enochapocrypha
Book III — The Astronomical Writings
Chapter 77
Premium narration
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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 for ever descend.
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And the west quarter is named the diminished, because there all the luminaries of the heaven wane and go down.
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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.
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I saw seven high mountains, higher than all the mountains which are on the earth: and thence comes forth hoar-frost, and days, seasons, and years pass away.
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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.
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And these two come from the north to the sea and pour their waters into the Erythraean Sea in the east.
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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.
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Seven great islands I saw in the sea and in the mainland: two in the mainland and five in the Great Sea. LXXVIII. The Sun and Moon: the Waxing and Waning of the Moon.
