THE BOOK OF THE COURSES OF THE HEAVENLY LUMINARIES
- Perversion of Nature and the heavenly Bodies owning to the Sin of Men.
Chapter 80
1 In those days Uriel answered and said to me, “Behold, Oh Enoch, I have shewed thee all things, and I have revealed all things to thee. Thou seest the sun, and the moon, and those which conduct the stars of heaven, and all those which cause all their operations, times, and egressions.
2 “In the days of sinners the years shall be shortened.Their seed shall be backward on the earth, and on their pasturage,And everything done on earth shall be turned back,“And not appear in its time,The rain shall be kept back,And heaven shall stand still.
3 In those days the fruits of the earth shall be late,And not germinate in their time,And the fruits of the earth shall be kept back in that time.
4 “The moon shall change its laws,And not be seen at its time,
5 But in those days heaven shall be seen,And unfruitfulness shall take place in the frontiersOf the great chariots in the west,And he shall shine more than the orders of lights,
6 “And many heads among the stars of power shall err,Perverting their ways and works.They shall not appear in their season who command them,
7 “And all the orders of the stars shall be shut up against sinners.The thoughts of those who dwell on earth shall transgress within them,And they shall be perverted in all their ways.They shall transgress and hold themselves to be gods,
8 “While misery shall be great among them,And punishment shall come upon them,So that they all shall be destroyed.”
- The Heavenly Tablets and the Mission of Enoch.
Chapter 81
1 He said to me,“Oh Enoch, look on the book which heaven has dropped down,And read that which is written therein,And understand every part.
2 Then I looked on that which dropped from heaven, and read all that was written, and understood all, and read the book, and all which was written therein, and all the works of men, and of all the children of flesh upon earth during the regeneration of the world.
3 Immediately after I praised the Lord, the King of Glory, who has thus made the whole work of the world.And I glorified the Lord, on account of His patienceAnd blessing towards the children of the world.
4 I said at that time,“Blessed is the man who shall die righteous and good,Against whom a record of wickedness has not been written,And with whom a crime is not found.
5 Then these three Holy Ones brought me near, and set me on the earth before the door of my house. And they said unto me, “Explain everything to Mathusala thy son, and inform all thy children that what is flesh shall not be justified before the Lord, for he is their Creator.
6 We will leave thee for one year with thy children, until thou again art strong, that thou mayest teach thy children, write for them, and explain all to thy children. But in another year they will take thee from the midst of them,
7 “And thy heart shall be strengthened,For the good shall declare righteousness to the good,The righteous shall rejoice with the righteous,And profess among one another,
8 “But sinners with sinners shall die.And the perverted with the perverted shall be drowned.
9 And those who act righteously shall die by reason of the works of men,And shall be gathered together by reason of the works of the ungodly.”
10 In those days they ceased to converse with me. And I came to my fellow men, while I praised the Lord of worlds.
- Charge given to Enoch: the four Intercalary Days: the Stars which lead the Seasons and the Months.
Chapter 82
1 Now my son Mathusala, all these things I speak unto thee, and write for thee; I have revealed all to thee and have given thee books of everything. My son Mathusala, preserve thou the books received from the hand Of thy father, that thou mayest give them to the generations of the world.
2 I have given wisdom to thee, and to thy childrenAnd to those who shall proceed from their children,That this wisdom may be in the thoughts of their children,And in the thoughts of the generation of generations for ever,
3 And that those who understand it may not slumber,But ear with their ears, that they may learn this wisdom,And that they may be thought worthy of eating this wholesome food,Which shall be eaten by the righteous.
4 Blessed are all the righteous. Blessed are all who walk in the ways of righteousness, in whom there are no sins like those of sinners, when all their days are numbered.Concerning the progress of the sun in heaven, it goes in and out of each gate for thirty days, with the leaders of the thousand classes of the stars, with four days which are added, and divide the four quarters of the year which they conduct, and come with the four days.
5 Men greatly err concerning these, and count them not in the account of the course of the world, for they greatly err concerning them, and they are not exactly shewn to men,
6 but they are in the account of the course of the world, and certainly they are united together for ever, one in the first gate, one in the third, one in the fourth, and one in the sixth. And the year is finished in three hundred and sixty-four days.
7 And truly this is an exact and just account of their stations which is put together, for the lights, the months, the appointed times, the years, and the days Uriel has shewed, and communicated to me, whom for me the Lord of the creation of the world, according to the power of heaven,
8 and the dominion which it possesses both by day and by night, commanded to explain to man the laws of the light of the sun, moon, and stars, and of all the powers of heaven, which are turned round in their orbits.
9 And these are the orders of the stars, which set in their places, in their times, in their appointed days, and in their months.
10 And these are the names of those who conduct them, who watch and come in their times, according to their order, in their periods, in their months, in their power, and in their places.
11 Four conductors of them come first, who divide the four quarters of the year, and after these twelve conductors of their orders, who divide the months and the year into three hundred and sixty-four days, with the leaders of a thousand, who divide the days, and the four which are joined among them, which as conductors divide the four quarters of the year.
12 These leaders of a thousand are in the midst of the conductors, and the conducting, and the conductors each at his place make the division.
13 These are the names of the conductors who divide the four quarters of the year, who are appointed: Melkel, Helammelek, Melial, and Narel.
14 And the names of those who conduct them are Adnarel, Jyasusael, and Jyelumiel. These are the three which follow after the conductors of the orders, each following after the three conductors of the orders, which themselves follow after these conductors of the places, who divide the four quarters of the year.
15 In the first part of the year Melkias rises, and rules, who also is called Temani, and the sun. All the days of his power, which he rules are ninety-one days.
16 And these are the signs which are seen on earth in the days of his power, perspiration, heat, and trouble, all the trees become fruitful, the leaf of every tree goes forth, the wheat is reaped. The rose and every species of flowers blossom in the fields, and the trees of winter are dry.
17 And these are the names of the conductors who are under them: Barkel, Zelsabel, and another conductor of a thousand is added, whose name is Heloyaleph. And at the end of the days of his power,
18 the conductor after him Helemmelek, by name they call the splendid sun. And all the days of his light are ninety-nine days.
19 And these are the signs of the days upon the earth, heat, and drought, and the trees bring forth their fruits warmed, and concocted, and give their fruits to dry. The flocks follow and receive, and all the fruits of the earth are gathered, and all which is in the fields, and the winepress is trodden, and this is done in the days of his power.
20 These are their names and orders, and the conductors who are under them, who are chiefs of thousands, are Gedaeyel, Keel, and Heel. And a leader of a thousand is added to them whose name is Asphael. And to the end of these are the days of his power.
THE END OF THE BOOK OF THE COURSE OF THE HEAVENLY LUMINARIES