The Book of Enoch: The Third Sign

 1.         Next I will tell you about the third sign

regarding the righteous and devoted:

 

2.         You are blessed, you righteous and devoted

for your fate will be glorious.

 

3.         The righteous are in the sun’s light

and the devoted are in the light of eternal life.

 

4.         Their lifetimes will be eternal

and holy time is uncountable.

 

5.         And they will seek out light

and find wisdom with the Spiritual Lord.

 

6.         The devoted will find peace

in the Name of the Eternal Lord.

 

7.         Then after this it is said

that the holy in heaven will seek

the secrets of wisdom

and the foundation of faith.

 

8.         Then the world will be illuminated

and darkness will be in the past.

 

9.         Then there will be an eternal light

and unlimited time.

 

10.       For darkness will first be erased

and the illumination of wisdom

will remain forever

coming from the Spiritual Lord.        

 

11.       At that time my eyes saw

the mysteries of illumination

and the source of light

and the consequences they produce

for they give light

for blessings or curses

as willed by the Spiritual Lord.

 

12.       Then I saw the mysteries of thunder

how it echoes through the skies

its sound becoming heard.

 

13.       He showed me how consequences

were applied in the world

for goodness and blessings

or as a curse accordingly

to learn from the Spiritual Lord

 

14.       After that I was shown

the mysteries of illumination

and the energies they enlighten

for blessings and fulfillment.

 

15.       It was the 500th year of Enoch

during the fourteenth day

of the seventh month.

 

16.       Within this sign I saw how

a mighty quake shook the heavens

and the subjects of the Almighty.

 

17.       And thousands of angels

were disrupted with that great disruption.

 

18.       And the Master of Time

sat on His glorious throne

while the angels and the wise

stood around Him.

 

19.       Then Michael summoned another angel

from among the devoted ones

and he picked me up

and after he picked me up

my spirit returned.

 

20.       Because I had not been able

to endure the look of this subject

along with the quaking stir of heaven.

 

21.       Then Michael asked me

why are you bothered by such a sight?

 

22.       Throughout this time

His mercy continued.

He had been merciful

and saddened by those

living in this world.

 

23.       When the power of time comes

and the consequences of justice

the Spiritual Lord has prepared

for those who don’t respect

the law of wisdom and

deny the power of consequences

while saying His Name in vain

their time will come

not for the promise of the wise

but for the selfish it will come.

 

24.       When the consequences rendered

by the Spiritual Lord come upon them

they will learn these consequences

from the Spiritual Lord were not in vain

for they will affect their children

along with their mothers

and the children and their fathers.

 

25.       Eventually these consequences

will show His mercy and patience.

 

26.       Once two fallen ones departed:

One a female beast

who lived in the ocean valleys

over the rushing seas.

 

27.       The male named Behemoth

lived with his soul in a wasteland

named Duidain east of the region

where the devoted and righteous lived.

 

28.       That is where my grandfather rose

from the seventh generation of Adam

who was the first human created

by the Spiritual Lord.

 

29.       Then I requested from the other angel

to show me the strength of the fallen

and how one was tossed

into the depths of the seas

and the other onto the desert wilderness.

 

30.       Then he told me:

You are the servant of humanity

and you seek to know the mysteries.

 

31.       The other angel who was with me

showed me the mysteries

and told me which is

most favored in heaven

what is beneath the world’s depths

at the end of the universe

at the foundation of the world.

 

32.       The direction of the currents

and how the currents are split

how they are balanced

how the doors of the currents are arranged

each according to the strength of their current

and the power of the moon’s illumination

according to their respective strength

with the boundaries of stars

according to their benefits

and how their boundaries are split.

 

33.       Then the thunder of different places

upon where they fell

and the boundaries made from their flashes

at once following their host.

 

34.       For the thunder will come to rest

while waiting for its echo.

Thunder and lightning are inseparable

not the same nor separate

they move together through the sky

never to part.

 

35.       When the illumination lights up

the thunder raises its voice

and the spirit pauses awaiting the echo

equally divided between them

and the echoes are like grains of sand

each echoing within the vessel

returning with the power of spirit

pushed out to the ends of the earth.

 

36.       The spirit of the ocean is strong

and with that might it reins back

likewise it is driven forward

dispersing through the world’s canyons.

 

37.       The spirit of the mist is an angel

and the spirit of hail is a wise angel.

 

38.       And the spirit of snow

ignores the assembly of strength

and the special spirit within

which rises from it like mist

and its name is frost.

 

39.       Then the spirit of dew

doesn’t join them in their vessel

but has a special subscription

for its path is glorious

in both light and darkness

and winter and summer

as its vessel is an angel.

 

40.       Then the spirit of dew

lives at the edges of heaven

connecting with the vessels of rain

in the winter and summers

connecting the vapors of mist

one lending to the other.

 

41.       When the spirit of rain

comes forth from its vessel

the angels open the vessel and bring it out.

As it diffuses through the world

it merges with the world’s water.

 

42.       Now these waters are there

for those who dwell in the world

as the world’s nutrition

from the Almighty in heaven

therefore rain has its measure

and angels take charge of it.

