedness and eat blood: Whence have ye good things to eat and to drink and to be filled ? From all the good things which the Lord the Most High has placed in abundance on the earth; therefore ye shall have no peace. Woe to you who love the deeds of unrighteousness: wherefore do ye hope for good hap unto yourselves? know that ye shall be delivered into the hands of the righteous, and they shall cut off your necks and slay you, and have no mercy upon you. Woe to you who rejoice in the tribulation of the righteous; for no grave shall be dug for you. Woe to you who set at nought the words of the righteous; for ye shall have no hope of life. Woe to you who write down lying and godless words; for they write down their lies that men may hear them and act godlessly towards (their) neighbour. Therefore they shall have no peace but die a sudden death.

 

Woe to you who work godlessness,
And glory in lying and extol them:
Ye shall perish, and no happy life shall be yours.

Woe to them who pervert the words of uprightness,
And transgress the eternal law,
And transform themselves into what they were not [into sinners]:
They shall be trodden under foot upon the earth.

In those days make ready, ye righteous, to raise your prayers as a memorial,
And place them as a testimony before the angels,
That they may place the sin of the sinners for a memorial before the Most High.

In those days the nations shall be stirred up,
And the families of the nations shall arise on the day of destruction.

And in those days the destitute shall go forth and carry off their children,
And they shall abandon them, so that their children shall perish through them:
Yea, they shall abandon their children (that are still) sucklings, and not return to them,
And shall have no pity on their beloved ones.

, And again I swear to you, ye sinners, that sin is prepared for a day of unceasing bloodshed. And they who worship stones, and grave images of gold and silver and wood (and stone) and clay, and those who worship impure spirits and demons, and all kinds of idols not according to knowledge, shall get no manner of help from them.

And they shall become godless by reason of the folly of their hearts,
And their eyes shall be blinded through the fear of their hearts
And through visions in their dreams.

Through these they shall become godless and fearful;
For they shall have wrought all their work in a lie,
And shall have worshiped a stone:
Therefore in an instant shall they perish.

But in those days blessed are all they who accept the words of wisdom, and understand them,
And observe the paths of the Most High, and walk in the path of His righteousness,
And become not godless with the godless;
For they shall be saved.

Woe to you who spread evil to your neighbours;
For you shall be slain in Sheol.

Woe to you who make deceitful and false measures,
And (to them) who cause bitterness on the earth;
For they shall thereby be utterly consumed.

Woe to you who build your houses through the grievous toil of others,
And all their building materials are the bricks and stones of sin;
I tell you ye shall have no peace.

Woe to them who reject the measure and eternal heritage of their fathers
And whose souls follow after idols;
For they shall have no rest.

Woe to them who work unrighteousness and help oppression,
And slay their neighbours until the day of the great judgement.

For He shall cast down your glory,
And bring affliction on your hearts,
And shall arouse His fierce indignation
And destroy you all with the sword;
And all the holy and righteous shall remember your sins.

 

And in those days in one place the fathers together with their sons shall be smitten
And brothers one with another shall fall in death
Till the streams flow with their blood.

For a man shall not withhold his hand from slaying his sons and his sons' sons,
And the sinner shall not withhold his hand from his honoured brother:
From dawn till sunset they shall slay one another.

And the horse shall walk up to the breast in the blood of sinners,
And the chariot shall be submerged to its height.

In those days the angels shall descend into the secret places
And gather together into one place all those who brought down sin
And the Most High will arise on that day of judgement
To execute great judgement amongst sinners.

And over all the righteous and holy He will appoint guardians from amongst the holy angels
To guard them as the apple of an eye,
Until He makes an end of all wickedness and all sin,
And though the righteous sleep a long sleep, they have nought to fear.

And (then) the children of the earth shall see the wise in security,
And shall understand all the words of this book,
And recognize that their riches shall not be able to save them
In the overthrow of their sins.

Woe to you, Sinners, on the day of strong anguish,
Ye who afflict the righteous and burn them with fire:
Ye shall be requited according to your works.

Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart,
Who watch in order to devise wickedness:
Therefore shall fear come upon you
And there shall be none to help you.

Woe to you, ye sinners, on account of the words of your mouth,
And on account of the deeds of your hands which your godlessness as wrought,
In blazing flames burning worse than fire shall ye burn.

