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And I began to speak the third Parable concerning the righteous and elect.

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Blessed are ye, ye righteous and Elect for glorious shall be your lot.

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And the righteous shall be in the light of the sun and the elect in the light of
eternal life.

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The days of their life shall be unending and the days of the holy without
number.

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And they shall seek the light and find righteousness with the Lord of Spirits.

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There shall be peace to the righteous in the name of the Eternal Lord.

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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.

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For it has become bright as the sun upon earth and the darkness is past.

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And there shall be a light that never ends and to a limit of days they shall not
come.

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For the darkness shall first have been destroyed and the light of uprightness
established for ever before the Lord of Spirits.

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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.

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And there I saw the secrets of the thunder, and how when it resounds above in
the heaven, the sound thereof is heard.

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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.

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And after that, all the secrets of the lights and lightnings were shown to me,
and they lighten for blessing and for satisfying.

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In the year 500, in the seventh month, on the fourteenth day of the month in
the life of Enoch.

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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.

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And the Head of Days sat on the throne of His glory, and the angels and the
righteous stood around Him.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Afterwards the judgement shall take place according to His mercy and His
patience."

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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.

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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.

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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.

27 And he said to me: "Thou son of man, herein thou dost seek to know what is
hidden."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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And the spirit of the hoarfrost is his own angel, and the spirit of the hail is a
good angel.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 whensoever it unites with the
water on the earth.

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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.

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And these things I saw towards the Garden of the Righteous.

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And the angel of peace who was with me said to me: "These two monsters,
prepared conformably to the greatness of God, shall feed."

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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.

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And I asked the angel, saying unto him: "Why have those angels taken these
cords and gone off?"

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And he said unto me: "They have gone to measure."

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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.

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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.

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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."

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And all who dwell above in the heaven received a command and power and
one voice and one light like unto fire.

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And that One with their first words they blessed and extolled and lauded with
wisdom.

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And they were wise in utterance and in the spirit of life.

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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.

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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."

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And the Lord of Spirits seated him on the throne of His glory and the spirit of
righteousness was poured out upon Him.

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And the word of his mouth slays all the sinners, and all the unrighteous are
destroyed from before his face.

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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.

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And righteousness is judged before him and no lying word is spoken before
him.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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And the congregation of the elect and holy shall be sown and all the elect
shall stand before him on that day.

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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.

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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.

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And He will deliver them to the angels for punishment to execute vengeance
on them because they have oppressed His children and His elect.

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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 resteth upon them and
His sword is drunk with their blood.

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And the righteous and elect shall be saved on that day, and they shall never
thenceforward see the face of the sinners and unrighteous.

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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.

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And the righteous and elect shall have risen from the earth and ceased to be
of downcast countenance.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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For we have not believed before Him nor glorified the name of the Lord of
Spirits but our hope was in the sceptre of our kingdom, and in our own glory.

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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.

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And we pass away from before His face on account of our works and all our
sins are reckoned up in righteousness."

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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."

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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.

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Thus spake 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.

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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."