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06 - The Book of Enoch · Wisdom of the Ages Library

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