And now, know ye that from the angels He will inquire as to your deeds in heaven, from the sun and from the moon and from the stars in reference to your sins because upon the earth ye execute judgement on the righteous. And He will summon to testify against you every cloud and mist and dew and rain; for they shall all be withheld because of you from descending upon you, and they shall be mindful of your sins. And now give presents to the rain that it be not withheld from descending upon you, nor yet the dew, when it has received gold and silver from you that it may descend. When the hoar-frost and snow with their chilliness, and all the snow-storms with all their plagues fall upon you, in those days ye shall not be able to stand before them.

 

Observe the heaven, ye children of heaven, and every work of the Most High, and fear ye Him and work no evil in His presence. If He closes the windows of heaven, and withholds the rain and the dew from descending on the earth on your account, what will ye do then? And if He sends His anger upon you because of your deeds, ye cannot petition Him; for ye spake proud and insolent words against His righteousness: therefore ye shall have no peace. And see ye not the sailors of the ships, how their ships are tossed to and fro by the waves, and are shaken by the winds, and are in sore trouble ? And therefore do they fear because all their goodly possessions go upon the sea with them, and they have evil forebodings of heart that the sea will swallow them and they will perish therein. Are not the entire sea and all its waters, and all its movements, the work of the Most High, and has He not set limits to its doings, and confined it throughout by the sand ? And at His reproof it is afraid and dries up, and all its fish die and all that is in it; But ye sinners that are on the earth fear Him not. Has He not made the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein ? Who has given understanding and wisdom to everything that moves on the earth and in the sea. Do not the sailors of the ships fear the sea ? Yet sinners fear not the Most High.

 

In those days when He hath brought a grievous fire upon you,
Whither will ye flee, and where will ye find deliverance ?
And when He launches forth His Word against you Will you not be affrighted and fear ?

And all the luminaries shall be affrighted with great fear,
And all the earth shall be affrighted and tremble and be alarmed.

And all the angels shall execute their commandst
And shall seek to hide themselves from the presence of the Great Glory,
And the children of earth shall tremble and quake;
And ye sinners shall be cursed for ever,
And ye shall have no peace.

Fear ye not, ye souls of the righteous,
And be hopeful ye that have died in righteousness.

And grieve not if your soul into Sheol has descended in grief,
And that in your life your body fared not according to your goodness,
But wait for the day of the judgement of sinners
And for the day of cursing and chastisement.

And yet when ye die the sinners speak over you:
" As we die, so die the righteous,
And what benefit do they reap for their deeds ?

Behold, even as we, so do they die in grief and darkness,
And what have they more than we ?
From henceforth we are equal.

And what will they receive and what will they see for ever ?
Behold, they too have died,
And henceforth for ever shall they see no light."

I tell you, ye sinners, ye are content to eat and drink, and rob and sin, and strip men naked, and acquire wealth and see good days. Have ye seen the righteous how their end falls out, that no manner of violence is found in them till their death ? " Nevertheless they perished and became as though they had not been, and their spirits descended into Sheol in tribulation."

 

Now, therefore, I swear to you, the righteous, by the glory of the Great and Honoured and Mighty One in dominion, and by His greatness I swear to you.
I know a mystery
And have read the heavenly tablets,
And have seen the holy books,
And have found written therein and inscribed regarding them:

That all goodness and joy and glory are prepared for them,
And written down for the spirits of those who have died in righteousness,
And that manifold good shall be given to you in recompense for your labours,
And that your lot is abundantly beyond the lot of the living.

And the spirits of you who have died in righteousness shall live and rejoice,
And their spirits shall not perish, nor their memorial from before the face of the Great One
Unto all the generations of the world: wherefore no longer fear their contumely.

Woe to you, ye sinners, when ye have died,
If ye die in the wealth of your sins,
And those who are like you say regarding you:
' Blessed are the sinners: they have seen all their days.

And how they have died in prosperity and in wealth,
And have not seen tribulation or murder in their life;
And they have died in honour,
And judgement has not been executed on them during their life."

Know ye, that their souls will be made to descend into Sheol
And they shall be wretched in their great tribulation.

And into darkness and chains and a burning flame where there is grievous judgement shall your spirits enter;
And the great judgement shall be for all the generations of the world.
Woe to you, for ye shall have no peace.

Say not in regard to the righteous and good who are in life:
" In our troubled days we have toiled laboriously and experienced every trouble,
And met with much evil and been consumed,
And have become few and our spirit small.

And we have been destroyed and have not found any to help us even with a word:
We have been tortured [and destroyed], and not hoped to see life from day to day.

