The Book of Enoch.
Chapter One. The Words of the Blessing of Enoch.
The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect and righteous,
who will be living in the days of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are to be removed.
And Enoch, a righteous man whose eyes were opened by God took up his parable and said, "I 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 will 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. 6 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.
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 thousand 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." Chapter 2. The Creation. 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 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 abomination, and ye shall find no mercy. In those days ye shall make your names an
eternal abomination unto all the righteous, and by you shall all who curse,
curse. All the sinners and godless shall imprecate by you. And for you,
the godless there shall be a curse." And all the righteous 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 the curse of the beast. 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 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. Chapter 3. Fallen Angels. 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 swore 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, Zaqlel,
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 coloring 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. Chapter 4. Intercession of Angels. 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."
3 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 in
heaven, which men were striving to learn; and Samlazaz, 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 out 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 the Watchers from amongst men. 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 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
Samlazaz 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 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 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. Say to them: '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 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. Chapter 5. Book of the Words of Righteousness. 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. 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. 6 And 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 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 splendor and magnificence and extent that I cannot describe to
you its splendor 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. 19 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
were 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 prostrating 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 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
Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they shall be evil spirits on earth,
and evil spirits shall they be called. 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." Chapter 6.
Taken by Angels.
Angels 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 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 colored 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 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. Chapter 7. The Holy Angels.
And these are the names of the
holy angels who watch mankind. 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, the mountain 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 great judgement upon them." I saw 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 makes suit, whose is it, whose voice goes
forth and makes 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 made 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 forever
and retribution for their spirits. There He shall bind them forever. 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 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 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 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 honored
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
to its consummation forever. 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. 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 and narrow, 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 forever. 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 forever: 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." 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 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 of water. And therein there was a tree, the color 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 odor. And after these fragrant odors, 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,
and from afar off I saw numerous trees, and these 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 strangler
fig, and its leaves are like the Carob tree, and its fruit is like the clusters of the vine,
very beautiful: and the fragrance of the tree penetrates afar. 58 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 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 their great beasts, and each differed from the other; and 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 forever. Book 2: The Parables. Chapter 1.
The First Parable. The second vision which he saw, the vision
of wisdom, which Enoch the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Canaan, 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 that 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 was better to declare to the men of old times, 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. And in that place mine eyes saw the
Elect One of righteousness and of faith, and I saw his dwelling−place under
the wings of the Lord of Spirits. And righteousness shall prevail in his days, and the righteous and elect shall be
without number before Him for ever and ever. 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. 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 forever 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 filled 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 these 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. 48 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: the width of their spaces and
the day of their appearing, and how their revolution produces lightning: and their revolution according to the number of
the angels, and 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: 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. Chapter 2. The Second Parable. 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 reveals all the treasures of that which is hidden. Because the
Lord of Spirits hath chosen him, and whose lot hath preeminence before the
Lord of Spirits in uprightness forever. And this Son of Man whom thou hast seen shall
raise up the kings and the mighty from their seats and shall loosen the reins of the strong, and
break the teeth of the sinners. 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. Darkness shall be their dwelling and
worms shall be their bed. They shall have no hope of rising from their beds because they
do not extol the name of the Lord of Spirits. These are they who judge the stars of heaven,
tread upon the earth, and dwell upon it. All their deeds manifest unrighteousness
and their power rests upon their riches. Their faith is in the gods which they have made with their hands and they deny
the name of the Lord of Spirits. 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, 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 was many fountains of wisdom.
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 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. 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
One. The name of the Lord of Spirits be blessed. For wisdom is poured out like water, and
glory failed 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 stood 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. 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 honor 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 that they
may repent and forgo the works of their hands. They shall have no honor 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. In those days shall the earth also give back
that which has been entrusted to it. Sheol also shall give back that which it has received,
and hell shall give back that which it owes. 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 to Him and hath glorified Him. In those days shall the mountains leap like
rams and the hills also shall skip like lambs satisfied with milk, and the faces of the
angels in heaven shall be lighted up with joy. And the earth shall rejoice and the righteous shall dwell upon it and the
Elect shall walk thereon. 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 and they shall become powerless before his feet. 53 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 not
be esteemed, and lead shall not be desired. And all these things shall be destroyed
from the surface of the earth." 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. 58 And I asked the angel of peace who went
with me, saying: "For whom are these chains being prepared?" 59 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." 60 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 swore 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 forever. 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
underfoot the land of His elect ones but the city of the 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. 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. Chapter 3. The Third Parable. And I began to speak the third
Parable concerning the righteous and elect. 2 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 ends
and to a limit of days they shall not come. For the darkness shall first have been
destroyed 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, 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 500, 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 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 hoarfrost 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
whenever 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 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 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 rested
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 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 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 but our hope was in the scepter
of our kingdom, and in our own 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, spoke 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." Book 3. The Book of Noah. Chapter 1. Birth 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. 4 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 I was there, and he cried
aloud, and I heard his voice and I came to him. And I 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 color 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 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 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
to him and called the name of that son Noah; for he will comfort the earth
after all the destruction. Chapter 2. Calling Enoch. 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. 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? 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 preeminent." 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 forever. 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 forever, 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 honors, 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 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. Chapter 3. Judgement of Angels. 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 working, and when
they have completed their 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 seed 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 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 this is the power of this oath,
for it is powerful and strong, and he placed this oath in the hand of Michael. These are the secrets of this oath
and they are strong through his oath: The heaven was suspended before
the world was created, and forever. 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 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 this oath is mighty over them and through it 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.
