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12 - The Book of Enoch · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapters eighty three through eighty eight, The dreams slash Visions
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  Speaker 1: chapters eighty three through ninety chapters eighty three through eighty four,
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  Speaker 1: the first dream slash vision on the Deluge, chapter eighty three.
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  Speaker 1: And now, my son Methuselah, I will show thee all
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  Speaker 1: my visions which I have seen, recounting them before thee
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  Speaker 1: two visions I saw before I took a wife, And
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  Speaker 1: the one was quite unlike the other, the first when
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  Speaker 1: I was learning to write, the second before I took
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  Speaker 1: thy mother. When I saw a terrible vision, and regarding them,
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  Speaker 1: I prayed to the Lord. I had laid me down
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  Speaker 1: in the house of my grandfather, Mahaalileel, when I saw
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  Speaker 1: on a vision how the heaven collapsed and was borne
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  Speaker 1: off and fell to the earth. And when it fell
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  Speaker 1: to the earth, I saw how the earth was swallowed
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  Speaker 1: up in a great abyss, and mountains were suspended on mountains,
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  Speaker 1: and hills sank down on hill, and high trees were
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  Speaker 1: rent from their stems and hurled down and sunk in
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  Speaker 1: the abyss. And thereupon a word fell into my mouth,
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  Speaker 1: and I lifted up my voice to cry aloud, and said,
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  Speaker 1: the earth is destroyed. And my grandfather Mahaalillel waked me
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  Speaker 1: as I lay near him, and said, unto me, why
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  Speaker 1: dost thou cry so, my son, and why dost thou
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  Speaker 1: make such lamentation? And I recounted to him the whole
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  Speaker 1: vision which I had seen, and he said, unto me,
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  Speaker 1: a terrible thing hast thou seen, my son, and of
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  Speaker 1: grave moment, as thy dream slash vision, as to the
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  Speaker 1: secrets of all the sin of the earth, it must
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  Speaker 1: sink into the abyss and be destroyed with a great destruction.
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  Speaker 1: And now, my son, arise and make petition to the
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  Speaker 1: Lord of Glory, since thou art a believer that a
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  Speaker 1: remnant may remain on the earth, and that he may
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  Speaker 1: not destroy the whole earth, my son from heaven, all
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  Speaker 1: this will come upon the earth, and upon the earth
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  Speaker 1: there will be great destruction. After that, I arose and prayed,
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  Speaker 1: and implored and besought, and wrote down my prayer for
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  Speaker 1: the generations of the world. And I will show everything
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  Speaker 1: to thee my son Methuselah. And when I had gone
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  Speaker 1: forth below and seen the heaven and the sun rising
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  Speaker 1: in the east, and the moon setting in the west,
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  Speaker 1: and a few stars, and the whole earth and everything
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  Speaker 1: as he had known it in the beginning. Then I
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  Speaker 1: blessed the Lord of Judgment and extolled him, because he
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  Speaker 1: had made the sun to go forth from the windows
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  Speaker 1: of the east, and he had ascended and rose on
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  Speaker 1: the face of the heaven, and set out and kept
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  Speaker 1: traversing the path shown unto him Chapter eighty four. And
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  Speaker 1: I lifted up my hands in righteousness and bless the
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  Speaker 1: Holy and Great One, and spake with the breath of
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  Speaker 1: my mouth and with the tongue of flesh, which God
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  Speaker 1: has made for the children of the flesh of men,
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  Speaker 1: that they should speak therewith. And He gave them breath
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  Speaker 1: and a tongue and a mouth that they should speak therewith.
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  Speaker 1: Bless it be thee Thou, O, Lord, King, Great and Mighty,
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  Speaker 1: in thy greatness, Lord of the whole creation of the Heaven,
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  Speaker 1: King of kings, and God of the whole world. And
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  Speaker 1: thy power and kingship and greatness abide forever, endeavor and
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  Speaker 1: throughout all generations, Thy dominion and all the heavens are
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  Speaker 1: thy throne forever, and the whole earth thy footstool forever
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  Speaker 1: and ever. For thou hast made, and thou rulest all things,
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  Speaker 1: and nothing is too hard for THEE. Wisdom departs not
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  Speaker 1: from the place of thy throne, nor turns away from
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  Speaker 1: Thy presence. And Thou knowest, and seest and hearest everything.
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  Speaker 1: And there is nothing hidden from THEE, for thou seest everything.
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  Speaker 1: And now the angels of thy heavens are guilty of trespass,
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  Speaker 1: And upon the flesh of men abideth thy wrath until
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  Speaker 1: the great day of judgment. And now, O God and
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  Speaker 1: Lord and Great King, I implore and beseech THEE to
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  Speaker 1: fulfill my prayer to leave me a posterity on earth,
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  Speaker 1: and not destroy all the flesh of man, and make
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  Speaker 1: thee earth without inhabitant, so that there should be an
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  Speaker 1: eternal destruction. And now, my Lord, destroy from the earth
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  Speaker 1: the flesh which has aroused thy wrath. But the flesh
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  Speaker 1: of righteousness and uprightness establishes a plant of the eternal seed.
