"My beloved children," Enoch said, "hear the admonition of your father — not from my lips, but from the lips of the Lord. Everything that is, was, and will be until the day of judgment — all of it has been revealed to me."
He stood before his family — a man who had looked directly into the face of God — and tried to make them understand the scale of what he had witnessed.
"You see my eyes," he told them. "The eyes of a man. But I have seen the Lord's eyes, shining like the sun's rays, filling mortal sight with terror. You see my right hand — a hand that helps you. But I have seen the Lord's right hand, filling all of heaven. You hear my words. But I heard the Lord's words, like great thunder that never stops, hurling through clouds."
"If it is fearful to come before an earthly ruler," Enoch asked, "how much more terrible is it to come before the ruler of heaven — the judge of the living and the dead, the commander of all the heavenly hosts? Who can endure that endless awe?"
Then he told them what he knew. Everything. He had written it all in books — the heavens and their boundaries, the armies and their formations. He had measured and named the stars, a multitude so vast that not even the angels could count them. He had calculated the sun's circle and tracked its rays. He had recorded every plant, every flower, every grass, and their fragrances. He had mapped the dwelling-places of clouds and traced the roads of thunder and lightning.
He had catalogued the treasure-houses of snow and the storehouses of frost. He had observed how the keepers of the winds weighed them on scales, releasing them in careful measure so the earth would not shake. He had measured the entire earth — its mountains, hills, fields, trees, stones, and rivers — from the ground to the seventh heaven, and from the surface downward to the deepest pit of judgment.
And there, in the abyss, he had seen the condemned. Prisoners in agony, awaiting a judgment without limit.
He had seen all the forefathers — from the beginning of time, including Adam and Eve themselves — and he broke into tears at the sight of their dishonor. "Blessed is the man who has not been born," he cried, "or who, having been born, has not sinned before the Lord's face."
And at the gates of the lowest places, he had seen the guards — standing like great serpents, their faces like dimming lamps, their eyes like fire, their teeth sharp and gleaming. The key-holders of the abyss.
This was what Enoch carried back to earth: a complete map of heaven and hell, written in three hundred and sixty-six books, delivered by a man who had thirty days to live.
1 Oh my children, my beloved ones, hear the admonition of your father, as much as is according to the Lords will.
2 I have been let come to you to-day, and announce to you, not from my lips, but from the Lords lips, all that is and was and all that is now, and all that will be till judgment-day.
3 For the Lord has let me come to you, you hear therefore the words of my lips, of a man made big for you, but I am one who has seen the Lords face, like iron made to glow from fire it sends forth sparks and burns.
4 You look now upon my eyes, (the eyes) of a man big with meaning for you, but I have seen the Lords eyes, shining like the suns rays and filling the eyes of man with awe.
5 You see now, my children, the right hand of a man that helps you, but I have seen the Lords right hand filling heaven as he helped me.
6 You see the compass of my work like your own, but I have seen the Lords limitless and perfect compass, which has no end.
7 You hear the words of my lips, as I heard the words of the Lord, like great thunder incessantly with hurling of clouds.
8 And now, my children, hear the discourses of the father of the earth, how fearful and awful it is to come before the face of the ruler of the earth, how much more terrible and awful it is to come before the face of the ruler of heaven, the controller (judge) of quick and dead, and of the heavenly troops. Who can endure that endless pain?
1 And now, my children, I know all things, for this (is) from the Lords lips, and this my eyes have seen, from beginning to end.
2 I know all things, and have written all things into books, the heavens and their end, and their plenitude, and all the armies and their marchings.
3 I have measured and described the stars, the great countless multitude (of them).
4 What man has seen their revolutions, and their entrances? For not even the angels see their number, while I have written all their names.
5 And I measured the suns circle, and measured its rays, counted the hours, I wrote down too all things that go over the earth, I have written the things that are nourished, and all seed sown and unsown, which the earth produces and all plants, and every grass and every flower, and their sweet smells, and their names, and the dwelling-places of the clouds, and their composition, and their wings, and how they bear rain and raindrops.
6 And I investigated all things, and wrote the road of the thunder and of the lightning, and they showed me the keys and their guardians, their rise, the way they go; it is let out (gently) in measure by a chain, lest by A heavy chain and violence it hurl down the angry clouds and destroy all things on earth.
7 I wrote the treasure-houses of the snow, and the store-houses of the cold and the frosty airs, and I observed their seasons key-holder, he fills the clouds with them, and does not exhaust the treasure-houses.
8 And I wrote the resting-places of the winds and observed and saw how their key-holders bear weighing-scales and measures; first, they put them in (one) weighing-scale, then in the other the weights and let them out according to measure cunningly over the whole earth, lest by heavy breathing they make the earth to rock.
9 And I measured out the whole earth, its mountains, and all hills, fields, trees, stones, rivers, all existing things I wrote down, the height from earth to the seventh heaven, and downwards to the very lowest hell, and the judgment-place, and the very great, open and weeping hell.
10 And I saw how the prisoners are in pain, expecting the limitless judgment.
11 And I wrote down all those being judged by the judge, and all their judgment (and sentences) and all their works.
1 And I saw all forefathers from (all) time with Adam and Eva (Eve), and I sighed and broke into tears and said of the ruin of their dishonour:
2 Woe is me for my infirmity and (for that) of my forefathers, and thought in my heart and said:
3 Blessed (is) the man who has not been born or who has been born and shall not sin before the Lords face, that he come not into this place, nor bring the yoke of this place.
1 I saw the key-holders and guards of the gates of hell standing, like great serpents, and their faces like extinguishing lamps, and their eyes of fire, their sharp teeth, and I saw all the Lords works, how they are right, while the works of man are some (good), and others bad, and in their works are known those who lie evilly.
