CHAPTER 60
1. In the fiftieth year, in the seventh month, on the fourteenth day of the month of the life of Enoch. In that parable, I saw how the Heaven of Heavens was shaken violently, and the Host of the Most High and the Angels, a thousand thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand, were extremely disturbed.
2. And then I saw the Head of Days sitting on the throne of his glory and the Angels and righteous were sitting around him.
(Revelation 5:11)
3. And a great trembling seized me, and fear took hold of me, and my loins collapsed and gave way, and my whole being melted, and I fell upon my face.
4. And the Holy Michael sent another Holy Angel, one of the Holy Angels, and he raised me; and when he raised me my spirit returned, for I had been unable to endure the sight of that host, and the disturbance, and the shaking of Heaven.
5. And the Holy Michael said to me: “What sight has disturbed you like this? Until today has the day of His mercy lasted and He has been merciful and long suffering towards those who dwell upon the dry ground.
(Psalm 86:15), (Psalm 103:8), (Psalm 145:7-9), (Exodus 34:6), (Nehemiah 9:17), (Joel 2:13), (Numbers 14:18), (Nahum 1:3)
6. “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.” (According to the version of R.H. Charles Oxford: The Clarendon Press)
(Job 19:29), (Matthew 23:25), (Romans 1:18), (1 John 5:17)
(Amos 6:12), (Habakkuk 1:4)
(Sirach 23:9-10), (Exodus 20:7), (Deuteronomy 5:11), (Psalm 139:20), (Leviticus 19:12)
(Jeremiah 31:31, 33), (Jeremiah 32:40), (Jeremiah 33:20-21), (Ezekiel 37:26), (Psalm 111:5), (Psalm 111:9), (Daniel 9:4), (Isaiah 55:2-3), (Isaiah 59:21), (Isaiah 61:1-3, 8), (Luke 4:18-19), (Matthew 26:28), (Hebrews 9:15), (Hebrews 10:15-17), (Matthew 25:46),
(Isaiah 61:2), (Romans 2:8), (2 Thessalonians 2:12), (Isaiah 10:3), (Jeremiah 15:3), (Jeremiah 23:2), (Ezekiel 30:3), (Hebrews 10:29)
7. And on that day two monsters will be separated from one another, a female monster whose name is Leviathan, to dwell in the depths of the sea, above the springs of the waters.
(Job 3:8)
8. And the name of the male is Behemoth who occupies with his breast an immense desert named Dendayn on the east of the Garden where the chosen and the righteous dwell. Where my great-grandfather was received, who was seventh from Adam, the first man whom the Lord of Spirits made.
(Job 40:15)
9. And I asked that other Angel to show me the power of those monsters, how they were separated on one day, and thrown, one into the depths of the sea and the other on to the dry ground of the desert.
10. And he said to me: “Son of man, you here wish to know what is secret.”
11. And the other Angel spoke to me, the one who went with me and showed me what is secret; what is first and last in Heaven, in the heights, and under the dry ground, in the depths, and at the Ends of Heaven, and at the Foundations of Heaven, and in the Storehouses of the Winds.
12. And how the spirits are distributed, and how they are weighed. And how the springs, and the winds, are counted according to the power of their spirit. And the power of the light of the Moon. And the divisions of the stars according to their names. And how all the divisions are made.
13. And the thunder – according to the places were it falls. And all the divisions that are made in lightning – so that it may flash. And its hosts – how they quickly obey.
14. For the thunder have fixed intervals, which have been given to its sound, for waiting. And the thunder and the lightning are not separate although not the same. Through a spirit the two of them move inseparably.
15. For when the lightning flashes the thunder utters its voice, and the spirit, at the proper time, causes it to rest, and divides equally between them because the storehouse of the times for their occurrence is like that of the sand. And each of them, at the proper time, is held by a rein, and turned
back by the power of the spirit, and likewise driven forward, according to the number of the regions of the Earth.
16. And the spirit of the sea is male and strong, and according to the power of its strength, the spirit turns it back with a rein, and likewise it is driven forward, and scattered amongst all the mountains of the Earth.
17. And the spirit of the hoarfrost is its own Angel; and the spirit of the hail, is a good Angel.
18. And the spirit of the snow has withdrawn because of its power, and it has a special spirit, and that which rises from it is like smoke and its name is frost.
19. And the spirit of the mist is not associated with them in their storehouse but has a special storehouse; for its course is glorious both in light and darkness, and in winter and in summer, and its storehouse is an Angel.
20. The spirit of the dew has its dwelling at the ends of Heaven and is connected with the storehouses of the rain. And its course is in winter and in summer and its clouds. And the clouds of the mist are associated and one gives to the other.
21. And when the spirit of the rain moves from its storehouse the Angels come and open the storehouse and bring it out. And when it is scattered over all the dry ground it joins with all the water that is on the dry ground. And whenever it joins with the water that is on the dry ground.
22. For the waters are for those who dwell upon the dry ground, for they are nourishment for the dry ground, from the Most High who is in Heaven. Therefore there is a fixed measure for the rain and the Angels comprehend it.
23. All these things, I saw towards the Garden of Righteousness.
24. And the Angel of Peace who was with me, said to me: “These two monsters, prepared in accordance with the greatness of the Lord, will feed them that Punishment of the Lord. And children will be killed with their mothers and sons with their fathers.
25. When the punishment of the Lord of Spirits rests upon them it will remain resting so that the punishment of the Lord of Spirits may not come in vain upon these. Afterwards, the judgment will be according to His mercy and His patience.”