We hoped to be the head and have become the tail:
We have toiled laboriously and had no satisfaction in our toil;
And we have become the food of the sinners and the unrighteous,
And they have laid their yoke heavily upon us.

They have had dominion over us that hated us and smote us;
And to those that hated us we have bowed our necks
But they pitied us not.

We desired to get away from them that we might escape and be at rest,
But found no place whereunto we should flee and be safe from them.

And are complained to the rulers in our tribulation,
And cried out against those who devoured us,
But they did not attend to our cries
And would not hearken to our voice.

And they helped those who robbed us and devoured us and those who made us few; and they concealed their oppression, and they did not remove from us the yoke of those that devoured us and dispersed us and murdered us, and they concealed their murder, and remembered not that they had lifted up their hands against us.

 

I swear unto you, that in heaven the angels remember you for good before the glory of the Great One: and your names are written before the glory of the Great One. Be hopeful; for aforetime ye were put to shame through ill and affliction; but now ye shall shine as the lights of heaven, ye shall shine and ye shall be seen, and the portals of heaven shall be opened to you. And in your cry, cry for judgement, and it shall appear to you; for all your tribulation shall be visited on the rulers, and on all who helped those who plundered you. Be hopeful, and cast not away your hopes for ye shall have great joy as the angels of heaven. What shall ye be obliged to do ? Ye shall not have to hide on the day of the great judgement and ye shall not be found as sinners, and the eternal judgement shall be far from you for all the generations of the world. And now fear not, ye righteous, when ye see the sinners growing strong and prospering in their ways: be not companions with them, but keep afar from their violence; for ye shall become companions of the hosts of heaven. And, although ye sinners say: " All our sins shall not be searched out and be written down," nevertheless they shall write down all your sins every day. And now I show unto you that light and darkness, day and night, see all your sins. Be not godless in your hearts, and lie not and alter not the words of uprightness, nor charge with lying the words of the Holy Great One, nor take account of your idols; for all your lying and all your godlessness issue not in righteousness but in great sin. And now I know this mystery, that sinners will alter and pervert the words of righteousness in many ways, and will speak wicked words, and lie, and practice great deceits, and write books concerning their words. But when they write down truthfully all my words in their languages, and do not change or minish ought from my words but write them all down truthfully -all that I first testified concerning them. Then, I know another mystery, that books will be given to the righteous and the wise to become a cause of joy and uprightness and much wisdom. And to them shall the books be given, and they shall believe in them and rejoice over them, and then shall all the righteous who have learnt therefrom all the paths of uprightness be recompensed.'

 

In those days the Lord bade (them) to summon and testify to the children of earth concerning their wisdom: Show (it) unto them; for ye are their guides, and a recompense over the whole earth. For I and My son will be united with them for ever in the paths of uprightness in their lives; and ye shall have peace: rejoice, ye children of uprightness. Amen.

 

Fragment of the Book of Noah

 

