God summoned Enoch to sit at His left hand, beside the archangel Gabriel. Then He spoke — not through angels, not through intermediaries, but directly, with His own voice — and revealed the secret of creation that He had never told even to His angels.
"Before the very beginning," God said, "I alone existed. I moved through the invisible, like the sun from east to west and from west to east. But even the sun has peace in itself. I had no peace — because I was creating all things. I conceived the thought of placing foundations, of bringing visible creation out of invisible nothing."
He called into the depths, and a being named Adoil descended — vast and great, with a belly full of light. God commanded him: "Become undone, and let the visible come out of you." Adoil dissolved, and a great light burst forth. From that light, as light is born from light, an entire age emerged — all of creation, everything God had conceived.
God saw that it was good.
He placed a throne for Himself and sat upon it, and said to the light: "Rise higher. Fix yourself above the throne. Be the foundation of the highest things." And above the light, there was nothing else.
Then He called a second time into the depths. A being called Archas emerged — hard, heavy, and very red. God said: "Be opened, and let there be born from you." Archas came undone, and an age came forth — very great, very dark — bearing the substance of all lower creation. God sent it downward: "Fix yourself, and be the foundation for the lower things." Below the darkness, there was nothing else.
Then God commanded light and darkness to thicken. He spread light over the waters and darkness beneath them. He made the waters firm — the bottomless deep — and created seven circles within, imaged like crystal, wet and dry, transparent as glass. He set the seven stars in their heavens and gave each one its road.
He separated light from darkness. He said to the light: "Be the day." To the darkness: "Be the night."
And there was evening, and there was morning — the first day (Genesis 1:3-5).
This was creation as God Himself described it — not to prophets, not to angels, but to one man, sitting at the left hand of the divine throne, hearing the voice that had spoken the universe into existence.
1 And the Lord summoned me, and said to me: Enoch, sit down on my left with Gabriel.
2 And I bowed down to the Lord, and the Lord spoke to me: Enoch, beloved, all (that) you see, all things that are standing finished I tell to you even before the very beginning, all that I created from non-being, and visible (physical) things from invisible (spiritual).
3 Hear, Enoch, and take in these my words, for not to My angels have I told my secret, and I have not told them their rise, nor my endless realm, nor have they understood my creating, which I tell you to-day.
4 For before all things were visible (physical), I alone used to go about in the invisible (spiritual) things, like the sun from east to west, and from west to east.
5 But even the sun has peace in itself, while I found no peace, because I was creating all things, and I conceived the thought of placing foundations, and of creating visible (physical) creation.
1 I commanded in the very lowest (parts), that visible (physical) things should come down from invisible (spiritual), and Adoil came down very great, and I beheld him, and lo! He had a belly of great light.
2 And I said to him: Become undone, Adoil, and let the visible (physical) (come) out of you.
3 And he came undone, and a great light came out. And I (was) in the midst of the great light, and as there is born light from light, there came forth a great age, and showed all creation, which I had thought to create.
4 And I saw that (it was) good.
5 And I placed for myself a throne, and took my seat on it, and said to the light: Go thence up higher and fix yourself high above the throne, and be A foundation to the highest things.
6 And above the light there is nothing else, and then I bent up and looked up from my throne.
1 And I summoned the very lowest a second time, and said: Let Archas come forth hard, and he came forth hard from the invisible (spiritual).
2 And Archas came forth, hard, heavy, and very red.
3 And I said: Be opened, Archas, and let there be born from you, and he came undone, an age came forth, very great and very dark, bearing the creation of all lower things, and I saw that (it was) good and said to him:
4 Go thence down below, and make yourself firm, and be a foundation for the lower things, and it happened and he went down and fixed himself, and became the foundation for the lower things, and below the darkness there is nothing else.
1 And I commanded that there should be taken from light and darkness, and I said: Be thick, and it became thus, and I spread it out with the light, and it became water, and I spread it out over the darkness, below the light, and then I made firm the waters, that is to say the bottomless, and I made foundation of light around the water, and created seven circles from inside, and imaged (the water) like crystal wet and dry, that is to say like glass, (and) the circumcession of the waters and the other elements, and I showed each one of them its road, and the seven stars each one of them in its heaven, that they go thus, and I saw that it was good.
2 And I separated between light and between darkness, that is to say in the midst of the water hither and thither, and I said to the light, that it should be the day, and to the darkness, that it should be the night, and there was evening and there was morning the first day.