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  Speaker 1: And hide not thy face from the prayer of thy servant,
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  Speaker 1: O Lord, Chapter eighty five through chapter ninety The second
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  Speaker 1: dream slash Vision of Enoch The History of the World
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  Speaker 1: to the Founding of the Messianic Kingdom chapter eighty five.
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  Speaker 1: And after this I saw another dream, and I will
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  Speaker 1: show the whole dream to thee my son. And Enoch
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  Speaker 1: lifted up his voice and spake to his son, Methuselah,
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  Speaker 1: to thee my son, will I speak hear my words
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  Speaker 1: incline thine ear to the dream slash vision of thy father.
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  Speaker 1: Before I took thy mother Edna, I saw in a
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  Speaker 1: vision on my bed, and behold, a bull came forth
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  Speaker 1: from the earth, and that bull was white, and after
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  Speaker 1: it came forth a heifer. And along with this latter
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  Speaker 1: came forth two bulls, one of them black and the
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  Speaker 1: other red. And that black bull goreed the red one
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  Speaker 1: and pursued him over the earth. And thereupon I could
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  Speaker 1: no longer see that red bull, but that black bull grew,
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  Speaker 1: and that heifer went with him. And I saw that
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  Speaker 1: many oxen proceeded from him, which resembled and followed him,
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  Speaker 1: and that cow, that first one, went from the presence
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  Speaker 1: of that first bull, in order to seek that red one,
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  Speaker 1: but found him not, and lamented with a great lamentation
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  Speaker 1: over him, and sought him. And I looked till that
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  Speaker 1: first bull came to her and quiet at her. And
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  Speaker 1: from that time onward she cried no more, and after
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  Speaker 1: that she bore another white bull, and after him she
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  Speaker 1: bore many bulls and black cows. And I saw in
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  Speaker 1: my sleep that white bull likewise grow and become a
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  Speaker 1: great white bull. And from him preceded many white bulls,
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  Speaker 1: and they resembled him, and they began to beget many
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  Speaker 1: white bulls, which resembled them, one following the other, even many.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter eighty six, The Fall of the Angels and the
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  Speaker 1: Demoralization of Mankind, Chapter eighty six. And again I saw
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  Speaker 1: with mine eyes as I slept, and I saw the
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  Speaker 1: heaven above, and behold, a star fell from heaven, and
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  Speaker 1: did a rose and et and pastured amongst those oxen.
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  Speaker 1: And after that I saw the large and the black oxen,
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  Speaker 1: and behold, they all changed their stalls and pastures and
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  Speaker 1: their cattle, and began to live with each other. And
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  Speaker 1: again I saw in the vision and looked towards the heaven,
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  Speaker 1: and behold, I saw many stars descend and cast themselves
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  Speaker 1: down from heaven to that first star, And they became
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  Speaker 1: bulls amongst those cattle, and pastured with them amongst them.
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  Speaker 1: And I looked at them and saw, and behold, they
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  Speaker 1: all let out their privy members like horses, and began
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  Speaker 1: to cover the cows of the oxen, and they all
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  Speaker 1: became pregnant and bare, elephants, camels, and asses, and all
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  Speaker 1: the oxen feared them and were affrighted at them, and
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  Speaker 1: began to bite with their teeth and to devour, and
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  Speaker 1: to gore with their horns. And they began moreover to
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  Speaker 1: devour those oxen. And behold, all the children of the
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  Speaker 1: earth began to tremble and quake before them, and to
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  Speaker 1: flee from them. Chapter eighty seven, The Advent of the
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  Speaker 1: Seven Archangels, Chapter eighty seven. And again I saw how
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  Speaker 1: they began to gore each other and to devour each other,
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  Speaker 1: and the earth began to cry aloud. And I raised
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  Speaker 1: mine eyes again to heaven, and I saw in the vision,
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  Speaker 1: and behold, there came forth from heaven beings who were
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  Speaker 1: like white men. And four went forth from that place,
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  Speaker 1: and three with them. And those three that had last
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  Speaker 1: come forth grasped me by my hand and took me
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  Speaker 1: up away from the generations of the earth, and raised
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  Speaker 1: me up to a lofty place, and showed me a
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  Speaker 1: tower raised high above the earth, and all the hills
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  Speaker 1: were lower, and one sat unto me remain here till
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  Speaker 1: thou seest everything that befalls those elephants, camels, and asses,
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  Speaker 1: and the stars, and the oxen, and all of them.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter eighty eight. The Punishment of the Fallen Angels by
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  Speaker 1: the Archangels Chapter eighty eight. And I saw one of
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  Speaker 1: those four who had come forth first, and he seized
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  Speaker 1: that first star which had fallen from the heaven, and
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  Speaker 1: bound it hand and foot, and cast it into an abyss.
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  Speaker 1: Now that abyss was narrow and deep, and horrible and dark.
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  Speaker 1: And one of them drew a sword and gave it
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  Speaker 1: to those elephants and camels and asses. Then they began
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  Speaker 1: to smite each other, and the whole earth quaked because
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  Speaker 1: of them. And as I was beholding the vision, lo
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  Speaker 1: one of those four who had come forth stoned them
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  Speaker 1: from heaven, and gathered and took all the great stars,
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  Speaker 1: whose privy members were like those of horses, and bound
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  Speaker 1: them all hand and foot, and cast them in an
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  Speaker 1: abyss of the earth and of Section twelve