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. Book 4: The Kingdom of Heaven. Chapter 1. Enoch is Taken. 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 I saw the holy sons of God. They were stepping on flames of fire: Their garments were white 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 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
thousand of angels without number. And He 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
forever and for ever and ever. And all shall walk in his ways since
righteousness never forsook 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. Chapter 2. The Luminaries. 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. 6 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
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. 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. 10 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 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 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. 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 for ever and ever. And that which 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 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 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, 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 thirteen parts. And I saw another course, a law for her, 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 recede 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 three hundred and sixty-four days.
And the overplus of the sun and of the stars amounts to six days: in five years, six
days every year come to thirty days: and the moon falls behind the sun and
stars to the number of thirty 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 three hundred and sixty-four days. In three years, there are one thousand and
ninety-two days, and in five years one thousand, eight hundred and twenty days, so that in eight
years there are two thousand nine hundred and twelve days. For the moon alone the days amount
in three years to one thousand and sixty-two days, and in five years she falls fifty days behind to
the sum there is five to be added sixty-two days. And in five years, there are one thousand seven
hundred and seventy days, so that for the moon the days six in eight years amount to twenty-one
thousand, eight hundred and thirty-two days. For in eight years she falls behind
to the amount of eighty days, all the seventeen days she falls behind
in eight years are eighty. 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 rises and sets thirty 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 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 suns 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 season produces warmth, corresponding 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 from which the winds
go forth and blow over the earth. Three of them are open on the face of
the heavens, and three in the west, and three on the right of the
heaven, and three on the left. 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 hoarfrost, 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
hoarfrost, 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 forever 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 hoarfrost, 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 her light is accomplished, according to the sign of the year, and she becomes fifteen parts, and
the moon grows by fourteenth parts. And in her waning 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 daysher 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 thirty days each, and for three months she appears 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. 109 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
four sixth portal her light is accomplished. And after that there is the beginning of
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 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. Chapter 3. Heavenly Tablets. 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: 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 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 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 forever, 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 commands, that thou mayest teach thy children and record
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. Chapter 4. One Year to Record. 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 fathers 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 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 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 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: Milkiel, Helemmelek, and Melejal, and Narel. And the names of those who lead them: Adnarel,
and Ijasusael, and Elomeel - 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 Tamaini 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: Berkael, Zelebsel, and another who is added a head of a thousand, called Hilujaseph: and
the days of the dominion of this are at an end. The next leader after him is Helemmelek, whom
one names the shining sun, and all the days of his light are ninety−one days. And these are
the signs of 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:
Gidaljal, Keel, and Heel, and the name of the head of a thousand which is added to them, Asfael:
and the days of his dominion are at an end. Chapter 5. 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 I saw a terrible vision. And regarding them I prayed to the Lord. I had
laid me down in the house of my grandfather Mahalaleel 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 to cry aloud, and said: "The earth is destroyed!" And my grandfather Mahalaleel 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 if 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 forever, 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 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 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, 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,
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 - 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.
60 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. 75 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. 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 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. 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 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 − 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 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 and they 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, and they severally completed their periods as did the
first; and others receive 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. Book 5: Epistle of Enoch. Chapter 1. The Guidance of Enoch. 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 forever. 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 shall be cast into the judgement of fire, And shall perish in wrath and
in grievous judgement forever. 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
and the blasphemers destroyed 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, listen to 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 forever."
Chapter 2. Wisdom of Enoch. The book written by Enoch − Enoch indeed
wrote this complete doctrine of wisdom, 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 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 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 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 anyone 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 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 diminish. 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 neighbor 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 forever 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 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." Chapter 3. Wisdom of Enoch. Believe, ye righteous, that the sinners will become a shame and perish in
the day of unrighteousness. Be it known unto you 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 and many are the husbandmen in our houses.
And our granaries are 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 colored garments more than a virgin; In royalty and in grandeur and in
power, and in silver and in gold and in purple, and in splendor 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 splendor,
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. 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 neighbors. 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 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 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
neighbors; For you shall be slain in Sheol. Woe to you who make deceitful and false measures, and 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 neighbors 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 honored 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 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 hoarfrost 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. Chapter 4. Wisdom of Enoch. 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 into 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
forever 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."
Chapter 5. Wisdom of Enoch. 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 forever, 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 − 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 honor 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 honor. 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." Chapter 6. Revelation of Enoch. 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 the 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 diminish 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 to summon and testify
to the children of earth concerning their wisdom: "Show unto them; for ye are their guides
and a recompense over the whole earth. For I and My son will be united with them
forever in the paths of uprightness in their lives; and ye shall have peace:
rejoice, ye children of uprightness.
