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06 - The Book of Enoch · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapters thirty seven to forty four. The Parables thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: to seventy one, Chapter thirty seven. The second vision which
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  Speaker 1: he saw, the vision of wisdom which Enoch, the son
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  Speaker 1: of Jared, the son of Mahalal, the son of Canaan,
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  Speaker 1: the son of Enus, the son of Seth, the son
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  Speaker 1: of Adam, saw. And this is the beginning of the
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  Speaker 1: words of wisdom, which I lifted up my voice to
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  Speaker 1: speak and say to those which dwell on earth, hear ye,
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  Speaker 1: men of old time, And see ye that come after,
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  Speaker 1: the words of the Holy One, which I will speak
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  Speaker 1: before the Lord of Spirits. It were better to declare
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  Speaker 1: them only to the men of old time, but even
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  Speaker 1: from those that come after, we will not withhold the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of wisdom till the present day. Such wisdom has
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  Speaker 1: never been given by the Lord of Spirits as I
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  Speaker 1: have received according to my insight, according to the good
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  Speaker 1: pleasure of the Lord of Spirits, by whom the lot
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  Speaker 1: of eternal life has been given to me. Now three
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  Speaker 1: were imparted to me, and I lifted up my voice
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  Speaker 1: and recounted them to those that dwell on the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty seven to forty four. The first parable thirty eight,
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  Speaker 1: The coming judgment of the wicked, the first parable, when
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  Speaker 1: the congregation of the Righteous shall appear, and sinners shall
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  Speaker 1: be judged for their sins, and shall be driven from
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  Speaker 1: the face of the earth. And when the righteous one
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  Speaker 1: shall appear before the eyes of the righteous, whose elect
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  Speaker 1: works hang upon the Lord of Spirits, and light shall
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  Speaker 1: appear to the righteous and the elect who dwell on
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  Speaker 1: the earth, Where then will be the dwelling of the sinners,
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  Speaker 1: and where the resting place of those who have denied
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  Speaker 1: the Lord of Spirits. It had been good for them
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  Speaker 1: if they had not been born. When the secrets of
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  Speaker 1: the righteous shall be revealed, and the sinners judged, and
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  Speaker 1: the godless driven from the presence of the Righteous n elect.
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  Speaker 1: From that time, those that possess the earth shall no
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  Speaker 1: longer be powerful and exalted, and they shall not be
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  Speaker 1: able to behold the face of the Holy, For the
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  Speaker 1: Lord of Spirits has caused his light to appear on
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  Speaker 1: the face of the Holy, Righteous and Elect. Then shall
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  Speaker 1: the kings and the mighty perish and be given into
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  Speaker 1: the hands of the Righteous and holy. And thenceforward none
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  Speaker 1: shall seek for themselves mercy from the Lord of Spirits.
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  Speaker 1: For their life is at an end thirty nine the
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  Speaker 1: abode of the righteous and of the elect One the
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  Speaker 1: praises of the blessed. And it shall come to pass
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  Speaker 1: in those days that elect and holy children will descend
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  Speaker 1: from the high heaven, and their seed will become one
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  Speaker 1: with the children of men. And in those days Enoch
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  Speaker 1: received books of zeal and wrath, and books of disquiet
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  Speaker 1: and expulsion, and mercy shall not be accorded to them,
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  Speaker 1: saith the Lord of Spirits. And in those days a
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  Speaker 1: whirlwind carried me off from the earth and set me
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  Speaker 1: down at the end of the heavens. And there I
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  Speaker 1: saw another vision, the dwelling places of the Holy and
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  Speaker 1: the resting places of the righteous. Here mine eyes their
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  Speaker 1: dwellings with His righteous angels, and their resting places with
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  Speaker 1: the Holy. And they petitioned and interceded and prayed for
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  Speaker 1: the children of men, and righteousness flowed before them as water,
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  Speaker 1: and mercy like dew upon the earth. Thus it is
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  Speaker 1: among them forever and ev And in that place mine
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  Speaker 1: eyes saw the elect One of righteousness and of faith,
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  Speaker 1: and I saw his dwelling place under the wings of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord of Spirits. And righteousness shall prevail in his days,
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  Speaker 1: and the righteous and elect shall be without number before
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  Speaker 1: him forever endeavor, and all the righteous and elect before
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  Speaker 1: him shall be strong as fiery lights, and their mouths
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  Speaker 1: shall be full of blessing, and their lips extol the
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  Speaker 1: name of the Lord of Spirits, and righteousness before him
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  Speaker 1: shall never fail, and uprightness shall never fail before him.