And after some days my son Methuselah took a wife for his son Lamech, and she became pregnant by him and bore a son. And his body was white as snow and red as the blooming of a rose, and the hair of his head and his long locks were white as wool, and his eyes beautiful. And when he opened his eyes, he lighted up the whole house like the sun, and the whole house was very bright. And thereupon he arose in the hands of the midwife, opened his mouth, and conversed with the Lord of righteousness. And his father Lamech was afraid of him and fled, and came to his father Methuselah. And he said unto him: ' I have begotten a strange son, diverse from and unlike man, and resembling the sons of the God of heaven; and his nature is different and he is not like us, and his eyes are as the rays of the sun, and his countenance is glorious. And it seems to me that he is not sprung from me but from the angels, and I fear that in his days a wonder may be wrought on the earth. And now, my father, I am here to petition thee and implore thee that thou mayest go to Enoch, our father, and learn from him the truth, for his dwelling-place is amongst the angels.' And when Methuselah heard the words of his son, he came to me to the ends of the earth; for he had heard that was there, and he cried aloud, and I heard his voice and I came to him. And said unto him: ' Behold, here am I, my son, wherefore hast thou come to me ? ' And he answered and said: ' Because of a great cause of anxiety have I come to thee, and because of a disturbing vision have I approached. And now, my father, hear me: unto Lamech my son there hath been born a son, the like of whom there is none, and his nature is not like man's nature, and the colour of his body is whiter than snow and redder than the bloom of a rose, and the hair of his head is whiter than white wool, and his eyes are like the rays of the sun, and he opened his eyes and thereupon lighted up the whole house. And he arose in the hands of the midwife, and opened his mouth and blessed the Lord of heaven. And his father Lamech became afraid and fled to me, and did not believe that he was sprung from him, but that he was in the likeness of the angels of heaven; and behold I have come to thee that thou mayest make known to me the truth.' And I, Enoch, answered and said unto him: 'The Lord will do a new thing on the earth, and this I have already seen in a vision, and make known to thee that in the generation of my father Jared some of the angels of heaven transgressed the word of the Lord. And behold they commit sin and transgress the law, and have united themselves with women and commit sin with them, and have married some of them, and have begot children by them. And they shall produce on the earth giants not according to the spirit, but according to the flesh, and there shall be a great punishment on the earth, and the earth shall be cleansed from all impurity. Yea, there shall come a great destruction over the whole earth, and there shall be a deluge and a great destruction for one year. And this son who has been born unto you shall be left on the earth, and his three children shall be saved with him: when all mankind that are on the earth shall die [he and his sons shall be saved]. And now make known to thy son Lamech that he who has been born is in truth his son, and call his name Noah; for he shall be left to you, and he and his sons shall be saved from the destruction, which shall come upon the earth on account of all the sin and all the unrighteousness, which shall be consummated on the earth in his days. And after that there shall be still more unrighteousness than that which was first consummated on the earth; for I know the mysteries of the holy ones; for He, the Lord, has showed me and informed me, and I have read (them) in the heavenly tablets.

 

And I saw written on them that generation upon generation shall transgress, till a generation of righteousness arises, and transgression is destroyed and sin passes away from the earth, and all manner of good comes upon it. And now, my son, go and make known to thy son Lamech that this son, which has been born, is in truth his son, and that (this) is no lie.' And when Methuselah had heard the words of his father Enoch-for he had shown to him everything in secret-he returned and showed (them) to him and called the name of that son Noah; for he will comfort the earth after all the destruction.

 

Another book which Enoch wrote for his son Methuselah and for those who will come after him, and keep the law in the last days. Ye who have done good shall wait for those days till an end is made of those who work evil; and an end of the might of the transgressors. And wait ye indeed till sin has passed away, for their names shall be blotted out of the book of life and out of the holy books, and their seed shall be destroyed for ever, and their spirits shall be slain, and they shall cry and make lamentation in a place that is a chaotic wilderness, and in the fire shall they burn; for there is no earth there. And I saw there something like an invisible cloud; for by reason of its depth I could not look over, and I saw a flame of fire blazing brightly, and things like shining mountains circling and sweeping to and fro. And I asked one of the holy angels who was with me and said unto him: ' What is this shining thing? for it is not a heaven but only the flame of a blazing fire, and the voice of weeping and crying and lamentation and strong pain.' And he said unto me: ' This place which thou seest-here are cast the spirits of sinners and blasphemers, and of those who work wickedness, and of those who pervert everything that the Lord hath spoken through the mouth of the prophets-(even) the things that shall be. For some of them are written and inscribed above in the heaven, in order that the angels may read them and know that which shall befall the sinners, and the spirits of the humble, and of those who have afflicted their bodies, and been recompensed by God; and of those who have been put to shame by wicked men: Who love God and loved neither gold nor silver nor any of the good things which are in the world, but gave over their bodies to torture. Who, since they came into being, longed not after earthly food, but regarded everything as a passing breath, and lived accordingly, and the Lord tried them much, and their spirits were found pure so that they should bless His name. And all the blessings destined for them I have recounted in the books. And he hath assigned them their recompense, because they have been found to be such as loved heaven more than their life in the world, and though they were trodden under foot of wicked men, and experienced abuse and reviling from them and were put to shame, yet they blessed Me. And now I will summon the spirits of the good who belong to the generation of light, and I will transform those who were born in darkness, who in the flesh were not recompensed with such honour as their faithfulness deserved. And I will bring forth in shining light those who have loved My holy name, and I will seat each on the throne of his honour. And they shall be resplendent for times without number; for righteousness is the judgement of God; for to the faithful He will give faithfulness in the habitation of upright paths. And they shall see those who were , born in darkness led into darkness, while the righteous shall be resplendent. And the sinners shall cry aloud and see them resplendent, and they indeed will go where days and seasons are prescribed for them.'

 

      "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

Winston Churchill