 

43.       These are things I saw

within the Realm of the Righteous.

 

44.       Then the angel of peace

who was with me told me about

two fallen ones that dedicated

themselves to God’s greatness

and become satisfied.

 

45.       Then I saw angels with long cords

that had wings for flight

and headed northward.

 

46.       I asked the angel why

those angels taken the cords and left?

 

47.       He told me that they left

in order to be tested.

 

48.       Then the angel who was with me

told me the righteous will be tested

and the devoted will be guided

to the righteous.

 

49.       This will allow them to remain steadfast

in the name of the Spiritual Lord.

 

50.       The devoted will remain righteous

and this testing will give faith

and strengthen ones righteousness.

 

51.       And this testing reveals

the deep mysteries of the world.

 

52.       Those who have succumbed to the desert

those devoured by beasts

and those devoured by fish in the ocean

will return and become esteemed

at the time of the devoted one

because no one with the Spiritual Lord

will be ruined or destroyed.

 

53.       Those who live in heaven

receive instruction, strength and fire

from the One Voice and the One Light.

 

54.       And in their wisdom

they immediately bless

and praise the One.

 

55.       This brings them wisdom

and the Spirit of life.

 

56.       Then the Spiritual Lord glorified

the devoted who will oversee the actions

of the righteous from above

giving balance to all of their actions.

 

57.       The Spiritual Lord sat him down

on His glorious throne

and the spirit of wisdom

was poured onto him.

 

58.       His instructions deter the selfish

and the unwise are deterred

from His presence.

 

59.       One day the strong leaders

who are exalted in the world

will understand how

His glory resides in Him.

 

60.       And righteousness is measured by Him

and nothing can be hidden from Him.

 

61.       Thus comes woman’s pain in childbirth

and this pain is brought forth.

 

62.       Then one part of them

will look upon the other

will become scared

will become depressed

and pain will grip them

when they see the servant of humanity

at the height of His glory.

 

63.       The leaders and the strong of the earth

praise and glorify the mysterious One.

 

64.       Because the origin of the servant of humanity

is mysterious and hidden from view

by the presence of His strength

and revealed only to the devoted.

 

65.       The assembly of the devoted

and the wise will emerge

and the devoted will glorify Him.

 

66.       The leaders and the strong

and those exalted who rule over the world

will fall down before Him

onto their faces and worship Him

and put their faith in the servant of humanity

and ask for the mercy of His hands.

 

67.       Even then the Spiritual Lord

still will test them

and they will rush from His presence

and their faces will show their shame

and darkness will grow on their faces.

 

68.       Then the wise devoted ones

will be saved at that time

and they will never again see

the faces of the unwise and selfish.

 

69.       He will deliver them to the angels

to face their consequences

for they oppressed His devoted followers.

 

70.       And they will provide testimony

for the wise and devoted.

They will rejoice for them

for they find peace

with the testing of the Spiritual Lord

as His aim is their lifeblood.

 

71.       The Spiritual Lord watches over them

and with the servant of humanity

will they be fulfilled and at peace

and be eternally blessed.

 

72.       And they will be wrapped

in glorious raiments of life

from the Spiritual Lord.

 

73.       And those raiments will never age

just as the Spiritual Lord’s glory

will never pass away.

 

74.       Then the strong worldly leaders

will ask to be relieved

from His angels of consequences

to whom they were brought

in order to fall down and worship

before the Spiritual Lord

and ask to be forgiven for their offenses.

 

75.       And they will praise and glorify

the Spiritual Lord saying:

Praise to the Spiritual Lord

the Lord of kings

the Lord of wisdom

awesome in every mystery

is Your power from lifetime to lifetime

and Your glory for eternity.

 

76.       For deep are Your countless mysteries

and Your righteousness is beyond understanding.

 

77.       We have thus learned to glorify

and praise the Lord of kings

as He presides over all kings.

 

78.       Then they will say

we had the opportunity to praise Him

and give thanks to Him.

 

79.       But now we find no peace

and we are following

but not finding

the illumination in front of us

and the darkness around us

seems eternal.

 

80.       Because we had no faith in Him

nor did we praise the Lord’s Name

rather we hoped for the staff

of our own realm

for our own glorification.

 

81.       He won’t save us

from our trials and tests.

He won’t save us

from where we find no rest.

 

82.       For our testimony is

that our Lord is true

in all of His deeds

and in His wisdom

and all His justice

and all His judgments

are fair to everyone.

 

83.       And we shall pass

from before Him

because our selfish deeds

have righteous consequences.

 

84.       They will then say

our souls are filled with selfish gains

preventing us not from falling

from the spirit world

to embrace the realm of Sheol.

 

84.       After that their faces

are filled with dark shame

before the servant of humanity.

They will be driven from him

and the sword will survive

in front of and behind him.

 

85.       The Spiritual Lord said:

This is the overarching consequence

for the strong rulers and the famous

and those with material possessions

given by the Spiritual Lord.

 

86.       I saw other mysterious spirits here.

I heard an angel’s voice who said

these were the angels

who fell into the world

and revealed the mysteries

to the people

and influenced them

to commit selfishness.