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  Speaker 1: There I wished to dwell, and my spirit longed for
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  Speaker 1: that dwelling place, And there heretofore hath been my portion,
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  Speaker 1: For so has it been established concerning me before the
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  Speaker 1: Lord of Spirits. In those days I praised and extolled
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  Speaker 1: the name of the Lord of Spirits with blessings and praises,
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  Speaker 1: because he hath destined me for blessing and glory, according
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  Speaker 1: to the good pleasure of the Lord of Spirits. For
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  Speaker 1: a long time my eyes regarded that place, and I
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  Speaker 1: blessed him and praised him, saying, blessed is he, and
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  Speaker 1: may he be blessed from the beginning and forevermore. And
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  Speaker 1: before him there is no ceasing. He knows before the
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  Speaker 1: world was created, what is forever and what will be
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  Speaker 1: from generation unto generation. Those who sleep not bless thee
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  Speaker 1: they stand before thy glory, and bless praise and extol, saying, Holy, Holy,
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  Speaker 1: Holy is the Lord of Spirits. He filleth the earth
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  Speaker 1: with spirits. And here my eyes saw all those who
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  Speaker 1: sleep not. They stand before him and bless and say,
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  Speaker 1: blessed be thou, and blessed be the name of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: forever and ever. And my face was changed, for I
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  Speaker 1: could no longer be ho chapter forty to forty one
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  Speaker 1: two the Four Archangels, Chapter forty and after that I
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  Speaker 1: saw thousands of thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a multitude beyond number and reckoning who stood
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  Speaker 1: before the Lord of Spirits. And on the four sides
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord of Spirits, I saw four presences different
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  Speaker 1: from those that sleep not, and I learnt their names,
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  Speaker 1: for the Angel that went with me made known to
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  Speaker 1: me their names and showed me all the hidden things.
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  Speaker 1: And I heard the voices of those four presences as
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  Speaker 1: they uttered praises before the Lord of Glory. The first
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  Speaker 1: voice blesses the Lord of Spirits forever and ever. And
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  Speaker 1: the second voice I heard, blessing the elect one and
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  Speaker 1: the elect ones who hang upon the Lord of Spirits.
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  Speaker 1: And the third voice I heard pray and intercede for
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  Speaker 1: those who dwell on the earth and supplicate in the
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  Speaker 1: name of the Lord of Spirits. And I heard the
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  Speaker 1: four earth voice fending off the Satans and forbidding them
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  Speaker 1: to come before the Lord of Spirits to accuse them
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  Speaker 1: who dwell on the earth. After that, I asked the
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  Speaker 1: Angel of Peace, who went with me, who showed me
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  Speaker 1: everything that is hidden. Who are these four presences which
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  Speaker 1: I have seen, and whose words I have heard and
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  Speaker 1: written down? And he said to me, the first is Michael,
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  Speaker 1: the merciful and long suffering, And the second, who has
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  Speaker 1: set over all the diseases and all the wounds of
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  Speaker 1: the children of men, is Raphael. And the third, who
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  Speaker 1: is said over all the powers, is Gabriel. And the fourth,
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  Speaker 1: who has set over the repentance unto hope of those
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  Speaker 1: who inherit eternal life, is named Fanuel. And these are
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  Speaker 1: the four angels of the Lord of Spirits, and the
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  Speaker 1: four voices I heard in those days Chapter forty one.
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  Speaker 1: And after that I saw all the secrets of the heavens,
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  Speaker 1: and how the kingdom is divided, and how the actions
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  Speaker 1: of men are weighed in the balance. And there I
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  Speaker 1: saw the mansions of the elect and the mansions of
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  Speaker 1: the Holy. And mine eyes saw there all the sinners
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  Speaker 1: being driven from thence, which deny the name of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord of Spirits, and being dragged off, And they could
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  Speaker 1: not abide because of the punishment which proceeds from the
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  Speaker 1: Lord of Spirits forty one verses three through nine. Astronomical secrets.
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  Speaker 1: And there mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightning
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  Speaker 1: and of the thunder, and the secrets of the winds,
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  Speaker 1: how they are divided to blow over the earth, and
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  Speaker 1: the secrets of the clouds and dew. And there I
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  Speaker 1: saw from whence they proceed in that place, and from
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  Speaker 1: whence they saturate the dusty earth. And there I saw
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  Speaker 1: closed chambers out of which the winds are divided, the
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  Speaker 1: chamber of the hail and winds, the chamber of the
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  Speaker 1: mist and of the clouds, and the cloud thereof hovers
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  Speaker 1: over the earth from the beginning of the world. And
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  Speaker 1: I saw the chambers of the Sun and moon. Whence
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  Speaker 1: they proceed, and whither they come again, and their glorious return,
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  Speaker 1: and how one is superior to the other, and their
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  Speaker 1: stately orbit, and how they do not leave their orbit,
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  Speaker 1: and they add nothing to their orbit, and they take
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  Speaker 1: nothing from it. And they keep faith with each other
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  Speaker 1: in accordance with the oath by which they are bound together.
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  Speaker 1: And first the Sun goes forth and traverses his path
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  Speaker 1: according to the commandment of the Lord of Spirits, and
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  Speaker 1: mighty is his name, forever endeavor. And after that I
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  Speaker 1: saw the hidden and the visible path of the moon.
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  Speaker 1: And she accomplishes the course of her path in that
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  Speaker 1: place by day and by night, the one holding a
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  Speaker 1: position opposite to the other before the Lord of Spirits.
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  Speaker 1: And they give thanks and praise and rest not for
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  Speaker 1: unto them is their thanksgiving rest. For the sun changes
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  Speaker 1: oft for a blessing or a curse. And the course
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  Speaker 1: of the path of the moon is light to the righteous,
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  Speaker 1: and darkness to the sinners, in the name of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: who made a separation between the light and the darkness,
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  Speaker 1: and divided the spirits of men and strengthened the spirits
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  Speaker 1: of the righteous, in the name of his righteousness. For
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  Speaker 1: no angel hinders, and no power is able to hinder.
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  Speaker 1: For he appoints a judge for them all, and he
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  Speaker 1: judges them all before him. Forty two the dwelling places
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  Speaker 1: of wisdom and of unrighteousness. Wisdom found no place where
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  Speaker 1: she might dwell. Then a dwelling place was assigned her
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  Speaker 1: in the heavens. Wisdom went forth to make her dwelling
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  Speaker 1: among the children of men, and found no dwelling place.
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  Speaker 1: Wisdom returned to her place and took her seat among
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  Speaker 1: the angels, and unrighteousness went forth from her chambers, whom
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  Speaker 1: she sought not she found and dwelt with them as
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  Speaker 1: rain in a desert and do on a thirsty land.
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  Speaker 1: Forty three to forty four astronomical secrets. And I saw
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  Speaker 1: other lightnings and the stars of heaven. And I saw
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  Speaker 1: how he called them all by their names, and they
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  Speaker 1: hearkened unto him. And I saw how they are weighed
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  Speaker 1: in a righteous balance according to their proportions of light.
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  Speaker 1: I saw the width of their spaces, and the day
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  Speaker 1: of their appearing, and how their revolution produces lightning. And
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  Speaker 1: I saw their revolution according to the number of the angels,
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  Speaker 1: and how they keep faith with each other. And I
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  Speaker 1: asked the angel who went with me, who showed me
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  Speaker 1: what was hidden, what are these? And he said to me,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord of spirits hath showed thee their parabolic meaning
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  Speaker 1: literally their parable. These are the names of the Holy
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  Speaker 1: who dwell in the earth and believe in the name
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord of Spirits, Forever Endeavor, Chapter forty four.
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  Speaker 1: Also another phenomenon I sign in regard to the lightnings,
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  Speaker 1: how some of the stars arise and become lightnings and
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  Speaker 1: cannot part with their new form, And of section six